If any of these links do not work, or if you find a web site that should be added to the list, send me an email.  If you want to know more about this list and the person who wrote it, click here.

To use a horrible Web cliche: this site is under construction.  In other words, it might well have changed by the time you drop by again.  It has been put up on the Web while incomplete because already it could be of use to someone.

Stuck?  Confused?  Need advice about using the Net?  Get in touch with me and I'll try and help.

SECTIONS:
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
NEWS AND MEDIA ON THE NET
POLICE
REFERENCE
SEARCHING THE WEB

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
10 Downing Street
Acts of Parliament
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Cabinet Office
Conservative Party - includes email William Hague page
Defence Ministry
Education and Employment
Environment
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Government information service - search for just about any Government-related site from here
Government departments - all the ones with web sites, complete with links
Hansard
Health
Home Office
House of Commons - a huge archive of up-to-date Parly info
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Lord Chancellor's Office
Northern Ireland Office
Parliament Home Page
Scottish Office
Social Security
Trade and Industry
Treasury - includes budget info
Transport
Welsh Office

NEWS AND MEDIA
NOTE: With many news sites you'll find you have to register.  Do so, and write down your allocated username and password - you'll need them to log in again in future.

BBC - the web site of the BBC organisation
Beeb.com - the commercial BBC site, offering different services and Radio Times online
Cambridge Evening News
Channel 4
Channel 5
CNN - American news service
The European
The Guardian
The Independent
London Evening Standard
Media Guide UK - an excellent guide to media companies in the UK, inc TV, mags, news, radio.
The Observer
The Star - offering Megastar, a kind of lads magazine format, rather than news
The Telegraph
The Times - also The Sunday Times, TES, THES, and News International
USA Today - American news

POLICE

British Transport Police
Manchester
Merseyside
Metropolitan
Police Federation of England and Wales - has a good list of links to other police forces and related bodies
Scotland Yard - a good general guide to online police services in the UK.
South Yorkshire
Tayside
West Mercia

REFERENCE AND USEFUL TOOLS

Bigbook - lists 11 million American business telephone numbers
Currency converter - an amazing site, offering instant calculations of any amount of any currency to any other currency.
Roget's Thesaurus
UK Dialling codes - don't know where 01932 is?  This will tell you.

SEARCHING THE WEB
Most of these search sites are pretty self-explanatory.  If you need help using them, get in touch with me.  Remember that searches of the Internet are often not that helpful - you may be offered millions of matches to your question.  Keep your search criteria as specific as possible.

Altavista
Hotbot - American service from the makers of Wired magazine.  Quite good.
Infoseek - newly revamped (August 97), this provides very good news content.
Lycos - catagorised information like Yahoo.
Webcrawler - fast seach but it only searches page summaries or titles, so not always reliable.
 
What's new? - a list of new web sites updated daily, searchable.
Yahoo - one of the best, very good for UK specific content.
Yell - a searchable directory of UK sites