Gail Downey: UK correspondent on Storm Herminia arriving in the UK

As the UK moves to clean up the damage resulting from Storm Éowyn, a second major storm is set to hit the region.

The Met Office is warning Storm Herminia, which first hit parts of Spain and France, is set to bring destruction and the possibility of injuries and 'danger to life'.

UK correspondent Gail Downey says there are warnings in place to stay away from the coast.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we're after the UK and gale down, he joins,

(00:02):
us hellar gale.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello Andrew.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
So we were talking on Friday and we're going, oh,
here comes a storm. And the storm got named stormy Owen.
Eyo Owen, e Owen i Owen. That's not from Lord
of the Rings, is it?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, they say it's from yeah, yes, it's some debate
about whether it's just from Lord of the Ring.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
She was the princess who was there in the in
the in the horse riding land. Anyway, so you got
stormy Owen and they're correct in and now you're finding
out that you've got another one coming.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh yes, this time it's storm Hominia and that's bringing
with a huge gust of winds eighty plus miles an hour,
this time hitting the south west of England in places
such as Devon and Cornwall. Now it's been named by
the Spanish Weather Service as heavy rain and winds have
already battered the north of Spain and floodwaters of left
cars and buildings submerged in western France. It's come our

(00:53):
way and while as you say, it's not as severe
as Storm iow in, the UK Met Office says is
a danger to life and Foalmouth Coastguard has warned people
to stay away from the coast. And of course, while
this is happening, engineers are still working to restore electricity
to homes affected by Iowen, a spokesperson for the Northern

(01:14):
Ireland Electricity Board, so it could take up to ten
days to complete repairs where seventy five thousand people in
Northern Ireland are still without power.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh goodness, okay, well, I'm sorry about that. But you know,
I don't know something about the weather. Do you think
the weather is changing.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
One day? You can't tell from one day to the
next weather it's going to be sunny or we're going
to get It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Now, Eowen, you're quite right. Oh, I'm quite right. Was
in The Lord of the Rings and Noble Woman of
Rohan and played in the films by Miranda Otto, and
of course was the one who killed the witch King
of Engmer because he said that no man shall ever
kill me, and Yeowen goes, I am no man and
thrust her dagger into his face.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
But anyway, that's a bit like Macbeth, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
For what it is? With? But there we are. I'm
cerlling like Stephen Colbier. Now anyway to a very very
serious story. Indeed, King Charles, another European royalty and he's
the state, will be heading off to the Nazi Dith
Camp Alchwitz Berken now in Poland to mark the eightieth
anniversary of its liberation.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, that's right. He's the first British head of state
to actually visit the camp. In nineteen forty three, his grandmother,
Princess Alice of Greece actually saved a Jewish family. She
took them into her home and hid them in what
was their Nazi occupied Athens. Six million Jews were murdered
in the Holocaust a millionaire. Alsvich and Alswitch was Nazi

(02:43):
Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp. So the day today
to mark the eightieth anniversary of its liberation will begin
with survivors. Now, these are people in their late eighties
and nineties, will be laying reads at what was known
as the death Wall, which is the entrance to birkenhow
where thousands of Polish prisoners, Jews and Soviet prisoners of

(03:04):
war were shot. They put up a heated tent over
the entrance as many of the survivors are just too
frail to stay out in the call for too long.
But obviously they want to be there, you know, to
let the world know what happened.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I know, it's a hell of a place. I
have a person I know who went there not expecting, well,
just went there because it was there, and phil park
completely when they got there, just that the emotional impact
of it is just terrible. And I know also that
Nicola Willersoth, anounced minister at this moment as we speak,
will be at a commemoration that's being held in New

(03:39):
Zealand as well. So finally, pharmacy leaders are calling for
tougher rules around the online sale of weight loss jobs.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Why well, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to
be getting their prescriptions for these weight loss jobs privately
through online pharmacies. So the leaders of the National Pharmacy
Association have written to regulators and said, look, we know
that some patients who previously had eating disorders or low

(04:07):
body weight are being wrongly prescribed the drugs. They say
a two way, twenty minute consultation with the patient is needed,
rather than what seems to be happening is an online
questionnaire which people fill in to get the weight loss job.
Now there has been a rise in the demand for
weight loss jobs because the UK government wants to make

(04:28):
them more available on the NHS. But Nick Kay, who's
the chairman of the association, says, you know, we want
to help, We want to play our part in tackling obesity,
and weight loss injections do have a role, but he
said they're concerned that the current regulations allow some patients
to inappropriately access weight loss injections without proper consultation or

(04:51):
an examination of their historical medical records.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, but the problem with them is that they're so effective.
I mean they are so effective that you know the
fact that they may or may not have a further
side effects or something else is again Carol Downey, batten
down the hatches, keep dry, keep safe, and we'll talk
again later. Very will bye bye.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
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