A community radio station has had its wrists slapped by Ofcom after playing a song littered with F-bombs in the early afternoon.

Nova Radio North East, which broadcasts on 102.5FM, played the sweary track during its ‘Midweek Mayhem Show’ on January 25 this year.

The song Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit contained six uses of the word “f****d” or “f*****g”, four uses of the word “m*****f****r” or “m*****f*****g” and 15 uses of “s***” or “b***s***”.

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Ofcom received a complaint over the cuss language and launched an investigation.

Nova Radio’s owners CBIT Ltd accepted the song did not meet the regulator’s rules and said it was “deeply sorry” for any offence caused.

It also dismissed the volunteer who wrongly added the song to its database from the station, which is based in Newcastle.

The company told the Ofcom investigation it has a “strict procedure” on any tracks added to its database but that it was “sadly this was bypassed on this occasion”.

It went on to say that, since the incident, its database has been “scrutinised” with any other offensive tracks removed.

Ofcom ruled the station had breached its broadcasting code and said there was “insufficient contextual justification for the use of potentially highly offensive language”.

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In a report into the decision the broadcasting regulator said: “We took into account that the offensive language was included in a song which the Licensee had the opportunity to check prior to broadcast.

“We also considered that, although the offensive language was not broadcast at a time of day when children were particularly likely to be listening, the majority of listeners to this station would not have expected to hear this offensive language on a community station at this time of day.

“We also took into account the fact that there were no additional contextual factors which would have alerted the audience to the potentially offensive nature of the content, such as a warning prior to the broadcast of the song, or an apology following the broadcast of the offensive language.”