07/02/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening. Residents in the flood hit areas of the south east have

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been warned to prepare for further flooding this weekend. The worst hit

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areas include Surrey, Essex, Kent and Berkshire, with the Environment

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Agency issuing warnings over rising water levels. Sarah Harris sent this

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report from Berkshire. For weeks now contract as have been pumping out

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flood water and sewage and emptying it several miles away, back into a

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working system. But Jilly, the Flood warden here, says they are fighting

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a losing battle. I was wondering if you could let you know what time to

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expect our portaloos, please. The situation according to villagers

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lived a few miles downstream from Windsor is getting worse. We've

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asked people to keep Bath and showers to a minimum, washing and

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dishwashers to a minimum, so we can conserve what we do have here. It

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has been extremely difficult. Unfortunately, it's getting to the

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stage where it's going to be extremely difficult again. With

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water levels rising and the smell getting worse, villagers are

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organising food runs for the most vulnerable neighbours and boats for

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children, so they are not wading through contaminated water. It's

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quite horrid, actually. Do you think it's a health risk? Yes, I think it

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will be. This is sewerage, so it will be. In a statement, Thames

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water said they were trying hard to manage sewer levels and that teams

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of staff were working round`the`clock. They said they were

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doing their best in extremely difficult circumstances. Finally the

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portaloos arrive and the water levels continue to rise. Gareth

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Furby is by the River Thames tonight. Let's hear from him now.

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Here we are in Kingston, a developing situation. First, let's

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look at the latest map from the Environment Agency. It's not a

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pretty sight. More than 20 Flood warnings now in place around London

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and here in Kingston, the levels of the River Thames are rising. We ve

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been watching it. The Environment Agency says it will continue to rise

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here for the next couple of days. Eventually, possibly exceeding the

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level seen in the 2003 Flood. The town of Kingston itself is not at

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risk but beyond here the Environment Agency says some properties close to

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the river will stop to flood. ` Max start to flood. A man has been found

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stabbed in a car which was involved in a collision with a bus in

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Stockwell this evening. There was also a fight on the bus on Clapham

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Road. Detectives say they're trying to piece together what exactly

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happened. Next week's two day Tube strike is set to go`ahead after

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fresh talks between Transport Bosses and Union Officials failed to reach

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a compromise. But hopes of avoiding another walk`out haven't been

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completely dashed, as talks will continue on Monday. Here's Karl

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Mercer. Yesterday they were on strike. Today it was back to work.

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The job in hand, negotiations to try to put an end to the dispute. Just

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minutes before the union delegations went into the conciliation service,

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the Transport for London team had arrived. Today was the ninth day

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they've spent at ACAS. The previous eight didn't manage to get this

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week's 48 hour strike called off. He managed just after 5:30pm, after a

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full day of talks. London Underground encouraged by the

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discussions. There was good progress made today. We've had very

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destructive talks. We will consider our position over the weekend with a

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view to coming back here on Monday to continue discussions. I'm

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definitely coming back on Monday. The trade unions have made a

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commitment to come back on Monday. I would like to think we can make even

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more progress. Will the strike still be going ahead on Tuesday? They are

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still on but we will try to avert the strikes. The unions, too, have

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promised to be back on Monday. No agreement as such. My colleague from

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the TSSA here is well. We've been in there all day talking, the

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industrial action is still on but we've agreed to come back on Monday

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to continue the discussion. Neither progress nor not progress, just full

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Anne Frank discussion around the issues that affect both the unions.

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The industrial action is still on and we're back on Monday. The aim is

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to avoid a repeat of the scenes we saw on Wednesday. The mayor

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revealing how he wanted his team to conduct the talks. I have told TfL

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negotiators and everybody there to have the door open, not to be macho

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and not to be confrontational, to engage, to communicate about what we

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are doing, to sell the message about how this is the best possible

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package for the RMT and for Londoners. On Monday we will see if

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the unions agree with that. Both sides will be back round the table,

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the day before the next planned 48`hour stoppage. The replacement

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for the big blue cockerel gracing the fourth plinth of Trafalgar

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Square was unveiled today. Next year, the plinth is to get a

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skeleton of a horse with a ribbon tied around its leg showing the

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latest share prices from the Stock Exchange. A year later it will be a

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giant thumbs up for the next instalment. It'll be made of bronze

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and stand ten metres high. Now a look at the weather with Sara

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Thornton. We've got more rain heading in at

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the moment. We had the second`highest deer of warning from

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Met Office. We've got a yellow weather warning elsewhere, because

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we have more rain steaming in from this storm. It will be with us fight

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the way through until the early hours of tomorrow morning. Ten to 15

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millimetres of rain by breakfast time. We will continue the day with

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some showers. A drier interlude for a time. But by the afternoon they

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are starting to get going. We will see really windy conditions as well.

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Blustery showers, heavy with some hail or thunder mixed in. Gusts of

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40 to 50 mph. The showers really get going through the evening. We will

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keep them overnight into the start of things for Sunday. The Sunday it

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self, those showers start to ease. A lot of dry weather around but still

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plenty of heavy rain tonight. That's it. We'll be back with the weekend

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news at just after 1pm tomorrow There is the latest regarding the

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flooding situation on our website at the usual address. For now, I hope

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you have a very good night. Hello again. Nelson's flag ship HMS

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victory, was launched in 1765 and you can still see it today in

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Portsmouth Harbour. But through the whole of that history, you will

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struggle to find a wetter winter than this one across southern

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England. Scotland has already been in the record

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