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(From Bristol Evening Post)

This famous Gloucestershire event has been brought to our screens by the Beeb every year since 1956.

The new contract will guarantee live red button and broadband coverage on cross-country day, as well as a two-hour programme which combines the best of the cross-country and dressage with previews and the live conclusion of the final show jumping phase.

The deal also means that Badminton's dates are fixed for the next three years: April 30 to May 3, 2010; April 29 to May 2, 2011; and May 4- 7, 2012, which are all bank holiday weekends.

In a departure from tradition, the event will move forward a day, beginning on a Friday, and conclude on a Monday, which reduces the chance of clashing on television with other, as yet undated, sporting fixtures.

The Sunday cross-country action will be available live on red button ...

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