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Tonight on BBC London News: A woman admits hurling racist abuse at tube | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
passengers as video of her verbal assault is watched by thousands on | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
the internet. Within the public domain you cannot | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
carry on with verbal and racial abuse. At the end of the day, we | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
are all one and we are all equal. Also tonight, the inquest into the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
death of an MI6 officer hears the secret services failed to pass on | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
evidence to police. With two days left before Londoners | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
go to the polls, we talk live to Conservative candidate Boris | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Johnson. And we meet the London photographer | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
who's captured some of the capital's most famous faces. A pop | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
group had never been photographed before, so that is why we have | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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Ringo Starr holding up the symbol Good evening and welcome to the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
programme. The video of her racist rant at | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
tube passengers was viewed by thousands of people online around | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the world. Today, Jacqueline Woodhouse from Essex admitted | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
causing harassment, alarm and distress to passengers on the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Central Line in January. She could now be sent to prison. Nick Beake | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
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Thousands have watched her racist views on at YouTube. Today | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
Jacqueline would house was not so forthcoming. Stop hounding me! | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
on the Central might earlier this years she was hounding her fellow | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
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passengers. Where do you come from? Where do you come from? From all | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
over the world. The 42-year-old had drunk so much champagne at a | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
leaving do she said she could not remember any part of her journey. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
It's arrogant. That's what we don't like about you people. Much of the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
abuse was directed at this businessman from Essex he was | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
returning from a family funeral. could not believe what I was | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
hearing. I was actually gutted that what I was hearing. That is what | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
made the take the media in the first place. I needed to show the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
public what kind of people who were out there and not to put up with | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
this behaviour. Oh, look, he's even filming. As she pleaded guilty | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
today, it emerged she was fined four years ago for racially abusing | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
another passenger on the Docklands Light Railway. I just think she | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
needs to be dealt with. A lot of people, a happens, and nothing is | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
done, but I don't accept it. was told because of the level of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
abuse she gave that so many people, the persistence, and the fact she | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
has a previous conviction for a similar offence, means she could | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
still go to prison. She will be back here in four weeks to be | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Plenty more to come including: Occupy protestors who were camped | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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outside St Paul's move their The inquest into the death of the | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, has heard that the secret services | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
failed to pass on evidence to police investigating his death. The | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
31-year-old was discovered in a padlocked bag in the bath of his | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Central London flat almost two years ago. Alex Bushill is outside | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Westminster Coroner's Court this evening. What happened at the | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
inquest today? And we learnt today that MI6 | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
effectively withheld information into the crucial evidence on Gareth | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
William's death on three counts. Nine computer memory six -- sticks | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
were not declared -- disclosed to the police, nor was a bag similar | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
to the one he was found him, and we also found that MI6 searched his | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
electronic media without informing the police. When the barrister for | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
the family pushed them on this and why the search was not carried out | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
in a more detailed fashion, two of the officers were giving evidence | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
and one of the counter-terrorism branch said they stopped the search | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
because of the orders of senior officers. He said simply, I will do | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
what I am told. He went on to say why they did not seize the memory | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
sticks, but they were told it contained material of a sensitive | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
nature. He said some of the evidence had been as helpful as a | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
London PC but fog. In an angry outburst, the coroner herself said | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the evidence and the witnesses from the counter-terrorism branch were | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
not impartial in their dealings with the security services. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Apologies, you broke up a little, but remind us of the background to | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
the case. Gareth Williams's naked body was found in a red leather | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
holdall in the bath of his Pimlico flat back in 20th August 10. He was | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
a brilliant mathematician on secondment from GCHQ to MI6 when | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
his body was found. The Coroners Court found that different expert | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
witnesses said that third-party involvement cannot be ruled out | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
whilst three different pathologists have not been able to come to | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
consensus on the cause of his death. We do expect that the inquest will | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
reach the verdict in the next few days, maybe even tomorrow. Alex, | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
thank you. To the mayoral election now, last night we heard from Ken | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Livingstone tonight it's the turn of Boris Johnson. With just over 36 | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
hours until Londoners go to the polls, he was in Bexleyheath | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
earlier today, pressing the flesh. And he's here now. Good evening to | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
you. Nationally, the Conservative Party's polling well behind Labour | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
in London. You must be worried when you believe in the same things as | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
David Cameron and George Osborne, austerity measures, cutting tax and | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
clamping down on welfare. I think the election in London is being | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
decided on the issues that really matter to worse in the city. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Insofar as it is a tight race, which I think it is, that is | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
because people are listening to what I've got to say about creating | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
200,000 jobs over the next four years, getting the investment that | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
London needs and taking the City forward. I think that is why the | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
race is very competitive. I am hopeful we will be able in the next | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
couple of days to get that message across. But in principle you are | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
the sort of conservative who agrees with them. You love -- lobby about | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
cutting the top rate of tax, and something of London would benefit | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
from, but David Cameron and George Osborne listen to you and cut the | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
rate. Been in no doubt that when it comes to it, I will go in and | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
militated campaign for staff I think London needs. Just a couple | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
of weeks ago we got �300 million for primary schools in London, half | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the allocation for the entire country. We have the extra �90 | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
million enabling us to put more police on the streets. It is vital, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
in tough times, to have a mayor of London he was willing to fight to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
get the plaster to come off the ceiling in Whitehall and get the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
investment that London needs. talk of what London needs, but | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
London needs to know what she will do about transport fares. You | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
recently said he would look at what she could do next year to bear down | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
on fares, so is there room to cut? There is room to make sure that we | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
modernise, or to make the system, take out costs and hold the fares | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
down in an honest, sustainable way. Mr Johnson, you mentioned | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
automation. What I will not do is cut investment. Please pause for | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
one second because it is an important issue. You mention the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
automation, but the first driverless trains will not come | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
into -- for a decade according to arraign manifesto, so no savings | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
will be made in your next term, so there is no room for manoeuvre in | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
fair's fair. Are you saying you could cut them in the next term? | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Don't forget that the so-called driverless trains, like the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Docklands Light Railway, they have trained captains. You have 48% of | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
the line being able to be run in an automated way by 2040. The cutback | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
- the technology is coming on stream -- 2014. I think it would be | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
fatal for the City to miss the opportunity to do that. I know Ken | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Livingstone has rejected that approach, and I think that is wrong | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
for London. They are doing it in Paris, they are doing it in | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Singapore. This is an option to take out cost, as we did with the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
reforms of the ticket offices. That did provoke strikes and was | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
difficult. I want to bring you back to the actual fares. More people | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
trust Ken Livingstone when dealing with the issue of Transport and | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
understanding commuters, but people will make up your own -- their own | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
mind about their opponents. If you cannot afford to cut the fares | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
because you say the money is needed for upgrades, but why can't you be | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
honest and say that we cannot afford to cut them? Let me be | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
totally clear. What you cannot do is now offer to take out �1 billion | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
in investment for a 7% cut in fares. That is not deliverable without | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
having to cut bus routes or a big upgrade programme. Alternatively, | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
the only other way of doing it is to freeze for a while and then | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
whack them up sharply. Do you think you are being fair to Londoners? | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
They have two days before they go to the polls and one to be able to | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
make an informed choice. When you came into power, the single bus | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
there was 90p and now it is �1.35. Is it unreasonable for Londoners to | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
want guidance from you to expect what they can pay when they get on | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
the bustle that due next year? Will it be inflation plus 2%? No mayor | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
of London ever commits himself to way fares policy more than a year | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
in advance. Your opponent is. but they said that last time and | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
then he shamelessly broke his promise. What I can say is that our | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
policy of prudent financial management, getting investment from | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
government, has the best prospect of us holding fares down. So you | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
will not tell Londoners whether it is on the current rate of RPI plus | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
2%? There is no reason to think it will be. But what I can say is that | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
we will be able to hold the fares down in an honest and sustainable | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
way, get the funds from government to get us through the tough times | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
and keep the investment going. Let's move on to policing. We know | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
that under your a term, overall crime, murder, filing crime, crime | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
on public transport have gone down -- violent crime. But some of the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
areas he campaigned heavily on, knife crime, youth violence and | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
crime is that affect people every daylight robberies and burglaries, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
you have not done well. They have gone up. Don't forget that knife | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
crime was not measured under the previous mayor of London. That is | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
because of the changing categorisation. I think there was a | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
lot of complacency about knife crime in the period leading up to | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
2008, and we did take steps. It has gone up 14% though. We try to take | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
the knives of the street. One thing you cannot argue with is that the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
number of young people dying as a result of knife crime has been | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
greatly reduced, by about 50%. That is an important thing to do. I am | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
not denying that there are problems. In a general context of a reduction | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
in crime, amazing reductions in public transport crime, but yes, | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
you're right to point out the difficult areas. What we are doing | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
now is getting more police and you have seen the increase in numbers, | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
and we are putting 2000 more into the safer neighbourhood teams. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Bernard Hogan how has just launched a big campaign. I am sorry to | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
interrupt. Talking about police numbers, or was it wise when you | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
first came into office in your first Budget to cut the amount of | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
council tax going into policing and then subsequently, this year and | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
last year, raided the reserves of the fire service? I think that was | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
perfectly the right thing to do, to move some of funds that were | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
allocated to the fire and emergency planning reserves that were sitting | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
there and move them into frontline policing. It is by smart use of | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
money at a time of restricted resources, don't forget on the | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
point of TEFL, we have taken huge reductions in the overall budget | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
and we are having to make further savings, yet we have been able to | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
deliver transport fares which, in real terms, are lower than they | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
were in 2000 and we are protecting benefits in London that people do | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
not get anywhere else in the country, like a 24 hour Freedom | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
Pass which is guaranteed for men and women over 60. Time is short, | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
but on your involvement with the phone hacking scandal people will | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
want to understand that she wanted pursue commercial sponsorship deals | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
for London. They will understand you wanted to have a relationship | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
with a powerful media group. Do you mean the BBC? No, News | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
International. But was it wise or appropriate to have meetings with | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
that company when it was being investigated by the Metropolitan | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
Police, your own police force? important thing there was that we | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
had had a briefing from John Yates, the assistant commissioner, but | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
there was nothing new in the evidence coming out, and I think | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the New York Times had produced it, and there was nothing I needed to | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
concern myself with. I do think it was right, in tough times, when | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
there is a huge squeeze on public finances, to go out and get the | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
funds that London needs to invest in great schemes. But there were | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
lots of companies companies -- companies who were not under | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
investigation by the Metropolitan Police. I talked to lots of | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
companies. I got 50 million for Barclays Bank for that bicycles. | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
And actually News International didn't cough of a sausage. But they | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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you go. He didn't mean it was wrong In all there are seven candidates | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
standing for mayor. That information is on our website. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
The chairman of an influential committee MPs has told BBC London | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
he is going to hold an investigation into the future of | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
the police watchdog. It comes as protesters gathered outside the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
headquarters of the IPCC this afternoon calling it -- calling for | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
it to be abolished. Most of them have grievances | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
against the Met and have formally complained to the police watchdog | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
but they have lost confidence in the system. They claim the IPCC has | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
failed to deal with their cases impartially. This is police | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
investigating the police. There's no independence and so we are | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
calling for it to be abolished. latest figures showed the watchdog | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
has received more than 800 complaints against the Met since | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
2010. The majority were dealt with by the police themselves. The IPCC | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
has only independently investigated the most serious like corruption, | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
racism or indeed someone dying in custody. The rest, the police wodge | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
of managed or supervised. An ongoing concern for many protesters | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
is that a third of their investigators are former police | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
officers. You need completely independent investigators to go in | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
and investigate the police themselves. My family 25 years on | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
are still dealing with the failure of their predecessors. That | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
predecessor was the Police Complaints Authority, replaced by | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the IPCC due to lack of public confidence. Now it faces similar | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
pressure to reform or be closed down. I'm pleased to say that the | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
committee will be conducting an investigation, enquiry, into the | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
operation, the powers and the future of the IPCC. This is | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
something that has been on our agenda for a long time. The IPCC | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
has sent me a statement admitting that the system is not perfect. Vic | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Reeves, the system does not always meet the needs of the public, the | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
police staff and officers. That was designed to identify who was to | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
blame rather than looking at what went wrong and how it could be put | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
right. It says a number of changes will be implemented later this year | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
to improve things. Occupy London were camped outside | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
St Paul's Cathedral for four months before being evicted. But now BBC | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
London has learned that some of the protestors have set up camps in | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
public parks in East London, angering some locals. Ayshea Buksh | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
has the story. City commuters were greeted with | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
flowers and music this morning but protesters did not hang around. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
They took their good will and floating tent with them. Back in | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
October hundreds of protesters camped in front of St Paul's | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
Cathedral. This is the latest out post of the global list anti- | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
capitalist movement. Mile End. Around 20 are so people have | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
pitched their tents. But has just told me they had come to meet local | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
people. Protesters had been taking wood from their fires from a nearby | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
area. This was used by a volunteer project. I cannot see what message | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
they are trying to get across. Why a public open space in a Borat | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
already deprived of public open space? Fines pre Square is now the | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
makeshift headquarters following the eviction from St Paul's. I | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
asked a spokeswoman why there are now in public parks away from the | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
Square Mile. Areas to get trashed by the tense but the bigger cause | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
is so much bigger that I think grass can be reseeded and we just | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
have to face a little bit of inconvenience for the bigger | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
message. What is that? World peace, economic justice. Back in Mile End | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
that message does not appear to be getting through. I'm not actually | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
sure what it is about. It makes no difference. They are burning the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
trees and all that. I do not like to go there. Tower Hamlets council | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
say they have asked protesters to leave and they will take legal | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
action if need be. Ayshea is in Trafalgar Square. Has | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
the traditional May Day march passed through peacefully? | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Yes, thousands of people marched on Trafalgar Square mostly in protest | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
against cuts to the public sector. It was organised by the union, | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Unite. Their general secretary praised the actions of direct | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
action groups such as Occupy London. As you heard in that report, they | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
seemed to be pushing outside central London. I have been told of | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
next month they are planning a walk which they will march between every | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
London borough. So expect to see a few more tense popping up across | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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the capital. The Jubilee Crystal Diamond, which | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
will be used as part of celebrations to mark the Queen's 60 | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
year reign, has been delivered to the Tower of London. The Queen will | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
use the diamond to light the National Beacon on 4th June, before | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
4,000 beacons are lit up across the UK and Commonwealth. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Since he first picked up a camera 60 years ago, Terry O'Neill has | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
captured celebrities on camera. From Raquel Welch to Audrey Hepburn | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
he's responsible for some of the most famous images of the biggest | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
names in show business. Now a new exhibition is celebrating the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
London photographer. Our Entertainment Correspondent Brenda | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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Emmanus has been to meet him. Senior Shujing the stars of the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Avengers, photographer Terry O'Neill's portraits epitomised the | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
Swinging 60s. The East Ender who came to photography by accident was | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
thrown into the depend. The very first job that I had was the | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
Beatles. No one had ever photographed a pop group before. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Then I did the Rolling Stones, I did Laurence Olivier dressed as a | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
woman. Everything just happened to me. His latest exhibition unveils | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
previously unseen images and rare Prince of many A-list stars. This | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
was Abbey Road studios. A pop group had never been photographed before | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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so that is why I have got wrangles start holding up the guitar. And | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
this is Kate Moss, at the studio where she was working. She had a | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
stunning look even then for DUP Kate Moss is one contemporary star | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
who has made it in front of Terry O'Neill's lens. All the guys seem | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
to wear black suits, all the girls seem to be fashion plates today but | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
they all look the same. In my day, they were all totally different | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
types of women. Last year he won the centenary medal from the Royal | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
photographic Society, the highest honour in British photography. The | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
shots are on show throughout May. Let's get a check on the weather | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop with Peter. Pete, will it ever stop | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
raining? It is absolutely lovely in | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Trafalgar Square. Tourists chilling out, enjoying the evening sunshine. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
But there are some sharp showers to the north of London and more rain | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
in the forecast for the rest of the week. Possibly not as heavy as it | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
has been in the past few days. But the Environment Agency has around | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
30 flood alerts for the London area. And with more rain in the forecast | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
it would be an idea to keep an eye on exactly what is going on. You | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
can do that by taking a look of their website or contact them by | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
telephone. This evening those sharp showers to the north of London will | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
gradually fizzled out. Then some low cloud will drift down from the | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
Midlands. That could turn its mystique might over the tops of the | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
children hills. Richard's day trying for most places and a | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
minimum temperature of seven or eight degrees. Tomorrow, the skies | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
brightening mid-morning but through the afternoon the trend will be for | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
the cloud to taking up. Even so we could have temperatures of 16 or 17 | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
degrees. But eventually that cloud will begin to produce some rain. It | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
is likely to be wet on Thursday, some that will be heavy and it | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
could linger to the north east of London into Friday. The further | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
south and west you are, the brighter the end of the week is | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
going to be. So the outlook is for more rain. If you're concerned | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
about the flood situation, make sure you keep up with the latest | :25:49. | :25:54. |