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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 20:48 UTC

Tag: UK plates H982 FKL

  • Saturday, November 1st 2014 - 04:08 UTC

    BBC refuses to make apology about Top Gear row in Argentina

    The controversial Porsche with the registration H982 FKL, which some suggested could refer to the UK/Argentina Falklands 1982 conflict

    The BBC has refused to apologize to Argentina over a Top Gear special filmed in the country. The show's stars and crew had to abandon filming last month amid angry protests over a car number-plate that appeared to refer to the Falkland Islands War.

  • Tuesday, October 21st 2014 - 21:57 UTC

    Argentina makes formal complaint to BBC about Jeremy Clarkson

    Ambassador Alicia Castro met with BBC's TV Director Danny Cohen on Monday afternoon

    Argentine Ambassador to the UK, Alicia Castro, made a formal complaint to the BBC regarding Jeremy Clarkson’s provocative behaviour and offensive remarks towards the Government and the Argentine people, following Top Gear’s recent filming in Argentina, calling for the BBC to make a public apology.

  • Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 05:15 UTC

    Lady Alice: “Argentines eat a lot of beef, but have never eaten a journalist”

    Jeremy Clarkson, expert in baits for controversy and fabrications who appeals to English nationalistic instincts

    Jeremy Clarkson and BBC's 'Top Gear' program need publicity and controversy to keep going and that he has managed with his recent incursion through the south of Argentina, which ended with his team escorted to the border with Chile fearing 'for their lives', which obviously impeded them from accomplishing their formal task but not the real objective.

  • Friday, October 10th 2014 - 04:47 UTC

    Damon Albarn apologizes to Argentina for Top Gear's offensive behavior

    The English singer-musician was cheered by his audience in Buenos Aires

    Damon Albarn has apologized to the people of Argentina after Top Gear offended the population with an inappropriate number plate while filming their BBC show in the country. In effect during his set at one Buenos Aires main theatres this week the Blur front-man called To Gear's Jeremy Clarkson a “f****** a*****” over the serious gaffe.

  • Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

    BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

    Jeremy Clarkson said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed” as a consequence of the incidents

    BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.

  • Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 05:39 UTC

    Mobbing by Argentine officials forces BBC Top Gear team to flee to Chile

    The stoned vehicles of the BBC Top Gear team which was forced to flee to Chile after being attacked and stoned

    Hooliganism and mobbing by government officials seem to be the norm in Argentina following on the experience of two incidents, one involving a BBC crew forced out of the country for their alleged 'disrespectful attitude' towards the Falklands/Malvinas conflict memory, and a second calling on hecklers to impede a conference in Buenos Aires of a former minister.

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