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Listed below are comments made by thelonggrass between Friday, 12th June 2009 and Friday, 19th June 2009.

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Changes to international pages (3) 7:29pm on 19 Jun 2009 As someone wrote in the last set of comments if you missed it, you can still get the UK version of the front page at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm

I currently have this one booked-marked, so please please please don't remove it BBC.
Changes to international pages (2) 10:32am on 19 Jun 2009 I've been coming back here for the last few days hoping for more of a response (or better still a solution as brain-damaging your own product doesn't seem to be that sensible).

So while I can listen to Today on R4 in the mornings over the internet, I can't now follow the developing stories during the day on the website. But my guess is it's a fait accompli and I'll just have to break a habit and get used to somewhere else being my first source for news from now on.
Changes to international pages (2) 4:35pm on 15 Jun 2009 OK. Real time. I'm looking at the international news page. At the moment on the UK pages, the breaking big news UK story is Gordon Brown announcing an Iraq war enquiry. This isn't in the UK section of the International pages so I wouldn't know about it at the moment - news in the international view is not being updated at the same rate - it looks like the announcement has not been made. Since a lot of news happens, you don't necessarily know to go and look for it.

Second thing is that I don't feel you've really explained the why of the decision unless UK and International are going to become increasingly different, rather than International just being a version of UK. Could you explain more?

Thirdly, being a web-developer, I can't work out why the content is so tied to the page display. Surely the same content can be served into different page layouts to allow you to place the adverts you want?

Final thing is that a lot of us are very parochial with regard to things like sport. Having international sports headlines may not be as useful as having UK-centric sports headlines. Again, more chasing through the site.
Changes to international pages 11:50am on 12 Jun 2009 Some specific instances of where the UK and International versions made a significant difference was on Euro-election night. On the UK version, there was an up-to-date summary of UK results on the front page, on the International version it was just European level results. Similarly, the expenses scandal tended to lead on the UK version and was relegated in the International version. These have a big editorial impact on what and how you read the news, even if you are also reading other UK papers on-line too.

Though if you're really going international, it would be very welcome to have all the Champions League football results in the sports section, and not just those involving UK teams.

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