Websites
Ian has been running successful websites for many years now starting with Mediaweb and culminating in the It's EAST LANCASHIRE portfolio which receive about 250,000 hits a year and take advertising.
He has written for radio stations' news websites and has filed photographs e.g. to the BBC Radio 4 website and BBC "where I live" websites for Lancashire and Cumbria as well as freelancing for Radio Today and Press Gazette online.
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Websites
* IT'S EAST LANCASHIREThis successful portfolio of websites has now been scaled down to two core areas ... Blackburn with Darwen and Hyndburn councils. They are local portals and have also been home to many weekly features about the local areas. Please note Ian wrote the sites in HTML and took all of the photos and did all of the reasearch .. it's all his work!
www.itseastlancashire.co.uk
* EAST LANCS ME/CFS ONLINE
Ian set up the East Lancs ME/CFS Online Resource as the webmaster of the East Lancs ME/CFS Support Group.
The site has expanded every year since and now includes links to many useful websites and North West England support groups and ME charities around the world.
www.eastlancsme.org.uk
Online stories (examples)
* ILR NEWSHere is a PDF file printed out from the 99.8FM 2BR website over two strong local news days where he was working solo:
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* UNCOVERED MAGAZINE NEWS / MENTAL HEALTHY
Ian is a member of the staff team at Uncovered magazine and has covered a wide range of news stories e.g.
Mental Healthy - Take long hot baths or showers? You may be lonely
Mental Healthy - A third of women have taken antidepressants
Mental Healthy - Severely mentally ill man 'left to die from cancer'
* RADIO TODAY NEWS
This is a live link to a story Ian wrote for UK radio news site RadioToday.co.uk about Children in Need on the wireless:
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* BENEFITS AND WORK NEWS
These are screengrabs (we have checked copyright) of some stories Ian wrote recently for Benefits and Work's website:
View screenshot 40k families could be made homeless story (JPG)
View screenshot of BBC Panorama benefits cheats story (JPG)
Ian has also been blogging for some years now on the subjects of eating out, welfare reform, mental health stigma and life in general!
Ian Birch