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Journalists and other personnel at BBC News remain divided over the organisation’s treatment of the story concerning its most senior news anchor Huw Edwards – identified on Wednesday as the presenter at the centre of allegations of spending thousands of pounds on sexual pictures. 

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has spoken to Newsnight journalists involved in investigating Huw Edwards after staff raised concerns about being approached for information regarding the star presenter’s conduct.

Christine Flack, the mother of the late Love Island host Caroline Flack weighed in on the Phillip Schofield controversy with a new interview with BBC Newsnight. Speaking to Victoria Derbyshire on Friday night’s show, Christine shared her own insight into the situation as she suggested ITV hadn't done enough to protect Phillip or the young man who he had undertaken the affair with. "They haven’t learnt anything," Christine told Victoria.

ABBA have denied rumours that they will reunite for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in their native Sweden, on what would be the 50th anniversary of them winning the contest with Waterloo.

Caroline Flack’s mum has snubbed an apology from the Met Police over its handling of a complaint she made after her daughter’s suicide. Grieving Christine Flack, 73, launched a formal objection against the force after late ‘Love Island’ host Caroline took her life aged 40 in 2020 while facing a charge of assaulting her then-boyfriend Lewis Burton. The Met was slated for the way they handled the case and has since said it was “sincerely sorry” for failing to keep records on the reason why Carline had been charged.

Caroline Flack's mother Christine Flack has rejected the Metropolitan Police's apology after they were criticised for the way they handled the case of Caroline's death. Christine's daughter Caroline took her own life on February 15 in 2020 at the age of 40, following an incident with her boyfriend, Lewis Burton.The Met Police has been criticised for how they handled the case and has since apologised for not recording why the Love Island star had been charged.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had recommended the former presenter receive a caution following the incident.

Singer Mel B has said she would not report domestic abuse as she does not know if she can “trust the police”.The 47-year-old member of girl group Spice Girls, who is a patron of Women’s Aid and campaigns with the charity on domestic abuse issues, urged the Government to reform “the whole entire system” of justice. She has previously spoken about being in an abusive relationship, which she claims left her without access to money or a support network.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! "isn't all it's hyped up to be" ahead of the new series returning to Australia next month.The 48-year-old made the comment in a conversation with Dave Tomlinson on BBC Radio 2 as he stood in for Zoe Ball this morning.In the chat, Vicar and writer Dave told Vernon he was off to Australia next week to spend some time with his son and family."It's filling my mind at the moment," he told the host.Vernon replied: "That sounds lovely, I thought you were going to say I'm going to Australia to take part in I'm A Celebrity..

JUST IN: Dame Julie Walters' quiet life in picturesque West Sussex village"I love the fact that at 98 Granny's the hero of the piece. "She goes against what people think a 98-year-old is. She's full of energy and love and understanding and optimism.

Carol Vorderman has shared her scathing verdict on Boris Johnson after he was booed while attending the Platinum Jubilee Thanksgiving service. The Prime Minister was seen arriving at St Paul’s Cathedral for the celebration marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne. Victoria Derbyshire shared a clip of Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie Symonds arriving for the service to be greeted by loud boos from the waiting spectators. She wrote: ‘The Prime Minister @BorisJohnson arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd.’Carol took to Twitter to reply to the video, adding: ‘Bring Your Own Boos.  The message could not be clearer Boris.’Her comment was a clever play on words to reference Partygate, which may have been the reason for the anger from the crowd. Bring Your Own Boos. The message could not be clearer Boris.

TV favourites Ant and Dec are just two of the household names leading this year’s nominations for the 2022 TRIC Awards. The annual awards show, which recognises the very best TV, radio and online shows, as well as Britain’s most-loved stars and talent – will be returning once again for the 53rd edition in July.

Anne Robinson has announced that she is leaving Countdown after just one year as host of the Channel 4 quiz show.

Former EastEnders' star Shane Richie looks unrecognisable in his latest role.The 58 year old, best known for playing Alfie Moon in the BBC soap, has transformed into a drag queen for the UK tour of hit stage musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie. In the show, Shane is reprising the role of drag queen Loco Chanelle, a role he first played in the West End in 2019.The show is based on the real life story of Jamie Campbell, a schoolboy who fought against prejudice and bullying to become a successful drag queen. Shane took to Instagram to share his drag transformation with his 251,000 followers, having donned bright red lipstick, fake eyelashes, bold eyeliner and a curly ginger wig.

Piers Morgan, Victoria Coren-Mitchell and Susie Dent have shared their happiness after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was freed from Iran. Nazanin will return to her husband and seven-year-old daughter in the UK after being held in Iran since 2016. She was accused of plotting to overthrow their government, which she has always denied.

BBC News presenter Victoria Derbyshire has opened up about marrying her husband Mark Sandell following her breast cancer diagnosis.

BBC News presenter Victoria Derbyshire has admitted that she was forced to delete a tweet for breaking BBC guidance on impartiality.The newsreader, 53, took to Twitter to confirm that she had removed the tweet as it didn't meet the BBC's standards.In view of her 163,300 followers, the host announced the reason behind her deleted post.Victoria wrote: "Hi hve deleted a tweet abt crime figs/fraud/computer misuse etc because it didn’t properly meet the BBC’s guidance on impartiality." (sic)Express.co.uk has contacted a representative for the BBC for comment.Earlier in the week, Victoria slammed an MP over crime statistics provided by Boris Johnson.Watching her colleague Sophie Raworth's interview with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, Victoria didn't hold back as she blasted the Government for "insulting voters".The Business minister insisted Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn't lie about the percentage of national crime figures that had been tackled by the Tories.It comes after the official Twitter account for BBC Politics shared a clip from the interview, showing the "selective" response to the question regarding crime rates.The tweet read: "Why did PM Boris Johnson tell Parliament that Government is cutting crime by 14 per cent when that’s not true?"Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: 'All I know is that certainly on the doorstep people are saying that there is progress being made.'"Clearly a little confused by Kwarteng's reply, Victoria hit out: "Errrr crime is down if you take out certain crimes??!!"Time to stop insulting voters’ intelligence?" she raged.In the interview, the Business Secretary told Raworth he "didn't know why" she said the statistics were "untrue".He said: "I don't know what the evidence is for it not

Boris Johnson didn't lie about the percentage of national crime figures that had been tackled by the Tories.It comes after the official Twitter account for BBC Politics shared a clip from the interview, showing the "selective" response to the question regarding crime rates.The tweet read: "Why did PM Boris Johnson tell Parliament that Government is cutting crime by 14 per cent when that’s not true?"Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: 'All I know is that certainly on the doorstep people are saying that there is progress being made.'"Clearly a little confused by Kwarteng's reply, Victoria snapped: "Errrr crime is down if you take out certain crimes??!!"Time to stop insulting voters’ intelligence?"In the interview, the Business Secretary told Raworth he "didn't know why" she said the statistics were "untrue".He said: "I don't know what the evidence is for it not being true."All I know is that certainly on the doorstep, people are saying that there is progress being made."Raworth replied: "It isn't true because he hadn't included in that figure, and this is the Chair of the Statistics Authority who said that he had not included in that figure, fraud and computer misuse."The UK Chair of the Statistics Authority said that if fraud and computer misuse had counted in total crime, as they should be, total crime in fact increased NOT decreased by 14 percent."She added: "It's reasonable for people to expect the Prime Minister is accurate in what he says about an issue as important as crime in The Commons?"Kwarteng was quick to respond: "So when people talk about crime..." he began, before stressing how important he thinks fraud is."People are talking particularly about burglaries and personal injury and physical crimes."I think in

"It changed my life, though.The joy and happiness I felt at being alive was amazing."Speaking about why she married Mark after 17 years, she said: "After my diagnosis, I’d said, ‘If we get through this I would like to get married, but I don’t want you to do it if it’s only because you feel sorry for me.’"It was weird to finally start calling him my husband, but amazing to get married at 49.

BBC newsreader Victoria Derbyshire has breathed a sigh of relief after her colleague was rescued from a lift at the broadcasting house today.

Who knew that handsome ex-footballer David Ginola had such a loud snoring habit? His fellow campmates on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! have been agog – and kept up all night by the volume levels.

Former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! campmate Victoria Derbyshire has revealed the surprising reason why the stars on the show are forced to stay up until 4am every morning.The 53 year old was a contestant on the popular series last year - the first time ITV bosses had to move the location from Australia to Wales due to the Covid-19 pandemic.