martin and daphne chapman describing themselves as loyal bbc viewers, e—mailed us, saying...se are not the first cuts to regional services. steve contacted us last summer after hearing that local news updates during the breakfast programme had been suspended because of the impact of covid. his response: to discuss this, i'm joined by the bbc�*s director of nations. he is responsible for local or national output across the uk. thanks so much for coming on newswatch. let's start with the regional news bulletin. do you except that if you live somewhere you might be forgiven for thinking, what is news in norwich got to do with me? if you live in that area, you are already receiving a lot during the day from norwich, a very established connection over many years, but i do accept there is a real concern. it is not driven by savings. the changes are really about keeping pace with our audiences. many, many of our audiences are moving digitally, moving online, and we need to keep pace with that. and that does mean that we have to make some targeted reductions in our live broadcast ser

martin and daphne chapman from bishop's stortford, describing themselves as loyal bbcers where possibleuld be forgiven for thinking, what's news in norwich got to do with me? well, if you live in that area, you're already receiving a lot of your television bulletins during the day from norwich, there's been a very established connection between norwich and cambridge over many, many years, but i do accept there's a real concern, and it's not driven by savings. the changes that we've announced are really about keeping pace with our audiences. many, many of our audiences are moving digitally, moving online, and we need to keep pace with that, and that does mean that we have to make some targeted reductions in our live broadcast services. you talk about targeted reductions. you, therefore, do acknowledge that some people will get a less tailored news service on television. well, we've proposed two changes. one brings together our services across oxfordshire with a service that we already deliver from southampton, and the other for look east brings together the cambridge and norwich programm