THE Lancashire Evening Telegraph was the first regional evening newspaper to launch on the Internet...and it keeps getting bigger and better.
Our pages have been viewed THREE AND A HALF MILLION times in just two years by people around the world, making it one of the most successful web sites on the net.
Among the features not to miss is our motoring section. You can view on-line dealers and garages as well as thousands of motors in our classifieds.
But a must for anybody looking for a car is the special search facility which will find you a vehicle simply by telling us what model you want and the price you want to pay.
Just head for the motoring site from our home page on http://www.newsquest.co.uk/
And watch out over the next few weeks for more details on the extensive range of features you can call up on your screen from our web pages. We're just getting
bigger and bigger! The fans
scoring
on the net ROVERS fans will always be able to see goals in the back of the net but now they can find out what their team is up to ON the Net.
Supporters can get their fix of Ewood Park facts and figures from several web pages.
The official Rovers page, Ewood Park Life, (http://www.rovers.co.uk/) has profiles of players, a history of the club and merchandise details. There's even info on how to book a wedding ceremony at the ground!
And it promises to get better with digitised video footage of the team's goals within a couple of hours of the game.
The Unofficial Blackburn Rovers Supporters' Club page (http://www.brfc-supporters.org.uk/) is also worth a look. You can get e-mail addresses for other Rovers fans and there's a live chat facility for people to swap their Ewood tales.
Links to all FA Premiership clubs can also be found on Carling's own site. (http://www.fa-carling.com)
Next week...find out how Burnley score on the net. IT was only a matter of time - a heavyweight TV drama about the people caught up in the World Wide Web!
No surprise then that ace thriller writer and creator of some of TV's grittiest series, Lynda La Plante, has been working on a new project called Killer Net.
Filming has just begun on the series which explores the dark side of interactive computers when a net nerd gets caught up in a lethal CD-Rom game.
The series will give ex-Take That star Jason Orange his first straight acting role and also stars Tam Williams, Paul Bettany and Simon Williams.
The series is set in Brighton and London and will be shown on Channel 4 early next year. Lynda is
lining up
Killer of
a tale LYNDA: Filming YOUNG farmers can swap their tractors for a computer and take a look at some new pages dedicated to them.
The National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs has launched its own site this week (http://www.yfc-web.org.uk) and promises to "cater for the needs and concerns" of youthful rural folk. IS there someone really bugging you at the moment? You know, that really smug colleague in the office who can't resist having a go.
Well, get your own back with the Automatic Abusive Letter Writer. (http://www-csgag.cs.uic.edu)
It's simple to use. Just type in the name of the object of your hate, hit a button and hey presto, an instant angry letter which sporadically inserts their name.
You may not send it to them but you'll feel a lot better just reading it. Getting you're
own back time DON'T forget. E-mail me all your news about the Internet. If you've seen something cool or want us to take a look at your web pages, drop me a line at mtempleton@lancashire.newsquest.co.uk
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