There have been reports that new registration emails are not being received. I suspect there might be a problem with email generally. Will keep you posted - sorry to anyone waiting to join our community - your application will be available soon!
Email is now set up and working correctly. Sorry for the inconvenience - especially to anyone that was stuck in the registratons system. Blame my ISP - I bugged and bugged and bugged... Eventually I got there ;) Thanks ukstu