Which bbc journalists are on strike

The BBC World Service's English-language service will be running five-minute news at the top of the hour and two minutes on the half hour. Picket lines were mounted from midnight on Friday outside BBC premises across the country, with the NUJ predicting a "solid response" to the walkout.

The BBC admitted it expected widespread disruption to services and said it was disappointed by the industrial action and apologised to viewers and listeners. The NUJ general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, accused the BBC of "provoking" a strike over a handful of job losses, but the corporation said there were posts for which compulsory redundancy was "regrettably unavoidable".

Stanistreet said the union offered a number of solutions to the dispute, adding that an offer from the conciliation service Acas for peace talks had not been taken up by BBC management.

The NUJ has a longstanding policy of no compulsory redundancies, and it is clear that our members at the BBC are fully prepared to stand up for their colleagues under threat," she said. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that BBC management wants thousands of its journalists to go on strike rather than settle the dispute. A BBC spokesman said: "We are disappointed that the NUJ is intending to strike and apologise to our audience for any disruption to services this may cause.

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