Summary
Boris Johnson announces an end to all coronavirus restrictions in England... Chris and Fergus talk it through.
Vladimir Putin has gone on TV to order troops into Eastern Ukraine. The BBC's James Landale explains what's been going on...
And we hear a bizarre tale about a glamorous design company that tricked its own staff into believing it was real (even though it wasn’t). The BBC's Catrin Nye tells all...
Today’s episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, Alix Pickles and Sally Abrahams. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, well, Storm Eunice was quite something, wasn't she? |
| 0:07.8 | Winds of 122 miles per hour on the Isle of White, |
| 0:11.6 | more than 400 flights, two or within the UK cancelled. |
| 0:15.8 | And then we got Storm Franklin. |
| 0:18.4 | And there are currently, as we're recording this episode |
| 0:20.5 | of newscast on Monday T-Time, 145 flood warnings |
| 0:24.6 | across England and Wales, put in place |
| 0:27.0 | by the Environment Agency. |
| 0:28.6 | And Storm Franklin is now the third storm |
| 0:31.6 | big enough to have a name in a week. |
| 0:34.1 | And that is the first time that has ever happened |
| 0:36.9 | since the whole storm naming system was invented in 2015. |
| 0:41.4 | So it's been a very windy week. |
| 0:45.2 | But one potential silver lining was the YouTube channel |
| 0:49.2 | of planes landing at Heathrow in very strong crosswinds |
| 0:53.1 | with some equally strong commentary. |
| 0:55.6 | AKA Big Jet TV. |
| 0:59.0 | As the Singapore Airlines jubils |
| 1:00.6 | em that went around just about 20 minutes ago, folks, |
| 1:04.9 | popping it down on the left side. |
| 1:07.4 | Whoa, no way the swing there. |
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