Friday 8 November, 2024

BBC made a pretty spectacular typo during its election coverage last night

Oh dear.

LAST NIGHT, WHILE reporting election results from Scotland, BBC made perhaps the most spectacular typo imaginable.

They were reporting results from the Scottish electoral constituency of Painsley and Renfrewshire South when they totally mangled the name…

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Amazing.

Here are the funniest tweets about the bonkers British election results >

O2 just made the most unfortunate Twitter typo we’ve ever seen >

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Here are the funniest tweets about the bonkers British election results >

O2 just made the most unfortunate Twitter typo we’ve ever seen >