Zoo magazine has fired a number of bikinis into the Big brother garden today.

Staff from the magazine crept past the adjacent Tesco and used a T-shirt launcher to shoot the swimwear 400 feet into the air over the garden fence.

Editor Ben Todd said: “Our mission was to send the housemates (well, the hot, female ones) a message from the men of Britain – more boobs, please!”

Channel 4 press staff are reported to have placed a quick phone call to the magazine and asked for a ceasefire.