Flesh on the English changes

The first year cuts for the World Service News and Current Affairs teams will see 30 to 34 out of 250 jobs go.  Some savings will come from more editions of the cheaper-to-run World Briefing;  cheaper still in future without dedicated business news inserts, with a new rota, and perhaps journalist presenters.  The evening edition of Newshour will run at two hours all year round.  There'll be changes at the World Today, as it seeks to create a joint morning programme with Network Africa.

In the newsroom, shifts writing so-called "regional stories" will end. In the words of Andrew Whitehead, Editor WSNCA "It's either a central story of interest to a global audience, or we don't write it".  There'll be more work on integration with the team doing foreign news for News Online. Newsroom regional editors survive, but move out of the newsroom.

In terms of support to the Bush Newsroom, the separate World Affairs Unit shuts. It's a cluster of correspondents who give Bush output its distinctive feel - and on a daily basis, most of the mighty brains that bring context via "think pieces" will in future be based at Television Centre.  The same happens to the Business Unit at Bush.

In programmes made by other people, there'll be an audio version of the dull Hardtalk to schedule; Digital Planet becomes "Click" to match the tv brand; Outlook goes down to four editions from five, The Strand is cut to 20 minutes.   None of these moves will have raised cheers at Bush House. And it's only Year One.