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The Â鶹Éç takes all breaches of its Editorial Guidelines seriously and regrets that Reef Television failed to meet the high standards that the Â鶹Éç expects of all programme makers.

As the report from the Trust's Editorial Standards Committee makes clear, Reef Television co-operated fully throughout the Â鶹Éç investigation and never deliberately set out to mislead either the audience or the Â鶹Éç.

However, during the investigation a number of editorial breaches came to light in Â鶹Éç Daytime programmes and these have resulted in a series of penalties for Reef Television, including an agreement to a compensatory payment to the Â鶹Éç and a three-month suspension of all business.

During the suspension, at the Â鶹Éç's insistence, but with the company's full cooperation, Reef Television was required to overhaul completely its compliance processes and editorial standards training.

Following a rigorous and thorough process, the Â鶹Éç is now satisfied that the company has compliance procedures and training of an appropriate standard.

The Â鶹Éç has, therefore, decided to lift its suspension.

Reef Television will now resume work on two existing Â鶹Éç projects and be free to pitch new work to the Â鶹Éç in future.

The Â鶹Éç will review Reef Television's editorial standards performance in six months time.

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