Suspended Radio Solent DJ Alex Dyke back on air

ISLE of Wight broadcaster Alex Dyke will return to the airwaves tomorrow (Thursday) following a BBC investigation into “unacceptable” remarks about breastfeeding made on his Radio Solent show.

A BBC spokesperson said today (Wednesday): “Following serious consideration Alex Dyke will return to BBC Radio Solent tomorrow”.

Dyke was subject to two separate petitions in the wake of his controversial diatribe, one from listeners calling for his permanent axe and another demanding his suspension be lifted.

Dyke will now return to the station’s mid-morning show following an outburst last week in which he questioned why mum’s couldn’t “just stay at home and do it” during a phone-in discussion.

More than 6,000 people signed a petition calling for Alex Dyke to be taken off the air after he said that it was “unnatural” and a throwback to the Stone Age.

“There are people in the Solent region that can’t stand him but still phone in and rant at him”. It’s the kind of thing that should be done in a quiet, private nursery.