‘m going to mark as resolved for the moment at least.
Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I’ve passed them onto the support desk for consideration. I fear that my WordPress Project is going to the wall.
Deleting the cookies made no difference (Safari). Recently tried Chrome and Firefox which displayed the content of the site very ugly BUT did have a menu bar at the top which allowed access to the dashboard but I didn’t achieve an update to the content. I would have wished for similar behaviour across browsers. I have seen my WordPress site working fine on the Mac with Safari (but not for a few days).