Brian, I had the same issue a few years ago, from memory Steve told me how to fix it, look in the horizontal bar in the top part of the screen that says Hello name... and has date and time at the end of the row in the right hand side, there is a small check box, click on that the unread items should be listed below.
Many Thanks Neil,
Spot on, must have deleted it without realising it.
Brian
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