Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

In April 2006 The Sun claimed that Paxman earned £ 800, 000 for his Newsnight job and £ 240, 000 for presenting University Challenge, bringing his TV earnings to a yearly total of £ 1, 040, 000.

The complaint claimed that the Newsnight team spoke only to people who held opinions against either Michael Howard or the Conservatives and that Paxman's style was bullying and unnecessarily aggressive.

On 12 May 2009, both BBC Newsnight, and a second article published by The Daily Telegraph reported that Jackson had claimed £ 55, 000 on housing costs for the constituency house, bringing the total sum to over £ 66, 000.

In 2008, the BBC's Newsnight programme broadcast a report which accused Reckitt Benckiser of attempting to delay the introduction of a competitive, generic version of one of its most popular products, Gaviscon, a treatment for heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

In response to the Newsnight report and the reports in the press, Reckitt Benckiser issued a statement which began:

Later, during a 20th anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview since the next item in the running order wasn't ready.

The row came right after a Cabinet minister had complained that the Newsnight host had been offensive about his Glasgow accent.

In 2002, Michael Crick on the TV programme Newsnight caused some embarrassment when probing Duncan Smith's curriculum vitae, which had been in circulation for years, for example, being reproduced in the authoritative annual Dod's Parliamentary Companion for the previous ten years.

The same day, on the BBC's Newsnight programme, Short called Blair's response " pompous " and said that Britain had no need to spy on Kofi Annan.

Newsnight in its current format began on 30 January 1980, although a shorter news bulletin of the same name had run in its late-night BBC2 slot during the 1970s.

Later, during a twentieth anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he'd simply been trying desperately to string out the interview because the next item in the running order had failed to materialize.

In a live interview on BBC television's Newsnight the journalist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris had identified Mandelson as a fellow homosexual.

In June 2008, political editor of Newsnight, Michael Crick, reported that Ahmed had been rumoured to be preparing to defect to the Conservative Party, but that he had denied this .< ref >

In January 2003 he joined Newsnight, replacing Jeremy Vine, who had left to take over from Sir Jimmy Young on Radio 2.

However, when challenged on Newsnight about it in 2006, Hughes admitted that it was " an unacceptable form of language ", and " those are the sort of things that shouldn't have happened ", appearing to acknowledge that the slogan had acted as an inadvertent slur against Tatchell.

Oborne was ' chided ' by Jeremy Paxman, chief Newsnight anchor, for ' gratuituous rudeness ' after he himself, given Oborne's ' pace-setting ,' and before Tardio's walk-out, had asked for a response from, ' Mr. Idiot in Brussels.

In July 2007 in interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's " Newsnight " programme, it was reported that Hunter had pledged to donate a further £ 1 billion to charity.

He denied paying just $ 3 million for the debt but Newsnight said Bosnian police had shown them documents showing that the debt was sold to FG for $ 3. 3 million of which more than half a million went to Michael “ Goldfinger ” Sheehan who had helped set up the deal.

This came following close consultation with the FA which had investigated the allegations made by Newsnight.

Previously she had worked as a producer for the BBC on programmes as diverse as Newsnight, Public Eye and Rough Guides.

Lateef replaced Emily Maitlis who had been the main presenter of the flagship programme from launch until March 2006, when she left to join BBC News Channel and BBC Two's Newsnight.

Muhammad Bashmila, a former secret prisoner, now free in Yemen, gave an interview to the BBC Newsnight programme, where he spoke of being transferred from Afghanistan to a detention center where it was cold, where the food appeared European and where evening prayers were held.

On September 17, 2008, the British evening-news analysis program Newsnight reported that Morgan Stanley was facing difficulties after a 42 % slide in its share price.

Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

Kirsteen Anne Wark ( born 3 February 1955 ) is a British journalist and television presenter, best known for fronting the BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts annexe Newsnight Review, now relaunched as " The Review Show ".

Contentious programme making included the impartial reporting of the Falklands War on Newsnight, the Nationwide general election special with Margaret Thatcher in 1983, the coverage of the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ), the Real Lives fracas, the Panorama libel action and its reporting of the U. S. bombing of Libya and the controversy surrounding the programme Secret Society which took place in light of MI5's vetting of BBC employees.

The Department of Health asked Newsnight to hand its documents to the NHS counter-fraud service.

In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight, Nasiri said Libi " needed the conflict in Iraq because months before I heard him telling us when a question was asked in the mosque after the prayer in the evening, where is the best country to fight the jihad?

" He presented on BBC America and BBC World a weekly compilation of highlights from the domestic edition of Newsnight from February 2008 until shortly after the 2008 U. S. election, when the American programme was cancelled.

Six days after the Derek Lewis incident on Newsnight, Ann Widdecombe, his former minister of state at the Home Office, made a statement in the House of Commons about the dismissal of then director of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, and famously remarked of Howard that " there is something of the night about him ", a widely quoted comment that may have contributed to the failure of his 1997 bid for the Conservative Party leadership.

Some output from BBC Four ( documentaries rather than foreign films ) was for a time repeated on BBC Two in a ' BBC Four on Two ' branded area, although this was often in a late night broadcast slot after Newsnight and has since been discontinued.

Prior to the launch of The Late Show in January 1989, there was some scepticism as to whether or not the programme, running four nights per week on BBC Two in a late night slot after Newsnight, would be a success.

He joined the organisation in1962. He gained a much higher profile after he was recruited in 1979 to be the main presenter of the new late evening BBC Two in-depth news programme Newsnight, which began almost a year later than planned, in January 1980.

Esler joined the BBC in 1977 as a Northern Ireland reporter, and extended his role after joining Newsnight in 1982.

Their actions featured in a series of Newsnight programmes shown both during the deployment and after their return, which focused on OMLT 2 in Sangin under Maj Rob Palfrey.

Before the vultures could collect their money a Debt Relief ( Developing Countries ) Act 2010 was passed in the UK parliament in 2010 after the Liberian President and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appealed on the BBC Newsnight programme for the vultures to “ have a conscience and give this country a break ”.

At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of Newsnight and ( briefly, after serious illness ) on The Money Programme on BBC2.

This removal came one day after a news story broke on the BBC's Newsnight programme regarding possible infringements of FIFA rules regarding player transfers with, and loans to, Belgian club Beveren.

In April 1999, Vine presented an exclusive report on South African police brutality for BBC Two's Newsnight.

The second section is an analysis of a BBC2 Newsnight programme on 19 October 1999 hosted by Jeremy Paxman with Charles Thomson attacking that year's Turner Prize and artist Brad Lochore defending it.

When he was attempting to interview Archer for Newsnight in 1999 during his campaign to be elected mayor of London, Archer levelled, on camera, the following apparent threat at Crick: " You wait till I'm Mayor.