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Sunday Times 'Dyke On A Bike' Not Always Pejorative Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?annotation_id=annotation_732456&add_user=NOTWPhoneHacking&feature=iv For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/#!/NOTW_Hack_News Editor of The Sunday Times John Witherow has defended his newspaper's use of the words "dyke on a bike" by the television critic AA Gill to describe the broadcaster Clare Balding. In July, Ms Clare Balding complained to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) about the review of her television show, calling it homophobic. The PCC ruled that some of the words were indeed used in a "demeaning and gratuitous way". But, speaking to the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, Mr Witherow said the comment "was not pejorative in the context". Thanks to the BBC 17th January 2012