BBC director general George Entwistle tonight fell on his sword over the “unacceptable” 'Newsnight' broadcast which wrongly implicated a senior former Conservative in a child abuse scandal.

A senior member of staff at the BBC has revealed he questioned Jimmy Savile over rumours about his private life more than 20 years ago.

BBC journalists could strike over Christmas and the new year in their bitter dispute over pensions, it was revealed today as programmes continued to be disrupted amid a 48-hour walkout.

A TEARFUL Terry Wogan signed off his breakfast show for the final time this morning and told his eight million listeners: “I’m going to miss you.”

Millions of listeners were waking up with Wogan for the last time today as Irish broadcaster Terry hosted his final BBC Radio 2 breakfast show.

NOT the sweetest thing he’s every written, a poem by Bono about Elvis is for some, unforgettably dire.

Kicking Gordon Brown out of Number 10 would not save the British Government from electoral meltdown – even though his popularity is at an all-time low, according to a poll tonight.

WHENEVER there is a referendum in the offing, commentators are presented with a dilemma as to how to refer to the plural of the word.

THE BBC ditched some of its flagship news programmes yesterday as it was forced to drastically change its schedules because of the biggest strike against the corporation in over a decade in a bitter row over jobs.

The Hutton Report claimed its second BBC scalp today when director general Greg Dyke resigned.