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I think you need to make the Arts and Culture link a little more prominent, at first sight I assumed it was just a heading for the headlines below, not a link to a whole new section. Looks a good section at first sight too. Could you include a link to the Arts and Culture main section from the Explore the ´óÏó´«Ã½ section at the bottom of the homepage?

Science and Environment: makes sense to me. It covers such a huge field that you may feel the need to have some sub categories within it at some point. (The Science Daily website`s system seems logical and easy to follow.)

Need to update the SCIENCE/NATURE link down at the bottom right of the home page too! The one above ENTERTAINMENT.

Re. the Science and Environment section link on the left... click on Education > League Tables, and it reverts back to Science and Nature.

I'm sure you're already onto it though..!

Should 'environment' and 'science' be grouped together?

It implies that the all the announcements from 'environmental' groups attempting to create a climate of fear are related to science.

Couldn't the 'science' (eg the Large Hadron Collider) be put in with the technology creating a science and technology section and the 'environment' have it's own seperate tab?

The new format does as you say more accurately reflect the content.

It is a shame however that the hard science content of the science section is so low. I guess this reflects the "Arts" background of your average Beeb journalist and is hence inevitable ?

You say that you are removing 'Nature' from the news section because it's increasingly hard to separate nature from politics.

Surely this applies even more to the environment given all the recent interest in climate change?

The changes seem a little self-defeating to me.

This change seems as synthetic as the word "natural" that appeared on the labels of products simply to make them more acceptable to a gullible public. Changes to a label does nothing to give credibility to the content.

Why not have a completely separate heading for the natural world?

Still don't do enough science reporting though.

The section's still called Science/Nature on the home page (bottom section)

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4, jon:
Good point, except to carry it to the end we would have one "Everything" section. (Or perhaps, "Life, The Universe ..." ?)
The current controversy, as I watch it, involves politicos and scientists, so making a story an "Environment" item makes sense either way. And the collider isn't without its own political aspect: Big Science involves Big Costs, to be paid by Little Taxpayers, who often object. (Luddites! Off with their heads!)
Also, I've noticed that a science story will often appear in a regional section where applicable, but linking to it takes one to the science section. Good website design; problem solved (usually).

Doug

bbc.co.uk -brilliant for those of us who do have access to the web

But what of those who are still analogue only on their TV Sets, have no computer, and rely on Ceefax for these features?

Sport is always well covered by Ceefax as are Weather, Travel and Finance, so isn't there any way of adding a little more in the way of Enironment and Arts and Cultire content to Ceefax?

I notice that whilst entertainment gets 13 pages on Ceefax page 502-514, plus the Extra service of pages 520-530, Sci-Tech is all tied up together in eight sub pages on Ceefax page 154.