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The BBC ploughed on with its charity show – but it’s always a Relief when it finishes NewsColony THERE were, as far as I could see, only two reasonable options for the BBC to take with this year’s Sport Relief, given the ongoing medical emergency. The first was to postpone it, like the football and rugby, until such time as the theatre plugs and worthy schemes about “bringing the outside world to pensioners” with breathing difficulties, looked a bit less reckless. 6 Sport Relief had the usual too-many-cooks line-up of Paddy McGuinness, Alex Scott and Gary Lineker The second was to say: “Stuff it, as a one-off gesture to the British public, at this time of crisis, every single penny raised will be spent in Britain.” But Auntie would no more do that than re-run all eight series of Love Thy Neighbour, in The One Show’s slot. So they took option C and just ploughed on regardless, from 7pm, Friday, with the usual too-many-cooks line-up of Paddy McGuinness , Alex Scott and Gary ...