Stolen dogs are big news to BBC (when Bruce is 伴う／関わるd)

By IAN DRURY, Daily Mail

Last updated at 08:30 11 May 2006

The BBC let Bruce Forsyth use its 旗艦 news programme last night to beg for the return of his daughter's stolen dogs.

Presenter Natasha Kaplinsky was sent to interview her former 厳密に Come Dancing co-星／主役にする about the 窃盗.

会社／団体 bosses 直面するd 即座の questions about their news judgment and the use of licence-料金 payers' money.

The Six O'Clock News ignored a string of stories, 含むing the 司法長官 calling for the 終結 of the US 拘留，拘置（軍の）野営地，陣営 at Guantanamo Bay.

One BBC 新聞記者／雑誌記者, who did not wish to be 指名するd, said reporters were ガス／煙ing.

"We were all furious, as licence-料金 payers," he 追加するd. "In the last hour a story has come out that 1,000 Iraqis have been killed in a month and they didn't even について言及する it."

But a BBC 広報担当者 defended the story. She said "dog-napping" of pedigree pets was on the rise and therefore "important".

Forsyth's daughter, Debbie Matthews, had her two Yorkshire terriers - Gizmo and Widget - stolen from her parked BMW last Tuesday.

The mother of two was shopping at 示すs & Spencer in Camberley, Surrey, at the time. 蓄える／店 staff said the 50-year-old, who lives in Belsize Park, North London, became hysterical. Her father arrived in a Rolls-Royce to 慰安 her.

行方不明になる Kaplinsky interviewed 78-year-old Forsyth at his home in Wentworth, Surrey.

He said the 窃盗 had 原因（となる）d his family "real 苦しめる", 追加するing: "If someone steals a wallet then that is another thing. But to steal something so personal, that is very hard to 耐える."

The 報告（する）／憶測, which was placed at the end of the 公式発表, said pedigree dogs are stolen and sold for thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs on the 黒人／ボイコット market or held for 身代金. 行方不明になる Kaplinsky 報告（する）／憶測d that animal charities were 関心d about the rise in "dog-napping", with police 説 up to 250 are stolen each month.

She also 最高潮の場面d how ダンサー Lionel Blair, actress Liz Hurley, socialite Paris Hilton and singer Engel bert Humperdinck had recently 苦しむd dog 窃盗s.

Philip Davies, a Tory MP on the ありふれたs' culture, マスコミ and sport select 委員会, last night （刑事）被告 the BBC of "dumbing 負かす／撃墜する".

"Too often it tries to be accessible by 控訴，上告ing to a lowest ありふれた denominator," he said. "It is やめる驚くべき／特命の／臨時の it should run a story about dog-napping on a busy day for world and 国家の news."

The BBC last night 認める there had been five （民事の）告訴s about the story.

Its 広報担当者否定するd suggestions the BBC was doing favours for friends by 許すing 行方不明になる Kaplinsky to interview Forsyth. She said the story was the eighth item on the news.

"The stealing of pedigree pets for sale or 身代金 is a 急速な／放蕩な growing and high-profile 罪，犯罪," she 追加するd.

"It is not about Bruce Forsyth getting his dogs stolen, it is about the 増加する in the 窃盗 of pets 価値（がある） a lot of money. It is important.

"We have been working on the story for やめる a while. It was not run because of Bruce's dogs."

Last week the BBC 原因（となる）d 乱暴／暴力を加える by giving 罪人／有罪を宣告するd paedophile Gary Glitter a prime-time 壇・綱領・公約 to 否定する his 罪，犯罪s.

MPs and children's groups were horrified that reporters interviewed the ex-singer, real 指名する Paul Gadd, in 刑務所，拘置所 in Vietnam.