Jowell axes BBC governors
Press Review 3 March 2005
The BBC's board of governors is to be scrapped, Tessa Jowell said yesterday.
Jowell to overhaul BBC governance
Press Review 2 March 2005
Tessa Jowell will today set out the government's plans for the future of the BBC.
BBC faces governance shake-up
News Article 2 March 2005
Tessa Jowell has outlined plans for an overhaul of the way in which the BBC is governed.
Tories slam BBC over miners' film
Press Review 28 February 2005
The Conservatives have attacked a forthcoming BBC film about the 1984-85 miners' strike as "wholly partial and one-sided" and called for it to be dropped from the schedule.
Tories attack BBC miners' strike drama
News Article 27 February 2005
A BBC drama on the 1984 miners' strike should not be screened in the run up to the general election, the Conservatives said.
BBC to keep all licence fee cash
Press Review 25 February 2005
The green paper on the future of the BBC will not propose that some licence fee cash is given to other broadcasters.
Sports minister calls for FA rethink on match timing
News Article 21 February 2005
Sports minister Richard Caborn has said the Football Association needs to look again at the timing of football matches following Saturday's hooliganism.
Livingstone probes Daily Mail 'Nazi' bash
Press Review 21 February 2005
Ken Livingstone will delve back into his continuing row with Associated Newspapers today by highlighting published claims that staff at the company dressed up as Hitler and Nazi members at a fancy dress party.
BBC blueprint delayed
Press Review 18 February 2005
The row between culture secretary Tessa Jowell and Downing Street adviser Lord Birt has put back publication of the government's green paper on the future of the BBC.
Birt at odds with Jowell over BBC reform
Press Review 17 February 2005
Key Downing Street adviser Lord Birt has backed plans to break up the BBC's board of governors and disperse licence fee cash around other public service broadcasters.
BBC sets out current affairs plans
Press Review 16 February 2005
BBC One has announced a substantial increase in current affairs coverage, including doubling the number of prime-time Panorama specials.
Livingstone: I won't say sorry
News Article 15 February 2005
Ken Livingstone has said he will not "buy off media pressure" by apologising for his concentration camp jibe at a Jewish reporter.
TV porn ban denied
Press Review 14 February 2005
The government has conceded defeat in its bid to ban an Italian satellite porn channel from broadcasting in Britain.
Campbell in headlines over four-letter tirade
Press Review 9 February 2005
Many papers have picked up on the news that Alastair Campbell sent an abusive email to the BBC in error via his Blackberry hand-held email device.
Tories refuse to withdraw legal threat to Times
Press Review 9 February 2005
The Conservatives have reiterated their determination to sue the Times for libel over an article which claimed that Lynton Crosby, the party's campaign director, said the Tories could not win the next general election.
