Help with subscribing to news feeds

This page explains how you can subscribe to our news feeds.

News feeds allow you to see when we have published news items that are relevant to you without having to visit our website. They are known as RSS, which stands for 'really simple syndication'.

To receive them, you will need a news reader. This is software that checks our website and lets you read the newly published news items.

A news reader may be:

• already available as part of your web browser (for example Firefox will create a news feed button when you subscribe to a feed if you ask it to create a live bookmark);
• accessed using a browser (in the same way that you can access email from any computer using Hotmail, for example); or
• separate software that you can download onto your computer.

Once you have a news reader, you can subscribe to our feeds by clicking on the one that interests you.

You can find a list of news readers on the BBC website (see link on the right side of this page).

A browser, short for web browser, is a program used to view websites and surf the internet. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari are examples of browsers.