Playboy Parliament

Engineers are investigating a glitch which appeared to put porn on to the Scottish Parliament's TV system.

Adverts for adult channels such as Red Hot Wives, Playboy TV and Spice Extreme popped up on 320 TV monitors at Holyrood.

When viewers scrolled through the list of channels, they appeared as options but could not be accessed, reports The Scotsman.

A Holyrood spokeswoman said the channel labels had been added by mistake to the TV feed and supplier Telewest had been asked to remove them.

"The channels have been removed," she said. "There is no way anybody could watch porn in parliament."

The system had to be closed down at 9.30pm to prevent "teasers" for the adult channels appearing, the spokeswoman added.