The past on trial: special report

Operation Yewtree is the police investigation into alleged sexual abuse by the late Jimmy Savile and others.

Jimmy Tarbuck is arrested in connection with an allegation that he abused a young boy in the late 1970s, sources said on Tuesday.

The BBC announces a “freestanding investigation” into the conduct of veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall, who has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls.

Police find “significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse of children” at north Wales care homes, including 140 allegations of offences against seven to 19 year olds.

Rolf Harris is named as the veteran entertainer who was arrested by police investigating allegations of sexual abuse following the Jimmy Savile scandal.

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.

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, 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.”

Home Affairs correspondent Simon Israel on the curious story of the police files and the investigation into historic allegations of abuse against the late Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith.

Greater Manchester police have concluded that the former Liberal MP, Sir Cyril Smith, was guilty of physical and sexual abuse of young boys over a period of many years.

A new police inquiry launches into allegations of sexual abuse involving the late Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith.

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.

A Labour MP tells parliament that 40-year-old police files relating to allegations that the former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith abused young boys in a care home should be disclosed.