bbc.co.uk

Yeh, it seems that all (if not nearly) of the stories and links are working. A great new look, though I would like images for the two other top stories to fill up the ubiquitous white space.

The new larger video player is a great improvement and the In Pictures section too: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/news/10608845 A shame they appear to be using the old indexes for Magazine and a couple of others. Hopefully these will have the new look soon.

Alas, considering the programme pages are still stuck with the last look, I wouldn't be at all surprise if remnants of the current look stick around for a few more years.

Looking amazing!

BBC News website is now live with the new look.

I have to say this new look looks fantastic - much more modern & cleaner than before!

Videos are set out much nicer as well - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10625563

Interesting they've ditched http://news.bbc.co.uk - just redirects to www.bbc.co.uk/news - it used to retain it's own URL in the address bar.

well I think there is a lot of potential, however currently it's a bit rubbish.

1 - there is far too much white space, especially on story pages
2 - because everything is so massive, local news is now harder to find
3 - lack of pictures in the main headlines makes it seem like there is less news


most importantly however, I noticed a claim in the FAQ that they are planning to retire the news.bbc.co.uk domain once the changeover is complete.

Are they actually insane? 12 years of links, references in books, essays, reports, journals and the like would be made useless due to that change. How hard is it exactly to run a server with a modrewrite script on it. urgh

They're just doing it to irritate you.

Still, lets see how many whiners work their way out of the woodwork and swear off ever using the website again.

The BBC Local news indexes and the BBC Local sites are currently being merged - so the old 'news indexes' under the news site now redirect.

BBC London used to have a BBC News page and a BBC Local page (bbc.co.uk/london) now it is ALL stored at BBC London.

You can access all the pages from here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hi/default.stm

And it's actually easier now to find local news stories - just go to England and scroll down a little bit - it's all there in a big black box.

Glad to see the former 'Americas' section has now been split into 'Latin America' and 'US and Canada'. Latin American stuff always got lost under the sea of news from the US.

The BBC Magazine is running a piece on "What would a new bank look like" and are using the following logo for their 'Newbank'..

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48349000/jpg/_48349339_bankcompo.jpg

Looks very similar to Facebook though!

I think that's the joke.