It's about the 7 year anniversary of the launch of upmystreet, and the Cabinet office has just made the latest of a long line of announcements that they're finally going to pull their finger out and do something like an official version. I always maintained that if the government did it's job properly, UMS wouldn't need to exist, but i doubt this version will be any better than any of their previous attempts (warning: contains some of the most egregiously ugly and wrong html anywhere in cyberspace, including the fabulous message "We have detected that your PC is blocking the presentation of popups on the Neighbourhood Statistics web site. You are advised to enable popups for this site, as it has been designed to make full use of the capabilities that popups can provide." ).
I'm sure Upmystreet's current owners could have cried foul here, if they hadn't abandoned the idea of the site being about local information.