but it wasn't until wednesday that bbc one bulletins ran a report on the subject, from sima kotecher.ime in telford. recent reports say up to 1,000 girls could have been sexually abused in the town over the last four decades. the police here say at the moment they are dealing with less than 50 cases. for many, though, the bbc‘s reaction was to little, too late. trevor bell thought... and robert leather tweeted this question... well, let's put that to james stevenson, the bbc‘s news editor, whojoins me now. can we start with... the story broke in the sunday mirror. when did the bbc national news think it worth reporting? so immediately we could see that it was a good and strong piece ofjournalism by the sunday mirror. and it was widely covered in our paper review on the sunday. and we saw it was a story that we needed to follow up, and we began to do that. so, as early as monday morning, the victoria derbyshire programme was leading its output on this story. and later that day, the world at one interviewed the leader of telford council to challenge him about what was going on. which is