The BBC has said it intends to clarify the role played by the director of BBC Northern Ireland in the 'Newsnight' controversy.

The BBC’s director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell have stepped aside, according to reports.

A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general said today.

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