An inquiry into the BBC’s “culture and practices” during the era of star presenter Jimmy Savile’s campaign of sexual abuse is to begin today.

Jimmy Savile’s former personal assistant has said the disgraced TV star “thought he was untouchable”.

RUPERT MURDOCH’S British newspaper company has agreed to pay damages to 37 high-profile victims of tabloid phone hacking, including actor Jude Law, footballer Ashley Cole, a friend of Prince William and former deputy prime minister John Prescott.

THE parents of Madeleine McCann, actor Hugh Grant and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling were named yesterday as core participants in the first stage of the inquiry into the British phone-hacking scandal.

A nurse who was barred from working after being accused of sabotage at a hospital in Britain can return to nursing, a regulatory body ruled today.

PLANET EARTH has been saved — the evil shagging monster that threatened the morality of the universe has been vanquished. Now that John Terry has been stripped of the captaincy, the balance of the cosmos can return.

One of the world’s most controversial lawyers, dubbed the 'Devil’s Advocate' for representing tyrants and serial killers, is to stand for election in the Republic of Ireland.

YOU’LL have to excuse the smell, but we’ve had the disinfectant out at Old Trafford after our enforced visit from the massed Scousers and Cockernees.

A ROGUE doctor like British serial killer Harold Shipman could strike in Ireland unless drugs laws are tightened, according to the State pharmacies’ regulator.

IRELAND’S liberal pharmacy market could be exploited by someone like Dr Harold Shipman, who obtained large quantities of controlled drugs and used them to kill victims, a British pharmaceutical expert warned yesterday.

The lack of pharmacy legislation is leaving patients vulnerable to a killer doctor like Harold Shipman, it was claimed today.

A doctor accused of failing to report that serial killer Harold Shipman had given a morphine overdose to a patient, sobbed today and admitted he “had not been good enough”.

Serial killer Harold Shipman’s deteriorating state of mind and his path to suicide were recorded in his prison diary.

The death of serial killer GP Harold Shipman at Wakefield Prison “could not have been predicted or prevented”, a report by Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Stephen Shaw said today.

Serial murderer Harold Shipman killed up to 15 patients while he trained as a hospital doctor more than 30 years ago at Pontefract General Infirmary in West Yorkshire, an official report said today.

Two doctors accused of failing to notice “extraordinary coincidences” surrounding the death of Harold Shipman’s patients that could have stopped his killing spree a year earlier were cleared today of serious professional misconduct.

Doctors are too focused on “looking after their own” according to a “bruising” report into the case of serial killer Dr Harold Shipman published today.

A hospital consultant who carried out an incorrect post mortem examination of a patient given a lethal morphine injection by Harold Shipman was cleared today of serious professional misconduct.

Harold Shipman has been cremated at a service which was attended by his wife Primrose and just a handful of other mourners, it has emerged.

The body of Harold Shipman has been released to his family after an inquest into his death was opened and adjourned.

Harold Shipman’s widow Primrose will receive a pension and lump sum as a result of her husband’s death, the Department of Health has confirmed.

An independent inquiry into the death of doctor Harold Shipman was beginning today at the prison where he died.

THE true horror of Harold Shipman’s murderous life was only fully realised two-and-a-half years after his conviction for 15 killings.

The independent inquiry into the death of Harold Shipman will begin tomorrow morning, the British Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has said.

Killer doctor Harold Shipman took the secrets of 215 murders to the grave when he was found hanged in his prison cell today.

The senior investigating officer in the Harold Shipman case said today he was “shocked and surprised” at the doctor’s death.

Harold Shipman hid himself behind a window curtain where he was found hanging, the Prison Officers Association said today.

Harold Shipman’s death in a prison cell was “extremely worrying”, a senior probation officer said today.

Harold Shipman was planning an appeal against his conviction for 15 murders before he was found hanging in his cell, his solicitor said today.

The relatives of Dr Harold Shipman’s victims reacted to his death with shock.

Killer doctor Harold Shipman died today after being found hanging in his cell at Wakefield prison, the Prison Service said.

Serial killer Dr Harold Shipman has had prison privileges taken away because of poor behaviour, it emerged today.

A lawyer who claims to have given legal advice to some of the world’s most notorious men today said he was ready to defend Saddam Hussein.

The minimum period Ian Huntley will stay in jail will not be decided until next year.

THE receptionist who worked for Harold Shipman revealed yesterday that the former GP killed four members of her family, including her mother.

A TAXI driver suspected Harold Shipman was killing his elderly customers because they were dying “suddenly and unexpectedly“, the inquiry into the former doctor’s crimes heard yesterday.

A British detective whose investigation into serial killer Harold Shipman failed to unearth evidence of murder has been suspended, it emerged today.

Legislation is urgently needed to protect patients and restore public confidence in the medical profession as a whole, following a series of medical scandals, such as the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of baby Roisín Ruddle, to the tainted blood scandal, the organ retention debacle, and the misconduct allegations made against the Drogheda obstetrician that were upheld by the Medical Council earlier this week.

DR HAROLD SHIPMAN was an enigma and police struggled to understand him.

THE death of one of Harold Shipman’s victims in 1995 was a “missed opportunity” to uncover the serial killer’s crimes, a report revealed yesterday.

THE family of one of three women whose lives could have been saved if police had investigated serial killer Harold Shipman properly yesterday labelled the force as “appallingly incompetent.”

Two detectives whose investigation into serial killer Harold Shipman failed to spot his crimes were unfit to handle the case, the inquiry into his crimes ruled today.

A report into the police investigation which failed to spot serial killer Harold Shipman’s murderous ways was due to be published today.