Amazon UK

Online retailer of books, movies, music and games along with electronics, toys, apparel, sports, tools, groceries and general home and garden items. Region 2 DVDs and prices in pounds sterling.

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC is principally funded by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using equipment capable of recording and/or receiving live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set by the UK Government and agreed by the UK Parliament under a multi-year agreement with the Corporation. It operates under a Royal Charter issued by the British Crown.

BBC News

BBC News is the department of the BBC responsible for news and current affairs output. The world's largest broadcast news organisation, it generates each day about 120 hours of radio and television, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost all the world's 240 countries.

Cricinfo

Cricinfo is the largest cricket-related website, and one of the largest websites in the world with more than 20 million users. It includes news and articles, live scorecards, and a comprehensive and queriable database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present. On June 11, 2007, ESPN announced that it had bought Cricinfo from Wisden group.

The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper, The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered to be the middle-market and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.

Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is usually referred to in popular parlance.

Directgov

Directgov is the UK government's website for citizens, providing a single point of access to public sector information and services. The content is developed by representatives from the many government departments that contribute to the site, working with a central Directgov team.

The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. In 2009, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.4 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America.

eBay UK

Person to person online auction site where you can buy or sell new and used items.

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in the Borough of Southwark, London and printed at 22 sites. Its primary rival is New York City-based The Wall Street Journal.

Google UK

The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as world results.

guardian.co.uk

guardian.co.uk, formerly known as Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. Janine Gibson is the editor. It contains nearly all of the content of the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer, as well as a substantial body of web-only work produced by its own staff, including a rolling news service.

Gumtree

Gumtree is an extensive network of online classifieds and community websites. Private advertisements are free for first appearance only. It is the UK's biggest website for local community classifieds and one of the top 20 websites in the UK.

The Independent

The Independent is a British newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. Originally a broadsheet newspaper, since 2003 it has been published in a tabloid format.

New Scientist

New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine and website covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. New Scientist has maintained a website since 1996, publishing daily news. As well as covering current events and news from the scientific community, the magazine often features speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical.

Premier League

The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League.

Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a UK-based, Canadian-controlled news service and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. News reporting once accounted for less than 10% of the company's income. Its main focus was on supplying the financial markets with information and trading products. These included market data, such as share prices and currency rates, research and analytics, as well as trading systems that allowed dealers to buy and sell such assets as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange. Among other services, the most notable was analysis of 40,000 companies, debt instruments, and 3 million economic series.

Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk is the online version of the newspaper. It includes the articles from the print additions of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph as well as web-only content such as breaking news, features, picture galleries and blogs. It was named UK Consumer Website of the Year in 2007 and 2009 by the Association of Online Publishers.

The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International.

Yell.com

Yell.com is United Kingdom's local search engine, providing access to classified business information, including business websites, addresses, phone numbers and detailed local maps and directions for locations throughout the UK.