Detectives investigating allegations of sexual offences against DJ Tim Westwood have submitted evidence to prosecutors to consider charges.
Claims of non-recent sexual abuse were made against the former BBC Radio 1 DJ in 2022.
The Met Police previously said it was investigating alleged offences in London that occurred between 1982 and 2016, and officers have now submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Westwood, 66, has previously “strongly” denied any wrongdoing.
A CPS spokespersonsaid: “We can confirm we received a file from the Metropolitan Police Service regarding allegations of non-recent sexual offences allegedly committed by a man in his 60s.”
No timescale for a decision on charging has been given.
Detectives first received allegations of non-recent sexual abuse against Westwood in April 2022, after the BBC aired a documentary revealing claims against the presenter.
The broadcaster has since been carrying out its own inquiry into Westwood’s conduct during his time at the corporation. As part of that review, a 24-hour hotline was set up for people to report information.
The report is yet to be published. A freedom of information request by BBC News earlier this year revealed the broadcaster had spent more than £3m on the review so far.
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In July, the BBC said the report had been completed but there were legal processes to go through before it is in a position to publish the findings.
After the allegations were made public, a statement from a representative of Westwood said: “Tim Westwood strongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
“In a career that has spanned 40 years, there have never been any complaints made against him officially or unofficially.
“Tim Westwood strongly rejects all allegations of wrongdoing.”
Westwood began his career on local radio before joining Capital Radio in London.
He then moved to the BBC and left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra after nearly 20 years in 2013.
Westwood hosted a regular Saturday show on Capital Xtra, where he was referred to as “The Big Dawg”, before he left the company in 2022.
Sky News has contacted representatives for Westwood for comment.
Maybe Happy Ending, a romantic-comedy about a pair of androids falling in love, has won six Tony Awards, including best new musical.
The story charts the relationship between two decommissioned robots, becoming a commentary on human themes and the passage of time.
Starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen, Maybe Happy Ending enjoyed huge success at the 78th annual ceremony held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday.
The acclaimed Broadway production’s awards also included Criss winning best leading actor in a musical, alongside prizes for best direction of a musical, best original theatre score, best book of a musical, and best scenic design of a musical.
In other awards, Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing room drama about an accomplished black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures during a snowed-in gathering, won best new play.
Image: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen perform a number from Maybe Happy Ending at the Tony Awards. Pic: Reuters
Jacobs-Jenkins becomes the first black playwright to win the award since August Wilson took home the accolade in 1987 for Fences.
It underlines a triumphant year for Jacobs-Jenkins after scooping the Pulitzer Prize for Purpose – and winning back-to-back Tonys after his Appropriate won best play revival in 2024.
Kara Young – the first black female actor to be nominated for a Tony in four consecutive years – became the first black person to win two awards consecutively, picking up the trophy for featured actress in a play for her work in Purpose.
Image: Kara Young made history at the ceremony in New York. Pic: Reuters
Sunset Blvd won best musical revival, handing composer Andrew Lloyd Webber his first competitive Tony since 1995, when the original show won.
The current version is a stripped-down, minimalist production.
Sarah Snook took home the trophy for leading actress in a play for her tireless work in The Picture Of Dorian Gray, where she plays all 26 roles.
“I don’t feel alone any night that I do this show,” Snook said, dismissing the idea of her play as a one-woman show.
“There are so many people onstage making it work and behind the stage making it work.”
Oh Mary! saw Sam Pinkleton win best director and Cole Escola landing best actor in a play.
Image: A delighted Sam Pinkleton after winning an award at the Tonys. Pic: Reuters
Francis Jue won best actor in a featured role in a play for his work in a revival of Yellow Face.
Jak Malone won best actor in a featured role in a musical for the British import, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical.
Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s social satire about well-meaning liberals debating a school’s vaccine policy, won the best play revival trophy.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow – based on the 12-time Emmy-winning Netflix hit sci-fi series, won best scenic design, lighting design and sound design of a play.
The production, which has been running in London’s West End, also picked up a special award for its illusions and technical effects.
Snoop Dogg says he hopes to set up a burger van at Celtic’s stadium and wants to serve fans himself.
The US rapper, 53, has described the football club’s supporters as “special” and the best fans in European football.
And Snoop, who played Glasgow‘s OVO Hydro arena in 2023, has also said he strongly identifies with the club’s mascot Hoopy the Hound.
He said a fast-food van at Celtic Park would become a foodie “Paradise” which is a nickname for the ground in the Parkhead area of the city.
Image: Celtic Park. Pic: AP
Snoop told the Sunday Mail: “I would love to bring a pop-up burger [van] to a sports stadium to show fans that food at stadiums can be good.
“It’s got to be Celtic Park, man. The secret to a good burger is the love in the preparation. The ground beef has got to be mixed with some secret spices, then add a good quality cheese and some maple-cured bacon.
“The Celtic fans are gonna love it, and to make sure they are just right, Snoop is going to be serving them himself.”
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But he said he would not be taking his culinary ventures to Rangers – Celtic’s Old Firm rivals at Ibrox.
The Drop It Like It’s Hot star told the paper: “Am I going to bring my burgers to Rangers as well? Nah, I think we will give that a miss.”
The musician has previously spoken of investing in Celtic, similar to Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds’s involvement with Wrexham FC.
Snoop has already published a cookbook and claims to have spoken to chef Gordon Ramsay about a possible venture in Glasgow together.
The keen sports fan worked as a correspondent for NBC at the Paris Olympics last year, and has launched two youth football leagues, as well as being a vocal advocate for pay equality for female athletes.
Dawn French has apologised and taken down a video she posted about the war in Gaza after facing backlash.
The popular actress and comedian said she apologised “unreservedly” after posting a video in a “mocking tone”.
In the original 40-second clip, the Vicar of Dibley star said: “Complicated, no, but nuanced. But bottom line is no.”
Then, using a different tone, she went on: “Yeah, but you know they did a bad thing to us, yeah but no.
“But we want that land… and we have history… No.
“Those people aren’t really even people, are they really? No.”
On Saturday afternoon, she issued an apology, saying that in an effort to convey “an important message” she had “clumsily used a mocking tone”.
“My intention was NEVER to mock, or dismiss, or diminish the horror of what happened on 7 October 2023,” she posted on X and Instagram.
She said her intention was to “point the finger of shame at the behaviour of the cruel leader on ALL sides of this atrocious war”.
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Actress Tracy-Ann Oberman said she was “saddened” by it.
She said: “This mocking voice ‘bad thing’ of October 7 that Dawn (who I revere by the way) appears ro [sic] be mocking involved the most horrific terrorist attack.”
MP Rosie Duffield responded to Oberman’s post, saying: “One can, and should hate what is happening in Gaza and also condemn the hideous events of October 7th.
“It is agonising to see events unfold, and requires extremely careful, measured and well-considered comments and actions. This is not that.”
Some social media users tried to pressure M&S, who French voices adverts for, over the incident.
In October 2023, Hamas led other militant groups in a cross-border attack, killing around 1,200 people and taking about 250 people hostage.
Since then, Israel has launched a number of large-scale campaigns in the region, including in Gaza where over 54,000 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the enclave.
Many of these are said to be women and children.
Israel claims to be targeting militants and blames collateral deaths on Hamas fighters positioning themselves in densely populated areas.