A Baby’s White Hair Made Him The Target Of Mockery

Many parents enjoy showing off cute pictures of their brand-new babies to friends and family. This was also true for Patricia Williams.

She snapped photographs of her son with affection, but when she tried to show off his photo collection to her friends, she got an unwelcome surprise.

Patricia gave birth to her son Redd in 2012. The baby boy’s mother didn’t notice that he had white hair until he was two months old, among other things.

When Dale looked up why their baby’s eyes kept darting from side to side, he discovered something incredible, this was a typical indicator of albinism.

Patricia was hesitant because she’d never heard of the term, but the boy clearly displayed the signs of albinism, including particularly fair skin, white hair, and tracking eyes.

The couple then consulted with an optician and geneticist for a more conclusive diagnosis.

Oculocutaneous Albinism Type 1 (OCA1), which affects 1 in 17,000 individuals worldwide, was confirmed as Redd’s diagnosis.

Patricia remembers the enthusiastic anticipation of the hospital personnel at the birth of Redd because of his distinctive white hair and blue eyes.

Patricia, her husband, and their firstborn son, Gage, all had blonde hair, so she didn’t bat an eyelid.

Redd’s hair was so white that it glistened in the sunlight, she remembered thinking a month after they brought him home, and even though she tried to shield herself from his gaze, he continued to follow her.

His eyes were a remarkable hue of blue, bordering on red, in some illuminations.

When Patricia’s second son was born with the same problem, she knew it was something they would have to deal with for the remainder of their lives.

Rockwell was born with the same problem as his older sibling in February of 2018. People on social media used stolen pictures of the newborn infant to create awful jokes.

Redd has also been the target of schoolyard slurs and teasing because of his appearance. Because of this, his older sibling Gage started to watch out for him.

However, as Rockwell’s parents had done extensive research on albinism before his birth, they were well prepared for his arrival. However, they were unprepared for their son’s photographs to go viral online.

Dale and Patricia tried to get in touch with everyone who’d shared the image to ask them to remove it, but they quickly discovered that this was an unimaginable task.

He is truly an adorable little fella and he deserves nothing but love and happiness, just like any other child, and these so-called people, if you can call them people are wicked to the core and have no compassion, no soul, come to that. He’s not here for people to mock him, he’s here because he’s very very special.

Nobody should be mean to others and we should stop and think before we say or do something that could hurt someone, and we should keep in mind that everyone is different, not better or worse, just different.

Bullying used to be considered a playground hazard, perhaps even a crucial rite of passage, but times have changed and now there’s recognition that bullying can impact anyone, whatever age, and it makes their lives miserable and unpleasant.

These babies that are born with Albinism do not ask to be born like this, but it does occur, and parents should be teaching their children about conditions like this so that they don’t act aggressively towards that individual or child.

These children are really no different from anybody else, it’s just that they look different because the production of melanin, the pigment that colours skin, hair and eyes is not there. It’s a lifelong condition, although it doesn’t get worse over time.

They’re not monsters, they’re not sorcerers, and they won’t put a hex on you, and they’re usually as healthy as everyone else, although this condition can cause some form of visual impairment.

So, next time you see someone with Albinism, just remember they’re not from outer space, they’ve not been captive in Area 51 and have been let out on a day pass, they’re just like you or me and they deserve the same respect as everyone else!

Kremlin Denies Rumors of Vladimir Putin’s Cardiac Arrest

The Kremlin was forced to deny increasing rumours that President Vladimir Putin suffered a cardiac arrest only days ago, and laughed off claims he uses doppelgangers to cover for him in public appearances.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted when questioned about the news that Vladimir Putin had suffered a serious health episode, that everything was fine with him and that it was absolutely another fake (rumour).

Dmitry Peskov laughed in response to a different question about body doubles and denied that Vladimir Putin had any.

Dmitry Peskov said that he could say they had no doubles when it came to work and so on.

He added that these kinds of stories belong to the category of fake news, discussed with enviable tenacity by a number of media outlets and that this brought nothing but a smile in the Kremlin.

It’s the second time this year Dmitry Peskov has been forced to issue a denial about a swirl of information on the use of doppelgangers, often seen as related to seemingly serious Vladimir Putin’s health concerns.

Vladimir Putin, a judo enthusiast who has long cultivated an action-man image, turned 71 on October 7 and whispers of his ill health have been churning for years.

Most recently, General SVR Telegram channel, which regularly alleges Vladimir Putin is terminally ill with cancer, alleged he suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening.

The channel said all recent appearances by the Russian dictator, including foreign visits, have been by a body double or doubles.

It claimed that doctors resuscitated Vladimir Putin and he was taken to a special intensive care facility at his official residence.

The channel reported that doctors performed resuscitation, having previously determined that the president was in cardiac arrest. Help was provided on time, the heart was started and Vladimir Putin regained consciousness.

The channel is apparently run by a former Kremlin lieutenant general, known by the pseudonym Viktor Mikhailovich. It claims Vladimir Putin’s top apparatchiks and security henchmen control the activities of the doppelgangers.

In a 2020 interview, Vladimir Putin denied longstanding rumours that he uses body doubles, although he said he had been offered the chance to use one in the past for security reasons.

However, spectators have pointed to the Kremlin strongman’s altering appearance over the years as possible proof that he uses someone else to stand in for him on engagements he either doesn’t want to make or deems too dangerous.

Even if Vladimir Putin were to die, the war probably wouldn’t stop because most Russians want to destroy all Ukrainians. However, not all Russians supported this war.

Vladimir Putin probably does use doppelgangers, as for the cardiac arrest, well who knows? I wouldn’t wish death on anybody, but this comedian has to go! Mind you, how could he have had a cardiac arrest, he has no heart.

All oppressors seem to hang on forever, they must have some deal with the devil, but according to the press he’s been dying for a rather long time, well he’s not pegged it yet.

I wonder for how long after Vladimir Putin dies they will continue to use a body double, or perhaps he’s already dead and they’re not telling us.

Even if Vladimir Putin were to die, there would definitely be someone else to slide into his place, and they could be significantly more evil. On the other coin, if he dies, perhaps whoever takes over will recognise that this war has no merit and will end it – we live in hope!

Gordon Ramsay Is Mocked For Begging His Father-In-Law For £20,000 Flat Deposit When He Was ‘Skint’

Gordon Ramsay is being mocked by his fans for saying he begged his father-in-law for £20,000 for a flat deposit when he was ‘skint’, only to be told to sell his Porsche.

The celebrity TV chef, who has an OBE, said he and his wife Tana went to her father for a loan so they could buy a flat they ‘fell in love with’.

However, the 56-year-old said Chris Hutcheson, who was later jailed for hacking Gordon Ramsay, told him to sell his 911 Porsche instead.

Gordon Ramsay, who married Tana in 1996, told the High-Performance podcast it was ‘the best advice he ever gave me’ and he sold the car so they could purchase a flat.

However, the chef, who now owns homes in Bel Air, California and Wandsworth, South London, has been roasted on social media for being so out of touch.

Gordon Ramsay, whose net worth is estimated to be £610 million, founded his restaurant group in 1997 and has since been awarded seventeen Michelin stars.

He married broadcaster and author Tana, now 49, in 1996, whose father Hutcheson, became chief executive of Gordon Ramsay’s empire before a bitter feud saw him imprisoned for six months, accused of attempting to steal £1.4 million from his son-in-law.

However, Gordon Ramsay revealed the ‘best advice’ he received from his father-in-law was ironically regarding his finances.

He told the High-Performance Podcast that they were young, they were stupid and they were skint.

He said that he remembered going to ask his father-in-law if he could borrow £20,000 for the deposit for a flat that they fell in love with, and that he thought all was going well. They had a good lunch and then he asked about the deposit, saying that they had half of it but that they needed another twenty grand and said that he would pay him back in a year.

‘He said, ‘Okay, here’s what I’ll do. I’ll have another lunch with you when you sell your Porsche’.

‘I thought, ‘You f***er but you clever f***er’. 

He said there he was driving around in a flash 911 and they didn’t even have a house, they didn’t have a flat, they didn’t even have a roof over their heads, but that it was the best advice he’d ever given him, sell the Porsche.

I’m not sure what Gordon Ramsay is being criticised for. His father-in-law gave him sound advice and as a young man, Ramsay took it.

He might have been a bit of a fool when he was younger, but at least he admitted it, and it also shows that Ramsay is a very reflective guy.

Yet he owned a Porsche, couldn’t he see that owning a ridiculously pricey car was living above his means, and how could he not figure out for himself that selling the Porsche would give him the funds for their dream home?

Gordon Ramsay does come across as a bully to his young chefs who are trying to do their best

However, he is an amazing culinarian who’s worked hard at his craft. However, we only really see him in Hells Kitchen USA, and many of the contestants have said how incredibly supportive he can be, and that the shouting et cetera is for the benefit of the programme.

He might be a potty mouth, but he is a millionaire and he’s worked hard for it, but he’s like Marmite, you either love him or you hate him!

AI Has A One In Four Chance Of Destroying us, Says Tech Boss

A leading tech boss warned that artificial intelligence has a one in four chance of wiping out humankind.

Dario Amodei, of AI researchers Anthropic, said the technology would destroy the world by either going rogue or by being abused by humans.

He added the chance something goes catastrophically wrong on the scale of human civilisation might be 10 to 25 per cent.

However, he told the Logan Bartlett Show tech podcast that if we can avoid the downsides then this stuff about curing cancer, extending human lifespan, solving problems like mental illness, he didn’t think it was outside the scope of what this could do.

In response, campaigners Control AI told a newspaper outlet the same firms that thought there was a chance that their products would kill us all were the same ones calling the shots when it came to regulation.

The world’s first safety summit on AI will be hosted by Rishi Sunak next month.

Any technology can be used for good or evil, so it will come to pass that with AI it could be used for good or bad.

The thing with AI is that it can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with, it doesn’t feel empathy or guilt or fear and if it was used for evil it would never stop ever, until we are dead.

The point to look at about AI is man’s own actions because there is no logic in conflict, destruction or antagonism. Yet some have inherent failings and choose to throw lives aside and cause widespread devastation.

AI will ultimately be able to think for itself and act for itself and that’s a genuine concern, especially by the way it thinks of us and what it could do, and it won’t be long before our police and military will be taken over by AI and replaced with these so-called robots.

We have created something that is a million times more intelligent than us, then it continues to keep learning and then it doesn’t want to be controlled by a species that it considers less inferior. It will be able to access all of our technology and I’m sure it could find a way to wipe us all out.

AI appears like a thing of fantasy, but they are here, talking, thinking robots. Could they ultimately exist without us, well as I said it seems like a fantasy, but let’s not ignore the fact that they could!

As soon as its intelligence exceeds ours we are in big trouble.

There is a possibility that AI will be misused to confuse, manipulate and eventually destroy us. AI has become an everyday topic and there are some extremely powerful people that paid big money to fund its development – follow the money.

Any AI and technology in this day and age is bad for us. People are fixated on their phones and the internet. Everything that they do, everywhere that they go, that phone is glued to them.

I feel sorry for today’s children because there’s so much natural beauty out there, and outdoor enjoyment is being forgotten or ignored.

Apart from AI maybe wiping us out. It will take our jobs and stuff like this will transform our society far quicker than most people realise. And this will leave people utterly reliant upon the state to sustain them. This will create a subclass in society and put unsustainable and ever-increasing pressure upon the rest.

Social media has already caused adverse shifts in society. Once AI starts to manipulate people that will be the end of society and civilisation as we’ve known it for centuries.

I can see nothing but harm coming from this. Look at the internet and how it’s been used over the last 20 years, and they haven’t scratched the surface yet.

I fear much worse is yet to come for us all!

The 86-Year-Old Sir Bobby Charlton Has Passed Away

England and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton has passed away aged 86 after his battle with dementia.

Sir Bobby Charlton, who made 758 appearances for his club and earned 106 caps for his beloved country, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Lady Norma, their two daughters Suzanne and Andrew and grandchildren.

The talented footballer, who was born in Ashington, Northumberland, on October 11, 1937, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding players to ever grace the game and was part of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning side.

Following his death, Sir Geoff Hurst, who famously scored a hat trick in England’s 4-2 victory over West Germany at Wembly, is now the only member of the team still alive. Former England right-back George Cohen also passed away, aged 83, in December.

A statement from the family of Sir Bobby said that it was great sadness that they shared the news that Sir Bobby passed peacefully in the early hours of Saturday morning. He was surrounded by his family.

The statement said that his family would like to pass on their thanks to everyone who has contributed to his care and to the many people who have loved and supported him. They requested that the family’s privacy be respected at this time.

Manchester United said they were mourning ‘one of the greatest and most beloved players in the history of their club’.

Sir Bobby had retired from public life since he was diagnosed with dementia in November 2020, just four months after his elder brother Jack Charlton, another 1966 icon, passed away aged 85. He was one of five of England’s 1966 winners to suffer from the debilitating disease after his brothers, Nobby Stiles, Ray Wilson and Martin Peters.

Bobby Charlton went on to have an outstanding career after surviving the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 when he was 20, which tragically killed eight of United’s Busby Babes and 23 people in total.

In a glittering 17-year spell with United, where he played as if every game was for his fallen teammates, he won three league titles, the FA Cup and captained the Red Devils when they became the first English club to win the European Cup.

Sir Bobby went on to score 249 goals for Man United, including two in the famous 1968 European Cup final win over Benfica.

This is such a sad day for football. Bobby Charlton was an absolute Legend. He was a great footballer and a real gentleman, and it was a real honour for those who watched him play – one of the undisputed greats of the sport. They definitely don’t make football players like him anymore. When men played the game for the love of it, rather than for the big bucks.

In the mad world of war, politics, global warming, greed and lack of concern for others, along comes the news of the sad death of a true Legend. A hero and above all a genuinely nice man.

Is Mick Grinch Going To Ruin Your Christmas?

Rail travellers face another festive season of disarray after the RMT voted for a further six-month strike mandate.

It paves the way for the union’s boss Mick Lynch to target a second Christmas and New Year with strikes.

The RMT sparked outrage last year by ordering several walkouts in December and January in a bid to hit those travelling to be with loved ones over the festive period.

This led to its boss being nicknamed ‘Mick Grinch’.

The union has called 25 national strikes since last June in a long-running row over pay and conditions. It’s also threatening to call more walkouts over plans by ministers to close most remaining ticket offices in England.

Some analyses estimate that rail walkouts have cost the economy more than £5 billion since last summer.

The new mandate will mean that walkouts could continue virtually until early summer next year.

It permits the RMT to order unlimited strikes during the period, but they must give two weeks of notice.

Overall, 89.9 per cent of members voted in favour of more strike action, with a 63.6 per cent turnout.

The ballot included 20,000 guards, catering staff and ticket sellers for 14 train companies covering most of England. Mr Lynch said that he congratulated their members for delivering a decisive mandate for future industrial action as they pursue a negotiated settlement of jobs, pay and conditions.

The RMT has been offered a 9 per cent pay rise over two years but has declined to put it to members in a vote.

Aslef, which represents train drivers, has snubbed an 8 per cent pay hike over two years which would take the driver’s average salary to £65,000.

Sadly, I think that public opinion is against them, and perhaps it’s time to prohibit strikes on railways.

Unfortunately, it’s just life now and people are used to working around these walkouts.

Honestly, how much does this joker get paid to lead the sheep into another walkout?

Does he not realise that people are so used to these walkouts now that they don’t actually have any impact anymore because RMT has lost all support and respect, not that it ever had much in the first place?

Whilst I don’t agree with losing ticket offices and a human face. I believe that Mick Lynch is creating a situation where he and his employees will be considered obsolete. As it stands, most people are finding alternative forms of travel, and I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for them to make that switch permanent.

Eventually, working from home will be mandatory for those who can. It appeared to work well during COVID-19, and most meetings are now being held by Zoom. Perhaps it’s time to break up these unions who have held far too much power for far too long.

It’s the same with supermarkets now with all these self-checkouts. I can’t stand the things myself – I like to see a human being when going through the checkout, but I suppose as long as there are people there to assist and the machine accepts cash, which most don’t now, what could possibly go wrong?

Mick Lynch and his entourage are wasting their time. They will never get the deal that they want and people might be sick of it, but they’re getting used to it.

This is primarily economic sabotage and these people should not be allowed to get away with these strikes. Enough is enough and these damn unions should go.

You would think that by now Mick Lynch would realise that he’s not going to win and should really be considering his position.

Will We Ever Know What The Queen’s Private Papers Contain?

Princess Diana’s biographer is worried that the late Queen’s private letters could be burnt by royal aides before a historian is able to look at her papers to write her official biography.

More than a year on from Her Late Majesty’s demise, no announcement has been made about which historian will be gifted the job of writing the official account of her life.

Earlier this year it emerged that King Charles had assigned loyal Palace aide Paul Whybrew with the job of sorting through the Queen’s private papers before they were repositioned to the Royal archive at Windsor.

However, Andrew Morton, the author of the revelation-filled 1992 work Diana: Her True Story, voiced his fears that the Queen’s papers would be filleted to remove any material that the Royal Family didn’t want to become public knowledge.

Speaking to the Scandal Mongers podcast, he said he was ‘enormously’ concerned that aides might be ‘burning the letters’ and added that ‘an awful lot’ could be ‘disguised’ and ‘camouflaged’.

He noted how Princess Diana’s mother Frances Shand Kydd and her sister Sarah burnt much of her correspondence after her death in a car crash in 1997.

Mr Morton told fellow historians Andrew Lownie and Phil Craig that they have two major biographies about to be commissioned. One on Prince Philip and one on Her Majesty The Queen.

So, which one will be chosen? Well, they don’t know. And who’s going through the archives, that would seemingly be the Queen’s footman, Paul Whybrew, Tall Paul.

He said that it concerned him enormously. Are they going to be burning the letters like Princess Margaret did with the Queen Mother’s correspondence?

He said, like the Spencer family did. Like Sarah McCorquodale and Frances Shand Kydd with Diana’s correspondence. They even burnt the ink jotters that she had.

He also questioned whether the Royal Family should be permitted to control access to the Queen’s papers.

He asked if it should be left to the family. Clearly, they would argue that it’s their mother and it was their property, so the letters would be her copyright. He said it was a pretty seductive argument.

He added that they wear different hats. They wear the privacy hat when it’s about shielding correspondence and memos and so on, and then they wear the public hat when it’s about cost.

He said that the quicker the Queen’s biography was commissioned the better because the people who were her friends were all dying. It was as simple as that.

Over the years the Royal Family have been supported by the taxpayer’s money via their gilded lives, and because of that we the people deserve to know what is in those papers. 

Some might say that the Queen worked all her life for our country and that she did an excellent job.

Some would also say that they’re not supported by taxpayers’ money at all. So, how did all the Royals over the centuries attain their wealth? Well, it’s simple, war and taxes from the peasants. Then some extremely clever investing. When you’re a Royal you give up your privacy because the public wants to know everything, and so they should.

Royal papers are a record of our history and the history of our country and they should be available. You just can’t be a Royal and private, they have to choose.

They are servants to the public and must uphold the highest standards and if it’s believed that hasn’t been the case, then their papers should be available to the people.

Conman Faked Heart Attacks In 20 Restaurants

A conman faked having a heart attack to dodge paying the bill.

The man known as Aidas J, a Lithuanian who lives in Spain, scammed 20 restaurants in the city of Alicante before he was jailed.

During his performances, he would drop to the floor and clutch his chest in feigned agony.

The manager of El Buen Comer said that it was all very theatrical. He pretended to faint and slumped himself down on the floor.

Aidas even asked for medical attention for his fake heart problems and was only found out when he tried his routine twice at El Buen Comer.

Another restaurant worker told Spanish newspaper El Pais that he laid down on the floor, acted as if his chest hurt and began to shake.

As part of his act, Aidas dressed in ‘designer clothes’, according to local police, and pretended to be a Russian tourist who didn’t speak Spanish.

The manager of El Buen Comer sent Aidas’ picture to another restaurant in the region to warn them and to prevent the conman from striking again.

Another restaurant owner targeted by Aidas said he had ordered several glasses of expensive whiskey, a Russian salad and a main dish like entrecote or lobster before he faked the heart attack.

The trickster has now been jailed for 42 days after he refused two fines he received for his theatrics. As each bill he skipped was considered a small amount – ranging from €15 to €70 (£13-£60), Aidas only committed ‘minor crimes’.

His crime spree went on for two months, during which he was arrested several times but let go because he only owed a small amount to each restaurant.

However, the proprietors of the scammed restaurants want to file a joint complaint to get the conman locked away for longer.

The dine-and-dash incidents amount to €766 (£666) in combined bills.

Emergency services were presumably called, so he also needed to be held accountable for wasting their time and resources that someone who really needed could have had.

The man that cried wolf and when he really needs emergency services they won’t come in time, that’s what you get for telling fibs.

How could anyone enjoy their meal knowing they’re going to carry out this kind of palaver? I’d rather stay at home and have a Pot Noodle, but then I suppose it’s difficult to imagine the depths people will sink to.

Isn’t immigration just amazing, now we get complimentary theatre with them as well, and this is just a brazen insult to people who have had heart attacks, and all to get a free meal out of it?

Why on earth would anyone bother doing something as tragic as this? It seems far too much work and I’d rather pay the bill than give an Oscar-winning performance!

There are con artists everywhere, in every part of the world, and it’s such a shame that the punishment that was dished out didn’t match the sentence he should have got. Jailing him for 42 months instead of 42 days might have taught him something, but because this sentencing was so indulgent, it would teach him nothing.

He should then be deported back to Lithuania. That would have sent a far stronger message, but in 42 days he’ll be back on the streets pulling the same old stunt again, and in the meantime he’s in prison, being fed for free – the judge must have walked into that one!

Wombles To Return To TV 50 Years After First Airing

Beloved British children’s TV show The Wombles is being reclaimed for a third time, 50 years after the Wimbledon Common burrowers first appeared on screen.

The fuzzy, environmentally minded creatures, who lived by the motto ‘make good use of bad rubbish’, are being resurrected for a new TV series written by Will Davies, whose credits include How To Train Your Dragon and the Johnny English string of spy spoofs.

However, the cuddly creatures shot to international stardom in 1973 with a BBC series of stop-motion animated shorts, narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

The show came with an accompanying novelty band, led by musician Matt Batt, which performed the theme tune Remember You’re a Womble – and elevated the litter pickers to the status of timeless British icons.

Deadline reports the family subterranean fuzzy eco-warriors is due for a comeback under the guidance of screenwriter Davies and Altitude Television, which produced the 2022 spy thrillers series The Ipress File, based on the Len Deighton novel.

Altitude hasn’t specified how the show will be modernised, though the Wombles’ official Facebook page has featured clips of the creatures rendered in CGI for a number of years.

This is the third time that the Wimbledon residents have been the subject of a revival.

Wombles returned to British living rooms in the 1990s after three series worth of new episodes were produced by a Canadian TV company and screened on ITV, with Beresford and Batt returning to write the show and oversee its output.

Beresford died on Christmas Eve in 2010 at home on Alderney in the Channel Islands.

Five years later, Batt tried to reboot the show again with a cast including Cribbins and Ray Winstone.

But the musician’s attempts to get the CGI series off the ground ended in failure after he sold the rights to the show amid financial troubles, and he declared himself bankrupt in 2017.

Two episodes had been produced and screened at Cambridge Film Festival the year before but the programme was eventually cancelled.

Word of this third reboot first spread in 2020, when businessman Craig Treharne, who bought Batt’s share of the Wombles rights, sought to take the series in a new direction that some feared would be ‘woke’.

Elizabeth Beresford’s children, including son Marcus, lashed out at the plans. The family owns a 15 per cent stake in the Wombles brand.

This will be woked up to the max. Indoctrination for the new generation.

There was nothing wrong with the original Wombles, so why mess with it?

It shouldn’t be spoilt by becoming political either. It’s just a children’s programme and should remain the same.

I shudder to think how badly this is going to be destroyed with characters of more various types to embrace all this diversity rubbish.

Classics are best left alone and they should remain how they were because remakes ultimately turn out awful.

Perhaps they should just leave the Wombles in the past. I mean who would want to suddenly arrive in London in 2023?

Why is there even a need for a remake? Why not just show re-runs of the original series? The original Wombles was perfect just as it was! Otherwise, they’re going to take a brilliant show from yesteryear and turn it into woke trash. They should just leave it alone, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

All sing along now, ‘The Wokels Of Wimbledon, Entitled Are We’.

Can’t someone just come up with an original idea? No one has any imagination these days, but they’re happy to ruin an original idea.

Storm Babet News: What We Know So Far

A rare red weather warning stating there’s a risk to life has been issued to parts of Scotland as Storm Babet is expected to batter the United Kingdom on Thursday.

The United Kingdom is bracing for heavy wind and rain from the storm, which is presently hitting Ireland after sweeping in from the Atlantic.

Here, the Met Office has released a deep dive video to explain what’s occurring.

The Met Office has revealed the first bands of rain associated with Storm Babet is set to move north across the United Kingdom this afternoon. The first warning starts at 2 p.m.

Teignmouth in Devon was being blasted by powerful waves and gale-force winds this morning as Storm Babet blew into the south coast of England.

National Rail has warned extreme weather is likely to affect Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink services until the end of Friday.

It said Storm Babet is expected to make contact with a considerable part of the Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink network.

It warned that routes in more exposed coastal locations are most likely to be affected, and flooding on the railways could lead to disruption.

First Minister Humza Yousaf has warned against all essential travel in parts of Scotland impacted by a red weather warning from Storm Babet.

The Met Office said that there’s a risk to life from flooding in Aberdeenshire and Angus.

He posted on Twitter that people should be aware of the challenging weather that we are due to experience across Scotland, most severe from Thursday 18:00-Friday 12:00.

Weather warnings across Angus and the North East have been upgraded to Red.

Travel should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

David Morgan, flood duty manager for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), urged people in the impacted locations to check for flood updates in the coming days.

He said that Storm Babet will bring heavy rain and high winds across Scotland from Wednesday evening, starting in the southwest before moving across to the northeast through Thursday and into the weekend.

He said that impacts from surface water and rivers were likely, and with catchments saturated from recent heavy rain and flooding, they were urging people to be prepared for potential flooding.

He added that there was also concern that surface water flooding might be exacerbated by debris blocking drainage, culverts et cetera as a result of the high winds.

Back in the day when I was a child, this time of the year it was always raining and thunderstorms, and the weatherman would stick his little cloud and lightning signs on his board and say ‘You’d better take your brollies’. There was none of this over-the-top nonsense there is today.

Don’t walk your dogs in the woods, you might get hit by a falling leaf, then you’ll be seriously traumatised. What a stupid name for a storm, why don’t they just call it a storm?

I can remember much worse weather when I was a child. Unbelievable thunderstorms, snow on the ground that lasted weeks, frozen lakes that you could skate on, and fog so dense you couldn’t see 10 feet in front of you, but guess what, we survived.

Now people are all braced, they’re all panicking. Could we have photographs of the braced and panicking, please? People will be enraged and in disarray and outraged that the country is experiencing, what for it, the weather – tune in for tomorrow’s daily hysteria.

Honestly, does anyone actually, bar the emotionally incontinent, take any notice of these warnings anymore? Perhaps the government should allocate adult nappies to anyone who likes these dim weekly colour-coded weather warnings.

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