I've added four RSS channels to the Ashfield District Council website, which can be used to feed your browser, PDA, website, blog, or whatever with automatic updates. Select the links below and paste each of the URL addresses into your RSS device to be kept up-to-date on all things Ashfield!
Note: if you follow those links with a browser that doesn't support RSS (e.g. Firefox does Windows Explorer doesn't), or don't have an RSS news aggregator plug in (e.g. such as Sage), then you will only see an XML file. If you don't know what XML is (and frankly, you're better off not knowing!) then just believe me; that's what it is and it ain't pretty.
I have used these feeds to create the news, events, jobs, and meetings listings (with links back to the Council website) on the right-hand side of this blog site. Whenever a new item is added in one of these categories to the Ashfield District Council website, it will automatically be pulled through onto this page (though as this is pulling, not pushing, you may need to do a refresh to get the latest feed). If this is all mystifying to you, then try reading the explanation of RSS on the Council's website.
I have also posted RSS feeds from the BBC Weather Centre on the right there, to keep you aware of the weather forecast for Ashfield. Also, a feed from Ashfield Today's local news channel.
NB: All the RSS feeds on this blog site are set to show just the five most recent items. That's not so much of a problem for news items, which change constantly, but if you were looking for a job at Ashfield District Council you might think there are only five jobs vacant when in fact there are ten. Select one of the vacancies to explore further the Ashfield jobs pages.
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