BBC News has taken on 72 external recruits since it announced 415 job losses last summer.

Staff were told in an email on Friday that 29 people have been brought into the division since director-general Tony Hall put in place an external recruitment freeze on 11 September.

The BBC said that no "permanent or continuing hires" have been made in this period, but added that from "time to time, staff have been employed on short-term contracts of less than three months".