BBC radio host has been found guilty of stalking four people including radio and TV broadcaster Jeremy Vine.Ex-BBC Radio Leeds host Alex Belfield was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court last week of four stalking charges [via BBC News].Vine, who presents a weekday lunchtime programme on BBC Radio 2 and a weekday morning current affairs show on Channel 5, called Belfield “the Jimmy Savile of trolling” while giving evidence against him.The broadcaster was referring to the disgraced, late BBC presenter who was found posthumously to have abused hundreds of victims of abuse over his career.Vine claimed that Belfield had waged a war of abuse against him via social media and via Belfield’s YouTube channel, ‘The Voice Of Reason’. Belfield has been suspended from the platform on more than one occasion.Vine added: “I have in the past had a physical stalker who followed me.
BBC viewers divided over Glasgow-based drama The Control Room's 'unbelievable' plot
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BBC viewers have been left disappointed after Glasgow-based drama series The Control Room failed to pack a punch.
The three-part series aired on BBC One this week, but viewers were less than impressed by the new series. The show follows an emergency call handler is forced to confront his past when he receives a call from a woman who has killed someone and appears to know him.
The show sees Gabe, played by Iain De Caestecker, have his world turned upside down when he receives a call from a hysterical woman who has killed a man.
However, Gabe was left fearing the worst when the woman recognised his voice and finds himself in a situation that will jeopardise his career and his life as he knows it.
The action packed miniseries has left viewers scratching their heads after failing to understand the 'unbelievable' plot, and even comparing it to Mr Bean. Unhappy viewers took to Twitter to rant as the disappointing series aired it's conclusion.
One wrote: "I had high hopes for the control room series on BBC but it’s slowly turning in to Mr Bean."
Another ranted: "BBC Control Room . To be polite to the BBC I decided to watch the last episode of this so called drama . Sorry , my opinion has not changed in fact it’s got worse . I have never watched such drivel as this absolute rubbish . Who wrote it ? Who at the BBC commissioned it !," and continued in a separate tweet, writing: "It’s 3 hours of my life that I will never get back . Any chance I could get a a refund of my time watching such a terrible story line from my license"
A third said: "The Control Room, what a load of mind numbing horse s***, the BBC gave us the likes of Line Of Duty and Doctor Foster and now this"
A fourth agreed: "I don’t often give up on a big TV drama but
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