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Martine Croxall: News presenter to begin legal action against BBC

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News presenter Martine Croxall is to begin legal action against the BBC next month, according to official documents.

The newsreader, 55, is listed for an employment tribunal against the corporation, the documents revealed.

The details of her claim are not known, but the tribunal listing indicates that the complaint includes issues relating to age and sex discrimination, and equal pay.

The BBC and Croxall declined to comment.

She joined the BBC in 1991 and was most recently a regular presenter on the BBC News Channel.

The two-day tribunal is due to start on 1 May in central London.

It comes after a high-profile equal pay dispute between the BBC and the presenter Samira Ahmed.

In 2020, Ahmed won the employment tribunal she had brought against the corporation. She had claimed she was underpaid by £700,000 for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.

The BBC had argued the two performed "very different roles".

But the unanimous judgement said Ahmed's work was like that done by Vine, and the BBC had failed to prove the pay gap wasn't because of sex discrimination.

In 2021, the BBC revealed it had spent more than £1 million on legal fees to fight equal pay and race discrimination cases brought by staff.