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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Council accuses Clarkson’s Farm of ‘misleading’ depiction of planning meeting amid viewer backlash

An Oxfordshire council has hit back at the way a planning meeting was depicted in an episode of hit Amazon show Clarkson’s Farm.

Viewers accused the authority of being “short-sighted” and “pen pushing” after the series - which follows Jeremy Clarkson’s trials and tribulations as he runs farm Diddly Squat in the Cotswolds - showed councillors refuse the former Top Gear star’s application to launch a restaurant on his land.

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