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Danksi
Aug 22, 2006, 10:26 AM
I haven't been able to get on to the BBC News site since last night (West Coast Canada Time). What's going on over there?


liketom
Aug 22, 2006, 10:28 AM
works for me

news wise - Eleven people appear in court in connection with an alleged bomb plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners.
Lau
Aug 22, 2006, 10:29 AM
That's odd, because I was just on the BBC site, and clicked on MR, and I saw your thread. It's fine for me...

Could it be a DNS setting on your computer blocking it?
Queso
Aug 22, 2006, 10:29 AM
Listening to BBC Radio over the Internet right now, so no problems here.
Danksi
Aug 22, 2006, 10:30 AM
works for me

news wise - Eleven people appear in court in connection with an alleged bomb plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners.

Are you in Lincoln UK?

I first noticed when my BBC RRS feeds stopped working.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news doesn't work at all for me. Very odd.
liketom
Aug 22, 2006, 10:33 AM
Are you in Lincoln UK?

I first noticed when my BBC RRS feeds stopped working.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news doesn't work at all for me. Very odd.
yep UK - must be your end thats not working unless the beeb have blocked it

Try www.bbcworld.com
Danksi
Aug 22, 2006, 10:37 AM
yep UK - must be your end thats not working unless the beeb have blocked it

Try www.bbcworld.com

The BBC have blocked Canada! :eek: :rolleyes:

Same problem with BBCWorld. I'll try at the office later this morning. MUST have my morning dose of BBC News.
menziep
Aug 22, 2006, 10:39 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273706.stm - This Is Funny!
Kernow
Aug 22, 2006, 10:41 AM
Works fine here, looks like they've had a bit of a redesign though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273706.stm - This Is Funny!

Just saw this too & it made me chuckle. I think it's great that no-one at all complained.
Lau
Aug 22, 2006, 10:45 AM
Works fine here, looks like they've had a bit of a redesign though.

Is anyone else hugely irritated by the "Video and Audio News" chunk in the middle that keeps unhiding itself? I wouldn't mind if it stayed hidden. :(
Peterkro
Aug 22, 2006, 10:46 AM
It's working fine which is a pity as I just watched the Little Miss Jocelyn program that's linked on the front page.I now want dig my own eyes out,if anyone is tempted to watch it I swear it's the vilest thing I've seen EVER.
sunfast
Aug 22, 2006, 10:50 AM
MUST have my morning dose of BBC News.

Without sounding ignorant, do many of you guys overseas read the BBC? I'm never off it myself but I'm in the UK.
Kernow
Aug 22, 2006, 10:51 AM
Is anyone else hugely irritated by the "Video and Audio News" chunk in the middle that keeps unhiding itself? I wouldn't mind if it stayed hidden. :(

Yep - very annoying. The whole page is becoming cluttered, which is a shame as the simplicity of it before was one of the things I really liked.
Applespider
Aug 22, 2006, 10:53 AM
Is anyone else hugely irritated by the "Video and Audio News" chunk in the middle that keeps unhiding itself? I wouldn't mind if it stayed hidden. :(

They're asking for opinions on the new look on their editors' blog. So far most of the opinions are 'meh'
Queso
Aug 22, 2006, 10:54 AM
The BBC have blocked Canada! :eek: :rolleyes:
Are you sure Canada haven't blocked the BBC? :eek:
Lau
Aug 22, 2006, 10:55 AM
I just sent them a comment about it. :) I also suggested that if they were going down the customisable route like that they could take it a step further and make it customisable by the viewer like the Google homepage thing, and therefore we could remove video and audio if we didn't want it and replace it with something we would find more useful. :)
iGav
Aug 22, 2006, 11:22 AM
Good to see the BBC pissing away the license fee on crap design.
Danksi
Aug 22, 2006, 11:52 AM
Without sounding ignorant, do many of you guys overseas read the BBC? I'm never off it myself but I'm in the UK.

I'm a Brit, so I personally use the BBC UK & World News all the time, as well as Canada's own CBC.. I believe a lot of Canadians look to both BBC and CBC as well, judging by views posted in, they generally like to check out a number of news sources for the same story.

EDIT: Appears to be working at the office, so could be a problem with our local ISP. :(
iGav
Aug 22, 2006, 02:34 PM
I'm a Brit

Totally off topic... but what's Nelson like???
princealfie
Aug 22, 2006, 02:36 PM
Didn't Bush block the website on his IP addy? :eek:
Danksi
Aug 22, 2006, 02:47 PM
Totally off topic... but what's Nelson like???

http://www.city.nelson.bc.ca/

Awesome, especially if you're into outdoor stuff, hiking/mtb trails, horse riding, atv, the lake oh and Coffee shops.

Tricky to find 'decent' work... as it's only a small town of around ~10K people. My wife's parents live here and we have friends here... which helped a lot with the big move from the UK.

I was living in Leighton Buzzard (nr. Milton Keynes) for years and commuting to Hammersmith most days... totally different world I live in now mind. :)