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The BBC in Londonderrystrokederrycityorjustfoyle have launched two new websites for people in the west of Northern Ireland, or indeed anyone in general who likes to keep abreast of events there.

Was taking my usual tour around the local press this morning when a headline drew my attention (the blur was added by myself, it’s not your eyes playing tricks)…

Could the Department of Environment have a plan to beat the climate change which threatens the Giant’s Causeway? Are they planning to put some of those excess [...]

During December the BBC will be unveiling its new homepage. The new look will probably have will have lots of JavaScript and Flash animations, with an awful lot of gradients and plenty of colour. The new BBC homepage has been a long time in development but if the recent websites like BBC Music, Nature UK [...]

‘Living in a box‘ - BBC News Online
The BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani has been finding out if it’s possible to live in a space which is barely the size of your bedroom. An eight-foot wooden box clad in aluminium. The design of the house is part of the Festival of Xtream Building currently taking place in [...]

The BBC has today started providing content on video community site YouTube. The Beeb will supply three channels on the site:

BBC
BBC Worldwide
BBC World (launch later in the year).

The BBC channel will provide content which is UK orientated , with no advertising. The second BBC Worldwide channel will provide content for an international audience and will [...]

Say bye bye to the yellow two, from tomorrow it will be no more. BBC Two is getting a brand new on screen identity from Sunday and it doesn’t involve a robotic two. The new look involve the idea of BBC Two being your window on the world. Initially there will be 14 new idents [...]

Hugh Dennis does the voice-over on this newsreel which features the Duke of Ed finding it hard not to react to former German Chancellor Schröder. According to the website in the thirty minutes of the programme you could burn up to 80 Calories.

Mock the Week on bbc.co.uk

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The BBC has revelled French plans to merge the UK and France during the 1950s. The French Prime Minister at the time Guy Mollet went to London for talks with Anthony Eden.
The most bizarre thing is that the plans would have made The Queen Head of State of the new union. After being turned down [...]

I watch BBC Four, don’t you know?

Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is one of the funniest shows on and the recent US Special was a no exception, witty and unashamedly insulting. Screenwipe is a review of all things Television hosted by Charlie Brooker (of all people).
While you’re on Freeview channel 9 you should also check out;

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