Despite protagonist's death, battle to release Balen report to continue

In 2004, a report called the Balen Report was written in response to accusations of bias in the BBC's coverage of Israel. The report was written by by Malcolm Balen, a senior journalist, for Richard Sambrook, then BBC director of news. To date, the Beeb has spent more than £270,000 of taxpayer shillings to prevent the report from seeing the light of day.

The battle against the Beeb was carried