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On 16 February 2016, the BBC Three television service was discontinued and replaced by a digital outlet under the same name, targeting its young adult audience with web series and other content. The plans included a reduction in posts of 2,500; including 1,800 redundancies, consolidating news operations, reducing programming output by 10% and selling off the flagship Television Centre building in London. The resulting political “talk series”, designed to inform England on political issues, were criticised by members of parliament, including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George and Sir Austen Chamberlain. BBC Tech Now meets the makers of Total War strategy series to uncover how they bring medieval cultures to life. An independent panel appointed by the BBC Trust was set up in 2006 to review the impartiality of the BBC's coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. BBC News faced an important test, reporting on itself with the publication of the report, but by common consent (of the Board of Governors) managed this “independently, impartially and honestly”. There was no paid advertising on the BBC; all the revenue came from a tax on receiving sets. Reith succeeded in building a high wall against a more tabloid, free-for-all in radio aimed at merely attracting the largest audience (and advertising revenue). British radio audiences had little choice apart from BBC's programming approach. To represent its purpose and (stated) values, the new corporation adopted the coat of arms, including the motto “Nation shall speak peace unto Nation”. Eucerin asked 160 people to use the serum for four weeks then say how much younger they thought they looked. The first edition of John Craven's Newsround, initially intended only as a short series and later renamed just Newsround, came from studio N3 on 4 April 1972. Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N1 – described by The Guardian as “a sort of polystyrene padded cell”—the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN's News at Ten, introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV. News Review and Westminster (the latter a weekly review of Parliamentary happenings) were “colourised” shortly after. On Sunday 17 September 1967, The World This Weekend, a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be Radio 4. News Review was a summary of the week's news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 1964 on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly Newsreel Review of the Week, produced from 1951, to open programming on Sunday evenings–the difference being that this incarnation had subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. How Japan's samurai tea ceremony and cherry blossoms hold the recipe for a meaningful life. An ancient kitchen discovered in Turkey's Karahan Tepe offers a glimpse into prehistoric cooking and daily life. BBC News reporters and broadcasts are now and have in the past been banned in several countries primarily for reporting which has been unfavourable to the ruling government. However, in July 2017, the BBC announced a new partnership with CBS News allows both organisations to share video, editorial content, and additional newsgathering resources in New York, London, Washington and around the world. On 18 October 2007, ED Mark Thompson announced a six-year plan, “Delivering Creative Futures” (based on his project begun in March 2005), merging the television current affairs department into a new “News Programmes” division. Bulletins received new titles and a new set design in May 2006, to allow for Breakfast to move into the main studio for the first time since 1997. A new set design featuring a projected fictional newsroom backdrop was introduced, followed on 16 February 2004 by new programme titles to match those of BBC News 24. Following the relaunch of BBC News in 1999, regional headlines were included at the start of the BBC One news bulletins in 2000. This also included Newyddion, the main news programme of Welsh language channel S4C, produced by BBC News Wales. The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each. Watch Monday night's edition of BBC Radio Sheffield's Football Heaven, reviewing the weekend's action, with Rob Staton and Adam Oxley. TV and FilmBilly Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter lead the cast of California Avenue, the BBC's upcoming six-part drama set in a 1970s caravan park TV and FilmSheridan Smith and Michael Socha lead the Liverpool-set crime drama, The Cage, which follows two casino workers who start skimming cash from the safe Holly also said that she and Motherland co-creators Helen and Sharon Horgan drew on their own experiences while working on the flagship comedy. In subsequent weeks the corporation stood by the report, saying that it had a reliable source. BBC News was at the centre of a political controversy following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Prominent BBC appointments are constantly assessed by the British media and political establishment for signs of political bias. In addition to broadcasting output on television and radio, some programmes are also displayed on the BBC Big Screens in several central-city locations. The BBC Proms have been produced by the BBC every year since 1927, stepping in to fund the popular eight-week summer classical music festival when music publishers Chappell and Co withdrew their support. On 26 February 2010 The Times claimed that Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, proposed that the BBC's web output should be cut by 50%, with online staff numbers and budgets reduced by 25% in a bid to scale back BBC operations and allow commercial rivals more room. (For example, instead of providing local events information and timetables, users will be guided to outside websites already providing that information.) Part of this plan included the BBC closing some of its websites, and rediverting money to redevelop other parts. BBC Scotland, based in Pacific Quay, Glasgow is a large producer of programmes for the network, including several quiz shows. Broadcasting House Belfast, home to BBC Northern Ireland, specialises in original drama and comedy, and has taken part in many co-productions with independent companies and notably with RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. These plans included increasing the diversity of its content on television and radio, a major increase in investments towards digital children's content, and plans to make larger investments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to “rise to the challenge of better reflecting and representing a changing UK”. As well as big tits , a series of local BBC radio stations were established in 1967, including Radio London. Starting in 1964, a series of pirate radio stations (starting with Radio Caroline) came on the air and forced the British government finally to regulate radio services to permit nationally based advertising-financed services. BBC News content is also output onto the BBC's digital interactive television services under the BBC Red Button brand, and until 2012, on the Ceefax teletext system. The new set featured Barco videowall screens with a background of the London skyline used for main bulletins and originally an image of cirrus clouds against a blue sky for Breakfast. New technology, provided by Silicon Graphics, came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1 bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically. These included the introduction of correspondents into news bulletins where previously only a newsreader would present, as well as the inclusion of content gathered in the preparation process. On the one hand Reith was acutely aware that the government might exercise its right to commandeer the BBC at any time as a mouthpiece of the government if the BBC were to step out of line, but on the other he was anxious to maintain public trust by appearing to be acting independently. This was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee to fund broadcasts. The committee recommended a short-term reorganisation of licence fees with improved enforcement to address the BBC's immediate financial distress, and an increased share of the licence revenue split between it and the GPO. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved domestic manufacturers. When Atos Origin acquired the SIS division from Siemens in December 2010 for €850 million (£720m), the BBC support contract also passed to Atos, and in July 2011, the BBC announced to staff that its technology support would become an Atos service. In 2004 the BBC contracted out its former BBC Technology division to the German engineering and electronics company Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS), outsourcing its IT, telephony and broadcast technology systems. Until it closed at the end of March 2013, BBC Television was based at Television Centre, a purpose-built television facility opened in 1960 located in White City, four miles (6 km) west of central London. The majority of the BBC's commercial output comes from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide which sell programmes abroad and exploit key brands for merchandise. The export of BBC programmes through services like the BBC World Service and BBC News, as well as through the channels operated by BBC Studios, means that audiences can consume BBC productions worldwide. For example, The Great British Bake Off is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, with stores reporting sharp rises in sales of baking ingredients and accessories. Top of the Pops, the world's longest-running weekly music show, first aired in January 1964, the Rolling Stones being the first group to perform on it. Consisting of senior managers of the BBC, the committee meets once per month and is responsible for operational management and delivery of services within a framework set by the board, and is chaired by the director-general, who is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief. The board sets the strategy for the corporation, assesses the performance of the BBC's executive board in delivering the BBC's services, and appoints the director-general. The current charter took effect on 1 January 2017 and is set to expire on 31 December 2027; the agreement being coterminous. The charter also outlines the BBC's governance and regulatory arrangements as a statutory corporation, including the role and composition of the BBC Board. The charter additionally sets out that the BBC is subject to an additional agreement between it and the Culture Secretary, and that its operating licence is to be set by Ofcom, an external regulatory body. The charter is the constitutional basis for the BBC, and sets out the BBC's object, mission and public purposes.