No money? Get back to having news-readers who are not overpaid 'celebrities'. Cut out the repetition at all levels of broadcast. Cease idiotic 'live-from' reports, where the reporter, having left his scotch to warm, is seen standing on a hotel balcony. A filed report read in the studio will suffice.

Tom Nixon, Bedford, England

Meridian was from Southampton, moved to Reading and became Thames Valleyy. The area went to Banbury. Where next? The local news needs to be about 10 minutes and stop showing dross events. The weather seems to go on forever.
Close all local TV news, it is not worth watching.

Roger Squire, Basingstoke, England

Has there ever been a more ineffective regulator than Ofcom? If the Granada/Carlton monopoly of ITV cannot provide the West Country or Border area with the programming they deserve, then why not readvertise the franchises to companies who could. Fresh production input into ITV is well overdue.

Andrew Batty, Leeds, UK

Regional news is to be cut.Now can we have news stories about Boris and his London troups cut out of national news,stories that have no interest or concequence to the regions.

Steve Riley, Nottingham, England

Our local West Midlands news programmes concentrate on trivial issues concerning individuals rather than matters of general regional concern. If any genuine news item comes along it will be reported in the most excruciating detail and will make the national bulletins anyway.

Malcolm Southall, Birmingham,

BBC news for the Borders area already comes from Newcastle. The locals seem to prefer being associated with the geordies rather than the north west.

Jack, Carlisle, England

I don't think public money should subsidise ITV. As we already pay for the BBC- why pay for 2 channels to show regional news?
They are a commercial station and if they are struggling like any other business they need to ask why!

AK, Pig Hill ,

Yorkshire / Lincolnshire will be next, transmission cut on the back of a spurious reason.

Mark, Yorkshire,

Cornwall is now "sub-regional" which I guess means that all residents are "sub-residents" of England. Does this mean we will now be able to pay "sub-taxes" to resolve the great divide between what we pay and what we receive?

David Wade, Bude, UK

oh great, the news may not be exciting in these areas (i have family in both) however people have a right to know what is going on in their local area and should have a choice on which channel they can access this service.
Well done ITV, another series of i'm (not) a celebrity in the bag!

natasha, plymouth,

Out in the sticks, we feel left out as it is. Leave our local ITV news alone and make cuts to the trashy reality programmes permeating our screens.

Frank Greaney, Liverpool,

But seriously...who cares about regional TV news.?

Will, Edinburgh,

This is public service broadcasting, what the BBC is paid to do. Why should a commercial channel get lumbered with it? As Frank Skinner said - there's no use of the word local where you can't cross out the word local and insert the word crap. Who needs cat up a tree stories?

John Ledbury, Kings Lynn, England