WHAT DID ALAN KNOW?
Why an MP now wants the BBC’s Savile inquiry to ask veteran arts boss Alan Yentob what he knew about rumours concerning Jimmy Savile.

IT’S IN THE GENES
The BBC takes 13 months to uphold a complaint about the many plugs it broadcast for the scientific hokum of ‘genetics expert’ Alistair Moffat.

FACEBOOK FEARS
Digital ad agencies are all a-quiver after Facebook spends $19bn on WhatsApp – the messaging service that claims to loathe advertising.

VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS?
Branson and Bolt reunite to plug Virgin Media. But 21 ASA verdicts in two years suggest a lot of salt is needed when Virgin Media plugs anything.

PLUS: More Ad Nauseam, I-Sky, Dumb Britain, Luvvies and Desperate Business.

Charge of the Lightweight Brigade as Hague Is Sent to Kiev… Putin Reveals Plans to Commemorate Start of WW1… Simple Simon Denies Affiliation with Pie Man, by Sybil Liberties… RBS Announces No Bonus to Shareholders… Maddy Arrests: Another Article Predicted ‘Any Day Now’… Curse of Strictly Strikes Again… Laurie Penny’s Diary, as told to Craig Brown

And also...

- Paedo-filler information: Why the Mail’s attack on Labour luminaries is old, old news
- Hospital cover-ups: More on the shameful neglect at Wales’s own ‘Mid-Staffs’
- PLUS: Yentob and Savile; Letter from Ukraine; sweaters in Guernsey & more!
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