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BBC 'must honour Star blackout vow'
Editor asks Lord Hall to secure inclusion in TV news reviews

Morning Star editor Richard Bagley wrote to BBC director general Lord Hall yesterday urging him to follow up a promise in front of MPs to consider including the paper in TV newspaper reviews.

Lord Hall was pressed about the broadcaster's continuing blackout of the Morning Star during exchanges with MPs at the Commons culture, media and sport select committee.

In response to an intervention by leading Labour backbencher Jim Sheridan, the BBC chief agreed to look into whether the Morning Star should be part of newspaper reviews.

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