All UK Government departments can be accessed through the Government Centre for Information Systems' World Wide Web pages. The address is: www.ukonline.gov.uk/

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office also maintains its own site at the address: www.fco.gov.uk/

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

King Charles Street

London SW1A 2AH

Tel:+44 7270 1500

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office provides the following media services:

BSN

British Satellite News (BSN) is a free television news service, providing overseas broadcasters with coverage of worldwide topical events and stones from a British perspective. A 10-minute bulletin is transmitted Monday to Friday providing major news, business, science, health, environment, culture and sports stories There is an additional 10-mmute feature series on Friday The service is offered in five languages BSN has a multi-lingual website with an archive search facility www.bsn.org.uk

Infonation

Infonation is the broadcast documentary department of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office It produces a wide range of documentary programmes on cultural and scientific themes aimed at a global television audience. Infonation programmes are regularly broadcast in over 130 countries and have won a number of international broadcast awards Email: mail@infonation.org.uk

International Press Section

International Press Section (IPS) is the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's specialist link with the foreign press, promoting overseas coverage of government policies and UK achievements and priorities IPS has four parts:

• London Correspondents' Service (LCS) -targets around 1,700 London-based foreign correspondents from 90 countries and provides hard news and feature opportunities
• Inward Media Visits - arranges programmes for visiting journalists and government spokespeople from all parts of the globe
• London Press Service - supplies news, features and material for overseas publication and for use by our embassies
• Familiarisation Visits - arranges programmes of individual appointments for locally engaged Press and Public Affairs Officers in our diplomatic Posts.

IPS offers advice on overseas coverage of cross-Government initiatives to diplomatic Posts and Whitehall and works with the Prime Minister's Press Office on issues involving the foreign media. IPS also works with the private sector, business and industry, academic institutions and cultural organisations, to present a positive image of Britain overseas. Foreign journalists are the major source of opinion about the UK overseas. Through them, IPS reaches directly 800 newspapers, 170 magazines and 120 news agencies, as well as radio, TV and internet bulletins, with a global audience of millions. Email: martin.cole@ips.fco.gov.uk

LRS

London Radio Service (LRS) is an international producer and syndicator of news and programmes. LRS supplies high quality, free to air, audio news and programming content in six languages to radio stations, internet sites, journalists and audio broadcasters all over world. Clients include national public service broadcasters, commercial networks, international broadcasters and educational institutions. LRS multilingual website is available at: wwyv-lrs.co.uk

Department for Culture, Media & Sport

2-4 Cockspur Street

London SW1Y SDH

Tel: +44 (0)20 7211 6200

Fax: +44 (0)20 7211 6270

www.culture.gov.uk

Advertising Standards Authority

2-6 Torrington Place

London WC1E7HW

Tel: +44 (0)20 7580 5555

Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 3051

Email: enquiries@asa.org.uk

www.asa.org.uk

British Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcasting House

London Wl A 1AA

Tel: +44 (0)20 7580 4468

Fax:+44 (0)20 7637 1630

Television Centre

Wood Lane

London W12 7RJ

Tel: +44 (0)20 8743 8000

www.bbc.co.uk

BSkyB

Victoria House

98 Victoria Street

London SW1E5JL

Tel: +44 (0)20 7705 5000

www.sky.co.uk

Broadcasting Standards Commission

7 The Sanctuary

London SW1 P 3JS

Tel: +44 (0)20 7233 0544

Fax: +44 (0)20 7233 0397

Email: bsc@bsc.org.uk

www.bsc.org.uk

Channel 4Television Corporation

124 Horseferry Road

London SW1 P 2TX

Tel: +44 (0)20 7396 4444

Fax: +44 (0)20 7306 8351

www.channel4.com

Channel 5

22 Long Acre

London WC2E 9LY

Tel: +44 (0)20 7550 5555

www.channel5.co.uk

Foreign Press Association

11 Carlton House Terrace

London SW1Y5AJ

Tel: +44 (0)20 7930 0445

Fax: +44 (0)20 7925 0469

Email: secretariat@foreign-press.org.uk

www.foreign-press.org.uk

Independent Television Commission

33 Foley Street

London W1P7LB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 3000

Fax: +44 (0)20 7306 7800

Email: publicaffairs@itc.org.uk

www.itc.org.uk

Institution of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)

44 Belgrave Square

London SW1X 8QS

Tel: +44 (0)20 7235 7020

www.ipa.co.uk

Ipsos-RSL (Market Research)

Kings House

Kymberley Road

Harrow

Middlesex HA1 1 PT

ITV Network Limited

200 Gray's Inn Road

London WC1X8HF

Tel: +44 (0)20 7843 8000

www.itv.co.uk

Newspaper Publishers Association

34 Southwark Bridge Road

London SE1 9EU

Tel: +44 (0)20 7928 6928

Newspaper Society

Bloomsbury House

74-77 Great Russell Street

London WG1B3DA

Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 7014

Fax:+44 (0)20 7631 5119

www.newspapersoc.org.uk

Periodical Publishers Association

Queens House

28 Kingsway

London WC2B6JR

Tel:+44 (0)20 7404 4166

Fax:+44 (0)20 7404 4167

Email: infol@ppa.co.uk

Press Complaints Commission

1 Salisbury Square

London EC4Y8JB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7353 1248

Fax: +44 (0)20 7353 8355

Email: pcc@pcc.org.uk

www.pcc.org.uk

Radio Authority

Holbrook House

14 Great Queen Street

Holborn

London WC2B 5DG

Tel: +44 (0)20 7430 2724

Fax: +44 (0)20 7405 7062

Email: reception@radioauthority.org.uk

S4C

ParcTy Glas

Llanishen

Cardiff CF45DU

www.s4c.co.uk