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BBC is well versed in drama; it's time to end this one
Friday 16 November 2012
Edward Lear's anniversary is a reminder that sometimes a bit of nonsense can clear things up...
Lord McAlpine pursues claims over sex abuse slur
Friday 16 November 2012
Former Conservative politician Lord McAlpine has commenced legal action against a long list of organisations and individuals who wrongly linked him to a paedophile ring after coming to a £185,000 settlement with the BBC.
Lord McAlpine expected to reach settlement with BBC as he gives first interview after being wrongly linked to child sex abuse scandal
Thursday 15 November 2012
Lord McAlpine, the former Conservative politician who was wrongly implicated in allegations of child abuse in a flawed Newsnight investigation, is expected to reach a settlement with the BBC.
New arrest as Jimmy Savile investigation widens
Thursday 15 November 2012
Police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal made a further arrest today as they revealed the number of potential victims has risen to 450.
First Night: The Hour - who can blame the BBC for wanting a little escapism
Thursday 15 November 2012
In Abi Morgan's Fifties drama the pressure to break big stories even as resources and budgets are shrinking struck some awkward resonances
BBC Trust plots course to seek a new Director-General
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Broadcaster’s regulatory body meets in hopes of appointing a successor to George Entwistle ‘within weeks’
Pray for the BBC: Corporation staff offered sanctuary in church next to New Broadcasting House
Tuesday 13 November 2012
The BBC will receive help from a higher power when a prayer is said for the restoration of the corporation’s news values at a special church service.
New head of BBC News Fran Unsworth urges staff to stop leaking information
Tuesday 13 November 2012
The latest head of the BBC News operation has begun her new regime by attempting to stop the flow of information – as she pleaded with colleagues not to contribute to the wave of bad news which is threatening to engulf the organisation in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Lord McAlpine scandals.
Entwistle's pay-off is a boiling point for the BBC
Tuesday 13 November 2012
But there are bigger things at stake than the £450,000 he took home
For all their faults, Newsnight and Jeremy Paxman are too good for the BBC to sacrifice because of the scandals over Jimmy Savile and Lord MacAlpine
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Don't sacrifice decades of journalistic quality because of two very different mistakes
Jimmy Savile 'created his TV shows to gain access to children'
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Jimmy Savile created his TV shows to gain access to children, Mark Williams-Thomas, the child protection expert and criminologist who helped expose the late entertainer as a paedophile, has said.
All change at top of BBC – for now – in the director merry-go-round
Monday 12 November 2012
At least a dozen senior BBC executives have left or changed their roles as a result of the abuse scandal.
New Broadcasting House the latest media circus as BBC becomes the story
Monday 12 November 2012
“The BBC is reeling from a crisis of its own making,” intoned Nick Higham, the BBC News correspondent. And with its officer class decimated, the Corporation devoted its energies to crawling over the minutiae of developments on a rolling BBC News loop.
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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