In a move to protect local news providers, the UK Newspaper Society is insisting on a limit to the number of stories that the BBC can publish on its local Web sites. In response, the BBC pledged in a strategy document that it would make efforts to not overwhelm local news.

The Newspaper Society, however, questions whether or not BBC will actually follow through on their claim, or "whether the strategy review may become the latest in a long line of BBC acknowledgement of criticism of its ever-growing activities, without any effective action to curb and reduce them." Furthermore, in BBC's strategy report, it had expressed an intention to expand its coverage of business and local government, deepening the NS's concern that the BBC was overstepping its bounds. To encourage traffic on local sites, the NS has asked the BBC to publish links to local newspaper stories that the BBC uses as sources for its own publications.

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