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The BBC's Controller of Editorial Policy at the time of the Bashir interview, Richard Ayre, has told The Telegraph that he wouldn't have allowed the use of forged documents to secure an interview under the BBC guidelines. This is not a new position:  “The use of deceit in making factual programmes would have been permissible only in the case of investigating serious crime… and where prima facie evidence of the guilt of that person being investigated had already been obtained. Those circumstances clearly don’t apply to an interview with the Princess of Wales.”

Which is perhaps why Lord Hall, as Tony Hall, Director of News and Current Affairs, conducted his 1996 investigation into Bashir's activities with someone else at his side. Anne Sloman was, at the time, acting boss of weekly and special current affairs programmes, but her career had been in radio current affairs. 

Anne's most recent journalism has been for Local Lynx, serving a cluster of Norfolk villages. 

Food bank collections have continued during lockdown and Sharrington has contributed an astounding 89.7 kilos of food and toiletries during this period to the Trussell Food Bank. This generosity has been very much appreciated by those who organise the distribution, and as the furlough scheme is phased out it is feared that many more people will lose their jobs and their income and be even more dependent on the food bank to keep their families fed. We will continue to collect and donations can be left at the back of the church, now that it is open again or in the Longs’ greenhouse at The Place, or at All Saints Cottage
next to the church. There is no need to feel obliged to give a large bag full. One or two items are equally appreciated. It all adds up. Anne Sloman