News / BBC apologises for map error
THE BBC has apologised after labelling the Faroe Islands on a weather map as Fair Isle.
A video uploaded online by the BBC Weather Twitter page earlier on Thursday morning revealed that low pressure is due to bring gales and rain to the north and west of Scotland.
Its map showed Shetland securing her rightful place to the north of Orkney.
This may come as a relief to those used to seeing the islands pictured on weather forecasts in a box near the Scottish mainland, or missed altogether off the map.
The Faroe Islands, however, situated over 200 miles to the northwest of Shetland, were wrongly named as Fair Isle.
Realising its mistake, BBC later changed the caption to its correct place name – Klaksvík – and apologised for the error on Twitter.
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