RSS feeds explained
What is an RSS News Feed?
A news feed allows you to see when a website has added new content. It keeps you up to date on the latest news, highlights and events published on the website without having to visit the site. Feeds are generally known as RSS which stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'.
There are different ways you can view the feeds, in general, the first thing you need is a news reader. Feed readers are built in to most web browsers, email applications such as Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird, and some portal websites including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live.
Download a news reader from this external website: www.rss-specifications.com
The following RSS feeds are available:
How to subscribe to an RSS Feed
When a feed is available for a section of content on our website, there will be a link to the RSS feed highlighted by an orange RSS button 
.
If you click on the RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways
- cut and paste feed URL into a new feed in your news reader
- some browsers, including Firefox, and IE7 automatically recognise the Feed URL and can make subscribing to feeds much easier.
Using Barnet Council News feeds on your site
If you run your own website, you can display the latest headlines from other websites on your own site using RSS.
We would like to encourage the use of Barnet Council News feeds as part of a website, however, we require that the proper format and attribution is used when Barnet Council News content appears. The attribution text should read "Barnet Council News" or "www.barnet.gov.uk/press_releases" as appropriate. You may not use any Barnet Council logo. We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of Barnet Council News content and Barnet Council does not accept any liability for its feeds. Please see the Terms and Conditions for full details.
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