The McCarthy doorstep challenge

Monkey is all for good old-fashioned doorstep reporting but Sky News' north of England reporter, Mike McCarthy, perhaps took things a bit far today. On the scene at the house of Shannon Matthews, the 9-year-old girl found alive today after being missing for 24 days, McCarthy marched up the garden path live on air, pushed open the front door and walked straight into the house to the mild surprise of its inhabitants. He then backed out and grabbed the first person he could find and interviewed him for a good 10 minutes, asking his name half way through. The police have now put an officer on the gate, no doubt to stop McCarthy getting back in.