[ubuntu-uk] Sudden trouble with Hardy repositories

[Michael G Fletcher]

Hi guys

Suddenly last week I started getting errors when running the update in 
synaptic, I don't think that I changed anything... here is the error -

Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release 
  Unable to find expected entry  web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index 
file (malformed Release file?)
Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release  Unable 
to find expected entry  web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file 
(malformed Release file?)
Failed to fetch 
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release  Unable 
to find expected entry  web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file 
(malformed Release file?)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.

Thanks
--Michael