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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

Â鶹Éç staff have voted in favour of strike action over plans to cut their pensions, the Â鶹Éç and . But unions said the decision on whether to strike would be postponed for two weeks, while it discussed alternative proposals with the Â鶹Éç.

The allegations in the New York Times that the prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World. The he "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages. The Guardian says he has always insisted he had no knowledge of illegal activity and has denied the latest allegations.

The Â鶹Éç has lost a legal fight to stop publication of a book which reveals the identity of Top Gear's driver The Stig. The Â鶹Éç reports the High Court refused to grant an injunction blocking publication by HarperCollins of an autobiography by driver Ben Collins.

The director general of the Â鶹Éç, Mark Thompson, has said there was a "massive bias to the left" among the Corporation's journalists, when he joined the Â鶹Éç thirty years ago. that staff had been "quite mystified" by the rise of Margaret Thatcher, but now impartiality was much higher up the agenda, reports the Daily Mail.

The Tony Blair's autobiography "the political memoirs of the decade" and says it's the fastest selling autobiography ever. The Â鶹Éç newspaper review says the papers also examine William Hague's personal statement about his private life.

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