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it for now. There'll be more from the Newsroom at 10:00pm. Stay with | :00:01. | :00:11. | |
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us on BBC One, it's time for the Good evening from BBC London News. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
I'm Alice Bhandhukravi. Hundreds of tube workers have gone on strike in | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
a long-running row over Bank Holiday pay. Transport for London | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
says there's been significant disruption to services with parts | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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of the network suspended. Sonja Jessup has this report. Not what | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
shoppers at Bond Street wanted to hear. Some of the tube was running, | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
but with a reduced service. Surprising. It's closed. Terrible | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
trying to get home, because the bus will be so full of people. Still, | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
never underestimate the determination of a West End sales | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
shopper. Some braved the roads, with no congestion charge and free | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
parking. Others made the most of extra buses. But some, like Matt, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
who had already had his Arsenal game postponed because of the | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
strike, were fed up. It's selfish. We have to get up to a bus and wait | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
for 40 minutes and then the tube. haven't had a pay rise for two | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
years and I haven't gone on strike. This was the third Boxing Day | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
strike in as many years. ASLEF wants extra pay and conditions for | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
working the bank holiday. Transport bosses say their pay already takes | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
that into account. Drivers earn �47,000 a year. They are well paid | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
for a professional job. I can't pay for that twice. ASLEF says since | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
the deal was done in the 1990s things have changed. More people | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
use trains on Boxing Day and the ability for people who work those | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
trains to have a proportion of them or reasonable proportional times | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
off doesn't exist. Further action is planned for 18th January and | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
25th. By then, many more Londoners will be back at work. For commuters, | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
it could be a miserable start to 2013. 50 years ago the big freeze | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
brought chaos to the capital's streets. Four inches of snow | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
arrived on Boxing Day and Arctic winds from Siberia soon followed. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
The result was one of the harshest winters Londoners have ever faced. | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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Karl Mercer looks back. Now it's Siberia. Britain is snowed to a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
standstill. Indeed it was, for two months. The country froze, battered | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
by blizzards and snow drifts that had started as simple festive fun, | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
but the fun soon dropped out. As the freeze went on, transport | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
started hitting problems. Milk bottles were lost in the drifts. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
You just couldn't get a decent root vegetable at a fair price. Down | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
here in the market prices for vegetables seem to be up by at | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
least 30%. You can't get a Swede for love nor money. Can I interrupt | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
you. Are the prices up? Yes, sir. Our prices are up according to the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
transport and difficulties in getting in and us pulling our guts | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
out to get it to the public. There was a young man called Fish, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Michael Fish. A new boy at the Met Office in Gatwick, starting his | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
career in the freeze of the century. Started work on 5th November 1962 | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
and the severe weather started shortly after on Boxing Day and | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
went through into 1963. I was lucky, because for the first and only time | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
in my career, because I was only an office boy making tea, I didn't | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
have to work over Christmas and the new year. In the middle it started | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
snowing and in the early hours we started to try to get home and | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
drove. We had to abandon the car after a short distance and walk the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
rest of the way on foot. When we came back the next morning to pick | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the car up, we couldn't find it. It was completely buried. The wind was | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
so cold that the sea froze on the Essex coast. All of which made it | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
very exciting for the weathermen. Nothing more boring than a dry, | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
sunny day. Oh, yes, blizzards, chaos and confusion, gorgeous, yeah. | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
But at least we have been through the big freeze. Here's a look at | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
the weather now with Georgina the weather now with Georgina | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Burnett. More wet weather on the way. In the morning, we have a band | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
of heavy rain moving in. Should be dry in the afternoon, but remaining | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
cloudy, with a bit of a breeze to temper mild temperatures. Then the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
rest of the week is looking quite unsettled. Until we get to Sunday, | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
where we have a day of sunshine and scattered showers, but the | :04:52. | :04:53. |