yep I am posting update, pc was turned of at 3am after ALL sites died and all * * * in traceroute (still had ip), I turned it back on at 5pm and was stuck with a 169.x address, rang up fault reporting and after numerous options it had an answering machine saying Leicester outage and surrounding areas, I came back at 5.20pm and was able to get my ip address however a LOT of sites including google.co.uk dont work and traceroutes are a complete mess with numerous ntl hops timing out.
Leicester seems to have a rought time with ntl
