ALEX Salmond yesterday accused the BBC of "losing the plot" and questioned whether it could be trusted to stay impartial in the run-up to an independence referendum after it banned him from appearing as a rugby pundit on political grounds.
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Opposition leaders have called for Alex Salmond to apologise after he used a term linked to officials in Nazi Germany to describe a BBC adviser.
Salmond described Ric Bailey, the BBC's chief political adviser in London, as behaving like a "Gauleiter" by refusing to let him appear on a pundit show ahead of Saturday's Calcutta Cup rugby match between England and Scotland.
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Opposition leaders have called for Alex Salmond to apologise after he used a term linked to officials in Nazi Germany to describe a BBC adviser.
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Alex Salmond has been accused of indulging in an "embarrassing" and offensive tantrum after comparing a BBC chief who prevented him appearing on a sports programme to a Nazi bureaucrat
Opposition leaders have called for Alex Salmond to apologise after he used a term linked to officials in Nazi Germany to describe a BBC adviser.
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The Rugby Football League says there is no cause for alarm over Widnes's new artificial pitch, despite complaints from players over cuts and grazes in its first match.
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Wales great Shane Williams is set to retire from rugby at all levels at the end of this season, according to reports this morning.
Shane Williams has been hailed as "a Welsh rugby great" following reports that he will retire from the sport later this year.
Sportsday Live on the BBC Sport website featuring reaction to the England rugby squad, the latest transfer news, score updates from England's tour match in Dubai and more
Shane Williams has been hailed as "a Welsh rugby great" after talk he is set to retire.
Commentator Clive Everton, the voice of snooker on the BBC for 30 years, has launched a lengthy attack on the Corporation in his campaigning trade magazine.
