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video 29 April 2013 UK

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North Wales: councillor speaks about investigation - video

Jon Snow talks to Cllr Malcolm King, who started the first investigations into abuse at North Wales care homes when he was chair of Clwyd County Council social services committee.

article 29 April 2013 UK
Operation Pallial reports 140 allegations of abuse, which has focused on care homes in North Wales such as Bryn Estyn (picture: Getty)
North Wales child abuse: 140 alleged victims

Police find "significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse of children" at north Wales care homes, including 140 allegations of offences against seven to 19 year olds.

article 13 December 2012 UK
The former children's home, Bryn Estyn.
North Wales child abuse: unanswered questions

A month since the scandal of historic child abuse in north Wales cost the job of BBC director general George Entwistle, Ciaran Jenkins looks at the unanswered questions that remain.

video 12 November 2012 UK

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Where the north Wales abuse reviews are leading

Amid claims, denials, legal threats and apologies, one fact remains: we still do not know the truth about children abused in north Wales. Paraic O'Brien anticipates where the two reviews will lead.

article 10 November 2012 UK
George Entwistle (Reuters)
George Entwistle resigns as BBC director-general

George Entwistle announces his resignation as BBC director-general, seven weeks after moving into the post, after a Newsnight report which wrongly implicated a senior Tory politician in child abuse.

article 10 November 2012 UK
Director general George Entwistle (Pic: Getty)
BBC DG: Newsnight film 'should have never gone out'

A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation's director general says.

video 09 November 2012 UK

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North Wales abuse: 'We do not know everything'

Labour MP Ann Clwyd tells Channel 4 News that, despite the retraction of one allegation by a victim of the north Wales care home abuse scandal, the new police investigations are appropriate.

article 09 November 2012 UK
Former Tory peer McAlpine denies 'false' abuse claims (G)
Lord McAlpine denies 'false' abuse claims

Ex-Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine releases a statement saying allegations linking him to child abuse are "wholly false". Former care home resident Steve Messham apologises, citing mistaken identity.

article 09 November 2012 UK
Top Tory links to abuse could be mistaken
Top Tory links to abuse could be mistaken

The Thatcher-era Conservative aide linked to sex abuse allegations by a care home resident has fallen victim to mistaken identity, new evidence suggests.

video 08 November 2012 UK

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'I can still hear the children screaming, crying...'

Keith Gregory, who was a teenage resident at the Bryn Estyn institution at the centre of north Wales abuse claims, returns with Ciaran Jenkins. But boys were abused at care homes across north Wales.