Gary Pankhurst News Today

The sick truth behind serial sex predator Jimmy Savile only emerged after his death in 2011, but look hard enough and there were clues everywhere

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Accused: National Treasures On Trial (C4), a one-off rush through a multitude of cases, was muddled and shallow

A woman who was groped by Jimmy Savile on Top Of The Pops fears Steve Coogan will struggle to portray the monster in an upcoming BBC drama, amid calls for the series to be axed.

The summer of 1969/70 saw the release of a number of Hollywood and British blockbusters - Hoffman and Voight’s Midnight Cowboy, Streisand’s Hello Dolly, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service starring the Australian Bond, George Lazenby, and the adventures of a sentient VW Beetle named Herbie. Against stiff competition, that icon of 1960s children’s TV Skippy the bush kangaroo, made her big screen debut in The Intruders.

The summer of 1969/70 saw the release of a number of Hollywood and British blockbusters - Hoffman and Voight’s Midnight Cowboy, Streisand’s Hello Dolly, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service starring the Australian Bond, George Lazenby, and the adventures of a sentient VW Beetle named Herbie. Against stiff competition, that icon of 1960s children’s TV Skippy the bush kangaroo, made her big screen debut in The Intruders.

Sylvia Edwards, of Twickenham, South West London, was 18 when she appeared beside paedophile presenter Jimmy Savile on the BBCs Top of the Pops in November 1976.