BBC journalists to strike again

BBC journalists will stage another 24-hour strike today in protest at compulsory redundancies, threatening disruption to radio and TV programmes.

Members of the National Union of Journalists will walk out across the country, after efforts last week to break the deadlocked row failed.

The union's general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said she expected the strike to be "very solidly supported" by the 3,000 NUJ members at the corporation.

Lucy Adams, the BBC's director of business operations, said the corporation was unable to agree to the NUJ's demands for no compulsory redundancies.