"ITV and Phillip Schofield have now reached agreement with Lord McAlpine to settle his libel claim, made in relation to the This Morning programme broadcast on 8 November 2012," the broadcaster said.
"ITV and Phillip Schofield have now reached agreement with Lord McAlpine to settle his libel claim, made in relation to the This Morning programme broadcast on 8 November 2012," a spokesman for the broadcaster said.
In a statement, ITV said: "ITV and Phillip Schofield have now reached agreement with Lord McAlpine to settle his libel claim, made in relation to the This Morning programme broadcast on November 8 2012.
Reid said he and McAlpine were determined to take tough action after the Tory peer's name circulated on the internet in relation to the 2 November Newsnight broadcast, which wrongly claimed a senior Conservative politician had been involved in child abuse in a Welsh care home.
It is highly doubtful that 4,000 lines of text from main UK broadcast bulletins exist in relation to the closing weeks of the Sri Lanka war, also in 2009, in which up to 40 times more civilians died than in Gaza.
I have watched, or read, with slight disbelief the broadcast, and print media over the last few days in relation to the attempted terrorist attacks on Glasgow airport.
"Ofcom considered that it was indisputable that basic journalistic checks in relation to the report had not been applied by the programme-makers prior to its broadcast," the regulator said in its ruling.
This means it will qualify for a minimum of two election broadcasts although it will be up to individual broadcasters to decide how many it gets in relation to the other parties.
Furthermore, several people were arrested in relation to the investigation.
My first question naturally was in relation to the name.
