Well, it starts to get juicy. The Leveson Commission worked for Parliament, the Home Office Select Committee in particular, and Keith Vaz, the Chair of ther Committtee, has hust called for the Police and BBC to present their explanations by Friday. The BBC has replied "The BBC does not name its sources, nor is it appropriate to go into detail around editorial processes...The BBC agreed to follow normal journalistic practice and not to publish a story that might jeopardise a police inquiry." The Police seems to have risen to a trawl, a BBC reporter "who made it clear he knew of the existence of an investigation...it was agreed that the reporter would be notified of the date of the house search in return for delaying publication of any of the facts." Which did not happen.

What the BBC has forgotten is that they have their new Trust Chairman has to renegotiate their licence fee, and the DCMS is having difficulty finding anyone wanting to take the poisoned chalice on. Difficulty? I'd say it's just become impossible. I revise my opinion from Cliff becoming very rich indeed at the BBC's expense to Cliff becoming the next Chairman of the Trust, with an agenda which will not be at all pleasant for those concerned.