Awesome, thanks for getting back to me guys. I hadn't thought to search for Google Reader rather than alerts, having tried that it is working as I hoped, thank you for your pointers and apologies for not looking a bit harder!
I have one other recipe I would like to get working, although have no idea how to sort it out, so if you could help that would be great. I have an RSS feed but again a username/password is required.
In this case it is for a subscription to Jane's Defence Weekly (RSS:
http://jdim.janes.com/rss/rss-feed.jsp?feed=jdw). If I put this into the standard rss recipe creator it compiles a list of articles as I would like, however each article is the Jane's login page instead of the actual article.
I expect I have to insert a bit of code to autofill my username and password each time it collects an article, but cannot work out how to code this?
Thanks again for any help,
Regards,
Jon