LONDON: The BBC's Bhopal nightmare continued in the cold light of day on Saturday with a blizzard of often loaded questions about the alleged culture of 'cut-price' journalism swirling round the world's largest, most respected, most international broadcaster.

The BBC, which cut back at least five years ago on traditional research facilities and library services offered to editorial staff, admits it will need urgently to review procedures regarding the trustworthiness of information culled from websites.

The Corporation insisted all its staff use internet-based research facilities. Even as a painfully red-faced BBC insisted it "moved swiftly to retract a live interview with an individual claiming to be a spokesman for Dow Chemicals", media pundits speculated that the hoax gave the BBC's already battered international reputation for accuracy another hard knock.

On Friday, BBC World broadcast the momentous – and wholly spoof – interview with one Jude Finisterra, who claimed to speak for Dow Chemical Company, which now owns Union Carbide.