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BBC News and Sport printable digest

[Made by BBC Staff]

Being the bling bling kinda guy I am, I've got the fancy laptop and I've got the online PDA/Smartphone combo device. I love reading BBC News on both.

But being the slave drivers the BBC are, I find myself travelling home late at night on the tube. There's scary people on there man, people who want to steal "my precious".

So, I decided I wanted to make a script that would produce a printable digest of all of today's news. If someone wants to theive a few pages of A4 from me, they're welcome to it.

I produced BBC News and Sport digest to do this. Yeah, I even included BBC Sport despite the fact I don't use it much (just to keep Chris R and Ben G happy!).

Have a go, let me know what you think.

(Yes, I do know that requesting "-1" number of stories breaks it! What were you expecting??!??)

  • 28 Jan 2005 01:25 PM

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  • 1.
  • On 13 May 2005 08:53 AM,
  • Rich G said:

Ben, this is a fantastic idea. Nice one!

Just one thought for a 'cooler than cool' feature - maybe a cookie remembering the sections selected for subsequent visits?

This is an idea I had about two years ago and submitted it to the bbc news feedback page, would'nt it be great if they implemented it for real on the proper site? maybe with a option to see the news stories first few lines and check a box near to it (google resualts style) before printing. Excellent work thogh.

  • 3.
  • On 20 May 2005 09:55 PM,
  • Nik Whitehead said:

Excellent idea, Ben! Finally I can download the bits I'm interested in and read them at my leisure.

Thanks!

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