Summary
THE government was under pressure yesterday to rule out plans to end the BBC's 80-year-old existence as the UK-wide institution.
Leaked Whitehall documents revealed the government has considered breaking up the corporation into "separate entities for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland".See the full content of this document
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Ministers Urged to Rule Out Bbc's National Break-Up
The internal memoranda, published in the Sunday Times, also showed that the government is considering a wider role for the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom, bringing the BBC under its jurisdiction. Th...
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