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The BBC's flagship breakfast show may move to Salford by 2012, leaving staff six months to decide whether to move from London.

The move would affect around 100 staff involved with the BBC One Breakfast show. Tweets from BBC Breakfast producer James Laidler on his personal Twitter account , which have since been deleted, suggested the news was broken to staff this morning.

"Awful mood in office today - emerges Breakfast is very likely moving to Salford by 2012 and we'll have six months to decide if we go too," he said.

"I shld [sic] point out that none of sentiment is because of Salford itself. It's compressed timescale of relocation compared with other teams."

The BBC is thought to be considering a moving a range of output from London to Salford. Plans to move 2,300 staff to the new BBC North centre at MediaCityUK in Salford have already been announced, with sport, future media and technology and parts of Radio 5 Live already scheduled to move.

A spokesperson for the BBC would not confirm the details of a potential move for BBC Breakfast.

"We've always been clear that we want to move more of our output to Salford, but no final decision has been made and we are considering a range of options," he told Journalism.co.uk. The BBC confirmed today that 20 planned job cuts will go ahead in the next seven months, including presenters and newsroom journalists, and may include forced redundancies.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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