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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bbc-set-to-cut-world-service-jobs.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The BBC World Service is to close five of its language services with hundreds of job losses expected" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-bbc-set-to-cut-world-service-jobs.jpg" alt="The BBC World Service is to close five of its language services with hundreds of job losses expected"/></a></p>
<p>The BBC World Service is to close five of its language services with hundreds of job losses expected.</p>
<p>It is thought about 650 jobs will be cut from a workforce of some 2,400 in a bid to save £46 million a year.</p>
<p>Union leaders said the &#8220;ferocious cuts&#8221; were a &#8220;direct result of the Government slashing funding to an internationally respected and successful broadcaster&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Corporation said in a statement: &#8220;BBC World Service has announced that it will be closing five language services &#8211; Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa and Serbian; as well as the English for the Caribbean regional service.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is part of its response to a cut to its Grant-in-Aid funding from the UK&#8217;s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.</p>
<p>&#8220;The cut is part of a BBC World Service restructure in order to meet a 16% savings target announced in the Government&#8217;s spending review of October 20 last year.&#8221;</p>
<p>BBC Global News Director Peter Horrocks said: &#8220;These closures are not a reflection on the performance of individual services or programmes. They are all extremely important to their audiences and to the BBC.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is simply that there is a need to make savings due to the scale of the cuts to the BBC World Service&#8217;s Grant-in-Aid funding from the UK&#8217;s Foreign and Commonwealth Office and we need to focus our efforts in the languages where there is the greatest need and where we have the strongest impact.&#8221;</p>
<p>The BBC said it would not confirm details of job losses before briefing staff.</p>
<p>Mr Horrocks is due to hold a press conference at the World Service headquarters in central London where he will give &#8220;significant details&#8221; of the service&#8217;s response to funding cuts.</p>
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