The film’s transmission was scheduled for mid-December, a couple of weeks before the airing by the BBC of Christmas tributes to the presenter of Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, who died in October 2011.

Pulling the film avoided a potential embarrassment for the corporation, which was elsewhere feting him as a hero to the public.

 

Jimmy Savile: Newsnight Staff Were Furious After Abuse Report Dropped (Guardian)

Narrowly…

A MOTION to introduce same-sex marriage in the North was narrowly defeated in the Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday when only three unionist members supported it.

However, equality campaigners hailed the closeness of the vote as evidence of changed times. The motion to extend the rights already available under civil partnership was brought by Sinn Féin and the Green Party, but it was effectively blocked by the DUP, which tabled a “petition of concern”, meaning it needed cross-community support.

The vote was lost by a slim margin of 45 to 49. Of the 45 MLAs in support of the motion, only three were unionists.

Still.

Progress.

DUP Blocks Same-Sex Marriage Proposals (Una Bradley, Irish Times)

Northern Ireland Assembly Rejects Motion On Gay Marriage (Henry McDonald, Guardian)

(Pic: Paul Faith/PA)

This afternoon.

James Connolly Heron, grandson of James Connolly, and Aleida Guevera, daughter of Che Guevera outside 16, Moore Street, Dublin, rebel HQ in the dying hours of the 1916 Rising. Ms Guevera was made an honorary member of the Save Number 16 Moore Street campaign.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

What you may need to know:

1. Charlie Is My Darling is the ‘lost’ Rolling Stones movie, shot on a two day tour of Ireland in September 1965 and rarely seen since. It’s being exhumed on DVD for the band’s 50th anniversary.

2. The Stones didn’t play Ireland again until Slane in 1982 (supported by J. Geils Band, George Thorogood and The Destroyers and, you guessed it, The Chieftains), then two shows in The Point in 2003 and Slane again in 2007.

3. The other great lost Stones movie, Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues, remains officially M.I.A. save the occasional gallery – no, wait, it’s on YouTube.

Release Date: November 2

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