I've joined the list because I'm just discovering RSS and exploring how I might use it. (I'm a retired university lecturer - English as a foreign language, I'm, English, but I live in Germany. I think the BBC site/sites are fabulous.
My first question.... I use a PC, XP and I'm trying out FeedDemon. When I try to copy the feed from BBC/Education to insert in FeedDemon, I get what is pasted below. Which can't be right. I was expecting a short, URL-like address. Most grateful for any help. 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<item> <title>Tories pledge free sports lessons</title> <description>Children would be offered two hours' free sports training a week by a future Tory government.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/politics/4070033.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Cutting school run 'saves lives'</title> <description>Flexible school hours and reducing the school run would cut hundreds of road deaths, a study suggests.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/4070135.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Newcastle axes physics courses</title> <description>Newcastle University is to close its pure physics courses - the latest announcement of UK science course cuts.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4066817.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>University votes on bargain fees</title> <description>A few universities might offer cut-price courses in an effort to woo students, it has emerged.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4065875.stm</link> </item> - 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<item> <title>Student behaviour 'deplorable'</title> <description>Student anti-social behaviour is completely unacceptable, says Queen's University's new vice chancellor.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4064741.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Schools shine in results tables</title> <description>Annual tables of England's primary school test results show even those in deprived areas can do well.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4056907.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Students march over top-up fees</title> <description>A big student demonstration highlights fears that Wales may have university top-up fees from 2007.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/wales/4060511.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>School rebuilding pledge queried</title> <description>The government says all England's secondary schools will be upgraded - but not by 2015, as Gordon Brown said.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4063341.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Firearms teacher suspended</title> <description>A council suspends a teacher who was compared to the Dunblane killer in a legal row over his firearms licence.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4063305.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>School disputes test cheat ruling</title> <description>A primary school whose test results were quashed for alleged cheating denies having done anything wrong.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4057043.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>School tests fingertip clock-in</title> <description>A secondary school tests a new fingertip-recognition roll call to help tackle truancy.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/4056829.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Open access to controversy</title> <description>The BBC's Mike Baker looks at whether the new Office for Fair Access is worthwhile, amid Tory plans to get rid of it.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4007247.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Time for greater degree scrutiny?</title> <description>The BBC's Mike Baker looks at the report that UK degree classifications have outlived their usefulness.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/3986691.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>What about adult learners?</title> <description>The focus on educating 14 to 19 year olds is stopping colleges from teaching adults, colleges say.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4017059.stm</link> </item> - <item> <title>Death of a village school</title> <description>A school of just 11 pupils is closing its doors for the last time this Christmas.</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/- /2/hi/uk_news/education/4002581.stm</link> </item> </channel> </rss> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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