robbie:
Not being a tetchy guy what i don't get is that i can log on to the site, use the forum, read the blog but i cannot read the stories?
You can't read the stories because the Apple operating system on your iPad has a bug in it whereby it doesn't scroll items which are displayed in an iframe. The story viewer uses an iframe to display its contents but the forum and blog do not.
Anyway, I'm seeing if there's anything that can be done about it but it's pointless contacting Apple about it as the bug was introduced by them some years ago and they're clearly not interested in fixing it.