the bbc investigation was declared woefully ineffective. prince william says the deception fuelled his mother s paranoia and distrust. it is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said. the interview was a major contribution to making my parents relationship worse and has since hurt countless others. the bbc knew back in 1996 about the fake bank statements. lord dyson said the bbc knew martin bashir had lied when he said he had not shown them to earl spencer. the defence was this note from princess diana, saying she had not seen the offending documents, but there were people in the bbc who had concerns. the problem, they say, was the corporation s culture. very late 1995, i bought the documents to the attention of the bbc management, as i was asked to do by a bbc lawyer, and was told within 24 hours of doing that that effectively i would no longer be part of the programme. i had been disloyal . that s what happened
elsewhere some spells of sunshine. it stays windy and extraordinarily mild. and for sunday still unsettled with stronger spells of rain. a shift in the wind direction, coming in from the west and still very mild but not quite as mild as it is right now. a bigger change as we get deeper into next week. low pressure still close by so it will still be quite unsettled as the slow moves eastwards as we get into tuesday, it opens the door to this northerly wind with single digit temperatures. these temperatures stay low through the week and it stays unsettled. when we get there, happy new year s eve. 0urtop when we get there, happy new year s eve. our top story this lunchtime, the number of nhs staff off work in england because of covid went up by a0% during christmas week. hello. i hope the year has been kind to you. the media industry is defining a new normal, and coming to terms with the second year of a global pandemic. print and distribution costs are growing pretty much every
with a lot of cloud. still breezy, overnight temperatures are high, seven to 13 celsius. tomorrow, all bands of rain moving eastwards as there is one clears eastern scotland, it will brighten out but the tail end will be heavy bringing heavy rain across north wales and west england. temperatures tomorrow, above average for the time of years, 90 potentially 17 degrees. hello this is bbc new. the headlines: the scottish parliament is recalled amid record numbers of covid infections the issue has to be do we have the right time constraints in place to suppress the circulation of the virus? borisjohnson is under pressure to follow the united states and cut the covid self isolation period in england to 5 days the us and several european countries including france, italy and portugal record their highest daily rises in covid infections since the pandemic began soaring energy bills, rising taxes and stagnant wages will leave millions of families struggling in 2022 according to a l
from more traditional media. presenter piers morgan left itv s good morning britain after saying that he didn t believe a word that meghan said in that interview with oprah winfrey. concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he is born. ..what? from race to mental health, progressive californian values to the british monarchy, every element of oprah s interview with prince harry and meghan has been catnip for the frenzy and fury of today s culture wars, in which all of us are pitched against each other. has she said anything about. sometimes, it boils over. but yet you continue to trash her. ok, i m done with this! broadcaster piers morgan left itv, unwilling to apologise for saying he didn t believe meghan s claims. the next morning, morgan was bullish. no, i believe in freedom of speech. i believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion. if people want to believe meghan markle, that s entirely their right. into this heady brew, britain launched a
now on bbc news, review 2021, the media year. our media editor, amol rajan, takes a close look at some of the organisations running our digital world in his review of the year. hello. i hope the year has been kind to you. the media industry is defining a new normal, and coming to terms with the second year of a global pandemic. print and distribution costs are growing pretty much everywhere. but so too are online subscriptions and targeted advertising. big tech is more dominant than ever, but governments and regulators around the world, including here in the uk, are waking up to new ways to shape these giants of global media. or at least squaring up for a fight with them. nevertheless, many of the biggest headlines this year came from more traditional media. presenter piers morgan left itv s good morning britain after saying that he didn t believe a word that meghan said in that interview with oprah winfrey. concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he