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NHS Choices |
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This website has been developed to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services |
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Contemporary authors |
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This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers |
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Adviceguide |
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The Citizen's Advice Bureau have reproduced their excellent notes in abbreviated form. |
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Advicenow |
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Advicenow provides an easy introduction to common legal problems, setting out the key issues and explaining where to go and what to do. |
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BBC Essentials |
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Provides impartial information on sex, drugs and relationships, travel, work health and money as well as college and university details.
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Citizen's Advice Bureau - volunteer project |
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This is the homepage of Medway's Citizen's Advice Bureau Volunteer development project |
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Community Legal Service Direct |
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Government service for when you need help with a legal problem. Also available by telephone at 0845 345 4 345. |
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Contact a family |
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The only UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children - no matter what their health condition. We also enable parents to get in contact with other families, both on a local and national basis. |
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Just Ask |
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Now renamed "Community Legal Service Direct". |
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Medway Carers Centre |
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Offering free help, support, and training to carers. |
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On Divorce |
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Practical help for people who need to deal with divorce. |
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Relate |
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Relate offers advice, relationship counselling, sex therapy, workshops, mediation, consultations and support face-to-face, by phone and through this website. |
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Samaritans |
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If you need someone to talk to, and don't know where to turn, the samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. |
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Self Help UK |
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Search a database of self-help organisations and support groups by keyword or location. Full contact details are provided. |
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Survivors of bereavement by suicide |
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A helpful site for those who have been bereaved by suicide |
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The truth about Rape |
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Advice and contacts for women who have been raped. Campaigns to dispel myths and affect legal change. |
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Timeshare Consumers Association |
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This website has information on all matters related to timeshare accommodation. |
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All About Pets |
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A web site by Blue Cross. Includes information in the form of downloadable leaflets on cats, dogs, horses and small animals. |
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Electronic Zoo |
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Gives a great deal of information about all kinds of animals, put together by Washington University. |
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Find a vet |
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Find a vet near you. Site run by the RCVS. |
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Insects |
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The Invertebrate Conservation Trust site: what they are doing to conserve insects, as well as interesting facts about bugs themselves. |
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People's Dispensary for Sick Animals |
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Lots of information about keeping pets, and about pet ailments. |
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RSPCA |
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The web site of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Easy to use with fun and information for adults and children. |
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The Cats Protection League |
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A nice mix of information on cat welfare, homing etc and fun pictures, games and competitions. Young people should check out the Cool Cats Club. |
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The Kennel Club |
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Want to know about dog breeds? This is the site for you. |
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VetScape |
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This site was started in 1994 by a Glasgow University student, and is now an authoritative gateway to Internet sites for the veterinary profession. |
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Access to Archives |
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National portal for archive collections |
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Archive collections in academic institutions |
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A gateway to descriptions of archives in UK colleges and universities |
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Archives Awareness Campaign |
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Includes an events directory searchable by region and date |
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CityArk: Medway's Archive database |
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Searchable catalogue of the archive collections at Medway Archives including Imagebase of digitised documents and parish registers |
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History Matters: One day in history |
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A MASS BLOG for the national record, for October 17 2006. A snapshot of an ordinary day. |
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The National Archives |
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Guide to the National Archives in Kew and the Family Record Centre in Islington |
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Access Art |
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Access Art offers excellent interactive online workshops and learning resources exploring the visual arts. |
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ADAM |
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A UK gateway to Arts, Design, Architecture and Media information on the Internet. Searchable by keyword. |
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Art on the Net |
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An international site for artists to get together and share their work digitally. Currently features over 100 artists. |
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BBC Arts |
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All the latest news and events in the arts world plus radio and TV listings. Features books, reviews, poetry, Tate@BBC, digital arts and much more. |
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British Arts |
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An excellent overview of the arts in Britain. Includes a list of arts competitions across the country with details of how to enter. |
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Kent Indie |
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For independent, non-mainstream artistic creations |
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Medway Arts |
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Site listing local artists. |
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National Gallery |
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Including virtual tours of the famous London gallery's collections and exhibitions. |
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Royal Academy of Arts |
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A comprehensive guide to the Royal Academy's exhibitions, collections, artists, archives and picture library. |
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Tate Gallery |
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Home page of the Tate Gallery, includes links to Tate Modern and regional Tate galleries. |
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Theatre Monkey |
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What box office staff won't tell you: Independent venue guide to concert and theatre venues |
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Universal Leonardo |
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Find out more about Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, interactive site and very detailed. |
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Voluntary Arts Network |
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Arts events across the country, compiled by the Voluntary Arts Network. |
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World Wide Arts Resources |
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a gateway to an astonishing number of arts resources across the Internet. Searchable by keyword. |
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Budgerigar Society |
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This is a site which gives the history of the society and keeps you up to date on the news and shows you can become a member. There's a photo gallery and a useful links page. |
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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
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This organisation is a British charity for the protection of birds. It includes everything you could wish to know about birds of the British Isles. |
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RSPB Medway Group |
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Local branch of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Details of events, meetings and contacts. |
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ABE Sleuth |
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Looking for a book but all you can remember is a character, or a plot, or even just the cover? Post a message to ABE Sleuth and somebody somewhere will recognise it. |
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Abebooks.com |
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Excellent source for second-hand books. |
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Achuka |
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Children's book information with loads of great links |
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Amazon |
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Said to be the biggest bookseller on the Internet, it is useful for searching both for in-print and out-of-print books. Also useful to see what other people think about the book you just read! |
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Author Trail |
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A guide to places of interest in the lives of authors with connections in Medway, East Sussex and the Somme |
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Blackwells bookshop |
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Bookshop with many good links, including students' reading lists and books in the media |
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Book Group Information |
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Lots of information on starting a group and suggestions on what books to choose |
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BookBrain |
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Scans 14 online bookshops to find you the best price and availability of the book you want and then link directly to the site. |
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Bookcase |
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The BBC's website about books. |
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Bookcrossing.com |
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Release a book into the wild! This website will tell you how. |
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Books On-line |
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An enormous collection of books available to download or read on the Internet. |
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Books Unlimited |
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Guardian newspaper site. Critiques, reviews, discussion. |
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Bookseller |
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The magazine for the book trade. Great links to publishers. |
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Booktrust |
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Booktrust runs book prizes and brilliant projects to encourage readers of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy books. |
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Borrowers Recommend |
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Twenty one books recommended by library users |
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Contemporary authors |
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This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers |
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Fantastic Fiction |
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Bibiliographies and information on authors, very good for finding out about series. |
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First Choice Books |
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Good reads for new readers - an excellent place for new adult readers to find a book that will get them hooked. |
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Google Book Search |
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Google is digitising thousands of books, all searchable. If the book is out of copyright, you get the whole thing. If the book is in copyright, you just see a fraction. Try it out! |
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Guardian Books |
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Guardian book site. Very useful for information on books, authors - mini biographies, current reviews and a searchable archive of reviews and a discussion list. |
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International Children's Digital Library |
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Digitised children's books. A huge collection, beautifully presented. But bear in mind that they are all out of copyright, so they're pretty elderly. You won't find Harry Potter here! |
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Internet Book List |
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A useful site for searching out books by series and genre, as well as the usual author, titles ,etc. It also includes discussion forums for booklovers. |
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Lulu.com |
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A do-it-yourself site which enables you to create and publish digital content. No set up fee and you set your own royalty. |
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Mills and Boon |
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If you are interested in romantic fiction, this is the site for you. |
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Murder One |
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Crime and mystery site, useful for its links to other websites. |
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Murder One Bookshop |
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Lots of links to Crime Writers and other interesting sites |
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Opening the Book |
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A website for reader development. "The best book in the world is quite simply the one you like best and that is something you can discover for yourself, but we are here to help you find it." |
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Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction |
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Find all about this prestigious women's book prize |
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Overbooked |
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A website for ravenous readers. |
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Penguin Readers Group |
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A truly magnificent site for any reader with advice for using the internet to find book information |
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Publishers |
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Publishers' websites are a valuable method of finding out about new books |
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Reader2Reader |
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This site allows readers to exchange views on books. You can 'Bin a Book' if it's very bad or try to tempt someone to read a book they might not have chosen for themselves. |
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Romance sequels |
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The lists are arranged in three sections: single title, category and publisher series. A brief description is included with each set of links, as well as a breakdown of how the books are listed. |
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Story Code |
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If you need some help finding a new book to read, this is the site for you |
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Sunday Times |
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Click on Books to see reviews in the latest edition |
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Tangled Web |
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Crime, mystery and fantastic fiction. |
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The Bookcase |
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BBC website with news about books, and a bookclub. |
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Transita Publishing House |
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Great Books for Grown Women, Contemporary Women's Fiction. An exciting new publishing house. |
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W.H.Smith |
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Website of the bookseller, with plenty of links |
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Waterstones Bookshop |
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A quick way of checking full details of books in print |
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WH Smith Literary Award |
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Information about the WH Smith literary prize. |
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Which Book? |
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This site will tell you what books you might enjoy: all you have to do is tell it whether you like your books happy or sad, safe or disturbing. |
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biz/ed |
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A website for students and educators in business studies, economics, accounting, leisure, sport & recreation and travel & tourism. |
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British Brands Group |
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Information about business brands. Contains case studies which may be of use to marketing students - but also makes entertaining general reading! |
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Carol.co.uk - annual company reports |
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CAROL is an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. |
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Companies House Webcheck |
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Search for basic details on over 2 million registered companies. |
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Europages, The European Business Directory |
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Looking for a product in Europe, including Eastern Europe? Includes 500,000 companies covering all market sectors with consultation in 6 languages, and lists company catalogues available on the web. Includes links to Yellow Pages across Europe. |
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Northcote |
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Northcote Internet Ltd have traced listed company annual reports on the Internet, which are accessible via the Northcote search engine. |
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Scoot |
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A business service also available via an 0800 number and Vodaphone, this lists around 2 million businesses in the UK and can be searched by type and location. |
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Survey Monkey |
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Create a professional online survey quickly, easily, and free of charge. |
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Thomweb |
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Calls itself "the ultimate search on the Net for over 2 million UK businesses". Run by Thomson Directories. |
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Trade partners |
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This is the government's website with free information to help you export successfully. |
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UPS Europe Business Monitor |
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Annual survey of 1,500 directors from Europe's top 15,000 companies, showing business trends. |
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Nextstep Medway |
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nextstep promotes learning and work to all adults aged 20 and over. |
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Charities Direct |
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Listings of charities, also done by income / funds etc. Compiled by CarisData, a publisher. |
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Charity Choice |
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Lists thousands of UK charities with contact information. |
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Charity Net |
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Put together by the Charities Aid Foundation, this site offers a wide range of information about all charity issues. |
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Intelligent Giving - guide to charities |
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A free, not-for-profit independent guide to charities - to guide people when they're deciding how or whether to give to charity |
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National Trust |
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Lots of information and offers good links to other areas of interest, arts, museums, gardening etc. |
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The Charity Commission |
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Covers England and Wales. Offers a database where you can search for a charity by name or area and gives you contact details. |
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V-Day - until the violence stops |
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V-Day raises funds and awareness for UK and international charities preventing violence towards women and children. |
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VOIS |
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Voluntary Organisations Internet Server. Hosts a number of charity and voluntary organisations' web sites. |
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Women's Aid |
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Englands National charity for women and children experiencing physical, sexual or emotional abuse in their homes. |
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ACHUKA |
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Britain’s most active and comprehensive specialist children’s book site, updated almost every day. |
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Activity Village |
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US originated site with activities and craft ideas for young children with free downloads and parenting advice. |
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Blue Peter |
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Site of the famous television programme. |
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Bug Club |
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Site for young insect lovers put together by the Amateur Entomologist's Society. |
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ChildcareLink |
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Find a childminder or playgroup all across the country. (Includes Medway's database.) |
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Children's Literature Web Guide |
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Produced by the University of Calgary in Canada, this site has a wide range of information on children's literature. |
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Cool Reads |
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Books for 10-15 year olds reviewed by 10-15 year olds. |
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Discovery Channel |
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Plenty of text, pictures, films and sound about the natural world. |
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Edventure Learning |
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Far too much fun to be educational. Try the Science Station. |
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Grand Illusions |
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Fascinating puzzles and illusions. |
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I am dyslexic.com |
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A Yahoo Pick of the Year site. Put together by a dyslexic teenager for dyslexic children. |
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International Children's Digital Library |
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Digitised children's books. A huge collection, beautifully presented. But bear in mind that they are all out of copyright, so they're pretty elderly. You won't find Harry Potter here! |
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Jeremy Strong |
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The popular author's site with lots of info about his books, a biography and the Krazy Kow game. |
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Kids Days Out |
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Ideas of places to visit and activities available for children around Britain. |
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Kids' Search Engines |
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Children's search engines |
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Mechanical Toys Page |
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Instructions for making a variety of mechanical toys. |
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My Home Library |
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All kinds of stuff for children who enjoy reading, including bookplates by famous cartoonists to print off and use. |
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Net mums |
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Netmums is a unique local network for Mums (or Dads), offering a wealth of information on both a national and local level. |
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Show me! |
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Museums for children: play games, download information and get ideas for activities to do at home. Worth it just for the "Taste or Tat" game alone! |
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Starchild |
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A learning centre for young astronomers, provided by NASA. |
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Stories from the Web |
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Reviews of books, online stories, games and author interviews. |
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Thomas the Tank Engine website |
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Great fun for small children. |
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Tigerchild |
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"A balanced source of information on raising children". It is a site that was created by two mothers, for parents on a wide range of non-biased parenting and childcare issues. It covers health, parenting, and other issues. |
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Treasure Island |
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Children's activity site. "Find out about the author, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure and lots more! On top of this you can contribute by sending in your reviews of the book and descriptions of dastardly pirates." |
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UK Children's Books |
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Loads of links to author sites, illustrator sites and more. |
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Under Fives |
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An excellent pre-school site for parents and teachers. Part of the National Grid for Learning. |
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Women's Aid |
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Englands National charity for women and children experiencing physical, sexual or emotional abuse in their homes. |
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Yahooligans |
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Children's search engine from Yahoo!A good range of categories, both for educational and leisure topics. |
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Yucky |
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Yucky facts about lots of things. |
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BBC Key Stage 2 ReviseWise |
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Castles |
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castles all over the UK |
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Encyclopedia Mythica |
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An encyclopedia on Myths, folklore and legend |
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Encyclopedia Mythica |
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An encyclopedia on Myths, folklore and legend |
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GCSE Nuclear Radiation |
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Very useful topic information provided by a science teacher. |
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Homework Elephant |
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"Your first stop for internet resources to help complete your homework assignments. Over 5000 carefully selected resources to assist with your homework problems!" Includes subject help, 'Ask an Elephant', hints and tips and lots more. |
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Learn.co.uk |
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Run by the Guardian newspaper, it provides materials for Key Stage Four students. |
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Savage Earth |
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Excellent animations which make geography even more interesting. Includes earthquake, tsunami attack and volcanic eruption. |
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World Flag Database |
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Flags for every country along with other information such as capital city, currency, population and languages. |
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100 great black britons |
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Reflects the history of the black community over the past 1000 years and celebrates those who helped change and shape the political, social and cultural landscape of Britain |
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Black and Asian History Map |
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A gateway to websites about Black and Asian history across Britain. |
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Black history month |
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The official Black history month website |
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Community Fund |
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Community Fund distributes money raised by the National Lottery. Check out whether your group's eligibility here. |
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Every generation |
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community resource to the black community to facilitate the personal development and empowerment of young people and to bridge the gap with the older generation through history, family genealogy and heritage. |
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Kentish Villages |
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Links to Kentish communities that have their own web sites |
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Moving here |
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Provides an extensive archive detailing the history of 200 years of migration to England |
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UK online centres |
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Helping people in the community make the most of the online facilities in libraries. |
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BBC Absolute Beginners |
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An excellent, detailed course for people who are absolute beginners with computers. |
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Computer Tutor |
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Excellent beginner's guide to computers. |
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Computer tutorials |
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Directory of links to sites offering instructional information on a vast range of software and hardware matters. |
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Free Online Dictionary of Computing |
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Dictionary of computing terms put together by Imperial College. Gives definitions in plain English. |
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Games! |
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An assortment of games to help you improve your mouse skills. |
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IT Safe |
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Provides simple information to help protect your PC from malicious attack. |
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Jigzone |
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Jigsaws online - useful for improving your mouse skills. |
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Mouse Exercises |
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Rather fun exercises to improve your mouse skills. |
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Mouserobics |
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Introduction to using the mouse, for beginners; text also in Danish, French, Spanish, Hmong, Italian, andTagalog. |
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PC fix zone |
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If you know a little about your computer and want to find out more, this forum is a good place to drop in. You can read about other people's problems or you can post your own. |
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PC help for free |
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If you want to find out more about your computer and what it can do, there's plenty of information here. |
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Freecycle |
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A grassroots and community non-profit gifting community. Recycle & re-use locally. |
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Protection of the countryside |
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The Campaign to Protect Rural England: aims to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouraging the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country. |
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Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings |
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Established by WIlliam Morris, this society is dedicated to preserving and restoring old buildings |
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Alternatives to 08 telephone numbers |
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Lists the geographical telephone numbers of many well known companies, as alternatives to their more expensive 08 numbers. |
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Money-saving information |
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How to save money - credit cards, shopping, banking, insurance, travel, mortgages, etc. |
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The Consumer Gateway |
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A information portal provided by the DTI. Contains links to web sites of government departments and other organisations offering consumer information. Information on cars, food, holidays and travel, e-shopping, money and finance etc |
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Departures |
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Quality links to information about a peculiar range of countries. |
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Undiscovered Scotland |
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Useful holiday guide to Scotland. |
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Access to the countryside |
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The official website for the Countryside Code and maps of Open Access land in England. |
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Butterflies |
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Excellent photographic guide, with flight times for each species. |
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Butterflies |
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Habitats, behaviour and distribution of butterflies and moths, as well as conservation issues. |
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Forestry Commission |
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Forestry as an industry, and forests for visitors, in England, Scotland and Wales. |
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Fungi |
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Comprehensive range of links to sites covering all aspects of fungi. |
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National nature reserves |
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Natural England brings together English Nature, Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service. Uses interactive maps to locate SSSI's and other protected sites. |
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Plantlife International |
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The Wild-Plant Conservation Charity, joint managers of Ranscombe Farm reserve near Cuxton, with Medway Council. Interactive map easily locates 23 nature reserves in Britain; with a guide to rare and threatened species. |
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Thursday Group |
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A volunteer group helping to manage areas of ancient woodland and chalk grassland for public access and conservation in Medway, Kent |
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Walking World |
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Free walks for all abilities, including directions and maps, which can be printed on A4 |
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Ability - Creative Writing |
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Excellent list of links with tips about writing for all ages and abilities. Links to information about courses and other resources. |
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Customers' own |
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A space where local writers can have their work published, for free. |
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Excite Directory - Creative Writing |
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List of resources provided by the Excite directory; an excellent list of links with resources for budding writers, from how to write to forums to contact other writers. |
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Lapidus |
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Using writing as a tool for personal development. |
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Learn Direct |
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Can help you find a creative writing course anywhere in the uk. If you can’t find Medway courses, try the Medway Council adult education website. |
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Literary Festival |
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Easy to use searchable database of literary festivals, produced by the British Council. |
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Marion Zimmer bradley |
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Articles written by MZB including tips on writing & getting published, as well as information about MZB and her work. |
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MsLexia |
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The magazine for women who write - debate, analysis, fiction, news, grants competitions and MORE! |
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Poetry Book Society |
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A specialist book club which provides a package of discounts on poetry books, information and guidance designed to suit your needs. |
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Poetry Kit |
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Extensive and comprehensive resource including tips about writing poetry, getting published, competitions, courses and more! |
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Poetry Library |
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Founded by the Arts Council in 1953, the library works to support and promote modern British poetry. They aim to stock all poetry published in the U.K. since about 1912, as well as a wide selection of international work. |
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Poetry London |
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online magazine. Some free to view. |
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Poetry Society |
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Events, Competitions and More! |
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Quotations |
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A searchable database of quotations, listed by author and subject. |
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Richmond Review Magazine |
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An excellent resource. Includes a Library of fiction & poetry, reviews & essays - how to get yourself published. |
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Richmond Review Magazine |
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The UK's first literary magazine to be published exclusively on the World Wide Web .An excellent resource. Includes a Library of fiction & poetry, reviews & essays - how to get yourself published. |
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UK Literature and Writing Events |
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A list of literature festivals compiled by the British Council, including events and competitions for writers of all genres to showcase their talents. |
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Urban Fox Press |
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A Non-profit community arts organisations, which aims to promote writers and artists based in the South East of England, especially Medway. Urban Fox regurarly hold events and workshops. |
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Warehouse Theatre |
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To promote the work of new playwrights; they also stage the International playwriting festival. |
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Women in Publishing |
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Open to all women interetsed in publishing. Offers networking, practical training and regular meetings. |
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Writers circles |
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Directory of Writers' Circles, Courses and Workshops. Find a writers group near you. |
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Parole Board |
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Independent body advising on the release or continued custody of prisoners. With links to other sites useful to both prisoners and victims of crime. |
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BBC Crimewatch |
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Details of all the latest appeals and solved cases. |
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Crimestoppers - Most Wanted |
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Help the police track criminals. Includes photos, CCTV footage and descriptions of suspected criminals. Information can be submitted anonymously. |
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Criminal Justice System |
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developed so as to inform members of the public about the Criminal Justice System whilst offering practical advice for any who become involved in it as victims, witnessess etc. |
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Hail Safe |
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an alert service designed to help keep you safe when using a taxi-cab |
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Victim Support |
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provides support and assistance to victims and witnesses of crime, their families and friends before, during and after trial |
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Women's Aid |
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Englands National charity for women and children experiencing physical, sexual or emotional abuse in their homes. |
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Ability Net |
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Ability Net provides free information and advice on any aspect of the use of a computer by someone with a disability, individual assessment of technology needs, adapted computer equipment with full training and technical support. |
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British Dyslexia Association |
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Website of the British Dyslexia Association. Includes news and events. |
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