‘It’s like 1989 Berlin over in Wapping’: Times and Sunday Times temporarily suspend paywall

Non-subscribers to The Times and Sunday Times are enjoying a rare treat this morning – access to the News UK websites.

Less than a week before their sister title The Sun goes behind one, The Times and Sunday Times paywall has been "temporarily suspended".

A spokesperson for The Times said: "We are currently doing routine maintenance to The Times and The Sunday Times website which means the subscription and log-in processes have had to be temporarily suspended while this work is completed."

Here are some (mostly) celebratory tweets:

Apparently the Times paywall is down! If so, Celebrity Watch on the balls-out insanity of Kay Burley IS FREE: https://t.co/jkk6n6G5Ri

— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 26, 2013

Times paywall is down – it's like 1989 Berlin over in Wapping. I'm just waiting for the Hoff to appear.

— Henry Jeffreys (@HenryGJeffreys) July 26, 2013

. @thetimes paywall goes down, Times and Sunday Times journalists scramble to tell everyone about it

— Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) July 26, 2013

Dashing around the Times website Ctrl+c'ing when the paywall is down reminds me how much I miss Supermarket Sweep.

— Ryan Gilbey (@Ryan_Man2) July 26, 2013

Peeking behind the [temporarily dead] paywall, the Times website really isn't much good. Awful navigation.

— Gaz Corfield (@GazTheJourno) July 26, 2013