Savile charities close
Two charities set up by the former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile are to close. The Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust said it felt it would be always linked with Savile.
Savile charity 'will live on'
The Trustees of the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Charitable Trust have released a statement on their website saying that "Jimmy's charitable trust will live on as he wished".
It's understood that the charity's funds are to be redistributed as it closes because of the association with the former BBC presenter.
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