Folk Awards
Mike Harding
The Radio 2 Folk Awards will be broadcast live on Wednesday 8 Feb from 7.30pm on BBC Radio 2, online at bbc.co.uk/radio2, and on the BBC's Red Button Service.
The Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony is a much anticipated annual event in the music world with previous years featuring incredible performances from folk luminaries like James Taylor, Nanci Griffith, and Donovan who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's event.
This year, the ceremony will be broadcast live from the Lowry Theatre in Salford and hosted by Radio 2's Mike Harding and folk singer Julie Fowlis. There will be performances by folk favourites old and new including The Dubliners, Christy Moore, Don McLean and Seth Lakeman. The awards celebrate the folk highlights of the last year and include presentations for best album, group and musician.
To see who has been nominated, visit BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
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On the Autumn open post, Russ asked:
When did the BBC drop the 'Text only' option for the homepage?
Whether or not to provide a Text Only version of a webpage is an interesting Accessibility question. I established the Accessibility Team for public facing BBC digital services back in 2005, and we have been discussing that question since then.
At the time the BBC had two Text Only solutions which enabled users of early screen reader technologies and mobile browsers better access to BBC content. These were necessary because they were the days when BBC content was almost exclusively published in tables based page layouts.
Times have changed and neither screen readers nor mobile technologies depend on text only versions of pages.
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Mock-ups of the new BBC Sport site
My name is Cait O’Riordan and I am responsible within Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, including our Olympic coverage. Today we have rolled out some major changes to how the site looks and works and I wanted to explain those changes and why we have carried them out.
This redesign is the first major launch of many this year as we get ready to cover the Olympic Games this summer. We are working on some really exciting developments, which will be showcased on the new BBC Sport website.
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