BBC governors appointed

Wednesday 21 July 1993 00:02 BST

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(First Edition)

AFTER A TRAWL through the higher echelons of politics, business and the arts, the Government has managed to fill only three of the five vacancies on the BBC's board of 12 governors, writes Michael Leapman.

Lord Cocks, former Labour chief whip Michael Cocks, succeeds Lord Barnett as deputy chairman, achieving a semblance of bi-partisanship. Margaret Spurr, headmistress of the girls' division of Bolton School, replaces Dr John Roberts, warden of Merton College, Oxford, while Bill Jordan, president of the AEEU engineering union, has been reappointed for a second five-year term. Like Lord Cocks he is a Labour right-winger.

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