[Josh]

No disrespect to Birmingham, but it's an odd decision to separate Newsbeat from both the rest of BBC News and Radio 1.

As ever with these moves, the BBC lost some good people like Christian Hewgill in the process.

It seems especially weird considering they’re moving Newsbeat to a building that the Beeb are leaving in four years. Surely they should just wait until the new Birmingham facility is ready, but then again this is the BBC that we’re talking about - the team that decided on Newsbeat’s move probably had no idea that The Mailbox was being vacated.

Four years is a long time so I suppose there's no harm in moving base now because they'll only have to move so far down the road when the new/old Typhoo facility opens.