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BBC News anchor Huw Edwards was woken by a break-in at his home in the British capital of London at 5:30 a.m., according to reports.

John Humphrys, the veteran British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist who helmed its flagship Today programme for 33 years, exposed the publicly-funded broadcaster “institutional liberal bias” within days of his retirement.

More than 1,000 staff at the BBC have been handed pay raises of between 10 and more than 20 per cent, while the corporation continues to claim it cannot afford to provide free television licences for over-75s.

The BBC will send “outreach” officers to over-75s to remind them that they will now have to pay to watch television, after it scrapped free licences for senior citizens.

A mainstream media which supports the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union is biased against the newly formed, poll-topping Brexit Party, one of their European Union Parliament election candidates has said.

“You are not prepared to talk about what is going on this country today. You’re in denial. The BBC’s in denial. The Tory party’s in denial. The Labour party’s in denial. I think you’re in  for a bigger surprise on Thursday week [European elections day] than you can even imagine.”

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro conceded he may have been “DESTROYED” after walking out of an ill-tempered interview with BBC interrogator-in-chief Andrew Neil.

The use of terms like “mainstream media” and growing distrust in “the establishment” are an “assault on freedom of expression”, the head of the BBC has claimed.

British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.

The BBC are reinventing Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot story The ABC Murders as a morality tale comparing Brexit to the rise of fascism.

Britain’s prime minister and leader of the opposition, who both opposed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, have agreed to a live TV debate on the exit arrangements for leaving the European Union (EU).

One of the BBC’s most popular quiz shows on Radio 4 has been found guilty of anti-Tory bias after broadcasting a joke attacking the Prime Minister Theresa May.

The BBC is to fight a “heteronormative culture” with a raft of pro-LGBT reforms, despite figures showing sexual minorities are already overrepresented as much as fivefold in the broadcaster’s workforce.

The BBC has belatedly apologised after claiming U.S. President Donald J. Trump said “war will follow” with Iran after imposing sanctions on the Islamist dictatorship.

The BBC’s ‘Reality Check’ team has confirmed at least 447 killings and attempted killings by illegal migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Germany in 2017.

Disability rights campaigners have attacked the BBC, claiming able-bodied actors playing disabled characters is the same as racist practices like “blacking up”.

The era of TV shows in which white males impart information on a subject is dead, a top BBC executive has said, stating the corporation must find “different ways” of bringing expert insight and knowledge to audiences in future.

Hard left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans to change the UK media, including taxing tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Netflix to fund the BBC and demanding more “diversity.”

BBC football pundit-turned liberal activist Gary Lineker has joined the campaign demanding a second referendum to overturn Brexit.

BBC Newsnight has given a self-styled ‘black radical’ free rein to insist that the West is “built on racism” and black people should unite to secure reparations and stage a “revolution”. 

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó had to chide BBC anchor Emily Maitlis for “unbalanced, one-sided” journalism after she lost her temper and launched into a rant about the EU standing for “tolerance, diversity, and human rights”.

A greater proportion of Europeans believe their society is more divided than 10 years ago than in any other world region, with immigration being the largest source of division in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden.

A Labour peer and former chief of Britain’s Royal Navy questioned government claims that the Assad regime was behind chemical attacks in Syria live on the BBC Monday, as calls for evidence supporting the attack to be made public grows. 

Radio presenter James O’Brien has slammed the BBC for hosting right-wingers like Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, equating it to giving a platform to people who believe in unicorns, whilst admitting “routinely” breaking BBC impartiality rules when working there.

The BBC’s news editor has defended their initial lack of coverage of the Telford of grooming revelations, insisting the corporation is doing the “right thing” in relation to grooming gangs generally.

After being accused of “ignoring” the Telford grooming gang scandal, the BBC has now run a headline on the recent revelations, claiming “victim numbers sensationalised”.

A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.

The set of the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders is to include an Islamic mosque as part of a £15 million makeover, despite not having a church and featuring only one Muslim family in the cast.

Working-class BBC presenter Steph McGovern says the taxpayer-funded media giant needs to focus less on ethnic diversity and bridging the so-called gender pay gap and more on class.

The BBC has deleted a social media post describing an Iraqi asylum seeker accused of terror offenses as a “Surrey teenager.”

Nearly a million Brits a year have canceled their BBC TV license for the past four years, with more than 3.5 million doing so since 2013.

The BBC is pushing a negative Brexit study published by a group funded by the European Union and advised by top eurocrats.

The BBC will be sending journalists into schools to tell pupils about their conception of “fake news” and urge youngsters to read news sources they approve of.

An MP has slammed the BBC for spending more than a thousand pounds hiring a helicopter to follow former minister Priti Patel from the airport to Downing Street.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has warned of “private monopolies” in British media becoming like “state monopolies” such as the BBC, as Rupert Murdoch vies to take control of Sky News.

Leading Tory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg has dubbed the BBC the “Brexit bashing corporation” due to its anti-Brexit bias.