Yesterday I met someone very closely connected to one of the BBC Trust members who was pivotal in the decision not to allow the local video journalism scheme to go ahead. I am now slightly more convinced that the decision was based on a concern that the scheme did not offer value for money (but still not entirely convinced that there wasn't an element of leaning-on somewhere in the process).

This, however, simply reinforces the idea that the Trust members did not give full weight to the long term requirement for local news provision and the BBC's vital role in that.

More great news to convince David Cameron that the Newspaper Society's members really do have local media's best interests at heart:

Newsquest make their Scottish journalists re-apply for their jobs
A good Roy Greenslade blog post on the matter
Alex Salmond gets involved in the issue