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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says Huw Edwards SHOULD return £200,000 BBC salary he received while being investigated for having indecent images of children
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy today urged Huw Edwards to return the £200,000 salary he was paid by the BBC after being arrested over child pornography offences. The corporation knew the 62-year-old presenter had been arrested last November but continued to pay his salary until he resigned on medical advice this April. Edwards had been the
Inside the ‘painstaking’ negotiations that led to the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War
CNN — In late June, CIA officials held a secret meeting with Russian intelligence officers in an undisclosed Middle Eastern capital city to present a proposal for a possible prisoner swap. It was the latest in a series of offers US officials had made to Russia in a yearslong effort to secure the release of
Tim Davie insists it would be ‘nigh on impossible’ for the BBC recoup Huw Edwards’ salary – and the disgraced presenter will be able to retire on £300,000-a-year gold-plated pension
The BBC has revealed it is unlikely to be able to recoup the £200,000 paid to Huw Edwards after he was arrested or the £300,000-a-year pension he can now receive. The corporation knew the 62-year-old presenter had been arrested last November but continued to pay his salary until he resigned on medical advice this April.
How Huw Edwards gamed the system – playing the mental health card and using his vast BBC salary to build a legal wall around himself
As criticism of the BBC's handling of the Huw Edwards paedophile scandal rages on, you might think that executives would seek to combat widespread allegations of a cover-up by adopting a new spirit of openness. There were no signs of this yesterday. A BBC spokesman stuck to the line that they will continue to protect
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: There seem to be more swords on our streets than in Game Of Thrones… Welcome to lawless Britain
Arriving home last week from America, where my attention had been focused largely on the attempted assassination of Trump and the disintegration of Biden, I popped down the road to get what’s left of my hair cut in advance of a weekend wedding. ‘Have I missed much while I was away?’ I asked Harry, my
In battleground Pennsylvania’s ‘Latino belt,’ undecided voters are paying attention
READING, Pa. — In this majority-Latino city, brothers and barbers Samuel and David Delacruz said that lately, the talk of the town is politics — and they're newly energized to cast their ballots. The brothers, who are of Dominican descent, first spoke to NBC News before former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Was Created to Reject Popular Conservative Theme Park Celebrating French History
One of the stranger facets of the deeply controversial Paris Olympics opening ceremony is the apparent agreement by its creators that part of its purpose is to refute — of all things — a French theme park and its traditionalist approach to national history. The fact one of France’s most popular tourist attractions is a
BBC chief Tim Davie to be hauled in for urgent talks with ministers over Huw Edwards scandal which saw the disgraced presenter paid £200,000 AFTER his arrest over child abuse images
BBC chief Tim Davie is set to be hauled in for urgent talks with ministers in the wake of disgraced presenter Huw Edwards admitting to accessing indecent photographs of children. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is understood to have summoned the Director General amidst concerns the Corporation continued to pay the presenter's £470,000-a-year salary after becoming
Mother who blew the whistle on Huw Edwards reveals how she broke down in tears after hearing the disgraced BBC presenter had sexual videos of a young boy while he was asking her own child for explicit photos
A mother who blew the whistle on Huw Edwards has revealed how she broke down in tears after hearing the disgraced BBC star had pleaded guilty to child porn offences. She said it 'sickens' her knowing that the 62-year-old paedophile was under the possession of sexual videos of minors while also allegedly asking her own
Congressional staff have two weeks to enjoy TikTok on government phones until it’s REMOVED permanently
Congressional staff will have TikTok blocked and removed from their government phones by August 15 after lawmakers moved to crack down on CCP-owned ByteDance this year. The legislation to ban the app from federal devices was signed into law by President Joe Biden in December 2022. And this year, Congress and the White House came together to