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BECTU is urging ITV plc and fellow union, the NUJ, to resolve their differences over the company’s current proposals for redundancy pay.

BECTU has registered a dispute with Ulster TV over its proposed redundancy programme.

BECTU has condemned the decision by ITV Granada to close the Factual Department in Manchester.

BBC Director General Mark Thompson will be the keynote speaker at a debate organised by entertainment unions on 21 October 2008.

Today’s announcement signals ITV’s decision to move to ‘regional’ rather than local news.

BECTU has accused Ofcom and ITV of betraying regional audiences after the regulator gave the go-ahead to massive cuts in services.

BECTU has urged ITV to reconnect to public service and to reclaim its reputation for good quality programmes.

This week’s leak suggesting that Ofcom favours the retention of the Border licence has prompted an open letter to ITV’s Michael Jermey.

ITV could get the OK to cut £40million from regional news and the BBC still faces “top-slicing” says a leak to the Guardian today.

Border TV’s campaign to save its flagship programme, Lookaround, prompted 13,000 people to write to Ofcom.

The campaign by Border TV staff to save their much-loved local news programme arrives in London today.

BECTU is strongly critical of ITV’s revised proposal for Regional News which is published today.

BECTU officials are to brief the union’s parliamentary group on the current threat to ITV regional news on 26 March.