BBC Food website 'could close': All you need to know

Food will disappear, but the recipes will be archived and moved over to BBC Good Food. The BBC's Travel website will also be axed.

The cost-cutting exercise comes amid government pressure to reduce non-essential services to justify continued state funding.

The recipes you love will still be available and we'll migrate as much of the content as possible to the BBC Good Food website.

Over time, they may get a bit harder to find, for reasons that a young person who knows what search engine optimisation is might be able to explain.

On Tuesday morning, the BBC said the recipes would be removed from the internet.

It is expected that BBC website users can expect a reduction in local news and travel content. Maybe Chancellor George Osborne is partly to blame, as he highlighted recipes as one area of the BBC's "imperial ambitions" that needed to be curbed.

BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker tweeted: 'Has there ever been a more pointless thing than removing recipes from a website that loads of people enjoy?

In last week's White Paper, though, Culture Secretary John Whittingdale urged the Beeb to make "more distinctive programmes". Those recipes are yours, you paid for them with your licence fee.

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"There's been a lot of interest in BBC recipes today", a BBC spokesperson said.

On the surface the BBC is being responsive to the needs of commercial publishers by trimming back its sites, but Ian Whittaker, media analyst at Liberum thinks there's there more to it.

"We have said firstly that the BBC needs to be more distinctive".

We've most of us tried BBC recipes at one point or another - delicious cake from Mary Berry, yummy curries from Jamie Oliver, decadent creamy dishes from the lovely Nigella - and they're tried and tested and they work.

The corporation had come under criticism for not offering services that were distinct enough from newspapers.

Close the BBC's Food website.

Hours after the news broke, a developer called Howard Yeend had set up a website called Auntie's Recipes promising a searchable index of the BBC pages.

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