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You were spot on, it was definitely the kettle which has now been disposed of.  Many thanks!

Thanks very much for all the advice. I'll pop home at lunchtime and see if I can reset the RCD with the kitchen power socket circuit braker switched on, without the kettle plugged in anywhere.  That will at least confirm that the kettle is the culprit, if not, I think it's just going to be a...

The wife got up first, and she says that the power was already off, but I've personally got a suspicion that maybe it only tripped when she turned the kettle on.  The reason I say this is because the storage heaters were hot, so I very much doubt that the RCD had tripped much sooner! Out of...

We woke up this morning to find that the RCD of the main consumer unit had tripped sometime overnight (note: none of the individual circuit breakers had tripped). With all the circuit breakers switched 'on' the RCD could not be reset, but after isolating each circuit breaker individually the...