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| Jimmy Savile report highlights BBC's failure to prevent abuse by TV star - live updates | Jimmy Savile report highlights BBC's failure to prevent abuse by TV star - live updates |
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| Here’s a summary of what we know: | |
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| Victims' lawyer dismisses 'expensive whitewash' | |
| A lawyer for the victims of Savile and Stuart Hall has dismissed Smith’s report as an “an expensive whitewash”. | |
| In a statement Liz Dux, a specialist abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon Lawyers, who represents 168 victims, said: | |
| “All the Savile and Hall victims have ever wanted from this report is truth and accountability. | |
| “Despite millions having been spent on the inquiry, my clients will feel let down that the truth has still not been unearthed and many will feel it is nothing more than an expensive whitewash. | |
| “It is unfortunate that Dame Janet had no power to compel senior managers to give evidence, giving the impression that the whole picture of who knew what has not been revealed. | |
| “With 117 witnesses giving evidence of concerns and rumours, it’s implausible to suggest that this did not reach the upper echelons of the BBC. | |
| “What’s apparent is that the senior managers only had to scratch at the very surface and a lot of Savile’s offending would have been revealed. | |
| “There is real concern that the culture of fear and oppression referred to might have prevented more from speaking out more candidly and still exists today.” | |
| Smith insisted her report was not a whitewash. She said that as a judge she needed evidence, not rumours, that senior BBC managers knew about Savile’s abuse. | |
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| Radio station stands by Blackburn | Radio station stands by Blackburn |
| Mark Sweney | Mark Sweney |
| Kent radio station Kmfm has said it is standing by Tony Blackburn, who hosts a weekly show, despite the BBC choosing to fire him, writes Mark Sweney. “Kmfm will be supporting Tony Blackburn fully and will be continuing his broadcast contract,” said a spokesman for the station. “His show will air as normal this Sunday between 4pm-7pm on our stations. He is a great asset, a fantastic broadcaster and someone we are proud to work with”. | Kent radio station Kmfm has said it is standing by Tony Blackburn, who hosts a weekly show, despite the BBC choosing to fire him, writes Mark Sweney. “Kmfm will be supporting Tony Blackburn fully and will be continuing his broadcast contract,” said a spokesman for the station. “His show will air as normal this Sunday between 4pm-7pm on our stations. He is a great asset, a fantastic broadcaster and someone we are proud to work with”. |
| Mark and Kevin Rawlinson have more on Blackburn ‘parting company’ with the BBC. | Mark and Kevin Rawlinson have more on Blackburn ‘parting company’ with the BBC. |
| Related: BBC 'parted company' with Tony Blackburn over Savile inquiry evidence | Related: BBC 'parted company' with Tony Blackburn over Savile inquiry evidence |
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| Jamie Grierson | Jamie Grierson |
| Esther Rantzen said she is doubtful that positive changes in the media industry will result from Smith report, writes Jamie Grierson. | Esther Rantzen said she is doubtful that positive changes in the media industry will result from Smith report, writes Jamie Grierson. |
| Rantzen told the Guardian: “I am pessimistic. The most recent case of sexual harassment I know about was another broadcaster, an independent broadcaster, but again it was someone who was ‘Talent’, and therefore the young woman felt she couldn’t complain or ask for help. | Rantzen told the Guardian: “I am pessimistic. The most recent case of sexual harassment I know about was another broadcaster, an independent broadcaster, but again it was someone who was ‘Talent’, and therefore the young woman felt she couldn’t complain or ask for help. |
| “I think it happens when it’s a banker or a judge, we know this week abishop convicted of terrible offences. Gang leaders in Rotherham.“Power, we know corrupts, but it appears it also prevents those whoare vulnerable from speaking out.” | “I think it happens when it’s a banker or a judge, we know this week abishop convicted of terrible offences. Gang leaders in Rotherham.“Power, we know corrupts, but it appears it also prevents those whoare vulnerable from speaking out.” |
| “There are very crucial lessons to be learned and maybe one of thelessons is for parents. Make sure young people don’t get dazzled bythe glitz of fame or fortune, to think the people they’ve admired fromafar are actual trustworthy.”Asked if the BBC’s promises will make a difference, Rantzen said: | “There are very crucial lessons to be learned and maybe one of thelessons is for parents. Make sure young people don’t get dazzled bythe glitz of fame or fortune, to think the people they’ve admired fromafar are actual trustworthy.”Asked if the BBC’s promises will make a difference, Rantzen said: |
| “We’re all vulnerable to it. It’s in our DNA to admire iconic figuresbut we have to as parents make sure we protect our children, andorganisations that build up people to status of stars have to be awarethat safeguards must be put in place. | “We’re all vulnerable to it. It’s in our DNA to admire iconic figuresbut we have to as parents make sure we protect our children, andorganisations that build up people to status of stars have to be awarethat safeguards must be put in place. |
| “It sounds like a dry set of policies but they’re practical and doprotect children and young people.” | “It sounds like a dry set of policies but they’re practical and doprotect children and young people.” |
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| Here are tables about the abuse by Stuart Hall during his time at the BBC. | Here are tables about the abuse by Stuart Hall during his time at the BBC. |
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| PA has more reaction from ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen. | PA has more reaction from ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen. |
| “Celebrity has cast a spell over everyone” and that youngsters need to be told that “fame isn’t a guarantee of virtue”, it quotes her saying. | “Celebrity has cast a spell over everyone” and that youngsters need to be told that “fame isn’t a guarantee of virtue”, it quotes her saying. |
| Rantzen added: | Rantzen added: |
| “It’s not new really, you have had demagogues, leaders, monarchs, all sorts of people who have been like magicians and I’m afraid that the media have done this to stars of reality shows, disc jockeys, all sorts of people. | “It’s not new really, you have had demagogues, leaders, monarchs, all sorts of people who have been like magicians and I’m afraid that the media have done this to stars of reality shows, disc jockeys, all sorts of people. |
| “I don’t know quite how you protect people from it. I would suggest that when a child says his or her ambition is to be rich and famous, somebody somewhere needs to point out that sometimes there are feet of clay, and that fame isn’t a guarantee of virtue, goodness, (or) kindness. | “I don’t know quite how you protect people from it. I would suggest that when a child says his or her ambition is to be rich and famous, somebody somewhere needs to point out that sometimes there are feet of clay, and that fame isn’t a guarantee of virtue, goodness, (or) kindness. |
| “The tragedy that someone, somewhere appointed Jimmy Savile to present a programme (Jim’ll Fix It) in which he was supposed to be humane, good, kind, (and) generous to all the children that came near - that is a terrible irony and it must not be repeated.” | “The tragedy that someone, somewhere appointed Jimmy Savile to present a programme (Jim’ll Fix It) in which he was supposed to be humane, good, kind, (and) generous to all the children that came near - that is a terrible irony and it must not be repeated.” |
| “I think there have been some good results, both of the revelations about Savile and this report, because I do think that survivors of abuse do feel more able to come forward, talk about what’s happened to them, recognise it was not their fault, and that their disclosures will be investigated.” | “I think there have been some good results, both of the revelations about Savile and this report, because I do think that survivors of abuse do feel more able to come forward, talk about what’s happened to them, recognise it was not their fault, and that their disclosures will be investigated.” |
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| Here’s video of Tony Hall confirming that the BBC sacked Tony Blackburn. | Here’s video of Tony Hall confirming that the BBC sacked Tony Blackburn. |
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| Esther Rantzen, the former BBC presenter and founder of Childline, said she took her own children to see Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It show despite knowing the rumours about her colleague. | Esther Rantzen, the former BBC presenter and founder of Childline, said she took her own children to see Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It show despite knowing the rumours about her colleague. |
| “I took my own children to Jim’ll Fix It, I would never have put them at risk if I thought there was a serious danger there,” she told BBC News. | “I took my own children to Jim’ll Fix It, I would never have put them at risk if I thought there was a serious danger there,” she told BBC News. |
| But Rantzen said he she heard rumours about Savile since she started working as a researcher at the BBC in early 1970s. | But Rantzen said he she heard rumours about Savile since she started working as a researcher at the BBC in early 1970s. |
| “But as Dame Janet said, there is a real difference between rumour and gossip and evidence,” Rantzen said. “The problem was that throughout my career at the BBC I never heard anyone disclosing that Jimmy had abused them.” | “But as Dame Janet said, there is a real difference between rumour and gossip and evidence,” Rantzen said. “The problem was that throughout my career at the BBC I never heard anyone disclosing that Jimmy had abused them.” |
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