Huw Edwards Resigned With No Financial Settlement, Says BBC

Former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards resigned from the broadcaster “without notice or financial settlement” during a confidential disciplinary process, the corporation has said. The veteran broadcaster admitted having indecent images of children earlier this week, and the corporation was aware he was arrested on “suspicion of serious offences” in November 2023. Last year, Edwards was named as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations he paid a young person for sexually explicit photos and resigned from the BBC “on the basis of medical advice from his doctors.” Police found no evidence of criminal behaviour in this separate matter. A BBC spokesperson said: “In the case of Huw Edwards, we considered carefully all issues raised with us as part of a fact finding disciplinary investigation and that informed a confidential disciplinary process....