The Sun has mentioned it has a file “containing serious and wide-ranigng allegations” it has acquired about Huw Edwards – “including some from BBC personnel”.

However the newspaper mentioned it has “no plans” to publish additional allegations about the BBC star.

It first reported claims towards an unnamed presenter, saying he had paid an adolescent tens of 1000’s of kilos for sexually express photographs.

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Edwards was named by his spouse as the BBC presenter at the centre of the scandal on Wednesday night – and revealed he was in hospital with “serious mental issues”.

A spokesperson for The Sun mentioned it would cooperate with the BBC’s inside investigation course of.

“The allegations published by The Sun were always very serious. Further serious allegations have emerged in the past few days,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“We will provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel.”

The Sun claims it didn’t allege criminality

Two police forces have mentioned they aren’t pursuing motion towards Edwards after finding no evidence of criminal offences.

The Sun spokesperson mentioned the newspaper had “at no point” in its authentic story alleged criminality.

The paper “also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations”, they added.

“Suggestions about possible criminality were first made at a later date by other media outlets, including the BBC,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“From the outset, we have reported a story about two very concerned and frustrated parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and payments from him that fuelled the drug habit of a young person.

“We reported that the dad and mom had already been to the police who mentioned that they could not assist. The dad and mom then made a criticism to the BBC which was not acted upon.

“It is now for the BBC to properly investigate.”

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Debate over protection

The disaster surrounding Edwards has sparked a debate about The Sun’s allegations and the BBC response, with some calling the protection an invasion of privacy.

Jon Sopel, former North America editor of BBC News, referred to as the scandal “an awful and shocking episode” and mentioned the presenter’s “complicated private life” doesn’t “feel very private now”.

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Former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell mentioned the presenter “is the perfect target for those who would undermine and indeed would like to destroy the BBC”.

“The police having said no action to be taken, whatever he did or did not do is a matter for him and his family, and for the BBC,” he tweeted.

“The obsession with this story has been a further sign of a media that has frankly become weird.”