Marvel Comics puts its superheroes online

The superheroes are heading into the future. Marvel Comics, the force behind Spider-Man and the X-Men, is putting its comics online in a belated attempt to draw young readers to the venerable tradition of reading about men in tights rather than merely watching them. While the company's stable of superheroes has drawn an unprecedented audience in recent years, fuelled by the success of the Spider-Man film franchise, that interest does not translate into sales of the humble comic book more...

Town completes digital switchover

The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria has become the first place in the UK to turn off the analogue signal as part of the official switchover to digital TV. Last month BBC Two's analogue signal was turned off, and the rest of the terrestrial channels followed in the early hours of Wednesday more...