thanks for the replies :) we're going to take a good look at the brakes, hopefully that is what the problem was. I'll let you know if we find anything!

hiya many thanks for your reply :) i'll get my other half to take a look at it (I'm rubbish at DIY!), but that gives us a starting point which is great. I was glad to get home but annoyed at the same time that it had stopped doing it as faults are so much harder to find then arent they! oooh...

Hiya! I have a 2004 freelander TD4, this morning having driven for about 1/2 an hour (on a-roads at 50mph, a few roundabouts but generally just chipping away!), I then came up to a roundabout and the car started making a scraping/knocking noise around the roundabout and then continued after it...