A lot of sites, bbc, rte, sky and some forums using vBulletin e.g. askaboutmoney supply what's called an RSS (basically XML) feed of their news items or site changes. You can install a reader on your pc which will display them all centrally and alert you of new changes to the sites.
I have Enabled the RSS feed but have not got around to testing it yet.If anybody has any success let me know.
Thanks. I added this link for General LFC Discussion and it seems to be fine. I'll have a muck around with it and post back later. Change f=2 below to f=<forum number from site> http://84.51.233.73/forums/external.php?type=rss&f=2