A TROWBRIDGE woman has vowed to continue lobbying the BBC in the wake of the resignation of presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk.

Sarah-Jane Newbury, who has appeared on the presenter's daytime talk show several times over the years, feels he has been unfairly forced off the screen.

Mr Kilroy-Silk, 61, announced he was resigning as presenter of the Kilroy show on Friday, after a row over a 'racist' article that appeared in the Sunday Express newspaper.

Miss Newbury said: "I'm still very upset by it. He is not a racist at all. The article has been taken completely out of context."

The Kilroy programme was suspended after the article, in which the former MP described Arabs as 'suicide bombers, limb-amputators and women-repressers', caused a storm of protests.

Mr Kilroy-Silk has since apologised for any offence caused and said he did not intend the article to be a slur on all Arabs.

Ann Hamilton, the Trowbridge grandmother of Zoe Evans, who was killed by her stepfather in 1997, also appeared on an episode of the programme.

She said: "Kilroy was very nice to me when I was talking about Zoe, he was supportive all the way through. I want to see him reinstated."