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Article thumbnail: LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 10: A general view of the front of BBC Broadcasting House on July 10, 2023 in London, England. Last week, the Sun newspaper published allegations that a BBC presenter had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager in exchange for explicit photos. The broadcaster has said that a male presenter has been suspended while it conducts an investigation. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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Article thumbnail: General view of BBC Broadcasting House in London, following allegations that a well-known presenter has been taken off air over clams he paid a teenager for explicit pictures. Picture date: Sunday July 9, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA BBC . Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire
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Article thumbnail: BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place on 24th August 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The main building was refurbished, with radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and the BBC World Service transferred to refurbished studios within the building. The extension links the old building and includes a new combined newsroom for BBC News, with studios for the BBC News channel, BBC World News and other news programming. The move of news operations from BBC Television Centre was completed in March 2013. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place on 24th August 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The main building was refurbished, with radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and the BBC World Service transferred to refurbished studios within the building. The extension links the old building and includes a new combined newsroom for BBC News, with studios for the BBC News channel, BBC World News and other news programming. The move of news operations from BBC Television Centre was completed in March 2013. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court, London, where he is charged with three counts of indecent assault, seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent between 2001 and 2005. Picture date: Friday June 30, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Spacey. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court, London, where he is charged with three counts of indecent assault, seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent between 2001 and 2005. Picture date: Friday June 30, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Spacey. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: (FILES) Ukrainian T64 tanks move towards Bakhmut direction, in Donetsk Oblast region, on March 20, 2023. Russia's private army Wagner claimed on May 20, 2023, the total control of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting, as Kyiv said the battle was continuing but admitted the situation was "critical". Bakhmut, a salt mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle in Moscow's more than year-long Ukraine offensive. The fall to Russia of Bakhmut, where both Moscow and Kyiv are believed to have suffered huge losses, would have high symbolic value. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: (FILES) Ukrainian T64 tanks move towards Bakhmut direction, in Donetsk Oblast region, on March 20, 2023. Russia's private army Wagner claimed on May 20, 2023, the total control of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting, as Kyiv said the battle was continuing but admitted the situation was "critical". Bakhmut, a salt mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle in Moscow's more than year-long Ukraine offensive. The fall to Russia of Bakhmut, where both Moscow and Kyiv are believed to have suffered huge losses, would have high symbolic value. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: FILE PHOTO: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, visit the Joint Headquarters of the Russian armed forces involved in military operations in Ukraine, in an unknown location in Russia, in this picture released December 17, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo
Article thumbnail: FILE PHOTO: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, visit the Joint Headquarters of the Russian armed forces involved in military operations in Ukraine, in an unknown location in Russia, in this picture released December 17, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo