Sophie Raworth mistakenly announced on BBC News at Six that her colleague Huw Edwards had resigned, moments after he was named as the star at the centre of an alleged sex scandal.

Raworth was revealing Edwards’s identity for the first time as the man “accused of paying a teenager for explicit photos” when she then said that he had also resigned.

Sources subsequently made it clear that Edwards, 61, had not resigned.

Raworth was quick to clarify the mistake to viewers shortly after.

The newsreader interrupted a discussion between legal correspondent Dominic Casciani and media editor Katie Razzall to correct her earlier announcement.

Raworth told millions of viewers: “I must just correct something as well because this is all breaking in the last few minutes - he has not resigned, he has been named by his wife, but he has not resigned.”