Bbc Savile Scandal

• BBC announces staff shake-up after Jimmy Savile scandal

  The BBC announced a staff shake-up on Thursday in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, including the replacement of the head of news who was criticised for her handling of the crisis over child sex abuse.

• Review slams BBC over Jimmy Savile report but says no cover-up

  An official report on Wednesday strongly criticised the BBC's handling of allegations of child sex abuse against late presenter Jimmy Savile, but cleared the world's biggest broadcaster of a cover-up.

• Police make arrest in connection to Britain's alleged child abuse

  Police investigating alleged child abuse centering on former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile said on Wednesday they have arrested a man in his 70s.

• Jimmy Savile is suspect in 199 crimes

  British police investigating sex abuse allegations against the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile say that they have recorded 199 crimes in which Savile is a suspect.

• BBC marks unhappy 90th birthday

  The BBC marked the 90th anniversary of its first ever transmission on Wednesday beset by doubts about its future after scandals surrounding its reporting of child sex abuse allegations.

• Two more BBC executives hit by child sex-abuse scandal

  BBC director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell "stepped aside" amid the crisis over a report wrongly accusing a British politician of child abuse and similar allegations against late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, media reports said.

• Politician dragged into British sex abuse scandal after BBC report

  Internet speculation was circulating on Saturday after a BBC news programme embroiled in the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal aired a report in which two men claimed they had been abused by a top politician.

• British pop star Gary Glitter arrested in sex abuse case

  The sex abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile widened on Sunday as police arrested former rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said.

• BBC chief to be grilled over Savile scandal

  The BBC's chief faces a grilling from legislators on Tuesday, a day after one of his editors -- who had dropped an investigation into sex abuse claims against a top BBC star -- stepped aside.

• BBC editor steps aside over Jimmy Savile scandal

  The editor of the BBC's flagship TV news show stepped aside on Monday after the publicly funded broadcaster said his explanation for pulling an expose into alleged sexual abuse by one of its former presenters was "inaccurate or incomplete".

• Savile scandal 'worst BBC crisis for 50 years'

  Unfolding claims of sexual abuse against late BBC star Jimmy Savile have plunged Britain's national broadcaster into its biggest crisis for 50 years, a senior reporter has warned.

• BBC star may have abused girls over four decades

  Jimmy Savile, the late BBC TV star at the centre of a child sex scandal that has shaken Britain's state-funded broadcaster, may have abused up to 25 victims some as young as 13 over four decades, police said on Tuesday.