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.
Here is photo Ian took of an accident on the M6 southbound between Lancaster and Preston and submitted to BBC Radio Lancashire's website:
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* ILR NEWS
Here 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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* 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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* IT'S EAST LANCASHIRE
This 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
Ian Birch