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It's not often that BBC Radio 2 Newsreader voiceover artist Ricky Salmon makes the news wires but he did this weekend:

Radio's Ross helps out in sea drama
Source PA News
Updated on 29 May 2010

A boat skipper who blocked an international distress channel led to an appeal on Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show.

Dover coastguard discovered the vessel's crew had left their microphone on, blocking channel 16 off the Kent coast, which is used for distress calls.

All coastguard staff could hear was Radio 2 on in the background so they called the BBC, who made the appeal on Mr Ross's show during a news bulletin.