Resort removes footpath signs over Savile claims

Signs marking the Savile’s View footpath in the town were removed by workmen over the weekend.

The path was renamed shortly before the current claims about the BBC TV presenter and charity fundraiser came to light.

A plaque outside Sir Jimmy’s old home in Scarborough has also been taken down.

Abuse claims began to mount up against Leeds-born Sir Jimmy ahead of the broadcast of an 
ITV documentary last Wednesday.

Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile heard from a number of women who say they were indecently assaulted by the personality when they were schoolgirls in the 1960s and 1970s.

More alleged victims have come forward since the programme, with some attacks said to 
have taken place on BBC premises.

Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday called for a wide-
ranging investigation into the claims.

Mr Cameron told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: “I think it is pretty shocking, the allegations that we are reading. They need to be properly looked at, properly investigated.

“It seems to me it is very important that the organisation, the BBC, does that itself.

“But also, if there are questions that should be pursued by the police and other organisations, everyone has to ask themselves the question ‘Is there new evidence that needs to be looked at? Are there new things as an organisation we should look at and examine?’

“But from what I have read – and that is just as a consumer of the media – truly shocking things have been said.”