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Useful Links to online information and e-commerce
Useful Links to online information and e-commerce
I have compiled a comprehensive list of useful links to other sites on the Internet. Click on the links to access the listed service.
I have tested the links as much as possible, and also reviewed the source of the sites listed, however I do not endorse or otherwise offer any guarantees in respect of content found. Should you find any errors or want to be listed please contact me.
UK Community Website Directory Find a local community.
Merrie City - A website with a humourous look at Wakefield
The 1901 Census - Online - Access the full census here.
Wakefield Family History Sharing Web Site - Plenty of local information here.
Postcards of Old Wakefield on Wakefield FHS Web Site
Outwood Community Video -A Local Community Web site.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Find out where victims of the British Forces are buried abroad.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.
LDS database - Search for your family history.
Pub History Society - A site encouraging research into the public house, the people who worked in them, and their importance to society as a whole.
Local History Magazine - The UK's only independent national magazine for anyone with an interest in local history. It also has links to many interesting sites.
International Movie Database - Find information about any film or actor
Willow Island Web site - Brilliant Web site with sketches by local wildlife artist Richard Bell
Wakefield University of the 3rd Age. - U3A Website
Horbury Scouts - 8th Wakefield Website
Larkshill.org.uk - Ossett - The history of a Yorkshire town
Yorkshire Dialect Verse - Examples of Yorkshire Dialect.
NHS Web site - First contact for Health problems.
I am Dyslexic A web site written by a 13 year old dyslexic
Wakefield Camra A web site dedicated to the Real Ale drinker in Wakefield
Yorkshire County Boys Brigade A web site for contact and event details of the Boys Brigade
Wakefield Carers Wakefield Carers offer a free confidential information and support service to Carers who live in the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area.
| Abbey National Bank Plc | www.abbey.com |
| ACAS - Abritration and Advisory Services | www.acas.org.uk |
| ADAS - Agricultural Advisory Service | www.adas.co.uk |
| Aer Lingus | www.aerlingus.ie |
| Alliance & Leicester | www.alliance-leicester.co.uk/home/index.aspx |
| Amazon UK Books, Music & Videos | www.amazon.co.uk |
| AOL - America Online - fee based ISP | www.aol.co.uk |
| Argos Catalogue Store | www.argos.co.uk |
| Army | www.army.mod.uk |
| Arriva Buses | www.arrivabus.co.uk |
| Ask Jeeves - new "intuitive" style search engine | uk.ask.com |
| Association of Commonwealth Universities | www.acu.ac.uk |
| Atlapedia Online | www.atlapedia.com |
| Audit Bureau of Circulations | www.abc.org.uk |
| Audit Commission | www.audit-commission.gov.uk |
| Bank of England | www.bankofengland.co.uk |
| Bank of Scotland | www.bankofscotland.co.uk |
| Banking Ombudsman | www.obo.org.uk |
| Barclays Bank On-line | www.barclays.co.uk |
| BBC Learning | www.bbc.co.uk/learning |
| BBC News -UK & World News | news.bbc.co.uk |
| BBC Online | www.bbc.co.uk |
| Beat Crime - Check the crimes in your area of UK | www.beatcrime.info |
| Biography | www.biography.com |
| Birmingham International Airport | www.bhx.co.uk |
| BizWeb | www.bizweb.com |
| Bluebadge Scheme in UK | bluebadge.direct.gov.uk |
| Bloomberg - Financial News | www.bloomberg.com |
| Breast Cancer Care | www.breastcancercare.org.uk |
| Breathe - free access provider | www.timetobreathe.net |
| British Airways | www.britishairways.com |
| British Chambers of Commerce | www.britishchambers.org.uk |
| British Franchise Organisation | www.british-franchise.org.uk |
| British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC) | www.bibic.org.uk |
| British Library | www.bl.uk |
| British Midland | www.flybmi.com/bmi |
| British Standards Institute | www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter |
| British Tourist Authority | www.visitbritain.com |
| Brittany Ferries - Portsmouth | www.brittany-ferries.co.uk |
| BT Click - free ISP | www.btclick.com |
| BT Directory Enquiries | www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/find/residential/residential_numbers.publisha |
| BT Internet - fee based ISP | www.btinternet.com |
| Bullying - Govt info | www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying/ |
| Bullying - Information | www.bullying.co.uk |
| Bullying - Scotland | www.antibullying.net |
| Bullying - NSPCC | www.nspcc.org.uk/default.html |
| Business Link | www.businesslink.gov.uk/ |
| Business Seek | www.businesseek.com |
| Business Studies Updates | www.updates.co.uk |
| Business Week - Financial News | www.businessweek.com |
| Business Wire | www.businesswire.com |
| Business Zone - SME News | www.businesszone.co.uk |
| Business, Stocks and Bonds News | www.bloomberg.com/ |
| Buy your car on the continent | www.carlink.nl/?pageid=1 |
| Buzz | www.buzzaway.com |
| Cabinet Office | www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk |
| Campaign Against a Federal Europe: | www.cafe.org.uk |
| Central Intelligence Agency | www.cia.gov |
| Centre for Legislative Studies, Hull | www.hull.ac.uk/cls/ |
| Centre for Political Studies | www.cps.org.uk |
| Charity Commission | www.charity-commission.gov.uk |
| Churchill Society | www.churchill-society-london.org.uk |
| CIX | www.cixonline.com/ |
| Clara Net - fee based ISP | www.uk.clara.net |
| Classic England Mall | www.classicengland.co.uk |
| CNN World News | www.cnn.com |
| CNNfn - Financial News | money.cnn.com |
| Commonwealth | www.thecommonwealth.org |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | www.cwgc.org |
| Companies House | www.companies-house.gov.uk |
| Companies House | www.companieshouse.gov.uk |
| Confederation of British Industry | www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/staticpages.nsf/StaticPages/home.html/?OpenDocument |
| Congestion Charge in London | www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/congestioncharging/ |
| Connexions - advice for 13-19 year olds | www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm |
| Conservative Party | www.conservatives.com/ |
| Constitution Unit, University College, London | www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/ |
| Consumer Direct - advice about trading complaints | www.consumerdirect.gov.uk |
| Co-operative Bank | www.co-operativebank.co.uk |
| Cost Reduction Partnership | www.buy.co.uk |
| Countryside Access | www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk |
| Countryside Agency | www.naturalengland.org.uk/ |
| Countryside Alliance | www.countryside-alliance.org |
| Crown Prosecution Service | www.cps.gov.uk |
| Customs & Excise | www.hmrc.gov.uk/ |
| Cybase Internet | www.cybase.co.uk/ |
| Daily Mirror | www.mirror.co.uk |
| Daily Record | www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ |
| Daily Star | www.megastar.co.uk |
| Daily Telegraph | www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Debt advice | www.nationaldebtline.co.uk |
| Demon - fee based ISP | www.demon.net |
| Dept of Education & Employment | www.dfes.gov.uk/index.shtml |
| Dept of Trade & Industry | www.dti.gov.uk |
| Design Council | www.designcouncil.org.uk |
| Disability Rights Commission - advice and support | www.drc-gb.org |
| Dixons Plc | www.dixons.co.uk |
| DUP (NI) | www.dup.org.uk |
| easyJet | www.easyjet.com |
| Easynet | www.easynet.net |
| Education & Employment | www.dfes.gov.uk/index.shtml |
| Encyberpedia | www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | www.britannica.com |
| Encyclopedia Brittannica | www.eb.com |
| Encyclopedia.com | www.encyclopedia.com |
| English Golf Union | www.englishgolfunion.org |
| Entanet - business oriented fee based ISP | www.enta.net |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | www.eoc.org |
| European Commission (multi-language) | europa.eu |
| European Commission - UK representation | ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/ |
| EuroStar | www.eurostar.com/dynamic/index.jsp |
| Evening Standard | www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/ |
| Exchange and Mart - Online Ads & Auction | www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/iad |
| Excite - UK service of Webcrawler | www.excite.co.uk |
| Expedia | Expedia |
| Export Credit Guarantee Dept | www.ecgd.gov.uk |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | www.fbi.gov |
| Federation of Small Business | www.fsb.co.uk |
| Federation of Small Businesses | www.fsb.org.uk |
| Financial Services Authority | www.fsa.gov.uk |
| Financial Times | www.ft.com |
| First Choice Holidays | www.firstchoice.co.uk/index.html |
| First Direct Online Banking | www.firstdirect.com |
| Firstnet | www.firstnet.co.uk |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | www.fco.gov.uk/ |
| Fortnum & Mason | www.fortnumandmason.com |
| Forum of Private Business | www.fpb.org |
| Four Seasons Travel | www.four-seasons-travel.co.uk |
| Global Travel | www.globalholidays.co.uk |
| Go | www.go-fly.com |
| Going Places (Airtours Group) | www.goingplaces.co.uk |
| Google - intuitive caching search engine | www.google.co.uk |
| Government Information Service | www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en |
| Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) | www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/GNER |
| Guardian | www.guardian.co.uk |
| Halifax Plc | www.halifax.co.uk/home/index.shtml |
| HandBag - aimed at women | www.handbag.com |
| Hansard | www.publications.parliament.uk |
| Health & Safety Executive HSE | www.hse.gov.uk |
| Herald | www.theherald.co.uk |
| Higher Education Funding Council: | www.hefce.ac.uk |
| Highways Agency | www.highways.gov.uk |
| HM Treasury | www.hm-treasury.gov.uk |
| HotBot - general | www.hotbot.com |
| Houses of Parliament | www.parliament.uk |
| Independent | www.independent.co.uk |
| Individual News | www.individual.com/login.php |
| Information Please | www.infoplease.com |
| Inland Revenue | www.hmrc.gov.uk/ |
| Institute of Directors | www.iod.co.uk |
| Insurance Ombudsman | www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/ |
| INTERact | www.jags.co.uk |
| International Democratic Union | www.idu.org |
| International Monetary Fund | www.imf.org |
| Internet Research (UK) | www.bmrb.co.uk |
| Interpol | www.interpol.com |
| Investment Ombudsman | www.fsa.gov.uk/ |
| Jet2.com | flights.jet2.com |
| Keep the Pound campaign | www.keepthepound.org.uk |
| KLM UK | www.klm.com/travel/gb_en/index_default.html |
| Kuoni | www.kuoni.co.uk |
| Labour Party | www.labour.org.uk/home |
| Liberal Democrats | www.libdems.org.uk |
| Library of Congress | www.loc.gov/index.html |
| Lifelong Learning | www.lifelonglearning.co.uk |
| Lloyds TSB Bank Plc | www.lloydstsb.com |
| Local Government Association | www.lga.gov.uk |
| Local Government Information Unit | www.lgiu.gov.uk/index.jsp |
| London Underground | www.tfl.gov.uk/ |
| London weather | weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX0085_f.html |
| London's Olympics 2012 | www.london2012.com |
| Looksmart -Directory based searches | search.looksmart.com/ |
| Ludwig von Mises Foundation | www.mises.org |
| Lufthansa | www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/uk?ctest=36727963521 |
| Lycos | www.lycos.com |
| Lycos UK | www.lycos.co.uk |
| Maps of UK to street level | www.multimap.com |
| Market News & Share Prices | www.fidelity.co.uk |
| Marketing, Communications, Training | www.minutecircle.co.uk |
| Met Office | www.metoffice.gov.uk/ |
| Meta Dog - searches for Web Names | www.metadog.com |
| Metacrawler - uses HTML Meta keys | www.metacrawler.com |
| Metropolitan Police | www.met.police.uk |
| Midland Mainline | www.mml.co.uk |
| MINTEL Market Research | www.mintel.com/frontpage/ |
| Mistral | www.mistral.co.uk |
| Monarch Airlines | flights.monarch.co.uk/index.asp |
| MSN Encarta | encarta.msn.com |
| MSN UK | uk.msn.com |
| NASDAQ | www.nasdaq.com |
| National Association of Estate Agents | www.naea.co.uk |
| National Audit Office | www.nao.org.uk |
| National Cycle Network | www.sustrans.org.uk/ |
| National Express | www.nationalexpress.com |
| National Federation of Enterprise Agencies | www.nfea.com |
| National Health Service | www.nhs.uk |
| National Media Museum | www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk |
| National Parent Partnership Network | www.parentpartnership.org.uk |
| National Trust | www.nationaltrust.org.uk |
| National Westminster Bank Plc | www.natwest.com |
| NATO | www.nato.int |
| Nature Conservancy | www.nature.org |
| New Statesman | www.newstatesman.co.uk/thisweek_index.htm |
| New York Stock Exchange | www.nyse.com |
| New York Times | www.nytimes.com |
| News Link - Online Guide | www.newslink.org |
| News Now - continuous feed | www.newsnow.co.uk/h |
| NHS | www.nhs.uk |
| Nobel Prizes | nobelprize.org/ |
| North Western | www.nwt.co.uk |
| Northern Ireland Assembly | www.ni-assembly.gov.uk |
| Northern Ireland Office | www.nio.gov.uk |
| Northern Light - general | www.northernlight.com |
| Number 10: | www.number-10.gov.uk |
| Nu-Venture | www.nu-venture.co.uk |
| OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) | www.oecd.org/home/ |
| Office for National Statistics | www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp |
| Office of Fair Trading | www.oft.gov.uk |
| Office of Gas & Electric Markets | www.ofgem.gov.uk |
| Office of National Statistics | www.ons.gov.uk |
| Office of Telecommunications | www.oftel.gov.uk |
| OneSeek | www.oneseek.com |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) | www.oecd.org |
| P & O Ferries | http://www.poferries.com/ |
| Paget Gorman Society - helping children with speech disorders | www.pgss.org |
| Parliament | www.parliament.uk |
| Parliamentary Ombudsman | www.ombudsman.org.uk |
| Passport Agency | www.ips.gov.uk |
| Patent Office | www.ipo.gov.uk/ |
| Politics, various | www.political.co.uk |
| Politics, various | www.tagish.co.uk |
| Portland Holidays | www.portland-holidays.co.uk |
| Premier Holidays | www.premierholidays.co.uk |
| Press Association | www.thepagroup.com/ |
| Prestel - Fee based ISP | www.prestel.co.uk |
| Prince Michael | www.princemichael.org.uk |
| Prince of Wales | www.princeofwales.gov.uk |
| Princess Royal Trust for carers | www.carers.org |
| Prostate Cancer Charity - Info and advice | www.prostate-cancer.org.uk |
| Public Record Office | www.pro.gov.uk |
| Rail complaints | www.passengerfocus.org.uk/ |
| Rail enquiries | www.nationalrail.co.uk |
| Rail tickets: | www.thetrainline.com |
| Railtrack - Online Rail Timetables | www.railtrack.co.uk |
| Reuters | www.reuters.com |
| Royal Air Force | www.raf.mod.uk |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | www.rbs.co.uk |
| Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors | www.rics.org |
| Royal Mail | www.royalmail.com |
| Royal Navy | www.royal-navy.mod.uk |
| Royalty general: | www.royal.gov.uk |
| Ryanair | www.ryanair.com |
| Sabena | www.sabena.com |
| Saga Holidays - for the over 50's | www.saga.co.uk |
| Sainsburys | www.sainsburys.co.uk |
| Sainsburys Bank | www.sainsburysbank.co.uk |
| Saint John Ambulance | www.sja.org.uk |
| SAS Scandinavian Air Services | www.flysas.com/ |
| SCOPE - Cerebral Palsy help | www.scope.org.uk |
| Scot Airways -Luton based Regional | www.scotairways.co.uk |
| Scotsman | www.scotsman.com |
| Scottish Executive | www.scotland.gov.uk |
| Scottish Parliament | www.scottish.parliament.uk |
| SDLP (NI) | www.sdlp.ie |
| Sea France Dover | www.seafrance.com |
| Shoppers Universe (Great Universal) | http://www.greatuniversal.com/rf/gus/navigation/entersite.do?redirectTo=home |
| Skynet - Free ISP from Sky Television | www.skynet.co.uk |
| Small Business Bureau: | www.smallbusinessbureau.org.uk |
| Smile - Co-op's internet only bank | www.smile.co.uk |
| SNP | www.snp.org |
| Social Market Foundation | www.smf.co.uk |
| South West Trains | www.southwesttrains.co.uk/SWTrains |
| Stationery Office | www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk |
| Statistics | www.statistics.gov.uk |
| Stena Lines | www.stenaline.co.uk/stena_line/gb/stena_line_uk.html |
| Sunday Times: | www.timesonline.co.uk |
| Tagish's Directory of UK Central Government | www.tagish.co.uk/tagish/links/centgov.htm |
| Tesco Net - ISP | www.tesco.net |
| Tesco | www.tesco.co.uk |
| Thameslink | www.thameslink.co.uk |
| The British Council | www.britishcouncil.org/ |
| The Daily Telegraph | www.telegraph.co.uk |
| The Estate Agents Ombudsman | www.oea.co.uk |
| The Princes' Trust | www.princes-trust.org.uk |
| The Times | www.timesonline.co.uk |
| The Trainline - Online bookings | www.thetrainline.com |
| THOMSON Directories On-line | www.thomweb.org.uk |
| Tokyo Stock Exchange | www.tse.or.jp |
| Trade and Industry DTI | www.dti.gov.uk |
| Transport Direct - by bus, car, train or walk | www.transportdirect.info |
| Travel Vogue | www.travel-vogue.co.uk |
| Travelocity - online flights & holidays | www.travelocity.com/resolve/uk |
| Treasury | www.hm-treasury.gov.uk |
| UK Online | www.ukonline.net |
| UK Plus - UK based general search engine | www.ukplus.co.uk |
| UK Public Transport Information | www.pti.org.uk |
| UK Trade Fairs & Exhibitions | www.exhibitions.co.uk |
| Ulster Unionist Party | www.uup.org |
| United Nations | www.un.org/english/ |
| University of the 3rd age (U3A) | www.u3a.org.uk |
| US - The White House | www.whitehouse.gov |
| UUP (NI) | www.uup.org.uk |
| Valuation Officers Rating Lists | www.voa.gov.uk |
| Value Direct | www.value-direct.co.uk |
| Victim Support | www.victimsupport.org.uk |
| Viking Office Supplies | www.viking.co.uk |
| Virgin Atlantic | www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/index.jsp |
| Virgin Holidays | www.virginholidays.co.uk |
| Virgin Trains | www.virgintrains.co.uk |
| Virgin | www.virginmedia.com |
| W H Smith Online | www.whsmith.co.uk/ |
| War Graves Commission | www.cwgc.org |
| Waterstones - Books | www.waterstones.co.uk |
| Webcrawler - general search engine | www.webcrawler.com |
| Welsh Assembly | new.wales.gov.uk/splash |
| World Book | www.worldbook.com |
| World Encyclopedia | www.countryreports.org/ |
| World Health Organisation | www.who.int/en/ |
| World Ruler | www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html |
| Xtranet | www.xtranet.co.uk |
| Yahoo - directory listings | uk.yahoo.com |
| Yellow Pages | www.yell.com |
