OK, next question. I've looked at the one's suggested, but none of them seem to offer newsgroup access. Is it better to pay for this seperately, or go for an ISP that includes it such as Biscit?

Wanadoo have news group access, i'm sure tesco do as well.

If they dont include it you can always get it though deja news or whatever its called this week.

My new wanadoo broad band access works just the same as my old dial up, i use outlook express for mail and news - no change at all, just faster!

Where do you get your newsgroups from? Can't see any reference to them on the Wannadoo site.

Not too sure what you mean Yeti. The news server is at news.freeserve.com and it works through Outlook express.

I'm not an internet buff i'm afraid!

Have a look at freedom2surf

Pretty cheap, static IP, if you need that, plus quite a few other bits!