Charlie's Dad
Graham, STOP NOW.
I'm an electrican and an M&E engineer and deal with these things all day long.
If you not careful this will end in tears. Apologies to all those are being helpful but playing with gas and electric is best not done.
Chances are it's something simple like the pilot light's just gone out, could be a coincidence that the neon has gone as well or you never noticed before and it's never even been on.
Try the pilot light procedure again but hold in the ignition button for longer before and about 20 seconds after and make sure you can see where the pilot light should be lit
The electric shouldn't have turned itself off or blown a fuse for no reason, once the heating has been off all summer the pilot light is prone to going out until it has been on for a month or so.
If you 100% sure it is the electric turn off the breaker (then prove it's off) before working on it or if not confident call out the sparky
No one can really diagnose this online it could almost be anything.
Steve
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