Scott Mills plaque taken down from M3 service station after BBC sacking
Scott Mills plaque taken down from M3 service station after BBC sacking
Plaque dedicated to Scott Mills at Fleet Services on the M3 has been removed following his BBC dismissal, as more fallout spreads to iPlayer and Spotify.
A plaque dedicated to Scott Mills at Fleet Services on the M3 has been removed after the radio host was sacked by the BBC. The plaque, unveiled over a decade ago on 16 March 2016 after a light-hearted campaign on Mills’s show to name the bridge, disappeared sometime before a motorist spotted it on Thursday, 2 April. Welcome Break, the operator of the service station, has not issued a public comment on the removal.
The timing of the removal comes amid broader fallout from Mills’s sacking, with a slate of Mills-presented shows pulled from BBC iPlayer and Spotify. The BBC announced the firing on 30 March, following allegations about Mills’s personal conduct. It later emerged there had been a police investigation in 2016 into claims of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy under 16, though the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. The BBC has said it acted decisively after receiving new information, and outgoing director-general Tim Davie stated that Mills had to be dismissed.
The plaque’s installation in 2016 followed a campaign led by Mills and his then Radio 1 co-host to have the bridge named after him. Its removal adds another chapter to the evolving story of how public tributes are treated in the wake of controversy, with the service-station artifact now part of ongoing discussions about accountability and legacy in the media landscape.
