The BBC has spent more than £150,000 trying to keep secret a cache of documents relating to an alleged cover-up of the Diana, Princess of Wales Panorama controversy. The BBC’s spending on external legal advice in its fight with Mr Webb equates to 955 licence fees. The corporation is expected to hand over about 10,000 pages of data to Mr Webb on Tuesday, Jan 30 after being ordered by a judge to do so in a hearing in December. Lord Dyson also said the BBC had covered up what it knew about Mr Bashir’s behaviour in the 1990s. Mr Webb believes that senior managers who may still be working at the BBC might be implicated in what he has termed “the cover-up of the cover-up” in 2020.

Source: Stuff January 30, 2024 12:47 UTC