BBC employees stage a strike outside BBC Broadcasting House in London yesterday. Services including World Service radio were disrupted. Members of the National Union of Journalists and the technicians’ union Bectu walked out at noon. The BBC News 24 TV channel and World Service radio switched to pre-recorded programming, interspersed with live news bulletins on the hour, while BBC feeds to US public radio were also disrupted. The union claims that BBC has lost more than 7,000 jobs since 2004 and it plans to cut a further 2,000 jobs as it slashes its budget by 20 percent.
