jbm wrote:
There are major issues with telephone and broadband services in the UK, and
Usenet posts are not getting through to some news servers. There has been a
major fire in Paddington, London, affecting over 400 telephone exchanges
around the country, causing problems to telephone, mobile and broadband
services over the whole country. The worst affected ISP's are TalkTalk,
Tiscali, and Vodafone mobiles.

The Beeb is also reporting this but suggest the problem is limited more
to the London area. Can't say I've noticed much difference here in
Dorset but then we don't get a particularly fast and reliable BB service
where I am from Talktalk (my current ISP) or previous ones (BT, Tiscali,
Freeserve)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8597399.stm

BTW lovely sunny morning here with lots of ice scraping having gone on!