Huw Edwards’ wife, Vicky Flind, identified him as the presenter at the heart of an extraordinary media storm on Wednesday (13 July). She said the events of recent days had worsened his “serious mental health issues”, and he had been hospitalised as a result. It began when Billionaire mogul Rupert Murdoch’s paper ran a front page interview with a mother of a 20-year-old, on 7 July, who said their child provided explicit images to a “household name” at the BBC in exchange for money. She said their child used the money to fund a drug addiction.
The story has taken a number of twists since. In a statement issued through a lawyer, the young person at the centre of the story described their parents’ claims as “rubbish” and insisted there was “no truth” to the stories. Crucially, the young person said they had made a statement to this effect to The Sun before it published its story, which failed to make it into the paper.
The Metropolitan Police has assessed that no crime has taken place. While The Sun has defended its reporting, which included subsequent, but less salacious, allegations from other sources, it has now said it doesn’t plan to report further claims.
Right so: Edwards did nothing illegal. The Sun and the BBC itself have worked to meld unrelated stories together into a full scale character assassination, and a man who did nothing illegal is now in hospital as a result of the ensuing emotional stress.
The Sun, Keir Starmer’s favourite newspaper, has spewed lies and hate for decades and represent everything that’s wrong with the British tabloid industry
In 1986, the actor Jeremy Brett was admitted to a mental unit after a breakdown following the death of his wife. The Sun ran a cover story which stated ‘TV SHERLOCK IN NUT HOUSE’
Jeremy deserved his dignity.
In 1988, The Sun and its sister News of the World harassed David Scarboro, who was the first actor to play Mark Fowler in EastEnders He sadly died that same year aged 20
They printed lies about Hillsborough, demonised striking workers. paid 16 year olds to pose topless, never pays Tax. fixes elections with lies, championed Brexit, allowed rent a gob Katie Hopkins to use as a national platform to call for refugees to be machine-gunned at sea.and hounded Caroline Flack to her death.
It's hard to believe it has survived the horrific lies they told about the Hillsborough tragedy.The Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper has been ongoing since its reporting of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. The publication was found to have lied about LFC fans behaviour during and after the event to horrific effect and placed blame onto the victims of the tragedy. As a result of the fatal crush, 97 people died and 766 were injured.
The Sun said fans had urinated on police officers, picked pockets of other victims and beat up people trying to give CPR. Since then, the boycott of The Sun has held firm in Liverpool, with a blanket ban on selling the publication in newsagents, providing it in libraries, or keeping it on coffee tables in local councils and institutions.
However 34 years later the Scum for that is what it really should be called. is still peddling lies and with a disgraceful hidden agenda to every story. Daily releasing a pious debasing rhetoric that is simply offensive and unacceptable to the order of the Murdoch empire, that controls the flow of media to almost half the planet.
Releasing abuse to benefit claimants, refugees, the disabled, transphobic, homophobic, islamophobic, that never shows any tolerance, decency or fairness, with a dirty right wing bias.
Please stop buying this piece of shit, even for burning. Don’t read the Sun, Don't click its website, its fantasy football, it's Twitter. None of it. Fuck them.Unless we say enough is enough they will continue Boycott The Sun.
The Sun and its journalists should also have to endure an inquisition by Lord Brian Leveson. If ever we needed proof that regulation of the British Press (and indeed TV) is clearly not fit for purpose, this is it.
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