As growing numbers of Jimmy Savile's victims come out of the woodwork with increasingly shocking stories of the abuse and intimidation they suffered at the hands of him and other celebrities, a picture is emerging of a climate of routine sexism at the BBC during the Seventies and Eighties.

Already, well-known journalists and presenters including Liz Kershaw, Miriam O'Reilly and Vivien Creegor have told of their experiences of sexual harassment and discrimination, while the upper echelons of BBC news desperately attempt to close ranks and claim, (unconvincingly, given the natural curiosity hard-wired into most top journalists) to have shown absolutely no interest in the nitty-gritty of potentially explosive allegations made against one of their most celebrated talents.

I see Freddie Starr has been taken into custody now. I wonder how long it'll take for him to get the palpitations back and be carted off to hospital ?? I had to laugh when he did that on This Morning - then drove away in his huge gas guzzler with a cigarette in his hand ! Horrible man ....