Search and the UK's regional press

If you are a serious news junkie like myself, you may find Martin Belam's recent series of articles on the UK's regional press of interest. The articles cover topics such as the provision of RSS (not all newspapers offer them!), links to social bookmarking sites, and the site search options offered by the newspapers. This is all very useful information for anyone who needs to assess the quality and functionality of local press sites in terms of current content, archives and alerting services.