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Clarkson defends new series of ‘The Black and White Top Gear Show’

also available in Ferrari 458Clarkson and his co-presenters have been criticised for ‘blacking up’ once again, although some say the practice was acceptable when the show first aired in the 1950s.

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Posted: Feb 4th, 2012
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Top Gear controversy escalates as ‘deeply inoffensive’ off-air comments revealed

new Stig actually from just outside Acapulco Studio mics picked up James May saying, ‘I was uncomfortable belittling a people with rich history and traditions who I respect as fellow human beings’.

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Posted: Feb 2nd, 2011
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WHO apologises after accidentally turning up flu alert to 7.5

Officials at the World Health Organisation have apologised after a technician accidentally turned up the swine flu alert level to 7.5, killing 90 million people in the process. The incident happened on Sunday, when two IT engineers undertook essential maintainance; one of the men ‘noticed that the dial went up to 11, and wondered what would happen if they cranked it up a bit.’

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Posted: Jun 8th, 2009
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