Just press ya refresh button when you have read them an they will dissapear by magic..

I will try that thanks for the tip!!

That's a cookie issuse. CTRL-F5 (Hard refresh, reloads everything on page) might help. Else go to your 'My Home' page and click 'Mark All Read' along the maintenance bar. Hope this helps.

noticed its been very slow over the weekend.

Sometimes its just an issue with the connection... it has been fine and no problems for me.

pritty much 9 till 5 ish , the site wasnt working , or at least for me and st1989 it wasent

yeah i couldnt get on quite a lot yesterday

This is caused then the servers are being updated... this is what happened then Dan. It makes people crazy when that happens. It's in the hands of the server gods. To be honest though the company are absolutley brilliant in what they do and there has only been a few hours of downtime for major updates since we hosted with them over 5 years ago.