PA's political argy-bargy.

Byline: Mark Chillingworth

PA's political argy-bargy

Mark Chillingworth fires up a Press Association tool for searching televised parliamentary debates that puts the politicians firmly in the spotlight

Two issues have been grabbing a lot of headline space of late: video search and leadership changes within the UK's political parties. So a web service that provides free text searching of BBC and Press Association content from the Houses of Parliament is particularly well timed.

Over recent months, Information World Review has been testing the Politics Today service to monitor both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leadership elections, as well as all the debates in between.

Developed by PA Business, a division of the noted newswire agency, the Politics Today site provides live and archived content, which is offered rights-free, courtesy of the Parliamentary Broadcast Unit, which fully backs the service.

Politics Today uses a search engine specifically developed for TV material from TVEyes. Users gain full search access to PA newswire reports from parliament, as well as the ability to search video content.