I think you can rule out problems with your broadband Graham. I experienced the same.

There was an un-planned outage running from about 17:10 on the 20th February to about 09:30 on the 21st.

I wondered what happened too, As I could access the home page I thought it had been something I posted. Perhaps outage means, IT dept went out and it crashed :o) well it is Friday.

Moderator 2 Thank you again. As a cynical late fiftysomething I suspect that outage has become a popular neutral term for what is commonly known as a failure, blackout or unexpected shutdown. Anyhow, for those of us who weren't familiar with outage, it's now a new expression to sprinkle in our conversations, etc. Also, perhaps some of us might wish to talk about innages as the opposites of outages! :-) On a more serious note, I made my suggestion about anouncements regarding future outages because despite using my usual link I tried on a number of occasions throughout yesterday to access the discussion forum without success. After finding that the rest of the IOSH website remained accessible I tried clicking on "Discussion forums" at the top of the home page, but this also resulted in a stark "Not available" page. Therefore, I had a look around the website for an announcement but couldn't find one. As a result I gave up looking until late evening after returning from a lecture.