BBC set to slash hundreds of news jobs

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Newsnight and the 10 o'clock News are just two out of a range of news programmes which are likely to lose staff.

These potential redundancies will help the BBC meet a Government demands that it slash its news budget by five per cent a year for fives years.

Journalists within the corporation believe the News 24 service is likely to become the main news provider with the identities of separate news programmes being lost.

They are also fearful that the cuts will threaten the BBC's website, which has become one of the most popular across the world.

A round of voluntary redundancies involving 3,800 workers has only recently come to an end and unions fear the effects of further cuts.

BBC News employs 2,000 journalists and has a £90million budget, covering everything from Radio One to the World Service.

A spokesman for the BBC said: "This is still a work in progress."