BBC set for second 24-hour walkout

BBC journalists are to press ahead with a second 24-hour strike on Monday after the failure to resolve a dispute over compulsory redundancies.

Members of the National Union of Journalists will walk out across the country, threatening disruption to radio and TV programmes.

Lucy Adams, the BBC's director of business operations, said the two sides had been in regular contact all week, but there was still no agreement.

In a message to staff she said: "We are still unable to agree to their demands for no compulsory redundancies.

"We are also unable to agree to NUJ members who are facing redundancy being treated differently to other BBC staff."

The union staged a 24-hour strike earlier this month as part of its campaign to avert compulsory job losses.