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From BBC News (by Torin Douglas): This round-up of Thursday's main media stories focuses on the return of Big Brother and its importance for Richard Desmond and the wife of the House of Commons speaker. The reality TV programme Big Brother is back on our screens tonight, saved by Channel 5's owner and media mogul Richard Desmond, who also runs OK! magazine, the Daily Express and the Daily Star. I reported for Radio 4's Today on its importance for Mr Desmond and how it fits into his booming business model. The Daily Mail says it has emerged that Sally Bercow, the wife of House Of Commons Speaker John Bercow, will be paid £60000 for participating in Celebrity Big Brother, on top of £100000 she is being given for charity. The paper claims she will keep £40000 and pass £20000 to Max Clifford to act as her publicist during the show's run. It quotes Mr Clifford as saying "I can confirm [Mrs Bercow] is giving a £100000 fee to her chosen charity. She's also being paid a fee a lot less than that and is paying me out of that." The Daily Telegraph's Neil Midgley is alarmed at reports that BBC Four may lose much of its budget in the forthcoming cuts at the Corporation. He writes: "Twitter is awash with a 'Save BBC Four' campaign, and there is a formal online petition at www.savebbcfour.com... Such an outcome would be philistinism on a grand scale - and would also show a blatant disregard for the public purposes established for the BBC under its royal charter. BBC Four is by far the <b>...</b>