I'm glad that Ash has tried to sort out this problem, I understand that the problem has gone away for now - let's hope it stays away. Thanks for your kind words regarding myself and Ash, much appreciated.
Problem returned here this morning for a long time, at the moment it's disappeared again: no way of preventing it in long term? I am amazed something like this is possible, but then I'm very inexperienced "in that field", as they say............
I've no problems here, but this "spam" is affecting other live forums and appears to be coming from abroad somewhere. Even when a website has a "spam filter" , the odd offender can slip through the net, unfortunately :(