Hi,
Thanks for answering. I have tried the theme and plugins all together and still the same. I was on the phone to GoDaddy for about 45 mins earlier and they were trying to get the bug sorted. They said they increased my memory and something else they done that may work.
They did manage to get it so that two test posts worked, they published fine but it would still go back to continuous loading when trying the older post.
I have now just done what you asked with the DB_CHARSET line and it was already like the second example with the uft8 already included.
Also now when I click to edit a post the post DOES show up, it’s not a blank screen but it still loads until it times out when trying to publish.
thanks again for helping, anything else I can try?