Job cuts on horizon at the BBC
Updated on 17 October 2007
Director general Mark Thompson's six year strategy for the BBC has been approved - placing a reported 2,800 at risk.
Details of the proposals will be made public on Thursday.
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons said: "We are confident that the plans we have approved today will safeguard the core values of the BBC at a time of radical and accelerating change in technology, markets and audience expectations."
Television Centre might be given the axe too - the trust has "in principle" backed the sale of the corporation's Shepherd Bush complex.
Some BBC staff and unionists expressed their concern outside central London offices today.
The brunt is expected to be borne by the news and factual department - which makes Planet Earth and Top Gear.
