Site News Archives
Welcome to the main site news archive page, listed below are all the years for which archives have been kept - to
view any year listed simply click on the year on the lefthand-side.
You may well be wondering what the point of the archive is - let me explain. When the whole site news "thing"
had just been written there didn't seem to be any problems, you simply plugged fresh news in through the interface
and then it appeared on the front page. Pretty soon there was too much news and the front page looked weird, so the
number of news items was limited to a small number - this also meant that once a new item dropped from the front page
it was gone for good - no way to go back and read it and also no way to go back and follow any links they may have
used.
This is where these archives come in because they allow people to access older items, which is good because it means
that less of the effort is wasted as an item is dropped, it also means that people can find older news which they
would not normally be able to see.