Police are still investigating threats to kill Hall, reportedly linked to his decision to axe Clarkson.
Just like the Tory plans to axe housing benefit for young people," he said.
Purnell said the BBC had been forced to cut back on the range of services it offers following the 2010 funding settlement, which froze the licence fee at £145.50 until 2017, including axing original daytime programmes on BBC2, and the decision, yet to be formally submitted to the BBC Trust, to axe the BBC3 TV channel.
Women in the UK are fighting to axe the 5% tax on tampons (it used to be taxed at 17.5%!), which are considered "luxuries" while men's razors, for some baffling reason, are not.
The decision to axe regional ABC facilities is a political one used to inflict pain on Coalition electorates, a government MP has told Guardian Australia.
Normality returned with the arrival of Lord Mandelson, a man more used to half-truths than full ones, yet always first in line with the executioner's axe.
The one side-effect of Annuale was a raging, psychopathic bout of PMS – think Fey swinging an axe, Casey Wilson diving face-first into a birthday cake, Poehler repeatedly kicking a guy in the nuts or Kristen Wiig making out with a dog.
In contrast, Wrecking Ball moves straight from the close-up of Cyrus to scenes of her gyrating in a crop top and knickers, fellating an axe and writhing naked on a ball.
Last week's Australian federal budget took an axe to the ABC-run Australia network and its ability to properly cover the Asia-Pacific.
Owen Bowcott The environment department has already suffered some of the steepest cuts across Whitehall, with a 30% cut in 2010 against the government average of 19%, followed by a further 10% in 2013, leaving observers wondering what's left to axe.
Killed them all, of course' No. "Slam dunk" was the term used by prosecutors in Galveston, Texas, who couldn't get a murder conviction for the 2001 killing of Durst's roommate Morris Black even though Durst admitted firing the fatal shot and dismembering the corpse with an axe and a bow saw.
