The Guardian has said that it will not give financial assistance to its columnist George Monbiot in any legal action brought by Lord McAlpine. Monbiot is among a number of individuals facing potential ...

Lord McAlpine's legal team has reached a settlement of £185,000 with the BBC after he was wrongly implicated in a child sex abuse scandal. The incorrect claims against the Tory peer came about because ...

A tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine, which he claims named him as a paedophile, was libellous, the High Court has ruled. The wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow is being sued by the Tory peer ...

The past week has seen a series of extraordinary events arising out of a BBC Newsnight broadcast about sexual abuse in children's homes in North Wales in the 1970s and 1980s. This led to the wide ...

Conservative peer Lord McAlpine has reached a £125,000 settlement with ITV and Phillip Schofield over a list of alleged paedophiles that was handed to the prime minster live on air. During an edition ...

LONDON – The BBC appointed a new director-general on Thursday, moving quickly to fill the top post following the resignation of its previous leader amid a damaging pedophilia scandal. Tony Hall, a ...

Former Tory party grandee Lord McAlpine has threatened to track down and sue thousands of Twitter users who linked him to child sex abuse. In the firing line: Sally Bercow (Picture: Getty) Tracking ...

A memorial service will be held in Broome next week to honour Lord Alistair McAlpine, who died on Friday aged 71. Lord McAlpine developed much of the town's tourism industry in the 1980s, including ...