About
News for Tewkesbury aims to bring together all of the latest news from different local news services in and around Tewkesbury into one website. News for Tewkesbury is a service by Sponge Project.
How does it work?
Many local news websites use a technology called RSS which is a way of pushing or pulling information published on a website and offering it to other websites and users.
What News for Tewkesbury does is take all of those information feeds and aggregates them together into one website. Here's an explanantion of how RSS works for those not in the know.
Technical bits and credits
The site runs on SimplePie and is hosted by the sterling chaps at Nearly Free Speech. The back end structure uses Raj Shah's News Aggregator, which in turn used Ryan Parman's Newsblocks. It mixes in Nice Titles by Stuart Langridge and the contact form is from Mike Cherim. Thanks go to Benjamin Edwards via Flickr for the background image and Mark James for the favicon.