links for 2010-06-15

To mark the network's first birthday, it is coming out of beta and has updated the design of its sites, which include roughly 50 sites in the south west of England, 30 in the south east of England and 20 in London. Community and commercial content now work better together on the websites as their design has been tweaked, said Bryan.

"In a lot of the towns we publish in there isn't a huge burning news agenda each week, but there is a huge interest in really local community content which is also really valuable for us in terms of bringing in commercial partners," he said.

Hyperlocal newspaper the Hackney Citizen has increased its print frequency to meet increasing demand from local readers.

The independently run and owned paper will now expand from quarterly print editions to become a monthly publication.