It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had another
of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.

There used to be a band about half way down where you could select you
locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of news for
your region or sub-region.

Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have to
select your area every time you want to read it!

I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
"If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>
> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
> news for your region or sub-region.
>
> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>
> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>

Is that when pigs will fly?

--
Davey.

On Tue 20/02/2024 23:02, Davey wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
> Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
>> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>>
>> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
>> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
>> news for your region or sub-region.
>>
>> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
>> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
>> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>>
>> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
>> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>>
>
> Is that when pigs will fly?
>

Damn, I missed that point!

On 20/02/2024 23:01, Woody wrote:
> It seems the BBC News front page  (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had another
> of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>
> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select you
> locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of news for
> your region or sub-region.
>
> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have to
> select your area every time you want to read it!
>
> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>
The only thing the BBC knows the meaning of is, "We are the BBC,
therefore we know best. Do not try to tell us otherwise."

On 20/02/2024 in message <ur3avf$2nslo$1@dont-email.me> Woody wrote:

>It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had another of
>their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>
>There used to be a band about half way down where you could select you
>locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of news for
>your region or sub-region.
>
>Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house advertising
>which includes a local news box which means that you have to select your
>area every time you want to read it!
>
>I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
>"If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"

It used to keep a cookie so I had it marked as an exception in CCleaner.

What's also annoying is how it changes its numbering of columnar data
between vertical and horizontal on the same page, it can't decide if it's
an English organisation or an American one.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Captcha is thinking of stopping the use of pictures with traffic lights as
cyclists don't know what they are.

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:02:52 +0000, Davey <davey@example.invalid>
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
>Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
>> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>>
>> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
>> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
>> news for your region or sub-region.
>>
>> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
>> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
>> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>>
>> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
>> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>
>Is that when pigs will fly?

And Scotland Yard could be London's fifth airport :-)

In article <ufhbtiljolqepgvh40fh2i7obpe0nm47hb@4ax.com>,
Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:02:52 +0000, Davey <davey@example.invalid>
> wrote:

> >On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
> >Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
> >> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
> >>
> >> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
> >> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
> >> news for your region or sub-region.
> >>
> >> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
> >> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
> >> to select your area every time you want to read it!
> >>
> >> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
> >> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
> >
> >Is that when pigs will fly?

> And Scotland Yard could be London's fifth airport :-)

That's Battersea Heliport -not to be confused with Battersea Dogs Home or
Battersea Power Station

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England - sent from my RISC OS 4té²
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 21/02/2024 10:08, charles wrote:
> In article <ufhbtiljolqepgvh40fh2i7obpe0nm47hb@4ax.com>,
> Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:02:52 +0000, Davey <davey@example.invalid>
>> wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
>>> Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
>>>> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>>>>
>>>> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
>>>> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
>>>> news for your region or sub-region.
>>>>
>>>> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
>>>> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
>>>> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>>>>
>>>> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
>>>> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>>>
>>> Is that when pigs will fly?
>
>> And Scotland Yard could be London's fifth airport :-)
>
> That's Battersea Heliport -not to be confused with Battersea Dogs Home or
> Battersea Power Station

A mention of Battersea Power Station and pigs flying in the same post?
You must be a Pink Floyd fan!
<https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-inflatable-pig-breaks-free/>

--

Jeff

On 20/02/2024 23:02, Davey wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:01:01 +0000
> Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had
>> another of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>>
>> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select
>> you locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of
>> news for your region or sub-region.
>>
>> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
>> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
>> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>>
>> I do hope that one day the BBC will learn the meaning of
>> "If it ain't broke DON'T FIX IT!!"
>>
>
> Is that when pigs will fly?
>

The story about pigs flying isn't yet visible, but all sorts of other junk is. And as you said above, you have to select your home region every bloody time. And lots of other things are different for not obvious reason.

--
Clive Page

On 20/02/2024 23:01, Woody wrote:
> It seems the BBC News front page  (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had another
> of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>
> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select you
> locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of news for
> your region or sub-region.
>
> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have to
> select your area every time you want to read it!

It will remember your region if you login.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

On 21/02/2024 19:03, Brian Gregory wrote:

> On 20/02/2024 23:01, Woody wrote:

>> It seems the BBC News front page (www.bbc.co.uk/news) has had another
>> of their makeovers and annoyingly detrimental IMO.
>>
>> There used to be a band about half way down where you could select you
>> locale so that when you went to the page you got five pieces of news
>> for your region or sub-region.
>>
>> Now that line has gone to be replaced by two sets of in-house
>> advertising which includes a local news box which means that you have
>> to select your area every time you want to read it!
>
> It will remember your region if you login.

I am permanently logged in to the BBC News site (www.bbc.co.uk/news).

The site does not select my home region. It is currently displaying USA
news on its front page.

On 22/02/2024 01:34, JNugent wrote:
> I am permanently logged in to the BBC News site (www.bbc.co.uk/news).
>
> The site does not select my home region. It is currently displaying USA
> news on its front page.

I have mine set to default to UK news as not particularly interested in
reading about the latest SNP scandal.

Just clicked on it and the UK news page came up.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:43:17 +0000, JMB99 wrote:

> On 22/02/2024 01:34, JNugent wrote:
>> I am permanently logged in to the BBC News site (www.bbc.co.uk/news).
>>
>> The site does not select my home region. It is currently displaying USA
>> news on its front page.
>
> I have mine set to default to UK news as not particularly interested in
> reading about the latest SNP scandal.
>
> Just clicked on it and the UK news page came up.

Mine is
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cwdnmry5d4nt

which lands me on Northampton and a radius of 20 miles.

The row of subjects at the top now needs:
click on News
click on a heading (Business in my case) - full row appears.
I then scroll down that, mouse gesture to go to top, next one (Tech), R-L
clicks to go back to Business and then Science.
Bit more work but save drop-down menu every time.

--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On Thu 22/02/2024 18:44, PeterC wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:43:17 +0000, JMB99 wrote:
>
>> On 22/02/2024 01:34, JNugent wrote:
>>> I am permanently logged in to the BBC News site (www.bbc.co.uk/news).
>>>
>>> The site does not select my home region. It is currently displaying USA
>>> news on its front page.
>>
>> I have mine set to default to UK news as not particularly interested in
>> reading about the latest SNP scandal.
>>
>> Just clicked on it and the UK news page came up.
>
> Mine is
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cwdnmry5d4nt
>
> which lands me on Northampton and a radius of 20 miles.
>
> The row of subjects at the top now needs:
> click on News
> click on a heading (Business in my case) - full row appears.
> I then scroll down that, mouse gesture to go to top, next one (Tech), R-L
> clicks to go back to Business and then Science.
> Bit more work but save drop-down menu every time.
>
Sorry, but the above doesn't make sense.

I was used to there being a line across the page lower down where you
select your town and get the local news for your region/sub-region - in
my case North Yorkshire. That line was held in memory (might have been a
cookie) and always there every time the news page was opened.

It worked so why do they have to change it?

On 22/02/2024 19:27, Woody wrote:
> I was used to there being a line across the page lower down where you
> select your town and get the local news for your region/sub-region - in
> my case North Yorkshire. That line was held in memory (might have been a
> cookie) and always there every time the news page was opened.
>
> It worked so why do they have to change it?

Now that the site has removed it from the home page you can still get to
the same information using:

- Local News [menu item just below red "NEWS" banner]

- Press the circular icon with points at N, E, S and W [use my GPS
location] or type in the *name* of the location - full/partial postcode
no longer seems to work

But... that information is longer saved in a cookie, so you have to
specify your location each time. *That* is the real retrograde step.