Plans for a new theatre for world’s longest-running soap in Digbeth scrapped as part of cost-cutting measures The BBC is set to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for the first time in the show’s 75-year history, after scrapping plans for a radio drama theatre that was to be the new home of the world’s longest-running soap opera. A pledge to move recordings to the so-called tea factory, the BBC’s new Birmingham hub in Digbeth, has become the latest victim of the corporation’s £500m cuts plan. Continue reading...

Lib Dem MP hits out at Commons speaker for failing to grant him right to call for national emergency response Thousands of homes in the south-west of England were still without power or water on Monday in the aftermath of Storm Goretti. It has been four days since Goretti brought gusts of almost 100 mph and a rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds, but the continued disruption has led one Cornish MP to call for a “national emergency”. Continue reading...

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