Useful Links

Travel

• Aberdeen Airport Live Flight Info
  BAA's Aberdeen flight information. Allows you to view live arrivals and departures.
• Eastern Airways
  Fly from Aberdeen to several regional airports including Newcastle, Wick, Durham, Norwich, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, East Midlands
• First Scotrail
  Book all your rail travel here
• GNER Live Train Departures and Arrivals
  Allows you to view live departures and arrivals for any railway station served by GNER
• Multimap: On-Line Maps to Everywhere!
  Global mapping service including detailed street maps of the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. Great for working out the faster/shortest route to your chosen destination

News and Weather

• BBC News Online
  Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories.
• Blinkx.tv
  Search for TV news clips and other video bits from more than two dozen sources, including ABC News, BBC News, Fox News, ESPN and C-Span
• Met Office Weather
  Current conditions and forecasts for the UK and the world. Includes background material about weather including climate change, glossary, calculators
• Press and Journal On-Line
  Daily news and online archives of the Press and Journal, North East Scotland's daily newspaper.
• Telegraph Newspaper
  Site of the national morning quality (broadsheet) The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. Includes breaking news, sport, money and opinion sections
• The Economist
  Facts, figures and articles on the world's biggest economies
• The Scotsman
  Daily coverage of Scotland's news, sports, business, as well as National and International events.
• The Times Newspaper
  World, UK and Business news and comment from The Times and The Sunday Times
• Weather On-Line
  Global weather, UK weather, Ireland weather and climate information

General

• Answers.com
  Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers.
• Wikipaedia
  The World's free, collaborative encyclopaedia.

Business Directories and Search Engines

• BPubs.com
  A business search engine that exclusively indexes business articles, publications, tutorials, reports, papers, and other business content
• Business Directory UK
  Business Directory, UK, United Kingdom - England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland links to businesses and companies information.
• Jayde B2B Search Engine
  B2B Search Engine. All of your business search needs in one place. Whether it is a company name, product, service or other information
• Kelly Search
  Use the Kellysearch B2B product search engine to find UK and International industrial goods and services suppliers.
• Kompass Business Search
  The Business to Business Search Engine. Directory, Public tenders, Requests For Quotation
• Scoot, the UK Business Finder
  Business telephone directory service. Features company name finder and cinema finder.
• ThomsonLocal
  UK local business search, find businesses and services in our online directory. Classified listings for local, UK suppliers
• Touch Local Business Directory
  Touch Local local business directory. Your Local guide to Local businesses
• UK Business Directory
  Online Business, Directory, UK, United Kingdom - England Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland links to businesses and companies information
• Yell
  Business directory, with search by name, business or location. Also includes detailed maps and directions.

Interesting

• Flash Earth
  Flash Earth is a Flash-based, zoomable map of the world using satellite and aerial imagery from several mapping websites
• Google Earth
  Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
• Pandora
  Ever wanted to know what music sounds similar to your favourite?

Articles and Publications

• Business Week
  UK business news: auto, technology, economics, innovation and design.
• Financial Times Business Publications
  Publisher of industry specific management reports, magazines, directories and newsletters. Free industry news updates and a variety of business intelligence
• Free Management Library
  Links to many free management and leadership articles
• Management Today
  UK's leading management magazine. News, features and in-depth analysis.
• New Business Magazine
  NewBusiness Magazine offers business advice and the latest business news for small to medium size businesses and enterpreneurs
• UnderstandIT
  A monthly journal of Hints, Tips and Insider Information about the world of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Public and Government

• 10 Downing Street
  Contains the latest news from the UK government, contact details for the Prime Minister, Prime Minister's speeches, press briefings
• DTI - Department of Trade and Industry
  Rules, Regulations, Law, Statistics and Safety, applies to the UK
• HM Revenue and Customs
  News and information on tax and national insurance, including downloadable leaflets and forms and the latest news on filing tax returns on-line.
• Scottish Goverment Office
  Scottish politics, reports, consultations and government office publications from the devolved government of Scotland
• UK Government
  Portal to public service information from the UK Government, including directories, online services, news and information of relevance to specific groups.

Facilitation

• Pinpoint Facilitation
  Pinpoint Facilitation really makes the difference. Integrated Process & Products. Everything you need to be more effective in facilitating meetings

Training and Development

• TrainingZONE
  UK forum for training and development professionals, with free registration