North MSPs lobby to reverse BBC cuts
ROB Gibson is one of the eight SNP MSPs from the Highlands and Islands to sign a strongly-worded letter to BBC Scotland to protest at “destructive” staff job cuts in the north.
Mr Gibson, who represents Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, and his colleagues told the BBC its actions would “greatly diminish the essential service” which it provides throughout the region.
The politicians are unhappy at the proposed job losses throughout large parts of Scotland and have called for a meeting with BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten. They want to ask him why, at a time when the corporation should be “showing ambition, and developing itself as a real national broadcaster, it is cutting back on such basic services.”s
Michael Russell (Argyll and Bute), Fergus Ewing (Inverness and Nairn), Alasdair Allan (Western Isles), Dave Thomson (Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch), and Highlands and Islands regional MSPs Jean Urquhart, John Finnie and Mike MacKenzie have also signed the letter.
