Up to 110 jobs to be lost at BBC Salford

I hear that up to 110 of the jobs that have been moved to the BBC's new northern hub in Salford (mainly from London) will be lost as part of director-general Mark Thompson's Delivering Quality First cuts programme - with up to 60 of those coming from the News division.

All of which leaves people who have moved north out of love for their current BBC job feeling rather anxious.

But, when I interviewed Peter Salmon, the boss of the BBC's Salford project, for the Daily Telegraph a few weeks ago, he said that anybody who has moved up from London to do a BBC job in Salford will almost certainly be found another job, if theirs is made redundant.

'We don't foresee there being any enforced redundancies of people who've moved up from the south of England, supported by the BBC,' he said, pointing out that an additional 1,000 jobs would move to Salford as part of DQF (though the nature of those jobs has yet to be specified).

'The most important element is anybody who's moved from the south of England to the north of England. They will be put in a place of some preference for job opportunities. Secondly, wherever the BBC can redeploy staff from across the BBC, we have a commitment to making redeployment work.'

The unions will be watching carefully to see if Salmon's predictions come true on the ground.

• In other Salford news: the provisional date for BBC One's Breakfast programme to start broadcasting from the new site is 4 April 2012.

Staff - well, those that are going - will move up in earnest during March, following colleagues in Sport, Radio 5 Live and CBBC.