Jeremy Paxman slams 'Newsnight' email

Jeremy Paxman has complained that Newsnight's daily email service is "crap".

The Daily Telegraph reports that the presenter wrote about his disdain for the messages in the final bulletin.

"Welcome to the last Newsnight daily email," he said. "The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery."

Paxman claimed that a "carrier pigeon would have been quicker" and sarcastically suggested that the concept had been created by "visionary senior management".

He continued: "It gives me no pleasure to say that it should have happened years ago. Actually, I lie. There is more joy in heaven, etc etc. The reason for killing it off is pretty straightforward. It's crap."

A spokesperson for the BBC responded: "The readers of the daily email will be familiar with Jeremy's inimitable style and won't be surprised of news of its demise being delivered in this manner. The email has come to the end of its life and has been succeeded by other services such as the Newsnight Twitter feed, our Facebook page, and blogs."

Paxman has often been the centre of controversy during his time on Newsnight. He famously objected to the introduction of a weather forecast on the show and recently accidentally used the word "c**ts" instead of "cuts".