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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The the Â鶹Éç has been given a one-year deadline to drastically improve Â鶹Éç One and Â鶹Éç Two, after its "formulaic and derivative" daytime programmes were criticised in what it calls "a damning report" by the Â鶹Éç Trust. Jana Bennett, the director of Â鶹Éç Vision, gives a different interpretation: "The Trust has asked us to build on the strong performances of Â鶹Éç One, Two and Four to deliver even more fresh and new content to our audiences."

Â鶹Éç1 and Â鶹Éç2 are too similar, while Â鶹Éç4 needs to do more to raise its profile. That is the of the Â鶹Éç Trust review of the channels.

The Mark Thompson, the Â鶹Éç director general, has refused to enter new negotiations with the National Union of Journalists, whose members disrupted TV and radio services last week over pension proposals.

it was a relief to have a day without Today because of the NUJ strike. "It was like finding a forgotten fiver in an old coat pocket. On Friday the nation woke up to discover Â鶹Éç radio was full of nice things."

The Countryfile presenter Michaela Strachan was forced to leave the programme because she did not want to report on producing meat, the corporation's head of rural affairs told an industrial tribunal. Andrew Thorman denied claims by Miss Strachan's former colleague Miriam O'Reilly, 53, that she and other presenters were victims of ageism and sexism.

Sir Brian Barder, the former British ambassador to Ethiopia, has criticised the Â鶹Éç over its apology to Band Aid. listeners were misled that 95% of famine relief aid for Ethiopia was diverted to the military:

"It isn't just Band Aid to which the Â鶹Éç owes an apology, but the British government, other donors, charities and ordinary people who gave so generously."

Film-maker Warner Bros is to announce plans to develop a permanent UK studio base, including a visitor centre for its films such as Harry Potter. The Â鶹Éç reports it will be built at Leavesden, in Hertfordshire, where production on all eight Harry Potter films took place.

Ann Widdecombe says she won't quit Strictly Come Dancing like John Sergeant. The asking if she should she stay or go?

The Â鶹Éç's newspapers review says George Bush's memoirs dominate many front pages. In an exclusive interview, he tells the Times that he does not mind what people think of him. The Guardian also has extracts.

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