maybe the people who are down should do a trace route to see where it is broken. I am in Lincoln (Midlands) and it is fine (this is the most pathetic trace route I have ever seen btw but you get the point):
Tracing route to
www.virginmedia.com [213.105.9.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms RT-AC68U-B930 [18.19.1.1]
2 16 ms 10 ms 21 ms 10.33.88.1
3 10 ms 8 ms 11 ms nott-core-2a-xe-210-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.255.214.129]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 19 ms 13 ms 15 ms leed-ic-1-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.122]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 19 ms 21 ms 29 ms nrth-bb-1c-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.222]
9 27 ms 18 ms 31 ms nrth-apm-1-in.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.162.238]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.