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  "id": 17954596,
  "title": "Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs in bid to reduce costs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/virgin-media-o2-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-in-bid-to-reduce-costs",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T11:17:00.000Z",
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  "summary": "Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is set to cut thousands of jobs, as it looks to save around £300m through \"a reduction in the size of the workforce\".",
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        "outlet": "BBC News",
        "title": "Thousands of jobs at Virgin Media O2 to be cut",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/thousands-of-jobs-at-virgin-media-o2-to-be-cut",
        "published": "2026-11-01T16:57:14.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "Thousands of jobs at Virgin Media O2 to be cut",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/thousands-of-jobs-at-virgin-media-o2-to-be-cut",
        "published": "2026-11-02T02:44:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "City AM",
        "title": "Virgin Media O2 job cuts could save £200m but fail to ease debt crisis",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/virgin-media-o2-job-cuts-could-save-200m-but-fail-to-ease-debt-crisis",
        "published": "2026-11-02T12:28:25.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "title": "UK's Virgin Media O2 to slash jobs, halt fibre roll-out",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/uks-virgin-media-o2-to-slash-jobs-halt-fibre-roll-out",
        "published": "2026-11-03T07:47:49.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs as it plans £800m cost savings",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/virgin-media-o2-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-it-plans-800m-cost-savings",
        "published": "2026-11-03T08:21:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Silicon Republic",
        "title": "Virgin Media O2 to cut thousands of jobs in major cost-saving drive",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/virgin-media-o2-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-in-major-cost-saving-drive",
        "published": "2026-11-03T11:50:07.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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