[ViridianFan]

I was aware of the cuts to local news, but there are other sources of local news so it’s not quite “as bad”, in my opinion.

Please could you identify this source of good-quality, high-quantity local news which (a) has journalists based in the local area and (b) doesn't take some money away from the license fee? I appreciate in some (larger) cities this exists, but it's most certainly not elsewhere.

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I do think that we’ve got to a situation where when people talk about “the BBC” that they often just think of the news division and forget all of the other things it does. I think it’s where a lot of the unhappiness with the license fee comes from. 

Agree, but I believe the bigger problem is its name - "TV license". It should be called the "public service media license" to encapsulate everything it now pays for.

Thats true very true. 

I also agree the news division serves are very important role. 
 

Indeed, in many areas the only other credible provider of local news is ITV. Local commercial radio does the bare minimum to keep under ofcom's radar and many local newspapers have been reduced to clickbait factories.

Honourable exceptions apply to all of the above, of course.

Recently with the local paper here many of the stories have begun to feel like click bait but then every so often there’s some great journalism. The problem is now that all their articles are behind a paywall and I’m not willing to pay for a subscriptions when a lot of the articles are not great. It’s now left me in the situation where I feel I am missing out on that local news as there no where to get it.