Fiona Lamdin suffered a huge blunder when she managed to lose her notebook in Birmingham while fronting BBC Breakfast
08:57, 16 Apr 2025Updated 08:57, 16 Apr 2025
A BBC Breakfast reporter’s huge blunder was unveiled live on-air after she managed to misplace her notebook while hosting the TV programme.
Fiona Lamdin was reporting live from Birmingham as she gave viewers the latest updates on the on-going dispute between Birmingham City Council and the Unite union during Wednesday’s (16 April).
As her segment came to a close, BBC Breakfast host Jon Kay took the opportunity to tell viewers about Fiona’s mishap, which had occurred during Tuesday’s broadcast.
“Fiona, thank you very much indeed,” he said. “Just before you go Fiona, I heard a rumour that a certain BBC reporter lost her notebook in a pile of rubbish yesterday and had to go rumaging through the piles of bins looking for it. Have you heard this?”
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Fiona couldn’t help but to laugh as Jon reminded her of the mistake, and she soon appeared back on camera alongside her notebook.
“I found it!” she exclaimed, before holding up the book to the camera. “My precious notebook.”
Back in the studio, Jon and his co-host Sally Nugent fell about laughing, with Sally adding: “It looks OK! Hasn’t got any old teabags stuck to it.”
Fiona has been hosting live segments from the streets of Birmingham as hundreds of bin workers continue to strike in the city. The strike began on 11 March in retaliation to Birmingham City Council, and has led to dozens of bin bags and fly-tipped rubbish piling up on the streets.
A rally was held by striking workers on Tuesday (15 April), after Unite union members rejected the council’s most recent pay offer. Further negotations are expected to take place soon.
Fiona managed to retrieve her notebook from the rubbish
Richard Parker, Labour mayor of the West Midlands, has insisted the strikes are not a “localised failure” based on problems unique to Birmingham, but part of the wider demise of local authority funding.
“As bins pile up and pressures mount, the country looks on as if this is the result of some uniquely Brummie dysfunction,” Mr Parker wrote in a piece for BirminghamLive. “But to treat it as some kind of localised failure — the result of poor choices or civic decline — is to ignore the bigger picture.
“We’ve been caricatured as post-industrial relics, dismissed as too messy, too complex, too far gone. And now we’re being painted as forever blighted by the bins.”
BBC Breakfast airs on BBC One at 6am on weekdays