Thanks Lancelot, tinyurl is a great help often but not in this case, as I want the links to look like this
BBC News - Eurostar still affected by snow so that they can decide whether to open it or not.
I can just go back to using IE for this purpose, it's just a little frustrating that FF is better in most ways than IE but just has this one little irritation in this very specific purpose.
Cheers anyway.