BOLTON-BORN newsreader Clive Myrie has revealed how he has been sent death threats and faeces in the post during his 30-year journalism career.

The 54-year-old BBC broadcaster, who attended Hayward Grammar School, was appearing on the ­Fortunately... with Fi and Jane podcast, when he described how he had been targeted alongside Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton and football pundit Garth Crooks.

He told podcast hosts Jane Garvey and Fi Glover: “I’ve had death threats. The BBC investigations unit is trying to prosecute this guy [who sent them].

“To be fair, I wasn’t the only one, Lewis Hamilton and Garth Crooks were in the same email. What do we have in common?”

The former Bolton Sixth Form College student also revealed that the racist abuse he had received had worsened in recent years.

He said: “There have been four or five in the last three years. I’ve been at the BBC 30 years and I can only recall one before that, so it is increasing.

“I did have a woman write in and say: ‘You have a f***-you ­attitude, you dress like a pimp and I think you should go and work somewhere else’.

“And I received a card in the post with a gorilla on the front. It said, we don’t want people like you on our TV screens. I just chucked it in the bin.”

Myrie was born in Bolton to Jamaican immigrant parents. His mother was a seamstress who later worked for Mary Quant, whilst his father was a factory worker making car batteries.

In an interview with The Guardian he said he had been sent faeces in the post during the 1990s, while a far-right extremist, who threatened to kill him, was jailed last year.

“I am black and there are people out there who don’t like black people, but there are also people who don’t like women doing things,” he added.

“You just ride with it. It’s incredibly depressing.”