Strike action brews over plan to close BBC News channel
by Tara Conlan from on (#635Y6)
Exclusive: TUC tells director general merging UK-focused channel with BBC World News would damage democracy
The BBC's centenary celebrations season could be hit by strike action from corporation journalists concerned about plans to close the BBC News channel.
Scrutiny has intensified over the proposal announced earlier this year to merge the UK rolling news TV channel and its global commercial stablemate BBC World News into a new, combined service called BBC News.
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