Submitted on Monday 12th November 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Return BBC to London
The decision to move the BBC's core service to Manchester was idiotic.
The Broadcaster needs to be at the heart of Government and the southern power-house economy.
Salford was chosen to be make the BBC more inclusive and all it has succeeded in doing is making it remote from the centre of power. This has been obvious from their handling of the Newsnight fiasco.
There is no reason not to have a Northern studio as a provincial feed
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The BBC is independent of Government. Therefore, this is a matter for the BBC and the BBC Trust.
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