Odd Behaviour on BBC Web Site

I've set my post code on the BBC web site to get local news and weather. In my case the local news is Manchester. When I centre-click (for new tab) on the LOCAL NEWS link on the home page I get a Manchester page which was last updated 1st February and the top headline is about Nat Lofthouse's funeral - and it's been the same old page for a few weeks now. However if I left-clink on the LOCAL NEWS page I get the correct up to date page.

This happens on Firefox (3.6.16), IE 8 and Opera (11.01). On Chrome (10.0.648.204) I get the correct page whether from left click or centre click.

It's not cache as I clear cache regularly. It's not cookies as I rebuilt the PC mid-February, and anyway I've deleted the BBC cookie and allowed it to re-create without any difference.

Why might this be happening?

BBC cut backs! They've screwed the BBC World Service on medium wave too!!!

Work fine here.

Top headline is "Naked soldier prevents car theft". Hmmm, must be a funny lot up there

And the Weather is rain all evening.

Must go & change the local settings back to East Sussex.

I assume that was centre-clicking?

Trird it again, & got what you did.

My left/right buttons are very light, & the left bottom may have operated prior to the centre button.

Centre button OR (right button to tab on context menu), both give to same as you got.
Left button on local news gives correct up to date page.

Thanks, glad it wasn't just me otherwise I might feel paranoid

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

..... It's not cache as I clear cache regularly....

Maybe it's not a local cache...........

If, for example, it's an ISP cache, how would Chrome get it right?