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Tonight on BBC London, the Mayor says he wants more police officers, | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
but the Met say they can't afford it. So is Scotland Yard facing a | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
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financial crisis? There are fears the London Fire Brigade could be | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
forced to hand over millions. tonight. A new European tax on the | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
City - opposed by the Prime Minister... Tonight the Lord Mayor | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
tells us why HE thinks it could be bad for the thousands of people | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
working in the City. If it was brought in just in Europe and not | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
the rest of the world it would be very damaging. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
As we prepare for the return of the winter flu, we take a look inside | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
one of the capital's specialist units. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
And the 12 year-old schoolboy who's snapped top photographic accolades | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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from the hands of his adult Good evening. Keeping police | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
numbers up after next years Olympics is "unaffordable", | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
according to those in charge of the purse strings at Scotland Yard. So | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
the prospect of a financial crisis engulfing the Metropolitan Police | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
looms over London. It means the Mayor has to look for more money to | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
pay for the extra officers he's promised - and one option is to | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
take millions of pounds from the London Fire Brigade. Boris Johnson | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
did the same thing last year, so not surprisingly, firefighters are | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
furious at the idea of having their cash reserves raided again. Tim | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Donovan reports. With the number of police officers | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
falling, the Mayor is calling a accompany for help. The strings | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
attached that he wants the net to ensure there are 32,000 police | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
officers Prix Olympics and just over 31,000 to be retained after | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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First in effect, the Met us saying that they are struggling all ready | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
to keep the current level of police officers. They still have to find | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
savings to fill a black hole in next year's budget. Where is the | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
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money to come from for more. It is a personnel staffing crisis as well. | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
This was not having made a's policing deputy saw it today. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
think crisis is pitching it a bit strong. This is it the way local | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
authority budgets works. There are lots of moving parts in the Budget | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
we are yet to finalise. We haven't completed those, and I'm confident | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
we will fill the gap. He is been heralding a 7% drop in crime on | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
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tubes and buses. Lots more to come, including the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
mayor gives more details about which London schoolchildren kit | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
three Olympic tickets for. A bullet aimed at the height of | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
London, that is George Osborne's description of a proposed European | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
tax on financial transactions for banks. The Lord Mayor today added | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
his criticism, but others, including the Andy capitalism | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
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protesters had side simples say the tax is fair. Just a week into his | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
job, the Lord Mayor spoke of the challenges ahead. Top of the list, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
scene of calls from across Europe for a new tax on financial | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
transactions. If it was brought in just in Europe, it would be | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
damaging. Even the EU's own impact assessment shows it would cost more | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
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But two-thirds of that, 40 billion, would come solely from the UK. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Others disagree, saying attacks of 0.1% is letting the City off | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
lightly. This man is part of that campaign to rein in the city. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
should not be held ransom so they can get away with the kind of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
casino banking it got us into trouble in the first place. We have | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
to remember their behaviour not add about a trillion of our GDP. What | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
of this protest? Legal notices have been served. The City of London is | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
once again trying to remove the camp, parting company with the | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Anglican Church. It is not the only issue where they disagree. They | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
asking you to repent. What we will do is explain the massive good at | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
the City does, social investment, charitable activities, social | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
responsibilities. So he and the City remain resilient. With so many | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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set against them, and increasingly abroad, it is looking a hard sell. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Alex joins me now to explain what happens next. The Prime Minister is | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
heading to Berlin tomorrow to speak to the German Chancellor to | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
persuade her to try and drop this transaction tax. He knows that a | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
tax reform of the scale would require all member states to sign | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
up. Having said that, some member states in the euro-zone could still | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
pursue this tax and push back through. If that is the case, there | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
is an irony here. We could see a benefit to the City of London. You | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
could see business traders emigrating from Frankfurt to the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
City of London. We are a long way off from that, and the British | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
government doesn't want to see us get to that stage. We will have to | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
see. Thank you. Ten protestors - three of whom are | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
from London - have been found guilty of aggravated trespass after | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
they occupied the department store Fortnum and Mason earlier this year. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
A sit-in was organised by the campaign group UK Uncut on the same | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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day as a TUC demonstration in the capital in March. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Lawyers for two and the double clubs were in court today over a | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
row about spying. West Ham have alleged the phone records of their | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
vice chairman were unlawfully obtained by a company hired by | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
rival bidders Spurs. Spurs deny the allegation. | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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The best friend of Stephen Lawrence gave evidence in court today. What | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
did Duwayne Brooks tell the jury? He arrived in court despite his | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
father dying overnight, he and Stephen Lawrence were best friends, | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
they knew each other from the first day at secondary school. In April | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
1993 they were waiting for a bus in Eltham. A group of white youths | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
crossed the road, shouted racist abuse, and when books were slightly | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
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ahead of him. His words have been He then did a stabbing action with | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
his hand to the jury. I understand things got quite emotional in court | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
today. Plain bricks continued his evidence, and he describes what's | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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He then stopped, he covered his face with his hands, he wiped away | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
some tears. Here at the Old Bailey, in court 16, it was a packed court | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
room, and also, a public gallery. We heard crying from there, as he | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
was crying as well. Clearly, very upset Sid -- upsetting for Stephen | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Lawrence's family. He managed to compose himself and continue his | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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Under cross-examination, there were inconsistencies in his evidence. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
The defence lawyer for Gary Dobson was gently questioning Duwayne | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Brooks's evidence today. Firstly, he said, that there was an | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
eyewitness saying that he was grabbed by the white youths, and | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
managed to escape, but today, Duwayne Brooks made no mention of | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
that. Secondly, there was a statement to the police about the | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
weapon, which he had initially described as an iron bar or | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
rounders bat. Today he said it was a foot long and shiny. In 1995 at | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
demonstrate court, Duwayne Brooks said he had seen the white youths | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
and little earlier in the evening. Today, he said that he wasn't | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
saying that, and he was in fact suffering from post-traumatic | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
stress back then, 18 years ago. No evidence tomorrow, we will hear | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
from all witnesses on Monday next week. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
To specialist units designed to treat patients specialist units | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
designed to treat patients in London with severe flu have been | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
unveiled, as the NHS outlines its plans to deal with the condition in | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
the coming months. Details of the units were released as health | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
bosses said there are no plans to extend the Flu Vaccination | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Programme to children. Alice Bhandhukravi reports. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Many of us will get the flu this winter, and a small number will be | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
unlucky enough to get it very badly. If they do, they may need to use | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
this. It is an artificial lung. bring the blood in from the patient, | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
through the pump, out from an oxygenated. It may look simple, but | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
it is anything but, and could mean the difference between life and | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
death. Sindh Thomas's is now one of five bottles across the country now | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
chosen as a specialist centre to give this treatment. This makes an | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
enormous difference in order it to our ability to look after the very | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
sick patients. A number of patients will not survive with all the other | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
types of therapy we have. With this, they have a chance. We have proven | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
it, and used this last winter to help patients with swine flu. A | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
number of patients who came here managed to survive. It is a sign | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the government is preparing itself for the winter flu. This was a | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
nasty's memorable AD campaign. This year, vulnerable groups are again | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
being encouraged to get their free flu jab. Not just the elderly, or | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
people with severe health problems, but also to children. Today that | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
committee told the Department of Health that there may be cannot | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
recommend extending deregulation problem. They say it would be aged | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
huge undertaking to include all healthy children under the age of | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
17 and they would need further evidence before changing that | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
position. Which is a relief to GPs, who say it would have placed a huge | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
strain on their resources at a busy time of year. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
The former Prime Minister, Sir John Major has opened an extension to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Gatwick Airport, which has been built at a cost of over 70 million | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
pounds. During his visit to the North Terminal, Sir John said | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
airports were the 'front door to the UK' and so it was important | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
they set a good first impression. The extension is part of Gatwick's | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
plan to deal with 20 million passengers a year - at the terminal | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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- by 2020. Today, the four main airlines which operate at the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
capital's main airlines came together. They want the government | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
to scrap air passenger duty. EasyJet and Ryanair joined forces | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :14:13. | :14:55. | |
it went up, would deter you. Side- by-side, campaigning for the tax to | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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All of this at a time when UK unemployment is at its highest | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
level since 1996. While the owner of Ryanair was been | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
characteristically blunt. hasn't George Osborne scrapped the | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
tax, because he lacks courage. tax is putting people off flying, | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
he says, and that is affecting jobs and economic growth. Most other | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
countries in Europe don't have it. And their passenger numbers go up. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
30 million less passengers came to Britain in the last five years. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Contrast that with Europe, 66 million more people came into | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Europe, so this is very, very uncompetitive for Britain. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
government says airlines benefit because there is no VAT on flights. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
After freezing the tax this year, he's planning an increase for 2012. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Air passenger duty generates �2 billion a year for the Treasury. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
There's no way the Chancellor will scrap the tax. But the airlines | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
hope, at the least, he may agree to a freeze or a very small increase | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
when he delivers his Autumn Statement for. Still to come. Snap | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
happy. The Hertfordshire schoolboy impressing judges with his award- | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
winning wildlife photography. 3, 2, won it. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
And find out how Pudsey got on when he took to the West End stage for | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
There may be millions of tickets for next years Olympics, but | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
massive global demand means they will still be the hottest tickets | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
in town. That's why Boris Johnson is urging schools in the capital | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
not to waste any more time in applying for the 125,000 free seats | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
which have been earmarked for London's school children. So far, | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
only around a half of schools have applied, as our Political | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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Correspondent Karl Mercer reports. The mayor at the Bexley academy to | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
tell schoolchildren which parts of the Olympics they may be able to | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
see for free. This is a school where sport plays a big part in | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
proceedings and it has been encouraged to join a scheme to try | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
and get some of the 125,000 tickets on offer. The school has signed up | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
for the free tickets programme and, in one borough, Enfield, every | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
school has done the same, but across London, is more mixed force | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
of Kensington & Chelsea, for example, a quarter of the schools | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
have so far signed up. The ones to have signed up 100% are doing | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
exactly the right thing for their pupils. This is about motivating | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
children to want to go and see a fantastic festival of athletics. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
But selling the programme to London's schools is proving as | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
tricky as getting an Olympic mascot through a narrow door. 40% of | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
schools are not yet signed up. Maybe today's announcement of what | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
tickets are on offer will help a little. And it goes something like | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
this. There will be 23,000 tickets for events in the Olympic Park. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
With a further 18,500 for other London venues. 18,000 tickets will | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
be for the football at Wembley. With 5,500 for venues outside | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
London. The biggest chunk of tickets though. Some 60,000 will be | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
for the Paralympics. Yes, there's been a lot of hype in the media | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
over the fact it's on our doorstep so we are looking forward to it. | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
prefer rowing. I would like to see swimming. My major sports star is | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Rebecca Adlington. Schools have until mid-December to sign up for | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
the scheme. Saracens Rugby Club have scrapped | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
their plan to play their home Heineken Cup game against Biarritz | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
in South Africa next year. The Aviva Premiership Champions say the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
game will now take place in London. And any UK-based supporters who | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
have already booked air tickets and accommodation to Cape Town will be | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
compensated. The match was to be the first Heineken Cup match to be | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
played outside Europe. Harry Redknapp could be back at | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
work next week for the home Premier League match against Aston Villa. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
He underwent heart surgery two weeks ago and its hope of he will | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
return. There aren't many 12 years olds who | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
have been taking photographs for half their life and are already | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
good enough to have their first public exhibition. But that's just | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
part of the story behind Sam Kaye from Hertfordshire, who bought his | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
first camera on eBay at the age of six. And last month he become the | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
youngest ever member of the Royal Photographic Society to gain a | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
distinction. Sarah Harris has been to meet him. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
While other youngsters of his age may be playing computer games, San | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
spends his time in the Hertfordshire countryside searching | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
out the perfect picture. He's had a camera in his hand since the age of | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
six and now, aged 12, his talent has already been recognised by | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Royal Photographic Society. Usually, I go out for about four hours at a | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
time, but they always want to do it because I look at it like I'm | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
always pleased with the end result, so it's worth it. Over the last two | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
years, he has been shortlisted for a number of national photographic | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
competitions, sometimes even up against the adults with years of | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
experience. He bought his first camera on eBay and is particularly | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
proud of a picture I took a fox cub despite getting so close to wild | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
animals. He says he's never scared, as his mother is always near by. | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
was trying to make it more creator, getting down lower band Take meet | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
with some grass and the way, to give it a different type of effect, | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
and two or three cubs were play fighting together, and one went | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
down really low, snarling, and that was the shot but I got. Now his | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
first exhibition as open be his home in Hertfordshire. He hopes to | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
raise enough money for more camera equipment. He wanted a new camera | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
lens, flash for his camera, and the equipment he has got, he gets | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
through working for it, so it's not the case of, for my birthday, had | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
it? Any equipment he has got, he has bought. Everything has come | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
from cleaning Gardens, sweeping floors and earning money. He has a | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
little on the lip called his camera fund -- a little envelope. He would | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
like to work a David Attenborough. Who would doubt him? Good luck to | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
him for the future of. This time tomorrow, this bear will | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
be taking centre stage for Children in Need. He's already bursting to | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
get out. But last night he made a special appearance for us in the | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
West End with the cast of Rock Of Ages. Every penny raised went to | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Children in Need, who help hundreds of young people right here in | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
London. Wendy Hurrell was at the Shaftesbury Theatre to see how | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
Pudsey got on. Last year, it was the Jersey boys. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
The year before, Mamma Mia. This year, Rock of Ages was pulling in | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
the crowds. Of course, they were really here to see this chap. He | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
arrived with some other BBC stars, gabby Roslin and Tony Blackburn. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
Stand up and show your support! they were ready to rock. Along with | :22:58. | :23:07. | |
Pudsey. We've had a wonderful time, brilliant, loved it. So exciting. | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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liked it when they danced. Dad has got glitter on his head. It's his | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
21st birthday on Sunday. I have had to wear this for Children In Need. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
He did brilliantly, Pudsey. How could he not do brilliantly? | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
think it was just what we were expecting. The crowds always go | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
wild for the show, but having Pudsey there, it gave it extra that | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
we always expect for Children In Need. Have you enjoyed your | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
evening? Yes, it was very good, a lot of energy, great music and | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
Justin Lee Collins had an American accent with a slight touch of | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Bristol. The so, a great night, but there was fund-raising to be done. | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
We are going to do a cake sale and wearing spots and stripes. So the | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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It all goes to Children In Need, so thank you, and well done, Pudsey. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
And if you want to get involved with Children in Need, it's not too | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
late. Take a look at our website for all the details. And tomorrow | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
night Wendy will be live in Hyde Park with BBC London's Children in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Need coverage. A look at the weather forecast now | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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Fantastic news, but the weather is fair for tomorrow. Pudsey will be | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
hot, because that mild weather has returned, and it will stay with us | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
until the weekend. This evening, we have got clear skies, but it's not | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
feeling too cold down by the River Thames. Despite the fact it really | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
is mid-November. And it won't get too cold, overnight, either. That's | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
even with some pretty clear skies for much of the night. We may get | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
low cloud later on in the night, and we may get mistiness in the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
countryside, as well, with minimum temperatures nine-10 Celsius, which | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
is down to the breeze which will keep the air mixed, so we will not | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
end up with cold air down at the bottom. On to tomorrow, and the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
breeze will lift the mist into low cloud, and it will break up and | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
sunny spells throughout the day tomorrow. Top temperatures, 14-15 | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
Celsius. As I said right at the beginning, it's looking perfect for | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Pudsey's a big party in the park. At the weekend, the crowd -- cloud | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
comes over as, so we will have dark grey skies in the morning, and if | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
you are travelling anywhere this weekend, bear in mind if they could | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
be some really dense fog patches around, so add extra time for that | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
journey. The outlook is for us to hang on to the mild weather. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Increasing amounts of cloud, as you can see there. That will have an | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
effect on our temperatures. So we will stay in their teens for the | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
next few days but, by Sunday, it might be slipping down to around 12 | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Peter, thank you very much for that. Now a look again at tonight's main | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
headlines. Stephen Lawrence's best friend broke down in court today | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
while recounting the moment the teenager was killed 18 years ago. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Duwayne Brooks said a gang of white youths racially abused them before | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
stabbing Stephen. Northern Rock is being sold by the | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
government three years after the government bail-out which averted | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
its collapse. Virgin Money will pay nearly �750 million for the bank. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
NHS managers in England have been ordered to cut the backlog of | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
patients facing long waits for treatment. 250,000 people have been | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
waiting for more than 18 weeks. There are fears Scotland Yard could | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
face financial difficulties as the mayor looks for more money to pay | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
for the extra police he has offered. One option is to take money from | :27:29. | :27:32. |