BBC set to cut 250 jobs with factual merger.

The BBC's specialist factual and documentaries and contemporary factual departments - homes to shows such as Pompeii and What Not to Wear - are set to merge, in a move that could cost at least 250 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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