TV red faces over naked woman

A Scottish broadcaster has been forced to apologise after erotic scenes from TV show flashed on to screen during a political debate.

A naked blonde woman appeared on a studio TV screen during a Scotland Tonight debate on Britain's Labour Party leadership.

The raunchy clip - which appeared on STV - is thought to have been from an episode of Channel 4 drama Shameless, the Daily Mail newspaper reported.

The image appeared on screen for only a few seconds, but sparked a complaint from a viewer.

An insider told the Daily Record that no one in the newsroom realised the blunder until later.

"It’s unfortunate but in a busy newsroom we have monitors showing the various TV channels," the insider said.

"You can only see the scene for a few seconds and the vast majority of viewers probably won’t even have spotted it.