Reference

Britannica (www.britannica.com/)
Encylopaedia Britannica website.

BT Directory enquiries (www2.bt.com/edq_resnamesearch/)
Directory enquiries online.

Communities and Local Government (www.communities.gov.uk)
The government’s website about local communities – including information for communities, reports, legislation and statistics such as the Indices of Deprivation.

Crossword solvers
   - Crossword Clue Solver (www.Crosswordsolver.org)
   - Oneacross (www.oneacross.com)

Currency converter (www.xe.com/ucc/)
Online currency converter.

EnrichUK (http://www.enrichuk.net)
The collection of websites range across culture, history, social and economic development, science and art as well as offering regional and national 'sense of place' websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

Mappy (www.mappy.com/)
Online route planner - UK & Europe.

Multimap  (www.multimap.com/)
Online maps.

National Lottery (http://lottery.merseyworld.com/)
Lottery draws information.

National Statistics (www.statistics.gov.uk/)
National social & economic data.

Research it (www.itools.com/)
Internet search tools.

Residential & Nursing Homes Inspections (www.csci.org.uk/csci_or_chai.htm)
Official reports.

Statistics (http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/)
Nomis gives you free access to the most detailed and most up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources

Streetmap (www.streetmap.co.uk/)
Streetmaps of the UK. (

Telephone Directories (www.infobel.com/teldir/)
Online telephone directories.

Thomweb-UK (www.thomweb.co.uk/uk.thomw/)
Online telephone directories.

Up my street (www.upmystreet.com/)
Online guide to neighbourhoods. (

West Midlands regional observatory (http://www.wmro.org)
This site provides a complete single point of access to data, information and intelligence about the West Midlands region

Yell  (www.yell.com/ucs/HomePageAction.do)
Online yellow pages.