Chris Patten News
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Prime Minister David Cameron shrugged off speculation over challenges to his leadership of Britain’s Conservative Party, saying he’s surrounded by “talented people” and is letting them get on with their jobs.
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During five years in the French Foreign Legion, Glencore International Plc Chairman Simon Murray was sent on missions ranging from death defying to merely gruesome.
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British Broadcasting Corp. Trust Chairman Chris Patten will suggest that restrictions on the commercial activities of the BBC should be tightened and that market-regulator Ofcom should carry out market-impact assessments to see whether the broadcaster’s plans could block commercial competitors or distort U.K. markets, the Financial Times reported.
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Chris Patten , chairman of the BBC Trust, said the British broadcaster may axe a digital television channel and sports events as part of spending cuts, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing an interview.
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British Broadcasting Corp.’s two most senior news executives stepped aside, expanding the fallout from errors in child sex abuse investigations that caused Director General George Entwistle to quit over the weekend.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. will replace the senior editorial team of its current-affairs program “Newsnight” because of errors in investigative reports into child sex abuse allegations.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. named Tony Hall, the head of the Royal Opera House who worked at the broadcaster for 28 years, as the next director general as it tries to recover from child sex-abuse scandals.
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The British Broadcasting Corp., the 90-year-old media organization that runs U.K.’s most-watched TV channels, was urged by the head of its supervisory body to embark on a “radical overhaul” after errors surrounding a sexual-abuse investigation forced its director general to quit.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s four-day visit to the U.K. in September may cost the government as much as 12 million pounds ($18.4 million), 4 million pounds more than previously estimated.
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Hong Kong chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying’s visit to the Beijing Liaison Office yesterday raised concerns over the role China would play in the city’s next administration, former chief secretary Anson Chan said.
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