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The Newspaper Licensing Authority (NLA), which acts on behalf of UK newspapers, has launched a new onlineeClips webservice, which allows media monitoring companies to supply clients with relevant newspaper website content, including paywall-restricted content such as The Financial Times and The Times, which web-crawlers cannot access. The new service has been in development for two years by the NLA, which is a private company owned by the UK’s eight national newspaper groups....

Wereportedlast month that UK TV-on-demand siteSeeSawwas set to close, following a “strategic review of its business activities” by its owners. Well, it seems that there could be a stay of execution for the popular entertainment portal. A private equity company called Criterion Capital Partners, which owns social networking site Bebo, could be buying SeeSaw from current owners Arqiva, the broadcast transmission company. The Telegraphreportstoday that Adam Levine, the Chief Executive of Criterion, is thought to be in the UK working on the final terms of the deal, which may see the company attempt to build a major digital film and TV service in Europe....

A new survey of UK shoppers has found that the number one gripe when buying online is not being given a specific enough delivery period, meaning they have to take time off work to wait at home for items to arrive. The survey was conducted by The Co-operative Electrical and, asreportedin today’s Guardian, from the 3,000 respondents, 90% noted that waiting at home not knowing when their delivery was going to arrive was the biggest frustration when buying online....

The UK’s judicial system has taken another step into the digital age after the West Midlands Police announced results from court cases heard at Birmingham Magistrate’s Court will now be published to Twitter to ensure the public are more aware of the cases the force deals with. With only local press typically covering court rulings, they have had to reduce the amount of court coverage following budget cuts. By reporting cases, West Midlands Police aims to increase the amount of court reporting, highlighting the different kinds of cases it deals with, sending in its own staff to cover the results....

A UK Conservative Party MP is attempting to force the closure of a false Twitter account that has been set up in his name. Jacob Rees-Mogg,MP for North East Somerset, doesn’t have an official Twitter account of his own, but someone has created the@JakeReesMogghandle, from which 443 tweets have been sent. The account has over 1,500 followers at the time of writing, many of which are about politics and cricket. Most of the tweets aren’t particularly offensive, but many doclaimto come from the politician himself, such as: “a busy morning out and about in my constituency, followed by a long promised family picnic....