BBC.co.uk overspent by 48 percent in 2007/08 because management is “not sufficiently strong” and “financial oversight has not been sufficiently effective”, according to the BBC Trust’s review in to the service, which demands an overhaul of the top team by December and has ordered online investment be frozen until then.
The review said 2007/08 BBC.co.uk expenditure, which excludes iPlayer and streaming media,