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I'm the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ unions have named dates for possible strike action, as they consult their members over the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s new pension proposals. The "³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ unions last night declared war on the Conservatives with an extraordinary threat to black out coverage of David Cameron's keynote speech to the Tory party conference." "Could there be any clearer indication of their Left-wing slant than the threat to black out coverage of David Cameron's speech to the Conservative conference?"

The it could hit coverage of the Chancellor's Spending Review on October 20th. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ response quoted in the article is of surprise that the unions had announced strike dates "when we have just announced a new 60 day consultation period on a significant addition to our pension proposals."

The unions' : "BECTU, the NUJ and Unite have announced a further programme of meetings with members to discuss new pension proposals from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. However the backdrop to the consultations will be formal notice of a number of strike dates." They have withdrawn notices for strikes on September 20 and 21, which would have hit the LibDem conference.

The that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ director general Mark Thompson set out new pension proposals yesterday in an email to staff.

London's Capital Radio is to be turned into a quasi-national station by its owners Global Radio, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reports. It is re-branding the six Galaxy stations as well as Red Dragon, RAM, Trent and Leicester Sound. Breakfast, drivetime and news programmes will be local, others will be nationally networked, like the Heart chain of stations.

A lawsuit alleging a police cover-up of phone hacking has been launched by one of Scotland Yard's own former senior officers, Brian Paddick, together with the former Labour minister Chris Bryant, .

The media analyst Clare Enders has confirmed she has written to the Business Secretary Vince Cable, urging him to block the News Corporation takeover of BSkyB.

The TUC's vote for a national campaign of industrial action against public spending cuts is seen by the Daily Mirror as the start of a fight back. But the Daily Telegraph accuses the TUC of still having its head in the sand, as shown in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s newspaper review.

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• Guardian | Mark Thompson's email on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ pensions
• ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ | Capital Radio brand to go national
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• ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ | Newspaper review

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