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BBC writes off £100m at online GCSE revision service

Sunday, 28 February 2010

BBC chiefs effectively wrote off nearly £100m of licence-payers' money spent on an online education service after it was axed, and officials decided efforts to recoup the cash by selling off the material "wasn't worth the candle".

BBC staff with private health cover get £200 to use NHS

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Private medical insurance companies are paying corporate client employees up to £200 a night to use the NHS. The bizarre situation has emerged as a response to the escalating costs of private healthcare.

Sport on TV: Curlers simply swept aside as Paula writes her name in snow

Sunday, 28 February 2010

They should call it toe-curling. As if the crawling pace of the play isn't bad enough – and that business of setting up a "guard" so that the next man can just knock it away seems especially absurd; what sort of guard is that? – Great Britain's (or rather Scotland's) women were off kilter from the start and the men, the world champions and favourites, were beaten by a bunch of kids. Swedes 7 Neeps 6.

BBC surrenders to commercial pressure to prune its services

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Corporation responds to critics by promising drastic cuts to website and radio portfolio

Fans rush to defend niche radio stations

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Howls of outrage accompanied news yesterday that the BBC radio station 6 Music was heading for probable oblivion. It may have an audience of fewer than 700,000 but these are passionate people. 6 Music listeners are the type of fans who make endless lists of their favourite gigs or devote weekends to realigning their vast CD collections.

BBC radio stars hit out over 6 Music closure plans

Friday, 26 February 2010

The closure of the station is one of the proposals being put forward in a strategic review of services.

BBC wasted £100m on refit of Broadcasting House offices

Friday, 26 February 2010

Building work at London base, along with Salford and Glasgow sites, will cost £2bn

BBC criticised over handling of building projects

Thursday, 25 February 2010

BBC Trust said corporation's redevelopment of Broadcasting House suffered from significant cost and time overruns.

Panorama report 'breached BBC editorial guidelines'

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Standards Committee partially upheld an appeal over a complaint about BBC1's flagship current affairs show, titled What Next for Craig?

TV presenter Lisa Aziz quits after withdrawing allegations

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Presenter Lisa Aziz is leaving ITV for "personal reasons", it was announced today.

Jeremy Paxman apologises for using F-word on air during Newsnight

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Veteran journalist Jeremy Paxman was forced to apologise after using a swear word during Newsnight.

Ofcom clears Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner over Sharron Davies 'faecal matter' comment

Monday, 22 February 2010

Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner did not fall foul of broadcasting rules by condemning a performance by Sharron Davies as like "faecal matter that won't flush", Ofcom ruled today.

Filming the day when the foreigners left the Fens

Monday, 22 February 2010

So what would happen if you replaced immigrant workers with jobless British ones? Evan Davis reports on an extraordinary experiment

BBC Trust spent £3.2m in move to new office

Monday, 22 February 2010

media The BBC Trust, the watchdog entrusted with getting the best out of the BBC for licence payers, has spent £3.2m on new premises. It signed a £2.2m, eight-year lease for the new headquarters in central London's Great Portland Street, one of the capital's most exclusive addresses. Another £1m was spent on refurbishment. A spokesman for the Trust said: "The Trust's current office in Great Portland Street was chosen on the basis that it offered the best value for money of all the options considered."