Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prince Harry making a public appearance in the UK

The Duke of Sussex has returned to the UK to make a brief public appearance at a central London charity event.

Prince Harry attended WellChild's annual awards ceremony at a London hotel to pay tribute to the young people recognised at the event.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says it's unlikely Harry will be able to meet up with the royals - and will probably depart for California before a reunion can take place. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
UK correspondent in the Brady is with us this evening.
Get Aina, Hey Jack, how are you very well? Thank you?
So Harry is beck in London. What's this going to mean?
Is they're going to be a family reunion of sorts?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, we simply don't know, but the newspapers reckon not.
Charles is in Balmorrel up in Scotland and William is
with his family in Windsor. Now. Where Harry has stayed
overnight we don't know, but the hotel that he was
at for this charity function for very sick young children
is in central London. It would have taken him less
than half an hour with the police escort to get

(00:35):
to where William's house is. So look, it's not geography
or logistics that's the problem here. I think we're really
seeing a chasm between these two brothers. As I say,
Charles up in Scotland, so he's not going to travel
that far. I think he will make a very quick
about turn and head back to his family in California.
And I find it desperately sad because the love this

(00:57):
guy has, the potential I think that is inside Harry,
and the good that he could have done this country
and the rest of the world and we're not really
seeing it. I mean, he's just a natural with young people,
with disadvantaged people, very sick children. Last night, He's a
complete natural. And I think it's such a shame for

(01:17):
the family and for the UK and the Commonwealth that
all of this has come to pass. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, I totally agree with you on that. I totally
agree with you on that. It will be interesting to
see if maybe the paper is going to be proved
wrong on this occasion and they will meet up that
will wait and see. Hey, the UK has turned off
its last coal power plant.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, this is big news actually, so they've just had
the last ever night shift at this coal plant outside Nottingham.
Coal fueled the industrial revolution here, it basically built Britain
and overnight they have flicked the switch for the very
last time. There will be no more electricity produced across
any of the grids in the United Kingdom that's powered

(01:58):
by fossil fuels. So a huge step forward. No coincidence.
This is happening under Labor and Keir Starmer. He's absolutely
determined to make cleaner energy, launching a company called Great
British Energy as well and the first six months of
this year, Jack fifty percent five zero percent of the
UK's energy needs and electricity came from renewables, so huge

(02:20):
leaps have been made in recent years. Look, we're still
behind some European countries like France, for example, but the
UK is getting there and that is the end of
an era. No more coal power in Britain.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, it's remarkable, really, isn't it When you think not
just the role of coal power, but of the role
of industry, and especially in parts of you know, of
northern England around Newcastle, it seems remarkable that this day
would be upon us. Well, we'll just talk to a
little bit about the public sentiment there. I mean, how
do people feel about this? So people have see it.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I think in coal mining communities that were decimated in
the eighties under Margaret Thatcher because she drove people into
the ground trying to break the unions, I think there
will be It's a bittersweet moment. I think a lot
of people will have memories of their dad, their granddad
working in coal mining communities South Wales, northeast of England, Yorkshire.

(03:13):
All that is gone. I mean it is consigned to history.
So we're moving on. But ultimately, you know, what we
need to see now is more renewable energy, cleaner energy,
cheaper energy. And when you look at the coastline of
the United Kingdom, you look at the wind and I've
been lucky enough to travel a lot in Scandinavia in
the last few years. You see how they do it there.

(03:35):
You know we are lagging behind hugely.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Hi, Boris Speaker has been married for what is it now,
the third time?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, so lovely pictures in the papers today. I was
smiling Boris Specker because the last time we saw him
in the papers he was leaving prison. How would you
believe here in Oxfordshire where I live, he served six
months of ascendence that was to do with financial crime
relating to his bankruptcy. So he looks, I mean, he
still looks fit and healthy and handsome. His bride is dropped,

(04:03):
a gorgeous Lilian. She's thirty three and it's third time
lucky for Boris Becker. Two of his children from his
first man marriage were there Portafino, Italy. Beautiful wedding pictures.
But you just hope he stays on the straight and
narrow now and that you know, all the negative headlines
surrounding Boris Becker. You know that he turns a leaf
and these are happier days for him and his new wife.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
So I've just look at that. Though only two, but
he's got four kids, right, yes.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
So it's quite a complicated private life Boris Becker has,
which I won't remind our listeners to at this time
of the day. But he's been a busy man over
the years, Borispecker. But honestly, Jack, probably before your day.
I remember being in my grandmother's kitchen in nineteen eighty
five in County Wicklow watching him win Wimbledon at the
age of seventeen unseeded. Amazing. I mean, what a career,

(04:54):
and then eight more Grand slams. He's had an amazing career.
But good luck to him and the happy couple.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I mean, he's still pretty goodnick, isn't he he see?
I know he said a few ups and downs over
the years, but he sees season pretty good. Pretty good, Nick,
I reckon pretty good.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Fettal, Yeah he is. He looks good and I mean
he just needs to get himself straight now. I mean
he's had a few years from hell, but all of
his own making I mean not cooperating with the authorities
in the UK when it comes to financial crime. They
have geniuses who will unpick absolutely everything. I'm not quite
sure he realized that.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, all right, hey, thanks so much for your time
in that we appreciate it as ever in the Brady
a UK correspondent there right now it is seven minutes
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