Jimmy Savile Sexual Abuse Scandal Sir Jimmy Savile, OBE pictured aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 during the liner’s 1992 world cruise. The disc jockey and radio and TV personality was “Running around the world”, raising money for Stoke Mandeville and other charities.Cruise company Cunard has cancelled plans for the latest addition to it’s fleet, the new Queen Elizabeth to pay tribute to the broadcaster. The liner had been due to sail past Scarborough, and Savile’s grave, at 15:00 BST on 1 August 2013.Savile, who has been at the centre of numerous allegations of child abuse.
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Jimmy Savile Sexual Abuse ScandalSir Jimmy Savile, OBE pictured aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 during the liner’s 1992 world cruise. The disc jockey and radio and TV personality was “Running around the world”, raising money for Stoke Mandeville and other charities.Cruise company Cunard has cancelled plans for the latest addition to it’s fleet, the new Queen Elizabeth to pay tribute to the broadcaster. The liner had been due to sail past Scarborough, and Savile’s grave, at 15:00 BST on 1 August 2013.Savile, who has been at the centre of numerous allegations of child abuse, was a frequent traveller with Cunard.The company said it would not be "appropriate" for the planned sail past to go ahead.In January, a Cunard spokeswoman had described Savile as "a true friend of Cunard".His last voyage was aboard Queen Elizabeth on her maiden Round Britain trip in September 2011, a month before his death.Savile died at the age of 84 on 29 October 2011 and was buried in Scarborough, where he had had a home for 40 years, a week later.The allegations he had abused children were first aired in an ITV documentary on 3 October.A senior Scotland Yard detective described Savile as a “predatory sex offender” who had a “predilection” for young girls.photograph by: GLYN GENIN