There's a reason you don't host the weather with some animal help, and one of those is because they're wont to take a dump wherever and whenever they like.

The BBC's Carol Kirkwood learned that the hard way yesterday morning, as she hosted the weather forecast with her producer's dog running about behind on the beach and got royally upstaged.

Kirkwood and her canine pal and her owner later apologised with a tweet full of shame.