Update: managed to download an earlier version of electrum (3.0.6) and everything was working fine with my coins in the wallet. Great!

Thanks for the replies, I was able to access my wallet on another laptop but instead of not syncing it just said ‘not connected’ altogether with the red dot. Tried on 3 different computers and the same result everytime. Is there a problem with Electrum atm? Are there any other good wallets anyone could recommend I could download and use in the mean time?