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- More straightforward to edit and maintain, 'rich' (ie formatted) content can be included as well as images
- Items are assigned a date and, optionally, an expiry date
- Items can be shown in summary or detail format on the home page, and in the left or right bars of all pages so they are highly visible to site visitors
- News and events are not counted in the Site Allowance
The detail of a news or event item can be rich (i.e. formatted) Html (entered via the Html Editor), but in most cases they would be plain text. Items are restricted to less than 7500 characters (including Html markup tags) in length, which should suffice for most items.
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