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a recruit was found dead in barracks in 1995. No attempt yen Fiona Bruce

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will be here with a full round-up of the news, but first it is Newswatch.

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Coming up: Are you confused, bored or irritated by

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Why haven't BBC News reported more about allegations of electoral

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irregularities involving members of the Conservative Party at last

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And, the sound of the BBC's political editor being hissed

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We hear some reaction to that response.

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Less than three weeks to go and the EU referendum seems to have

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permeated every corner of BBC television output.

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As well as dominating the news, the subject featured

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in a documentary on BBC Two on Tuesday, fronted

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by the organisation's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

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Andrew Neil, it has been announced, will be hosting three prime-time

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television programmes on BBC One next week and the troublesome

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business of campaigning even found its way onto last

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We will ask the key players on both sides.

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Prime Minister David Cameron for Britain Stronger In Europe.

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I think it is one of our natural treasures.

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And Boris Johnson from the Vote Leave campaign.

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The countryside is central to ourselves and our sense

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Why backing them promises a rosy future for rural Britain.

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So were the rolling hills and bleating lambs of British

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countryside a suitable forum for arguments about why

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we should leave or stay in the European Union?

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We put that objection to Countryfile and the executive producer told us:

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That sense of referendum that he is clearly felt more widely. Andrew put

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it like this: it is not just the quantity but the

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nature of coverage that is turning some viewers. The leading players in

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this battle are in one particular political party and Conservative

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divisions are taking up too much air time for the tastes of this man. The

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referendum coverage is unbalanced. It is perpetuating the view that it

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is a struggle for power in the Conservative Party. On the evening

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bulletin there were discussions with some politicians about immigration,

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but at no point whether any interviews with Labour politicians

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or other opposition politicians, all of the contributions were from

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Conservative Party members. It is time that the national broadcaster

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respected non-Conservative Party views on this important issue. For

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one woman it is not the dominance of Conservatives that is the problem,

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but the dominance of politicians: to discuss those perceptions of how

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BBC News is covering the referendum campaign, and joined by Gavin Allen

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who controls daily news programmes. Too many politicians into many

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Conservatives in particular? Politicians are leading both the

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official campaigns and to give them credit they have a lot of experience

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at dealing with the departments that work with the European Union and it

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is legitimate that we hear from them. It is also important to see a

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range of voices which is what we have tried to do across all

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programmes and to hear from a range of parties. Tell me more about the

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range of voices. Viewers are saying it is not a party divide issue, it

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is bigger than that, so we should be hearing more people who are not

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politicians. If you look at breakfast TV coverage with the 10pm

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news this week we have looked at farming and fishing and education

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and the NHS, within those areas we have not been hearing from the

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Cabinet Secretary for that area but from people in the Trinity. -- in

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the community. Are we hearing a lot from people? I think so. Tim Martin

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from Wetherspoon 's was there, Ian both on with elsewhere, they were

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advocating their position on the referendum. Passion helps but so

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does explanation. If everyone is on one side it will confuse viewers.

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Part of the challenges that the campaigns are pumping out repetitive

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lines and edited daily line-up of celebrities on every issue. It is

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not your fault that they are running their campaigns that we did do you

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think the BBC goes along with that too much. The agenda they tried to

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set is normally the economy, controlling our borders, and a big

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topic so it is important to look at them in debt. It would be remiss of

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us if we waited for either camp to tell us what they want to do that

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day and we just followed it. Another complaint is that there is a lot of

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relevant comment and opinion in Europe. Heads of major EU businesses

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and institutions. But apart from Angela Merkel, very little of that

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gets onto the television. Should you not be putting more of those voices

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on-air? There is a lot of material on the website and we are trying to

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be comprehensive. We covered Angela Merkel on the Ten O'Clock News. We

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also looked at comments from Spain and the Netherlands. It was also

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from citizens in the EU, not just people in positions of the party. We

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did a piece for Newsnight where he toured across Europe. We have a

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referendum generation programme that looks younger people, including

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people who are not British, to see how they are preceding the

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referendum. There have been a lot of events in Cali over migrants, which

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people say should be part of the immigration issue coverage and not

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kept separate. I think it is a difficult area. When you say, keep

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it separate, we are covering those stories. It is the perceptions of

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people and members of the public but it is also distinct from it. There

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are EU and non-EU migration issues. If we blurred the boundaries of that

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I don't think we are serving the audience. There are still three

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weeks ago and there is already quite a frenzy. A lot of the public feel

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they are being put off, there is too much coverage. What should the BBC

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do? What we're getting from audience research is that there is an

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appetite for a clearer coverage and more coverage. It might be fishing

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or farming you are interested in that we have to cover the whole

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remit of this. Whatever someone is driven by, somewhere in a coverage

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we must be able to let them see that make an informed decision thank you.

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No doubt we will be looking at other aspects of the BBC's referendum

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coverage between now and the 23rd of June did in the meantime we leave

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you with some other topic boycott your attention week. The subject of

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must each discussion on social media, 11 police forces around the

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country have began inquiries following claims that the

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Conservatives broke the law during last year's general election and the

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electoral commission is also investigating. Channel 4 News has

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covered the story extensively, and while it has been mentioned on some

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BBC News outlets, there has not been nearly enough on it. Hundreds of

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years that this, including this one. Surely this is a big story and the

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BBC should be climbing all over it. Why are they not? Adi frightened?

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Will upset someone in the establishment? The ramifications for

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this is that we could be fighting an EU referendum by a party that was

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voted in by election of fraudulent practices. The BBC has taken my

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licence fee but it is not protecting the public or democracy. We at BBC

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very responsive and they told us: the BBC's political editor, Laura

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Kuenssberg, has found herself in the news and an online petition calling

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for her to be sacked gathered 35,000 signatures before being removed last

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month as it had become a focal point for misogynistic abuse. This week

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Jeremy Corbyn said that the BBC was obsessed with trying to damage the

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leadership of the party. On Thursday, when Laura Kuenssberg

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Peterborough Hand ASCII question, this happened. Laura Kuenssberg from

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the BBC. There has been much comment on the

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smile and the poll is before Jeremy Corbyn lifted his hand, but Tom

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Watson with quick to condemn the behaviour. He said: Laura Kuenssberg

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posted this gentle reminder: thank you for all your comments this week.

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If you want to share your opinion on the BBC's political reporting or any

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aspect of BBC News and current affairs do telephone us or send us

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an e-mail. You can find us on Twitter and they look at our

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website. That is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts

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about BBC News coverage again next

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