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BBC agrees to play short clip of controversial Thatcher ‘funeral’

hasn't been such a big row since Frankie said 'Relax'The BBC has defended its decision to broadcast a short excerpt from the controversial ‘funeral’ gathering planned to mark support for the ideology of Baroness Thatcher, who died this week apparently.

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Posted: Apr 13th, 2013
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BBC to leave television

nothing but interference where the BBC used to beThere was a tinge of sadness among BBC staff this week as the corporation left its traditional home of BBC1 and BBC2 to move to unspecified locations away from the television set which has been its home since the 1950s.

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Posted: Mar 17th, 2013
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Council ban on Good Life remains

Funeral directors have requested family flowers only, but well-wishers who happen to have any old cabbage leaves, unwanted teabags or potato peelings they’re desperate to get rid of, are requested to bring them along to the funeral.

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Posted: Feb 19th, 2013
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Top Gear controversy escalates as ‘deeply inoffensive’ off-air comments revealed

new Stig actually from just outside Acapulco Top Gear have apologised in a written statement signed by all three presenters and producers after supposedly ‘off air’ comments made during the segue from studio broadcasting to feature were transmitted live.

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Posted: Feb 18th, 2013
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Jeremy Paxman to present new series of It’s a Knockout

'Here come the Belgians, but what does that actually mean for you?'In a bid to place the BBC’s ailing light entertainment reputation in ‘safer hands’ the corporation has announced that irritable news anchor Jeremy Paxman will front its new It’s a Knockout programme, assisted by humourless war correspondent Orla Guerin.

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Posted: Feb 17th, 2013
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