Posts Tagged ‘bbc’
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Children’s programmes will no longer be shown on BBC One and Two following the digital switchover, the BBC Trust has confirmed.

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AUDIO: Children’s shows leave BBC One
Tags: bbc, Children, digital, digital-switchover, following-the-digital, shown-on-bbc, trust
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
BBC children’s programmes over seven decades.

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In pictures: Children’s TV shows on the BBC
Tags: bbc, Children, programmes-over
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
BBC Breakfast Presenter Bill Turnbull appears in rapper Professor Green’s new music video, Remedy.

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VIDEO: Professor Green and presenter battle
Tags: bbc, breakfast, breakfast-presenter, green, new-music, professor, professor-green, turnbull, Video
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The BBC Trust confirms children’s shows will no longer be shown on BBC One and BBC Two after digital switchover.

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Children’s shows to leave BBC One
Tags: after-digital, bbc, Children, confirms-children, shown-on-bbc, trust
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The BBC’s Gareth Mitchell discusses whether it is possible to be addicted to social networks like Facebook with psychologist Dr Cecilie Andreassen.

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AUDIO: Could you be a Facebook ‘addict’?
Tags: bbc, book, cia, discusses-whether, Facebook, gareth-mitchell, psychologist, social-networks
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
A helicopter that ditched in the North Sea on Thursday had suffered a main gearbox oil leak, BBC Scotland understands.

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Ditched helicopter ‘had oil leak’
Tags: bbc, leak, mai, main-gearbox, north, Oil, thursday
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Eivind Rindal told the BBC how he desperately tried to escape Anders Breivik’s shooting spree on the Norwegian island of Utoeya in a rowing boat, only to be shot at as he fled.

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VIDEO: Utoeya survivor tells his story
Tags: bbc, cap, eivind-rindal, norwegian, old, rindal, rowing-boat, shooting, shooting-spree, shot, told-the-bbc, utoeya
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
The renowned British economic historian Niall Ferguson is to present the BBC’s 2012 Reith Lectures, in a series titled ‘The Rule of Law and its Enemies’.

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BBC names 2012 Reith Lecturer
Tags: bbc, british, economic, economic historian, enemies, Law, niall-ferguson, present-the-bbc, reith, reith-lectures, series-titled
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Major UK-based firms cut secret deals with authorities in Luxembourg to avoid paying millions in corporate tax in Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation finds.

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UK companies cut secret tax deals
Tags: ama, avoid-paying, bbc, britain, corporate, corporate-tax, cut, dea, firms-cut, investigation, luxembourg, panorama, secret-deals, Tax
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar ‘beaming’ works, allowing a kind of ‘physical’ interaction at a distance.

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VIDEO: How to ‘beam’ a robot avatar
Tags: action, bbc, exclusive-demonstration, robot-avatar, Technology
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Prince Charles presents a special weather forecast during a visit to BBC Scotland’s headquarters in Glasgow.

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VIDEO: Prince Charles presents the weather
Tags: art, bbc, charles, cia, forecast, forecast-during, prince-charles, special-weather, weather
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
The BBC learns that the Western Health trust is to carry out a formal review of the treatment and care of a baby who died from pseudomonas.

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Inquiry into care of tragic baby
Tags: bbc, carry-out, formal-review, Health, the-treatment, treatment, west, western, western-health
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet has travelled with UN observers to the devastated city of Homs, which has been at the centre of the heaviest fighting since the uprising began in Syria 14 months ago.

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VIDEO: Inside Syria’s ‘ghost town’
Tags: bbc, fight, heaviest, since-the-uprising, syria, the-devastated, the-uprising, Travel, uprising
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Johnny Depp talks to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba at the premiere of his new film, Dark Shadows.

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VIDEO: Depp takes on vampire genre
Tags: bbc, film, his-new, johnny-depp, mzimba, premiere, talk, the-premiere
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
The unusual sight of humpback whales intervening in a killer whale hunt has been caught on camera by a BBC/National Geographic film crew.

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Humpbacks intervene in whale hunt
Tags: bbc, been-caught, caught-on-camera, film, geographic, humpback-whales, kill, killer-whale, national-geographic, unusual-sight
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