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BBC Newsnight to be cut to 30 minutes in £500m savings plan

Corporation sets out to save £500m as they enter ‘next phase’ of digital transformation

Newsnight to be cut to 30-minute show as part of BBC’s £500m savings plan

The long-running nightly current affairs show on BBC Two will continue to air every weeknight.

PM praises Sir Elton John’s contribution to fight against HIV

Sir Elton is expected to visit Parliament on Wednesday.

Preacher convicted of fraud over bogus Covid cure loses appeal

Climate Wiseman was found guilty after selling ‘plague protection oil’ to his followers.

BBC presenter says ‘overwhelmingly white’ workplace affects his mental health

Nihal Arthanayake told a journalism diversity conference in Salford: ‘It’s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people’

Sunak defends decision to scrap meeting with ‘grandstanding’ Greek PM

A diplomatic row between the UK and Greece was triggered by Rishi Sunak’s snub to Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Emirati-designated COP28 leader forcefully denies report UAE wanted to seek oil deals in summit

The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has forcefully denied a report alleging his nation planned to use the summit to strike oil and gas deal, a day before the summit was due to being

Ex-Scottish Labour leader wonders if he did enough to help at Clutha crash site

Jim Murphy, a former Scottish Secretary, helped people in the pub after a helicopter crashed on November 29 2013.

Acting chair urges nation to ‘believe in’ BBC as it faces difficult choices

She will appear at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference on Wednesday.

Mother of British-Israeli man Noam Sagi freed by Hamas

His 75-year-old mother Ada was taken from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz near the border with Gaza on October 7.

National Grid to pay people to use less energy amid cold snap

Electricity suppliers will pay up to 1.4m households and businesses to limit their electricity usage on Wednesday in an effort to avoid blackouts, as freezing temperatures are expected to cause a spike in electricity demand.]]>