BBC to axe regional news says the Sunday Express

The Sunday Express is reporting that the BBC is about to axe regional news services.

REGIONAL television news programmes look set to become the victims of the latest huge cost-cutting exercise at the BBC. says the paper

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"The BBC is already on course to shed 3,800 jobs by March next year, but it is now expected a further 5,000 posts will be slashed – thanks in part to a £2.2billion cut in expected licence fee income.Last night a senior BBC source complained: “We have cut away the fat and now they are slashing through the muscle and down to the bone.“The family silver is being sold off to try to shore us up, but the cuts are so severe that major sections of the organisation – including local television news – are under threat.”