Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the increased security around Taylor Swift ahead of London concerts

The security around Taylor Swift has been strengthened ahead of the singer's London shows.

Swift is set to perform five nights at Wembley Stadium in the UK capital in her first appearance on stage since a terror threat led to her Vienna shows getting cancelled.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says fans without tickets have been asked not to gather outside the venue to listen to the gig.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady is a UK correspondent this evening, Hey
in then.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey Heather, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's that weekul who was stabbed?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Going, oh my god, where do we even begin with this?
How terrible that a little eleven year old came here
on holidays from Australia with her mother and ended up
the victim of a random stabbing attack in Leicester Square.
She's still in hospital, injuries not life threatening, but she
was stabbed eight times. So there is a man in custody.

(00:26):
He has been charged with attempted murder and possession of
a bladed implement. I eat the knife he used allegedly.
So what we know is that Leicester Square was very,
very busy the other day, one of the big tourist
attractions in London's West End. It was very hot and sunny.
Police are saying this was a completely random attack. The
attacker allegedly put the eleven year old girl in a

(00:48):
headlock and stabbed her and she will now need plastic surgery.
So I think people are just beyond shocked and appalled
that a child would travel on holidays all the way
from Australia and have that happened to them on the
streets of our capital city.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And still any indication of motive and whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Look, I guess when the court case happens in due course,
there will be a judicial process, there will be a trial.
I think a lot more information about the incident, the
attack will happen then, But for now it's just sharpened
everyone's focus on knife crime. I mean, it is just
off the scale here and it's very, very worrying.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, that's a very good point actually about knife crime. Hey, listen, Inda,
I see that the tickets for Tayler Swift's concert have
dropped in price as a result of these security concerns.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, so she's back in the UK now. She's going
to play another five gigs in London starting tonight the
first one, and you're right, ticket prices have come down
so previously these were more expensive than golda slip to
be honest. I was in Dublin passing through on my
way home to Wexford the other week, and I was
meeting Americans in Dublin Airport who were on their way

(02:00):
to watch her in Dublin because they couldn't afford the
prices in the United States and they thought they'd make
a trip and get cheaper tickets in Europe look so
so sought after. However, the prices have dropped in the
aftermath of the Vienna foil terror attack. There are tickets
available for tonight if you're willing to pay twelve hundred
n Z dollars. I mean, it is stunking what these

(02:23):
tickets are still going for. But they are available. And
one little security warning from the authorities of Wembley tonight.
They say they will not be tolerating something called taygating.
This is where mostly teenage girls and young women congregates
who don't have tickets. They had it happen in Munich,
believe it or not. The other week in Germany, forty

(02:44):
thousand young women turned up on the hillside and had
a party. So Wembley saying this will not be tolerated.
There will be outer security zones and if you haven't
got a ticket, you are not getting anywhere near the stadium.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Interesting, hey, how did they figure out in the big
old of Stone at Stone came from Scotland. How they
figure this out?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
This amazing? So what they did they got scientists and
they got a laser. They haven't in any way damaged
the rock. But they've beamed a laser into it, they've
seen its composition. And we'd always been told previously that
the Stonehenge stones, all of them come from Wales, most
of them did. However, the altar stone they call in
the middle. They now have worked out that there is

(03:24):
only one other place in the British and Irish Isles
where this rock exists, northeastern Scotland, possibly the Orkney Islands.
And now so that's six hundred kilometers from Salisbury Plain,
which is where in Wiltshire. Stonehenge is six hundred kilometers.
This was moved four and a half thousand years ago.

(03:46):
They reckon it was moved by sea. It weighs six tons.
My god, it's Stonehenge. The mystery of it just fascinating.
Where these people, why, yeah, how.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Would you even put a six ton stone on a boat.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
They've managed this. Look, there were no roads, there was
no rail network, there was nothing, and most of Britain
back then was forested and they've managed to get that
from the absolute northeastern tip of Scotland six hundred kilometers.
And what intrigues me as well is even if they
did do it by sea. I was looking at a
map the other day and I thought, well, hang on,

(04:22):
they must have somehow sailed all the way around Scotland,
all the way down the Irish Sea, come in at Bristol,
and then it would still have to be carted maybe
one hundred and twenty k across land from the nearest seaport.
It's extraordinary, it really is.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
People have actually been quite amazing for a very long
time in the thank you for that fascinating stuff into
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