Is BBC down?
The BBC website carries UK and world news, sport, weather and iPlayer.
Are other people having problems with BBC?
What is going wrong?
Reports are anonymous and unverified, and each visitor can report once every 30 minutes. They show how many people say they are affected, not why.
If BBC is not loading for you
- Busy news events can overload a site for a few minutes, so wait and reload.
- Try a different page of the same site. A single broken page is different from a site-wide outage.
- If the page shows old content, hard-reload it with Ctrl+F5 to skip your cached copy.
- A mobile data connection will show whether your home network is the problem.
- Public services and news sites often post updates on their official social accounts.
Still stuck? Work through our website not loading checklist, or read why a site can be down for some people and not others.
Check BBC from twelve places
This page shows our latest scheduled check. To test bbc.co.uk right now from our server and from twelve countries, run a live check.
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Questions about BBC
Is BBC down right now?
Look at the live status box at the top of this page. It shows the result of our latest automatic check of bbc.co.uk, repeated every few minutes. If it says the site is up but things still fail for you, the problem is probably on your side or limited to one feature or region.
Why is BBC not working for me when it works for others?
A site can fail for some people and not others because of DNS caching, regional servers, your internet provider, a firewall or VPN, or a problem with your device or app. Our guide on why a website can be down for some people and not others explains how to tell which one it is.
How do I report a problem with BBC?
Use the report buttons on this page and choose what is going wrong. Reports are anonymous and unverified, and each visitor can report once every 30 minutes. They are shown as a chart so you can see whether other people are having the same problem.
How does siteupdown.com check BBC?
Our server loads bbc.co.uk every few minutes, the way a browser would, and records the response code and how long it took. A site is only called down after two server errors in a row. Our page on how the checks work has the details.
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