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1. 1. BBC boss issues security alert as she warns MediaCity staff that Salford is 'different kettle of fish' to London

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 April 2012 BBC staff at MediaCity were offered security escorts to take them to their cars – as a boss warned the site was a ‘different kettle of fish’ to their former London home.

2. 2. BBC spends £850k on travel to MediaCity

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 10 April 2012 The BBC spent almost £850,000 on travel to Manchester and Salford during the first months at its new MediaCity home.

3. 3. Crime figures show new BBC home at MediaCity in Salford is SIX TIMES safer than Television Centre in London

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 13 April 2012 As a row rages over BBC staff safety at MediaCity, we can reveal that the broadcaster’s London home has an average of SIX times as many crimes per month as their new base.

4. 4. Revealed: 3,172 Salford people applied for BBC MediaCity jobs - and only 24 were hired

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 January 2012 MP Hazel Blears has called for an urgent meeting with BBC bosses after it emerged only 24 out of 3,172 people from Salford who applied for new jobs at MediaCity were hired.

5. 5. MediaCity Salford nominated in 'Carbuncle' awards for Britain's ugliest new buildings

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 July 2011 MediaCity UK has been put forward for the Carbuncle Cup – a competition to find the UK’s ugliest new buildings.

6. 6. Off with his head: Husband in royal doghouse after digital camera blunder means he misses moment wife met the Queen at MediaCity

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 03 April 2012 Mossley photographer John Riding is in the royal doghouse after a blunder with his new digital camera meant he missed one the proudest moments of his wife Linda's life - meeting the Queen during her visit to MediaCity in Salford.

7. 7. MediaCity prepares for first BBC arrivals after 48,000 apply for jobs at Salford Quays

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 March 2011 It’s just nine weeks until the first BBC staff move to MediaCity. It’s taken years of planning and cost millions of pounds but the project is on time and on budget. So says Richard Deverell, the man in charge of making it happen.

8. 8. MediaCity trams grind to a halt

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 November 2010 Trams to MediaCity have been suspended because of problems with a new signalling system.

9. 9. Revealed: New computer system caused ALL MediaCity Metrolink failures

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 03 February 2011 Passengers on the Manchester-Eccles line have suffered a total of 60 hours of delays due to a string of problems with the new system on the MediaCity ‘spur’ in Salford Quays.

10. 10. Bomb worry at MediaCity

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 April 2009 CONSTRUCTION staff working on the MediaCity development have something new to think about... unexploded German bombs.

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