Presenter Naga Munchetty was introducing an upcoming report on the announcement at yesterday’s SNP conference that a bill is to be drafted for a second independence referendum.
But instead of footage of the First Minister, pictures of Kumbuka the gorilla were broadcast.
Co-presenter Charlie Stayt said: “I’m sorry we’ve very clearly run the wrong pictures over that particular sequence.
“My apologies there.
“The story we will be talking about later, as you’ve probably guessed from the pictures, is about the escaped gorilla at London Zoo.
“We will be speaking to one of the gorilla keepers from the zoo.”
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