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If piqued by the loss of Ashes exclusivity, Sky could lower its annual payments to as £40 million and probably still win © Getty Images In an interview on the ECB's TV channel, Chief Executive David Collier again linked the extra money that the ECB... Full Article at Cricinfo.com
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Architecture minister Margaret Hodge has rejected calls to list Birmingham’s central library, paving the way for the destruction of the iconic 1970s city centre building. Full Article at Birmingham Post
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Peter Mandelson has already claimed that the Tories and the Sun have “effectively formed a contract", but today Ben Bradshaw takes the insinuations even further. Full Article at Spectator Magazine
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LONDON - Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw today said that unless the digital economy bill becomes law, the creative sector could be 'decimated' by illegal filesharing. Full Article at Brand Republic
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After years of debate, two weighty reports and endless agonising over BBC funding, the future of Channel 4 and how best to prop up ITV, the sense of anticlimax is palpable. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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When the culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, delivered a speech this month asking New Labour- supporting "luvvies" to rally to the defence of the arts, he omitted to mention the recent dwindling of their ranks. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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The government has defended its decision not to include legislation in the Queen's Speech on MPs' expenses. Full Article at BBC News
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Grumbles about the performance of England's rugby union side on Saturday have been matched only by disquiet around Nike's attempt to brand Twickenham with its distinctive swoosh to promote their new purple shirts. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Has the Evening Standard got it in for its old editor? A piece about the tussle between Veronica Wadley and Liz Forgan...put Ben Bradshaw's description of Wadley as "a Tory patsy" in the headline. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Thrill a minute: the Grand National has huge spectator appeal Photo: GETTY IMAGES And sure enough, they have managed to come up with a disastrous concoction of proposals for Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, to consider. Full Article at The Telegraph
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It seems that the government's review of the sporting crown jewels has not gone down very well in many quarters. Full Article at Thoughts of Nigel
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Battle lines were drawn yesterday between ministers and sports chiefs after a report recommended that events of “national resonance” including the Ashes, the Open, the whole of Wimbledon fortnight and World Cup qualifiers should be freely available... Full Article at Times Online
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English cricket chiefs have reacted furiously to plans to add the Ashes to the list of 'crown jewel' events reserved for terrestrial TV, warning that the loss of broadcasting revenue would lead to a 'decade of decay'. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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LONDON -- U.K. sports bodies could lose hundreds of millions of pounds in revenues from broadcast contracts after a long-awaited review of British sport recommended that top national sports including home Ashes cricket matches, the Wimbledon... Full Article at Hollywood Reporter
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Prime minister Gordon Brown last night welcomed leading architects and other professionals to 10 Downing Street to recognise the profession's contribution to creating the country's high quality buildings and places. Full Article at BD News
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Sameem Ali's 'Belonging' – an autobiographical account of escape from a forced marriage and abusive family. Before that, the biography of the great Labour politician and first Arts minister Jennie Lee by Patricia Hollis. 'Nowhere Boy' – Sam Taylor Wood' Full Article at The Independent
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Further details are inching out about the dispute between Ben Bradshaw, Boris Johnson and Liz Forgan about the appointment of a chair for Arts Council London Dave Hill over at our London blog has posted a detailed account of more letters, phonecalls... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Advertisement Live coverage of the House of Commons 1452 Back in the Commons chamber, the noise level is building. Full Article at BBC News
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Irked by the Labour luvvie's comments about how Tindyebwa Agaba, her "adopted" son, had been subjected to racism at the University of Exeter, the Culture Secretary has accused her of being disingenuous. Full Article at The Telegraph
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It's awful, watching the death throes of a government. Yesterday Ben Bradshaw, the creepy culture secretary, announced that ministers were "minded" to allow product placement on TV. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw speaks before a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw attends the Closing Gala Afterparty for 'Nowhere Boy' during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at One Marylebone on October 29, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 27: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting on October 27, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw (l) listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw delivers a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband (L), Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media & Sport Ben Bradshaw (C) and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson are pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, in Brighton, southern England, on September 28, 20...
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 28: Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (R) talks with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw, sitting behind Foreign Secretary David Miliband, during the Labour Party Conference on September 28, 2009 in Brighton, England.
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LONDON - SEPTEMBER 24: Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (C) applauds with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and pop singer Leona Lewis as they listen to music sung by students at the British school of performing arts September 24, 2009 in Croydon, England.
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LONDON - SEPTEMBER 24: Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (C) applauds with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and pop singer Leona Lewis as they listen to music sung by students at the British school of performing arts September 24, 2009 in Croydon, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: Prime Minster Gordon Brown tours the Arqiva broadcast transmitter in Crystal Palace on June 16, 2009 in London, England. The visit coincides with the launch of the Government's final Digital Britain report published today.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: British Prime Minster Gordon Brown tours the Arqiva broadcast transmitter in Crystal Palace on June 16, 2009 in London, England. The visit coincides with the launch of the Government's final Digital Britain report published today.
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This Bill is a key part of the Government's active industrial strategy and will maintain and build on Britain's leading position. It includes measures to ensure universal broadband, the protection of music, film and other creative content and the future of quality local and regional news. The market wil...
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This is an outrageous political intervention by Ben Bradshaw. It is quite clear that the chair of the Arts Council England, London is the Mayor’s appointment. Veronica Wadley is highly qualified, and Bradshaw has simply stepped in for political reasons. He has brought himself and his office into disrepu...
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It's not a 'demolition job'. It's a very, very small part of the National Health Service budget of £120 billion.
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A Cabinet minister was yesterday accused of bullying the BBC after he used Twitter to accuse it of bias in favour of the Tories. Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw said coverage of George Osborne's party conference speech was 'fawning and feeble'
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If Tories break a ‘cast iron promise’ in opposition, what would they be like in government?
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Ben Bradshaw seems to be aspiring to Alistair Campbell's role rather than that of a culture secretary. Rather than interfering in the BBC's day-to-day political coverage he would be better off getting to grips with the policy needed to help Britain's struggling media industry.
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Television production spread across the nations and regions of the UK is good for viewers, good for regional economies and good for cultural diversity. One of the key ambitions of our Digital Britain report is to ensure high-quality public service content from multiple providers on multiple platforms.
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Any competition that pits the Apollo 10 spacecraft against Stephenson's Rocket and the DNA double helix against the Model T Ford is bound to provide talking points a-plenty. The public's choice of the X-ray machine as the winner is testament to our insatiable curiosity to find out how things work.
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Without the prime minister's backing, this wouldn't have happened. This also reflects a recognition by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, of the importance of arts and culture. It has always been my view that to pull the plug on these projects would have been political madness and also have run against t...
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We are the only party that is guaranteeing high quality news on ITV in the English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and saying how we are paying for it. Our solution and other measures we are taking will help local newspapers too.
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But like all successful organisations the BBC must change in order to survive
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This is unacceptable political interference in the BBC by the Tory Party. There are many Conservatives at the BBC but its journalists, whatever their private political views, are subject to strict rules of impartiality, which the BBC has a duty to enforce.
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This is unacceptable political interference in the BBC by the Tory Party. There are many Conservatives at the BBC but its journalists, whatever their private political views, are subject to strict rules of impartiality, which the BBC has a duty to enforce.
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Is this really about the long-term interests of public service content? I would just like to point out that the £5.50 is not the BBC's to give away ... This is not a serious or sensible way to have a debate about something as important as the future of the BBC and public service broadcasting.
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Is this really about the long-term interests of public service content? I would just like to point out that the £5.50 is not the BBC's to give away ... This is not a serious or sensible way to have a debate about something as important as the future of the BBC and public service broadcasting.
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He will express his strong support for the BBC, but he will also challenge the organisation to step up to the plate and serve the public by helping to sort out the future of public service broadcasting.
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