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Jake Kanter in The Times tells us that Sir Robbie Gibb, a non-executive director of the BBC, has been taking a close interest in the reporting of a bus full of Hanukkah revellers apparently being verbally abused as they travelled along Oxford Street last year, and what might have been heard coming from the bus in response. 

"One insider said that Gibb had been conducting his own inquiry into the case before the intervention last Friday by Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, and Ofcom, the media regulator."

In his declaration of interests, Sir Robbie says he is a director (unpaid) of Jewish Chronicle Media Ltd; that he has a "100%" holding in the company; and a 100% holding in The JC Media and Culture Preservation Initiative CIC. 

The problem is a claim that 'a slur about Muslims' was heard from the bus; Mr Kanter says BBC reporter Harry Farley, has sent private messages saying: “This was actually something picked up by my editors, not me.”