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This time it's personal. The Fair Share campaign has become more than a job to me.

The Birmingham Post's BBC cash to be reinvested in the Midlands – but it has now become about saving the nation's broadcaster from itself.

Financially, it's a huge issue for this region. We'd be something like £800 million a year better off if the Beeb invested here as it does in other regions – but it is about more than that to me.

The BBC is one of this country's most treasured possessions.

Without broadcasters like Peter Allen, David Dimbleby and John Simpson, I might never have got into journalism. But Auntie has found herself on the wrong side of history.

Britain is increasingly becoming a place where you can't just represent a nation from the heart of London.

Localism isn't a buzz word - it's real.

Increasingly, and reluctantly, our overlords in the capital are accepting money raised in the regions should be spent there.