News for Cheshire

News for Cheshire is the blog of the campaign to get the BBC news website to provide dedicated news coverage of our county, which it doesn't do. Currently, users of the BBC's news website have to hunt on the pages for Merseyside, Manchester and Staffordshire if they want Cheshire news. Other contributors are welcome, just get in touch if you'd like to write for the campaign.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Misplaced trust

Tell us something we don't already know!

The BBC Trust has acknowledged that Aunty does not do enough for licence-payers outside London. Sadly, we are well aware of this in Cheshire, where our county does not appear on the BBC's website map of England, we have no news page there and we also have no county radio station (plans for BBC Radio Cheshire have now been axed indefinitely).

The campaign will be making official representations to the BBC Trust over these issues. Watch this space...

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

As if to add insult to injury, the BBC has now decided to launch a new morning radio show dedicated to Milton Keynes. Milton bloody Keynes?!

http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2636

I take it this is what they mean when they talk about focusing on areas outside the South East. I've all but given up on getting local news from anything but the weekly paper... !

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