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This is a website for people to get together and discuss local issues, find and talk to people with similar interests, find and review local businesses, read and write local news stories, and see what’s going on locally.

This site lets you find and connect with other people, discuss local issues, find and review local businesses, read and write local news, share photographs, and search for a job, home or car.

• Register. To comment on stories, write your own stories or connect to other users you’ll need to register for the site.

  To do so, click on the Login/Join link shown at the top of the page or the join now button on the left of the homepage.

  

   

• Connect.Once you’ve registered you can use this site to find other people in and from your town – people you may already know, people with similar interests, people campaigning for the same issues or people you’ve lost touch with.

  You’ll find other people using the website in lots of ways: the box in the top left-hand side of most pages shows you the last nine people to do something on the site, and you can search for people by using the search at the top of the page or via the People link in the top navigation bar.

  

   

• Write. One you’ve registered you can comment on stories, rate and review local businesses and write your own stories about your town.

  If you want to just quickly tell us what’s going on in your town you can use the "What’s Happening?" box at the top of the homepage.

  

   

  If you want to comment on a story you can always type a response in the Comments box below the story.

  

   

  If you want to join a discussion simply type your post in the box below the discussion.

  

   

  Or if you want to write a completely new story you can click on the Write option in the top navigation bar.

  

   

• Join and create groups. Anyone can create a group or join an existing group, so if you want a place where your sports team, your charity volunteers, your society, your friends or any other group of people can keep in touch you can create a group on this site to do so.

  To visit groups or create a new group follow the Groups link in the top navigation bar.

  

   

You can invite anyone in your Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, Hotmail, MSN Live or other address books to join you on this site from the Invite friends box on your profile pages.

 Groups. This icon means you are looking at a Group, for example the General Discussion group or the Anglers Society Group

 Discussion. This icon represents the start of a Discussion, where local people can express their views on local issues.

 Comment. This icon represents a comment, either on a story or in a discussion.

 Story. This icon represents a story that has been written by a local person using the site.

Your business should already be in our business directory. If it isn’t you can add it yourself. There are a number of ways you can enhance your directory listing and promote your business to other site visitors including adding photos and more details about your business.

Please see our full list of Localpeople sites here http://www.thelocalpeople.co.uk

Please get in touch! You can email us at info@thelocalpeople.co.uk