About news feeds
Our news feed allows you to see when we have added new
content to the website. You can get our latest news as soon as
its published, without having to visit the site itself.
Feeds are also known as RSS, generally understood to
stand for 'Really Simple Syndication'. Put simply,
feeds are webpages, designed to be read by computers rather
than by people.
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How do I get news feeds?
In order to receive news feeds, the first thing you
need is news reader software. This checks the feeds and
lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many
different versions, some of which are accessed using a
web browser, and some of which are applications downloaded to
your computer.
Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed
subscriptions from any computer (like when you use a Hotmail
account for your email), whereas downloadable applications let you
store them on your main computer (in the same way that you can
download your e-mail using MS Outlook).
Browser-based news feeds
Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari,
automatically check for feeds when you visit a website, and
display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to
feeds much easier. For more details on these, see websites.
Internet Explorer 7 is the only browser to offer
any RSS feed integration.
If your browser displays a page of code rather than the
actual 'feed' when you click on an RSS link, you will need to use a
different web browser (such as Firefox, Opera and Safari) or
download news reader software instead.
Web-based news feeds
These are also known as 'news aggregators', and allow you to
collect news from websites that you are interested in, into one
place which you then read using your web browser:
A longer list can be found at News On
Feeds.
News reader software There is a range
of different news readers available and new versions are released
all the time. Those listed below are just a selection and you may
want to search for others that suit your needs. Different news
readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to
choose one that will work with your computer:
Windows
Mac OS X
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Getting started
Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to
decide what content you want it to receive.
If you click on the RSS button at the top of this page, you can
subscribe to the feed in various ways. This includes dragging
the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting
the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Most sites that
offer feeds use a similar orange button, but some may just have a
normal web link.
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Using our news feeds on your site
If you run your own website, you can use RSS to display the latest
headlines from our website on your site.
We are happy for our news feeds to be published on
other websites, but we do require that we are
credited where our content appears. The credit should
read "London Ambulance Service NHS
Trust news". Please only use a text credit; do not
use our logo.
We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of our
content. We do not accept any liability for our news
feeds.
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