This week the BBC has been told that it needs to improve its coverage of the UK's regions in its main news bulletins and factual programmes.

A review for the BBC Trust said the Beeb was falling short of its own high standards and was failing to meet its core purpose of helping to inform the public of the main changes to democracy.

And having just been on a training exercise to some of the main newspapers in Scotland, I can certainly back up the new findings. I visited the impressive Scottish Parliament in Holyrood and was given a tour and general introduction into the workings and powers held by the Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).

In short, the SMPs can make decisions and impose laws on some of the most important matters. The biggest decisions on health, housing, education and the police and fire services are all made in Edinburgh.

Only a few issues regarding topics like defence and tax are still left to MPs in the Houses of Parliament in London.

And as moves are made by many MSPs to push for full independence, it is evident that these vitally important matters are not debated sufficiently by the BBC.

But it is not just the BBC and other television channels who seem to pay more attention to what happens in London than the rest of the country.

National newspapers also have a natural bias to the capital.

One can only imagine how much more coverage would have been given to the proposed school closures story had the affected schools been in London as opposed to the Golden Valley and Bromyard.

And the worrying number of stabbings that have been reported within the Hereford Times recently have not been picked up by the national media who have focussed their attentions on knife crime within the home counties.

Researchers behind the recent review should be applauded for highlighting the geographic inconsistencies inherent in journalism. The strength of the story should be what matters most, not its location.