Top Gear rapped for glamorising drink-driving
BBC motoring show Top Gear has been criticised by watchdogs after hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May were seen drinking gin and tonic while driving to Magnetic North Pole.
In the 'Polar Special' the pair raced Richard Hammond to the north pole, while he was in a sled pulled by dogs they drove there in a pickup truck.
But complaints flooded in after Clarkson and May broke out the G&T in the cab of the truck and started drinking.
The BBC Trust investigated after what one viewer described as "blatant use of alcohol while driving" in the show aired last July at 8pm before the watershed.
On the show Clarkson pre-emting the complaints had said: "Because we are in international waters there are no drink driving laws.
"Please do not write to us about drinking and driving because I am not driving I am sailing, Cheers."
But the BBC Trust report concluded, "The committee considered the scenes carefully and felt that drinking while driving did involve the misuse of alcohol."
