BBC Scandal

Veteran BBC presenter Stuart Hall admits sex offences

3 May 2013

Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences yesterday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations. Hall, 83, who was best known...

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Sex harassment rare at BBC but bullying 'a very real concern'

3 May 2013

A report into staff behaviour at the BBC commissioned after the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal concluded yesterday that sexual harassment was rare, but bullying was a "very real concern". The report...

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BBC broadcaster admits 14 indecent assaults

2 May 2013

BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty to multiple assaults on young girls. Prosecutors said on Thursday that the 83-year-old sports broadcaster has pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults...

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Entwistle entitled to big pay-off, says BBC chairman

28 Nov 2012

BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten denied that he should have been more involved in controversial Newsnight programmes and defended the amount of time he spends working at the broadcaster in a clash...

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Scandal-hit BBC appoints Tony Hall new director general

23 Nov 2012

The BBC appointed a former journalist who runs the Royal Opera House to lead the broadcaster yesterday after sex abuse scandals that shook public trust in one of Britain's most treasured...

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BBC pays HK$2.23m to Alistair McAlpine over defamation

17 Nov 2012

The BBC will pay a former British politician £185,000 (HK$2.23 million) in damages over a news report that led to him being falsely accused of child sex abuse.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Legal letter raises doubts over ex-BBC chief Thompson's denial on Savile

A legal letter sent on behalf of Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, seems to contradict his assertions that he learned of accusations of sexual abuse against longtime host...

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BBC faces credibility crisis over botched paedophile probes

They are words that the BBC isn’t accustomed to hearing about itself: “shoddy journalism” on one of its premier investigative programmes, “unacceptable mistakes” by senior staff, a director...

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Who said it?

I can't say, the others will shoot me

Vincent Fung, of the government's Mega Events Fund, on the fee to bring golfer Rory McIlroy to the Hong Kong Open

[A] wholesale...

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BBC showed 'basic' failings in abuse story

The BBC showed "basic" journalistic failures in a news report in which it wrongly accused a senior politician of child abuse, an internal investigation has found.

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MEDIA

'Unacceptable' failings in abuse report: BBC

BBC journalists made “unacceptable” failings by airing an investigation that wrongly implicated a senior Conservative politician in child sex abuse, an internal report by the broadcaster said on...

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BBC needs an urgent shake-up

A media organisation has to produce accurate, reliable and balanced journalism if it is to be trusted by its audience. The BBC's credibility has been damaged by its failure to check the...

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