KalamityKel

"BBC staff could receive ?46,000 pay sweetener to move to broadcaster's new home By Paul Revoir (Daily Mail) The BBC is to offer staff up to ?46,000 to persuade them to move from London to Salford. The corporation is planning to move 1,600 employees north to its new Media City headquarters. Among the parts of the BBC being transferred are children's programming, sport and Radio 5 Live. BBC headquarters BBC's existing headquarters in London. The broadcaster is offering staff huge financial incentives to move to Salford The latest details about the move show some staff will get rent and bills paid on flats in the Manchester area while they keep their home in the south. Those who qualify for the 'remote location allowance' will be eligible for expenses of up to ?1,900 a month to cover costs of rent and bills for up to two years while they take up their new role in Salford. The payments have been set up to help staff with personal circumstances which would be affected by an immediate move. Those whose children are at critical points in their education, or who provide care for their elderly relatives could qualify for the deal. A staff member whose partner struggles to find work in the North West might also qualify for the scheme. This would allow workers to stay in a flat within reach of Salford during the week while returning to their family home in the south at the weekend. But critics fear some could take advantage of the generous package to improve their standard of living before moving back to the south. BBC Media City The new BBC Media City under construction in the north west. The corporation is under fire for profligacy at a time when many companies are being forced to tighten their belts Homeowners who decide to make the move to Salford also get up to ?8,000 tax free to help cover costs of moving house. This includes as much as ?3,000 for curtains and carpets. The BBC is already guaranteeing to give staff involved in the move 85 per cent of their home's market value. The ?240million move to Salford is to counter claims that the BBC has become too 'London-centric'. Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers' Alliance said of the scheme: 'It is extremely generous and a sharp contrast with the situation faced by ordinary licence-fee payers struggling to afford their bills and commercial channels being forced to make cutbacks.' Liberal Democrat culture spokesman Don Foster added: 'If the move to Salford is gold-plated in this way, it starts to make the whole project look ridiculous.' A BBC spokesman said: 'The support we offer is in line with other major employers in the public and private sectors. Only a small minority of staff in specific circumstances would qualify for the remote relocation scheme. 'The revised policy announced last month is fair but affordable and was actually changed to reduce significantly the financial risk to the BBC and licence-fee payers.' It has also emerged the BBC paid 20 senior managers ?200,000 in expenses over the past two years. They include BBC North boss Peter Salmon, head of the new Salford base, who claimed nearly ?20,000." Is this fair?

There's no need to b so insulting Tony - besides none of the above get to work (in Westminster) that early :p

haha charlie u made me spit me cereals then! Mikecg good luck with ur plan I assume it's now more of a priority than the world domination one ;-)

:p is a sticky out tongue. To b used when suggesting a bit of humour

a title of a new thread? :p

u mean theres another way of making them? :o

oh deary me! Deary me indeed!

Then the answer is simple... don't send any of the kids to private school. Let them all have an equal footing in life :))

Tony my dear I didnt have the choice of private schooling and I did pretty well for myself - got though GCSEs with fairly respectable marks, I went on to sixth form and then University. Now I have other qualifications that cancel out school grades on a CV :p

Have to agree with ruffers... no really I do... I had to work with a group of cambridge students the other night... no brains there at all... it's all a waste I tell ya!

Declan there's no need for that kinda talk so hush :P

Who says that just by attending public schooling you're going to end up with a career? Seems a rather big gamble to take

"I think the boy, as he will, on balance of probabilities be in a career the longest." Meaning what exactly?

Soz don't remember your name... :p

star

cheat

highland

Alcoholism I'm not addicted just thirsty! :))

and pay through the nose for worse crap? Bread going rock hard by the end of the day, cucumbers going squidgy the day after purchase... yes V'ON I can see the appeal.

Louisa I swear you're my neighbour... *shudders* :p Leave Somerfield be or bring back Gateway ;-)

Steady on Sue... the guilty person probably knows you mean them... ;-) (that sounded better in my head than typed!)

oh bother off back to your own side with that kind of dribble *rolls eyes and sighs deeply* lol really foolish fairy... really! :p

Just trying to understand your mentality that's all ;-)

House

What on earth prompted you to report such things at that unearthly hour? Does not ignoring the issue (by not saying anything to the litterers) make one as bad as them these days? Turning a blind eye and all that? Tut tut