BBC News website taken down by hosting problems

The BBC's news website suffered a 20-minute outage early on Wednesday afternoon, due to problems at a London hosting centre.

The heavily-used site was down between 12:20 and 12:40, at times offering only slow, limited functionality, and at times being completely down.

A BBC spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the site had been "having technical problems this morning" due to "network problems with the London hosting centre". The spokesperson could not immediately identify the hosting centre concerned.

Although the site appeared to be back up and running at the time of writing, the spokesperson warned that the unspecified technical issues could continue to "affect access to the site and iPlayer and search in the meantime".