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Veteran BBC sports presenter David Coleman, who covered 11 Olympic Games and six football World Cups, dies at the age of 87.

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.

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.”

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.

As Chris Patten is accused of misleading MPs over big pay-offs to departing BBC staff, Channel 4 News looks back at the colourful career of Britain’s last governor of Hong Kong.

Former BBC director general Mark Thompson is asked what he knew about an aborted Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile.

He was head of the BBC when Newsnight spiked its Savile investigation. Now Mark Thompson speaks exclusively to Channel 4 News about what he knew – and insists he has nothing to hide.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

Former BBC presenter Stuart Hall is branded an “opportunistic predator” as he admits indecently assaulting 13 girls, the youngest aged nine, between the 1960s and the 1980s.

The BBC hits back at criticism from the London School of Economics which claims an undercover Panorama reporter put a group of its students at risk on a trip to North Korea.

New BBC Director General Tony Hall tells Channel 4 News that the organisation has been through “a bad time” but that he wants to look to the future.

The 2010 winner of BBC TV show The Apprentice described the £100,000-a-year job she was given by Lord Sugar as that of an “overpaid lackey”, an employment tribunal hears.