Alison Harper: struggled against the elements in Portsmouth. Photograph: BBC
Not such a fun day to be a TV news reporter, with storms battering the UK's south west and southern coasts. Great pictures - not so great if you're actually in the storm reporting on it. Among the hacks braving the elements were BBC news correspondents Carol Madge and Alison Harper, with the latter gamely trying to hold on to her fetching green hat while reporting for BBC Breakfast as early morning storms threatened to throw her off her feet on the seafront somewhere in Portsmouth. Harper was back in the same spot doing a live two-way for News 24 at around 2pm, without the hat, but still looking like she might either be wiped out by a wave or do a Mary Poppins and take to the skies at any moment. News 24 anchor Emily Maitlis said she was wrapping up the two-way because "we're quite worried about you". However, earlier today the bedraggled correspondents out in the field drew self-satisfied chuckles from the very dry and warm looking anchors they were reporting to. Bill Turnbull on BBC Breakfast, and News 24's Simon McCoy and Sophie Long, we're talking to you.
