Huge apologies that the site has been down for 6 and a half hours today.

It's the biggest period of site downtime in an extremely long time (many years) and totally out of character for our hosting company.

Current information is that there was a power issue in the server datacentre where the site server is located. Ultimate customer servers seemed to be final ones to be restored to action, hosting companies had their own sites brought back up first.

I have requested a report from the host about what happened.