:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look at what the morning's papers will
:00:21. > :00:23.With me are the columnist for the Independent, James Rampton, and
:00:24. > :00:34.The headline on the i is "BBC: We are to blame
:00:35. > :00:38.for these monsters" after the report out today looking at the activities
:00:39. > :00:43.A lawyer for many of Savile's victims accuses the report
:00:44. > :00:50.The Express focuses on the Broadcaster Tony Blackburn who says
:00:51. > :00:54.he has been "hung out to dry" by the BBC in the wake of the scandal.
:00:55. > :00:57.The Guardian suggests that the BBC and Tony Blackburn have gone to war
:00:58. > :01:01.The Sun says the government is accused of hiding the real net
:01:02. > :01:04.migration figures, which could be more than double those stated.
:01:05. > :01:06.According to the Financial Times, the Chancellor George Osborne is
:01:07. > :01:09.pushing the G20 economies to warn about the
:01:10. > :01:14.The Times newspaper claims Downing Street is preparing to create up to
:01:15. > :01:17.40 new peers this summer and the Prime Minister could reward
:01:18. > :01:22.And The Telegraph says family doctors will be told that they are
:01:23. > :01:32.wrongly diagnosing hundreds of thousands of children with asthma.
:01:33. > :01:38.We will begin with the Jimmy Savile story and a report out today by the
:01:39. > :01:41.former judge Dame Janet Smith into what was happening inside the BBC
:01:42. > :01:51.that allowed abuse by celebrities like Jimmy Savile to go unreported.
:01:52. > :02:01.Along. The Metro has it on the front page -- unreported for so long. This
:02:02. > :02:08.is 1000 pages long, this report, and it is very damning towards the
:02:09. > :02:15.corporation. Dame Janet Smith found that bosses were blameless, despite
:02:16. > :02:29.117 staff telling her that they had known rumours about Jimmy Savile's
:02:30. > :02:32.behaviour. A junior employee at the television centre complained to a
:02:33. > :02:36.supervisor in the late 1980s that she had been sexually assaulted by
:02:37. > :02:44.Savile, and she was told to keep her mouth shut. That just shows you that
:02:45. > :02:51.they were elevated to such levels that they were untouchable. Rumours
:02:52. > :02:55.were rife, weren't they? A lot of people working here now say that
:02:56. > :03:00.when they came to work here they had heard of rumours. But it is the
:03:01. > :03:06.other stuff, the culture that makes people feel they can't speak up,
:03:07. > :03:11.that is what is a worry. Absolutely, and Dame Janet Smith has said that
:03:12. > :03:14.the culture may still exist. She said the BBC must resist the
:03:15. > :03:24.temptation to treat what happened to then as being irrelevant to today.
:03:25. > :03:27.This is a reminder that we should all be vigilant about abuse it
:03:28. > :03:32.happens in all sorts of organisations. What this report has
:03:33. > :03:40.revealed is that vigilance is key. Sadly, for the victims, will it be
:03:41. > :03:50.closure? Despite Tony hall's very good apology today, many say they
:03:51. > :03:53.feel a bit let down. But the truth has not been unearthed and many feel
:03:54. > :04:01.this is nothing more than expensive whitewash. Strong words, but I think
:04:02. > :04:07.many people will agree with that. I know they are bringing in the NSPCC
:04:08. > :04:10.to look at how to protect children. Esther Rantzen was talking about it
:04:11. > :04:17.earlier, I think it is brilliant they have done that. I think it is
:04:18. > :04:22.something that needs to happen in this and other corporations, because
:04:23. > :04:25.these people are very clever and manipulative. Jimmy Savile was, he
:04:26. > :04:36.surrounded himself with dignitaries and important people, to create this
:04:37. > :04:39.idea of being untouchable. Also, the reputation of the BBC, another
:04:40. > :04:49.scandal that the BBC has to somehow get through and regain trust. Trust
:04:50. > :04:54.and integrity are words that the BBC uses a lot. I think they have made
:04:55. > :04:59.the right step today in apologising. That is always the first step. The
:05:00. > :05:04.worst thing is when you try to cover something up. What did it for
:05:05. > :05:10.Richard Nixon in Watergate was not the original offence, it was a
:05:11. > :05:14.cover-up. I think Tony Hall coming out and apologising to the victims
:05:15. > :05:20.today is a good step, and the next step is to try to stop it happening
:05:21. > :05:24.in the future. . The chair of the BBC trust said that the BBC turned a
:05:25. > :05:30.blind eye when it should have shone a light. If this stops people in the
:05:31. > :05:35.future from turning a blind eye, it will be worth a report. As a final
:05:36. > :05:43.mention of the story, the Guardian and the Express have gone different
:05:44. > :05:52.ways. Tony Blackburn, veteran DJ, being part of the BBC output for
:05:53. > :05:58.about 40 years... The first voice on BBC Radio 1. Parting company, as it
:05:59. > :06:09.says here. Tony Blackburn says he hasn't done anything wrong, the
:06:10. > :06:15.reason he has been told he has to go is because the standard of the
:06:16. > :06:18.evidence he gave did not meet BBC standards. He says he is a
:06:19. > :06:21.scapegoat. Of all the stories they could put on the front page, it is
:06:22. > :06:30.interesting that have gone with this. The Express has done. The
:06:31. > :06:38.quote of Tony Blackburn, who would have come forward if they see how I
:06:39. > :06:43.have been hung out to dry? This is not the end of this by any means,
:06:44. > :06:48.there could be legal proceedings. Let's look at the Daily Mail.
:06:49. > :06:53.Another set of devastating migration figures, but the PM says the numbers
:06:54. > :07:04.can be slashed. Pull the other one, Dave. It is like a comedy routine!
:07:05. > :07:13.He is trying to get this down to 100,000, apparently. Anything in the
:07:14. > :07:19.next 200 days will be put through the two sides of the argument. The
:07:20. > :07:22.Daily Mail is chief cheerleader for the Brexit campaign, and is
:07:23. > :07:27.obviously using this as another is thick with which to beat those who
:07:28. > :07:39.wish to remain within the EU. This report from the office of national
:07:40. > :07:43.statistics is being used to encourage those who want to leave.
:07:44. > :07:47.Any statistic will be left on by both sides and interpreted as they
:07:48. > :07:53.wish to. Half of this figure is arrivals from the EU, and the other
:07:54. > :07:59.half are of course non- EU people, and it is much easier to control
:08:00. > :08:04.those figures. 630,000 national insurance numbers were issued to
:08:05. > :08:14.non- British EU citizens in 2015, seemingly at odds with the data that
:08:15. > :08:23.said that 257 EU migrants arrived in the end of December. Many say it can
:08:24. > :08:29.be good for a country, migration, a sign that an economy is doing well.
:08:30. > :08:32.I think it is a good advertisement in this country that we are
:08:33. > :08:36.attracting so many people. I know the NHS has said it would be in dire
:08:37. > :08:41.straits if we didn't have semi- people migrating to this country. I
:08:42. > :08:45.think half a million British people live in Spain as well. If we stop
:08:46. > :08:51.people moving around the EU, what will happen to those people? Lord
:08:52. > :08:58.Howard snubs PM and backs Brexit. Another big name from Tory ranks who
:08:59. > :09:03.has joined the out campaign. Obviously it was all about Boris on
:09:04. > :09:07.Sunday. How much of a snub is this for the PM? I think it is quite a
:09:08. > :09:12.snub in that Lord Howard gave David Cameron his first job. He research
:09:13. > :09:18.for him 20 years ago, it was his way into the Tory party. In terms of
:09:19. > :09:22.their personal relationship it is a snub, but Lord Howard has always
:09:23. > :09:26.been a very vocal anti- EU proponent, so that is not
:09:27. > :09:31.surprising. What is interesting is how vicious the campaign is
:09:32. > :09:42.getting, and we are only three days in. Four months of this! We are
:09:43. > :09:47.already getting fatigued! Lord Howard said he would not have got
:09:48. > :09:51.support from the Brexit side even if he had returned to the EU
:09:52. > :09:56.brandishing the severed heads of the EU commission. Quite vivid and
:09:57. > :10:03.colourful language. It speaks of how opposed some people are to being
:10:04. > :10:09.part of the EU, who don't feel it is what they voted for back in the
:10:10. > :10:13.70s. And accusations of project fear, as well. David Cameron saying
:10:14. > :10:20.that the pound would fall and the cost of holidays will rise. That is
:10:21. > :10:24.absolutely the primary concern! That is what I will be voting on! He is
:10:25. > :10:29.clever to go with that because it is something everyone will be able to
:10:30. > :10:32.identify with. We have a fortnight in Spain, will that be under threat
:10:33. > :10:50.because the pound is tumbling as a result of instability? Maybe. You
:10:51. > :10:54.can't be too careful! The Times, Rotherham child-abuse gang leader
:10:55. > :11:03.wanted IVF. He has fathered up to 18 babies! Many of his victims had
:11:04. > :11:17.abortions, an awful story. This was to disclosed in court, and there are
:11:18. > :11:21.no words to describe it. We don't want to be arrested ourselves for
:11:22. > :11:23.the things we say, but it is absolutely shocking, and apparently
:11:24. > :11:30.he might have been trying to use certain aspect to get himself
:11:31. > :11:36.acquitted and to have the jury dismissed, but I think quite rightly
:11:37. > :11:40.the judge rejected those claims and clearly he was well enough to
:11:41. > :11:45.contemplate family life with a baby. If he was campaigning to have IVF,
:11:46. > :11:49.he clearly is fit enough to make those decisions, and his claims that
:11:50. > :11:56.he was unfit to do so were exposed as not quite right. Final story,
:11:57. > :12:01.pupils who go private get ahead by two years. This is some research
:12:02. > :12:04.being done that Durham University. I think it is interesting, but if you
:12:05. > :12:08.delve down into the figures and take into account the background to the
:12:09. > :12:14.pupils, it says the difference between private and state education
:12:15. > :12:20.is only 0.64 of the grade. For me, that is quite a lot of money to
:12:21. > :12:25.pay, ?15,000 a year perhaps, for a lot of very big difference. Even
:12:26. > :12:30.though the Times is spinning this as very pro- private school, and
:12:31. > :12:33.boosting willingness or decide to go to private schools, you are shelling
:12:34. > :12:40.out a lot of money for what I think is not a massive difference. I had a
:12:41. > :12:43.friend who went to a private school, and I wanted to say to his parents
:12:44. > :12:52.that they should have a refund for that. The thing with this, there was
:12:53. > :12:55.a story the other day about the fact that private schools are finding
:12:56. > :12:58.that numbers are dropping because more people are choosing to spend
:12:59. > :13:03.their children to successful state schools. It is not just about
:13:04. > :13:08.qualifications, is it? Confidence that people seem to come out with
:13:09. > :13:12.and the connections they have. I went to a state school in the 1980s,
:13:13. > :13:17.and to be honest it was horrible, I didn't enjoy it at all and I didn't
:13:18. > :13:24.get the support I wanted to go on and work in broadcasting in my life.
:13:25. > :13:31.I didn't get that at all. So I was very lucky, to have the
:13:32. > :13:34.determination that I had. We're out of time, we are very glad you are
:13:35. > :13:44.here and we hope you will come back again. Mention that to your friend
:13:45. > :13:48.who use it should get a refund for his private schooling. That is it
:13:49. > :13:52.from us for tonight. Next, Sportsday.