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Richard Hooper; the chair of the selec­tion panel respon­si­ble for choos­ing the pre­ferred bid­ders for ITV regional news pilots in Eng­land, Wales and Scot­land; has told the con­sor­tiums bid­ding for the pilots to develop plans to oper­ate with­out funds from the BBC licence fee.

There are more details in Mark Sweeny’s arti­cle in the Guardian.