[eluser]Max_Power[/eluser]
Bang on!
Thanks for your help. In my main app I set the character set to iso-8859-1 probably from copying and pasting some old code.
I was using phpMyAdmin (which was fine) and I double-checked the scaffolding which was also having no problems.
Using utf-8 in my header now and all is well.
Thanks again - you're a star!