BBC executives discover fate as reports into Savile and McAlpine are published: live 11.00 As we await the Pollard Review into why the BBC dropped its Savile investigation, news is breaking that detectives investigating the Savile sex abuse scandal have arrested an eighth man on suspicion of sex abuse. Our crime reporter Martin Evans reports: The man, from London, was held at 6.30am on suspicion of sexual offences and taken to a south London police station. He was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree and is being investigated over allegations of abuse associated with Savile and others. The man is the eighth person to be arrested by Operation Yewtree detectives. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "The man from London was arrested at 06.30 hrs on suspicion of sexual offences and has been taken into custody at a south London police station. The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'. Jimmy Savile shows off his OBE to members of the 'Second Generation' song and dance troupe, 1972. 10.50 The Guardian is reporting this morning that Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news and one of those whose future depends on today's findings, appears to be confident of avoiding any censure in Nick Pollard's report. It writes: A colleague sent out an email saying the executive would return to her post to hold quarterly all-staff meetings in the new year. The BBC's most senior female executive had been asked to step aside from her role until the Pollard inquiry concluded, but the email from the more junior head of newsgathering Fran Unsworth sent to all journalists on Monday implied that Boaden expects to be hands-on very soon. The memo to staff said that soon "Helen will begin holding quarterly all-staff meetings" as part of a wider effort for the management of BBC News to communicate better with the journalists. Boaden was lined up to return to her position once the Pollard inquiry is complete. The BBC's head of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell 10.15 Ahead of today's publication, the inquiry has written to a number of BBC staff giving them the opportunity to respond to criticisms being made of them. Mr Pollard has interviewed about 20 staff and examined thousands of emails and other documents. Among those to have received a letter is Peter Rippon, Newsnight's editor who made the decision to pull the abuse investigation into Jimmy Savile. But, as Robert Mendick reports, it is understood the inquiry will clear Mr Rippon of any suggestion that he bowed to pressure from more senior executives to kill off the Savile report because the BBC was planning to broadcast two tribute pieces following Savile's death last year: Read Robert Mendick's story in full here. 10.05 Our chief reporter Gordon Rayner has written this preview of what we can expect when the BBC reports are published today: At noon the BBC Trust will publish a report by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News, in which he names those he believes to have been culpable for the decision to axe a Newsnight investigation last year which would have exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile. The Trust will also publish the findings of its Editorial Standards Committee about a Newsnight programme which made entirely false claims about a senior Tory being a child abuser. Lord McAlpine, who was named online as the subject of the report, later accepted £185,000 in damages from the BBC after his accuser admitted he had got him confused with someone else. Helen Boaden, the BBC's Head of News, and her deputy Steve Mitchell are among those whose futures depend on the findings of the Pollard Review. Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight, will also find out whether he is to be sacked. Read Gordon's story in full here. 10.00 Good morning.Today some of the BBC's most senior staff will find out whether they are to lose their jobs with the publication of reports into the Jimmy Savile and Lord McAlpine controversies. We'll be following the publication of the reports and all the fallout and reaction live here throughout the day.