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POLICE IN THE UK have confirmed they will be taking no further action against Jeremy Clarkson over the incident which saw him dropped from the BBC.
New Yorkshire Police said they will not be pursuing the assault on Oisin Tymon any further.
In a statement, the force said it had completed its routine enquiries into what happened at Hawes on 4 March. A BBC investigation found that Clarkson punched and verbally abused Tymon in an unprovoked attack.
Police became involved following the publication of the organisation’s report into the incident.
Last week, Tymon told police that he did not want them to take action on his behalf.
“However, at that point we still needed to speak to some members of the public who were present at the time of the incident, who had been affected by the event, and whose views also needed to be considered,” police said today.
“Now that all the interviews are complete, we have properly established that there is no need for further police action.”
Clarkson was dropped by the BBC on 25 March after the damning findings of Ken MacQuarrie’s probe left the Beeb’s Director-General, Tony Hall, with no alternative but to sack his star man.
“For me a line has been crossed,” Hall said. “There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations.”
MacQuarrie found that Tymon was subjected to an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack by Jeremy Clarkson”.
“During the physical attack Oisin Tymon was struck, resulting in swelling and bleeding to his lip. The verbal abuse was sustained over a longer period, both at the time of the physical attack and subsequently.”
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Personally I read that as some council lads still want to be able to do favours for people by cranking planning while insisting on a strictly insane rules that force people to have tiny windows or that don’t let new buildings be new as in a new design rather than the big standard. Without the power sure they are no better than the rest of us, where’s the fun in that like.
@Peter: Maybe, but on the other side of the coin we have developers dictating planning decisions, and that can’t be good for anyone. There has to be a regulated middle ground.
@Boyne Sharky: don’t get me wrong, I think the whole process needs to be cleaned up and made simple and consistent all over the country. I have heard of people being told the house planned should be double the size while others only a mile away told to make it smaller. Currently the whole thing is based on what the planning officer likes basically which is completely insane.
How many councillors is this country can honestly say they have any expertise in urban/rural planning? Travel around any part of Ireland and you will see the consequences of this.Taclky throughfares in every city and developer led housing monstrosities everywhere to extract the greatest profit.
And they were doing such a grand job ……… !
Less brown envelopes for them. Disgusting
Farewell to Parish-Pump politics, and good riddance!
Clueless Councillors now worried they won’t be able to sort out their local friends and relatives by green-lighting dodgy developments or by blocking necessary planning permissions. No more boring white bungalows with awful columns blighting the countryside.
People seem to be jumping on the councilors side of things here. Probably correctly so. But do we really want developers to be able to build what they want where they want it?
They sold their souls 20 years ago, for more money and increased pension benifits, Cant have it both ways, Whole system needs major overhaul, not what you know, But Who ??.
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