So the BBC goes to great trouble (and I assume expense) to redesign the home page so that people outside the UK can’t see the UK home page. IMHO, this gets rid of the main reason for looking at the BBC site; namely to understand what is being reported in the UK for when I talk to family and friends.
They explain that this is needed for “technical reasons”; I assume that they’re trying to hid the copyright mess that they’ve cornered themselves into, however…
An ex-employee then simply shows a link to the missing page! Technical reasons indeed…
The great news is that due to the way the BBC News Website is built, you can still access the “UK Front Page” via a special hacked-up URL, which I have bundled into a convenient bit.ly url:
http://bit.ly/ukbbcnewsChanges to BBC News Website reduces choice for users outside UK | :Ben Metcalfe Blog