Children's programmes will no longer be shown on BBC One and Two following the digital switchover, the BBC Trust has confirmed.

However, on weekday evenings between 19:00 and 22:00, all of the BBC's regional stations in England will join together for a new all-England programme, although stations will have the flexibility to opt for local sports coverage.

BBC management responded to the report, saying: "We welcome the BBC Trust's full approval of our Delivering Quality First proposals.

Blue Peter, for example, is now seen by an average audience of 123,000 6-12 year olds when it is shown on CBBC.

"Only a very small percentage of children still solely watch these programmes on BBC One and BBC Two alone, so moving them to digital channels is merely following current viewing patterns and reflects the fact that CBeebies and CBBC will be universally available on digital TV from the end of this year."

Figures on digital have steadily increased since its introduction of CBBC and CBeebies in 2002.

The BBC Trust document was its final report into cost-saving plans known internally as "Delivering Quality First".

BBC One repeats of the show are watched by an average of 30,000 children in the same age range.

BBC One and Two will "largely be protected from making significant cuts". Repeats on BBC One will increase, but remain under 10% of all output (the current rate is 8.4%). Expenditure on sports rights will be cut by 15%. This has largely been achieved already by sharing rights to Formula 1 coverage. Regional music programmes on Radio 1 will be replaced with a single programme "that offers a UK-wide platform for undiscovered, unsigned" bands. Radio 3 will have "25 per cent fewer live and specially recorded lunchtime concerts". Plans to drop 5 live's weekly one hour current affairs programme have been dropped. Asian Network will increase its music content, and cease to broadcast between midnight and 06:00.

A Trust spokesperson said: "Children's programmes are absolutely fundamental to the BBC and that is why we have protected investment in them in the light of cuts elsewhere.

The confirmation came in a report approving the BBC's cost-cutting plans.

Award-winning shows such as Horrible Histories and Blue Peter will move permanently to CBBC and CBeebies.

A plan for local radio stations to share programmes in the afternoon will now be limited to a "very small number" of stations.

The BBC Trust, which is the governing body of the BBC, drew up its report in consultation with listeners, viewers and other broadcasters.

Spending on children's programmes will not be affected, and the move is unlikely to be detrimental to viewing figures.

"The coming years will involve a significant effort from people at every level of the BBC to deliver the savings while we continue to provide the quality programmes and services that audiences expect from us."

Local radio changes were approved a day after Radio Humberside's Beryl and Betty won a Sony award

In recent months, the number of young people watching children's programmes on the BBC's main terrestrial channels has occasionally dropped as low as 1,000.

It confirmed that cuts to local radio and TV services would be halved - with savings now in the region of £8m, compared to the original proposal of £15m.

Across the BBC, some of the main points noted by the BBC Trust were:

As a result, reductions in local news teams will be lower, and coverage of local sport will be "more protected", the Trust said.

No date has been set for the change, but the final analogue transmitters will be switched off in Northern Ireland between 10-24 October.

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After a toast to a new season, a coming new year, and—hurrahs all around—a new Italian government, Pitti Immagine CEO Raffaello Napoleone briefed the crowd gathered for lunch in New York this afternoon on what to expect for the next editions of Pitti Uomo and Pitti W, the menswear and womenswear trade fairs in Florence that have become an increasingly important stop on the global fashion circuit. As has been announced, Valentino will be the invited guest at the menswear fair, where creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli (left) will present their men’s collection on the runway for the first time, after several seasons of showroom appointments in Paris. “We were following them like dogs,” Napoleone told the room with a laugh. “Very hungry.” Every dog, it turns out, has his day.

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Long and wide isn’t a trend only on the men’s runways; ladies in the know have been rocking the wider look, too. Blake Lively (and, to be fair, her Gossip Girl costumers) chose the style while filming on location in Paris. (While she’s been there, Lively’s been taking in a few couture shows, too.) We love her swingy, blush pink Suno trousers, with two-tone booties and turquoise jewelry that plays up the still-won’t-quit seventies vibe of the season. Likewise her long, loose hair. The only part we’d change is the too-skimpy tank with contrasting bra. What do you think? Is bigger better, where pants are concerned?