Battle for Bake Off. BBC loses out as Channel 4 snaps up hit show

Battle for Bake Off. Channel 4 snaps up BBC hit

It has been announced that the Great British Bake Of will be leaving the BBC after the current series.

The show will now be shown by Channel 4, after it signed a three-year-deal with Love Productions, which makes the hit programme.

The BBC said it hoped the production compamy would change its mind and that Bake Off was a "quintessentially BBC programme".

It is rumoured that Channel 4 will be paying £25 million per series, double what the BBC had offered.

But should the BBC be paying more to keep the show?

Former top policeman says cronyism is a serious problem in NI

"A level of cronyism exists in Northern Ireland in which corruption can thrive". That's the claim from a former top policeman.

Alan McQuillan has just finished a five-year stint on the Independent Financial Review panel into MLAs' salaries, expenses, and pensions.

In an interview in the Belfast telegraph - Mr McQuillan was scathing about public appointments in Northern Ireland.

Another company ditches zero hours contracts but are they all bad?

JD Wetherspoon has become the latest British company to give staff on zero-hours contracts - the opportunity to move to permanent hours.

The pub chain -- which employs 24,000 people -- joins Sport Direct and McDonald's in offering people the chance to leave the controversial contract.

But are they all bad? Or do they have their benefits?