His direct quote is "In doing so, I am by no means giving up my right to sue those who have defamed me in the recent past or who may do so in the future and I expressly reserve my rights to take all such steps as I and my solicitors consider necessary to protect my interests."

In order to defame a person you first of all have to identify that person, do you not ?

Innuendo will suffice in some circumstances.

How many 'bølløcks' were dropped by how many in the media over Chris Jefferies?

And how many subsequent resignations?

I know if I made an almighty balls-up in my work then it wouldn't be any of my directors that resigned and left me in the same job.

We still come back to divide and conquror.

The bloke at the beeb being sacked is a smokescreen, as is, his final payout.

The over-riding fact is, child abuse has gone on and is still going on, and the children in need ( of abusing?) channel is still denying it.

Just to get back to the start, allegations were made about Jimmy Saville that opened up a whole can of worms. An awful lot of celebrities have come out of the cupboard " we heard the rumours", well why did'nt you say something about? Answer, "we were poop scared of losing our jobs and did'nt give a toss about the kids", but we can't say that.

Said it before, go back to Jersey and Dunblane.

I BELIEVE STEVE MESSHAM WAS ORIGINALLY TELLING THE TRUTH.

No. We are not going to start spreading rumours about named individuals here. Mintball

Suffer little children.

Why did the senior coroner of Stirlingshire not do Thomas Hamilton's autopsy?
Why did some nurses reports of the tradgedy altered?
Why was a 100 year curfew put on the inquirey?

it's all related.

Anyone who believes an experienced, high-profile and well-connected TV anchor (who has at least another twenty years at the top providing he doesn't screw up and submit to the boiling piranha pool beneath him of eager contenders that covet his position) takes it upon himself - completely out of the blue - to harangue the PRIME MINISTER on live and national TV with a list of establishment paedophiles he "pulled off the internet" (FFS!) deserves a custodial sentence for naivety.

Anne Diamond has talked many times about the damage her career took pulling a similar stunt (on a far less explosive matter).

looks like Dave Lee Travis's career is now over.

Amazing how the powers that be have managed to turn all this away from a commons paedo ring.

It now looks like any woman who, as a 14 or 15 year old, threw themselves at ANY famous celebrity, is now allowed to have their 15 minutes of fame, while at the same time, destroying the reputation of that celebrity.

This whole thing has got to be stopped - You can't tell me that all these celebs (and there are bound to be many, many more exposed by our glorious media) are all paedophiles in the sense of what most people believe a paedophile is.

In my opinion, paedophilia is an adult knowingly forcing themselves on a minor, not an adult unwittingly sleeping with a willing participant, who happens to be underage, which is what I fear most of these cases will undoubtedly be.

To the letter of the law incorrect.

But you have a valid point, to me the phrase that said it all when the headlines were all about Savile was the number of young girls who confessed to being "abused" by him on several occasions and that being taken for a ride in his Rolls Royce had "a price to pay" for which they were willing to participate, repeatedly.

And lest we forget, no-one has been tried in a court of law yet, well, apart from Paul Gadd, and those who are alive and accused have all denied the charges, it will be interesting to see just how many of those arrests turn into convictions in future months/years, and there will be more accusations, many, many more.