BBC is working for me at the moment, but Gmail has been playing up for days; that is possibly the GFWoC, although it it throwing several different errors at me, including "no such server", and various "incorrect username/password" errors on both accounts, although one account works more often than the other; usually with the GWFoC you just get a blank page.
Access to Gmail via Thunderbird is pretty much the same, loads of errors and occasionally connecting.