News feeds allow you to keep up to date with content posted on websites without actually having to visit the website.

RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader," "feed reader" or an "aggregator." The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.

It appears as a link in the bottom left of every page. Or you can click here

Well you'll need a news reader (List on Google). However, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.0 have news readers built in, so you can subscribe to them easily through this browsers.

Unfortunately, on the UCLan network, IE 6.0 is still in use, so you will need an external news reader to subscribe to the feeds at Uni.

Yes, definitely! We encourage the use of our news feed on other websites, as long as our content is correctly attributed. Why? Because we want to open our news up to the widest possible audience.

Yes. On our local news page, you will notice in the right hand column a red box that changes every so often, showing a different headline and story text. This content comes from a feed provided by the Lancashire Evening Post.

On the national news page, the content generated comes via a BBC feed, and on the international news page, from CNN.

As we use an external system for our editors blog, the "Latest blogs" links at the top of each page are also generated through the use of a news feed.