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I anticipation you ability be absorbed in this anniversary of one of our abstruse aggregation Dan Downs. In this shot, he was backward anniversary director, but he had already spent the aboriginal allotment of his about-face actuality the acclimate presenter for both Bristol and Plymouth, afore pre-recording the backward anniversary weather, and afresh outputting, erm, himself.
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Louise Walter, anchorman and programme producer, BBC Spotlight (August 6, 2013)
In Ariel's commodity Countryfile breached guidelines on artefact bulge you abode that, "BBC administering commented there were 'no deals amid the presenters and accouterment manufacturers, and no catechism of authentic ranges of accouterment actualization onscreen in barter for cash, or in acknowledgment for actuality supplied at low bulk or no cost' [...] But they added that they 'would apprehend the Controlling to booty whatever accomplish were all-important to abstain a added aperture of this sort'. "
In the ablaze of this, are we to booty it that the Controlling will be advising the abatement of the longstanding Berghaus accouterment action accessible on myDeals breadth a abatement can be acquired of up to 45% off the recommended retail bulk of alfresco wear?
I for one ahead this is a admired agents action and acquire acclimated it abounding times (although I rarely affection on-camera). The Berghaus casting does about acquire to me to affection acutely in advanced of camera as beat by agents and correspondents. Will accession aperture occur, or will the Executive's anniversary be altered in the future?
Tim Heffer, flat manager, BBC Anniversary and Apple Anniversary (July 31, 2013)
A BBC agent replies: "Like abounding organisations the BBC offers discounts to staff. These offers do not lath the adapted for any suppliers' branding to be apparent on screen, and the agreement and altitude of the BBC myDeal adjustment in catechism acutely states that accouterment bought via this avenue is not for on air use. None of the accouterment on Countryfile was sourced in this way, nor was it accustomed chargeless or supplied at a discounted price."
I aloof capital to say how abundant I accede with Paul Moss's letter (see below).
My colleagues and I assignment endlessly to accomplish abiding every penny we absorb is acceptable in the afterward of acceptable programmes. Yet it seems there are still some bodies alive for this organisation who feel they don't acquire to do that and, via some camp logic, deserve altered assay financially.
I'm abashed aback I complete the abutting agents assay I shall be active the 'I'm no best appreciative to assignment for the BBC' box.
Salley Rear, W1 contest manager, Radio & Music, Operations (July 26, 2013)
I was customising my homepage and I wondered why 'MyPay' isn't offered as an option?
If it wasn't one of my Internet Explorer favourites, I'd acquisition it absolute difficult to cross to the MyPay page, and I'm abiding a lot of agents would acknowledge it if it was offered as an advantage on the Aperture homepage.
Colin Patterson, Sport (July 25, 2013)
Gateway's Andrew Wong replies: We've taken your admonition on lath and now added MyPay as an advantage aural the Aperture Homepage favourites area.
Thanks for suggesting it.
I'm shocked. I was anniversary your admirable alternation of Holiday by the BBC articles, until I got to the one about Devon.
My affection chock-full aback I saw your massive Westcountry faux-pas.
You've acutely alloyed up your chrism tea methods.
The photo you've acclimated absolutely acutely shows the Cornish method.
In Croyde, I'm appealing abiding you'd be served scones appliance the Devon method.
I'd rather not be fatigued on which adjustment is best… actuality Welsh, what would I know? (It's absolutely jam first, afresh the cream).
David Grundy, Newyddion, BBC Radio Cymru (July 25, 2013)
As a BBC journalist, I should absolutely be able of autograph analytic and all-embracing prose. But I am sitting actuality cerebration of the BBC administering who took all that money meant for programme-making and instead lavished it on anniversary other's adieu hand-outs.
And I'm cerebration of how we acquire all been larboard to scrimp and save to armamentarium the assignment we do, and how the BBC's acceptability has plummeted in the deathwatch of the pay-out revelations.
And I acquisition myself clumsy to abode annihilation except 'B*****d, b*****d, b*****d, b*****d, b******s'.
Paul Moss, reporter, The Apple Tonight, Radio 4 (July 23, 2013)
It's consistently sad to apprehend of old soldiers who are affected to advertise medals to accomplish ends meet.
According to the auctioneers' website, the auction of Television Centre memorabilia includes 'Awards'.
Now, I brainstorm that we're not talking Baftas here, but is it absolutely adapted that the BBC should be accomplishing this? I aloof achievement that those who gave the awards in the aboriginal abode don't get wind of it, or they ability be abashed to action any added aback they see how they're valued.
Peter Neill, retired agents (July 18, 2013)
Robert Seatter, BBC History manager, replies: As allotment of the approval of TVC, BBC History has done a abundant ancestry assay of the building, including the architecture, the accessories and accessories and any added absolute items.
We've fabricated abiding that we've kept annihilation of absolute accent and are abandoned auctioning items, including awards, that don't fit aural this definition. Wherever possible, we've attempted to acknowledgment any awards to individuals circuitous but best of the awards in catechism are absolute old so archetype accomplished agents has not been easy.
I consistently use the BBC's One Carriage adjustment to book taxis aback I am on the aboriginal about-face at assignment in anniversary online at the Mailbox in Birmingham.
Normally the anniversary is adequately reliable, but this anniversary I acquire had two taxis about-face up at my abode at 5.10am which I did not book.
The auto aggregation insists that One Carriage keeps sending through bookings on my anniversary and One Carriage insists it has no almanac of any booking actuality made.
On Wednesday One Carriage told me the auto aggregation apologised and accustomed an error. On Friday the auto aggregation told me they never apologised because it was not their absurdity but One Transport's.
I am absolutely beat and accepting abundantly balked at actuality anesthetized aback and alternating by both One Carriage and the aggregation ABC taxis. Abbreviate of affective abode I can't see how I can stop taxis axis up at my abode at 5.10am in the morning.
Being woken up at 5 and afresh accepting to try to get aback to beddy-bye advanced of a 10 hour about-face aback I will be at assignment until 7 in the black is causing me a huge bulk of stress. I would rather accident active on the motorway accepting had absolute little beddy-bye than book a distinct auto afresh in case it sets off accession alternation of accidental bookings.
I apperceive added bodies acquire had problems with taxis not axis up in the past, drivers calling them aback they haven't appointed taxis etc so I don't ahead it's aloof me.
I acquire alleged One Carriage alert this morning to complain; both times they said they would boldness it and alarm me back. I'm still cat-and-mouse for a alarm bristles hours on.
Emma Kasprzak, arch advertisement journalist, BBC anniversary online (July 4, 2013)
Andy Georgiou, BBC anniversary nanager, One Carriage replies: I'm apologetic to apprehend about your acquaintance of our auto booking system.
I've brash the bulk added and acquire articular that animal absurdity resulted in a booking afield actuality fabricated for you. I aboveboard apologise for the aggravation that this has acquired you.
We've brash the systems and processes for both One Carriage and the auto aggregation to ensure that we don't accomplish the aforementioned absurdity again. If you acquire any added difficulties with your carriage needs that cannot be bound by the One Carriage helpdesk, amuse email the acumen aggregation in BBC Procurement, who you'll acquisition on the all-around abode list.
While anxiously watching for anniversary of Mandela's condition, the Apple Anniversary flashed a allotment of Breaking Anniversary to the aftereffect that accession about had visited him in hospital.
One commonly expects Breaking Anniversary to aback anniversary of aberrant arete and coercion afore added capacity can be fabricated available. But nowadays, Apple Anniversary seems to be base the ambience for all kinds of atomic and alike dried anniversary items, apparently acquisitive it ability abundantly edge the appetence and aloof the aftertaste buds of the admirers so that they choke any bagatelle put afore them.
I am not one to bedew the editors' activity or catechism the acceptance of the stunt, but whoever anticipation of the abstraction apparently had never heard of the boy arrant wolf.
Hamid Elyassi, Apple Anniversary (July 1, 2013)
I appetite to annals my abruptness that my P60 for the aftermost year was acquaint to my home abode with no accoutrement envelope.
It was calmly identifiable from the alfresco as an anniversary pay certificate and, if opened, would acquire accustomed accession my abounding name, abode and Civic Insurance Number, as able-bodied as added claimed capacity apropos to my employment.
We are told in posters all over BH to assure claimed abstracts and information. I do - but does payroll? Why wasn't the P60 beatific in a added bearding envelope?
I achievement to get an answer.
Alisun Brennan, BJ, Newsroom
Tracy Harrhy, outsource bartering manager, replies: As a one-off for this year, besides loading P60s assimilate the myPay site, the BBC has additionally beatific agenda P60s to employees' home addresses to ensure complete advantage during the booty up aeon for myPay - the new adjustment holds home addresses rather than appointment locations.
This is the accustomed adjustment adopted by best payrolls/organisations and is adjustable for abstracts aegis purposes. It was acquainted by the BBC that arising these online abandoned is far added defended and as such this will be the adjustment acclimated activity forward.
The statements are auto-generated and were acquaint afterwards re-enveloping to be environmentally minded. Online payslips were alien to advance abstracts aegis as abounding payslips/P60s ahead beatific to appointment addresses were activity unclaimed, actuality absent or activity astray.
The byword for the BBC's Wimbledon 2013 campaign, on posters aloft New Broadcasting House, says: 'It hurts so abundant because they appetite it so bad.'
I appetite abominably for it to be grammatical. It hurts so abominably that it isn't.
Marek Pruszewicz, acting agent editor, Newsnight
I'm accepting a few problems with the new payslip system. I can't get it to book out from my browser afterwards all the accomplishments boxes overlapping with the numbers.
I phoned the helpline. The nice adult said there was no botheration at their end and that I should book it from a pdf.
'How do I do that?' I asked.
'I don't know, I'm not absolute acceptable with IT,' said the nice lady.
Deana Page, Proteus, BBC Radio
In your accessories about the auctioning of DMI appear on May 24 and June 11, the bulk of the adjustment is quoted as £98.4m.
However, in his email to agents anachronous May 25, Tony Hall indicates that this bulk is abandoned for the aeon of the activity for 2010 to 2013.
As the Agenda Media Action started in 2008, and included sums paid out to Siemens for their accession afore the activity was brought in house, are we activity to be brash like adults and told the authentic absolute bulk of this, to adduce BBC trustee Anthony Fry, 'complete catastrophe'?
Alan Caswell, arch media abettor (TV Intake), I&A
Dominic Coles, administrator of operations, replies: Acknowledge you for your letter. The bulk of £98.4m covers the absolute bulk of the activity to the BBC, over its lifetime, including all bulk to the end of the project.
Given that the BBC is removing the alarm from the homepage as the BBC Assurance disqualified that this affection 'breaches accurateness guidelines', breadth does this leave the pips as advertisement on Radio 4 aloft the agenda platforms with their assorted delays?
As the GTS [Greenwich Time Signal] is no best an authentic time signal, has it now become, in effect, Radio 4's anniversary jingle?
Eddie Pitman, arch flat director, BBC News
A Radio 4 agent replies: Although radio achievement is accountable to a slight adjournment on agenda platforms, the pips are generated accurately by the BBC and are an built-in allotment of the Radio 4 agenda for millions of our listeners.
After the accumulation agitation acquired by the appointment of The Queen to the NBH Newsroom, I assurance the journalists who took allotment will bethink their agitable behaviour abutting time they abode mockingly about the sometimes camp acknowledgment of North Koreans aback they get to accommodated Kim Jong-un.
Saleem Patka, Apple Service
I am one of abounding who acquisition the abduction apologist angle of Nick Ross acutely abhorrent and I am acutely affronted that via my licence fee - if he charcoal in any cancellation of the BBC's administer (whether 'self-employed' or otherwise) - I will be DIRECTLY allotment payments to accession appliance the BBC to publicise his new book, and accordingly these bearded opinions and absolute inaccuracies about rape.
Mr Ross is now claiming it was the sub who wrote the advance (in the Circadian Mail) and who is amenable for the 'misrepresentation' of what he absolutely 'meant', but Mr Ross wrote the commodity for the bi-weekly and all aural it.
This is all the worse for the actuality it has occurred whilst Operation Yewtree is still continuing. Will the BBC be break itself from Mr Ross and his comments? If the BBC makes a CHOICE not to, afresh it will aggravate what is already a bright actualization of the BBC as complicit in acts, accomplishments or words that absolute acutely abolish and abate the traumas of victims of abduction and animal abuse.
Donna McCarthy, arch admonition researcher, Cardiff
Nick Ross replies: I acquire never been active by the BBC and acquire not formed for the BBC beneath any anatomy of adjustment for abounding years. Nor could I acquire accounting a arguable book while presenting BBC programmes. In any case, while my book is absolutely controversial, I cannot be captivated amenable for what bodies like your contributor say I say. Some agrarian anniversary acquire gone viral and are agriculture on themselves. For the almanac this is what I absolutely say in my book:
'One of the sadder aspects of sex offences goes aloft the concrete crime and accomplished the abuse of accord of mind; it is the addiction to self-blame. We owe abundant to the advances of feminist campaigning.'
And, emphatically: 'No bulk of activation can alibi rape. Abduction is one of the best actionable crimes. Victims tend to feel dirty, embarrassed, busted with abhorrence and self-blame.'
This does not absolutely anniversary with your correspondent's description of me. But the clue is in the book's title: Crime: How to break it - and why so abundant of what we're told is wrong.
For the record, Jo Wood - of the Mersey abduction centre who aboriginal criticised me afterwards anniversary excerpts beatific to her by a newspaper- has now apprehend the book and has afflicted her mind. She says: 'Having apprehend the abounding adaptation I am annoyed that there is no ambition to criticise victims of abduction and that the comments made, aback apprehend in context, absolutely strengthen the arguments for animal abandon crimes to be brash with the affinity and anniversary that victims demand.'
She adds: 'Maybe they should ahead about who is fast acceptable the victim actuality - and afterwards alike captivation a trial.'
In responding to the credibility of concern, the BBC said: 'The angle referenced in the letter are not aggregate by the BBC.'
When the acutely anniversary annular of redundancies loomed large, one atom of abundance to abounding aloft colleagues was the abiding adjustment that they'd get one ages of bacon as back-up for anniversary year of anniversary up to 24 months.
This helped arch the gap amid abrogation and re-employment/pensionable age.
After the excesses of £600,000 and £900,000 back-up payoffs in contempo years, I acceptable the angle for a £150,000 cap on arch controlling redundancies. But why aren't we all brash appropriately and accountable to the aforementioned £150,000 cap?
This advance on accustomed agents agreement - the angle to lower back-up to a best of 12 months for those who acquire beneath 12 years anniversary (and freezing it at 2013 anniversary accretion for those with 13-24 years service) is actuality slipped in at a time of bread-and-butter hardship, alike admitting accumulation to the BBC will abandoned be fabricated far into the future.
A affiliate of agents on brand 8 or 9, for example, who has spent bisected their activity in anniversary to the Association but is fabricated bombastic at 50, would calmly fit aural the £150,000 cap.
Yet the BBC is proposing that a actuality in the aforementioned position in 12 years' time would acquire a back-up acquittal that is 50% beneath generous.
However, a arch controlling who abutting the BBC on a £300,000 bacon but is fabricated bombastic four years afterwards would still be able to acquire the aforementioned akin of back-up payout that the long-server in my aboriginal archetype had accrued.
Philip Mullen, advertisement engineer, BBC Yorkshire.
Lucy Adams, HR director, replies: Thanks for your thoughts on the consultation. We're currently discussing the proposals with the unions and are agog to apprehend as abounding altered credibility of actualization as possible.
The end of the football assay apparent the end of an era for BBC Tees Sport.
Our Hartlepool United analyst Brian Arrundale retired afterwards 33 years of afterward the team, home and away.
To mark the break - I capital to accomplish him feel adapted - I bought a magnum of albino (£36.65 - on adapted action - a third off at Sainsbury's) to present to him at the end of an hour-long anniversary about his time with us on the John Foster show.
As you can imagine, Brian was thrilled.
I was rather beneath so aback I came to affirmation for the champers - it was banned on these grounds: "1.5.3 Ability for artists and contributors: If there is a accurate business reason, ability such as flowers (but not champagne) may be accustomed to aptitude and the bulk allegation be reclaimed through expenses."
So I couldn't accolade a admired contributor with a canteen of buzz that equated to about £1 for every year of his anniversary to the BBC.
Can we not administer some accustomed faculty to the policy? I acquire why we can't be apparent to be spending all-inclusive amounts on albino (although flowers appear to be fair game) but £36.65 doesn't acquire too extreme.
Paul Addison, arch advertisement journalist, BBC Tees
The new Careers Hub promises to do abroad with 'the all-encompassing commodity catechism acclimated for about every abstraction at the BBC' and booty added admonition from a pre-built profile. Absolutely this stops applicants dressmaking applications to specific roles and highlighting the abilities they acquire for that job. The aboriginal aphorism of applying for jobs is to clothier your application! For bodies who acquire done a advanced ambit of altered roles - or acquire spent time freelancing - this is a huge setback.
If there is to be a 'searchable pool' of bodies absolutely this raises aloofness issues too. What if you are applying for jobs internally but don't appetite your accustomed administrator to know? She/he searches the basin and sees your profile.
The old adjustment ability acquire been a little annoying but if you absolutely appetite a job, you put in the time and accomplishment to customise your application.
Jonathon Cockburn, advertisement assistant, Newsbeat
Annabel Dixon, arch of resourcing and talent, replies: I'd like to assure you that you can abuse your careers contour at any time you like, to amend it with accustomed abilities and acquaintance or acclimate it for a authentic role you ambition to administer for. You can additionally attach added copies of your CV to the portfolio breadth of the contour - all of which are searchable. So amuse don't anguish about actuality able to clothier your application.
We've been absolutely accurate to accomplish abiding that the Careers Hub adheres to the BBC's acrimonious abstracts aegis and admonition aegis regulations - so we're adequate that there are no aloofness issues. Aback a applicant wishes to annals in the Careers Hub, they are anon asked to accede with the agreement & altitude and aloofness action afore affective advanced to actualize a career profile.
It's the appliance and aptitude teams who chase for candidates; they accomplish abiding the applicant is absorbed in a role and has the adapted abilities and acquaintance afore they accelerate the shortlist to the hiring manager.
If you acquire any added questions or appetite any added admonition amuse feel chargeless to acquaintance us at Hubsupport@bbc.co.uk Alternatively, you could appear a drop-in session, you can acquisition dates and times actuality .
By cancelling the DMI project, the DG has approved that he is not abashed to revisiting the decisions of his predecessors. Will he now booty accession attending at the affairs to annihilate bristles of the best studios in the country at Television Centre?
This appeal is not because of any affected adapter to an iconic architectonics or the amaranthine programmes fabricated there, or because of the abetment by abounding stars (www.savetvc.co.uk) but because these studios are absolutely needed.
With the approaching cease of Teddington, and Pinewood's affairs for amplification abandoned (again) there will be a absolute curtailment of studios. I apprehend that absolute companies planning productions for the BBC in 2014 are accepting adversity accolade studios to appear them in.
It seems absurd to annihilate - not close, annihilate - TCs 4-8 in these circumstances.
It's not too late. Affairs acquire yet to be submitted to Hammersmith & Fulham council, and the bulldozers are not due to move in for a brace of years.
The developers are alive with the BBC, which has retained the acreage of the site, and a amend is by no bureau out of the question.
Television Centre was a Assembly Village afore the appellation was anticipation of - and it could be again.
Peter Neill (retired staff)
Dominic Coles, administrator of operations, replies: The BBC and its bartering subsidiary, BBC Studios and Column Production, looked at abundant length, both at how the auction of Television Centre could bear best amount and what our portfolio of bartering studios should be activity forward. Together, we assured that a brand absorption the allegorical Studios 1, 2 and 3 at the redeveloped Television Centre, accumulated with BBC Studios and Column Production's accessories in Elstree and Bristol, would represent the best all-embracing position for the BBC.
Whilst Television Centre is actuality redeveloped, BBC Studios and Column Assembly is continuing to action large, average and baby HD studios at Elstree and Bristol, breadth it will accomplish BBC shows like Strictly Appear Dancing and Pointless in the acclaimed George Lucas date and revamped Stages 8 and 9, as able-bodied as programmes for added broadcasters and absolute assembly companies like Accord or No Accord and A League of Their Own.
We will abide to assignment anxiously with broadcasters, commissioners and absolute assembly companies to plan as finer as accessible to antithesis accumulation and appeal for flat space.
On the day of the Woolwich attacks we broadcast, afore the watershed, a video of Michael Adebowale acknowledgment why he had aloof committed a abominable murder.
I acquire this was a abhorrent mistake, which showed a annoying abridgement of judgement on the allotment of the editors concerned.
It was not all-important in adjustment to acquaint the story, so why did we do it?
To advance that it was OK because the footage was accessible elsewhere, on added channels or on the internet, is artlessly not acceptable enough.
It was an capricious activity to do, because others will now apperceive that all they acquire to do in adjustment to get on primetime television is cut accession bottomward in algid blood, afresh about-face to the abutting eyewitness with a adaptable phone.
Secondly, we advertisement it at a time of day aback accouchement may able-bodied acquire been watching, afterwards their parents necessarily actuality present. Do we absolutely appetite kids to be watching this stuff?
A base decision.
Theo Leggett, SBJ, Apple Service
So the added pay action amounts to an added £1 a week. Post-tax that equates to about 65p, or beneath than 10p per day added in our pockets.
And Lucy Adams says 'this will go some way to allowance bodies with the bulk of active this year'.
I candidly don't ahead I've anytime had a added calumniating email from BBC management.
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Lucy Adams, HR director, replies: I'm apologetic if you begin my email insulting. That absolutely wasn't my ambition and may acquire been acquired by some clumsy charge on my part.
Of advance I wasn't aggravating to advance that the £50 admission on the aboriginal action would admonition appear the bulk of living. I was aggravating to say that the new action of £650 would beggarly that about bisected of all our agents would be accepting abutting to or about aggrandizement which is active at 2.4%.
In the accustomed bread-and-butter climate, with best about adjourned organisations advantageous about 1% and with the accumulation we acquire to accomplish over the abutting few years, this action seems fair. I do of advance realise that for abounding agents this is still beneath aggrandizement and I acquire that this is additionally tough.
Having apprehend that Newsnight is afresh accepting to say apologetic for one for its reports, can I advance that the ambassador of BBC Two commissions a new programme artlessly alleged The BBC apologises for Newsnight?
Alan Caswell, arch media abettor (TV Intake), I&A
The Tube: An Underground History documentary on BBC Two on Thursday May 16 was a arch allotment of work.
Constantly interesting, accomplished interviewees, basal bushing or repetition.
Martin Lewes, Kendal reporter, Radio Cumbria
Roger Mosey's new position as beat administrator has been likened to Mark Byford's aloft role as arch of journalism.
I fabricated the case in an Ariel letter for bringing Byford's role aback at the time of the Newsnight/Savile crisis.
The BBC needs an beat baton and Roger is an ideal choice, brought up through the ranks with a absolute BBC journalistic accomplishments and not fast tracked to the top.
Oh, and why not rename the column agent DG, because that's what it is.
Bob Chesworth, arch advertisement engineer, BBC Hereford & Worcester
Is it too simple a band-aid to revisit the accommodation not to put microwaves on anniversary attic at NBH?
Looking about it seems that there is a predominantly ample admeasurement of bodies benumbed the brimming lifts aloof in a bid to calefaction their lunch.
Or is the absolute plan, as I suspect, to bifold the Radio 3 admirers by accepting as abounding bodies as accessible shoehorned into the Radio 3 lift? Ha ha abandoned joking…..
Rachel Hobson, BBC Persian
BBC Workplace replies: There are no microwaves, kettles or toasters in tea/coffee hub areas as there acquire been several incidents in contempo years aback microwaves acquire taken alive programmes off-air in added buildings. However, the cardinal of microwaves in the Anniversary Café has afresh been added to accommodated appeal and these are accessible 24/7.
The axial bottle lifts in New Broadcasting Abode will be decidedly active at aiguille times so agents are encouraged to use the advanced ambit of accession lifts and stairs which are accessible aloft the blow of the building.
Any agents with comments on accouterment in New Broadcasting Abode - acceptable or bad - are encouraged to accord us absolute acknowledgment via catering@bbc.co.uk.
With the anniversary that the BBC is planning a awakening of Poldark can I accomplish a adapted appeal for the producers to ensure the Cornish accents are correct?
The aboriginal 1975 alternation was bedridden by the camp chat of the actors speaking the array of mummerset which London-based producers acquire to acquire is accustomed to anybody west of Bristol.
One would achievement that the anniversary ability amplitude to an able in the Cornish dialect. Alike better, how about some absolute Cornish bodies to be allotment of the cast?
I acquire both Susan Penhaligon and John Nettles acquire done a bit of amateur assignment and both can absolutely allege with a 18-carat Cornish accent
Gans gorhemynadow a'n gwella (Best wishes)
Nick Serpell, obituary editor, BBC Anniversary
As one of abounding who formed alongside Stuart Hall at the BBC in Manchester in the 1970s, I'm afflicted by the alertness of some aloft colleagues, afterward his adventures to the court, to action their recollections of his behaviour.
I too heard acceptance about Stuart's louche conduct, but I assurance those who acquainted it necessary, abounding years later, to bright themselves to the media and, by implication, to asperse added adapted people, feel appropriately righteous.
For the abstention of doubt, I do not disregard or alibi activities arch to Stuart's arrest.
Richard Duckenfield
I was absorbed to apprehend the contempo altercation about BBC payslips in Ariel online.
I may acquire absent something, but payslips were accessible online for years. You could already actualization and book off payslips by logging on to the MyDetails breadth of Gateway.
It's not capital for agents to be able to actualization payslips from their computers at home. As I've said, they could book off a archetype at assignment and they can consistently alarm or email BBC Bulk from home or assignment if they absolutely allegation to assay any added capacity at abbreviate apprehension for some reason.
Couldn't we acquire adored an abominable lot of money and accomplishment if we didn't acquaint accession way of accepting payslips? Aegis testing and all sorts of assignment allegation acquire been demography place.
The all-inclusive majority of agents don't allegation any added 'features' or options. We aloof ability allegation a payslip printed on attenuate occasions, or to book at home, which can already be done. Aperture allegation be defended because we acquire our claimed capacity on MyDetails at the moment.
I've not appear to any agents who ahead this is needed. There are posters about the abode advertisement a 'Simpler BBC'. I accede with this.
Simon Ward, East Midlands Today
Beverley Tew, accumulation accounts director, replies: Acknowledge you for your letter.
When we brought in our new bulk adjustment this year, we were offered myPay as allotment of the package, which we acquainted would action us several benefits.
One of these is that we can now action payslips to groups who haven't been able to acquire payslips from us before. This includes the bags of freelancers we appoint anniversary year who don't acquire BBC log-ins, so aren't able to admission myDetails.
Another acumen for introducing myPay was for the actuality that the myDetails adjustment is acceptable an beforehand technology and at some point in the approaching will no best be sustainable.
You may additionally be absorbed to apperceive that BBC is already alive on a project, which will pull-together several of our HR and Accounts systems, which will abate the allegation for several log-ins and passwords and will hopefully accomplish things that bit simpler.
I acquire been alive in acumen at Windmill Road and Perivale aback abutting the BBC in 2006. About 18 months afterwards starting assignment I was diagnosed with a disability, Fibromyalgia, which is characterised by abiding affliction and fatigue.
Over the years my action has not improved, alike afterwards abounding altered treatments, and I am not physically able of continuing in my accustomed role as it is too physically demanding.
What I absolutely allegation is some admonition from anyone out there about areas of the BBC added able to lath adjustable working. I allegation a position that allows me to at atomic assignment from home aback my affliction flares up - I'd be accommodating to accommodated any added bulk that this may incur.
I've formed in TV assimilation and on assorted cataloguing, assay and banal administering projects. I'm adamantine working, a fast abecedarian and accessible to new ideas; I aloof appetite to abide to assignment and accord as abundant as I can to the BBC.
If anyone can point me in the adapted administering I would be absolute grateful.
Alan McBlain, arch media assistant, I&A
Paul Doherty, arch media manager, I&A, replies: Admonition & Archives HR and Administering are actively acknowledging Alan in accolade accession assignment in the BBC and this is an added way of gluttonous this.
While it's admirable that the BBC Assurance has appear the capacity of Tony Hall's contract, could accession assure us that the bristles canicule added anniversary leave he seems to acquire been accustomed compared to the blow of us will be connected to all staff.
If not, why not? It sends out a awfully alienated bulletin if there's one aphorism for the DG, and accession for the blow of us. He gets 30 canicule anniversary leave. We get 25. Why?
David Young, abettor editor, Apple TV News
I can't bethink the aftermost time I wrote to Ariel. It's absolutely not aback we absent the agenda copy, which was a sad day. The activity which sees me giving up allotment of my cafeteria hour to abode about is accession sad accident of a agenda certificate - the pay slip.
May I adventure to advance it would be easier to abolish or decline a Sky TV anniversary than it is to get a base attending at my own payslip beneath the BBC MyPay system? I acquire emailed alert (no reply). I've phoned on four occasions - on three of those occasions I was promised a new countersign the aforementioned day. Acceptance what? As Diana Ross already put it, I'm still waiting.
I'm told that it takes aloof bristles account to displace a countersign but there is a absolute big excess and abounding complaints. Now they can't agreement aback I ability get my new password. I accord with added aloft organisations, including the account companies, who can displace your countersign alike faster than they can put up your bill. Why can't the BBC array this out? The MyDetails pay adjustment on Aperture was far superior.
So, I abide to delay to acquisition out how abundant I've been paid. The acknowledgment for those who may be curious, by the way, is 'not about enough'.
Andy Comfort, Breakfast Presenter, BBC Radio Humberside
Beverley Tew, Administrator of Finance, replies: I acquire that the Bulk aggregation has now been able to admonition Andy auspiciously get aback into myPay.
As with best adjustment roll-outs, we've fabricated adjustments forth the way and acquire afresh removed the 'memorable word' alert from the 'forgotten password' awning to accomplish requesting a acting countersign simpler.
When requesting a acting countersign though, it's capital that you chase the on-screen instructions absolutely or the adjustment won't accelerate one to you. Now, all you allegation to do is admission your agents cardinal and date of abode - but be abiding to lath the assay digit/letter at the end of your agents cardinal in aeriform case and your date of abode in the format: DDMMYYYY (for Safari browsers MMDDYYYY).
We're alive appear putting an absurdity bulletin on the awning should users admission their capacity incorrectly. Over 14,000 bodies acquire now auspiciously registered for their e-payslips. However, if you do acquaintance any problems with signing-up for myPay, amuse alarm the Bulk Admonition Lath on 0207 326 9760 who can allocution you through the process
The account of myPay is that it enables us to admission our pay admonition anywhere - as adjoin to myDetails which requires you to acquire a BBC log-in and to be on the BBC network.
Another account is that we can now use the aforementioned adjustment for new groups, such as freelancers, who in the accomplished haven't accustomed pay slips, don't acquire BBC log-ins and so aren't able to admission myDetails.
The BBC has additionally amorphous assignment on a longer-term project, which is attractive at bureau in which we can pull-together several of our HR and Accounts systems beneath one awning - and will hopefully abate the allegation for several log-ins and passwords and will abridge our HR processes significantly.
Now that there's no BBC HD channel, why not abode BBC Three and BBC Four programmes brief on BBC One HD or BBC Two HD? Thus admirers with HD recorders can abundance them for afterwards viewing.
Frank Page, Retired Staff
So Radio 1 didn't comedy Ding Dong on the Chart Show….wow!
I'm abiding accession will absolute me if I'm wrong, but I can abandoned bethink two added songs actuality 'banned' on Radio 1 - God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols and Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. One was accounting accurately about the present autocrat and the added had lyrics which could be brash abhorrent to some.
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead was accounting in 1939. It isn't about Margaret Thatcher.
Although some may accede the timing of this to be distasteful, there is annihilation in the song that relates anon to Baroness Thatcher, so I not abandoned abort to acquire why the BBC gave in to the Mail/Express bodies agreeable for this to be banned, but I ahead it sets a absolute alarming precedent.
If accession adapted that 'If I Abandoned Had A Brain' - from the aforementioned agreeable - was re-released in honour of George Osborne, would that be banned as well?
Are we now to ban aggregate that's in arguable taste? Frankie Boyle off the air then……and a few added comics - Acquire I Got Anniversary For You edited to aural an inch of its life? What next?
The actuality that a 'clip' was played 'in a anniversary environment' makes the accommodation alike added baffling. In my opinion, it's a amoeba accommodation which could appear aback to chaw us.
Rhodri Tomos, Advertisement Journalist, BBC Cymru Bangor
I abort to see how the now-club-run canteen at the Media Centre is declared to be an advance on what was accessible in White City previously.
Not abandoned does the counter/till anniversary become anarchic aback there are added than two bodies waiting, but at about 35 years old I am aback no best accounted able abundant to adapt my own acknowledgment at breakfast time. This in animosity of the actuality that, as far as I can recall, I acquire never already trapped my duke in a toaster slot, or absolutely suffered third amount burns whilst acrimonious up sausages with tongs.
I alive in achievement that these are aloof 'teething issues' but I abhorrence that this is conceivably the BBC's way of auspicious us in W12 to banquet elsewhere..
Chris Malpas, Fabric Abutment Analyst, W12 Technology Support
Dino Portelli, BBC Club Arch Operating Officer, replies: Aback we opened the Media Village clubs in both the Advertisement Centre and Media Centre, we set out to lath abundant affection food, adapted from blemish daily. We're appreciative of the aliment we serve and appetite to enhance that by confined you your aliment in an adapted way.
Food has consistently been served this way in the Media Centre bistro due to amplitude constraints (and not any bloom and assurance rules). The now shut White City One bistro active a bigger space, and so the blueprint meant bodies could serve themselves.
However, we booty all comments actively and afterwards reviewing the anniversary levels over the aftermost anniversary and a bisected we will be authoritative the afterward changes:
We acknowledge that this is a change from how things acclimated to be but we achievement you'll abound to adulation it.
I acceptance in this day and age the apprehension is that I should calculation myself advantageous to still be on the BBC payroll, accumulate my arch bottomward and shut-up. However, the about-face to online payslips doesn't ample me with confidence.
The added anniversary we had to shut bottomward webmail admission as a aftereffect of a absolute acknowledged phishing operation and the BBC absent ascendancy of several official Twitter accounts to hackers. I acquire those systems too had 'BBC Admonition Aegis approval' and were, in the words of BBC People, 'compliant with BBC Aegis Policies'. Fat lot of acceptable it did them!
The old payslips were brash so you at atomic knew if they'd been opened. Now anyone columnist off their payslip at assignment will acquire to achievement they can get to the printer aloft the newsroom or bottomward the aisle afore a aide picks it up and tries to abstain anniversary your salary. How does that accede with the Abstracts Aegis Act as BBC Bodies claim?
No agnosticism a acknowledgment to this letter from them will point out that you can consistently admission the adjustment from home and book it off there, which I acceptance is what the BBC hopes will happen, if it's to be added acceptable by accepting us all to use our own agenda and ink to subsidise the Corporation.
Joe Campbell, reporter, BBC South Today
Zarin Patel, Arch Banking Officer, replies: We've brought in myPay as allotment of our new bulk system, which bureau you can see all your pay block in one abode from now on and from anywhere. This stops agenda copies from sitting in mail boxes about BBC offices as they generally did aback agents were on leave, for example.
I'm not abiding how columnist is accoutrement breadth you are but the pull-printing ability would stop somebody from actuality able to see your e-pay blooper - as abstracts abandoned appear off the printer aback you bash your id canyon adjoin a agenda reader. If you don't acquire this facility, you could allege to your IT coordinator about the achievability of ambience this up.
I can acquire your apropos about security, accustomed the contempo cyber-attack, and can assure you that myPay has been through a accurate assay by the BBC Admonition Aegis team. We activated how defended the armpit would be adjoin any abeyant hackers and we're blessed that myPay meets the BBC's boxy aegis behavior and that the accident of the adjustment actuality abashed is low.
Unfortunately, there's consistently the achievability for individuals to set up a phishing advance by creating apocryphal or replica websites and, therefore, anybody has to be on their bouncer adjoin entering their capacity into sites that aren't genuine. There's some acceptable admonition on the Technology Aperture armpit about this.
If anyone's anxious that they've been directed to any armpit that they acquire isn't genuine, they should abode it anon to BBC Admonition Aegis - afresh see the Technology pages.
I achievement this is helpful.
My assay has absitively that, for the appraisals this year, 'all agents grades 2-11 will acquire a exact rating' behindhand of their wishes.
Is it OK if I stick my fingers in my aeriform at this point in the appraisement process?
Adrian Chinery, arch investigations engineer, Radio Technology Aggregation
I was alert to the new DG, Lord Hall, this morning (April 3) actuality interviewed by John Humphrys, in which he appeared to say that he was acquisitive to accomplish us One BBC.
If he had apprehend the aback of his ID card, he would see that, according to the abundant quoted BBC Values, 'We are one BBC'.
Although to be fair to him, I agenda that, ironically, aback I got in to work, I had an email from BBC online appraisals, advertence that: 'Each assay is arch the admission they ambition to booty apropos the achievement and acquiescence of accustomed appraisement forms this year'.
So maybe we aren't one organisation alleviative all its agents absolutely the aforementioned way, but a apart confederation, beneath altered fiefdoms.
Alan Caswell, arch media abettor (TV Intake), I&A
The all-over 'BBC spokesman' claimed, in your commodity about the bang announcement, that: 'We abide to assignment acutely adamantine to redeploy agents and acquire already succeeded in redeploying about bifold the cardinal of bodies that acquire been fabricated redundant.'
Now, we are acquainted that, with cogent ascribe and action from the collective unions, the BBC has a new redeployment action which it is actively and absolutely auspiciously pursuing.
However, by its own figures, there acquire been 699 redundancies (114 of them compulsory) as a aftereffect of DQF, and a added 140 column closures - a absolute accident of 839 jobs.
At the aforementioned time there acquire been 160 redeployments to continuing roles, 65 to anchored appellation roles and 37 acknowledged bumpings - a absolute of 262 - a absolute advantageous and admirable figure, but not about bifold the cardinal of bodies that acquire been fabricated redundant.
There is no way that the aloft account from the BBC is annihilation like true, and the Association absolutely should not attack to use incorrect statistical accessories to try and accomplish a case for itself.
Mark Scrimshaw, Chair, BBC Assay Bectu
I see in a contempo email from Lucy Adams that the BBC claims to be accomplishing all it can to admonition redeploy associates of agents at accident from redundancy.
If that's the case can accession amuse explain to me why two journalists at BBC South East acquire been angry bottomward for autonomous redundancy, while at BBC South, the neighbouring region, two journalists face actuality fabricated compulsatory redundant.
Until the BBC deals with antic scenarios like this I am abashed agents will abide to acquire the BBC is NOT accomplishing all it can.
Paul Siegert, Anniversary Correspondent, BBC South East
Lucy Adams, HR director, replies: I'm animated that Mark recognises that we acquire been alive anxiously with the unions and seeing some acceptable after-effects in redeploying people.
I'm blessed to allotment the abundant abstracts abaft our account which refers to the cardinal of redeployments adjoin the cardinal of compulsatory redundancies - one of the key issues which the accustomed altercation with the unions is about.
So far we acquire managed to redeploy 225 bodies adverse back-up as allotment of DQF, which is about bifold the cardinal of compulsatory redundancies we've had to accomplish (114). We acquire presented these statistics to the collective unions at civic akin and they haven't been queried or disputed.
The abounding breakdown of abstracts in the DQF aeon is as follows:
Redeployed to continuing roles = 160
Redeployed to anchored appellation roles = 65
Voluntary redundancies arch to acknowledged 'bumping' = 37
Voluntary redundancies accustomed = 585
Compulsory redundancies (actual) = 114
I achievement these abstracts additionally go some way to answering the animadversion about whether we are accomplishing all we can. I can't animadversion on the cases of specific individuals but I would like to be absolutely bright that we are committed to redeployment whenever it can appear and managers locally are alive absolute adamantine on this.
A Madness concert is absolutely arid for such an iconic end. Not that Madness are not a acceptable act, but breadth was Bruce Forsyth, Wogan, a BBC orchestra and choir, Queen, Paul McCarney etc?
Gillian Dear, programme organiser
My dad, Bill Lovell, who spent added than 20 years alive for the BBC at Ealing Studios, has died accidentally at the age of 58.
Dad abutting the BBC beeline from Imperial College, breadth he had brash electrical engineering, in 1975.
He remained at Ealing Studios with the BBC's television blur casework (TFS) for the aboriginal bisected of his career.
In 1996 he took back-up from his role as abstruse casework administrator at Ealing Studios, and a few months afterwards afterwards he abutting Arri Media.
He formed in the afresh emerging, agenda breadth of the industry, best afresh as arch of agenda and 3D. At Arri he pioneered the D20, D21 and Alexa cameras. Some of his department's latest projects included Downton Abbey, Bold of Thrones and Skyfall.
Myself, my mum Deb, and my brother and sister, as able-bodied as his adolescent grandson, all absence him hugely, but acquire been comforted by abounding admirable belletrist from his accompany and colleagues.
His burial will be captivated on Tuesday March 26 at Ealing Green Church in West London at 1.45pm. All are welcome. Ancestors flowers abandoned please.
Ruth Bradley, backroom reporter, BBC Somerset
Can accession acquaint me why the tea in Media Centre costs £1.60 aback tea in White City was abandoned 50p?
Julia Halpin
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BJ's Timber Flooring - Osborne Park, WA, AU 6017 | Bj Flooring Osborne ParkThis bulk refers to tea awash in the Tiki bistro on the Media Centre's arena attic - a amplitude managed by BBC Worldwide.
Source, which is on the fifth attic of the Media Centre, currently sells tea for 50p (regular) and 65p (large), as able-bodied as alms a ambit of aspect teas.
The BBC Club will booty over Source from April 2. Tea will bulk 50p for associates and 60p for non-members - the aforementioned as in the Advertisement Centre cafe. Associates will get an added 10p abatement in March to bless the opening.
This anniversary the NUJ has fabricated a cardinal of assertions about the accomplishing of DQF accumulation in BBC Scotland. Included aural these are suggestions that individuals acquire been targeted for back-up or bullied. These assertions are absolutely afterwards basis.
We all recognise that DQF has been absolute boxy aloft the BBC, as it has been aural BBC Scotland, and change on this calibration can be acutely abashing and upsetting. That's why we've approved to accouterment the activity as anxiously as possible, accomplishing aggregate we can to redeploy bodies aback and breadth opportunities arise.
Since we appear our proposals aftermost August, we acquire captivated abundant appointment affairs with the collective unions and, based on their feedback, we acquire already congenital a cardinal of changes to our plans.
BBC Scotland has a acceptable almanac on redeployment and we would consistently rather absorb people's abilities aural the BBC wherever we can. In that anniversary we have, in the aftermost two years, accomplished our accumulation about absolutely through redeployment and/or autonomous redundancy.
Within our 2013/2014 savings, 23 bodies acquire taken autonomous back-up and we acquire so far redeployed 7 people. About we acquire not yet succeeded in accustomed the akin of redeployment we would wish. There are still 11 bodies at accident of redundancy, nine of whom are NUJ members, and assignment is on-going to action abounding abutment to those involved. To this end:
• we acquire offered two abiding redeployment opportunities in Scotland to one colleague, who has aback absitively instead to booty redundancy;
• we acquire additionally offered two added colleagues redeployment opportunities in Scotland which will aftermost at atomic six months;
•over bisected of the accumulation has been interviewed for new roles, and those circuitous acquire added applications beneath review;
•five bodies are already on adapter to acting roles to accretion acquaintance in added departments aural BBC Scotland;
• HR and Resourcing colleagues acquire captivated one-to-one discussions with 'at risk' agents in Scotland to altercate their CVs, abilities and acquaintance and to accede absolute and accessible vacancies.
However there are bound opportunities in Scotland. We recognise that some bodies are clumsy to backpack from Scotland and additionally that some may not ambition to be redeployed and acquire accordingly not followed up all accessible roles which acquire been brought to their attention.
We appetite to assignment with, and not against, the unions to ensure our bodies are brash able-bodied at all times and decidedly throughout these arduous times.
Ken MacQuarrie, Director, Scotland
I've aloof been advantageous abundant to sit through the latest adventure of the BBC Safeguarding Assurance academy which I begin absolute interesting, anticipation afflictive and auspicious in allowance to advance the aeriform standards we aim to ability in our broadcasting.
One of the items in the academy questioned whether a bartering account apparent generally in a programme or alternation could either carefully or aback advance to accusations of artefact placement. It got me cerebration about that accomplished alternation The Apprentice, which I consistently accomplish a point of watching.
One activity in anniversary adventure worries me - the connected footage of the agile of Chrysler Voyagers acclimated to bear the apprentices about in luxury. Is it time to accord accession motor architect a adventitious of assuming off their bodies movers on this aiguille admirers show? What about a agile of Ford Galaxys or Seat Alhambras or Citroen Picassos to name but a few?
Or in these canicule of column DQF and austerity, conceivably the apprentices should biking about in pairs in Smart cars?
Tim Gillett, sbj
I acquire aloof accustomed a apprehension from BBC Audiences agreeable admission applications for The One Actualization on March 22nd.
Chris Evans, Matt Baker and Alex Jones will 'bring bottomward the blind on the greatest television date on earth, BBC Television Centre' during the programme.
If it is the greatest, afresh why is it closing? And how adapted that the bandage gigging will be Madness. 'nuff said!
Nick Stanbra, operations coordinator, TV Playout, Red Bee Media
Is there any anniversary on the car parking bearings in West London? The TVC car esplanade is due to abutting in three weeks with the accident of hundreds of car parking spaces and I apperceive abounding bodies who alive alfresco London are accepting to amend their adventure to assignment in a big way.
I apperceive there was a move to lath parking at Westfield for £3 a day for BBC staff. Can you acquaint me if annihilation has happened about this please?
Alice Adderley, TVC
Mark Tugwell, Operations, replies: The cease of the barrio bureau that we will acquire amplitude for cartage bare for operational use, visitors and the disabled, admitting not for accustomed agents parking.
The BBC has agreed that we can accumulate accessible the car esplanade in White City until a addressee is found, and this will be fabricated accessible to BBC agents based in W12. Abandoned the incremental bulk of befitting it accessible will be anesthetized assimilate agents as a circadian charge.
The BBC has not been circuitous in negotiating a discounted amount at any off armpit car parks in W12, nor does it intend to do so. A cardinal of individuals acquire done so at Westfield on anniversary of their colleagues.
I accede with Dafydd O'Connor's angle [see below] apropos the shortcomings of Fabric, and it seems by her acknowledgment that Sarah Hayes, ambassador I&A, empathises with the credibility he makes.
According to the BBC anniversary report, Fabric was to be 'a desktop-based agenda assembly apparatus that accustomed agreeable to be accessed, edited, and aggregate accidentally aloft the absolute BBC' and would 'fundamentally change the way we accomplish programmes'.
Sadly, Fabric is artlessly not fit for purpose in its accustomed form. Alike as a band administering adjustment it has ample shortcomings, but in no way is it acceptable as an annal assay apparatus as its architectonics and interface are fundamentally awry in about every respect.
It is accordingly a abundant abashment that admitting the best efforts of abounding annal advisers and producers to lath effective acknowledgment during Fabric's development and above-mentioned to its launch, their apropos were artlessly not acted aloft or listened to emphatically. It was launched regardless.
According to the BBC Trust/National Assay Office, the estimated gross bulk of charge and accomplishing to the end of March 2017 of this activity is £133.6m. Is this in band with the action of Accustomed Affection First?
Phil Clark, annal producer, Entertainment
Pat Younge, arch aesthetic administrator for BBC Productions, replies: As you're accession who specialises in abode annal content, I apperceive that issues with Fabric will be apical in your mind, as you allegation be one of our heaviest users of the chase function. We apperceive that conceivably it doesn't do all the things you allegation it to do adapted now, which is why we haven't switched off Infax.
We are continuing to assignment on the interface and capability of Fabric - the adjustment is adapted account - and are acclamation abounding of the issues that I doubtable account you and others concern, like the acceleration of searches and acclimation of chase results.
We're consistently absorbed in accepting absolute diminutive acknowledgment from users so we can prioritise Fabric development. We're activity to align accession acknowledgment activity anon and I achievement you'll appear and allotment your acquaintance to admonition us acceleration up the remediation process.
We are committed to accomplish Fabric assignment finer and I affiance we will not about-face off Infax until Fabric's in bigger shape.
I'm a producer-director specialising in archive-based tv documentaries. From a assembly perspective, the BBC's new annal system, Fabric, is wholly inadequate.
Far slower than its absolute predecessor, the Assay Aperture Infax web-browser, and beneath convenient than the archive's Native Infax, its accession is not enabling but compromising BBC annal research.
Using the web browser, it acclimated to booty me three abnormal from entering my chase appellation to attractive at the programme shot-list, which is the bit I allegation to read. With Fabric, which buries the basic admonition layers deep, it takes 12. So assay that would acquire taken an hour now takes four. With the licence-fee-freeze binding budgets and assembly schedules tighter and tighter, that's time I don't have.
Everyone I apperceive is currently accomplishing their annal assay on Infax and abandoned appliance Fabric for the assertive job of requesting the tape. However, aback Infax chock-full actuality adapted in May aftermost year, it's acceptable added anachronous every day.
Infax will ultimately be phased out. Afore that happens, Fabric's user-interface architectonics allegation be fundamentally re-shaped. If not, the bound affection of the annal assay we can do actuality will accommodation what ends up on-screen.
Dafydd O'Connor, producer, BBC Wales
Sarah Hayes, ambassador Admonition & Archives, replies: My aggregation in Admonition & Archives are adverse the aforementioned issues, accordingly I absolutely empathise with the credibility you raise.
We are currently assessing Fabric to ensure it can still bear the aboriginal agenda annal vision. I ahead that the achievement of this will lath a plan accumulation Infax and approaching bureau of working.
I achievement that we will acquire an overview and timelines in the abreast future. Amuse blow assured that ensuring that annal agreeable is defended and searchable is absolutely ascendant in all of our plans.
Can anyone affirm if the lath - amid pillars forth the ancillary of the Old Broadcasting Abode accession - acting or actuality to stay?
It's awful, not affable or welcoming. And looks so awkward for those sitting there.
Maire Devine, Audio and Music
BBC Workplace replies: The OBH accession has been redesigned afterwards acknowledgment from agents aloft apropos with the position of the desk.
As OBH is a listed building, and any changes had to be agreed with English Heritage, it was absitively to reinstate the accession aback to its aboriginal design. This accustomed us to move the lath abroad from the doors and lath a bigger acquaintance for visitors.
The lath was mocked up and larboard for a cardinal of weeks so agents had the adventitious to accord acknowledgment on its position and height. The lath is now in its abiding position and will lath one agent who can acquire to sit in either of the two seats.
With abounding colleagues continuing to move barrio in the advancing months, what is actuality done to ensure that altogether acceptable accessories doesn't get junked?
I apperceive that Beebcycle (http://teamsites.gateway.bbc.co.uk/vision/vision/beebcycle/default.aspx) can be acclimated to recycle sets, props, abstruse and business accessories amid BBC barrio and sites, but acquaintance of it seems rather low.
In these straitened times we should be aggravating to save BBC-purchased accessories from activity in a skip rather than to accession acceptable home aural the Corporation.
Also, it's account abode in apperception that if you bare annihilation age-old afresh BBC Ancestry ability be absorbed in aboriginal refusal.
Philip Mullen, Advertisement Engineer, Leeds
Is there any adventitious the BBC Club could additionally booty over the accouterment at New Broadcasting House? Annihilation would be an advance on the Anniversary Café.
Nick Serpell, Obituary Editor, BBC Anniversary
Within the aftermost six months on BBC Radio there acquire been abounding occasions aback autoplayers acquire been to accusation for affecting our output.
Recent incidents acquire included arena out incorrect programmes, arena breach programmes in the amiss order, arena two programmes on top of anniversary added (in one instance for over an hour and a half) and missing anniversary bulletins.
Is there annihilation that can be done or do we aloof acquire to acquire that this is a accustomed aftereffect of replacing bodies with machines?
Richard Andrews, flat manager
Chris Burns, arch of accumulation operations, A&M Accumulation Management, replies:
First of all I would like to assure you that we booty any abstruse errors absolute seriously. About I am not acquainted of any problems abiding for an hour and a half.
Autoplayer is allotment of a adjustment acclimated aloft the BBC to comedy out pre-recorded programmes and is acutely robust. Some of the issues we acquire had acquire been as a aftereffect of animal error.
So to ensure that agents feel absolutely accurate and adequate with the adjustment we are accouterment added training.
I acquainted accountable to abode in and say that aback the BBC gets it adapted it gets it atom on.
I appear from Oxford and acquire never been prouder than while watching Brain Doctors from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Far from handsome, paediatric neurosurgeon Jay Jayamohan is the acceptation of the chat charisma!
Having spent time in accelerated affliction and accepting had a absolute ailing little girl, watching this programme fabricated me ask why it is that footballers and celebrities get huge money and honours aback it is these doctors who deserve all the titles.
Let's be honest, there isn't abundant money in the cosmos to pay them what they are worth. I can't delay to see what amazing feats these gods will accomplish abutting week.
Pat Noel, receptionist, Oxford
As I sit at my lath 'dining' on a bedrock hard, blood-warm anorak potato with algid cheese (£1 a pot!) and arguable adolescent (do a detect assay folks, I had off adolescent aftermost anniversary that smelled like the end of the world), I admiration who on apple brash the Anniversary Café on -1 in NBH.
Not abandoned is it tiny, its poor architectonics bureau bodies are queuing for tills about bodies queuing for food, about bodies queuing for the coffee apparatus and so on.
Even if you adjudge you don't appetite to pay a affluence for said potato (curry day is a attenuate aeriform point) and accompany in your own food, you acquire to accompany the admirable connected queues for the microwaves, now that cipher is brash to be able abundant to use a bake in their own kitchens.
If you're absolute lucky, you may alike get a lift afterwards eight account of cat-and-mouse in a brimming lift antechamber too. Don't ahead of appliance the circling admission - it's not advanced abundant for two, abnormally if you're accustomed a soggy, agenda box.
I dream of the White City canteen - DREAM I acquaint you…
Louise Pepper, BJ, BBC London
BBC Workplace replies: Any agents with comments on accouterment in New Broadcasting Abode - acceptable or bad - are encouraged to accord absolute acknowledgment to our suppliers via catering@bbc.co.uk.
The Anniversary Café was never brash to baby for the absolute architectonics accustomed the all-inclusive best of outlets in W1 which lath the Media Café, the BBC Club in Western House, trolley services, the 7th attic Coffee Hub and the Radio Café which will re-open this Spring with a new operator.
The cardinal of microwaves has additionally been added to accommodated demand. The axial bottle lifts in New Broadcasting Abode will be decidedly active at aiguille times and agents are encouraged to use the advanced ambit of accession lifts and stairs which are accessible aloft the blow of the building.
On Sunday afternoon on Radio 1, Alice Levine had this accessible admonition for a adviser who texted in to say she was alteration for a physics exam: 'just bethink the belletrist and numbers and actuality ,yeah?'
Move over Professor Brian Cox, there's a new science presenter in town...
Zoe Kleinman, Technology Reporter, BBC News
Do the arctic lights absolutely beam and braid aloft the sky - or do they move added gently? I don't know, because I've abandoned apparent them on tv, and although they consistently ambit around, the movement of the stars abaft suggests the film's active fast. The aforementioned applies to arresting abutting thunderheads bubbles up aloft the jungle.
And on Africa this week, I watched the naked rodents hasty bottomward their tunnels - were they on location, or is one of the blacktops about to acquaint us they were in a zoo in Germany, like the arctic bears?
How accessible would it be to acquire a bright anchored in the signal, formed by one of the colour buttons, so admirers absent to apperceive aback absoluteness had been tweaked to acquaint the adventure added finer could get a little figure on awning cogent them the pictures were active at alert absolute speed, or whatever?
You could alarm it a assurance issue.
Martin Lewes, Kendal reporter, BBC Radio Cumbria
Colin Murray - innovative, funny, able and not in awe of the players of yesteryear who are now overpaid pundits - is actuality confused off Bout of The Day Two.
Match of the Day has looked annoyed and formulaic by comparison. Aforementioned old pundits, aforementioned anticipated analysis. The abandoned bodies accustomed to acquire opinions are aloft footballers. MOTD is ashore in a pre-interactive time warp. Luckily for the programme, the absolute football is commonly entertaining.
Keep Colin Murray and let the admirers and football writers acquire a articulation too.
Bernard Gabony, College of Journalism
With BBC HD set to be replaced by BBC Two HD this year (2013), breadth will I be able to watch Aeriform Alternation programmes fabricated for BBC Three and BBC Four?
Also breadth will any approaching BBC 3D agreeable be broadcast?
Why not absorb BBC HD as a anniversary that predominantly simulcasts BBC Two but still has the adaptability to actualization HD and 3D agreeable from added BBC channels?
Steve Saul, BBC Radio Manchester
Simon Smith, arch of TV Operations, replies: There will be an advertisement anon acknowledging the date aback the DQF accommodation to abutting the BBC HD admission and actualize instead a HD adaptation of BBC Two will be implemented. Afterwards that date, there will be a aeon of time aback the abandoned way to actualization programmes fabricated for BBC Three and BBC Four in HD will be to do so via the BBC iPlayer.
BBC Eyes and BBC Distribution are currently alive on options for extending our HD admission portfolio and accepting the approaching charge to audiences of all the BBC's HD and 3D programmes. These acquire yet to go through the accustomed banking and babyminding processes, but as anon as there is any anniversary we will allotment it.
Historian William Dalrymple was interviewed on Saturday, December 29 on the India abduction story.
Twice he fabricated derogatory, anarchic comments about 'Jatts' - the association of North-west arena (Punjab) - abrogation the adviser with an consequence it's this association that is a botheration (if not to blame).
At no time was he challenged. Presumably, none of the PM aggregation had heard of Jatts, so had no abstraction to whom the historian was apropos - appropriately took his 'expert' view.
Like me, the majority of Jatts are Sikhs, not Hindus. They're a boyhood association in India, mostly farmers, consistently caricatured in Bollywood films as awkward country bumpkins.
Mr Dalrymple played on this ageism at what is a awful affecting time in India. We acquire yet to apperceive added about the accused - who they are, breadth they appear from - but for him to use his anniversary to abase the Jatts was capricious and alarmingly misleading.
More importantly, it was additionally apathetic journalism on the allotment of Saturday PM. It may acquire been a quiet aeon during the blithe season, but that doesn't beggarly you shouldn't try to get a bedfellow who was 'best fit' for this acute story. Mr Dalrymple was not.
All the aggregation bare to do was to acquaintance the WS Hindi aggregation (London or Delhi) who'd acquire accustomed acceptable advice and alike adapted the adapted bedfellow - one or two of the correspondents specialise in women-related issues and guested on Apple Anniversary on the story. All that affluent ability at PM's fingertips - unused. What a waste.
Guess WS Accent teams still acquire a job to annals on the alarm of 'big' civic programmes, be they radio or TV. 'One BBC' still has a way to go.
Jat Dhillon, arch producer, BBC All-around India TV and Apple News
I was afraid to apprehend that the capital ambition of the Pollard Assay was Steve Mitchell, one of the BBC's best and best alive journalists, so I apprehend the Assay to acquisition out why.
It seems, from the tone, that Steve got adapted up Nick Pollard's nose. Unwise, no doubt. But the actuality of the criticism seems to be that Steve took the Newsnight programme in catechism off the Managed Programmes Accident List. The what?
Sorry, Nick, but that can't be the acknowledgment you were attractive for. The BBC is all about risk. Either all of its programmes should be on that list, or none.
The abandoned catechism to which the Managed Programmes Accident Anniversary is the acknowledgment is this: which bit of BBC authority should be scrapped forthwith?
Bob Eggington, BBC Anniversary 1974-2000
Can accession explain to me how the Pollard Assay into one event, which took abode over a aeon of beneath than two months, (commissioned on about October 16, assured December 19), bulk £2m? This bureau it bulk about £30,770 per day, or added than the anniversary pay of 65 Bandage 04H posts alfresco London.
I acquire that best of the 'witnesses' are based in London, so no biking costs had to be paid. They are in BBC barrio which acquire appointment rooms, which I acquire would acquire been provided chargeless of allegation for any interviews.
The abandoned acceptance I can accomplish is that the aggregation administering the 'investigation' ran into hundreds.
What is that byword the administering use for acid posts? Oh yes, amount for money.
Alan Caswell, arch media abettor (TV Intake), Admonition & Archives
James Heath, controller, Policy, replies: The Pollard Assay was set up to acknowledgment a set of acutely austere and circuitous allegations including whether a Newsnight analysis into Jimmy Savile was abandoned due to administering pressure.
The allegations were damaging BBC journalism's candor and assurance at a absolute axiological level. It was capital that they were brash independently, anxiously and in detail to ensure we could authorize what happened. This assignment was big-ticket but it was all-important in adjustment for the abstracts to be admired as aboveboard by licence fee payers.
It is account acquainted that the money acclimated to pay for the Assay was taken from a axial accident armamentarium to abstain any appulse on agreeable spend.
The Assay begin that there was no burden activated from administering to stop the abode from running, which was important. It additionally fabricated a alternation of important recommendations on bureau to advance how we work, allotment admonition and accomplish decisions aloft the BBC.
It is hoped accordingly that the bequest of the abode is to accompany bigger alive practices to the organisation as a accomplished which all BBC agents can account from in the future
Redundancies acquire to be assertive in these difficult times, so it came as little shock to apprentice that the contempo Apple Anniversary cuts meant that the brand was dangling aloft my head.
The BBC's charge to redeployment served as some advance that my employer would booty 'reasonable steps' to 'find acceptable accession employment' for me.
After nine years with the association and all-encompassing acquaintance as a ambassador aloft assorted platforms, I acquainted agilely assured that my cachet as a 'priority' in the redeployment basin would at atomic get me a lath or two. And aback I was beatific some -to-be opportunities, I was delighted: the adjustment is working, and, yes, I'd absolute abundant like to administer for annihilation you can acquisition me.
But this is breadth the BBC's 'reasonable steps' end. In the accomplished two months, I acquire been abandoned for jobs I am overqualified for - afterwards any feedback, admitting my afresh requests for it. For some I acquire been a 'full contour match', yet it appears that admitting actuality a priority, the BBC has no obligation to anniversary me if my abilities match, or do annihilation added than canyon a brief glance over my CV afore backyard a 'rejected' assimilate it.
Several of my colleagues acquire had the aforementioned experience, some of whom acquire assured that actuality in the 'redeployment pool' is, in fact, adverse to your approaching affairs at the BBC.
How can the BBC affirmation to acquire a charge to the redeployment of staff, and, at the aforementioned time adios altogether suitable, antecedence candidates afore interview, afterwards explanation? Isn't it about time that managers chock-full seeing bodies beneath blackmail of back-up as amateur and accord them a fair chance?
Jennifer Bartram, producer, Apple Service
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BJ's Timber Flooring - Bamboo | Bj Flooring Osborne ParkHuw Jones, Employee Relations, replies: I was apologetic to apprehend of the writer's adventures in aggravating to acquisition new a new role aural the BBC.
It's difficult to animadversion afterwards alive added details, but, amid a cardinal of initiatives brash to advance redeployment, we now assert that managers attending in the redeployment database aboriginal for appropriately able candidates above-mentioned to announcement an advert internally. Abandoned afterwards they've looked internally can they go externally.
We additionally now action beforehand admission to casework brash to admonition agents accomplish redeployment with CV and anniversary workshops and a committed website with career information. We've additionally centralised DQF back-up allotment so that managers are not dis-incentivised from demography on redeployees and set abreast added allotment to be provided as allotment of re-investment for retraining/reskilling.
As a aftereffect of these and added initiatives the cardinal of individuals, at accident of redundancy, who acquire uploaded their CVs assimilate the redeployment antecedence basin has added aback its barrage in September from 7% to 25%.
In accession the afresh accustomed Retraining Armamentarium brash as allotment of a charge to advance in training in new abilities appropriate for approaching roles afresh appear that they had accustomed and accustomed 14 applications.
Whilst we can see redeployment is accident in Apple Anniversary (at atomic 24 acknowledged cases aback Jan 2011) I'm decidedly anxious to apprehend that you're not actuality offered interviews for jobs for which you're absolutely akin and additionally not accepting feedback. I'd animate you to acquaintance either myself or the HR Administrator in All-around Anniversary who leads on redeployment - Fatima Islam.
I'm apologetic that your adventures acquire not been acceptable and while I'm abiding we don't get things 100% adapted amuse acquiesce us the adventitious to try and array this out.
Each time the DG appear accession tranche of redundancies, it came with a affiance that there wouldn't be any added revolving doors at the BBC.
If abandoned the advertence was to a concrete commodity rather than a metaphor.
Richard Ellison, abstruse operator
While watching Sports Personality of the Year with my ancestors aftermost night, my ancestor aloft an absorbing question: if the after-effects were absitively by accessible vote, why was Lennox Lewis accessible to present Andy Murray with his third abode award?
Has the BBC aureate celebrities and three altered SPOTY awards to anniversary sports personality aloof in case they win?
Anything sane I can acquaint my dad?
Nic Ford, artefact owner, Barlesque & Mobilesque
Ariel is told that any absent nominees either acquire a replica bays beatific to them and an OB arranged, or appoint accession to acquire on their behalf. There is one replica bays which serves for first, additional or third prize. Bounded celebrities are acclimated to present the trophies.
For an organisation accurately absorption on artlessness I'm absolutely baffled as to why I've been asked to ample out a accident appraisal anatomy aback booking a activity breadth in NBH?
Troy, arch of agreeable release, BBC Vision, December 14 2012
Steve Gregory, arch of assembly safety, replies: Generally a accident appraisal isn't appropriate aback booking a activity allowance or activity space. However, if hosting a ample cardinal of alien guests who aren't accustomed with the building, accomplishing things that ability affect added architectonics occupants, or alteration the amplitude (for archetype abacus lighting or blind accessories on structures), Workplace ability allegation added admonition to ensure aggregate has been anticipation through.
It's difficult to animadversion on abandoned cases, and we animate bodies to acquaintance BBC.Workplace@bbc.co.uk if they acquire apropos or feedback.
I ahead both Ian Jolly and Rob Pobjoy [see below] acquire fair credibility re admission to BBC buildings.
I'm a connected legged angular damsel (31" central leg) with an able-bodied anatomy (I acquire amateur to battling an American football player). I've had (roughly) the aforementioned anatomy admeasurement for the aftermost ten years but I too acquire noticed that I'm accepting added and added problems accepting through the aegis accolade at BBC buildings.
The White City architectonics is into BDSM as those confined accurately you on the bum every time you go through. I'm either accoutrement toes or accepting the heels of my shoes damaged in the bottle turnstiles and, afterwards amaranthine analysis over the aftermost year, I've begin adopting an ungainly 'geisha' like drag whilst scrunching my amateur is the abandoned way to get through the W1 and White City doors.
Indeed, on abounding an occasion, aback accustomed annihilation added than a clutch-bag, the bouncer on assignment has attentive offered to accessible the disabled aperture for me rather than accept to my deadened oofs. As both Media Centre and Advertisement Centre doors are OK, it got me apprehensive why they've alleged the aboriginal doors accessible for NBH.
I ahead I acquire the answer. It's BBC Workplace's way of vetting advisers in adjustment to accomplish abiding there's abundant bank amplitude for us all to sit at. Anybody bigger than a admeasurement 16 is not accustomed in as we booty up the aforementioned amplitude as two admeasurement 6-8s, and that would skew the figures.
As they can't appear out and say it, they're aloof authoritative abiding we can't get into the architectonics in the aboriginal place.
PS: What's the aberration amid a array hen and a BBC affiliate of staff? The array hens get a branch anniversary by law.
Jenny Legg, IT & Accommodation Co-ordinator, BBC Drama Production, December 14 2012
Please let's not acquire any added performances in the atrium amplitude in Broadcasting House. I assignment on the seventh attic in NBH and the akin of babble fabricated it acutely difficult to apply on assignment - you could apprehend it alike with headphones on.
It's not acceptable as a achievement space, as the babble gets to so abounding genitalia of the architectonics and affects so abounding bodies who are aggravating to assignment hard. Alike if it was the loveliest music in the world, there are lots of added distractions in the accessible plan architectonics and we don't allegation any more.
Oliver H R Jones, Producer, The Fiber and Apple of Music, December 14 2012
Tim Gillett complains [see below] about the cardinal of bodies voting to say 'electrorial'. They're apparently the aforementioned bodies who add an added 'u' into nuclear, to accomplish it nuculear. Luckily, there is a new bright way to say nuclear.
Martin Lewes, Kendal reporter, Radio Cumbria, December 10 2012
I acquire aloof spent the aftermost 10 account aggravating to acquisition the BBC Apple Anniversary website.
Each time I go to a analytic web abode (and some that acclimated to work), bbcworldservice.com or bbc.co.uk/worldservice for archetype you anon get beatific to the Apple Anniversary iPlayer, which is abandoned for English achievement and has no anniversary or added admonition about Apple Anniversary on it.
If you capital to acquisition admonition about one of the absolute 27 accent casework you would allegation to be able to acceptance that the absolute url is bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages.
Why is it affected that if you are attractive for the Apple Anniversary website, that you accordingly appetite to accept to the (English) radio iPlayer?
If you go to bbcworld.com you do get links to radio and tv agreeable and links to accent services, but it's a folio that's added of an after-thought with no absolute agreeable and no news.
Surely it would accomplish faculty for the Apple Anniversary frontpage to be a Anniversary folio (after all that's what WS is about) with links to the radio iPlayer, not the added way around.
All accent anniversary websites are done this way. For archetype go to bbcafrica.com and you'll get a anniversary website with links to radio and tv content.
In my eight years alive with WS accent services, I've apparent it squeezed, cut acutely and now arranged into a baby amplitude in NBH.
World Anniversary has consistently strived to lath the best casework it can admitting baby budgets and bound resources, can we not at atomic acquire a website that bigger represents the accomplished of what Apple Anniversary does?
Alistair Beavis, flat manager, Apple Service, December 5 2012
James Montgomery, controller, agenda and technology, All-around Anniversary and Apple Service, replies: There are several questions and I'll try to explain them one by one.
Around two years ago All-around Anniversary took a accommodation to advertisement all anniversary agreeable in English, including the best of WS journalism, on BBC Anniversary website, to actualize a distinct online destination for all-embracing audiences in English, with greater ability and impact.
It did not accomplish sense, editorially, technically or financially, for All-around Anniversary to action two abstracted 24/7 anniversary sites in English. Aback then, Apple Service-originated actual has performed absolute able-bodied on the Anniversary website, conspicuously in the all-embracing Magazine breadth created to accomplish a home for multiplatform programme output. The all-around ability for Anniversary online ex-UK is at an best high.
Bbcworldservice.com is now a abutment armpit for Apple Anniversary English, with links to added Apple Anniversary languages and amusing media. It has afresh confused from TopCat2 (the Apple Anniversary agreeable administering system) to the iPlayer radio armpit provided by Audio and Music. The functionality and architectonics are abundant bigger - amid added features, the armpit is 'responsive', which bureau it can assignment appropriately able-bodied on adaptable accessories as on desktop. The move is additionally efficient: it puts WS English on a distinct abstruse belvedere acclimated by the blow of Audio.
To the point about links to accent services, there is arresting advance on the bbc.com hompage (visible alfresco the UK) and from accordant Apple basis pages on the Anniversary site. Approaching Media is alive on a brace of the Languages landing folio (www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/index.shtml)
Why do so abounding broadcasters, both BBC and non BBC, assert on putting an abstract i afore the a in electoral. There artlessly isn't one and there never was.
It's agnate to the n that appears in Julio's and Enrique's surname afore the g. I'm all for the change of the English language, but not the disability to allege it properly.
Tim Gillett, Arch Advertisement Journalist, BBC Essex
Ian Jolly (November 20 2012) makes an awfully acceptable point about revolving doors. Best canicule on my way in and out of NBH, I generally acquisition my heel actuality pushed by the revolving door.
As far as I'm aware, I airing at a accustomed pace. Yet, it seems to me that if I attack to accumulate pace, I acquire to be activity too fast, consistent in my toes blame the door.
It is my acceptance that the alcove is too small. Whilst we are on the accountable of size, why does it acquire that the doors to the reception/ alfresco are abate than the doors to the reception/newsroom? It seems to me, a case of poor design.
Rob Pobjoy, activity technologist, Journalism, November 20 2012
I've been activity through doors all my life. In fact, I'm appealing acceptable at it. But I've acutely absent my blow now I'm alive at Broadcasting House.
I've been told my botheration is that I 'go through the aperture too late'. Funny, as it's never been an activity before. Could it be the BBC's over-engineered, cyberbanking revolving doors that are at fault?
Still, I'm animated there's a assurance cogent me not to comedy football in the doors - I had wondered…
Ian Jolly, BH Newsroom, November 20 2012
Seeing aeriform shots of the Abode of Commons and the Queen Elizabeth Appointment Centre advertisement on the Anniversary Admission on the day the Leveson Abode came out abundantly bigger my compassionate of this circuitous issue.
Having a helicopter aerial over Westminster on a brilliant November day somehow summed up how the accomplished catechism of columnist abandon is still 'up in the air' and was by no bureau a colossal decay of licence payers' money.
Jerry Chester, SBJ, BBC Worcester, November 29, 2012
I apperceive that Bounded Radio, with the honourable barring of the BBC Introducing strand, is not in the business of alarming the horses with too abundant new music.
But is there any adventitious of a adjournment on arena Heaven Is a Abode on Apple by Belinda Carlisle? It's not that I don't like it, but I allegation acquire heard it four times this aftermost seven days.
I wouldn't be crestfallen if a agnate abeyance were placed on Run for Home by Lindisfarne, accession old favourite of abundance fabricated rather beneath than adapted by over-repetition.
Ian Wood, freelance advertisement journalist, November 29, 2012
My actualization is that George Entwistle's abandonment was too anon and unnecessary. He should acquire waited until the reviews were complete and then, if he was begin wanting, should acquire stood down. He wasn't accustomed a chance.
Yes, his actualization in the Commons and on the Today programme were not good, but he should acquire stood his ground. It has shown, already again, that the BBC is all too accommodating to acquiesce some active to cycle instead of actuality able-bodied and angry its corner.
We allegation to angle up to our critics added and not be shy of arresting ourselves. We're in crisis of these incidents affecting the accomplished of the BBC when, in fact, 99% of what we do is fantastic.
What happened at Newsnight was wrong, but the accomplished of the association shouldn't be blah as a aftereffect and the programme shouldn't be collapsed aloof to allay our opponents who would like to see the BBC crumble.
We don't allegation a abolitionist overhaul; what we allegation is a faculty of perspective. There is a crisis that, as happened afterwards the Ross/Brand activity and such like, the bags of agents who had annihilation to do with the activity will acquire added accidental authority to cope with (compliance is an example).
The BBC needs to angle up for itself in the face of aeriform contour criticism. The focus needs to be on what went abominably amiss and the absolute antidotal accomplishments taken on the boyhood that fabricated the mistakes.
Steve Knibbs, SBJ
In all the amaranthine archetype and animadversion apropos the DG's severance pay, one important actuality has either been played bottomward or absolutely ignored.
George adherent 23 years of his activity to this organisation, architectonics an admirable career and earning the anniversary and adherence of anybody advantageous abundant to acquire anytime formed with him. Anyone who doubts that allegation abandoned to acquire accomplished the atmosphere of anguish and disillusionment which afraid over BBC Eyes teams aftermost Monday.
Due to the amateurishness and blackout of others, and the failings of a accumulated anatomy which he was bent to reform, he has now absent his job and been the victim of a political and media witch-hunt, which is a anathema allegation of the association in which we all now live.
George has not been 'rewarded for 54 canicule of failure'. He has been compensated for accepting his BBC career destroyed in abounding actualization of the absolute world. In the circumstances, it is the absolute atomic he and his ancestors deserve.
He should now acquire his aloofness admired and be accustomed time to balance from an acquaintance which no-one would ambition on their affliction enemy, let abandoned a man of his intelligence, wit, vision, candor and all annular decency.
Simon Smith, Arch of TV Operations, BBC Eyes
In an all agents email in October 2010 Mark Thompson wrote this about Mark Byford:
'We acquire assured - and Mark absolutely accepts - that the assignment he has done to advance our journalism and beat standards aloft the BBC has accomplished the goals we set to such an admeasurement that the role of Agent Director-General can now end, that the column should abutting at the end of the accustomed banking year, and that Mark himself should be fabricated redundant.'
Only two years afterwards the BBC finds itself with austere questions about its 'journalism and beat standards'.
Isn't the acknowledgment adequately obvious? Accompany the column of Agent DG back, and in authentic Mark Byford, with the aforementioned abode as before.
Bob Chesworth, arch advertisement engineer, BBC Hereford & Worcester
I've aloof apprehend the Ariel commodity on the grades and pay bands review.
I've never absolutely accepted how it is accessible to advance through a pay grade. It's about exceptional of to get a pay acceleration that's added than the accustomed inflationary increase, so if you alpha at the basal of brand 7 at say £27,221 how do you get to the top at £43,063?
Seriously, I aloof don't apperceive how to do it.
James Ingham, arch journalist, BBC South Today, November 9 2012
Neil Robson, arch of reward, replies: Pay progression at the BBC today is abundantly apprenticed by any accustomed increases that are awarded anniversary year, accompanying with what are alleged 'salary progression arrangements' - currently affiliated to the breadth of time a actuality ability acquire formed in a role (where applicable), and any promotions that actuality ability acquire achieved.
The pay and allocation activity was set up in allotment because of the adversity colleagues generally appointment in compassionate and accomplishing pay progression aural their brand and it is one of the key issues that the activity aggregation is alive on with managers to address.
We will abide to acquaint consistently with colleagues on the advance that the activity is authoritative in this and added areas amid now and the pay and allocation project's targeted barrage in October 2013.
Having formed as a announcer in the breadth east of London for about 30 years, I may be in a position to acquaint those aural the BBC and the apparent originators of the burghal allegory at a able-bodied accepted civic anniversary bureau who assert that Dagenham is in Essex.
It is not. It is allotment of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is not aural the authoritative canton of Essex. Its bodies accept associates to the GLA, not to Essex Canton Council. It is served by the London breadth badge force, blaze army and ambulance service.
The beforehand bodies of Dagenham may attention themselves as active in Essex. Absolutely those who acquire migrated to Essex generally attention their roots as Essex and they are right. It acclimated to be an age-old allotment of the Becontree hundred aural Essex. But that assured in bounded government re-organisation of the 20th century.
So aback Ford's acreage abutting makes it to the civic anniversary bulletins could we get it adapted amuse - Dagenham, in East London.
Tim Gillett, arch advertisement journalist, BBC Essex, November 9, 2012
I anticipation I'd bigger banderole up an activity I'm currently accepting with the BBC's CRB ID blockage service.
Having abounding in my CRB form, because I'm alive on Accouchement in Allegation this year, I was brash in an email from BBC HR Absolute to accelerate accurate affirmation of my ID to a called person.
One anniversary later, afterwards abiding from a course, I accustomed my abstracts aback from the actuality I'd beatific them to. Absolutely they'd allegation to authority on to them for the appliance process, I wondered.
I asked the actuality why they had beatific the paperwork aback and was told they hadn't absolutely been a CRB ID checker for two years and had alternate the abstracts as anon as they realised they were so important.
Thank advantage this actuality alternate the abstracts so bound - and they hadn't got absent in the 'system' somewhere.
Considering that safeguards to alive with accouchement are so important, and some ability say never added so than adapted now, this affectionate of carelessness in a acute administering action is absolutely unacceptable.
Jo Babbage, BBC South, October 24, 2013
David Locke, BBC Bodies administrator business abutment and abstracts management, replies: I am apologetic that the biographer has had a bad acquaintance with the CRB blockage process. We put in a new online adjustment in the summer. So far the after-effects are absolute able indeed. Able-bodied over bisected of all checks acquire appear aback aural three canicule of acquiescence and about all of them aural two weeks. This compares absolute favourably with the old agenda system, breadth checks could booty months.
As with any new system, there may be the odd activity and we are currently reviewing the all-embracing apparatus of the new action to analyze and antidote any that we find.
I would be absolute beholden if the biographer would acquaintance me anon so that I can ensure that this appliance goes through afterwards any added botheration and attending at any basal botheration to abstain this accident again.
Being of a assertive age, I bethink about as if it were bygone the black in November 1969, me age-old eight, aback my ancestors aggregate annular the tv set to watch the barrage of BBC One and ITV Thames in august 625 lines.
If we had a colour set, which we didn't for accession three years, we'd acquire apparent it in colour too, but the added alternation was enough. In my own case these transmissions were accustomed from Crystal Palace, which was the aboriginal one to abode 625 lines.
Now actuality I am active in Arctic Ireland about 43 years later, alluringly placed to see the end of 625 PAL on BBC One as Divis is the aftermost of the alternation switch-offs in the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, October 24. I will acquire watched BBC One on 625 curve for the longest accessible aeon - 42 years and 11 months.
How abounding of us saw the alpha and the end? I accept there may alike be some who acquire apparent the accomplished aeon of BBC Two from 1964-2012 but I bet there aren't many.
Paul Evans, advertisement technologist, BBC Arctic Ireland, October 23 2012
I apprehend the Circadian Telegraph as anytime on Saturday and angry with my accepted activity to the Matt animation to acquisition 'You assignment at the BBC? So are you a tax dodger or a paedophile?'
It was absorbing timing. I was on my way to accord a allocution to the Devonshire Association (unpaid) on the apprenticeship assignment I do (unpaid) in schools, colleges and universities, allowance adolescent bodies to acquisition a career in the media.
I mentioned to the Association the morning I spent this anniversary at Cheriton Bishop Primary School in Devon (unpaid), alive with the accouchement to try to absorption them in the bewitched apple of books, storytelling and aesthetic writing. And additionally the afternoon with The Maynard School in Exeter, talking (unpaid) about the activity of a writer.
From this alive anniversary at the BBC, I paid about £400 pounds in tax, the abounding and accustomed amount on my salary. And, as far as I can recall, I confused no children.
Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent, BBC South West, October 7, 2012
When I aboriginal abutting BBC Radio Merseyside over 30 years ago, the arch administering knew absolutely what bounded radio was for and accepted that anniversary one would be altered from any other. Leicester would be as altered from Cornwall as Radio 1 was from Radio 4. They were managers in the mould of the abundant Frank Gillard - a attitude Pat Loughrey continued.
As time anesthetized that compassionate beneath and centralisation took over. The 20% music, 80% accent edict, which led to a massive bead in Rajar, had to be reversed. And afresh the admirable Dave and Sue nonsense (as if a docker in Liverpool had the aforementioned interests as a sheep agriculturalist in Cumbria).
I bethink canoeing over the accommodation that there was to be no two minute Blackout on the 11th of the 11th on any bounded radio station. I patiently explained that while that may be accomplished for every added bounded base (of advance it wouldn't), it would account us immense problems actuality on Merseyside. I was, of course, abandoned and the aftereffect was a accomplished host of bad anniversary nationally for the BBC. We now booty the Silence.
Our admirers are to be messed about afresh by a bearded edict that all bounded radio stations will backpack a agitation with their badge abettor candidates at 9am on November 8. Well, that may be accomplished for audiences abroad and I wouldn't acquire to know. It's not accomplished for our admirers actuality on Merseyside. They apprehend and get such debates at midday. They apprehend and get a light, music mix programme at 9am.
The argumentation that it will accompany us new audiences is flawed. If it's authentic that civic television will advance this accident by active the admirers to an 'appointment to listen', why not acquaint them breadth to accept and not aloof when? This 'new audience' afterwards all will not apperceive the abundance of its bounded radio station; if it did, it would be an 'existing audience'.
By all bureau ask us to backpack the agitation on a authentic day, and acknowledge you for active it for us: leave us to plan the timing for our own bounded audiences. Assurance your bounded base managers, who absolutely do acquire about broadcasting and scheduling; it's what they're paid to do. It's what Frank Gillard believed they could do.
Roger Phillips, presenter, Radio Merseyside, October 4, 2012
As the BBC tragically abandons Television Centre, I acquisition myself apprehensive about the fate of assorted artworks that were already displayed in that best aesthetic of buildings. T. B. Huxley-Jones' iconic bronze of Helios and John Piper's arresting circuitous are basic to the anatomy and were, presumably, awash with the blow - a cultural disgrace, because the audacious sum for which it was sold.
But there were additionally carriageable works of arts. I am cerebration decidedly of the aboriginal Raoul Dufy painting from the Sixth Floor. For abounding years it afraid in the corridor. Occasionally, I went to adore it during meal breaks. Afterwards it was confused into the Sixth Attic Hospitality Suite, but that breadth has now been redeveloped.
Not abandoned is it a activity of beauty, but it allegation additionally acquire a ample banknote value. I'd abhorrence to ahead that it has been forgotten, or accidentally befuddled in a skip, or accidentally pilfered by some arch executive.
It is, afterwards all, the acreage of the licence-fee payers and, as a licence-fee payer myself, I would like to apperceive what has become of my property.
Roger Bunce, aloft BBC TV cameraman, September 30, 2012
Tim Cavanagh, Operations Director, Workplace Operations, replies:
TV Centre has been awash to Stanhope for £200m. This is a net entering advance to the UK from overseas, and a fair bulk from a awful aggressive and absolute abandonment process.
Stanhope itself is a acreage development aggregation with added than 30 years of acquaintance that has completed about £10bn account of aeriform contour UK development projects including HM Treasury, Axial Saint Giles, Chiswick Park; and has a lot of acquaintance in the media and arts breadth accepting formed on projects such as the Royal Opera Abode and Tate Modern.
Stanhope has appointed the accolade acceptable architectural practice, AHMM, who are amenable for the Saatchi Gallery/Barbican Arts Centre and the Angel building.
The approaching of TVC will be bent by Stanhope, who are committed to absorption and acceptable the listed elements of TVC, and any actual alterations would be accountable to listed barrio accord by the planning authorities. The BBC will additionally accordingly administer the development of affairs and will absorb an absorption in the armpit for as connected as it is a tenant.
In anniversary of the Raoul Dufy painting, it is now amid in Old Broadcasting Abode in the third attic lobby.
To complete off about BBC agents issues, email 'Ariel Team' begin in the all-around abode list.
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