Kilroy-Silk says 'sorry'

BBC presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk tonight apologised for his article printed in the Sunday Express last weekend in which he made controversial remarks about Arabs.

He said: “I greatly regret the offence which has been caused by the article published in last weekend’s Sunday Express.”

He added: “The article contains a couple of obvious factual errors which I also regret.”

Kilroy-Silk, who has had his morning show Kilroy pulled off the air by the BBC while they investigate the comments, said the article was first written in April and had been “republished last weekend in error”.