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Hundreds of schools will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest interactive weather report on Thursday 11 March.

As part of the record attempt teenagers across the UK will take a temperature reading for their area at 9.15am and feed the data to the Weather Centre at BBC Television Centre.

The temperature readings, taken in celsius, will then be used to fill in a BBC Weather map for a special broadcast later in the day. Each school taking part has a temperature disc on the map which has been located using the coordinates of the school and the combination of the discs on the map will show the variation of temperatures across the UK. Students in London will also be joined by well known weather icons such as Michael Fish as the event unfolds.
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Today we're launching a set of proposals which chart a new long-range direction for the BBC. Even more than today, we want the BBC of the future to put quality first; to do fewer things better; to guarantee access for all not just to its own services but to the wider benefits of digital; to make the licence-fee work harder; and to set new boundaries for itself.

The proposals are our answer to a set of challenges laid down last summer by our governing body, the BBC Trust. From today, the Trust will take the proposals and consult the public about them before arriving at its own view about the strategic way forward for the BBC.

Of course, if you'd read press speculation about the proposals over recent days, you'd assume that the only questions the strategy review was set up to answer was about the BBC's size and what it should stop doing.

BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra are set to bring an exciting mix of live music, new music, entertainment and DJs to audiences throughout the UK in 2010.

Unveiling the network's live events programmes for the year, Radio 1 has confirmed it will once again be at all the major UK festivals including Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, T in the Park, Download and Creamfields.

And, for the first time, the station will visit Rockness and Wakestock festivals – two fantastic new additions to the line-up.

The BBC Asian Network today announces that it will broadcast the world's first Official Asian Download Chart.

Presented by Bobby Friction, the three-hour extended show is set to launch on Saturday 27 March from 3.00 to 6.00pm.

Compiled by The Official Charts Company, the Top 20 rundown replaces the station's current Saturday afternoon opinion-based buzz chart.

The BBC's teen brand BBC Switch has commissioned independent production company, Firecracker Films, to produce a new six-part observational documentary series which examines teen relationships.

Broadcasting this spring within the Switch zone on BBC Two (Saturdays, 12noon-2.00pm), Single, Together, Whatever gives a unique insight into what young people really think about relationships and love.

The 30-minute episodes follow the ups and downs of the love lives of a diverse group of 14- to 18-year-olds in real-life situations as they flirt, date, get together, break up and experience the emotional rollercoaster of teen romance.

Core public services BBC News and BBC Sport to be repurposed for a wide range of smartphones, including iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobiles

The BBC today announced that it is to offer a new range of applications that will deliver BBC Online services to a range of mobile devices.

Licence fee payers have already been able to access the BBC website on mobile phones for eight years and today's announcement means that public service content can be better enjoyed on the move.

Tom Giles has been appointed as the new Editor of Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs series.

He will take over the post in mid-March.

The appointment comes after the former Editor, Sandy Smith, was announced as the new Executive Editor for The One Show.

BBC Radio 4 presents a fantastic line-up of brand new comedy to help banish those winter blues and lift listeners into spring, showcasing the outstanding talent of award-winning comedian Sarah Millican; Cockney stand-up star and if.comedy award nominee Micky Flanagan; the comic writing genius of Tom Basden, one of the BBC's four man sketch group, the Cowards; and many more.

Sarah Millican won the if.comedy Best Newcomer Award in Edinburgh 2008 and completed a successful sell-out run in Edinburgh last year.

In this, her first series for Radio 4, Sarah Millican's Support Group, she plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt.

- Tate Britain is the first gallery to exhibit archived Henry Moore programmes, following new partnership between the BBC and The Henry Moore Foundation

- Henry Moore gets the 21st century treatment as 21 newly-digitised documentaries are released online for the first time

The BBC and The Henry Moore Foundation today announce a new partnership that sees the BBC's complete collection of television documentaries on Henry Moore digitised and released online to coincide with a major new retrospective of the UK's most celebrated 20th century sculptor.

Following publication of the BBC Trust Service Review of BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, a BBC Management Statement was issued:

We welcome this report and the Trust's acknowledgement of our ongoing efforts to ensure Radio 2 remains a distinctive network, fully focussed on its mature audience, and that 6 Music has built a loyal listenership that enjoys its broad range of music.

Radio 2 offers an unrivalled range of music – including jazz, country, big band, organ music, folk and musical theatre – alongside news, current affairs, religion, comedy, social action initiatives and readings, so we are delighted that 91% of respondents feel that Radio 2 offers something that could not easily be replaced by any other station. However, noting the Trust's recommendations, we will be revamping and refreshing our arts coverage, aiming to thread arts, documentaries and comedy into the peak time schedule and continuing to target audiences over the age of 35.

This Easter, the true meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ will be marked by BBC Religion & Ethics television, through documentaries, live worship and sacred music.

For the first time there will be a special service from Kings College Cambridge, Easter At Kings, which will feature music from the world-famous Chapel Choir of King's College plus a series of readings to mark the Easter Story.

On BBC One, for Holy Week, Nicky Campbell investigates what it means to be a Christian in Britain today in Are Christians Being Persecuted? Going behind the headlines to explore a number of high-profile legal cases, the documentary asks some searching questions about the changing nature of how Christianity and Christians are viewed in our society.

The BBC's teen brand BBC Switch has announced that it is has commissioned a second series of its multi-platform teen drama, The Cut, and will be holding open auditions in four UK cities to find two brand new characters to join the young cast.

Budding actors or actresses between the ages of 16 and 21 can apply to join the soap, with two roles – one male and one female – up for grabs.

The first series of The Cut was launched in September 2009.

- A selection of the original broadcasts made by a notorious Nazi propagandist now available online for the first time
- Eleven previously unreleased documents and letters shed new light on how the BBC dealt with the infamous Lord Haw-Haw
- Panic in Peterborough – documents released by BBC Archive reveal which parts of the country were most affected by Lord Haw-Haw's propaganda broadcasts
- A new online collection from BBC Archive reveals how the BBC turned to satire and news programmes to counteract the Nazi propaganda that was broadcast from Germany across the UK at the beginning of the Second World War.

Fifteen radio recordings and eleven previously unreleased internal BBC documents have been digitised and made available online for the first time, offering a unique insight into the fascinating story of William Joyce, the infamous Nazi broadcaster, Lord Haw-Haw.

Legendary hit maker Pete Waterman will produce this year's UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The multi award-winning music maestro has been responsible for producing and writing more than 200 hits in over 25 years, and worked with pop sensations from Kylie Minogue, Donna Summer, Geri Halliwell, Westlife and Bananarama to Steps, Rick Astley and Dead Or Alive.

The song will be performed at Eurovision 2010, which takes place in Oslo in May.

BBC Scotland is currently in Argyll filming Mission:2110, an ambitious and bold new 13-episode sci-fi game show for CBBC from the team behind Raven.

Set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, in each episode a team of four contestants span time and space to travel to the futuristic setting of our planet, long after mankind has disappeared, to try to restore peace and stability.

The young recruits, guided by their mentor Caleb, have to battle, in a series of missions, against the Roboidz – intelligent towering cybernetic entities who now rule Earth – snatching Bio-Rods, the enemy's vital fuel source, in order to shut down their empire.