The Beeb is broken

The BBC homepage is on an outage at the moment, with visitors greeted with a stripped down version of the normal site.

Whoops

A little info icon directs you to the following explanation:

Due to technical problems, we are displaying a simplified version of the BBC homepage.

Ye-es, very informative. Anyway, clicking on any of the links takes you to the normal versions of the news sites, television sites, sport sites, etc.

The last such incident was at the end of the March, when the entire BBC web network fell offline for an hour during the night, after what Auntie described as "a major network incident". ®