The BBC have now published the details of the expenses of some of their senior staff, you can see them here. But the salary of individual performers will stay private despite the fact that the license fee pays for them.

A Conservative MP whose parliamentary expenses are under investigation by the Commons sleaze watchdog paid more than £50,000 of public money to a close friend.

Sir Thomas Legg, the former civil servant who carried out the audit into MPs expenses, has been paid £142,000 for his work, it emerged last night.

This morning I have found my opponent, Phil Hope MP, a junior minister, at the heart of the expenses row. He has been all over Sky News and the BBC, stating that he will repay over £40,000 of public money...

From the BBC: Eric Illsley is quitting as an MP after pleading guilty on Tuesday to dishonestly claiming parliamentary expenses. The MP for Barnsley Central had come under pressure to step down after admitting £14,000 of expenses fraud. Labour leader Ed Miliband was among those to urge Illsley, who has yet to be sentenced, to

David Wilshire, the Conservative MP accused of having office expenses paid to a company he owns, says the allegations could harm his party's chances of winning at the next general election

Police have begun an investigation into the expenses claims of Labour MP Harry Cohen who was paid more than £70,000 in a second home allowance for a house he rarely visited

Ex-Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield, who was jailed for falsely claiming £14,000 in House of Lords expenses, is arrested over local authority expenses, the BBC understands.

The review of House of Commons expenses was published today.

Last week it was Lib Dem MP Jeremy Browne has won his appeal against repaying £18,000 of expenses. Now fellow Lib Dem Lembit Opik has also had his appeal against repaying hundreds of pounds in parliamentary expenses allowed by Sir Paul Kennedy, the judge brought in to arbitrate on disputed claims. The BBC reports: Montgomeryshire MP