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Tonight, on BBC London News. ASBOs for terrorists and extremists. New | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
proposals from a task force set up by the Prime Minister. We think it's | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
right we should consider what further steps should be taken. Some | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
critics say these moves could actually make it more difficult to | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
monitor potential terrorists. Also tonight: What next for the Olympic | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Park? The Mayor wants a new science and culture hub. The device fitted | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
by surgeons at the Royal Free Hospital which could avoid the need | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
for liver transplants. Plus, Colin Firth plays a former prisoner of war | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
in his latest film. We talk to him live on the red carpet. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Hello and good evening. London knows all too well the dangers of violent | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
extremism. Earlier this year, after the killing of soldier Lee Rigby, | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
the Government set up a special task force to look at what more can be | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
done to combat radicalisation, today it released its findings. They | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
include proposals for new powers to tackle hate preachers and to block | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
extremist websites. There are warnings that the approach could | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
drive those attracted to militant ideologies further underground. This | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
report by our home affairs correspondent, Guy Smith, contains | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
some flash photography. Violent extremism is one of the biggest | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
threats facing London and indeed the UK. It is both highly complex and | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
unpredictable. How to tackle it has been the focus of a five`month | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Government investigation. The Prime Minister set up a task force after | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich in May. Far`reaching | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
measures were proposed covering schools, universities, prisons, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
extremist websites and to stop hate preachers from spreading extremist | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
views. They plan to use an order like an ASBO. It is about | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
challenging all of those approaches, supporting communities, supporting | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
more moderate voices. Where there are those that are aspousing hatred, | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
division, actually challenging democracy, we think it is right we | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
should consider what further steps should be taken, perhaps through | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
preventative orders, that is something that we are considering. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Another idea involved targeting extremists websites. The Government | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
aims to work with internet companies to restrict terrorism material | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
online. One think`tank, working to counter extremism here in Britain, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
broadly welcomed the plans, but had reservations. Obviously, there is a | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
huge problem of extremist content online. It's better we tackle and | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
engage this content with counter extreme measures, not by shutting | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
down the debate. Which is technically very difficult to do. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
The Government wants Muslim chaplains in prisons to have | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
one`on`one sessions challenging the views of some of the most dangerous | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
terrorists. In universities they are reemphasising the need to restrict | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
extremist preachers a platform. We should encourage free speech to | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
challenge the ideas of those you don't agree with and win the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
argument. You don't do that by creating martyrs and doing the work | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
for terrorist recruiters by giving the appearance of scapegoating | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
particular communities. The Prime Minister, who is currently in China, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
has reportedly said he wants these proposals implemented and see an end | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
to hate preaching in Britain. Guy is with me now. How are these proposals | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
going down? We have had a mixed response. As you just heard, there | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
are concerns around freedom of speech and some people think that | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
these proposals are a bit vague. Broadly speaking, many people are | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
thinking the Government actually is hitting the right targets. We have | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
known for a long time that radicalisation happens in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
universities, prisons and mosques. We have tough legislation. The | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
question is whether these new plans will make a real difference. As you | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
just heard the minister saying, the aim is to support moderate voices, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
to support communities, but take on the terrorists. The Prime Minister | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
has said that the Government shouldn't shy away from tackling | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
extremism just because of cultural sensitivities. Many thanks. Lots | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
more to come, including. She was a Gold`winning hero of the London | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Games. Now, Charlotte Dujardin gets ready for the highlight of the | :05:04. | :05:21. | |
equestrian calendar. It's part of the Government plan for easing the | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
housing crisis, freeing up offices to be converted into houses even if | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the local authority objects. Now, four London councils have taken the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Government to court saying the new law is endangering jobs and will | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
lead to lower quality housing. Warren Nettleford has this report. | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
Bianca owns this sign language company in Islington providing | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
translators and other services to businesses. All was going well until | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
they were forced to move at short notice. They were based in this | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
office block on the Holloway Road. The owners took advantage of a new | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
law which allows them to convert office buildings into flats, that is | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
without the council's permission. We had to move very quickly. We were | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
given one to two weeks. Big affect on the company because I had set up | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
courses, plans. Since May this year, when the law came into force, #50s | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
schemes have been approved in Islington alone. There is a cost. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Around 11,000 square meeters in office space has been lost. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Islington Council say it is equates to 1,000 jobs. Charities are being | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
eevict so it can be converted into residential property. We have a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
strong policy where we say 50% of all new housing should be | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
affordable. As it doesn't go through the planning system, none of it is | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
affordable. It has been sat there for a number of years. If we had | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
gone through the traditional planning process it would have taken | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
a number of years to convert the building into a residential | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
building. It has taken eight weeks. We will have new homes by June next | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
year. The Government say this new law is intended to create | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
regeneration and boost economic growth. It's the Meted of creating | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
growth which separates the Government from Islington and three | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
other London councils. A judgment is expected from the High Court. A new | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
vision for the future of the Olympic Park has been revealed. The Mayor | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
wants to establish a major scientific and cultural hub near the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Aquatics Centre and today the V and University College London said | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
they were committed to establishing bases there. Ayshea Buksh reports. | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
It was a spectacular start to an incredible Games for London. What is | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
happening now on the Olympic Park? Well, as well as the sports venues | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
there are plans for a cultural and academic hub, two well`known | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
institutions have already expressed an interest. The V A, an | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
internationally renowned museum and research centre and University | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
College London, one of the world's top universities. At the moment this | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
part of the Olympic Park is closed to the public. This is the land that | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
has been set aside for this new project, over here is where the V | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
A hope to have their new museum. Across the other side of the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Aquatics Centre, just south of the Orbit is where UCL hope to have a | :08:23. | :08:34. | |
new campus. Plans to building next to the Olympic Park collapse last | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
year. Why can they get it together this year? We are looking for this | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
cluster, this hub of higher education and cultural organisations | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
to come together. We think it's attractive to UCL, the impediments | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
they had before don't exist on the sites we had before. Do you mean | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
local people? No. We are talking about the phasing. We will work with | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the local communities to make sure we can fully project the importance | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
and the usefulness that UCL will bring in terms of local skills and | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
jobs and we are extremely committed to working with those local | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
communities. Locals and other Londoners will have to wait though | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
for more exact plans. Both public and private money will be needed to | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
complete the project. It is hoped building work will begin in 2016. | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
Those proposals were unveiled as part of the so`called National | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Infrastructure Plan. What else in it was of interest to London? Let's | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
cross to our political editor, Tim Donovan, who's at Westminster. Tim, | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
enlighten us? Not a huge amount. A guarden bridge across the Thames, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
plans for one. The Government said it would put ?30 million towards the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
expected ?150 million cost of this. It equates to the amount of money | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
that the people would get back constructing it, what they had to | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
pay for VAT and so on. The rest of the money will come from private | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
donations and TFL. Money to refurbish the railway station at | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Gatwick. Money going into a study looking at improving rail routes | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
from the south to Heathrow. That, as you can imagine, is not something | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
that the Mayor's office were particularly keen to welcome, given | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
they don't see a long`term future for that airport there anyway. There | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
anything for cyclists given the recent focus on road safety? No. It | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
wasn't expected. Neither is anything expected tomorrow in the Autumn | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Statement. New evidence today that it is not really the issue of how | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
many money there is going into cycling, what is happening to that | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
money. How it is being spent at the moment. Papers going to Transport | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
for London Board next week indicate a sixth of the budget for | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
improvement, capital improvements on the roads, including cycling, ?60 | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
million won't be spent this year. That is a sensitive issue when | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
people have been clamouring for improvements. There are delays with | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
the cycle super highways and the cycle hire scheme. They are trying | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
to assemble the best experts in the country to improve designs and it | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
takes time in terms of planning. Is this problem with spending on | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
infrastructure, Tim, confined to cycling? Not according to these | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
latest figures. ?170 million will not be spent this year. A tenth of | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
that budget. It is sensitive, as I indicated yesterday, when we were | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
talking about fares, people are not going to be prepared, or happy to be | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
paying year`on`year fare increases when they find out that the money is | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
not going out the door. So there are delays or rephasing as Transport for | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
London puts it, to Tube projects and so on. These delays to cycle | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
projects. Tim, from Westminster, thank you. Michael Beckett was a | :11:58. | :12:18. | |
former alcoholic whose life has been transformed by a new device being | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
tested on patients with liver disease. Doctors at the Royal Free | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Hospital say they hope it could avoid people needing a transplant | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
and even allow the liver to recover. Gareth Furby has the story. Michael | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
Beckford was a heavy drinker with cirrhosis of the liver. It left him | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
with a hugely swollen stomach, caused by a build`up of fluid. I had | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
the normal comments about, "are you pregnant? When is it due, is it | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
twins?" Now, he is a different man. It is because a tiny pump has been | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
implanted inside his abdomen This removes the fluid, making it easier | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
for his liver to heal. He was at the Royal Free Hospital today where the | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
divorce is being tried. He is said to be the first to try it in the | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
country and has nothing but praise. It's been amazing that I have gone | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
from being this close to having a liver transplant to having a | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
different lifestyle near enough. We will take you off the transplant | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
list, is that OK? With 4,000 people a year dying in the UK from | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
cirrhosis the device will have a clinical trial involving 60 patients | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
across Europe. So far so good. We have had a few complications which | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
we will describe in the clinical trial. We don't know if it's | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
device`related or natural history of the disease. We need to do a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
controlled clinical trial to be sure we can separate the disease from the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
device. Michael Beckford's liver is healing. His appearance is back to | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
normal. Soon the pump will be removed. Along with giving up | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
drinking alcohol, it may just have saved his life. A 15`year old girl | :13:55. | :14:07. | |
has been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager in north | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
London. 17`year`old student Joshua Folkes was fatally stabbed in the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
chest outside a flat in Palmers Green in the early hours of | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
yesterday morning. Detectives are appealing to his friends and the | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
local community to help find his killers. Still to come tonight: What | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
is happening people, it's me Tinchy Stryder. Find out why I'm in East | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
London, where I grew up. Don't miss that. He stars in the real`life | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
story of a British soldier who becomes a prisoners of war. The I | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
will talk to Colin Firth about his latest film The Railway Man. | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
The police officer at the centre of the so`called plebgate row is to sue | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
the former Cabinet minister, Andrew Mitchell for libel. PC Toby Rowland | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
was involved in a heated confrontation with Mr Mitchell at | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
the gates of Downing Street last year. Emma North's been following | :15:00. | :15:13. | |
this. Remind us about this? Mr Mitchell was told he couldn't ride | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
his bicycle through the gates of Downing Street. A row enSued it was | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
the contents of this row which caused all the fuss. Mr Mitchel | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
claims he said to the police officers, "I thought you guise were | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
exposed to (BLEEP) | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
help us." The Toby Rowland said Mr Mitchel's language was much more | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
robust. Mr Mitchel admits swearing at the police officers he doesn't | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
deny that he used those exact words. That is the short background. Let us | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
bring ourselves up`to`date. Mr Mitchel is suing the Sun. He accused | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
PC Rowland's of lying. He challenged him to repeat the words under oath | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
in court. PC Rowland's is suing Andrew Mitchell for libel. It will | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
now be a battle of reputations that will be played out in the courts. | :16:15. | :16:27. | |
Thank you for that update. The Duke of Cambridge joined in a game of | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
volleyball at a sports centre in west London today. The Prince looked | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
a little lost as he tried out his skills, but laughed and joked with | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
young people at the event. The scheme in White City trains under | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
24`year olds ` many from disadvantaged social backgrounds ` | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
to become qualified sports coaches. Her triumphant showing at London | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
2012 made Charlotte Dujardan one of the faces of the Games. Further | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
success in 2013 has seen her nominated for the prestigious | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Sportswoman of the Year Award. Chris Slegg has been to meet the Gold | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
medallist who helped bring the dancing horses of dressage to a new | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
audience. COMMENTATOR: Britain has got another | :17:02. | :17:14. | |
Gold. What a performance. With two Gold medals in dressage at London | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
2012, Charlotte Dujardin was one of the stars of last year's Olympics. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
This morning, the World Number One was back in the capital, riding with | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
officers of the Household Cavalry in Hide Park. It's different to what | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
I'm used to. No pressure, having a real easy stroll around the park. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Today served as gentle preparation for one of the highlights of the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
equestrian year, the International Horse Show at Olympia. Given the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
year you have had, your confidence must be sky high? I'm really, really | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
confident. It's probably one of the biggest competitions I love. I look | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
forward to it every year. It's just the ultimate kind of dream to ride | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
at Olympia. Charlotte Dujardin won Olympic Gold an this year's Olympic | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
Championship. I complete abroad a lot on him. The British crowd don't | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
see him that often. He is a special horse. We have a great partnership. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
I been training him since he was four. We have grown such a great | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
connection and partnership. Tomorrow, the 28`year`old could be | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
crowned Sportswoman of the Year. It's a huge honour to be a part of | :18:41. | :18:55. | |
that. To be recognised and you know, I just want to thank everybody who | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
is voting. 2012, wasn't bad, Charlotte Dujardin hopes 2013 ends | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
well too. Let's hope so. In football, Fulham's new boss will | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
take charge of his team for the first time tonight as they play host | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
to Tottenham in the Premier League. Rene Moolensteen has replaced Martin | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Jol who was sacked after five league defeats in a row. Moolensteen had | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
two spells at Manchester United as part of Sir Alex Ferguson's back | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
room staff. He only arrived at the west London club last month as a | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
coach. It's a far cry from his role as Mr | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
Darcy. Colin Firth's latest film sees him as a prisoner of war in a | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Japanese camp during World War II. The Railway Man is based on a true | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
story. Our entertainment correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, is at | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
the premiere in Leicester Square. I certainly am. M.th railwayman is a | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
powerful story survival love and redemption. Before Colin enlightens | :20:04. | :20:18. | |
us, here is a clip. `` The Railway Man. He is alive, I know where he | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
is. He won't have a clue you are coming. This is what you're going to | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
do, isn't it? I'm afraid the museum is closed. I'm surprised you don't | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
recognise me. Lomax. I'm asking the questions, you answer. I did not | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
expect you to be alive. Colin joins me now having been pulled away from | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
his signing of fans. Is it fair to say this takes the story of when | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
they return after the war the emotional and physical impact of | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
that? I think it's a very different telling of that period of history. I | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
think that from what I have understood from people who were on | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
that railway, it doesn't really represent their experience. This is | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
an attempt to, I think, you know really deal with it head on. Yes, it | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
is to do with the aftermath. I think that the suffering that was endured | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
by the people there didn't end with the war. I think also it addresses | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
the fact there were a lot of secondary casualties, wives, | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
children and other people who have to deal with the damage. We have | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
seen some of the veterans of the Death Railway attending the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
screening this evening. Their story is rarely told. Is that one of the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
motivations for you, is that what you found interesting? It is one of | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
the things that drew me. Something that was not only so terrible, on | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
such a scale I think that it really is quite mind`boggling that it's not | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
something we study in schools. It's not something that we see regular | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
expressed through film. You know, most of the World War II films are | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
about the European wars. They don't necessarily shy away from the | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
horrors, there are an awful lot of adventure films told. We are running | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
out of time, Eric Lomax died while the film was being edited. He wasn't | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
able to be here. Thank you very very much. You pokerful story. To you | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
both, thank you. Something very different. How's this for a school | :22:49. | :23:01. | |
music lesson? Sixth formers at a new academy in Stratford, who've been | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
set the task of coming up with a school anthem, have been given a | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
helping hand by none other than east London rapper Tinchy Stryder. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Chobham Academy opened in September in the newly created East Village | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
next to the Olympic Park. Helen Drew has been finding out more. Students | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
rehearsing their new school song here at Chobham Academy under the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
watchful eye of Tinchy Stryder. It's the launch of the east village | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
artist and residents programme which will see various artists creating | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
work in the area. It means a lot to this East Ender to be involved. When | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
I was growing up in East London the opportunities weren't there for us, | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
like. That. There are so many options for them now. I make music. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
When I was growing up I couldn't just go to a studio or have a school | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
where they have studios. To know it's here in East London. It's | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
great, an amazing thing to happen. Chobham Academy is part of London's | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
newest neighbourhood, the East Village, which is part of the | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
athletes' village from last year's Olympics. The idea today is to try | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and create a cultural legacy. The change in this area of East London | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
is being felt by these sixth`formers. London now, after the | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Olympics, everything is about opportunities for children, for the | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
youth. That is what is happening. Really good opportunity. Great | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
platform to start off at. The fact he is from East London really makes | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
you think, I can do it. I can progress to be what I want to to be. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Has had a great time working with them. The whole bouncing ideas, what | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
I like about them is that there wasn't offended. They all had their | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
own talents and skills. We combined it. It was good. Other musicians, | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
poets, artists and writers will come to Strafford over the next year to | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
help build the cultural legacy that started with a song. | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
Wet and windy weather on the way. We will escape the worst of it this | :24:56. | :25:07. | |
time round. No sign of it at the moment out there. It is quiet, it is | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
clear and it is cold, widespread frost is developing. That will be | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
down on the grass. It might turn misty for a time over night tonight. | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
As the breeze freshens it will blow mistiness away. A few places air | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
temperatures will get close to freezing. For many of us they will | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
stay above zero. Tomorrow a bright, breezy, but chilled start to the | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
day. As the breeze freshens up it will blow more and more cloud across | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
us. It will get quite gusty by the afternoon. We are looking at a top | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
temperature of 10`11 Celsius. Just in time for tomorrow evening's rush | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
the wind will drive rain across the London area. Now, the gusts for most | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
of us tomorrow will be around 40mph to 50mph. Up across the Home | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Counties to the north of London there will be damaging gusts of | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
60mph. Further north there are strongest gusts hitting 70mph, | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
80mph, even stronger than that in place. That is the reason for the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Amber weather warning. There will be travel trouble. Make the most of the | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
travel service on radio and online. The strong winds will push a lot of | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
water dow the North Sea. There will be an increased risk of some coastal | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
flooding in Essex and Kent. You might want to keep an eye on that. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Things should calm down on Friday. Even with the sunshine, it will | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
still feel cold in the wind. Over the weekend, the cloud will be back | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
and it won't feel quite so cold. Thank you very much. A reminder of | :26:47. | :26:56. | |
the day's headlines: The celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, has admitted | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
in court that she took cocaine, but denied she was an addict. She said | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
it happened during a very difficult time in her relationship with former | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
husband, Charles Saatchi. The jury in the Lee Rigby murder trial heard | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
that one of the alleged killers showed no regret or remorse. Michael | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Adebolajo criticised British politicians and said he was upset | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
about the deaths of people in Muslim lands. The Home Secretary has been | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
setting out proposals on how the Government plans to tackle | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
extremism. They include new powers to combat hate preachers as well as | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
extremist material on the internet. That is it from us for now. Alex | :27:33. | :27:41. | |
Bushill will be back with the latest from the London newsroom at 10.25pm. | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
From all the team here, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening. | :27:47. | :27:47. |