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As the Jimmy Savile / BBC / Newsnight scandal continues to expand like a mushroom cloud, agony aunt Anne Atkins has added to the headlines by revealing to the Mail On Sunday that she decided not to report a predatory paedophile, because he's a friend of the family.
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