Coming off life support

Well, it was bound to happen. True to form, Jeremy Hunt has told S4C that he considers funding linked to the retail price index as "unsustainable in the current financial climate". His solution is that he will decide in future how much the Welsh language channel will receive.

To many industry observers, the decision is another is a succession of moves that will eventually see the service shunted off into the hands of the Welsh Assembly.

Conservative MP Glyn Davies, who is PPS to Cheryl Gillan, said he expected the guaranteed funding for S4C to be changed in next week's spending review but that the broadcaster would remain as an independent body.

But he warned that it was “not untouchable." Ooer.