Jimmy Savile

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

Officers investigating abuse allegations involving the late DJ and charity campaigner Jimmy Savile, have questioned former pop star Gary Glitter on suspicion of sex offences.

As the Catholic church considers the removal of Jimmy Savile’s papal knighthood, his family speaks of their sadness at his victims’ suffering.

As the team investigating abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile is increased threefold, the officer in charge says seven separate allegations were investigated during the star’s lifetime.

Describing it as a “watershed” in child abuse investigations, police say their inquiry into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal is now dealing with around 300 alleged victims.

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

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”.

If George Entwistle’s select committee appearance shed light on anything, it was the convoluted layers of BBC management and blurred lines of editorial responsibility.

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.

Channel 4 News has obtained an email involving the Newsnight team that worked on the abandoned Savile expose. Paraic O’Brien reports.

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.

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman declines to comment on the decision of his editor Peter Rippon to step aside but adds, “normally we report the news rather than being the news”.

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?

More allegations emerge as a senior Newsnight producer says he warned his editor the BBC could be accused of a cover up if it ditched an investigation into Jimmy Savile.

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.