What to do following premature failure of De longhi Kettle?

My De longhi Cordless Electric kettle model KBO3001 was purchased from John Lewis Solihull on 03 June 2008. I thought I was buying a high quality product that would last for longer being a cut above the rest. However, after only 2 years of normal use the kettle has now stopped working and I am not only very disappointed and displeased with the product, but have lost confidence in the DeLonghi brand.

What advice can you give apart from 'go out and get a new one'. If I do that it certainly will not be a De Longhi product unless I have a satisfactory response to this enquiry. Can you recomend a local service engineer that could repair the kettle and how much do you think the repair would cost? I assume that the element requires replacing as I have checked all more obvious possible causes of failure. I paid 59.95 pounds for the kettle so I suspect that repair costs would make this a non-viable option.

Incidentally, I have also got a DeLonghi toaster and hope that this will provide greater reliability than the kettle.

I await your comments with interest.