Hero.ac.uk to close tomorrow

Means little to me, but it might mean something to you:
“NEWCASTLE-BASED web publishing company HERO Ltd. has today announced the closure of the Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UKĀ (HERO) website (www.hero.ac.uk).
The HERO site will be withdrawn on 4th June 2009 with information from the current HERO site used by stakeholders to improve their own sites and services going forward.
This means that as an existing HEI or FEC Contact, Editor or Author on the HERO Content Management System (CMS) you will no longer be able to edit information for your institution via the HERO CMS from 3rd June 2009. User accounts and institutional data will be purged following the closure of the HERO site.
We would like to take this opportunity of thanking staff at universities and colleges for taking the time to update this well-used and appreciated resource over the past eight years.”
[...] for those who believe that the sector should own its marketing channels, the Hero.ac.uk service was closed on 4th June 2009 (and the image shown above was taken from Hero’s most recent entry in the Internet Archive, [...]
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