it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i understand th
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