How the BBC is wasting millions on its websites Corporation forced to scrap some Internet services after damning report

From: Daily Mail | Date: July 6, 2004| Author: TARA CONLAN | Copyright information

THE BBC has been accused of wasting millions of pounds of licence- payers' money on its mushrooming Internet empire.

Some of its websites are to be closed after the corporation came under fire in a Government report yesterday.

The BBC has been given just four months to curb its Internet operations or face action from Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell.

Last year the corporation's Internet services hoovered up Pounds 72million and the number of web pages reached more than 2m...

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