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The snap election that turned into a Labour landslide. Catch up on the UK General Election here.

It’s probably too late to save BBC Local Radio.
Paul Osbourne Paul Osbourne

It’s probably too late to save BBC Local Radio.

“Local stations bind communities together, they’re a platform for the stories that make a town, city or county what it is. They entertain as well as inform, they combat loneliness and they provide comfort.”

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Don’t Cut BBC Local Radio - Axe EastEnders Instead.
Paul Osbourne Paul Osbourne

Don’t Cut BBC Local Radio - Axe EastEnders Instead.

These stations, between them, have more than 5-million listeners a week. Many never listen to any other BBC station. But these stations are to be dismantled without “our BBC” bothering to ask what we think.

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Why is the BBC breaking the news?
Paul Osbourne Paul Osbourne

Why is the BBC breaking the news?

Politicians often forget, when tinkering with the BBC, that it doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us — all of us. But the same is true of the current, transient, generation of BBC leaders.

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