News about Michael Buerk

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: During a long and distinguished career, he regularly reported harrowing stories, many from apartheid-era South Africa and, most famously, from Ethiopia when it was laid waste by famine in 1984. But it was only two decades later, in a beautifully written memoir, The Road Taken, that broadcaster Michael Buerk, presenter of The Moral Maze on Radio 4, exposed the truth about his own father, a Canadian bigamist whose 'war wound' was, in fact, a scar from a hernia operation. His father had been born not, as he claimed, in 1920 but 1914, and his entire life was layered in deceit. Now, aged 78, Buerk has discovered that those layers even helped obscure the truth about his own life - in particular, his birthplace.

MEMBER: SIM CASE & Sir Richard Moore, our most senior civil servant, and MI6's Chief Richard Moore, who resigned in reaction to the unveiling of the Garrick Club's membership list, is bizarre and troubling. These two guys are supposed to be both governing the country and shielding it from hostile foreign powers. But, at the first sign of incoming criticism from a Left-wing newspaper, the Guardian, who chastised them for being banned from attending a club that excludes women supporters, they resigned and apologised sincerely for the appalling offence of enjoying the occasional lunch or drink in a single-sex private club's convivial atmosphere.

She is a distinct, luxurious 'pocket liner' and, since 1989, a much-loved summer butterfly, as she soars around the Hebrides and West Highlands. Only 48 pampered passengers are being waited for by a 37-strong crew. Guests are treated to deluxe staterooms, gourmet cuisine, the finest chilled champagne, at least one black tie gala dinner, and daily talks by the resident, expert lecturer. The vessel carries launches and little landing craft to welcome visitors to the remotest beaches and long-deserted islands, as well as the late Queen's herself twice chartered the Hebridean Princess for private family holidays around the Western Isles. But the ship was not always the floating, elegantly fitted equivalent of a country house hotel.

The former newsreader, 77, told The Mirror, 'If you live 50 years at the BBC, you can stab people in the front.'

Moira Stuart is believed to have fallen sick during her friend Angela Rippon's birthday party, and an ambulance rushed to her assistance on Monday night. After the newsreader collapsed while enjoying the anniversary at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London, the birthday party was apparently brought to a halt. Moira, 74, was apparently assisted by her former coworkers, including Louise Minchin and Michael Buerk, who rushed to her aid following the 'funny turn.'

Detailed information: After a trial in York Crown Court, Paedophile Maurice Berry, 67, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for seventeen charges of indecent harassment, indecency with a child, and two rapes. He prowled corridors at night'like the Gestapo' and enforced stringent discipline, according to the jury.