crazy facts about the BBC it was revealed in an interview by the director general of the BBC that he along with the corporation decided not to sack Hugh Edwards despite being aware that the presenter had been arrested over the most serious category of indecent images of children director General Tim Davey stated that the BBC had taken difficult decisions in a fair and judicious manner we knew it was serious we had no specifics apart from the category of the potential offenses on the 18th of June 1984 in all grieve in South Yorkshire a protest involving striking miners turned into a violent confrontation between the protesters and British police officers it was reported by the police that the decision to use excessive force and horses against the miners was a necessary action to stop Stones being thrown by the protesters and a BBC News Bulletin showed footage of protesters throwing stones at the police followed by the police conducting a mounted charge however it was later revealed that the footage had been edited out of chronological order and in fact a mounted charge took place before the protesters threw stones and retaliation