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Noel Edmonds' BBC takeover plan – the real deal or no deal?

Noel Edmonds
Noel Edmonds says he would (sorry) shave the BBC’s budget if he and a group of investors were successful in their plan to buy it. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA

The good ship BBC is apparently sailing towards inevitable disaster … well, that's the view of Noel Edmonds, anyway. The Deal or No Deal host has revealed that he and a group of investors want to buy the corporation and run it as a private enterprise, saying that a renewal of the licence fee agreement would be "as futile as giving medicine to a corpse." Continuing his cheery message, the former Beeb presenter said: "The long-suffering British public deserve better. BBC management has pursued an expansionist strategy that defies logic". Surely that's called thinking outside the box, Noel?

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