Another one bites the dust!

At least 98 jobs at the BBC Monitoring department are to be cut ahead of a £4m reduction in funding. The department, which has 320 staff, analyses local media from 150 countries in 100 different languages, but the operation is to be scaled down.

The team will relocate from Caversham Park in Reading, its base since 1943.

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Mike Jordan

London is obviously a good place to receive distant radio transmissions with a nice quiet radio spectrum space (NOT!).

Nice Ferrograph in the photo though!

John Howell

…and a nice Marconi CR150 Communications Receiver next to it!