Regional TheGovernmentSays.com

The thing in TGS that I've been working on for the last week or so is http://travel.thegovernmentsays.com - travel advice.

The FCO does a wonderful job of updating its travel advice for every country in the world on a regularly (daily in some cases) basis. Unfortunately, they provide only very limited mechanisms for pushing updates. Checking the website is great when you want to know what the advice is. When it changes, sometimes you want to know right now without constantly hitting refresh (which would really interfere with your holiday).

As a result, if you request an email alert for travel advice, it will send you an alert whenever we see the advice has changed, which is possibly a number of times a day. The FCO website is checked for updates every 20 minutes.

I've also put live the regional versions of TGS. See the top of www.thegovernmentsays.com for details. The regional (and other nations) coverage is a mixture of localised versions of national press releases, and also releases which only affect a localised area.

Have fun.