Digital One, the national commercial DAB operator is planning a series of ten new transmitters across the UK.

Almost 2 million listeners will be covered by the expansion, leading to almost 90 percent coverage by UK population in the latter part of 2007.

Details are:

• Scottish Borders : two new transmitters; Selkirk and Riddings Hill (south of Dumfries)

• Cumbria : two new transmitters; Whitehaven and Workington

• Yorkshire Coast : three new transmitters; Bridlington; Scarborough and Whitby

• Derbyshire : one new transmitter in Chesterfield

• South Coast : two new transmitters; Newhaven and Eastbourne