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  1. Correction of OCR text by Download to MS Word or similar

    I suggest that you allow the downloading of the OCR text to our computers so that we can manipulate the text in our word processor software. Editing the text would require a image reference and an uneditable original text. The original and edited text then can be uploaded to a holding location for validation before amendment. I tried using the previous editing system and it was pretty dire.

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  2. The 'in pictures' section no longer works, at least for me. When I click on a picture, it no longer opens the page as it used to.

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  3. Falkirk Herald

    More editions of the Falkirk Herald - post 1955.

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  4. Please think about digitising the Nelson (Lancashire) Leader

    Would love to see copies of the Nelson (Lancashire) Leader digitised

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  5. Download a full newspaper

    Could you make it possible to download a complete edition of a newspaper in one go rather than having to download each individual page?

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  6. Download a full newspaper

    Could you make it possible to download a complete edition of a newspaper in one go rather than having to download each individual page?

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  7. Title extension of coverage

    Could we have later versions of The Hull Daily Mail - currently stops at 1950

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  8. "Assalt charges" 198o to 1982 "fifefreepress /

    "Susannah Roy"

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  9. Be able to re-arrange bookmarks chronologically

    Be able to re-arrange bookmarks chronologically

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  10. Full list of newspapers (inc. non-digitized)

    A full list of the newspapers held at the BL (*not* just those digitized/available for online searching)

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  11. Newspaper Suggestion

    Richmond and Twickenham Times?

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  12. Bookmark tab

    Have a drop down or other menu on the bookmark tab to explain the delay.

    Right now I don;t know whether to cancel or save..?
    You 'Sign up page' has a spelling error.

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  13. More Sunday Sun from 1960:s and rescan current ones as flash facility has obscured the text on pages

    Football research

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  14. I recommend you include the Orcadian newspaper - the absence of Orkney news (apart from a few years of the Orkney Herald) is a serious omiss

    We need the Orcadian newspaper online - the few years of the Orkney Herald is not a substitute. The absence of the key Orkney paper is a very serious gap in Scottish coverage.

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  15. What is going on ......... I paid for 1 month - the next popup says no money was taken please try again iand I now find I have paid for 2 m

    WHAT IS GOING ON... confirmed I have paid for 1 month. the popup says no money taken please try again - I now find I have paid for 2 months....... |It is not good enough.........please reply to my message.
    Also it has taken me about 30 minutes to even log in..........
    |You say 'it is fast and secure' it maybe secure, but it certainly is not fast.

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  16. Make the newspaper title and date in a font that can be copied, so that any extract can have a date and name news pasted with it.

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  17. A reliable way of getting the area newspapers needed for query. I have just looked at Berkshire and putting in another query half an hour la

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  18. Publish a list of public tags

    Please publish a list of your public tags on this website

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  19. Save a single article

    I have been reading for a couple of years that you hope to make it possible to save a single article instead of a whole page but I haven’t seen any progress in providing this, are you actually going to provide this option? it is why I let my subscription lapse, I would rejoin if this was sorted.

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  20. Honor Your Promotions - 3 Free pages

    When you have a promotion ie:
    sign in and get 3 pages for free before 7 may 2108

    It would be nice if this actually happened
    And it would be nice if you answered emails quering that it has happened..

    If you are going to run a promotion - Honor it.....

    I am still not able to see 3 free pages

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