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Comedian Freddie Starr is released on bail after being questioned by detectives investigating allegations of sexual abuse surrounding Jimmy Savile.

After radio presenter Danny Baker’s on-air rant at the BBC bosses who dropped his show, Channel 4 News looks at other noisy departures.

The estate of Jimmy Savile, worth an estimated £4.3m, has been frozen in response to mounting claims of sexual abuse against the late BBC presenter and DJ.

An inquiry into the “culture and practices” at the BBC during presenter Jimmy Savile’s campaign of sexual abuse is to begin today.

David Cameron tells MPs the director of public prosecutions will review legal papers related to sexual abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile.

As George Entwistle faces the culture, media and sport committee, the MPs on it will want to know was the editor of Newsnight pressured into dropping the Savile story? Did senior executives actively try to cover up a BBC scandal?

BBC Director-General George Entwistle tells MPs up to 10 “serious allegations” are being investigated and that the corporation’s previous practices seemed “to allow” Jimmy Savile to abuse young girls.

Exclusive: An email sent by a reporter on Newsnight’s axed Jimmy Savile investigation suggests editor Peter Rippon played down the story because “it was 40 years ago… the girls were not too young”.

George Entwistle faces a Commons select committee to answer questions over the BBC’s role in the Jimmy Savile scandal, but what will he be asked?

The ruckus about why the BBC’s investigation into abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile was dropped, has revealed divisions between editorial staff and the corporation’s management.

The BBC says Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon will “step aside with immediate effect” pending an investigation into the decision to drop the programme’s report into allegations against DJ Jimmy Savile.

As the BBC launch an inquiry into their cultural practices in previous decades Business Correspondent Sarah Smith has been looking at her own experience there in the 1990s in a new light.

The BBC reveals it has appointed former high court judge Dame Janet Smith and Nick Pollard, former head of Sky News, to lead two inquires into Jimmy Savile.

BBC Director General George Entwistle announces two inquiries into the scandal surrounding allegations of abuse involving the late DJ Jimmy Savile.

There were already rumours about Sir Jimmy Savile when he became my first ever interviewee in 1988.