Saved again by the good old fashioned paper strips and salt-of-the-earth assistants who retain a lot of the old manual skills. Not a lot goes wrong with a piece of paper.
I'd love to see the safety case for the new system that will be bolted on to the creaking patchwork mess of the current computer; which has to have down time at least once a week as a poster has already highlighted.
Draconian safety restrictions were lifted [at least on my sector group] as soon as we could accommodate extra traffic safely.....in fact we sought out traffic and got them in the air as quickly as we could using any route and level with capacity available.......London terminal and Manchester were superb in the finest traditions of what is left of the old National Air Traffic Service [pre-nats] tradition.