Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s biggest stars – and, allegedly, its worst sexual predator. Now the nation asks if there was a link between the two.
Late British TV star Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of sex abuse, regularly took girls on late night trips to a hospital where he was a volunteer.
An inquiry into the BBC’s culture and practices got under way with the corporation reeling from claims of child sex abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile.
Gary Glitter, who has served two jail sentences for sexual offences, has been arrested in connection with an investigation into TV star Jimmy Saville.
The BBC is in the middle of a growing scandal involving a television host who was once one of its highest-profile stars.
The BBC is going to produce the first daily news television programme about the continent. Faeeza Ballim reports.
Cellphones may at last be falling victim to etiquette, but this is largely because even talk is considered too intimate a contact.
A British journalist managed to book a cruise on the Costa Concordia — two days after the liner ran aground near Italy’s Giglio island.
Attenborough hits back at claims made by former chancellor Nigel Lawson that natural history series lacked objectivity.
The European Union has asked Zimbabwe to open an inquiry into claims of torture camps in the country’s diamond mines, as alleged in a BBC documentary.
Fifa has attempted to block the release of a document that reveals the identity of two officials forced to repay bribes, the BBC reported.
The ANCYL’s website gets hacked, an electric car company wants to sue <i>Top Gear</i>, and Indonesia considers underground nuclear facilities.
Former Botswana president Festus Mogae has admitted that while in office he put his political career ahead of gay rights.
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/ 7 February 2011
A radical Muslim sect responsible for killings across northeastern Nigeria demanded on Monday that troops withdraw from the troubled region.
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/ 4 February 2011
The BBC has apologised to the Mexican ambassador to London for remarks made about him on a TV show — but defended its jokes about the country.
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/ 5 November 2010
Thousands of BBC journalists in United Kingdom walked out on Friday in a 48-hour strike over pensions.
The BBC is examining whether it could transmit a "vuvuzela free" version of its Soccer World Cup coverage after a flood of complaints from viewers.
ANCYL president Julius Malema said on Thursday that he was not "remorseful" over chasing a BBC journalist from a media briefing.
Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on the BBC reporting freely, ending restrictions in place for eight years, the broadcaster said on Thursday.
Britain’s media watchdog fined the BBC £150 000 on Friday over the ”grossly offensive” prank calls made to actor Andrew Sachs .
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British lawmakers will quiz top financial journalists on Wednesday about whether they held any responsibility in the banking crisis.
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/ 26 January 2009
Two of UK’s major broadcasters faced down criticism on Monday and refused to air a charity appeal for the victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
The BBC was fined £400 000 pounds on Wednesday after a string of top television and radio shows faked winners of their competitions.
The current climate in Zimbabwe was ”not at all” the proper one for an election, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.
Britain criticised as obscene the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at this week’s global food summit in Rome, saying he had inflicted shortages on millions of his own people by his ”profound misrule”. Mugabe flew into Rome late on Sunday, making his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western leaders as fraudulent.
BBC insiders have accused the corporation of sexism after it emerged that the number of reports by women journalists on its flagship 10pm news bulletin has fallen dramatically in the past year. Senior female correspondents are unhappy about being overlooked by the programme, which was revamped at the start of the year.
The government has denied deciding to set up refugee camps for foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence. Reports suggesting such a move were ”baseless and therefore not true”, it said on Wednesday. ”The government has noted with concern media reports that the Cabinet has taken a decision to establish refugee camps,” a statement said.
The Department of Home Affairs said on Wednesday it planned to establish shelters for foreigners who have fled xenophobic attacks over the last two weeks. The BBC reported on Wednesday that seven ”refugee camps” would be set up. By Monday night there were an estimated 17Â 000 displaced foreigners left in Johannesburg.
Seven refugee camps are to be set up around the country for foreigners who have fled xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The holding camps will take up to 70Â 000 people from increasingly unsanitary conditions at temporary shelters put up around state and municipal buildings and police stations.
Three South Africans have been arrested in southern Zimbabwe after police found them with broadcasting equipment belonging to Britain’s Sky News. Provincial police spokesperson Ronald Muderedzwa said the three and another suspect had been broadcasting illegally from a factory in the second city of Bulawayo.
Global information company Thomson Reuters plans to cut 140 editorial jobs by the end of the year as its Reuters news service absorbs Thomson Financial News. More than half the cuts will be in Europe, while the rest will be scattered, editor-in-chief David Schlesinger wrote in a memo to employees on Monday.
Nick Fraser, the editor of the BBC’s international documentary series Storyville, comments on the state of affairs at the SABC.