And in Scotland...

The Herald:. Currently, almost every town in Scotland has a local newspaper covering it with a usually small staff of one or two reporters – can 100 BBC reporters across the whole of the UK really offer the same kind of service? And if it is designed to be complementary to what is already there, the danger is that the owners of local newspapers may say: if the BBC is providing local news to us for free, do we need so many reporters of our own? In other words, the BBC's offer of help could end up costing jobs