News: Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall cleared of raping two girls but convicted of indecent assault

Hall, 84, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was found not guilty of 15 charges of rape and four counts of indecent assault by a jury at Preston Crown Court.
He was accused of abusing the girls from the age of 12 between 1976 and 1981. Jurors found him guilty of one count of indecent assault.
The former It's a Knockout presenter said the sex was consensual, apart from one occasion which "never happened".
At the beginning of the trial he admitted indecently assaulting one woman when she was aged 13.
The jury reached a majority decision that he was guilty of a separate indecent assault against the same woman. Hall is serving a 30-month jail term after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting 13 other girls, one as young as nine.
The abuse occurred between 1967 and 1985. His 15-month sentence was later extended at the Court of Appeal.
He will be sentenced for the new convictions on 23 May.