Tim Davie

A view of BBC Broadcasting House in central London. Photo credit: Lucy North/PA Wire

Why I am reluctantly paying my TV licence fee - Christa Ackroyd
Next week my television licence runs out and I have thought long and hard about whether I will renew it.

A view of BBC Broadcasting House in central London. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

The BBC needs to better justify the licence fee

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London after BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

The BBC does not deserve a public lynching - Daxa Patel

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

If we can’t trust the BBC, what public body can we trust? - Jayne Dowle

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

BBC will 'remain fiercely independent' following charter review

Outgoing chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London after her resignation.

Argument for 'impartial' BBC is 'stronger than ever', No10 says

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London after BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

The BBC finds itself in another mess of its own making

King Charles meets the Bantam of the Opera choir in Cartwright Hall, Bradford. Picture: Andrew Benge.

'It really is our time': BBC shows on Yorkshire city reach more than 22 million

Former BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Huw Edwards: BBC chairman says disgraced former newsreader 'damaged' corporation

Former Managing Director of Yorkshire Television and BBC executive, Sir Paul Fox, who has died at the age of 98. Photo credit: BBC/PA Wire

Sir Paul Fox: Ex-Yorkshire Television managing director dies aged 98

Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage. Picture: Habibur Rahman

BBC accused of ‘setting torch to delicate ecosystem of local news’

Concerns have been raised over cuts to BBC local radio services

Moving BBC Concert Orchestra out of London 'didn't make sense'

Editorial chiefs from across local publishers have sent a strong message to the BBC about its expansion

Analysis BBC must abandon the plan to elbow its way into local journalism

Security guards stand outside the BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House in London, England.

Editors call on BBC to halt aggressive expansion into local news

BBC Broadcasting house, in central London, after presenter Huw Edwards was named by his wife Vicky Flind as the BBC presenter suspended. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

How the BBC got its handling of the Huw Edwards story wrong - David Behrens

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 10: A general view of the front of BBC Broadcasting House on July 10, 2023 in London, England. Last week, the Sun newspaper published allegations that a BBC presenter had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager in exchange for explicit photos. The broadcaster has said that a male presenter has been suspended while it conducts an investigation. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

BBC didn’t ask suspended presenter about sex picture claim for 7 weeks

The alleged sex scandal involving a suspended top BBC presenter and a young person is likely to dominate a press conference with the corporation’s director-general Tim Davie scheduled on Tuesday (July 11) Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

BBC’s Tim Davie to face questions over sex scandal

MPs including Leeds' Rachel Reeves are expressing horror at the way the BBC has handled its latest in a long line of scandals - this time one of its stars stands accused of paying thousands of pounds to a teenager in return for sexually explicit material.

Does the BBC care about its staff?

The BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House is illuminated at night. PIC: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

The BBC seems to exclude regions in our own country - David Blunkett

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: A General view of BBC Broadcasting House on April 28, 2023 in London, England. A report published today found that BBC Chairman Richard Sharp, who was appointed in February 2021, failed to disclose conflicts of interest while being interviewed for his role. (Photo by Neil P. Mockford/Getty Images)

BBC chairman resigns following Boris Johnson loan scandal

'Will Tim Davie be the director-general on whose watch an archaic system of funding is finally modernised?' PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

BBC's remit is to broadcast programmes, not to promote podcasts - David Behrens
Invoking comparisons with the Nazis is never a good idea. Had Gary Linker omitted his reference to 1930s Germany from his tweet about Britain’s treatment of asylum seekers, few outside the Conservative Party would ever have noticed it.
David Behrens

Gary’s victory - now licence payers must have the same BBC freedom

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker will continue as a BBC presenter after the corporation apologised for a "difficult period for staff, contributors, presenters, and most importantly, our audiences". PIC James Manning/PA Wire

The Government and BBC wrong to censor Gary Lineker - The Yorkshire Post says

Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker outside his home in London (Photo credit : Lucy North/PA Wire)

Gary Lineker set to return to Match of the Day after BBC apology

According to TV Licensing’s annual report last year, 1.96 million households said they did not watch the BBC in 2021-22

The only suitable home for BBC licence fee is on the Antiques Roadshow Gary Shipton

Tim Davie is director general of the BBC. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Northern voices should not be lost at the BBC - The Yorkshire Post says

Olivia Blake

Yorkshire MP urges BBC to broadcast more Northern voices

Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, said: “Imagine a world that is internet only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite.” PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Why is BBC Two only showing two non-repeats on Christmas Day? - David Behrens

Handout photo of Director general of the BBC Tim Davie during a session at the Royal Television Society London Convention 2022. Picture date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.

Three key questions for BBC bosses on 'digital future' plans: The YP says

Emma Hardy, the Labour Kingston upon Hull West MP, Dame Diana Johnson and Karl Turner have urged Mr Davie to “rethink” the proposed cuts

Hull MPs question why local radio is 'target' for BBC cuts

The BBC building in St Peter's Square, Leeds

Local BBC radio overhaul 'will see Yorkshire stations share shows'

Bill Turnbull dies aged 66 - tributes to former BBC Breakfast host
The former BBC Breakfast presenter and Classic FM host was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017
Daniel Mcneil

Kalush Orchestra - Ukraine's entry to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest

BBC confirms Eurovision 2023 will take place in UK

The family's pet often sleeps with one of Harry's shoes, his wife Helen said in a touching Twitter post. Image: Twitter/@GrationHarry

Wife of late BBC presenter Harry Gration shares touching image

Michael Barratt was one of the most famous faces of the 1970s.

Nationwide presenter Michael Barratt has died aged 94, family announces

Tim Davie, director-general of the BBC

Over-75s are collateral damage in battle of BBC budgets – David Behrens

BBC director-general Tim Davie

BBC boss Tim Davie says charging over-75s for licence fee was 'right call'

Tim Davie, new Director General of the BBC

As BBC goes Nationwide, it could learn from Michael Barratt – David Behrens

Tim Davie, Director General of the BBC. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire.

The BBC has made efforts to represent the North, unlike Government - YP Letters

Tim Davie is the director-general of the BBC.

BBC’s duty to TV licence fee payers and North – The Yorkshire Post says

The BBC is preparing to move several top journalism jobs to Leeds, reports suggest

BBC to move top journalism jobs to Leeds in transformation plan for North

The BBC will broadcast school lessons on TV during lockdown - here’s when and wh...

Timothy Davie CBE, Director-General of the BBC. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire.

BBC announces new pilot radio output in Bradford to boost Yorkshire listeners

How should the BBC be funded in future?

How to reform BBC licence fee – John O’Connell

This is when the 2 minute silence is being broadcast on Remembrance Day - and fu...

Captain Sir Tom Moore meeting serving members of the Armed Forces in Yorkshire

Captain Sir Tom Moore to feature in televised Festival of Remembrance on BBC One

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.

Drop Gary Lineker to help BBC pay for better programmes – Yorkshire Post Letters

Sue Barker, Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell are all leaving A Question of Sport

Sue Barker 'sad to say goodbye to dream job' on A Question of Sport

Sue Barker, Matt Dawson and Phil Tuffnell are all set to leave the show next year

Sue Barker to leave A Question of Sport after 23 years in major shake-up

Channel 5 show the second episode of the new All Creatures Great and Small tonight.

Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small puts crude and rude TV to shame – Andr...

Tim Davie, new Director General of the BBC, arrives at BBC Scotland in Glasgow for his first day in the role. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

BBC doesn’t need pro-Government comedians: Anthony Clavane

Socially distanced Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

BBC U-turn over Last Night of the Proms controversy

Pupils from years 7 and 11 return to Manor High School in Oadby, Leicestershire. Currently the school has adopted a voluntary policy with regards to students wearing face coverings. Picture: Jacob King/PA Wire

Week Ahead: Schools and MPs return while BBC’s new boss begins

Tony Hall smiles as he arrives for his first day as Director General of the BBC in 2013. Picture: LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images

BBC’s global aims will raise more licence fee questions: The Yorkshire Post says

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The BBC has not delayed its OAP TV licence charge - here's what it means for ove...

How should the BBC be reformed by the new director-general Tim Davie? Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images

The BBC should no longer be funded by a licence fee - Neil McNicholas

Sir Gary Verity.

Welcome to Yorkshire's Gary Verity understood to be surprise candidate for vacan...

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Widow pays tribute to car death father

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New BBC boss to start after Easter

Newsnight report ‘didn’t even check the basics’

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