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Well you can, with RSS feeds. Sound complicated? It’s not - here’s how it works… You choose which of our headlines you’re interested in; news, sport, north dorset, east dorset, business, entertainment.

We send you a headline and a summary of each story, as it happens. If you want to know more, there’s a link to take you to the full version. If you don’t you can delete it.

You can read your headlines as they arrive, or check your feed once a day, five times a day or once a week if you like. The updates will stay put until you’re ready to read them.

We don’t ask for any personal information, there’s no cost, and you’ll never be spammed. It’s just a no-hassle way of keeping up with the news.

Interested? Then read our step by step guide to signing up.

First, you need a news reader, also known as an RSS reader.

If you have a Google account, click here . If you’re have an MSN account click here.. If you have a Yahoo account click here.

If you have an AOL account click here.

If you want to use Firefox, click here.

If you have a My Yahoo page, adding our headlines to it couldn’t be easier.

On our home page, under the Daily Echo logo, there’s a little square orange button with the words All Feeds next to it.

You’ll also see this button around the site and on other website that use RSS.

Click the all feeds button and it will take you to a list of the feeds we offer. Click the link for the one you’d like to use, and you’ll get a new screen that shows you the most recent headlines, with a bar across the top that says ‘Subscribe to this feed using” and a drop down menu.

All you have to do is choose My Yahoo from the options and click subscribe now. That’s it! Our headlines should now appear on your My Yahoo page. You can go back and choose another feed to subscribe to if you like. And you can cancel at anytime.

That’s it!

If you have an MSN account, it couldn’t be easier to add our headlines to it.

On your My MSN page, look for the box that says add new content. There should be a search for new content box.

In that box, type http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/rss/ That will give you all our news headlines. If you want sport, it’s http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/rss Click the green arrow and you’ll get a results page that should say ‘one result for syndicated content’ and a Bournemouth Echo headline. Tick the box next to this and click on the OK button. Our headlines should then appear somewhere on your page!

To get other feeds, you’ll need to go to our homepage. Under the Daily Echo logo, there’s a little square orange button with the words All feeds next to it.

Click the all feeds button and it will take you to a list of the feeds we offer. Click the link for the one you’d like to use, and you’ll get a new screen that shows you the most recent headlines, with a bar across the top that says ‘Subscribe to this feed using” and a drop down menu.

Because you’re using MSN, you’ll need to copy the address from the browser bar (it should look like the picture below) and paste that in the new content search bar in your MSN page. Then follow the steps above.

That’s it!

If you have a Google account: On our home page, under the Daily Echo logo, there’s a little square orange button with the words All feeds next to it.

You’ll also see this button around the site and on other website that use RSS.

Click the all feeds button and it will take you to a list of the feeds we offer. Click the link for the one you’d like to use, and you’ll get a new screen that shows you the most recent headlines, with a bar across the top that says ‘Subscribe to this feed using” and a drop down menu.

Select Google from the drop down menu and it will ask you whether you want to add the feed to your Google homepage or use Google reader.

Unless you already have an iGoogle homepage, the easiest option is to use Google reader. Click on it, and it will ask you to sign in to Google. Once you’ve done that you’ll get a Google Reader page with our headlines on it!

You may want to bookmark the page or make it a favourite because it’s not easy to find from Google’s search page.

If you have an iGoogle page you can choose to add our headlines as a module – or choose to add it to Google reader and then add the reader as a module to your iGoogle page. (For instructions, click here!)
That’s it!

If you have an AOL account: On your My Aol page, click the favourites tab. On the left of the screen will be a box called feeds. Click Add Feeds. In the box, type http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/rss/ for news or http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/rss for sport. Click the check button. It should bring up our feed in the results box. Tick the box next to the feed and click Add Feeds.

Our headlines should appear on your page!

To get other feeds, you’ll need to go to our homepage. Under the Daily Echo logo, there’s a little square orange button with the words All feeds next to it.

Click the all feeds button and it will take you to a list of the feeds we offer. Click the link for the one you’d like to use, and you’ll get a new screen that shows you the most recent headlines, with a bar across the top that says ‘Subscribe to this feed using” and a drop down menu.

Because you’re using AOL, you’ll need to copy the address from the browser bar (it should look like the picture below) and paste that in the Add Feeds search bar in your AOL page as before.

That’s it!

If you don’t have any of these accounts and/or you are using Firefox as your browser, you can add the feed directly to your bookmarks like this: Go to our homepage.

Under the Daily Echo logo, there’s a little square orange button with the words All feeds next to it.

Click the all feeds button and it will take you to a list of the feeds we offer. Click the link for the one you’d like to use, and you’ll get a new screen that shows you the most recent headlines, with a bar across the top that says ‘Subscribe to this feed using” and a drop down menu.

Select Live Bookmarks and click Subscribe now. It will ask you where in your bookmarks you want the feed to be stored. Choose your location and click ADD.

The links will then appear in your bookmarks as a folder called Bournemouth Echo.

That’s it!

Once you have our RSS feed, why not try others? You can have updates from your favourite websites, news pages and blogs – all you have to do is look for the little orange button, and when you see it, click it!