Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on Storm Floris prompting travel warnings

The weather is set to take a turn in the UK, with storm warnings setting off travel alerts.

Weather warnings have been upgraded for most of Scotland as Storm Floris bears down on the UK.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray is our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Gavin, Hi, have ever had that?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Right? How's the weather looking then?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, I would say it's our summer. It's lovely and
sunny and it's okay. But we are in for a
big storm here in the UK, unseasonably strong winds potentially
in Scotland up to one hundred and sixty kilometers an hour.
That's one hundred miles an hour. But even Inland, I
mean most of that damage, of course, could be on
the coast. Even in Land, they're expecting one hundred and

(00:27):
ten kilometers per hour down into the north of England,
even as far as the Midlands. In fact, everyone's going
to be feeling it brisk and breezy today right across
the UK, but it's particularly in Scotland where there is
concern of dangers to life and damages to buildings and
trees being brought down. So it's a warning that's been

(00:48):
upgraded to amber. We have a different sort of traffic
light system here for those strength of warm storms. This
is storm florists and plenty of people are saying, gosh,
you know, what on earth is going on at this
time of year. But people are being warned not to travel.
So on the railways there are going to be speed
restrictions and some cancelations are likely Scottish the ferry operator

(01:09):
issuing a series of cancelations saying do not travel unless
you really need to. Motorists being urged to slow down,
and it's very insting. Last year, Storm Lilian struck on
the twenty third of August, just before a bank holiday weekend.
Maybe this is the new weather system we're getting.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Maybe, so, hey, tell me about this police drone, well unnamed,
unmanned chopper. Did it go okay?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah? Now they've been testing this so this apparently is
going to become a blended operational air thing. In other words,
there will still be manned helicopter flights for the police.
But this they reckon is another very good use of
aircraft here. This is a remotely controlled piloted aircraft, but

(01:53):
it is unmanned. In other words, the pilots are actually
on the ground. There'll be one pilot and also is
spotter now one in three callouts for the National Police
Air Service after missing people. And the aircraft that this got,
this unmanned one is particularly useful for that. First of all,

(02:14):
it can travel for much longer, up to twelve hours
in the air. Secondly, it's far more environmentally friendly and
it also is much quieter. And what they reckon is
that for the search for many people, you can do
that on the ground with this unmanned helicopter. And they say,
you know, it's got all the equipment, all the different

(02:36):
cameras and stuff you normally have, but it can all
be done from the ground. So something they're trialing over
the Bristol Channel and something that could come into force.
But I suspect in well, probably a couple of years time. Yeah,
brilliant stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I love the sound of it. Now does it sound
to you like the story? This report that Prince Harry
gave Prince Andrew bloody knows is nonsense.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, there are lots of not holes in the argument,
but there are lots of seems a little unlikely. This
is a new book entitled The Rise and Fall of
the House of York. Of course, the Duke of York
is Prince Andrew. There are claims in it that effectively
that Prince Harry and Prince Andrew had had a fight
at a family gathering back in twenty thirteen, alleging that

(03:19):
punches were thrown over something that Prince Andrew had said
behind Prince Harry's back. This, according to the author Andrew Lowney,
now we've got over at night our time, in the
last few hours, we've got a This is not true.
Prince Harry's office has denied this story completely, but apparently

(03:40):
the allegation surfaces that there were Harry told his uncle
Prince Andrew that he had heard Andrew saying things behind
his back, and that he told Prince Andrew allegedly that
he was a coward not to say these things to
his face. And then by all accounts, there was a
bit of a skull and Prince Andrew was allegedly left

(04:02):
with a bloody nose before the fight was broken up.
All very exciting. The source and the book also suggests
that the moment Prince William takes over from the King,
he will immediately kick out of their grace and favor
home Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. The book describes how
Prince William loathes Sarah Ferguson allegedly and can't wait for

(04:26):
the day when he can kick them both out.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Lovely sound like a really, really joyful family. Hey, thank
you very much, Kevin appreciate it. Gavin Gray, are you
k correspondent?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
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