Slow site in Internet Explorer

[Batestfastard]

Hello chaps,

Please excuse this issue if it has been covered in technical depth before, but our site, www.telescopehouse.com seems to be running very slowly when viewed with IE8 compared with Firefox and I would appreciate it if any of you Guru's could offer advice.

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[Outdoor World D]

Hello,

Over the last 48 hours, our website has decided it no longer wants to function in IE. If you try adding a product to the cart the CSS and layout of the site is totally lost...

www.outdoorworlddirect.co.uk

Any ideas of why this is happening, is...