TV presenter Fiona Phillips hardly delivered the speech that was expected of her when she turned up at her old school to deliver the address to celebrate its reopening.

A powerful paedophile network may have operated in Britain protected by its connections to Parliament and Downing Street, a senior Labour politician suggested yesterday.

Profile: Dark clouds from his past threaten to cast shadow over Morgan’s new life in the sun

Police have begun a formal criminal investigation into alleged child abuse by Jimmy Saville, which now includes other living people, Scotland Yard said today.

Janet Cope, who worked for Savile for 32 years until she was suddenly sacked in 2001

It's not just the BBC who ignored rumours about the late television presenter. Questions must be asked of the NHS and Royal Family too

Well, well, well," someone said over the lunch table at the weekend, "You'd never have thought it in a million years. Jimmy Savile turned out to be a sex offender!"

Culture Secretary Maria Miller today dismissed calls for an independent inquiry into the Jimmy Savile scandal but took a swipe at the BBC for failing to broadcast its own television investigation into allegations against the presenter.

There's a risk that in using choirs for everything from helping fragmented communities to stress relief, we drag them down to the level of the mundane

Comedian Freddie Starr has denied any wrongdoing after claims that he groped a teenager following the recording of one of Sir Jimmy Savile's show.

David Cameron urges BBC to launch full inquiry after yet more claims of abuse

Better red than dead – the life of Comrade Hobsbawm

Viewers of BBC Breakfast would have choked on their toast this week when, just as presenters Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt were welcoming the conductor John Wilson to the show, an off-camera voice piped up, "What the fuck is that?" It turned out to be business reporter Steph McGovern, whose mic had been left on accidentally.

Showbiz journalist Caroline Whitmore has settled her libel case over a newspaper story linking her to young pop star Harry Styles.