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BBC.co.uk has a rating of 2.8 stars from 41 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. BBC.co.uk ranks 6th among International News sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Very good food and cooking website”

K D.
1/20/11

Very good food and cooking website. (www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/) Thousands of recipes - most linked to the dozens of TV cookery programmes the BBC has hosted over many years. You can search by recipe name or just list ingredients if you need some help with inspiration. Another plus is that they are not full of links trying to sell you stuff. They also cover recipes for special diets. Excellent!

Top Critical Review

“Keep away from BBC Australia shop - they falsely advertise they have stock”

Heidi M.
1/10/16

The BBC Australia shop is terrible. I ordered an item on Dec 7, which was supposed to arrive prior to Christmas. It never came. I did not receive any email about the item. There was no proper tracking advice. Five weeks later and I still have not received my item. After finally getting through to their Customer Service line, they said that the item was not in stock and now they have to wait for a shipment. So they never even had my item in stock, and they illegally advertised it in the first place. Terrible Customer Service! No offer to send it free of postage or make any amends for their error and illegal online behaviour.

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Thumbnail of user keythr
GB
225 reviews
1,017 helpful votes
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January 20th, 2011

Very good food and cooking website. (www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/) Thousands of recipes - most linked to the dozens of TV cookery programmes the BBC has hosted over many years. You can search by recipe name or just list ingredients if you need some help with inspiration. Another plus is that they are not full of links trying to sell you stuff. They also cover recipes for special diets. Excellent!

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Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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January 10th, 2016

The BBC Australia shop is terrible. I ordered an item on Dec 7, which was supposed to arrive prior to Christmas. It never came. I did not receive any email about the item. There was no proper tracking advice. Five weeks later and I still have not received my item. After finally getting through to their Customer Service line, they said that the item was not in stock and now they have to wait for a shipment. So they never even had my item in stock, and they illegally advertised it in the first place. Terrible Customer Service! No offer to send it free of postage or make any amends for their error and illegal online behaviour.

Thumbnail of user johnh47
GB
24 reviews
113 helpful votes
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May 2nd, 2011

This website has an enormous amount of information and is one of the five most visited websites in the whole of the UK. It has a good web community and has a very professional online content. It contains the news, weather, sport, entertainment, cookery recipes and the kitchen sink.
It is entirely safe and can be viewed by all ages.
Not only that but I can't think of anything bad to say about it.
Overall - safe and reliable.

Thumbnail of user iainc13
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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June 6th, 2020

If penny pinching lack of empathy for over 75s is the BBC objective then achieving alienation of loyal viewers is a success. Lack of programme quality is rife and even small things like updating text such as errors of fact misplaced geographical postings and total failure to monitor the obvious inaccuracies tells us they don't care.

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Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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November 5th, 2023

BBC has become the headstone of antisemitism and antisemitic propaganda. Al Jazeera North should be it's name. Why must news from Gaza head up every newscast when the Russians are doing things much worse in the Ukraine. A pox on the BBC

Thumbnail of user steveg935
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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April 29th, 2020

Likes to create news rather than report it, self praising, biased against sections of the community that do not subscribe to all its mantras. Creates hatred and through biased reporting, marginalises And alienates people with a valid but different view. Hides news it sees as counter to its pre determined aims and agendas. Hypocritical.

Thumbnail of user alans323
GB
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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October 21st, 2018

Its a great website however there is not enough content compared to other news websites like CNN etc. Would prefer also if they created a different section just to cover brexit as i think is taking to much space taken up and its now just boring

Thumbnail of user megane
Colorado
9 reviews
49 helpful votes
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April 25th, 2011

What an awesome way to stay on top of your current events! The sidebar menu is broken down by continent and each headline provides you with a great summary lead. Great good old-fashioned journalism structured in the best way to get the juicy first and the nit-gritty second.

Thumbnail of user scarletts
Florida
5 reviews
12 helpful votes
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October 18th, 2011

BBC's children website is another quality resource for parents and a fun place for children. It has games, activities, audio and video. BBC is one of the pioneer organizations in the broadcast industry. They are not only trendsetter but they also follow a rigorous quality policy. Which means parents can be sure that their children are in the safe hands.

Thumbnail of user davidc1276
France
8 reviews
31 helpful votes
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August 10th, 2018

A basic news website, with surprisingly thin coverage, even of UK news.
The news is given in no detail, but is inclined to exaggerate the "news" value of its reports. It seems politically neutral, but in fact it reports the mainstream, and avoids anything controversial. A lot of the reports are banal and you wonder how it ever got passed by an editor.
This is not a newspaper site. If you want journalism go elsewhere. If you want stuff that is short and easy to read, go to the bbc.

Thumbnail of user victoro6
GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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December 14th, 2012

This is really great site. It is very trustworthy and reliable source of information. You can find there information about weather, sport and of course news. Also information about entertainment and lifestyle as a food, health, history and nature have their place on this site. You can select from variety information about You can watch it in TV, online or listen in radio. I like it.

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District of Columbia
19 reviews
83 helpful votes
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August 31st, 2011

What a great service, to be able watch back, online, programs that have aired on the BBC over the last seven days. Really useful if you have a busy social schedule.

They have intergrated it with the Playstation 3 and BT Vision, so now you can use the service through your TV.

One thing that is a little annoying, is that you can only use in when in the UK, which is understandable because it's funded by our licence fee, but it would be nice to use when on holiday.

Thumbnail of user martinb11
GB
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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September 8th, 2011

BBC provides most valuable and authenticate news across the world. I really appreciate. But One thing i had noticed which disappoint many even me is that BBC focusing or creating healies only Western and European counties and giving less focus to Asian counties

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GB
14 reviews
63 helpful votes
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March 1st, 2016

While all is honky dory for anyone outside the UK, Those who live in the UK are being pestered on a daily basis by TV licence goons going round people's door's, thumping windows as well as your front door and threatening them with a £1000 fine or prison or both because you don't have a TV licence. The price the BBC expects you to pay for even owning a TV, whether you watch live TV or not is £145.50. Your having to pay that on a yearly basis. Even if you only use a telly for playing video games from a console, your still expected to buy a licence. Yes, I know, that is why I titled this review as a joke, because no doubt, many of people who don't live in the UK will be reading this will be literally rofl, but it is right, the BBC are nothing but bullies, if you don't have a licence in owning a telly, your actually breaking the law..

Thumbnail of user benjaminn29
GB
6 reviews
49 helpful votes
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October 22nd, 2018

The BBC always follow the leftist path when it comes to reporting on poltical and major world events.

They may throw in a lot of meaningless junk as filler inbetween which would be considered unbiased and factual, while also useless.

Unfortunately the British people are still forced into paying for the garbage produced by the BBC, when it fails to represent the views of the majority of the public at large, Hense why they disable and block comments when it comes to their content.

Hopefully as their viewership continues to decline, they will realise the error of their ways and make a change for better, I won't hold my breath tho.

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Portugal
7 reviews
23 helpful votes
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July 27th, 2016

BBC world news is the new Fox News. It covers in full every press conference trump gives.
Sometimes he's on for 20 minutes just rambling. Tonight nothing positive about the Democratic convention. Instead? A headline TRUMP OUTSHINES THE DEMOCRATS. WHY? Because he called on the enemy of the free world, Putin, to find Hilary Clintons lost emails. He already got the Russians to hack the DNC. The BBC IS BACKING TRUMP ALL THE WAY. DISGUSTING!

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New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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December 2nd, 2021

Normal source, but sometimes there are really not important pieces of news. I want to read more information about political situations in the international area.

Thumbnail of user bryans34
Canada
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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October 29th, 2013

Great site, seems to be first with news stories most of the time. One complaint is their poor coverage of Canadian news.

Thumbnail of user kazsmith2202
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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August 5th, 2023

Dreadful update to the news app. It is now awful, won't use it any more, change it back, it's rubbish

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August 25th, 2023

The bbc are currently been investigated foe online charity just giving scams. They are now currently investigated for money laundering and fraud

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New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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September 7th, 2022

Jimmy saville, Rolf Harris, Gary glitter and many more of their production team are coming to light now.

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Thumbnail of user philipp47
Denmark
5 reviews
5 helpful votes
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March 9th, 2014

Simply love it. The website design and usability is epic!

Thumbnail of user lilliana25
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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April 20th, 2018

What a great service, to be able watch back, online, programs that have aired on the BBC over the last seven days. Really useful if you have a busy social schedule

Thumbnail of user emmaw407
Florida
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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December 20th, 2021

Great website. I just enjoy using it. The look and feel are amazing. It is very informative it has helped me a lot.

Thumbnail of user jimt32
GB
11 reviews
17 helpful votes
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April 17th, 2014

If you want real news not tainted by the long arm of media moguls, this is the site for you.

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