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Huw Edwards Urged By UK Minister To Hand Back His BBC Pay After Child Porn Admission


Huw Edwards told by UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to return his salary to the BBC after admitting accessing indecent images of children.

Huw Edwards is facing growing pressure to return his salary to the BBC after pleading guilty this week to accessing indecent images of children. Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, said the former newsreader should hand back around £200,000 ($255,000) of his pay to the BBC following his dramatic fall from grace. “I think having been arrested on such serious charges all the way back in November, to continue to receive that salary all the way through until he resigned is wrong and it’s not a good use of taxpayers’ money.

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