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[broadsword]

They're playing up to his odd-ball image, I think it's absolutely disgraceful, but pretty much par for the course for the Sun.

I think for teh early series of Bergerac, that place was actually used as the Police headquarters, not sure if you knew that. Very spooky.

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

Colin, my dear chap, I'm sorry if you got upset that five out of six posts were from me. There have been 250 posts on this thread so far and one board member has posted twice as many times as me on this thread.

I've by no means been the most prolific in this thread. Four board members have posted more than me on this topic and you yourself Colin have posted eleven times on this thread. During a seven month period between August 2007 and the end of February 2008, I only posted twice on this thread. Is two posts in seven months on this thread really so outrageous?

I'm sorry that I don't join you in discussing topics like slugs, squirrels and geese in the ICBINF section - but I tend to find current affairs issues more interesting. Unfortunately we are no longer allowed to discuss important political issues like immigration - and I thought I'd bring this topic back up again partly to convey my horror at what has been discovered in Jersey and partly to defend Jimmy Savile.

I don't think I've been guilty of throwing stones at any innocent people - which you might be suggesting. In the posts you highlighted I was critical of three or four people who were all jailed - one of them given a very lenient sentence in my view by the judge.

In the case of the actor Chris Langham, you could argue that he hadn't actually officially been found guilty by the jury at the time of my post - however he had already admitted in court to downloading hardcore child porn. Given that he'd already admitted to carrying out a serious offence, I felt that criticism of him was justified ahead of the official jury verdict.

With regard to the "leading member of Jersey's political establishment" that I mentioned as being a police suspect, I deliberately did not mention this man's name and I only described him as a suspect.

Going back to Jimmy Savile (He once said that he wished he had a pound for every time somebody mistakenly spelt his surname with two "ll"s), I feel sympathy for him for what he's going through at the moment. It was certainly not a nice thing to do for The Sun to publish a photo of him in Jersey. The Sun should have been aware that a few people would subsequently make unsubstantiated links with Savile and the dreadful events in Jersey.

Jimmy has helped to raise over £40 million for charities over the years, running over 200 marathons. He's helped a lot of people in his life and it's a shame that his name has been blackened in a few people's eyes by The Sun's photograph.

I'm actually thinking of sending a short letter to Jimmy to say: "Keep your chin up and don't let the barstewards get you down."

Savile still does a day's voluntary work each week at Leeds Infirmary, so any supportive letters can be sent to him c/o:

Leeds General Infirmary,

Great George Street,

Leeds,

West Yorkshire,

LS1 3EX