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F or anyone struggling with the recent UK Freeview TV channel changes, here's some relevant info. which might help you make sense of them.... I've just posted an updated list with the multiplex channel numbers for each TV channel included. These are for the Waltham (E. Midlands) transmitter. I've added instructions for getting the equivalent multiplex channel numbers info for your local transmitter. If interested, download the Excel spreadsheet from my website at: https://sites.google.com/view/vivweb01/home I have also added a 'Freeview' page to my website providing more info on UK digital TV and Radio reception. Hint: You can search each column of the spreadsheet via the filter buttons on the top row. Hope this helps,  Update 18.6.22 : Excel sheet revised yesterday - only minor changes, but if you haven't retuned your digital box or set recently, now would be a good time. Version Date: 18.6.22

  Morrisons’ ‘Sniff’ Test as a Replacement for ‘Best Before’ Dates – Pros, Cons and Caveats Those of us ‘of a certain age’ will recognise the new ‘sniff’ test for milk announced in the media by Morrisons recently. Most of us came across it first as an impromptu indicator of milk quality during our late adolescence, when we left home for the first time and our food suddenly stopped appearing on the table as if by magic. Many of us will no doubt have continued to use it ever since. It is certainly not a new phenomenon. What is new is the suggestion by a major food retailer that it should be used instead of ‘Best Before’ dates on milk products…. Before looking at the viability of the sniff test, and to avoid confusion, we should just clarify one point – it is a legal requirement for all perishable food products intended for human consumption to carry an expiry date, beyond which it is not deemed safe to consume them. Details of current UK regulations regarding retailers’ obligations

Viv's First Blog: 24.1.22 I’ve posted this blog in order to see whether using social media to publicise a website actually does promote Google indexing as suggested on various forums.....I also wanted to reach out to anyone who might be experiencing the same problem. By way of some background, my Google New Site at https://sites.google.com/view/vivweb01/ was set up in June 2021 and has been added to and viewed by other users regularly since then. I have linked it to both Google Analytics and GSC and set up a UA property to link GA and GSC successfully. All other major search engines have indexed the site and it has at least 1 external link referring to it in addition to the link included here. The website has received significant amounts of traffic from outside UK, presumably as a result of its index entries on these other search engines. The material within the site is of potential interest to a number of different groups and some pages have extensive text boxes with plenty