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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 10:52 UK time, Wednesday, 30 June 2010

I'm the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new employees and cap contributions to existing members, to tackle a Β£2bn deficit. that trade unions are threatening industrial action and it could be a model for the public sector.

Two award-winning posters for the clothing firm Diesel have been banned by the advertising watchdog for showing images of young women "likely to cause serious offence", .

In the US, the news that Larry King, the 76-year-old CNN talkshow host, has announced he will step down in the autumn, after months of speculation following a fall in ratings.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is under fire over its Wimbledon coverage, . On messageboards, some viewers say it's focusing too much on low-cut dresses and canoodling couples in the crowd. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ says it seeks to bring home the atmosphere and has had no complaints.

the Open University is claiming a world record for the number of academic downloads on iTunes - as the first to reach 20 million.

The newspapers are mostly unimpressed with the Russian 'spy ring's' espionage efforts, .

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