Licence fee payer will 'bear cost'

The BBC and its licence fee payers will have to "bear the costs" of the inquiries in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, "however much they are", Lord Patten has told MPs.

The BBC Trust chairman said the Pollard Review, which is examining a shelved Newsnight report into Savile's abuse, is expected to be completed by Christmas, but a second review led by Dame Janet Smith, looking at the culture and practices of the BBC during the years in which Savile worked there, could take much longer.
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