Latest BBC News – Page 489
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NewsSir Michael Lyons' expenses revealed
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons ran up expenses totalling more than £12,000 in six months, figures show.
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NewsThompson’s Salford ambition
BBC director general Mark Thompson has a personal ambition to see an entire channel move to Media CityUK in Salford.
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NewsBBC Comedy faces up to cutbacks despite successful year
The BBC will have to drop some of its comedy hits from last year because of budget cuts, the corporation’s comedy commissioning controller has admitted.
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NewsHare-brained idea wins BBC1 Saturday night slot
BBC1 has ordered a Saturday evening entertainment show featuring an animatronic hare and narrated by award-winning comedian Miranda Hart.
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NewsBBC3 parenting season to probe childbirth choices
The choices and dilemmas involved in parenting, from planning the birth through to breastfeeding and ethical issues, will be examined in a new BBC3 season, Bringing Up Britain.
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NewsBBC dodges flak on World Service
The government is facing a major political backlash over dramatic cuts to the World Service after the BBC placed the blame firmly at its door.
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NewsStreet to cut services for BBC1 doc
One street in Preston is to be used to show the effects of government cuts to public services in a new documentary for BBC1.
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NewsLambing Live and Bake Off returning to BBC2
Lambing Live, The Great British Bake Off and Great Ormond Street Hospital will all return to BBC2 in primetime slots this year.
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NewsWorld Service can't be immune from cuts, Hague
The BBC World Service has a “viable and promising future” but cannot be immune from spending cuts, William Hague told MPs today as the corporation confirmed it will axe 650 jobs.
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NewsNUJ protest against World Service cuts
NUJ members of the World Service are staging a protest outside Bush House today over 650 job cuts at the BBC department.
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NewsGruffalo gets Oscar nod
An animated adaptation of children’s book The Gruffalo, shown on BBC1, has been nominated for the best animated short at the Academy Awards.
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NewsWorld Service to cut 650 posts
BBC World Service is to shed more than a quarter of its roles and is closing five country services, as it attempts to find £67m of savings.
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NewsRev and This is England triumph at South Bank Awards
Rev and This is England ’86 scooped top prizes at the South Bank Awards.
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NewsMatt Baker confirmed as One Show host
Countryfile host Matt Baker has finally been confirmed as the new host of BBC1’s The One Show.
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NewsUnfinished Dickens to get new ending for TV
Charles Dickens’ great unfinished work Edwin Drood is to be given a new ending in a major BBC adaptation.
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NewsUnions condemn BBC Online job cuts
Broadcasting and journalism unions have criticised plans by the BBC to cut up to 360 jobs from its Online division as “showing contempt” for its staff.
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NewsRadio 4 shakes-up commissioning
BBC Radio 4 has unveiled two new strands and a shake-up of its commissioning process.
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NewsBBC Online to cut 360 jobs
Up to 360 jobs are to be cut at BBC Online, as a result of its plan to reduce operations by 25%.
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NewsBBC apologises for QI Hiroshima joke
The BBC has apologised to Japanese viewers after the country’s embassy complained to the corporation over jokes broadcast on quiz show QI.
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NewsMPs to grill prospective BBC Trust chair
The prospective chairman of the BBC Trust will face a grilling from MPs before taking the job.