Update

My normally-on-the-case Media Guardian chums have yet to append comments from Dame Janet Smith to their report that Jimmy Savile "abused up to 1,000 victims on BBC premises" while "executives turned a blind eye".

Dame Janet (or her PR team?) describes the weekend reports, which started in the Observer/Guardian, as "speculative and unreliable".  Speculative doesn't necessarily mean wrong, but unreliable is an interesting word. BBC house organ Ariel, perhaps understandably, places Dame Janet's comment against the "blind eye" line in its first para.

The most recent factoid from the Smith Review, came last November. It's hard to tell if the numbers in this revelation are cumulative or not.

The Review has been in contact with more than 720 people and continues to be grateful to the public for their support. In connection with the investigation into Jimmy Savile, the Review has had over 340 telephone conversations with witnesses (all of which have been noted) and approximately 140 witness interviews have taken place. In addition, in relation to the investigation into Stuart Hall, the Review has had over 102 noted telephone conversations with witnesses and a further 29 witness interviews have taken place. 

Witness interviews are continuing and, as a result, the Review will not be in a position to finalise its report before the end of January 2014.