diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 1fe54f8..8d43ec9 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ services:
       - mongo_data:/data/db 
     depends_on:
       - redis
+      - mongo
     #entrypoint: ["/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh"]
     command: ["celery", "-A", justinsight.celery, "worker", "--loglevel=info"] #the lowercase j is actually so important
 
diff --git a/src/ingest/base_ingestor.py b/src/ingest/base_ingestor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c5eaee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingest/base_ingestor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import datetime
+import feedparser
+import hashlib
+import re
+from src.ingest.save_to_database import save_entry
+
+class BaseIngestor:
+    RSS_URL = None #will be set by the subclasses 
+
+    def slugify(self, text):
+        # Convert title to a filesystem-friendly slug
+        text = text.lower()
+        text = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9]+', '-', text)
+        return text.strip('-')
+
+    def format_date(self, entry):
+        # Extract and format the published date
+        try:
+            dt = datetime.datetime(*entry.published_parsed[:6])
+            return dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+        except:
+            return "unknown-date"
+    
+    def fetch_full_text(self, url):
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "Subclass must implement fetch_full_text()"
+        )
+
+    def generate_entry_hash(self, entry):
+        hash_input = f"{entry.title}{entry.link}{entry.get('published', '')}"
+        return hashlib.sha256(hash_input.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+
+    def format_entry(self, entry):
+        title_slug = self.slugify(entry.title)
+        date_str = self.format_date(entry)
+        full_text = self.fetch_full_text(entry.link)
+
+        data = {
+            "title": entry.title,
+            "link": entry.link,
+            "published": entry.get("published", ""),
+            "summary": entry.get("summary", ""),
+            "full_text": full_text,
+            "id": self.generate_entry_hash(entry)
+        }
+        return data
+
+    def check_and_save_new_entries(self):
+        feed = feedparser.parse(self.RSS_URL)
+
+        for entry in feed.entries:
+            save_entry(self.format_entry(entry))
diff --git a/src/ingest/bbc_ingestor.py b/src/ingest/bbc_ingestor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71d5542
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingest/bbc_ingestor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+from src.ingest.base_ingestor import BaseIngestor
+
+class BBCIngestor(BaseIngestor):
+    RSS_URL = "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"
+
+    def fetch_full_text(self, article_url):
+        response = requests.get(self.RSS_URL)
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
+
+        article = soup.find('article')
+
+        if article:
+            return(article.get_text())
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/ingest/save_to_database.py b/src/ingest/save_to_database.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3feb6f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ingest/save_to_database.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from pymongo import MongoClient
+
+# Include username, password, and authentication database
+client = MongoClient("mongodb://myuser:mypassword@mongo:27017/justinsightdb?authSource=admin")
+
+# Get (or create) a database
+db = client["justinsightdb"]
+
+# Get (or create) a collection
+collection = db["articles"]
+
+def save_entry(entry):
+    #check if the entry has already been saved and if it has not then save it
+    entry_hash = entry["id"]
+    if collection.count_documents({"id": entry_hash}) == 0:
+        collection.insert_one(entry)
+    else:
+        print(f"{entry['title']} already in use!")
diff --git a/src/justinsight/celery.py b/src/justinsight/celery.py
index 0292a0b..b5b241a 100644
--- a/src/justinsight/celery.py
+++ b/src/justinsight/celery.py
@@ -18,15 +18,15 @@
 
     "check-BBCfeed-every-5-minutes": {
         "task": "justinsight.tasks.bbcLogger_task",
-        "schedule": 300.0,
+        "schedule": 5.0,
         "args": (),
     },
 
-    "check-NYTfeed-every-5-minutes": {
-        "task": "justinsight.tasks.nytLogger_task",
-        "schedule": 300.0,
-        "args": (),
-    },
+    # "check-NYTfeed-every-5-minutes": {
+    #     "task": "justinsight.tasks.nytLogger_task",
+    #     "schedule": 300.0,
+    #     "args": (),
+    # },
 
     #schedule more tasks here
 }
diff --git a/src/justinsight/tasks.py b/src/justinsight/tasks.py
index 36b6c33..7066141 100644
--- a/src/justinsight/tasks.py
+++ b/src/justinsight/tasks.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # tasks.py
 from celery import shared_task
-from ingest.bbc_rss import check_and_save_new_entries as check_and_save_bbc
-from ingest.nyt_rss import check_and_save_new_entries as check_and_save_nyt
+from ingest.bbc_ingestor import BBCIngestor
 
 
 @shared_task
@@ -11,7 +10,9 @@ def sample_task():
 
 @shared_task
 def bbcLogger_task():
-    check_and_save_bbc()
+    # Create an instance of the class
+    ingestor = BBCIngestor()
+    ingestor.check_and_save_new_entries()  # this will invoke the inherited logic
     return "BBC RSS Feed checked."
 
 @shared_task