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SIR MICHAEL LYONS TO QUIT BBC
SIR MICHAEL Lyons will step down as BBC Trust chairman next year. He wrote to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt saying he does not intend to remain in the post and will leave when his four-year term ends in May. He said: “I am proud of what we have achieved in safeguarding the BBC’s independence against significant challenge… We have taken openness and transparency to a new level.”