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BBC error 'no reason to resign'. BBC One controller Peter Fincham says he is not planning to resign over the Queen documentary blunder. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
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The BBC was forced to make an embarrassing apology to both the Royal Family and the photographer Annie Leibovitz today, after a promotional trailer wrongly showed that the Queen had stormed out of a photoshoot during a fly-on-the-wall documentary.

The corporation admitted that a trailer shown yesterday, designed to publicise the forthcoming BBC One documentary series A Year With The Queen, gave the misleading impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the shoot when Ms Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown.

Scenes of the pair clashing over the request were followed in the trailer by footage of the Queen walking down a corridor, and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I[base ']m not changing anything. I[base ']ve had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."
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Hewitt on the ropes in the House of Commons.

Hewitt on the ropes

Patricia Hewitt is speaking in the House of commons right now - apparently the MTAS security breach was Channel 4 News' fault because they left 2 hours between finding out about it and contact the DoH perss office.

She also just said 'there is no eveidence that memebrs of the public, or any other authorised people, other than ITN/Channel 4 News accessed the data',. This got enormous laughs and cries of 'yer what? Yer what? Yer what yer what yer what?' from the opposition benches.

Just thought you might like to know.

1. NHS BLOG DOCTOR was tipped off about it early that afternoon. At 14.10 on Thursday 26th April**, I published an article entitled âo[ogonek]MTAS - would someone tell me this is not true." Within an hour I had proof positive that the breach existed.
   
   
2. I telephoned Victoria Macdonald of Channel 4 news and gave her the story.
   
   
3. I considered that, journalist scoop though this was, the security breach was appalling, and threatened the confidentially of doctorsâo[dot accent] private job applications. I therefore telephoned the Department of Health and was finally put through to Mike Clement, the MTAS project manager. I notified him of the problem.
   
   
4. I backed this phone call up with an email sent to Mike Clement at 15.59 on the same day.
   
   
5. The MTAS site was taken down (by Mike Clement I assume) within a few minutes.
   
   
6. At 18.08 I had this final exchange of emails with Mike Clement
   

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Clement@dh.gsi.gov.uk [mailto:Mike.Clement@dh.gsi.gov.uk]
Sent: 26 April 2007 18:05 To: Dr John Crippen Subject: Re: FW: ? another MTAS leak

Dr Crippen

Thank you for alerting me to this issue.

Regards

Mike Clement
MTAS project manager.
Tel 020 7633 7020

Workforce Directorate
Working differently

__________

Mike

That's OK

I see the site is now down for "essential repairs"

I think it is all outrageous, but having been tipped off about this, whilst I have written it up, it seemed right and proper to make sure it was stopped ASAP

It is still outrageous though!



John

• I am not a junior hospital doctor.
  
• I am not registered with MTAS.
  
• In this context I am a member of the general public. I was able to access details of applications on the MTAS site, and did so.
  
• Many others did so too.

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