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In a shock move that has already caused uproar in the TV industry, and which will see fervent opposition, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State at the UK’s Departm...

That weeks and weeks of rain here in eastern australia have made this area in the blue mountains very unstable. 0ther walking tracks were closed because of flooding and heavy rain, but not this one, and we hear from national parks officials that this particular walking track was inspected in the days before this terrible accident, and was deemed to be safe. so many questions to be answered, but of course, more importantly, the health and well—being of that mother and her son who remain in hosp...

To underline moscow is denials that russian forces tortured and killed civilians in the ukrainian town of bucha. the ukrainian town of bucha. the ukrainian president accuses russia of committing genocide and is preparing to address the un security council as pictures of dead civilians lead to worldwide condemnation. the american rapper, kanye west, whos now known as yay, was booked to headline the coachella music festival which starts next weekend in california, but we have just heard that the 4...

New cars were registered last month, thats down ia per cent on the same month last year. its being blamed on the continuing shortage of microchips necessary for management of engines. more than 100 organisations have withdrawn from the uk 5 first international lgbt+ conference because of the governments handling of proposals to make conversion therapy illegal in england and wales. it emerged last week that the legislation would protect gay and bisexual people, but not apply to transgender men an...

Into atrocities by russian forces. a british father and his nine—year—old son have died after being caught in a landslide while on holiday in australia. bosses at channel 4 say theyre disappointed at the governments decision to privatise the broadcaster. i got these from the shop. i cant have them, a bug get my stomach on. goodbye to dot cotton. tributes to eastenders legend june brown, whos died at the age of 95. the arsenal manager apologises to their fans — its after they were thumped 3...

Begin right now. justham, many thanks again- — the government is pressing ahead with plans to privatise channel 4. the broadcaster, which is currently owned by the government and funded through advertising, said it was disappointed with the decision and suggested significant public interest concerns had not been recognised. the government believes the sale will give the channel more freedom to thrive long term. as weve reported frequently over the past two years, the pandemic caused long waiti...

Media landscape, removing what they consider to be the straitjacket to public ownership will help the channel go forward. they also said that the money the government gets from selling off the channel will be part of a creative dividend that they will use and what they call leveling up the media landscape. of course, love and the point of this governments he policies to try and bring forward places they feel are being left behind across the uk. so feeding into the larger government agenda there....

Channel 4 did say in his e—mail to staff that the broadcaster had put forward proposals to stay public. that was essentially what they wanted to deal will stop there will be concerns about what this means for channel 4 as a broadcaster from people involved in that channel, supporters of the channel, because of course as being part of a public service broadcaster, it does come with certain onus is on channel 4 to commission certain amounts of content that, for example, appears to a younger audi...

Certain amount of content, that appeals to a younger audience, content commissioned from across the uk, and that is something that being in the public sector enables it to do. not necessarily becoming private means all that will go but for a lot of people who enjoyed channel for content, perhaps they feel some channel for content wouldnt be made by a private broadcaster who feel there is streaming giants feel they dont reflect the diversity. there will be concerns in those quarters about what go...

To bring forward places they feel are being left behind across the uk, so that feeding into the larger government agenda. the channel will remain a public service broadcaster, it will, the government says, have a commitment to prime time news like it does at the moment but there certainly will be people who worry about what this will mean for the future of the channel, the future of channel 4, future of the channel, the future of channel4, if future of the channel, the future of channel 4, if it...