Five senior BBC production staff were suspended yesterday as Britain's most senior policeman raised the prospect of a criminal investigation into the corporation's rigging of phone-in competitions.The staff, all senior producers or editors, were the first casualties of the row over viewer deceptions involving a series of flagship charity and children's shows.
A fraud inquiry now seems inevitable after Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for The Wrekin, wrote to Scotland Yard to demand action.
| details at the link Just in: "This is the fault of the politicians, not the BBC". Uh huh. |