A flabbergasted Scottish TV presenter Carol Kirkwood was told to 'speak the Queen's English' by a grumpy caller.
The viewer said she could not understand the popular personalities Scottish accent.
When the TV weather presenter joined the BBC 25 years ago as a secretary she received a late-night call from a woman who got through to ask her which London Underground station to use for Harrods, reports the Daily Record.
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She was taken aback by the enquiry, and told the caller to use Knightsbridge Tube station in west London. Carol, from Morar, Inverness-shire, told the How To Be 60 podcast: “She said ‘What?’ and I said, ‘It’s Knightsbridge.’
“She said, ‘for heaven’s sake girl, speak the Queen’s English!” Carol also revealed that when she finishes giving weather updates to the nation she plans to travel the world with her fiance Steve and look into the effects of climate change.
She also wondered if leaving the BBC would be like “a bereavement”. Carol, who is also busy writing novels, added: “I plan to retire within the next 10 years because I don’t think I’ll be able to reach the Northern Isles by the time I’m 70.”
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