Above: Friday's report on BBC Points West included a short clip of me head-to-head with Kate Knight of Smokefree South West in February 2015 but ignored Forest's response to the questionable claim that "thousands will die" if the taxpayer-funded anti-smoking group is allowed to close.

Update on the Smokefree South West story that broke on Friday.

As the BBC reported the anti-smoking group (renamed Public Health Action in November) is to close in June following the withdrawal of funding by eleven local councils.

Although I was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Cornwall, I was anxious to be quoted by BBC News online because that's what people will be directed to when they search 'Smokefree South West' in the days, months and years to come.

I was supremely cheesed off therefore when BBC Bristol published a report online and there wasn't a squeak from me or anyone else in favour of the councils' sane and sensible decision.

If I was a councillor or an uninformed member of the public reading that I might have questioned the decision to withdraw financial support because there was no-one supporting it.

The reason I was particularly cross was because two days earlier the BBC's regional health correspondent had invited me to send him a comment that would be forwarded, he said, to the online newsdesk.

Twenty-four hours later I had the same conversation with a BBC radio producer who assured me she too would pass on Forest's response to the appropriate newsdesk.

To cap it all I even sent a copy direct to BBC Bristol's online newsdesk myself. And they still didn't use it!

Significantly however they did include – as the caption to the main photograph – the tendentious claim that 'The group, formerly known as Smokefree South West, has helped thousands of people to give up smoking.'

To cut a long story short, I spent the best part of an hour emailing, phoning and texting my various BBC Bristol contacts and eventually – some two hours later – the report was amended.

To be fair, the BBC wasn't alone. The ITV News website reported the story in much the same way until I had a word with the West Country newsdesk and they agreed to update their report as well.

(Visit the itv.com report, Smokefree South West to close this summer after cuts to funding. Read it without Forest's contribution – which was added several hours later – and tell me it isn't one-sided. They even included a Smokefree South West campaign video!)

So we got there in the end but it was harder work than it should have been. Impartiality comes at a price - my health!