Regions and Cities
UK General Information

Office for National Statistics
www.statistics.gov.uk
This huge site provides a gateway to a world of UK statistical information. Almost all information is free for downloading.

Planet Britain
www.i-uk.com
This web site, created by the FCO, provides extensive information on various aspects of Britain and its culture, including British education, business and industry, science and technology, sport, music, fashion, art and design, and media.

Resource Discovery network
www.rdn.ac.uk
The RDN is a free Internet service dedicated to providing access to resources for the learning, teaching and research community. Primarily aimed at users in further and higher education, the RDN provides access to a series of catalogues containing descriptions of internet sites selected and described by specialists from within UK academia. Value-added services such as interactive web tutorials and alerting services are also provided to enable users to make more of their time on the Internet.

Royal Mail Postcode finder
www.royalmail.com/portal/rm
A site on which you can submit any address in the UK and it will return the correct postcode. In addition if you submit a postcode it returns an address.

UK Index
www.ukindex.co.uk
A list of web-sites in or about the UK. Includes a mailing list option for early notification of sites on particular subjects.

UK Plus
www.ukplus.co.uk
A site, run by the Daily Mail newspaper, which reviews web-sites and ensures that they are relevant to the UK.