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article_snippet: The news comes as BBC BBC backed Mr Clarkson's use of the word 'pikey'.
article_snippet: The word - used as a derogatory term for gipsies or travellers - was part of a 'running gag' between Mr Clarkson and fellow presenter James May about their colleague Richard Hammond's perceived cheap style.
article_snippet: A complaint was lodged by the Traveller Movement charity after A complaint appeared on a placard in a Top Gear episode from February last year.
article_snippet: And last night Mr Clarkson was at the centre of another controversy after he said in the March edition of Top Gear magazine that foreign taxi drivers in London have 'vehicles smelling of sick'.
article_snippet: he also turned on drivers in the North, saying northern roads are overrun with immigrants 'who have never experienced tarmac before'.
article_snippet: The inflammatory comments follow a string of racism rows.
article_snippet: last year, Mr Clarkson apologised after he was filmed allegedly using the N-word in the poem 'Eeny, meeny, miney, moe'.