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let-up. Thank you. That is all from the BBC News at Six. Goodbye. Now | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. Tonight, a former head at a prestigious prep school is | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
convicted of historic child sex offences. Three other teachers are | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
found guilty of abuse. It is not just the victims who | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
suffered here. It is the families. For example, I am married and they | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
have children and it has affected my whole family. Other victims are | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
being urged to come forward. Also tonight, and NHS Trust is put into | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
special measures after safety concerns at two of the capital's | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
A We look at the impact of London housing development is | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
marketed in the Far East. Plus... Are you a tenner? Yes, I am. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Here's one to shut up. Jo Brand tells us why doing her first ever | :00:57. | :01:14. | |
panto is harder than stand`up. Good evening. A former Prime | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Minister `` head Minister `` headteacher at a historic prep | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
school has been convicted to historic sex abuse instances. BBC | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
London has spoken to one former pupil, who says that he was the | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
victim of systematic abuse carried out by another teacher, one of three | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
who have also been found guilty of abusing boys at the school. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
It is an elite boarding school. Parents pay ?20,000 a year for the | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
very best education and pastoral care at Caldicott Boys' Preparatory | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
School. Instead, over 27 years, 27 boys were subject to sexual abuse. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
At its heart, Peter Wright or, you should hear a few years after he | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
joined the school in 1952. For the parents, he was a charismatic | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
headteacher. For the pupils, he was a predatory paedophile. Yesterday, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
aged 83, he was finally convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault against | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
boys in his care. It was the older boys, from 12 to 13, were targeted, | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
particularly those who starred in the first 15 rugby team, a team that | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Peter Wright coached. His victims have told the court how they were | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
made to feel part of a school elite, but all the time they were | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
being abused here at the school and on field trips. The school is now | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
very different. Recent inspections found it to be outstanding and | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
excellent. But now that Peter Wright has been convicted, reporting | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
restrictions have been lifted, allowing the BBC to reveal that | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
three other teachers, two employed by Peter Wright, have been convicted | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
of abusing boys at the school from 1959 until 1979. They ask you Henry, | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
pleaded guilty to 11 counts of indecent assault. John Addison was | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
guilty of 17 counts. And a science teacher has admitted seven counts of | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
indecent assault and two of buggery. Alistair Rolfe was one of his | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
victims. He has waived his right to anonymity. I thought how was the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
only one for a long time, until all was taken into a room with my abuser | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
and another boy, and the two of us were allowed to `` asked to strip | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
naked and photographs were taken. Did not know about the others but it | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
is hardly surprising, given the nature of the school. I was aware at | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
the time the tie was not the only one. Another pupil was Nick Clegg. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
In a statement, the deputy Prime Minister said: | :03:46. | :03:59. | |
For lawyers representing the victims, there is much left | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
unanswered. Peter Wright was the headmaster for many years. The | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
chants of those witnesses who have come forward being the only victims | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
of abuse are very slight. Also, we would like to speak to any of the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
staff that were there at the time the cars they may well have seen | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
things going on that they found suspicious. It has also emerged that | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
similar charges brought against Peter Wright in 2003 were | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
effectively blocked by a judge as it was considered unfair to put him on | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
trial over historical allegations. Tonight, he has no such legal | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
protection. Convicted for his part in the white and systematic abuse of | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the boys in his care. `` white scale. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
20 more to come tonight, including the Christmas card that has not gone | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
down well with housing tenants in West London. | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
The NHS Trust which runs Queens Hospital in Romford and King George | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
is Hospital in Ilford has been put into special measures. It follows | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
recommendations from the chief inspector of hospitals over concerns | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
about patient safety in their accident and emergency departments. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
A special team will be sent in to help the hospitals improve. Karl | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Mercer reports. Queens and King George and no | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
strangers to bad helplines. Today, more unwelcome news as they became | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
the first London hospitals put in special measures. The accident and | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
emergency department say that inspectors are not always clear | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
enough. It faces difficult challenges. It has long waiting | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
times in A and it serves a large population. There are good things | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
going on there, but in all honesty, I felt of the best way to help the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
hospital was to put it into special measures. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
The hospitals will now have a new team sent in to try and improve | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
their A Top of the agenda, the need for more permanent staff. The | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
biggest challenge in our A department is to recruit | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
consultants. We have 21 posts funded. We have the salaries to pay | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
21 and we have six in post at the moment. Really, we struggle to get | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
the best people. And that is able problem given the number of patients | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
they deal with. Between the hospitals, they see 200 hours on | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
patients in year my rate of around 600 a day. 100 of those patients | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
have to be omitted to the hospitals. 20 ambulances arrive | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
every hour. The problems are not helped by the | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
fact that Queens is paying a hefty The problems are not helped by the | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
fact that Queens bill for its new building, something like ?55 million | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
a year. Two years ago, the government promised to help out, | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
saying they would foot ?16 million a year of the bill. But so far the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
hospital has not received any of that money. Because the government | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
will not pay it until improvements are seen in A services. And as we | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
know, those services are not improving. It is now down to the NHS | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
and ministers to get into place the right people to provide the right | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
quality of service. And if it needs more money for a period to see it | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
through its crisis and get it onto a stable footing, and hope that this | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
hospital will be properly resourced so that it can stand on its own two | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
feet. That has been the aim for these | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
hospitals before but so far, they have struggled to do so. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Next year's fear rises will be delayed by at least a fortnight | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
because of a hitch over Travelcards. The mayor is having to bring down | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the proposed price of a travel card after the Chancellor capped | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
increases in national rail fares. TfL say the change could cost them | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
around ?40 million in lost revenue. One of the critics of the mayor has | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
described it as a farcical failure of communication wing government and | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
City Hall. `` between government. Newham | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
College has sacked its head of performing arts, Mark Walcott, | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
following a homophobic rant. The outburst triggered an eight`month | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
internal investigation but cleared Mr Walcott. It was later suspended | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
after the recording made its way into the public domain. The college | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
said in a statement that Mr Walcott's views do not represent the | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
values of the college. A former personal assistant of | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Nigella Lawson and her former husband has denied that she was a | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
fantasist and a shopaholic will stop Francesca Grillo and her sister are | :08:43. | :08:43. | |
accused of spending almost ?700 000 accused of spending almost ?700 000 | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
on credit cards belonging to the couple. They deny the charges. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Luisa Baldini has been in court. couple. They deny the charges. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Luisa Baldini has been in court. The Luisa Baldini has been in court The | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
judge went over all the evidence for the benefit of the jury of seven men | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and five women. Before that, we heard from the defence barrister of | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Francesca Grillo, who urged the jury to put aside any publicity | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
surrounding the case. She said that this is not a trial of Nigella | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Lawson or a question of saying that you like and you like her programmes | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
and she has a nice personality on those programmes. Our evidence is | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
not preferable to that of the defendants because of who she is. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
She said, that is not the way to proceed. She said it was an | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
undeniable fact of this case that Nigella Lawson did take drugs will | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
stop she said that people are charged and tried everyday increment | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
courts for doing that, and she has gone into the witness box and | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
admitted that. You must not elevate her to a lesser degree of | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
questioning her credibility because she is a famous person, she said. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Whether she has indulged more than she has admitted to might aggravate | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the question of credibility. Before that, we heard from the defence | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Alistair of Elizabetta Grillo, who asked the jury to consider why | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Charles Saatchi asked his accountants to investigate only the | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
sisters and not the other personal assistance. `` defence barrister. He | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
told the jury that he believed that his client, Elisabetta Grillo, has | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
been collateral caught in the crossfire and he said that although | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
she is not on trial, the evidence is inevitably going to be of | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
significance to Nigella Lawson and her public image. We expect the jury | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
to be sent out first thing tomorrow. Next, how a row between neighbours | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
over a wheelie bin ended up in the High Court. Wheelie bins outside the | :10:42. | :11:01. | |
Royal Courts of Justice are not normally a subject discussed inside | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
such distinguished premises. But now we have the case of Liaquat Ali. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
such distinguished premises. But now we have the case of Liaquat Ali. It | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
we have the case of Liaquat Ali It is unbelievable, absurd. He is | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
talking about a bill for ?54,000 in talking about a bill for ?54,00 in | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
legal costs. All top in a three`year battle with his neighbour over the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
placement of wheelie bins in their shared driveway. It is a 240 metre | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
domestic wheelie bin which people use all over the country. His | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
neighbour won an agreement saying that the bins should not be left | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
there. Liaquat Ali was prepared to agree to that but not to pay the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
costs. His lawyer argued that there should be no costs in this case | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
about a wheelie bin because no damages have been awarded. But the | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
court disagreed and we then saw no fewer than four lawyers sitting | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
together in a corridor with cartilage is in their hands trying | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
to agree a suitable figure. It ended up at ?15,000. It can be justified, | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
over a wheelie bin which is worth about ?20, particularly when the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
other party never recovered any damages. Can you afford that kind of | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
money? I would probably looking at remortgaging my property. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Liaquat Ali's neighbour did not want to comment, but his solicitor said: | :12:25. | :12:38. | |
It certainly highlights the fact that the law is not working in this | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
case and it is something that all will be taking up with the attorney | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
general. Liaquat Ali says he may yet appeal but he has given his wheelie | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
bin back to Barnet council. Around half of new`build homes in | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
inner London are now sold to foreign investors according to a leading | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
economic research group. But are these cashrich buyers pushing up | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
property prices in the capital? Continuing our Back To Life Reeves, | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Mark Jordan `` our living in London series, Mark Jordan reports from | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
Hong Kong. Hong Kong is not in love with London. It just thinks it is | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
cheap. Here it is a room in a loom for ?350,000. Prices here have | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
rocketed 60% in two years. Many think it has peaked so they turn to | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
London. Unlike Russian oligarchs and Arab sheiks, they are investing in | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
ordinary homes. What is different is that China's cash rich middle`class | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
is often shopping for exactly the same type of property that Londoners | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
are struggling to buy. Every week, investors flock to international | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
property Expos were London estate agents eagerly await them. Anything | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
on Hong Kong Island is very expensive, ?2 million it could be. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
London is cheap, ?400,000, people can afford that and they can afford | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
to pay cash. There is a love affair between Hong Kong people and | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
London, the history, the culture. Once it was just Belgravias and | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Notting Hill being marketed internationally but here, XM and | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Hackney, Crichton, thousands of miles from home, London is up for | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
sale. There are demands for letting and leasing. It is cheap, very | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
cheap. Do you understand why Londoners are angry about you buying | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
this property? I would B. Personally, I cannot afford the Hong | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Kong prices. UK rent is expected to rise by 21% over the next five | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
years. Ironically, the government has slammed a 22% tax on foreigners | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
buying in Hong Kong, which has stoked interest in London. A lot of | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Hong Kong property sits empty. You will look up at high rise buildings | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
at night and all the lights are off because one third of the building | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
will be owned by mainland Chinese and they just keep their shopping | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
bags there when they visit once a quarter. The art in and out and they | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
speculatively. It will be interesting to see what happens in | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
London. It is a thorny subject. 6000 miles east of Hackney, this London | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
agents declined even an interview. Others, like Fraser and Cole have a | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
plush Hong Kong office along way from Stratford. Here, without a | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
single brick laid, they have already sold most of the flats that will | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
eventually stand by the flyover. sold most of the flats that will | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
eventually stand by the flyover It eventually stand by the flyover. It | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
has been one of the fastest sellers this year. In one weekend, over 50. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
And then in Singapore, another 0. And then in Singapore, another 30. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
It has been busy. It means many London developments are launched in | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Asia. Normally, we bring an exhibitor to Asia first because | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
culturally, people expect to buy three years in advance. But on built | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
sites are not much use to someone buying a home. There, some warm the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Chinese `` some warm the Chinese percolation risks a bubble. If you | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
are buying in a secondary location where the large majority of owners | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
are foreign, speculative, suddenly the market drops 5% and everyone is | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
looking to sell at the same time, which pushes the price down further. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
So there could be tears? Yet, yet. `` yet. | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
Time will tell. Still to come: having sacked their | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
manager on Monday, Tottenham are beginning life without Andre | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Villas`Boas and facing a game at White Hart Lane. Against West Ham. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
It's a Christmas card that's been sent by one London council to its | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
housing tenants warning them not to "overindulge" but to "pay their | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
rent" over the festive season. Hammersmith and Fulham says it's | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
aimed at helping people in financial hardship. But many of those who've | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
received it say it's offensive and insensitive. Sarah Harris has the | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
story. That's a nice one. 82`year`old Mary | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
loves getting Christmas cards at her home in west London where she lives | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
with her daughter Tina. But the Yuletide greeting she received from | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
her landlord, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, wasn't quite so welcome, as | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
it included the words" don't overindulge this Christmas. Pay your | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
rent! " for a woman who prides herself on paying her rent on time | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
and allows herself one Bailey's a year on Christmas Day, it misses the | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
point. I thought, what a cheek, to send me that. Look at my mum. 60 | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
years she has paid the rent, she has bought the house ten times over. It | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
is harassment through the letterbox. How dare they? The council sent out | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
hundreds of what they call flyers, not cards, and they deny that the | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
message is Scrooge like, but simply designed to help people at a | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
challenging time of year. The messages, please contact us if you | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
are having trouble paying your rent. That has got to be contextualise in | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
terms of ?3.7 million the council is owed in terms of unpaid rent. But | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
the local MP says he is appalled, and tenants are owed an apology. | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
the local MP says he is appalled, and tenants are owed an apology And | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
they are then making people pay for this. It adds insult to injury. They | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
are making people pay thousands of pounds. It shows how out of touch | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
these Tory councillors are. It's from my sister Judy. Mary and Tina | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
are determined to enjoy their Christmas despite the upset, and | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
they suggest that next year they receive a card thanking them for | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
paying their rent on time. Let's turn to football now, and | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
tonight it's the first time Tottenham are in action since they | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
sacked their manager Andre Villas`Boas. They meet West Ham in | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
the quarterfinals of the League Cup at White Hart Lane. And our sports | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
reporter Chris Slegg is there. What's the mood like there? | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
Frustration amongst the few fans I have spoken to, frustration that | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
their team is yet again seeking another new manager just four months | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
after spending ?100 million in the transfer market on new players, and | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
just after coming so close to champions league football last | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
season. It is of course a caretaker management team that will take | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
charge tonight, headed up by Tim Sherwood and their former striker | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Les Ferdinand. There is a growing feeling that perhaps they may stay | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
in charge until the end of the season, and a high profile figure | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
like Fabio Capello, or Glenn Hoddle, names closely linked to the job. And | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
names closely linked to the job And the West Ham manager is also under a | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
bit of Russia. `` pressure? Yes, Sam bit of Russia. `` pressure? Yes, Sam | :20:32. | :20:45. | |
Allardyce, also under pressure because his team are close to the | :20:46. | :20:58. | |
drop zone. You have to be a bit of a minute `` miracle worker to get | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
everybody functioning 100% when they have arrived from different arenas, | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
cultures and countries. And elsewhere, more managerial comings | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
and goings. Yes. Watford have named the replacement for Gianfranco Zola | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
who quit on Monday, and it is a fellow Italian, who has had a 17 | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
year career managing Italy. Not many people in this country will have | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
heard of him. So Watford can start their new era. But here at White | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Hart Lane, we are no closer to knowing who will fill the managerial | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
hot seat at top them. `` Tottenham. Chris, many thanks. Comedian Jo | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
Brand is making her Panto debut this Christmas, which she says is much | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
harder than doing stand`up. She stars in Aladdin at the New | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Wimbledon Theatre, which is just one of the festive offerings to keep the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
family entertained over the holidays. Here's our Entertainments | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
Correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, with a look at some of them. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
This is awkward. It is not for you. I was only going to sell it on eBay. | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
The good old panto has become an important part of our Christmas | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
tradition. No need to fight over the TV remote when there is something | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
for everyone in a good live show. The Theatre Royal Stratford presents | :22:24. | :22:38. | |
Dick Whittington. Very funny, quick, to the point, and it is modern. It | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
is relevant to the kids and the adults. | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
I had kids tell the punch line of one of my jokes the other night, so | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
I brought him up on stage and said, you told the jokes, then. Now, you | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
might want to cover your is for this bit. Dick Whittington is not the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
only panto in London. Over in Wimbledon, Jo Brand makes her debut | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
with Matthew Kelly in Aladdin. Oh, no she doesn't! Yes, she does. Are | :23:14. | :23:25. | |
you a tenner? Here is one to shut up. Matthew and Joe are by street | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
dancers and energy. The comedy star is taking it in her stride. I am | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
kind of pacing myself. I am not used to shows a day in this period of | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
time. I will let you know at the end. The dancing is brilliant. It is | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
fantastically fast moving. The scenery is gorgeous. My costumes are | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
fabulous. And we would like everybody to come. Tall stories, `` | :24:08. | :24:21. | |
Tore Story's adaptation of the Gruffalo is coming to the West End. | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
And mushy monsters will be on the big screen, released this weekend. | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
The game started online, so children had a relationship with their | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
monster online, and it is a big challenge to take that online. It | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
has not been easy, but we have had an amazing team on it. A host of | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
family festive fun on stage and screen over the Christmas holidays. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Don't forget Dick Whittington! We are here into a January 11. Have a | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Merry Christmas. It's that time of the evening for a | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
look at the weather with Peter. It is not very Merry out there this | :25:11. | :25:25. | |
evening. We have whetted windy weather clearing away to the east. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
As much as 15 millimetres of rain could fall in the next few hours. | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
The wind could reach 50 mph. The strongest gusts are likely to be the | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
south of the Thames. The rest of the night, we have clear skies, and some | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
scattered cold rain showers. The breeze will still be there, which | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
will help dry out the roads and pavements, and then tomorrow, some | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
sunshine, drive for most of us during daylight hours. A breeze so | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
any showers that do come along will get out of the way quite quickly. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
And temperatures in the afternoon will get up to around eight Celsius. | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
It is after dark tomorrow that we might have a little bit of a | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
problem, when a spell of wet weather moves in from the west. The rain | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
could turn quite heavy, and there is a possibility during the rush hour | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
that we could find some hail or even some wet snow mixed in with that. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Once that clears out of the way with lighter winds and low | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
temperature tomorrow night, we could have some ice to contend with, and I | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
think that is the first time I have mentioned ice this winter. On to | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Friday, after that I see start, bright and breezy. That will give us | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
a wet and windy start to the day on Saturday. Drier and brighter on | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
Sunday, but of one of these comes along, you will get wet during your | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
last Christmas shopping visit. Peter, thank you very much. | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
The main headlines now: Ian Watkins, former lead singer of the band the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Lostprophets, has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for a string of | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
child sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
There's been a big fall in unemployment. 99,000 fewer people | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
were out of work in the three months to October, and the figures show a | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
record 30 million people in work. New rules to make European Union | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
migrants wait three months before they can apply for out`of`work | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
benefits are to be rushed through Parliament. If passed they'll come | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
into force on the first of January. That's it from us for now. Asad | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Ahmad will be here with our late news. From me and the team here, | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
thanks for joining us and have a lovely evening. | :27:45. | :27:48. |