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Alleged death threats made against BBC director general Tony Hall are being investigated by the Met Police. Lord Hall is reported to have received a threatening message after dropping presenter Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear because he had punched a producer. The Mail on Sunday also reported Lord Hall and his wife were under 24-hour protection from security guards at their Oxfordshire home. …

Tony Hall is taking his fight with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to a whole new level -- and maybe to court. Hall, the former supervisor from west of Twin Peaks, has filed a blistering legal claim against the city alleging he was unfairly fired from his $159,000-a-year job as Treasure Island czar last year. Hall was voted off the island, he says, in retaliation for having blown the whistle on a sweetheart deal involving Newsom and the former Navy base's main developer, Darius Anderson, a big Democratic fundraiser and Newsom supporter. The mayor's handpicked Treasure Island Development Authority voted...

A day after being fired as the man in charge of Treasure Island, Tony Hall showed up at Mayor Gavin Newsom's office Thursday with one demand: to be given his old job back on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The former representative of District 7, which includes neighborhoods such as upscale Twin Peaks and St. Francis Wood, didn't get very far. A receptionist told him Newsom was busy and later Newsom's spokesman responded by calling the demand "laughable." Hall left his post on the Board of Supervisors last year when Newsom appointed him to be executive director of the...