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The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office website offers journalists Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ press releases and press packs, programme information, biographies and speeches.

No password is required to access the site.

You can send an email direct to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office via the page.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office is open at these hours (UK time):

Mondays to Fridays, 8.00am-midnight
Saturdays, Sundays & UK public holidays, 10.00am–11.00pm

Images on the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office website are for illustrative purposes only. They are subject to copyright and you may not use them without permission.

To obtain images for editorial usage for print and digital press media based in the UK, Ireland or the Benelux, please email pictures@bbc.co.uk. If you wish to request an image you have seen on this website, include the web address of the page on which it appears.

A free (password protected) website, , is available for UK, Ireland and Benelux-based print and digital press media to download images promoting the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's current and future programming.

Please note: from 28/02/11 until further notice, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Pictures will no longer be accepting any new registrations to this site – an interim measure to allow Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Pictures to upgrade its web service.

Press releases and press packs can be found by date (from 2002 onwards), by search and, for more recent releases, by category.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Worldwide releases are included in a separate section – Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Worldwide.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World releases are included in a separate section – Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ World.

Programme Information is available for Network TV and Network Radio in webpage format.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Programme Information is also available but in pdf format.

There are approximately 100 Biographies on the site of key Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ staff.

The site also includes key Speeches made by senior Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ figures.

Please note: the content on this site is primarily intended for professional use by journalists and therefore may occasionally feature material which is not suitable for viewing by minors.

The Press Office website has two search engines – one to search the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ and one to search the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office.

Search Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office

This search box can be found at the top-right hand side of the Press Office website.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office search will find content from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office website only.

Search the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ

At the top of every page is the pan-Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ search. Results from this box will find pages from the whole of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, including Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ News and Sport, plus Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ audio & visual content.

You can view all the results at once, or limit your search to just Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ News and Sport articles, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ News and Sport or Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ TV and Radio programmes. You will also see results from selected websites from outside the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, these are called 'Elsewhere on the Web'.

For more information on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ searches, go to .

Keeping up-to-date with the information you need from the billions of pages on the web can be time-consuming and tedious.

RSS is a means of overcoming this - it delivers the latest news and features directly to you, so that you no longer have to click from site to site.

There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority agree on 'Really Simple Syndication'.

In simple terms, it allows you to identify the content you like and have it delivered directly to your personalised web page or feed reader.

It takes the effort out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ offers many RSS feeds, including Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ News, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Sport and Doctor Who. Visit the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's website for a simple listing of them.

Still not sure about RSS? The page has a simple guide to understanding RSS - and instructions on how to receive RSS feeds from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office website.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Press Office offers an email alert service for journalists. This service is not available to non-journalists.

Journalists who wish to sign up for email alerts should complete our Press and Media Enquiries form.

Please indicate which service you require by stating the required option, from the list below, in the "Enquiry – subject" line:

• Subscribe to press release email alerts
• Subscribe to TV Programme Information (PI) email alerts
• Subscribe to Radio Programme Information (PI) email alerts
• Subscribe to email alerts for press releases, TV PI and Radio PI

Subscriber information: The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ may contact you in the future for your opinions and views on this service. Participation in any user research is at your discretion and you do not have to take part.