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BBC is my priority, says trust chair Rona Fairhead
BBC Trust Chair and HSBC Director Rona Fairhead tells Cathy Newman the corporation is her priority “and that has been clear from the beginning”.
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FactCheck: is the BBC picking on Ukip?
Nigel Farage has accused the BBC of bias for questioning him about problems with Ukip election candidates. Does the complaint stand up?
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Jeremy Clarkson’s contract will not be renewed by BBC
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s contract will not be renewed after a BBC investigation finds he launched an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack” on a producer.
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Jeremy Clarkson attacks BBC in sweary rant
The suspended Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson says at a charity gala he wants to do “one last lap” of the programme’s test track before he is sacked.
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Jeremy Clarkson: BBC has given me a final warning
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson says the BBC will sack him if he makes “one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time”. It follows claims the presenter used racist language while filming.
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BBC: ‘A culture of waste and secrecy?’
Tory MP Grant Shapps blasts the BBC for waste and a culture of secrecy and says that the license fee should be revoked. Cordelia Lynch reports.
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BBC’s Hall: we need to own up to mistakes ‘quickly’
The BBC has to “own up to mistakes quickly”, following scandals over Jimmy Savile and pay-offs, Director-General Tony Hall says – but adds he does not want staff “looking over their shoulders.”
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BBC did not lose plot, says Mark Thompson
Former BBC director general Mark Thompson tells MPs that the corporation did not “lose the plot” when it agreed a pay-off of almost £1m to his former deputy Mark Byford.
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Former BBC HR boss admits mistake in evidence to MPs
Former BBC HR boss Lucy Adams admits she helped draft a memo about controversial severance payments to BBC staff, despite telling MPs in July she had no knowledge of the document.
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Thompson claims BBC misled MPs over payoffs
Former BBC director general Mark Thompson accuses the BBC Trust of misleading MPs on the public accounts committee over what it knew about executives’ payoffs, the BBC reports.
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BBC top ten severance payments: how many TV licence fees?
MPs are grilling BBC execs over a £25m severance pay bill, including £5.3m for its top ten managers. How many of our TV licences were spent on the payouts? The whole of Weston-Super-Mare for starters.
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James Purnell: ‘BBC report is embarrassing’
As the National Audit Office accuses the BBC of breaching its own guidelines in pay-offs for staff, the former Culture Secretary James Purnell describes their report as “humbling” and “embarrassing”.
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BBC reporter: ‘I believed I was the Messiah’
A BBC reporter who lost his job after an episode of mental illness, tells Channel 4 News that he believes a travel injection may have triggered the fever that led to his illness.
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Channel 4’s Paralympics team beats BBC to TV Bafta
An “amazing surprise” sees Channel 4’s Paralympic coverage beat the BBC Olympics to the TV Bafta for best sport and live event.
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Stuart Hall: BBC announces ‘freestanding’ investigation
The BBC announces a “freestanding investigation” into the conduct of veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall, who has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls.