Since I did a proper post.

Things with me are ok. I'm due to start my new tomorrow (hooray) although they were meant to get back to me when they received my acceptance and my references were cleared. I checked with the referencing company and it's all fine there but I couldn't get any answer from my HR lady. This morning I was concerned so I rang the main HR people who said they'd call me back. that was five hours ago. Hmm.

Ok they phoned me back!

Woo, everything's fine!!