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BBC pays £229m a year in salaries for stars
The BBC spent £54m on its top-earning stars but their salaries accounted for just 1.6 per cent of the £3.6bn annual licence fee income, according to figures released yesterday.
Stephen Glover: This acquired taste for scooping red-tops could be a risky strategy
Over the years The Sun and its sibling, the News of the World, have published a great many sexual exposures. If there were a Palme d’Or for running such pieces, these two would vie with each other year after year, and no other newspaper would come close.
Guardian owner sells regionals to Trinity
The loss-making parent company of The Guardian has sold its regional titles to Trinity Mirror to help secure the future of its flagship newspaper, in a move that severs its historic links with Manchester.
Web users parody David Cameron campaign poster
MyDavidCameron.com asked users to send in their versions of the poster
Sports and arts feel pinch from toxic brand backlash
Public anger over bank bailouts and concern over binge drinking could spell trouble for the sponsorship industry, writes Richard Gillis
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1 BBC's top stars paid £54 million
2 BBC pays £229m a year in salaries for stars
3 Guardian owner sells regionals to Trinity
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5 TV product placement ban to be lifted
6 Matthew Wright: 'I don't feel I have a job. I'd turn up for nothing'
7 Why Sesame Street still counts
8 So how much do you earn? Presenter answers the £92,000 question
9 Matt Pritchett: The Telegraph cartoonist gets top honour
10 All in the game: How Britain works
11 My Week In Media: Radio 3 presenter Jez Nelson
12 Trinity Mirror buys Guardian's regional newspapers
13 Complaints over GMTV breastfeeding debate comments
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