The father of Ashya King has claimed the family felt unable to tell UK doctors their feelings because they feared he would be taken into care.

Jimmy Savile committed "truly awful" abuse against patients at hospitals across the country and even boasted about having sex with corpses, a series of chilling reports have revealed.

Almost half of Jimmy Savile’s victims in his home county – including three people who were just five at the time – were abused in hospitals, according to newly released figures.

Jimmy Savile would regularly take teenage girls to a private hospital block alone, a former porter has claimed.

BBC director-general George Entwistle has asked a senior colleague to answer journalists’ questions on the dropping of a documentary about Jimmy Savile.