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The McAlpine error and dwindling trust in the BBC
As the Pollard review blames the Jimmy Savile Newsnight saga on “flawed” management, a separate report finds the BBC failed to apply its own standards to a subsequent report on alleged child abuse.
Jimmy Savile sexually abused and raped girls as young as eight over a 54-year period, a report says, including an assault at the last filming of Top of the Pops in 2006.
Today’s report into Jimmy Savile’s career of abuse, which lasted for 54 years, details allegations as recent as 2009 and includes one incident in which a dying child was touched inappropriately.
Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded not guilty to the sexual abuse of young girls between 1974 and 1984.
Comedian Jim Davidson, arrested by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, “vigorously denies” the allegations against him, his solicitor says.
A note written by Jimmy Savile declaring his love for Margaret Thatcher shows how he tried to enlist support for a hospital where he is known to have abused vulnerable people.
A report by MPs accuses the BBC of a “cavalier” attitude towards licence fee money over a £450,000 payoff to director general George Entwistle, in the wake of the corporation’s Jimmy Savile crisis.
As the Pollard review blames the Jimmy Savile Newsnight saga on “flawed” management, a separate report finds the BBC failed to apply its own standards to a subsequent report on alleged child abuse.
An inquiry into BBC Newsnight’s decision to drop a report about alleged sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile finds that the judgement was flawed and management were incapable of dealing with the issue.
BBC trust Chairman Chris Patten says that the Pollard report reveals how the BBC is filled with “different organisations that don’t talk to each other and that has to end”.
Debbie Curtis claims Jimmy Savile once tried to rape her. Channel 4 News obtains an audio recording of the two of them from 1986 and talks to her about it.
The number of Jimmy Savile’s alleged sex abuse victims has reached 450, with nearly 200 alleged crimes recorded, including 31 alleged rapes, Scotland Yard reveals.
A man in his 60s is bailed after being arrested in London by detectives as part of Operation Yewtree, which is looking into sexual abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
PR guru Max Clifford has again protested his innocence after his arrest and bailing by police investigating alleged sexual offences dating back to 1977.
PR guru Max Clifford, arrested on suspicion of sexual offences, says the allegations are “damaging and totally untrue” and “very distressing for myself, my wife, my family and loved ones.”
Radio DJ Dave Lee Travis has been taken off air at radio station Magic AM after being arrested and bailed by police investigating hundreds of claims of abuse by the late Jimmy Savile and others.