Princess Diana‘s brother Earl Spencer today said he reported disgraced BBC reporter Martin Bashir to the Met Police twice for using fake bank statements to land the interview with his sister but the force was ‘bizarrely reluctant to take it further’. The 57-year-old, speaking from his family home of Althorp, insisted that faking financial documents ‘expecting … Read more
Former BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre BBC journalists and executives responsible for Martin Bashir‘s Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales were fuelled by ‘contagious, blind ambition’, according to former BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre. The director, who sat on the corporation’s board at the time of the 1995 interview, said their punishment will be … Read more
Former BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre BBC journalists and executives responsible for Martin Bashir‘s Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales were fuelled by ‘contagious, blind ambition’, according to former BBC governor Sir Richard Eyre. The director, who sat on the corporation’s board at the time of the 1995 interview, said their punishment will be … Read more
Lord Hall issued a grovelling apology to Princes William and Harry yesterday for the ‘hurt caused’ by the Princess Diana Panorama scandal. The former BBC director-general told MPs he was ‘deeply sorry’ after the future king last month accused him of ‘looking the other way’ as Martin Bashir ruined his mother’s life. In a day of … Read more
Lord Hall issued a grovelling apology to Princes William and Harry yesterday for the ‘hurt caused’ by the Princess Diana Panorama scandal. The former BBC director-general told MPs he was ‘deeply sorry’ after the future king last month accused him of ‘looking the other way’ as Martin Bashir ruined his mother’s life. In a day of … Read more