I had a look at that after it was announced on the BBC web site last week. It will no doubt be very useful eventually but at the moment it seems rather limited. There aren't many newspapers in the archive yet and most of those cover time periods pre 1933. I was hoping I might at least be able to fill some of the gaps I have of the 1939/40 season as the results are in some of those Nottingham Evening Posts, but I couldn't find any I hadn't already got. Some of the scans weren't brilliant either so the OCR software they are using was having a few problems as well. It must be quite difficult to do the scans as newspapers tend to be in quite small print with articles spread over columns. How they distinguish between things like league tables and the text and adverts in the columns around them must require some clever algorithms and/or quite a bit of operator intervention and checking.
So I dare say I'll still be making visits to the Boston Library to look at the old Lincolnshire Standards, Guardians etc for a while yet.
