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Tonight on BBC London News. Further deaths unless action is | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
taken ` a coroner's verdict on the design of the Mayor's Superhighways. | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
We do need to make sure that road layouts are as safe as they can be. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
If the Mayor and TEFL do not take action, there could be more deaths | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
and injuries. The little boy whose pioneering bone | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
marrow transplant brings hope for others. They said to me that this | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
treatment is the only hope, otherwise he can die, so we haven't | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
got a choice that time. Fit for work? A council claims the | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
performance of the company which tests disabled people is "shocking". | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Plus: We're live at the premiere of Thor ` the latest blockbuster in | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
which London plays a starring role. Hello and good evening. A coroner | :00:59. | :01:14. | |
says action needs to be taken to prevent future deaths on the cycling | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Superhighways. Mary Hassell today presented her report after presiding | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
over the inquests of two cyclists who died on Superhighway 2, which | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
goes from Wandsworth to Bow. She says cyclists get lulled into a | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
false sense of security, assuming they have to ride on the blue strips | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
which may not put them in the best position to be in. Transport for | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
London says it'll do all it can to reduce the risk. Our Transport | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
Correspondent, Tom Edwards, reports. There are flowers at Aldgate where | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
French cyclist died in July on cycling Superhighway 2. Now a | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
coroner has criticised these flagship schemes. For those using it | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
heading home tonight, that's no surprise. Does this make you feel | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
safer? No, because people don't care about it. It is quite tight. It is | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
part of the car lane, and there s a part of the car lane, and there s a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
lot of potholes along it and the road surface isn't very good. In a | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
report sent to the Mayor about the Superhighways, the coroner said: | :02:20. | :02:32. | |
Cyclists believe they have to ride on the blue strips, which might not | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
be the correct position. The cycling Superhighways are a fantastic idea | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
and a very good for cyclists, but they are not safe enough. The point | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
was to make them safe highways for cyclists. If the Mayor and TEFL | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
don't take action, there could be more deaths and injuries. Brian | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Dowling died at the same Superhighway at row roundabout. It | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
encourages cyclists use this route. Both himself and a lorry went | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
through a red light. The coroner said last week that didn't impact on | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
what had happened, and it was the road design that encourage the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
cyclists into the blind spot. Transport for London disagrees. The | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
primary cause of the terrible accident was that he and the lorry | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
went through a red light. We need to make sure that road layouts are as | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
safe as they can be. We have altered it once, and no doubt we will alter | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
it again. Red lights are relevant if he is in the wrong position, though, | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
due to your cycling Superhighway? If you cycle or drive through a red | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
night you are likely to have an accident. That has infuriated | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
campaigners and the families of those who died, who have condemned | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
cycling Superhighways. They are bit of blue paint on the road with no | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
separation from the main road. Cars don't know their status and neither | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
do cyclists. Where you have road systems like this where you have | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
large numbers of heavy goods vehicles, thousands of vehicles per | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
day, you need dedicated space for cyclists to keep people safe. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Transport for London says it will continue to improve the | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Superhighways, especially at junctions, and says that cycling is | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
usually safe. More Superhighways are planned, it says, but the coroner | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
says it is now up to the Mayor to include `` to improve their safety. | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
Lots more to come including: Chinatown in shutdown. Businesses | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
there protest, claiming over zealous immigration raids. | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
Mohammed Ahmed is one of the first children in the world to undergo a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
bone`marrow transplant using a pioneering new technique. Doctors at | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Great Ormond Street Hospital, who carried it out, say the method | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
should help with donor shortages ` since it doesn't require a perfect | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
cell match. Helen Drew has the story. | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Enjoying a family afternoon in the playground, but life hasn't always | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
been so upbeat for this family. Four`year`old Mohammed Ahmed waited | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
years for a bone marrow transplant. He has a weak immune system, as did | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
his sister, who died before he was born at just a year old. Mohammed | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
has become the second child in the world to try a new marrow transplant | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
technique, with his dad as the donor. They said to me, this | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
treatment is the only hope, otherwise he can die. So we haven't | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
got a choice that time. We were just hoping and praying to the God that | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
he get better. Treatment was carried out as part of a study at Great | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Ormond Street Hospital, along with the Institute of Child health. The | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
key to the new technique is that it allows the use of cells which are | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
not a perfect match. The way it works is that in the lab the doctors | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
take the donated cells and engineer a little safety switch in them, so | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
that once those cells are put in the patient's body, if they attack the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
body because they are not a perfect match, they can in effect be killed | :06:17. | :06:31. | |
off. That will have applications beyond this particular study, for | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
other types of leukaemia and other conditions. So there's a whole bunch | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
of studies in the pipeline, not just here but across other centres, using | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the same platform of technology and the expertise we have developed in | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
London. For Mohammed and his family, it has been a success. He is taking | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
medication, but a very minimal amount, to just keep him better | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Otherwise, he is fine. It is only a trial at the moment, but the hope is | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
that this new technique for help with donor shortages, so that | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
children like Mohammed do not have to wait years for potentially | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
life`saving operations. A council has written to ministers | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
saying the performance of the company carrying out | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
"fitness`for`work" tests on disabled people has been "shocking". | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
Islington Council said the tests carried out by Atos health care had | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
been too simplistic after around 90% of appeals made by its residents | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
were won. Atos says the testing is designed by the government. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Jonathan Green from Clerkenwell was a motorcycle courier until he had an | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
accident that took him off the road. The nerves in his spinal cord | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
were severely damaged, and he was put on severe painkillers. I am | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
still in pain now. I have real problems walking any kind of great | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
distance. You know... Certain things I can't really do, like bending | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
over, squatting, and getting up and down onto my hands and knees. After | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
being told he could claim sickness benefit, he was given a 30`minute | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
assessment by Atos, and later informed he was fit enough to work. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
I can remember one of the questions I was asked, which was "Do you watch | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
television? What are your favourite television programmes?" In my | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
situation, when you have an injured spine, it doesn't have anything to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
do with that. His appeal was one of over 100 funded by Islington | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Council, 90% of which were overturned. The council has now | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
passed a vote of no`confidence in the company, and has told the | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
government it no longer wants them to have the contract their borough. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
That says to me that Atos simply don't have the skills or the | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
knowledge to make the assessments they are being asked to do by the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
government. The system is a mess, and these wrong decisions are | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
hitting taxpayers, who have to pay for the consequences of these | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
mistakes, and are having a devastating effect on the lives of | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
many disabled residents. The company has already come under much | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
criticism since they got the government contract for work | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
assessments, but it is not yet clear whether such an action by a local | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
authority will really make a difference. The government claims | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
that since 2010, it has considerably improved the work capability | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
assessment process, and a spokesperson for the Department for | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Work and Pensions says that it believes when a decision is | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
overruled, it could be because new evidence has been produced. And Atos | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
told BBC London: Jonathan says he hopes to get off | :09:24. | :09:47. | |
benefits and get back to work in the next few months, but for now, | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
doctors say he must take care. Most of Chinatown went in to shut | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
down this afternoon as businesses protested over what they say is | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
unfair treatment by the immigration authorities. They say they are under | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
fairly subjected to constant raids. The Home Office says it takes | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
allegations of handedness seriously. Chinatown at a standstill this | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
afternoon. The business community here is fed up. Most shops and | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
restaurants closed their doors for two hours. They were protesting | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
about this, one of a dozen alleged raids this summer by immigration | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
officers. The video was given to us by the Chinatown Association. It | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
claims raids have been heavy`handed and disproportionate. This | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
restauranteur says he's been fined ?10,000 on two occasions when it | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
illegal workers were found in his kitchen. I think it is a | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
stereo`typing. I think they are racist and I think they are | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
guessing. This woman does odd jobs in Chinatown. She is an asylum | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
seeker and therefore not legally allowed to work in the UK, but | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
despite being caught by immigration officers, she claims she was let out | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
shortly after. TRANSLATION: Have been washing | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
dishes in the canteen, earning a bit of living expenses, and I was | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
offered a place to live and food to eat. There were people calling me to | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
be a prostitute, but I refuse to go. Her story is one of many. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Restaurants here claim there is a shortage of staff. Determining | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
someone's immigration status can be difficult, and the community | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
believes it is being unfairly treated. When they turn up at the | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
restaurant, they don't show a warrant or ask for a particular | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
person they are looking for. They even ask the employees in the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
restaurant if there is an illegal working in the restaurant. Clearly | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
they are not intelligence led. These communities are known for | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
complaining publicly about these issues. The demonstration today is | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
an indication of the depth of feeling and the damage that raids | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
are doing. This is not the first time Chinatown has taken such | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
action. Six years ago there was a similar rally for similar reasons. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
The Home Office says it takes seriously any allegations of | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
heavy`handed miss and will investigate. It denies targeting the | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
Chinese community. Meanwhile, the community here is | :12:30. | :12:43. | |
sending a message to government. Meanwhile, the community here is | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
sending a message to government. Stay with us. Still to come tonight: | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
I am on the red carpet at Leicester Square waiting for some a list | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
people. Stay with us to find out who. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
We meet the Bromley weightlifter who is gearing up for her first world | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
Championships in Poland. Next, the South London council that | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
could use new laws to stop some nightclubs and bars selling alcohol | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
after midnight. Residents in Clapham have complained of noise and | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
anti`social behaviour linked to three venues. Lambeth could be one | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
of the first local authorities in London to use these powers to stop | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
late`night drinking. It describes itself as having the | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
best five in London. It is only open at the weekend, and stopped serving | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
at 1:30am. When it is time to leave, this: There is large numbers of | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
people on the pavement outside. There are three bars in the same | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
area, and some people living here say they have had enough of sharing | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
their street with late`night drinkers. The vast majority of | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
people here are families with residents, and there is a time and a | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
place for these venues, but it is simply not here. We want to be a | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
normal residential area. New rules mean the council can limit licensing | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
hours here. In 2005, laws were brought in to relax licensing. This | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
power aims to give control back to local authorities to restrict who | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
can sell alcohol when. Here on the Wandsworth Road, three venues and | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
anyone else who serves alcohol, will only be able to do so before | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
midnight. But the club has been here for 14 years and the owners say they | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
have never had any trouble. Closing early, they say, will finish them. | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
If we have to close at midnight we If we have to close at midnight we | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
will be out of business. I would hate to be responsible for people | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
losing their sleep, but we have paid for two independent sound reports | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
over the past few years, and it has been proven by experts that they | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
would not hear any noise over the background of traffic. We don't want | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
to put anyone out of business, but we also want people to be safe on a | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
night out. In this tiny, congested corner of Lambeth, it is not | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
working. Lambeth Council is consulting on this, and other London | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
authorities have looked at introducing similar restrictions. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
They will be watching Lambeth to see how this ban affects the borough. He | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
wants Lords to become a "friendlier" home of cricket. That's the aim of | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
the new president of the MCC, Mike Gatting. Drawing on his experiences | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
as a young player, the former England Captain believes the ground | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
should be more accessible to local communities. Speaking to our sports | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
reporter, he also says an England Ashes triumph in Australia this | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
winter will help grow the game. We came here to retain the Ashes, we've | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
done that. At Lord's, the home of cricket, those achievements are | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
still revered. Today he leads the MCC as its president. 27 years on, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
memories of that triumph are as clear as ever. It doesn't get any | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
better. Whilst we were over there, the supporters were quite | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
astonishing. The fact that we were winning out there was bringing some | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
passion and pride. His first task is MCC president has been to quell a | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
rebellion over the future of Lord's. Those opposed to redevelopment plans | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
were beaten in a vote last week. were beaten in a vote last week | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
What will be the first changes people will see? We've put in | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
planning permission to help the designs. It will give us an extra | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
400 seats, but it will give us an extra 700 without obstructing views. | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Updated laws and more welcoming scenario. It was, you will fit in | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
that place, you will wear the tide, you will not move. We are trying to | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
be more open and friendly, and more accessible club. We'd love to work a | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
bit more closely with the community. England fly out to Australia | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
tomorrow, intent on a fourth successive Ashes triumph, after | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
winning on home soil this summer. Just under a month until the start | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
of the Ashes, do you fear a Aussie backlash? We won 3`0 without playing | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
to our best. If we go to Australia and play like I know we can, we will | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
be too strong for them. To go away in a two year period and went home | :17:51. | :17:51. | |
and away, it might happen again. in a two year period and went home | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
and away, it might happen again A fine player for the MCC, a promising | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
president, too. Good luck to them in Australia. Tomorrow, the | :18:05. | :18:05. | |
Weightlifting World Championships start in Poland, with Bromley's | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Emily Godley competing for the first time. After missing out on the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
London Olympics, the 22`year`old, who combines her training with a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
full time job, has set her sights on Rio. Sara Orchard went to see her in | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
training at Crystal Palace. Emily Godley used to be a pole vault, but | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
her strength and conditioning coach, Keith Morgan, spotted just | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
how much strength she had all stop five years on and the 22`year`old is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
preparing for her first Weightlifting World Championships. A | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
lot of people don't believe I'm a weightlifter. Some people say, oh, | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
how is the body`building? No, it's weightlifting. There are stereotypes | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
around the sport but I think some of us to break those stereotypes. Emily | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
combines her training with a full`time job for the Financial | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
Ombudsman Service a gruelling schedule, and even more so when you | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
realise she is currently on a diet of only around 1000 calories a day. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
That's half the recommended amount for the average woman. Greene I have | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
to do that if I want to compete that's what I have to do. Is the | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
case of after the competition I can eat a bit more normally and have a | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
few treats here and there. But in the face before competition it is | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
all about being strict. But discipline is paying off. Emily went | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, 2010. She is expected to compete at | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
Glasgow 2014, but her coach thinks she can go further. The ultimate | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
target is Rio. But we got the Commonwealth Games next year and | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
we've got to look at targets for that. Suddenly an outside chance of | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
medals. I didn't make London 20 2, I medals. I didn't make London 20 2, I | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
was a reserve. I'd like to build on that and hopefully go. It's any | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
athlete's dream to go to an Olympics. The World Championships | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
could lift Emily's career to new heights. Whilst Rio isn't for | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
another three years, it should be worth the wait. To something | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
completely different now. He's the Norse God of Thunder and part of a | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
superhero film franchise that's taken over ?3 billion at the box | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
office. Tonight the cast of Thor is in Leicester Square for the world | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
premiere of the sequel, The Dark World, which is predominantly set | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
here in the capital. Alice Bhandhukravi is on the red carpet | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
for us. There is a lot of love on the red | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
carpet in Leicester Square for this latest movie adaptation of the | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Marvel comic series. We will be speaking to some of the cast | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
shortly. First, here's an excerpt. You face an enemy known only to a | :20:49. | :21:03. | |
few. Known only to one. You must be truly desperate to come to me for | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
help. I am joined by some of the stars of | :21:06. | :21:18. | |
the film. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, a surprise appearance from | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
Idris. Anton Hiddleston, local boy, a lot of this film was shot in the | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
capital, what was it like for you? It was so great for me. I was born | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
about half a mile up the road. In the Middlesex Hospital in Bhuj | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Street. I trained as an actor at Rada, about another half a mile from | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
the hospital. I used to come down here as a student, you would spill | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
into the West End to grab a bite to eat. I would see these premiers. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
into the West End to grab a bite to eat. I would see these premiers And | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
here you are tonight. And huge swathes of the capital destroyed in | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
this movie, aren't they? Some parts. Greenwich takes a big hit but it | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
survives. Greenwich is made of sterner stuff. Natalie Portman, the | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
skies are Norse gods, you are a mere human but you are a scientist, is | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
that more powerful? She does have some powers of her own... They take | :22:23. | :22:38. | |
care of me. I've got my bodyguards. As far as bodyguards go, you've done | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
pretty well. In the film you get to slap them. I do. They didn't feel | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
it, of course, because they are very tough. The men that have been | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
slapped by Natalie Portman, I think it's just the two of us. So far! It | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
it's just the two of us. So far It was not uncalled for, we deserved | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
it. This is a sequel. You guys must be old friends, despite the sibling | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
rivalry on screen. We are. We started this journey three years | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
ago. He's getting close with that camera! To be here with this kind of | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
affection and response is not, no one knew what they were in for. It's | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
very special. What is the audience in for? A good time. It's true. It's | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
a new dynamic between all the characters. It is lovely to see Thor | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
and Jane again, because Jane didn't make it to the last one, she was | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
siphoned away on some expedition. Natalie, do you think this could be | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
the last or do you think you might make a comeback? It is up to Marvel | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
comics, the powers that be. Have a lovely evening. From all of us here | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in Leicester Square, back to you in the studio. It's not long to go | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
before we and a certain bear will be asking you to help us once again | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
raise money for BBC Children in Need. We've seen everything from | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
dancing`on`ice to superheroes. So tell us what you're planning to do | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
this year. In fact, surprise us Don't be shy, the wackier and more | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
unusual the better. You could even be invited onto our live show on the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
night. Just get in touch by email, the address is on your screen ` | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
[email protected]. Is the Norse God of Thunder going to | :24:41. | :25:00. | |
be kind to us? I've got everything in the forecast | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
tonight. It is going to be a very windy night. It is also going to be | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
a pretty wet night for some of us, but it will be mild. Let's | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
concentrate on the thundery rain. The Met Office has a weather warning | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
in place. Some of seeing as much as ten 15 millimetres in an hour. You | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
might even get 30 millimetres in three hours if you are really | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
unlucky. Those sorts of rainfall rates are likely to cause some local | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
flash flooding, especially with lots of leaves around to block the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
drains. The winds accompanying the heavy downpours will be quite | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
strong. We can expect gusts generally of 14 mph. There is the | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
potential for gusts as strong as 60 mph. Quite an important speed with | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the wind, because when it gets as strong as that you can reckon on | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
some rather large branches being blown out of the trees, roof tiles | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
can get blown off and if you've got a badly maintained chimney, well, | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
you might get a really nasty surprise overnight tonight! It will | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
be a mild night. If you are up early, expect some debris on the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
roads and pavements. There will still be some sharp showers around. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
The wind will eventually blow them away. It should be dry, bright and | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
breezy by the afternoon. Thursday, rather chilly start with some mist | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
and fog. That will clear but cloud will arrive. That will bring some | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
wet weather for end of the week clearing to sunshine and showers for | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the weekend. But watch out for that wind and thundery rain overnight | :26:45. | :26:45. | |
tonight. Now the main headlines. wind and thundery rain overnight | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
tonight. Now the main headlines The tonight. Now the main headlines. The | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir John Major, has called for an | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
emergency tax on energy companies if they impose excess price rises ahead | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
of a cold winter. Yesterday, NPower became the latest of the big six | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
suppliers to announce a price hike. The Government says ?500 million a | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
year could be saved by the NHS if it claimed back money from foreign | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
patients treated here. Labour has dismissed the claim as more about | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
spin than substance. Police in Dublin have removed a seven`year`old | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
blonde girl from a Roma family. A coroner has criticised London's | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
superhighways for lulling cyclists into a false sense of security. Her | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
comments come after she presided over the inquest into the death of | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
two cyclists knocked over in East London. More on the day's stories on | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
our website and I'll be back with our late news. From all of us on the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
team, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening. | :27:44. | :27:47. |