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ByppThe BBC World Service is well-known to insomniacs tuning in to Radio 4 in the middle of the night, intrepid travellers, expat Britons and aficionados of international news. Few other British citizens appear to be very aware of, or indeed care much about this internation yeezy al news service targeted at overseas audiences in 28 languages, including English. But we should care about the World Service not just because very soon we will be paying for it through the licence fee, but because its future is precarious. We might lose a very precious organisation that has been a force for good in the world just because we are ill-informed about its value.The biggest shake up to the funding and governance of the World Service since World War II is taking place: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ceases funding the World Service which will henceforth be funded by the licence fee, along with the BBCs domestic public services. The BBC Trust s adidas originals samba ets its budget and overall strategic direction and, with the foreign secretary, agrees the languages in which it operates. It can close speci yeezy fic language services, as it always has done, according to strategic priorities, market competition and/or informational need. Some changes may also require agreement by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport.The governments rationale for these changes remains unclear. It will only slowly dawn on licence-fee payers that they are funding a multilingual service for overseas audiences. The danger is that theQmob鈥?Men cycling pursuit team beat Australia to claim gold and a new world record鈥?Sprint finishes clinches gold medal for Victoria Pendleton in the keirin cyling race鈥?Katherine Grainger and Anna W stanley cup atkins take gold in the double sculls鈥?Heptathlete Jessica Ennis breaks world heptathlon 100m hurdles record in first event鈥?Yamile Aldama achieves automatic qualification for Sunday triple jump final鈥?In swimming, Team GB Fran Halsall wins 50m freestyle heat鈥?Bronze medals for Team GB in men rowing pairs and in men stanley hrneksingle sculls鈥?Ennis jumps 1.86 on her third attempt at the high jump.鈥?Karina Bryant wins Team GB bronze in judo鈥?Women GB cycling team break world record in team pursuitLondon 2012: Team GB and Channel 4 News tweets19:05PENDLETON WINS GOLDVictoria Pendleton cast aside yesterday relegation disappointment to storm to victory in the 8-lap keirin race. Her astonishing sprint finish left Chinese rider Guo Shuang in second place while Lee Wai Sze of Hong Kong took bronze.18:30GOLD MEDAL MEN BREAK WORLD RECORDIn the final, the men cycling team pursuit dominated their Australian riva stanley uk ls to secure gold in a world record breaking time of 3 minutes 51.659 seconds, beating the record they had set the day before. 17:54WOMEN ;S CYCLING TEAM BREAK WORLD RECORDAt the velodrome the women team record a time of 3 minutes 15.669 seconds, breaking the world record for the team pursuit as they qualify for the next rou
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