OFCOM’S decision to back STV plans to axe dedicated news coverage for the north of Scotland is “the weakest of decisions in the face of the strongest of opposition,” the National Union of Journalists said today.

Announced in September, the broadcaster’s plan to cut £2.5 million of spending and slash 60 jobs by next year has faced opposition from the Scottish government, five political parties and STV journalists themselves, who took strike action as the Holyrood count got underway on May 8.

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