i was up in the north of the shetland islands. we we re north of the shetland islands.e radar back into the north of the shetland islands. we needed a better awareness of what was happening in the north norwegian sea. if you do is before we went out there, two of the russian aircraft had come down to within 30 miles of the aberdeen. revista, they had come up the english channel. this keith feels differently. this goes them off pressure. “— differently. this goes them off pressure. —— this feels different. this feels like more pressure. then there's the threat of violence, and be situation in. but, that sense of pressure, that sense of advantage and disregard of normal rules of behaviour is how i am feeling. i then look at what we are doing in operations, in iraq and syria, and i find my aircraft on a virtually daily basis being intercepted by russian aircraft. again, it feels very different from what we have seen very different from what we have seenin very different from what we have seen in the past. 50, sir stephen, at seen in the past. so, sir stephen, at the end of

a small example of that would be about a month or so ago, i was in the north of the shetland islands,were putting an air defence radar back into the north of the shetland islands, because we needed a better awareness of what was happening in the north, north sea, norwegian sea. a few days before i went up there, two russian aircraft had come down in the north sea to within 30 miles of aberdeen. previously they have come up the english channel to within 12 miles of our coastline. this feels different. this feels like we are under more pressure. then there is the cyber threat, and clearly, well, we need to see how the events in salisbury play out, and as the home secretary said, we need to complete the investigation, but that sense of pressure, that sense of advantage and sense of disregard of normal rules of behaviour, is how i feel it. i then look at what we're doing on operations in iraq and syria, and i find aircraft there on a virtually daily basis flying over syria, being intercepted by russian aircraft. again, it feels very different from what we have seen in the past. sir stephe

0rkney and shetland, across the midlands, east anglia and southern counties of england it stays cloudy and towards the south—east corner and towards the south—east corner and channel islandsingle figures in they should be, single figures in the south and east, turning colder as this low pressure pushes up from france bringing miserable weather across central and eastern england. these areas on the move, be wary, heavy and persistent rain through the day giving flooding, strong winds causing travel disruption, bringing some rough seas to the east. away from that, the north and the west, into tomorrow, dry and clear, a bit of frost, some mist and fog patches, much of england in particular, too much cloud, in the south—east rain will develop widely. into monday morning, a lovely start, frosty start for scotland and northern ireland and the western fringes of england and wales. this area of rain in east anglia and the south—east and channel islands, winds gusting over 50 miles an hour, sleet at times to go with the ring over the top of hills, this band of whether moving westwards, it's going to be sitting in these areas roughly all day, 50 millimetres of rain, two inches poss