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us, news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Tonight on BBC London News. I'm sorry, Bob, there is a table to be | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
sat round, by you and your team We can't do it while you put a guno | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
your head. Bob and Boris finally talk, but only on the radio. With no | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
compromise, tonight's strike is on. We'll gauge opinions of the dispute | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
from across the capital. The strikers are defending their jobs, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
but they're also defending the service that they're giving. Being | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
able to hold London to ransom. We talk to the Mayor and the RMT leader | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
plus give you the travel information you need. Also tonight: Police | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
release CCTV images of a suspected murderer who they fear could kill | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
again. And, behind`the`scenes of the most unusual play you're ever likely | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
to see. Good evening. Welcome to the | :01:05. | :01:21. | |
programme. Tube workers go on strike from 9.00pm tonight and two`days of | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
disruption for millions of Londoners will begin. The dispute is over | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
planses to close all ticket offices on the network and cut jobs. London | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Underground says it's a vital part of its modernisation plan. The RMT | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
union says the changes will make travelling on the Tube more | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
dangerous. We start our coverage this evening with our transport | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
correspondent, Tom Edwards. Tom over to you. In the last hour, | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Transport for London for said to the unions that it's not too the late to | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
call off this strike. This was the day when talking failed. Just hours | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
before a Tube strike, union bosses were at City Hall in an extremely | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
unusual move, they wanted to talk to the Mayor direct about the dispute. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Do you think it will work? The ball is in his court. He said he wants to | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
meet us. We will wait for them. Turning up here shows our resolve to | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
try and get a resolution to this longstanding dispute. The Mayor was | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
hosting a radio phone`in, for the first time in years, Bob Crow and | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
the Mayor talked. There have been massive improvements in technology. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
OK. Fewer and fewer people actually use... Sit round the table, explain | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
about all this new technology? I'm sorry, Bob, there is a table to be | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
sat round by you and your team. We can't do it while you put a gun to | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
your head? I'm not... You served the notice on our union to say the jobs | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
were going. If you didn't serve the notice there wouldn't be a strike | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
tonight. The simple round it, withdraw that notice, suspend the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
notice, we will suspend the action and get round the table, out of the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
pressure cooker and look at the future of London Underground. Why | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
can't the document be withdrawn I don't know what he is talking about. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
It's complete nonsense. The strike is over: LU says technology means | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
ticket offices aren't needed. It says it will seek to avoid | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
compulsory redundancies. With no joy over the phone, union bosses entered | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
City Hall and waited and waited The Mayor's office said they'd only talk | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
if the strikes were called off. The union would only do that if job | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
losses were suspended. Are you going to call the strike off? No, I'm not | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
calling the strike off. The Mayor had this to say. He can talk to me | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
any time. My office is open. He can have a coffee a pinacalda if he | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
calls off the pointless strike. Looms for commuters. Of course, | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
caught in the middle of the row are the many people whose journeys will | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
be made more difficult by the strike. Tara Welsh has been hearing | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the views of people across London. Been months in the making, the fist | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
edition of their new running magazine is ready. All the publicity | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
has arrived for the lunch party near the city tomorrow. 160 guests were | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
supposed to be going, then came news of the Tube strike. I think it could | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
really blow a Noel our plans. We could end up with half the people | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
that we thought were coming, coming. It's little things like the caterers | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
are asking how much food we want. I have no idea. I don't know how many | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
people will be able to get there. Minutes from their office, a | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
different type of leaflet. One in support of the strike. The strikers | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
are defending their jobs. They are also defending the service that they | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
are giving. They get job satisfaction from giving a good | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
service. If there's not enough of them there, if they are not Manning | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the station, they know that safety is at risk. They are fighting for | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
one thing or another. They may have a reason why. The affect it will | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
have on members of the public I can't begin to contemplate. I don't | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
want to think about it until I have to tomorrow. People should have the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
right to strike and stick up for themselves without the media picking | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
on them. Nearly all the staff here rely on the Tube. They say the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
strike means cancelled meetings and loss productivity. It doesn't seem | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
right that such a small number of people can vote in favour of strike | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
action, that doesn't just cause harm to London, but to the wider UK | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
economy in general. These strikes aren't good for Londoners. Not good | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
for business. Not good fort economy. I can't see any reason why they they | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
should be happening. And the unions claim public opinion is on their | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
side. What seems to be undisputed though is that this strike will | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
cause problems for thousands across the capital. Earlier, I spoke to the | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Mayor and asked him about whether today's events highlighted just how | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
bad industrial relations had become. My door is open to Bob Crow, as I've | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
said before, to come in and talk about the long`term future of the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Tube. If he calls off what I think is a completely pointless strike, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
that will do no good for his members, for Londoners, and for the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
long`term future of the Tube. Can't deny that this stalemate is | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
embarrassing. Embarrassing for you and Londoners. One of you has to be | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
the bigger man, will it be? The RMT and the TSSA need to call off what | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
is a completely pointless strike and what they need to do is to get into | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the negotiations and sort it out. Will you compromise? I'm always | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
happy to talk to the leadership of the RMT, to the leader of the TSSA | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
about the long`term future of the Tube and our vision for London. What | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
I won't do is second guess our negotiators and do their job for | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
them. They clearly want to talk to you, don't they? I... Of course they | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
do. Of course, they do. They, let me tell you why. Let me finish my | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
question. Please. Why let it get to this stage? Shouldn't the leader of | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
the city be prepared to sit down and talk to people even if you don't | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
agree with them? No. Of course they want to get me into the conversation | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
because they want to escalate it politically. They know I'm a tender | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
hearted old so`and`so and they hope there by to get round TFL | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
negotiators. That is completely the wrong approach. A personal | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
relationship with you be exactly the kind of thing that would help break | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
deadlock on occasions like this No. Do you think you failed in that | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
sense? On the contrary, I think that what needs to happen now is that the | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
union representatives need to stop playing politics. They need to stop | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
trying to dodge the question. Look at the offer that is on the table. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Of course, they want to try and drag the politicians into it. This is | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
essentially a political gesture by them. It will make absolutely no | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
difference to the long`term future of their members. It certainly won't | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
do anything for London Underground. It's completely the wrong way | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
forward. What they need to do is get to the table, call off the strike, | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
and begin negotiating. With the loss of around 700 station staff, can you | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
guarantee that safety won't be compromise? Yes. Etc specially in | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
outer stations where you will see one person on the platform complete | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
with an iPad? This is the right thing to do. Once we explained to | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Londoners what the programme would involve. 82% support this. What we | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
are doing is getting staff out from behind the glass, where they can't | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
be use to passengers and customers, getting them on to the concourses | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
and platforms where they can be genuinely of assistance. Crime has | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
come down on the Tube by 20% on the six years. It's the safest tube | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
system anywhere in Europe. We are absolutely confident these reforms | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
will enable us to continue making it ever safer. That was the Mayor, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Boris Johnson, speaking to me earlier. What about the unions? Our | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
political editor, Tim Donovan, asked the RMT's Bob Crow if he'd done | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
enough to avoid the strike. Our local negotiators have been in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
there, day in, day out, trying to talk to them. The reason to shut | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
every booking office. They haven't explained why every booking office | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
should be shut down, purely on finance. They will say they will | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
extend the consultation period, call off the strike? It's not as simple | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
as that. They said there will be 400 people who applied for redundancies | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
they will press ahead. On top of that as well, they are saying to | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
people, retrain to do new jobs. We haven't agreed what the new jobs | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
will be. How they get the new jobs. We want an understanding from the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Mayor of London. When he stood or election said he would keep bookings | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
offices open, why he wants to shut them down. Can change and how you | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
will end, or you appear to be on the wrong side of the argument. When you | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
use fewer tickets you need fewer ticket offices? It's not just the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
issue. The issue is not just using the tickets. These people don't | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
serve behind the ticket office. The other supervisors who work on the | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
stations those people have to reapply for their own jobs. All | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
these people are safety critical people. When the vicious terrorist | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
attacks took place in London they came to the help and support of the | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
travelling public. You have an opportunity to put that through in | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
terms of the consultation. Raise safety issues they can be addressed? | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
They haven't consulted properly at all. They haven't changed since last | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
November, throughout all the negotiations, our negotiators have | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
been in ACAS all last week, and yesterday, they haven't changed | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
nothing. London Underground keep saying there is an open door. It's' | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
revolving door. We go out the same day we come in. They gave you the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
commitment there will be more staff visible to the public. The public | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
want more staff available not just in ticket offices. Our members work | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Friday and Saturday night. It's not a b pro. Our members walking home at | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
2.00 am and 3.00 am around London if they will be safe. If more people | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
will use London Underground, it s not an industrying that is | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
collapsing. It's a growing industry. Hundreds of thousands of people will | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
use London Underground. The last thing you want to do is take out | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
1,000 jobs when you want to use the services more. On now. There is | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
nothing anyone can do about it? The form they sent over saying 758 jobs | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
were going to go is withdraw it we start the process of talks. We are | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
quite committed to give... It will not happen. Mayor will not budge? | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
The strike goes ahead. The interests of 2,000 workers who voted here | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
causing all this disruption to Londoners? That is not the issue | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
about 2,000 workers. The fact of the matter is, all of our members got a | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
ballot paper we respect their wishes whether they vote yes or no. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Therefore, what else will we do to be in a trade union. We turn around | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
#57bd say employers can do what they want for us bed or stand up and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
fight. Our members decided to stand up and fight. Was Bob Crow leader of | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
the RMT. We will have more on the Tube strike later. I will tell you | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
what you need to know if you are travelling tomorrow and how best to | :13:06. | :13:06. | |
get around. The other news now. Detectives | :13:07. | :13:20. | |
investigating the murder of a sex worker at a flat in Earl's Court | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to about her | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
death. The body of Maria Duque`Tunjano was discovered last | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Friday. Police say they believed Robert Richard Fraser is still in | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
the capital and are warning other sex workers could be at risk. Robert | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Richard Fraser in central London on Sunday. Detectives believe that days | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
earlier he was involved in the violent murder of a prostitute in | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Earl's Court. Fraser was the last person seen with Maria | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Duque`Tunjano, a week ago today They also think he robbed and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
attacked another sex workers in Paddington last month. He is known | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
to the police and today the detective leading the hunt appealed | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
to him directly. I'm just looking for him. I want him, I'm saying to | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
Robert, please hand yourself in to the nearest police station or you | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
can contact the number that is published, a detective is waiting to | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
talk to you. Dieudonne Maria Duque`Tunjano brought her clients | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
here. Police were called here on Friday afternoon. They say her body | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
could have been here for up to three days. They warn other sex workers to | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
be on the alert. Contact the support workers. If you don't know their | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
numbers, contact our incident room. If you feel you are in danger, | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
contact 999. Fraser who goes by the names Robert Aleem and Shia Robert | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Jackson is known to have connections to the edge where and Golders Green | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
areas. Detectives say he has mental health issues and shouldn't be | :15:00. | :15:00. | |
approached. The family and friends of a man who | :15:01. | :15:14. | |
died after being detained in custody are welcoming and enquiry. The case | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of Leon Briggs has prompted the Home Secretary Theresa | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
painful memories of Leon Briggs His best friend goes to the spot in | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Luton where he was detained by police and never seen again. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
He was one of the most loving people you could ever know. A lovely guy. | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
Leon Briggs was brought here to Luton police station by officers who | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
say they were concerned about his behaviour and detained him under the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Mental Health Act. They say he became ill and later died in | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
hospital. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is carrying | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
out an investigation into what happened. Investigators have studied | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
CCTV from the police custody suites and they say suspected offences | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
include gross negligence, misconduct and manslaughter. Five police | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
officers and two civilian staff have been suspended. The case of the | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
32`year`old father of two is the latest to be investigated by the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
IPCC. The Home Secretary has ordered an urgent enquiry into the treatment | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
of vulnerable people in custody a move welcomed by Leon's MP who wants | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
his body camera is compulsory. They would not be governed just by an | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
individual officer on the beat or a local management decision, but there | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
is a national rule about how they are used. Every incident which is | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
properly recorded would help both sides. Tonight Leon Briggs' family | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
and friends are holding a vigil in Luton to remember him and to | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
reiterate their call for answers. A woman from London has lost her | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
legal challenge at the Court of Appeal over the legality of random | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
please stop and search powers. Ann Juliette Roberts had accused the Met | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
of using the tactic disproportionately against black | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Londoners. The High Court ruled the police had acted lawfully and three | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Court of Appeal judges rejected her claim that the original decision had | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
been wrong. Two cancer patients have died after NHS rules were broken by | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Watford General Hospital. West Herts NHS Trust has carried out a review | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
into how it monitored patients' appointments. An external | :17:47. | :18:00. | |
investigation has been launched It says the care of three patients | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
was compromised and two have since died. 13 incredibly rare iguanas | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
have been seized by customs at Heathrow. The San Salvador rock | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
iguanas were found stuffed into socks. Officers stopped two Romanian | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
women at terminal five on Monday and made the discovery before they | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
boarded a plane to Dusseldorf. A multi`million pound redevelopment | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
of a south London hospital may not go ahead after some local doctors | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
said it was not necessary. St Helier Hospital in Carshalton is at the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
centre of a row over whether its maternity and A services should be | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
downgraded. The Chancellor earmarked millions of pounds for the | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
development in his Autumn statement, but now there are | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
concerns it will not happen. It is not in a great state of repair, but | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
it supplies a fantastic service It needs to be refurbished. We need new | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
ward blocks and the money is there and it exists and the plans are | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
there. The local NHS is saying no. Who would pay good money to go to a | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
play when the only part of the actor you can see is they're moving lips? | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
Quite a few. Not I by Samuel Beckett is proving an unlikely hit in the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
west end despite its obvious challenges for the audience and | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
actor. Brenda Emmanus reports. Out into this world, this world, a tiny | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
little thing... A mouth, a pitch black space and the rantings of a | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
troubled, 70`year`old woman. This is Not I, Samuel Beckett's dramatic | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
monologue. Both mesmerising and disturbing, it is also one of the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
most challenging roles in theatre. Even when I am rehearsing, the piece | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
produces terror. No matter how well you know it, it never gets any | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
easier. I am blackened out and blindfolded. I cannot see or hear. I | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
am strapped by my lovely stage manager into this device. What I | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
love about Samuel Beckett is he asks so much of a performer. I have never | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
been asked to offer so much and that is such a privilege. Billie Whitelaw | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
performed Not I in 1973 and was personally coached by Samuel | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Beckett. He was so demanding in the fact that he was so meticulous. If | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
you mispronounced something, he would say, oh, Lord and his head | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
would go down to his hands. But because I knew he was radiating love | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
and he cared and he wanted due to be perfect, which was not possible it | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
did not upset me. Samuel Beckett's work is not easy and not for | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
everyone, but this trilogy of plays has put bums on seats. It sold out | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
everywhere you have performed it. How do you feel about bringing it to | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
the West End? One of the big appeals is that Samuel Beckett does not | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
patronise an audience and he asks a lot of them. I think people really | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
respond to that. Not I is at the Duchess Theatre until the 15th of | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
February. Returning to the Tube strike, the walk`out starts tonight | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
at 9pm and continues for 48 hours. Alice Bhandhakravi has been looking | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
into how the dispute will affect services. | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Heading home tonight and planning how they will get around for the | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
next two days. It is likely to be a challenging 48 hours. Everybody will | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
be on the road on bikes, on the buses and that will slow everything | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
down. It has a huge impact on me. I work long days, so I have to find a | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
way of getting a bus at about 5 0 in the morning. We do not know exactly | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
how badly services will be affected, but he is what we do know. There | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
will be disruption on all lines Trains running will operate between | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
every six and 20 minutes and the services will start later than | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
normal at 7am and finish at 11pm. The picture is copperplated, but to | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
give you an idea of how it will run, let's take a couple of examples On | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
the Central Line there will be no trains in the middle section, but | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
there will be some services at either end. It is similar on the | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Piccadilly line. There is no service in central London, but outer edges | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
will have a limited service. One of the difficulties you have with some | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
of the stations is you have to have a minimum number of staff for safety | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
reasons. Safety is our number one priority. When you have got a number | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
of people to support the service, you have to distribute them around | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
the service. How else can you get around? The DLR, the overground and | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
tram services will be operating as normal. There will be extra buses | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
and Londoners are being advised to consider cycling and walking. It is | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
a changing picture and you can keep up to date on the website, or follow | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
our travel team on Twitter. Let's get a final thought on the | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Tube strike from our transport correspondent Tom Edwards. I gather | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
there has been more political reaction. Tonight the Prime Minister | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
and the leader of the opposition Ed Miliband have both condemned the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
strike. David Cameron has called it shameful and Ed Miliband said it | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
should not go ahead. I leave you with words from Harriet Harman, she | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
says all sides need their heads knocking together. Commuters are | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
going to sympathise with that tonight. Our transport correspondent | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
Tom Edwards. Let's get a check on the weather. The weather will play a | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
part if you are standing in a bus queue or cycling or walking | :24:40. | :24:40. | |
tomorrow. The part it will play will be a bad | :24:41. | :24:52. | |
one. The next 24 hours is going to bring as stormy weather and it is | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
whipping its way across the Atlantic as we speak. There are two separate | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
warnings. 50 mph gusts are possible overnight and we could have 50 | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
millimetres of rain, which is what we do not need. This evening the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
clouds thicken up and the rain will be knocking on our door very | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
shortly. The heaviest will come through tonight at around midnight | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
across parts of Berkshire and Surrey and in the North East. They will be | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
intense downpours and that is when we will have those gusty, squally | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
winds. That will clear and there will be some showers and the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
temperatures will be down to four or five degrees. When you are standing | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
in that bus queue tomorrow it will be a blustery start to the day. As | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
we go into the lunchtime period and band of heavy rain will go through | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
and again the wind has the chance of blowing up to 50 mph. That will be | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
particularly unpleasant. There will still be some heavy showers around | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
as we finished the day and get into this evening was mad rush hour. For | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
much of Thursday it will be drier and brighter for a time. This area | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
of low pressure has looked uncertain during the week, but the current | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
thinking is there will be more persistent, heavy rain overnight on | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Thursday into Friday, which is just what we do not need. On Friday there | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
is a respite, but that is ahead of the weekend when yet more Atlantic | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
storms look like they are going to head our way. I wish I could give | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
you some good news, but I am the harbinger of doom at the moment | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
The headlines: Prince Charles has visited flood hit areas of Somerset | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
and better farmers and residents, some of whom have been cut off for | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
more than a month. The chief executive of BP has expressed his | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
concerns about the possibility of Scotland becoming independent saying | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
there was a question over which currency would be adopted. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
Cuadrilla has announced two new site in Lancashire where it plans to try | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
fracking for shale gas. Tube workers walk out tonight at 9pm | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
as a 48 hour strike on the cheap begins bringing disruption to | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
millions of Londoners. The row is over plans to close ticket offices | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
and job losses. You can see the latest on the travel disruption on | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
our website. I will be back later during the ten o'clock news. Have a | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
lovely evening, goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:48. |