Zanussi, Aeg , Miele , Bosch or Siemens.
For the money you cant go wrong with a miele, they are built for 20 years service. You may see indesits at sub £200 but from a service point of view the expected life of them is around 14 months.
Miele used to (i dont know if they still do) offer a extended warranty to 5 years for £15. This is through a company that offer the same on other brands for around £150. And its a fully comp w/tee also covers accidental damage the works, thats how confident they are in their product.
Top whack on a miele is £1000 plus but for that you will get a fantastic washer. They start from £500 but they built like brick out houses.
If you have the space for one phillips do a american style top loader that I also rate, its semi commercial and takes something like a 17lb load. Price on them is sub £400 also. They do a matching dryer also v good.
Dryer Washer
[edit]add candy to the 'avoid with bargepole list also', possibly as bad as indesit esp the older ones, impossible to service.
oohh and just remembered about miele, they have only one service fella for the north east covering most stuff they do, and he aint that busy.