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Just seems to be the BBC homepage. The rest of the site seems to be working just fine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ for example is working - watching the BBC News Channel right now.

The site has been updated to say they are having issues:

Due to technical problems, we are displaying a simplified version of the BBC Homepage. We are working to restore normal service. Visit BBC News or you can try the other links below.

No, it's not.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.bbc.co.uk

That links says it's down!

(and it's down for me, here in Yorkshire)

...and now the links says it's up again - but it's still down for me.

DFEOJM says the site is up if it is physically contactable -- in this case the site is contactable, and it responds with "this site is down" (but as HTTP/200 because the page still has some content rather than being an server error)

BBC is down