Labour officials had red faces today - no doubt matching their political leanings - after the Party's site (http://www.labour.org.uk/) was vandalised early this morning.

The usual dry political spin was replaced with a picture of George Bush carrying his dog bearing the face of a somewhat stunned Tony Blair.

A rather crotchety Labour spin doctor said: "these things happen", before hanging up.

Luckily, the BBC managed to capture a snapshot of the image before it was pulled down. You can view that here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2993550.stm). ®

* UPDATE: Wanna see the piccie up close? Cheers to those readers who forwarded us this link (http://www.zone-h.org/defaced/2003/06/16/www.labour.org.uk/) which details the whole sorry episode.