diff --git a/recipes/financial_times.recipe b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
index 3588a19008..51baae3b21 100644
--- a/recipes/financial_times.recipe
+++ b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ __copyright__ = '2010-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
 www.ft.com
 '''
 
-import datetime
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
     encoding              = 'utf8'
     publication_type      = 'newspaper'
     masthead_url          = 'http://im.media.ft.com/m/img/masthead_main.jpg'
-    LOGIN                 = 'https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier/login'
+    LOGIN                 = 'https://accounts.ft.com/login'
     INDEX                 = 'http://www.ft.com'
 
     conversion_options = {
@@ -38,8 +37,8 @@ class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
         br.open(self.INDEX)
         if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
             br.open(self.LOGIN)
-            br.select_form(name='loginForm')
-            br['username'] = self.username
+            br.select_form(name='login')
+            br['email'] = self.username
             br['password'] = self.password
             br.submit()
         return br
@@ -97,10 +96,3 @@ class FinancialTimes_rss(BasicNewsRecipe):
             if not item.has_key('alt'):
                item['alt'] = 'image'
         return soup
-
-    def get_cover_url(self):
-        cdate = datetime.date.today()
-        if cdate.isoweekday() == 7:
-           cdate -= datetime.timedelta(days=1)
-        return cdate.strftime('http://specials.ft.com/vtf_pdf/%d%m%y_FRONT1_USA.pdf')
-
diff --git a/recipes/financial_times_uk.recipe b/recipes/financial_times_uk.recipe
index 2595d03f4a..5f2409348d 100644
--- a/recipes/financial_times_uk.recipe
+++ b/recipes/financial_times_uk.recipe
@@ -40,9 +40,7 @@ class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
             br.submit()
         return br
 
-    keep_only_tags = [
-                        dict(name='div' , attrs={'class':['master-row editorialSection']})
-                     ]
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['fullstory fullstoryHeader','fullstory fullstoryBody','ft-story-header','ft-story-body','index-detail']})]
     remove_tags = [
         dict(name='style', attrs={'id':'antiClickjack'}),
         dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'floating-con'}),
diff --git a/recipes/financial_times_us.recipe b/recipes/financial_times_us.recipe
index 73eb2f9ce3..f2d365018d 100644
--- a/recipes/financial_times_us.recipe
+++ b/recipes/financial_times_us.recipe
@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@ class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
             br.submit()
         return br
 
-    keep_only_tags = [
-                        dict(name='div' , attrs={'class':['master-row editorialSection']})
-                     ]
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['fullstory fullstoryHeader','fullstory fullstoryBody','ft-story-header','ft-story-body','index-detail']})]
     remove_tags = [
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'floating-con'})
                      ,dict(name=['meta','iframe','base','object','embed','link'])