The future of S4C
An announcement is expected on Wednesday that the BBC is to take over funding for Welsh-language channel S4C. BBC News The BBC licence fee is to be frozen at the current level of £145.50 for the next six years, a 16% cut in real terms... Among the extra commitments the BBC has signed up to are to fund the World Service and Welsh-language broadcaster S4C out of the licence fee from 2015. The Guardian Background The UK's new Government is carrying out one of the most significant "funding review" in modern times. Faced with debts that are projected to run into the hundreds of billions b the end of their first term (2014-15), it is cutting budgets left, right and centre to reduce our national dependence on money we simply don't have. Areas seen as politically-sensitive -- hospitals and schools specifically -- have been ring-fenced, but the scope of the Government's cuts should not be underestimated: the armed forces, prison service, and justice system all face...