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HM GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR PRESS OFFICE No.6 Convent Place Gibraltar Tel:20070071; Fax: 20043057 PRESS RELEASE No: 381/2013 Date: 4th June 2013 TOP SECRET TOP GEAR Part of a forthcoming edition of Top Gear, one of the BBC's most popular programmes, was filmed at Gibraltar's airport on Tuesday. The BBC claims that the programme has a worldwide audience of over 300 million people, with over 8 million in the UK alone. The three famous presenters, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May arrived on a lunchtime flight from Heathrow but, in line with the programme-makers' policy, there was a news blackout until the filming was completed around 2pm. Earlier in the day, another crew filmed most of Gibraltar’s tourist sites whilst two ‘super cars’ (a McLaren and an Audi) were being filmed on the MOD's North Dispersal with the north face of the Rock as the background. There was no truth in the rumour that they would be racing each other down the runway! The filming will form part of a programme in which the super cars drive from Gibraltar through Spain and back to the UK. The making of Top Gear comes hard on the heels of Michael Portillo's Great Continental Railway Journeys which was filmed on the Rock last week and 'New Tricks' which will be shown on BBC September. Meanwhile the first episode of the Channel 5 programme, 'Gibraltar - Britain in the Sun' will be broadcast on Tuesday 11 June and on the successive five Tuesdays. There will certainly be lots of coverage of Gibraltar on British television over the next few months! .

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