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this will mean 139 fewer roles in audio teams, though the bbc says there will be additional posts created in investigative and digital journalism. the plans have gone down badly, with the culture minister saying the government is disappointed and the national union ofjournalists describing them as the biggest threat ever to local radio. listeners also expressed their concern, with lynn mcadam writing, well, the bbc�*s director of nations spoke to us injuly about cuts to local television news, and he joins us again to discuss these plans for local radio. greater sharing across regio...

2 million people in this country who are on a variable rate mortgage who will immediately see the impact of that 0.75% rise we have had today. the biggest since the '80s or '90s depending on who you believe. and for somebody with the average size mortgage, just from today's rise, but of course, that's the eighth rise we have had in succession from the bank of england. there's more pain to come for around 2 million people you roll off their mortgage fixed rates next year. they might see an even bigger rise because they're on a really low rate now and it'll probably be higher than it i...

the channel to england so far this year. that's according to uk government figures. lucy williamson has been speaking to people in albania, france and the uk. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers — albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. the journey starts in towns like laknas, now marked by absence. the shuttered houses and empty streets signs of an exodus this year. most were drawn by uk wages ten times higher than here. and each departure makes business in laknas even harder. as the price of crossing to the uk has dropped the suburbs around ti...

and 12 after long years of tory failure, didn't they just show their true colours, yesterday? cheering. their driving ideology — make the rich richer and do nothing for working people. and how one of the world's most streamed performers — bad bunny — has used his fame to draw attention to the issues facing his native puerto rico. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. reports from ukraine say armed soldiers have been going door to door in occupied parts of the country to collect votes for self—styled "referendums" onjoining russia. russian state m...

that tune will be in your head all afternoon! time for a look at the weather. we need it to be fine over birmingham. yes, it's not going to be bathed in sunshine for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games but it is looking dry and timbers easing down from 20 degrees during the course of the ceremony. where we are seeing sunshine today is to the north and north—west of scotland. very limited elsewhere. whilst there is a lot of dry weather around, we have also seen some heavy rain so far today, impacting parts of northern england, into southern scotland, thundery rain through...