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Howard-
There was a load of thick white grim old gone off/contaminated grease. I'll blame Ribble for that one.
All cleaned up and with a brand new BB and plenty of fresh grease in there now.
Edit: to be fair, it's been in that bike since new (about 5 years ago) and been ridden pretty much every day for commuting, touring and general riding in all kinds of shit weather with absolutely no care or maintenance (of the BB anyway).
Out of interest, are these bottom brackets worth considering?
TurtleRecall
Cheers for the advice. Avoided a £15 trip to the LBS (although spent a tenner on the tool and broke a ratchet drive thing in the process).
Plenty of wd40, a mallet and the tool did it, eventually. Managed to take a bunch of paint off the BB shell when it went as well. Not sure how.