Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
haha, really? Who did the "repair", Apple's customer services?
(I wonder who puts a £700 gizmo in a box and forgets about it for 15 months though)

It was done at a local repair shop. By June 2015 is was out of warranty, I bought it in 2012 (iPad 2 - and it cost £329!). It would've cost a small fortune to have Apple repair it. In fact, it would've been better to just replace it with a newer model. I think approved refurbished iPad Minis and iPad 3 (or whatever they called it) were not much more than the Apple quote. So I just put it away and forgot all about it.