The BBC has confirmed plans to close five of its 32 World Service language services.

Staff have been informed that up to 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of 2,400 over the next three years.

The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year.

Audiences are estimated to fall by more than 30 million, from 180 million to 150 million a week.

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The problem is that some services also help the cost of other services such as actual broadcasting particularly short wave. So the savings might not be as much as expected or have unintended consequences.