I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news.

I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles.

I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes US-based news from the BBC News homepage.

It doesn't do any fancy news item replacement, or insertion of Place Cats. Just takes away the madness that you in the UK don't need to be dealing with.

OK I got image replacement working, but you get dogs instead of cats.

Is this really necessary, you ask? Sometimes, yes:

Installing

I haven't packaged it up yet so get the code and then:

For chrome

1. Go to chrome://extensions/
2. Click "Developer mode" in the top right
3. Click "Load unpacked" in the top left
4. Select the folder you downloaded the code to
5. Done.

For firefox

6. Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
7. Click "Load Temporary Add-on"
8. Select the folder you downloaded the code to
9. Done (but you will have to redo these steps each time you restart Firefox because of Reasons).

Also, yes, a greasemonkey/tampermonkey script could do the same thing, but I've been burned by posting my code there before. Feel free to grab the code from https://github.com/pipwilson/bbc-no-us-news/blob/main/src/content.js and import it.