I just discovered that the arbiter of writing style, The Guardian Style Guide, is now available in downloadable PDF format. This is not the very latest version, but still useful.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/G ... ly2004.pdf
Oops, I'm sure I wrote amidst somewhere not long ago- that's apparently out!
You can still buy TGSG as a book, but at UK£20.00 plus p&p, it's not cheap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide?INTCMP=SRCH
The library recently added the Oxford English Dictionary Online as a free resource option for library users (hurray), so now I've really got no excuse for getting it wrong.
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