BBC: We got it wrong

The BBC has launched a major investigation after the corporation was forced to admit yesterday that it had broadcast programmes presented by Eamonn Holmes, Richard Bacon, Natasha Kaplinsky, Rosie Millard and Donal McIntyre. Director-General Mark Thompson admitted that viewers had every right to be angry. "I am appalled at these serious lapses," he said. "These unspeakable, vacuous, bumptious people have cast a shadow over the integrity of the BBC. And don't get me started on that gurning twat from Ready Steady Cook."