article_snippet: BBC Trust BBC Trust has backed Top Gear over Jeremy Clarkson’s use of the word ‘pikey’.
article_snippet: The word 'pikey' was part of a ‘running gag’ between Jeremy Clarkson (right) and fellow presenter James May (left) about the perceived cheap style of their colleague Richard Hammond (centre)
article_snippet: a ruling due to be published today stated: ‘the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee believed the word “pikey” had evolved into common parlance among a number of people to mean “chavvy” or “
article_snippet: We are horrified by the BBC’s green-lighting of the use of the word “pikey” by the Top Gear presenters.
article_snippet: Ruling: the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee BBC said the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee ‘accepted that the word “pikey” did have the potential to be deeply offensive to the Gipsy and Traveller communities’ (file picture)
article_snippet: The BBC committee said The BBC committeeaccepted that the word “pikey” did have the potential to be deeply offensive to the Gipsy and Traveller communities’, but The BBC committee cleared the programme of wrongdoing.