A report which concluded there is no evidence Jimmy Savile was protected by police officers reveals “yet more potential missed opportunities” to catch the disgraced broadcaster, child protection campaigners have said.

Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.

Jimmy Savile was “one of the UK’s most prolific known sexual predators” who abused children as young as eight across six decades, a chilling report concluded today.

The inquiry into alleged child abuse by Jimmy Savile is now a formal criminal investigation involving other living people, Scotland Yard said today.

GORDON Brown’s premiership was under siege again yesterday as a former general secretary of the Labour Party stepped forward to complain that Number 10 had been reduced to a “shambles”.

The Labour party in the UK was today resisting demands to repay more than £600,000 (€836,182) in “secret” donations made by a wealthy party backer through a series of middlemen.

BRITISH Labour Party general secretary Peter Watt resigned last night over revelations a party donor gave £400,000 (€560,000) without revealing his identity.

Gordon Brown was confirmed as Labour's leader-in-waiting and Britain's next Prime Minister today, after winning overwhelming backing from MPs.

A leading trade union has expressed “outrage” that members will have to pledge support for Labour’s policies during the forthcoming ballot for the election of a new Deputy Leader, it was disclosed today.

Northern Ireland members of the British Labour Party are being made to feel as if they are unwelcome, it was claimed today.

British Labour Party chiefs were facing fresh pressure today to set up branches in Northern Ireland and to contest elections there.