Papers

Daily Record
Electronic Telegraph
Financial Times
London Evening Standard
The Guardian
The Independent On-line
The Times
The Mirror
Private Eye
Washington Post

Wire Services

Pointcast.    A free broadcast news service. After downloading some software and making some choices, news articles that you are interested in, are sent automatically to your desktop. This site has an American slant.

PA news centre.    There are photo's on this site but it's not graphic intensive which means it should be quick to download! Top news and sports stories are featured on the front page, click on one of these and you can follow the links to the rest of the days news.

Worldflash.    World headlines via a ticker-tape style display. Mostly American sources, however information is gathered from a lengthy list of international sites that include the BBC.

Weather

The Met Office, UK weather.    The Met's UK weather page provides continually updated national weather forecasts, satellite images, the daily shipping report and a UK cities daily round-up.

CNN Weather.    Lots of information on weather conditions all over the world. Perfect for weather freaks and those about to travel abroad

Intellicast.    Great site for the enthusiast. You get the usual weather forecasts and satellite photos and an added bonus of tropical storm and hurricane tracking.

Radio

Radio Canada International.    RCI offers news in a range of languages including English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian, The content is a varied mix of current affairs, culture and business and requires you to install the freely available Real Player.

National Public Radio.   News every hour on the hour from the American public service radio network. NPR covers US, world, business, health, technology and arts news in an unbiased manner and can be relied upon not to pull any punches.

Television

BBC News.   News is served up in Audio, video and text. The Beebs online content is excellent from sport to music, BBC programmes to webby fun and games, something for everyone.

ITN.   ITN's excellent website with regular news broadcasts from London. As with the BBC's site, content is wide and varied, making the most of current web technology to provide live video reports.

Sky.   This site is packed with useful domestic and world news. If you're a subscriber to the company's satellite channels you'll be able to check the schedules and take part in quizzes, competitions and more.

CNN   For quality international news CNN is hard to beat, if you can handle the understandably American slant on every story.

ITV
Channel 4
Channel 5

Teletext on the Web.    News, travel and entertainment.

The Broadcasting Standards Commission.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission ceased to exist on 29 December 2003 and its duties were assumed by Ofcom, the Office of Communications. Ofcom inherits the duties of the five existing regulators it replaces: the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC), the Independent Television Commission (ITC), Oftel, the Radio Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency.

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