BBC director-general George Entwistle offered a “profound and heartfelt apology” to the alleged victims of Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse as he announced that two inquiries would be launched.

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

Film-maker Louis Theroux, who tried to unravel Jimmy Savile’s private life on-screen, said today his thoughts were “with the victims” following claims the Jim’ll Fix It star had sexually abused schoolgirls.

An eerie quiet hung over London’s Olympic Park for most of yesterday.

The Paralympic flame will begin its final journey to London today.

The lighting of the Paralympic Flame at Northern Ireland’s devolved parliament has shone the message of the power of human endeavour and energy, it has been claimed.

The highest mountain in the North will witness the lighting of the Paralympic flame tomorrow as the region prepares to celebrate the Games in London.

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Jimmy Savile is to be buried with one of his iconic cigars.

OLIVER Murphy, Ireland’s first paralympian and co-founder of the Irish Wheelchair Association, was one of the first patients to attend the National Rehabilitation Hospital.

Tony Blair was today embarking on a series of meetings just a day after hospital treatment for a heart problem.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was yesterday admitted to hospital where he underwent treatment for an irregular heartbeat.

Prime Minister Tony Blair was today admitted to hospital where he underwent treatment for an irregular heartbeat.