TV show Top Gear was under fire again today after a second programme was slammed for being unfair.

The motoring show was ordered back to Oxford by BBC bosses after complaints by the Chamber of Trade and the Oxford Bus Company that a broadcast last November was biased.

But the follow-up, screened last night on BBC2, was criticised today by the county's environmental boss, David Young, who was interviewed by presenter Quentin Willson.

He said: "I will be writing to the show today and the head of BBC complaints to express my anger.

"I feel personally let down. They agreed that they would use specific points from my interview and they did not.

"The programme came across as unapologetic. The whole point of them coming back was to show how the OTS is working and they have failed again." Mr Young is also angry that Top Gear said last night it was coming back to Oxford because the city's transport strategy had been described as a blueprint for Britain by a transport minister - and not because it had been ordered to.

County council officers are also furious that a closing shot showed just one person standing in Broad Street as Mr Willson said this was how other cities would look if they wanted a blueprint for Britain.

Some are also angry at what they say was Mr Willson's "generally sneering" attitude.

But county councillor John Power, who appeared on the original show, said: "I don't think the council has any right to complain as the show reflects what's really going on. The council has no right to cause a fuss again."

No-one at Top Gear was available for comment today.

Story date: Friday 18 February

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