| Local links: | |
|---|---|
| www.preston.gov.uk/ | Preston City Councils’ official web site. |
| Travelling abroad: | |
| www.direct.gov.uk | direct.gov pages on travel advice including ‘Before you travel’ and ‘ Passports and Visas’ as well as ‘What to do when things go wrong’. |
| currencyconverter.uk.com | Here is a handy currency converter from Expedia. Incidentally‚ three of our twin towns use the Euro and one uses the Polish Zloty. I leave you to guess which to use. |
| Languages: | |
| dictionary.reference.com/translate/ | Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service. This part of the site translates many languages including French‚ Dutch and German but not Polish. The translator will not produce a perfect translation. In most cases it should adequately convey the general sense of the original; however‚ it is not a substitute for a competent human translator. |
| babelfish.altavista.com/ | Babelfish is a similar service to that provided by Dictionary.com. Translating in this way is not an exact science and it may make more sense in one or the other service. Still no Polish translation service. |
| www.poltran.com | This is a Polish/English or English/Polish translation service which accepts single words or complete sentences. |
| translate.google.com/translate_t | As with many other web things‚ Google do things their own way. This translation tool may give different results. |
| Foreign character codes | Many foreign characters can be typed using the Alt key on the Windows environment. For example holding down the Alt key and typing 0233 will result in é. This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. |