diff --git a/app/controllers/admin_controller.rb b/app/controllers/admin_controller.rb
index 9ca891bf..32681c18 100644
--- a/app/controllers/admin_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/admin_controller.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2009 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved.
 # Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/
 #
-# $Id: admin_controller.rb,v 1.26 2009-06-30 14:28:25 francis Exp $
+# $Id: admin_controller.rb,v 1.27 2009-08-21 17:43:33 francis Exp $
 
 
 class AdminController < ApplicationController
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ def expire_for_request(info_request)
         # the URL, the regular expression makes sure the cache is
         # cleared even if someone did that.
         expire_fragment /views\/request\/#{info_request.id}.*/
+        # also force a search reindexing (so changed text reflected in search)
+        info_request.reindex_request_events
     end
 end
 
diff --git a/app/models/info_request.rb b/app/models/info_request.rb
index da540312..1969d194 100644
--- a/app/models/info_request.rb
+++ b/app/models/info_request.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2007 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved.
 # Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/
 #
-# $Id: info_request.rb,v 1.200 2009-08-19 00:22:49 francis Exp $
+# $Id: info_request.rb,v 1.201 2009-08-21 17:43:33 francis Exp $
 
 require 'digest/sha1'
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'../../vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/lib/acts_as_xapian')
@@ -123,12 +123,15 @@ def InfoRequest.full_search(models, query, order, ascending, collapse, per_page,
 
     # If the URL name has changed, then all request: queries will break unless
     # we update index for every event. Also reindex if prominence changes.
-    after_update :reindex_request_events
-    def reindex_request_events
+    after_update :reindex_some_request_events
+    def reindex_some_request_events
         if self.changes.include?('url_title') || self.changes.include?('prominence')
-            for info_request_event in self.info_request_events
-                info_request_event.xapian_mark_needs_index
-            end
+            self.reindex_request_events
+        end
+    end
+    def reindex_request_events
+        for info_request_event in self.info_request_events
+            info_request_event.xapian_mark_needs_index
         end
     end