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Friday, May 29, 2009

BBC radio announces nuclear tests in North Yorkshire

BBC radio announces nuclear tests in North Yorkshire

A news presenter mistakenly announced on national radio that North Yorkshire had launched a programme of illegal underground nuclear tests.

North Korea have recently been launching missiles Photo: AFP/GETTY

A newsreader made the error on Monday at the start of a bulletin on Radio Five Live.

The top story was a report about the worldwide disapproval of North Korea's recent tests but the unidentified newsreader instead declared: "There has been widespread condemnation of North Yorkshire's decision to carry out an underground nuclear test.

2 comments:

CherryPie said...

And there was me thinking I might visit Yorkshire later in the year...

Anonymous said...

I never trusted that grinning face of Peter Levy on Look North....