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The head of the BBC's World Service, which is under threat of swingeing cutbacks, spent almost £2000 to fly to the US for just one night to attend a British [...]

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The corporation will also be forced to pick up the cost of the BBC World Service, currently paid by the Foreign Office, and Welsh language channel S4C, [...]

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Less has been said about the implications for the country's 'soft power': the BBC World Service, British Council and intellectual capital. [...]

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Mr Hague told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that the service was of "huge importance" but added: "Can the BBC World Service make itself more [...]

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Sir Richard Dannatt, the former head of the army, has warned the government not to cut the budget of the BBC World Service, which was a "relatively cheap" [...]

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Horrocks also pointed out in his speech that Hague recently said: "The BBC World Service will remain a fundamental importance to this country's presence in [...]

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on BBC resources, but this morning succumbed to demands that it take on the cost of the BBC World Service and the Welsh language channel SC4 from 2015. [...]

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The BBC will also take over the cost of the World Service and Monitoring Service, currently funded by the Foreign Office, and pay the government's contribution to funding the Welsh-language channel S4C. A formal announcement will be [...]

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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has strongly backed the BBC World Service and said MPs should not believe some of the “wild rumours” about its future. He was speaking in the House of Commons following reports it may have to pull out [...]

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The BBC is to have its licence fee frozen for six years and will be forced to foot the £300m annual costs of running the World Service as part of the Coalition Government's squeeze on public spending, it emerged last night. [...]

Production and Persuasion. The Great Wave by Hokusai is a defining image of the power of the sea. How is it emblematic of a changing world driven by imperial ambition and industry? [...]

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WHYS is taking part in an event organised by the BBC World Service Trust and the South Bank Centre which is bringing together several hundred women to discuss why the Millennium Development Goals affecting women are the furthest behind [...]

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Response to BBC World Service 'One Planet' broadcast 3rd October featuring Dr Richard Lindzen Most of this programme is given over to an interview with Dr Richard Lindzen who is clearly an opponent of the scientific consensus. [...]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has insisted he will press ahead with pension reforms despite a gathering momentum of strike action. Oil refineries have been shut for a week, hundreds of petrol stations have run dry and a further day of national strikes is set to begin. Mr Sarkozy says reform is "e [...]

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In preparation for the 50th Anniversary of Nigeria's Independence, acclaimed author and former newspaper columnist, Ogo Ogbata, has been invited to present a history of Nigeria to the BBC World Service, The Strand, London. [...]

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By Press Gazette reporters The National Union of Journalists has condemned the Government's rumoured plans to cut the budget of the BBC World Service from [...]

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Cllr Guy Nicholson is the cabinet member for regeneration and the Olympics at Hackney council and so sits on many of the meetings relating to what the Olympics will mean for the local area. The BBC World Service are tracking people [...]

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Since the FCO is funding the BBC World Service, the Foreign Secretary is fully aware of the WS positive impact on Britain's perception abroad, especially when "Soft Power" is the buzzword of the time. No government-funded body can [...]

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expect the cuts to fall, and Michael will have the very latest on the news that a deal has now been done where in future the cost of the BBC World Service will have to come from the licence fee rather than the Foreign Office budget. [...]