QUIRKY WORLD ... Live TV is snow fun — but presenter remains icy cool

ENGLAND: A TV journalist has been described as being as “cool as a cucumber” for carrying on without flinching when he was the victim of a snowball attack while live on a news channel.

BBC South Today political editor Peter Henley was reporting live for the BBC News channel on the forthcoming election in Eastleigh, Hampshire, when a passer-by took aim and threw a snowball at him.

But the experienced reporter, who has worked for the BBC for more than 20 years, carried on regardless.