Blue Peter stretch of track which, on 3 July 1938, saw the world speed record for steam locomotives of set by LNER A4 Locomotive no. 4468 "Mallard". In October 1998, Richard Bacon was sacked, following reports in "News of the World" that he had taken cocaine. This incident followed shortly after the show's 40th anniversary, when previous presenters returned for a special programme. Those returning included Leila Williams, Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Diane Louise Jordan, Anthea Turner, John Leslie, Tim Vincent, Yvette Fielding, Caron Keating, Mark Curry, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Sarah Greene, Tina Heath, Simon Groome and Christopher Wenner.
Media Research Center that when politicians are involved in scandal, their party affiliation is brought up more often when they are Republican than Democrat; for example, they have said that Senator Robert Packwood's Republican affiliation was brought up in most reports about his sexual scandals, but Representative Gary Condit's Democratic affiliation was ignored when he had the same problem, that the media is sympathetic to Communism or "dictators", that media coverage of global warming is biased in favor of environmentalism, and that the media focuses on covering the negative side of the Iraq War. In 1999, the MRC reported that the network news