this time, a tune with a rather painful relevance for the bbc at the moment. but actually it's worth more, if corporation tax is a bit higher, i and this is the point i think that the government's - going to try and make when it talks about success. - the government might try and do something quite radical on this. there's certainly been pressure to say actually, right, write these extra costs off in the year the investment is made. not easy discussing the finer points of corporation tax while the match of the day theme tune is blaring out behind you, and alison beaumont considered it very much not worth the effort: the budget was preceded as usual by days of previews, leaks and educated guesses as to what might be in it,

including on tuesday's news at ten. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, is expected to announce measures to encourage more people, including younger parents, back to work. in england, the current 30 hours of free child care for three— and four—year—olds will be extended it's thought to one— and two—year—olds in what's been called the centrepiece of the budget. for ted, it was all too much, too soon. he wrote: if the budget is one staple of the news calendar, so, too, the oscars. at this year's ceremony on sunday night, there was no such drama

as last year's infamous slap by will smith. but the awards still received plenty of attention across bbc news, including on monday's news at one. now, the sci—fi epic everything everywhere all at once was the big winner at the oscars in los angeles with seven awards, including best director and best picture. again, the charge of �*not news�* was levelled byjohn stokes, who asked: many people will have been affected this week by industrial action, with hundreds of thousands of workers going on strike, including teachers, nurses, junior doctors, civil servants and rail workers. wednesday saw the most disruption. but if you wanted to hear about the effect this was having in your area by listening to bbc local radio or watching bbc regional news bulletins on tv, you might have struggled. the reason?

some of the staff on those services were also on a 24—hour strike over the corporation's plans to cut local radio budgets, increase the sharing of programmes across different stations and move more resources to online content. as a result, many radio stations broadcast reduced, prerecorded or syndicated programming. and those switching on bbc one in almost all of the english regions at 6:30pm on wednesday, expecting a local news bulletin, instead saw this. now on bbc one, a change to the schedule. we're unable to show your regional news due to industrial action. instead, garden rescue. the garden rescue team are on a mission. look at that! some viewers didn't hear that announcement, and so were confused about the absence of regional news bulletins. others were more concerned about the absence, apart from a mention on the website of bbc coverage of the strike action

by its own staff. someone tweeting as �*mr apple�* asked: and joan phillips wondered: although we have discussed before on this programme the changes the bbc is making, we asked again for someone to interview on this subject and on the strike action. we were told no—one was available and given this statement:

do let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering on this programme or on any aspect of bbc news. details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. now for some of your other comments this week. 1.5 weeks on from that tweet about the government's refugee policy posted by gary lineker, the shockwaves are still being felt around broadcasting house. and while the rights or wrongs of a sports presenter�*s

social media activity don't fall into the territory of a programme called newswatch, the priority given to discussing it on news outlets certainly does. again, this week, we had complaints after bbc one�*s evening bulletins led on the story last friday, saturday and sunday, and the news at one did so on monday. good evening. gary lineker has been pulled by the bbc from presenting match of the day following his tweets criticising the government's latest immigration policy. good afternoon. the bbc has apologised to viewers after severe disruption to its sports programming. it follows the corporation's decision to force gary lineker to step back from presenting match of the day. the bbc's sports programming is hit again— in the fallout over _ gary lineker and impartiality. can't say anything at the moment, sorry. no comment from the presenter today as the government says . the bbc's credibility is on the line. - today at one, gary lineker back on air as the bbc

resolves its dispute with him over what he says on social media. all of that prompted jacquie douglas to e—mail on saturday: that was echoed on monday by colin boon: and john silcock added: there was another storm about comments made by another bbc presenter too, the comments fiona bruce made on last week's question time about boris johnson's father.

he was a wife—beater, stanleyjohnson, on record. ok, let me just...let me just intervene. i'm not disputing what you're saying, but just so everyone knows what this is referring to... so stanleyjohnson's wife spoke to a journalist, tom bower, and she said that stanleyjohnson had broken her nose and she had ended up in hospital as a result. stanleyjohnson has not commented publicly on that. friends of his have said it did happen. it was a one—off. yes, but it did happen. anyway... that reference to the incident being described as a �*one—off�* infuriated merlin reader: and samantha bush said: the following day, the bbc issued a statement backing fiona bruce. it read:

on monday, fiona bruce said she would step back from her role as an ambassador for the domestic violence charity refuge, saying that her words had been mischaracterised in a social media storm. and there was some sympathy for her, including from deborah mckenzie, who wrote: thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share

your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail newswatch@bbc. co. uk or you can find us on twitter, @newswatchbbc. you can call us on 3700106676, and do have a look at our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. the weekend is getting off to a mild start. we will certainly stick with those mild conditions throughout saturday. there will be some spells of sunshine, but there will also be some pretty heavy and thundery showers around. for sunday, perhaps a little cooler for some of us and a little drier for a time as well. now, on the earlier satellite picture, we can see various clumps of cloud. the cloud has been bringing some showery rain in places and all of that cloud

and those showers rotating around an area of low pressure, which will be dominating the scene for saturday. and this little frontal system wriggling its way up from the south, well, that will bring a pulse of more persistent rain up across southeast england and into east anglia. also, this band of rain swinging across northern ireland and into the western side of scotland in between some spells of sunshine. but some showers will pop up, some of which will be heavy and possibly thundery. turning a little bit brighter through the afternoon across parts of southeast england and eventually east anglia. it's going to be mild again, 15, maybe 16 degrees, a little bit brighter in northern ireland through the afternoon as this band of rain progresses into scotland. in fact, some quite heavy rain across the far north of the mainland into orkney. although shetland should hold on to some sunshine. the rain will arrive across shetland as we head into saturday night. elsewhere, this band of cloud and some spots of rain pushing southeastwards, a bit of mist and murk around here and there. but most places by sunday morning will be dry and clear and a little bit chillier. there could be very locally

just a touch of frost to start sunday, because sunday will bring this ridge of high pressure, quite a transient feature. but it brings us a window of drier and brighter weather. a little bit of low cloud and mist around first thing, but then some good spells of sunshine. northern ireland, though, will cloud over through the morning. some rain getting in here during the afternoon. that rain perhaps just getting into the far southwest of scotland by the end of the day. still mild, maybe not quite as mild. 8 to 13 degrees covers it for most of us. and then into the new week, that ridge of high pressure clears off into the near continent and is replaced by frontal systems running in from the atlantic, and that will bring bouts of heavy rain, some quite strong winds at times. but throughout, it is set to stay mild. it mayjust get a little cooler in the north for the end of the week.

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