ALEX Salmond has hit out at the BBC's coverage of the Queen's death suggesting that the broadcaster has "badly let people down".
The former first minister took to social media on Tuesday night to launch a blistering attack on the rolling coverage of the late monarch's final journey through Scotland.
Salmond accused the broadcaster of "historical ignorance" and "bias" in the days following the Queen's passing at Balmoral, and her coffin's subsequent journey to Edinburgh where it lay in state overnight.
It comes after the broadcaster came under fire for a report where a presenter laughed after hearing Catholics had been "cleared out of Scotland".
Taking to Twitter, Salmond wrote: "The BBC have badly let people down in their coverage of the Queen’s passing.
"The ongoing attempt to appropriate a display of Scottish respect and affection for our late monarch to peddle a state political line, shows the extent of BBC departure from broadcasting standards."
The former FM added that in the last three days "Scotland has done the Queen proud".
He added: "I am in no doubt that she planned the whole thing exactly as it transpired and the solemnity, without flummery, is what she would have wanted. It was as it should be.
"In the case of the BBC, journalists and contributors queue up to parade their historical ignorance but apparent certainty of the late Queen’s opinions without the benefit, for the most part, of ever having a serious personal conversation with her.
"BBC bias and the needless, and completely pointless, arrest of a handful of protesters have been the only jarring notes in an otherwise fitting and positive Scottish contribution and appreciation for this truly remarkable lady."
Salmond has previously been critical of the BBC's coverage of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.
Earlier this week, the broadcaster came under fire for "inflammatory and wrong" comments made by a presenter during the proclamation of King Charles in Edinburgh on Sunday.
During a segment documenting the late Queen’s journey from Balmoral to the capital, the presenter noted that the Protestant reformer John Knox is buried there.
Another presenter then replied: “John Knox of course, the old great Protestant reformer, who cleared the Catholics out of Scotland.”
A number of anti-monarchy protestors were arrested under breach of the peace laws during the ceremony, with cross-party concerns over the "deeply troubling" treatment of republicans.
