Broadband speeds leave Cumbrians fuming

Cumbrian internet users are getting increasingly frustrated by some of the slowest broadband speeds in the UK.

Welcome to Webwatch: Bringing you the best of Cumbria on the web

Simpsons Nick Turner What’s this Webwatch column all about? I hope it will be a showcase for the best of Cumbria on the web – whether it’s social networks like Facebook, Youtube and Flikr or the county’s most interesting websites.

Cumbrians lose £200,000 to cyber criminals

Cyper-criminals have cheated Cumbrians of at least £200,000 this year, according to the county's online fraud investigators

Baby P Facebook campaign is backed by 227,000

A Carlisle dad’s campaign to get justice for Baby P has won the support of over 227,000 Facebook users.

Youtube: Watford players camp in the Laks

Enjoy a vintage clip of former Workington Reds player manager Ken Furphy leading Watford FC on a camping trip in 1965.

Youtube: Carlisle United show skills on Soccer AM

CARLISLE United youngsters Tom Aldred and Simon Lakeland showed off some pretty impressive ball juggling skills when the Soccer AM cameras dropped in at Brunton Park.

af dyer Who will be Cumbria’s first dot com millionaire? Well, it might be a long shot, but it might be worth putting your money on Richard Dyer, one of the men behind the hugely successful Skiddle.com listings site.

af fireshow OUR gallery of jailed criminals continues to be the most viewed thing on the News & Star website.

Get involved: What's coming up in Webwatch

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Nov 26: Webwatch links

Here are the links for this week's Webwatch including more information on fibre optics coming to Alston, Flickr picture of the week and a new site that you could save you a lot of money on your Christmas shopping.

Gretna starlings have a whale of a time

Our Flickr picture of the week is this amazing snap of thousands of starlings swarming in the shape of the a whale near Gretna. This article includes links to other great videos and pictures of the Gretna starlings.

af daniel heery Alston is preparing to go it alone in the race for faster broadband by creating its own fibre optic network that could give it the best internet connections in the county.

af doctor who YOUR Christmas shopping has just got a whole lot easier thanks to new website which will find you the cheapest DVDs, CDs books and computer games on offer.

Blurb offers Cumbrians chance to become authors

They say that everybody has a at least one book in them and you can put that theory to test with websites such as Blurb.com and Lulu which offer an easy route to seeing your words of wisdom or pictures in print.