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Title: Wood Norton?
Post by Administrator on Mar 12^th, 2020, 9:39am

The Daily Mirror reports here, that Wood Norton Hall is on standby in case the virus hits New Broadcasting House.

"BBC executives have drawn-up plans after a crunch meeting of its Gold committee to thrash out contingency arrangements in case major corporation hubs, such as the £1billion New Broadcasting House in London, are affected.

Emergency plans include switching some operations to Wood Norton in Worcestershire, home to its College of Technology, part of the wider BBC Academy.

..........The source said staff already based at Wood Norton “have the skills and capacity to do what London control rooms do”."