BBC chiefs didn’t say sorry

BOSSES at the BBC have repeatedly failed to apologise for its live coverage of the raid at Sir Cliff’s home.

Director general Tony Hall and former director of news James Harding avoided any responsibility for the breach of privacy.

In July 2016, Lord Hall said ‘we’ve said we’re sorry for the stress he’s been caused over the last couple of years.’ Mr Harding was on holiday at the time of the police probe. The decision to run the story was made by Fran Unsworth – his deputy at the time – but the High Court said he failed to acknowledge inconsistencies made. It described him as ‘overly guarded’ when the content of parts of the BBC’s defence ‘were compared with his emails.’