BBC Scotland suspends Kaye Adams amid bullying allegations

Broadcaster Kaye Adams says her name has been "dragged through the mud" after she was taken off air from her BBC Radio Scotland programme earlier this month as the corporation investigates allegations of bullying. Adams, 62, who also appears on ITV's Loose Women, last presented her three hour morning phone-in show on October 6 and has not returned while the inquiry continues.

The complaints, reported to have included claims that Adams shouted at junior staff, were raised under the BBC’s Call It Out scheme, the corporation’s internal mechanism for staff to report poor behaviour. Adams has strongly denied the specific incidents that have been described in reports. In a statement released on her behalf she said, "After three of the most distressing weeks of my professional life and seeing my previously untarnished name publicly dragged through the mud, BBC Scotland has still not provided me with any details of the allegations which have been made against me."

Some reports described an alleged shouting incident during a debriefing at the broadcaster’s Glasgow studios that was attended by Adams and the newly appointed head of radio, Victoria Easton Riley. Adams has disputed that...