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will create over 550 more. Our transport correspondent, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
will create over 550 more. Our so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Tonight on BBC London News date two of the tube strike. More trains have | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
been running but no sign of an agreement. Going to have to have | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
changes to the ticket offices. They are an antiquated way of doing | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
things. If there is progress, we will take it seriously. Nothing has | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
been said at the moment. We will have the detail on how | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
London's transport ran and ask what is at stake for both Boris Johnson | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
and Bob Crow. Also tonight, eight years in jail for abusing boys. Nick | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Clegg's former headteacher is sentenced. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Plus, teaches walk`out at a North London secondary in the first ever | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
industrial action at every school. And... I try not to push others. We | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
are famous for forming a queue, but can we still do it in a choose dry? | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
`` Tube strike. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
programme. Tonight, millions of Londoners are struggling home in the | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
rain in the last rush hour of the Tube strike. Transport for London | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
admit there has been a lot of disruption again today, but say they | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
are managing to run a few more services. 73 stations were closed | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
today, compared to 80 yesterday. And there were 57,000 more journeys on | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the Tube this morning than yesterday's early rush. The two | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
sides are due to meet tomorrow, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
a real break in the deadlock. Our political correspondent Karl Mercer | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
is at Great Portland Street. Karl. There are another few hours before | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the official end of the strike, but it will be a long journey home for | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
many commuters. People are queueing for buses. Many Tubes are not | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
running. Transport for London tell us that many more stations were | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
open, but a lot of them do remain closed throughout the day. And there | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
is the added bonus for commuters tonight. Mother nature has decided | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
to play her part. If the weary trudge home wasn't | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
miserable enough on strike day, the weather decided to lend a hand. But | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
commuters can put their feet up at home tonight knowing the strikes | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
will be over for this week at least. Do you think they should just sit | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
down and talk? Yes, they should sit and talk. And work things out. But | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
we will feel it more than them. I think it will happen again next | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
week. I have just got a feeling, I think they will stick it out this | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
time. If no agreement can be found, we will be doing this again next | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
week. Just try to stand quietly on a station platform. This was the mayor | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
heading out on a visit at Embankment Tube just after rush hour this | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
morning. This was Clapham Junction in the middle of rush hour, with | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
commuters heading in. On day two of this week's strike, Londoners once | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
again faced difficult journeys to work. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Many stations still shut. Many buses taking the strain. Transport for | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
London says around three quarters of stations opened today, up on | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
yesterday. But services remained patchy. At least the station is | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
open, so we might get a train! Are they running? | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
The mayor was thanking volunteers this morning, and tomorrow the two | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
sides in the dispute will meet for talks. The mayor says he wants talks | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
today. Let's get on with it, get into the negotiating room and do a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
deal. What deal you offering? That is for our negotiators and TEFL to | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
spell out. It is their job to sit down and go through the package, and | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
I am sure it will be very reasonable. | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
What it seems is not negotiable is the fact the Transport for London | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
wants to close more than 250 ticket offices on the Tube, and that will | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
make tomorrow's talks pretty difficult. We are going to those | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
talks tomorrow, and we are going there to try to reach an agreement, | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
going in on a positive note to try to reach an agreement. It is not | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
about getting everything you want, but getting a compromise that is | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
satisfactory to the majority of our members. But if we don't get that, | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
the strike will commence again next Tuesday night. I do apologise to | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
people for the destruction they are experiencing. `` the disruption. As | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Londoners struggled to work this morning, MPs were discussing the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
strike and the lack of talks. Isn't it a fact that it takes two | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
sides to create industrial action, and the problem is with the Tory | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
front bench, that they dared attack Boris Johnson for not conducting | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
talks because half of the Tory MPs want Boris Johnson to be their next | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
leader. The honourable gentleman says it takes two to talk, but if | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
one of the main leaders is out of the country the week before, then it | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
is very difficult to have those conversations. | :05:19. | :05:19. | |
There will, though, be conversations tomorrow. The unions and Transport | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
for London will sit down and talk. Discussions that could decide if | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
there are more strikes next week. So, no imminent end to this dispute | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
yet. And it's been another very trying day for many Londoners trying | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
to get around the capital. Tarah Welsh has spent the day finding out | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
how the systems have been coping. She's at Oxford Circus now. Tarah. | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
It certainly feels different today, slightly calmer. Look at this | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
platform, for example. It is almost deserted, and yesterday they had to | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
close the gate at Oxford Circus because of crowds. The next train is | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
coming in about nine minutes. It could be quieter because people are | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
staying home. Transport for London say that 25% of stations have been | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
opened today, and services on nine of the 11 lines have been running. | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Traffic was bad this morning, but taxi drivers tell me it wasn't as | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
bad as yesterday. And people have been asking me, why don't they scrap | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the congestion charge when there is is tricorn. Transport for London say | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
they want to keep the traffic flowing, and that is why they don't. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
I asked Londoners how they were coping with their journey today. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Another difficult journey to work for many. Today there was a train, | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
it was very crowded but it was well organised, and there were people | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
there. It was OK. If people want to go on strike to better their lives, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
then obviously that is a little bit inconvenient, but there should be a | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
mechanism so that people can do that. I think a lot of people stayed | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
at home today, and that can't be good for the economy. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
On the roads, it has been just as frustrating. There is a car behind | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
me that the truck weren't letting, said he has ended up in the bus | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
lane. You have people that aren't used to driving in rush hour, they | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
are used to getting the Tube. For this minicab company, the | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
bookings haven't stopped, but the traffic has. It has been pretty much | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
constant, all of the major routes into central London have been | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
gridlocked. Transport for London the 75% of stations were open, despite | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the strike. Cycle hire has been up 50%, and some people were using it | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
for the first time. But that brings its own problems. Trying to find a | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
docking station getting around London, it has been a nightmare. No | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
spaces on the Strand, in Holburn, in Soho, or almost anywhere in the West | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
End. The vans that move the bikes around a stuck in traffic. We have a | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
lot of people around London, and our oyster card data shows that about | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
40% of people who normally use the Tube have used it today. So we are | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
moving quite a lot of people. We regret the disruption that still | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
exist. The question is, can they stop this from happening all over | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
again next week. What about tomorrow? Transport for | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
London say they intend to run services as normal. Any Londoners | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
will hope so. From Oxford Circus, thank you very | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
much. Yesterday we heard from London Underground. Tonight let's hear from | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
the RMT union. John Leach is at Highbury and Islington station. We | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
heard Bob Crow saying earlier that the strikes are still on next week | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
unless there is a compromise. What is the compromise that will break | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
this deadlock? Well, the compromise will be the management can come to | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
ACAS tomorrow, suspend the limitation of these cuts, suspend | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
the booking office closure programme, lift the threat of 953 | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
redundancies, go back to the beginning, take as long as it takes, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
take the pressure of the negotiations by removing the form HR | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
one, which is the document lays down redundancies in front of the union. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
But what you prepared to compromise on? Whatever London Underground goes | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
through the proposals of these ticket office closures station by | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
station? We will do the same, we will go through it line by line, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
page by page, word by word, whatever it takes. Today, our members have | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
taken industrial action against these cuts. These cuts result in a | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
reduction in headcount by 1000, and many booking offices closing. But | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
after losing two days' pay, is there any appetite from your members to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
lose another two days next week? Yes, not any appetite, but we are | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
prepared to do it. We are prepared to stay here for as long as it | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
takes. This is an incredibly important dispute in relation to the | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
number is concerned. ?4.2 billion worth of cuts, every single ticket | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
office to close, reduction in front`line staff by just under 1000. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
The face of the Tube will be unrecognisable. There will be no | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
staff for emergencies, a lost child, fire and emergency. And we are | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
prepared to stick it out, we will look through every document line by | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
line. This is a safety dispute. Let me ask you this. If there is no | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
movement on Friday, the strike goes ahead next week. If there is no | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
movement after that, what are you going to do? Is London going to see | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
a series of strikes? We can't rule that out, actually. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
This is a seven`year savings programme which is going to save | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
them for 2p. We have got seven years of relentless cuts, driverless | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
trains, attacks on staff, pensions, station staff, so we might end up in | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
that position, but let's hope not. Let's hope we can have a successful | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
day's talks tomorrow at ACAS. We must leave it there. Thank you | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
very much indeed. Coming up later in the programme: | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
give each other time, please don't push. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
And caught in the crush to get to work, can we maintain our British | :11:36. | :11:36. | |
cool in the queue? A former headteacher at a | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
prestigious prep school in Buckinghamshire has been sentenced | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
to eight years for abusing pupils. Roland Wright who taught at | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
Caldicott Boys, the school attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Clegg, assaulted five pupils aged between eight and thirteen between | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
1959 and 1970. Ben Ando reports. Frail and using two walking sticks, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
83`year`old former headteacher Roland Peter Wright arrived at court | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
to be sentenced after being found guilty before Christmas of abusing | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
boys on a dozen occasions. The abuse took place here, at Caldicott | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Preparatory School in Buckinghamshire, which takes boys | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
aged six to 13. He had a room in the school near the dormitories, which | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
the judge said he seemed to regard as his own private fiefdom. Mr | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Wright, who still lives opposite the school, was also said to have abused | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
boys on trips to Scotland. One victim told the BBC it had been a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
long wait for justice, but it was worth it. Only ever do a proportion | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
of victims come forward, it is difficult for them to speak. So we | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
have small percentage of the people we suspect he has abused, but | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
pleasingly, he has been found guilty of that abuse, and we have today | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
sentenced. So that is a step in the right direction. The officer who led | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
the investigation paid tribute to the victims who had come forward to | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
give evidence. He has a last been held to account | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
for his actions, and I hope he has time to reflect now on the lasting | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
effect that he has had on the many victims of his abuse. I hope that | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
the victims who have suffered at his hands feel that they have got some | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
degree of justice. One former pupil is debited by Mr | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Nick Clegg, who was head boy in the early 1980s. He said he was shocked | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
and appalled by the case. The judge said that while Wright had been to | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
many pupils and inspirational French teacher or a brilliant games master, | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
the impact of what he did on those he abused had in some cases lasted | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
throughout their lives. Roland Peter Wright was sentenced to eight years. | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
He will serve at least four in prison, where he will require | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
specialist care due to his age, and will be eligible for release on | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
licence in 2018. It's not just Tube workers striking | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
today. Teachers have walked out at a sixth form college in North London. | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
It's the first ever industrial action at a free school, and the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
dispute is over so`called zero hours contracts. Marc Ashdown reports. | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
Cleaners, restaurant workers, and supermarket staff. Hundreds of | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
thousands of UK workers are on zero hours contracts, giving books | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
ability but no guarantee of work. Teachers in Islington feel they | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
could be added to the list come on strike today after spotting a clause | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
in their contract which could see them sacked over every holiday | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
break. It could be in the middle of the school year or change our hours | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
depending on what suits the school. It feels like you have no security. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
The clause told the staff the school could lay you off from work without | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
normal pay. We regret that the students are | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
losing education. We would rather be at the negotiating table. But we're | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
not prepared to be played with and will pair for members to be | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
intimidated and bullied. The principal says it is not the case. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
He has now removed the clause and blamed the union for giving him the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
wrong paperwork. It is incredibly easy. We are committed to this | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
process, verbally and in writing. But they have chosen to still go out | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
on strike. We have said we will do this but we have asked for | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
documents. The Academy is small, just 140 students and 11 teachers. | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
Margins can affect finances hugely. The Department for Education say | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
they are aware of the situation but it is up to the school to sort it | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
out. Part of the school's appeal is greater freedom of Inquirer `` the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
curriculum and hiring and firing staff. At the moment, the teachers | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
will be out again next week. Other schools are watching closely. | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
There are growing health concerns about the smoking of shisha among | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
Londoners. Four local councils and Customs Officers have joined forces | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
in cracking down on illegal imports of shisha in an effort to regulate | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
the market. Our special correspondent, Kurt Barling, | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
reports. The growing use of shisha, are | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
largely unregulated product, is causing growing concern because it | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
is not clear exactly what people might be smoking. It is not illegal | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
but the harm caused is unknown. Now combination of crackdown and public | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
education is underway as four south London boroughs have joined forces | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
with customs and excise to regulate the market. They are not certain | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
what it is they are smoking. It can have serious health impacts which | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
could have consequences for them years down the line. Again, we don't | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
know where the money is going to and some of this stuff could be linked | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
to some unpleasant activity. We are worried about it. It is a hit and | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
miss affair, calling in on a restaurant that serves shisha | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
showing no evidence of wrongdoing, and so that teams move on. Since the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
1st of January, Judy hasn't been paid on shisha. But many of those | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
people supplying shisha, without tobacco in it, don't realise it. | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
Today's effort, above all else, is to educate people who are selling it | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
that they must pay duty or they will be breaking the law. Finally, after | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
several visits, the teams find significant amount of shisha that | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
have been imported are unlabelled and duty unpaid. They seize it and | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
give the trader warning. There is certainly a lot of it. We think | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
there is increasing use of shisha. As for the people understanding the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
position in relation to the herbal shisha, we are engaged with other | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
partners, Trading Standards, the Department of Health, to provide | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
education to those shisha bars so they understand the change in law. | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
The loss of tax is thought to be in the millions and the health risks | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
are uncharted. It is now in priority to bring it into line with other | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
production that the Exchequer and the user get the information they | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
need. It's the first day of competition in | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and Londoner Aimee Fuller has made it | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
through to the semi finals of the women's Snowboard Slopestyle this | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Sunday. She finished 10th in her heat and remains optimistic that | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
she'll be able to reach the final. West Ham are to take legal action | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
against the Football Association after an appeal failed to overturn a | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
red card show to striker Andy Carroll. He was shown the card last | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
weekend in the win against Swansea, and that decision means he'll now be | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
banned for three games. The club are currently battling against | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
relegation and think the decision is unfair. | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
Back now to the tube. As we get close to the end of this first | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
48`hour strike, how do the two public faces of this dispute come | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
out of it so far? The stakes are high for both Boris Johnson and Bob | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Crow, and they both need to prove they can deliver for their | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
supporters. Here's our political editor, Tim Donovan. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Forget for a minute is the nitty`gritty of this dispute, the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
issues at the heart of it. What it has done is bring to the forefront | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
clash of will, of style and tactics between the union leader and | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
London's mayor. At least now they have talked of sorts, if only via | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
the media. Could their relationship with an obstacle? With the personal | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
polarise? Londoners are caught in the middle. You have got these two | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
big Sur sees playing to their own constituencies. `` personalities. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Taunted by the tabloids and even in the street, cursed by commuters, and | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
those who know him say that would deflect him one bit. He has the | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
intellectual capacity and the ability to recognise that what he is | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
doing is normally for good, for the people he represents. He is aware, | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
content, even, that are fundamentally local dispute has been | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
getting national exposure. Can he cope? Important signals are being | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
sent. Underneath the charm, there's a lot of steel there. You don't | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
become a Conservative mayor of London in a left`leaning city unless | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
you have some ability to get the confidence of the public. That, | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
nation of charm and steel can still see a result in this. Asthma drug | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
combination. It is a case of having to exaggerate the other's stance. He | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
has modernised his own organisation full stop they have adopted the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
medication strategies, they have adopted we would expect a | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
21st`century organisation to have. What Bob Crow does is vocally and | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
proudly stand up for the people he represents. Cry had `` Crow has the | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
mayor down as wanting to destroy the unions. This is not Boris Johnson | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
picking a fight for broader purposes. It is not his style. He is | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
actually not one of your more confrontational politicians. So | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
far, both are reverting to type. All now wait to see how either will | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
finesse their way out of this. The British have a worldwide | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
reputation for queuing, but the tube strike has been putting that to the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
test. So have we lost the ability to form an orderly queue? Gareth Furby | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
has been finding out. Welcome to a London bus queue during a tube | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
strike. I don't think there is a system. Everybody is here for an | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
hour or more. Trying to stand back! This is for the 94 in Shepherd's | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Bush. You will notice there is no queue. Just the line of people | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
waiting, along the curb, hoping the bus will stop near to them. We don't | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
have her technique. Just go for it. I wait and try not to push others. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
Wish me luck. It is different during the 1960s. Today, in Shepherd's | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Bush, people were giving up on the bus queue. We have done this one, | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
ladies and gentlemen. I am going, walking to Oxford Circus. The | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
problem for those left behind is that the next bus could stop at | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
another part of the curb. But then somebody arrives to bring some | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
order. The bus would stop exactly where the last one left. Some have | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
stopped further back and it has not worked out so well. People then | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
surge. Keep the bus in one place and people don't rush. You must be | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
proud. Not proud, fed up. Today it was hard to cope with London's bus | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
queues. Back to our political correspondent, | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Karl Mercer. What can we expect from tomorrow's talks? I think it is a | :23:45. | :23:58. | |
fair guess to say we can expect some blunt talking. At least the size | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
will be talking to each other. Over the last few days they have been | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
talking at each other through the media. Both sides are saying they do | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
hope some kind of agreement can be reached in those talks at ACAS, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
which starts tomorrow. We heard earlier that the unions were telling | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
us there is a compromise to be had. Compromise comes with some kind of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
clauses. They say it can only be had of transport for London withdraw the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
ticket office closure plans. That is unlikely. TEFL may come up with a | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
compromise where they talk more to the unions. If we look around at | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
these cues, most of the commuters awaiting here and will hope the | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
compromise can be reached. The executive will decide on Monday if | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
next week's strikes go ahead. Let's get a check on the weather | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
with Sara Thornton. Let's get a check on the | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
There is better news tomorrow. It is going to be better. Before that, we | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
still have something to get through. From the Met Office, and amber | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
warning towards the south and west of London for the rest of us. It is | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
the next 48 hours. More spells of heavy rain. Another 40 millimetres | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
by tomorrow night. There will be edge wry interlude before we start | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
all again tomorrow night. `` age wry interlude. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
We have had some heavy bursts this afternoon. They bit of a break in | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
the rain at the moment. But we will have more through the night. That, | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
combined with gusty winds, means more windy conditions as we head | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
towards breakfast tomorrow. Temperatures, though, not close to | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
freezing. Tomorrow starts with the last few showers around. It doesn't | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
take long before the start to dry out and the wind will change of | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
action, too. Still blustery through the day but a good day in prospect, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
dry with sunshine. Look at that, 10 Celsius. In the shelter, it could | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
feel like spring. But of course, as is the pattern, it is make the most | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
of that. We have more showers heading towards us late tomorrow | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
evening. Then the net alt of rain. Again, we still have the warning in | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
place. A yellow warning as moving to the start of things on Saturday. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Saturday will start with a few showers and then there will be this | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
reef drier interlude before showers pack in. The showers will be heavy, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
they will be scored Lee, and there will be gassed the wins as well. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Along the south coast, again we have got a weather warning in place | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
because of those wins. The flood warning is to the west, longer | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
attends. For tomorrow, some dry weather for a time. | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
I heard you say sunshine! The main headlines now. | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
The Coronation Street actor, Bill Roache, has been cleared of sex | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
offences against five women. The jury at Preston Crown Court cleared | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
the actor of two counts of rape and four counts of indecent assault. | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
A Met police officer has been jailed for 12 months over his role in the | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
so`called plebgate affair. PC Keith Wallis had admitted falsely claiming | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
to have seen the row at the gates of Downing Street. | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
Fresh talks will be held tomorrow to try to bring an end to London's tube | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
strikes. Millions of commuters faced more misery today because of the | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
48`hour walk`out, which ends at 9pm. A second strike is planned for next | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
week. That's it for now. Thanks for | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
joining us. Assad Ahmad will be back with our late news. From me and the | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
team here, have a lovely evening. | :27:45. | :27:47. |