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A quarter of Romanians and Bulgarians say they want to look for work in UK - not that they're doing anything about it
Monday 22 April 2013
One in 25 Buglarians and one in 100 Romanians are actively looking for jobs in Britain next year when they will gain the right to live and work in this country, according to polls for BBC2’s Newsnight released last night.
Fearless Eddie Mair skewers Boris in display that could make him a star
Sunday 24 March 2013
The Mayor of London usually escapes tough questioning with his buffoonery
Newsnight editor was 'out of his depth', BBC was told
Sunday 24 February 2013
Jeremy Paxman and others at Newsnight had voiced fears before the Jimmy Savile farrago
BBC news chief said Newsnight had 'contemptuous' attitude towards rest of editorial operation
Friday 22 February 2013
Helen Boaden, the BBC Director of News, said the corporation’s treatment of the women who came forward to accuse Sir Jimmy Savile of sexual assault was “shaming” and described the “contemptuous” attitude which Newsnight held towards the rest of the BBC’s news operation.
BBC Trust chairman says executives misled him over Jimmy Savile scandal
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Long-awaited report into handling of Newsnight debacle to be released on Friday
Jeremy Vine to stand in for Andrew Marr after his stroke
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Jeremy Vine will host this weekend's edition of The Andrew Marr Show as the broadcaster continues to "make progress" after his stroke.
BBC advertises for new Newsnight editor after Savile report fall-out
Saturday 12 January 2013
The BBC has launched a search for the next editor of Newsnight after the news and current affairs programme dropped a report into Jimmy Savile's decades-long campaign of sexual abuse.
Thompson to be questioned again on Savile
Sunday 23 December 2012
The former director general of the BBC is being asked to clarify exactly what he knew when
Senior news executives leave BBC in wake of damning report into Newsnight crisis
Thursday 20 December 2012
The BBC was forced to replace a tranche of senior news executives following a damning report into the "chaos and confusion" which surrounded the corporation's "complete inability" to deal with the Jimmy Savile crisis.
The verdicts on Peter Rippon, Adrian van Klaveren, Helen Boaden, George Entwistle and Stephen Mitchell
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Email trail: What the BBC bosses really knew
Wednesday 19 December 2012
On 29 May 2010, Nick Vaughan-Barratt sent an email to George Entwistle (then the BBC’s Controller of Knowledge Commissioning):
Senior BBC staff before the firing line ahead of report on handling of Savile scandal
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Senior BBC News executives are fighting to save their jobs ahead of a report expected to heavily criticise the corporation’s handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Page 3 Profile: John Murphys, broadcaster
Monday 03 December 2012
Ah, the man who monstered Entwistle. Is he feeling triumphant?
#Leveson, New Zealand, #freezing: Why are they trending?
Thursday 29 November 2012
What's trending and why?
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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