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BBC Trust expected to knock back online local video plans.

Europe Intelligence Wire

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(From Guardian Unlimited)

Controversial plans by BBC management to launch a GBP68m network of local news websites with video content are expected to be rejected in their current form by the BBC Trust, based on evidence presented to the trustees.

MediaGuardian.co.uk understands that the evidence in what is called the public value assessment presented to the BBC Trust as part of its public value test points towards the body turning down the local video proposals as they stand.

BBC trustees, including the BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, are meeting today in Cardiff to discuss the local video plan, along with other matters, including the BBC's …

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