BBC newsreader Tasmin Lucia Khan, formerly a Zee TV presenter, gets the Daily Mail treatment today. A Mail on Sunday story remarks on a recent incident where the 28 year old Oxford economics graduate ran short of words while presenting a BBC Three news bulletin.

She started off with a nervous sounding ‘Hi, I’m Tasmin’, but when she followed this with: ‘Here’s a quick reminder of the global news channels’, her enunciation appeared noticeably peculiar, placing unwarranted emphasis on the word ‘quick’, which she stretched out.

She then moved on to the first snippet of news: ‘A missing businessman’s been found alive in a Florida campsite…’ she purred, her voice rising conspicuously at the end of the final word. She managed to end the sentence with ‘…three days after his plane crashed’ – but not before gasping very audibly between the words ‘days’ and ‘after’. The next item never materialised, as she stopped talking altogether. In the seconds that follow, she is heard sighing.

Read the full story here.