11/02/2014 BBC London News


11/02/2014

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California at the of 85. That is all from us. There is a

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first look at Good evening. The planned 48`hour

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Tube strike which was due to have started tonight was called off after

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a last`minute deal was agreed between union officials and

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Transport for London. The dispute was over the closure of ticket

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offices and job losses. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards

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reports. This morning, the strike was on

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This afternoon, it was off, welcome news for commuters. That is really

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good news. The unions have to sit together. They need to open their

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communication levels a bit more because they cannot hold the country

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to ransom, yes, the unions. Last week the strike caused huge

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disruption. Transport unions walked out our proposals to close all to

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get offices and cut 950 jobs. London Underground said ticket offices were

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only used in 3% of journeys. This morning a new deal was put forward.

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A station review means busier ticket offices could be kept open and a

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trawl for voluntary redundancies has been suspended. That was enough to

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call off the strike. Do you regret taking at the strike? Was that an

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overreaction? No, because they were not taking seriously until we called

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strike action and we got more done over a of time when the strike

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action took place and it concentrated their minds. I want to

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look at every individual station and look at specific issues that may

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emerge and as we do that we will respond accordingly to what puzzles

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are put forward. You need to have that level of detailed dialogue and

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I am pleased we have got time and space to do that. The Mayor visiting

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Croydon said the modernisation of the Tube is still essential. There

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will be a detailed negotiation, but I think a programme that is

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fantastic for Tube, it offers up huge opportunities to modernise the

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system and it will be good for London Underground staff as well. It

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will not be the last we hear of this modernisation plan. There will

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probably be other serious disagreements and many staff have

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concerns about what the future holds. But tonight at least good

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news for commuters. So, hundreds of people were evacuated from their

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homes along the Thames, thousands more are at risk from rising water

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levels and tonight hundreds of residents in Datchet were left

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without power. Let's get more from Nick Beake who is down river in

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Chertsey. What is the latest? Around 7000

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people `` 1700, were left without power this evening. The latest we

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are hearing is that some of it has been restored, but Sun faced the

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bleak prospect of being without electricity overnight. This is

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Chertsey Fire Station. There are search and rescue teams, the

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ambulance, and the military are playing a significant role. Some of

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the soldiers from the Royal artillery were fighting the Taliban

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in Afghanistan two months ago. Today they are fighting the ever

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encroaching water in Surrey. Meanwhile, my colleague Gareth Furby

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has been taking a look at what has been happening in Berkshire. We are

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on a journey into the heart of the floods after dark.

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And we are here to find people who do not want to leave their homes.

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They are willing to stay put in a house that is flooded, cold and

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could lose power at any moment. Ian Elliot invited us in. He built this

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house and even though the water was inside and rising, he was not going

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anywhere. We lost our heating, but fortunately I have got a log burner.

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You stay in your home as long as you can. We will take it day by day we

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are happy here. Across the road we found Derek who has even more reason

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to cherish his home. He shared it with his wife Kay who died from

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breast cancer six years ago. It is desperate. When the house is fine

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and the weather is fine, there is nowhere else my set. In sunlight

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there was some beauty in this flooded village, but later we found

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another emotion, fear. This was a patrol, volunteers worried about

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possible looting. We are approaching people we do not know because it is

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now getting dark. A lot of houses are empty and there is the

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possibility of people breaking in. We will take all night long. There

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were stories as well in the morning of people marooned in their homes.

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But the volunteers rallying in the primary school were determined to

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help. We joined Mark Jones and Sam as they were called to a family

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trying to arrange evacuation for a woman in her 70s. She is about 1

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years old, she has got mobility restrictions. If you need us to pick

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up medication, we can do that. But the job of evacuation was too big

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for the volunteers and she was staying put for now. The family say

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they will call 999 if she deteriorates. The volunteers say

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they will continue to work 24 hours a day. Today these have been the

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best two methods of transport for getting around. I spoke to the top

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officer in Surrey and he said the extra levels of staffing would apply

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for possibly the next ten days. That gives you an indication of how the

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water and the misery is simply not going underway.

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A full national forecast follows after a detailed look at the weather

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in and around London. It is not good news at all. Many

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places will see 15 millimetres more of rain by Saturday. We have got

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very strong winds in the forecast tomorrow afternoon, possibly gusting

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up to 50 or 60 miles an hour. We have got two mornings tomorrow, one

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for the wind and one for the rain. Tonight there will be a few stray

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showers. In the morning milder air pushes in from the west along with

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further showers. That will lead to heavy rain by tomorrow afternoon.

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That is when the wind is going to pick up. Thursday looks like a

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quieter day. Good evening, a roller-coaster ride

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of weather continues across the British Isles. We want to get off,

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but unfortunately we have got more white knuckle rides to come. This

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area of low pressure is bringing wet and extremely windy weather. It

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happens again on Friday with another deep low moving in from the

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south-west. That means that potentially over the next five days

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we could see as much a 60 - 80 millimetres of rainfall, among's

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worth in just five days. Before that there are lots of tricky conditions

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out there at the moment. We have got snow across Scotland and Northern

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Ireland. As these showers pushed further inland and temperatures fall

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away, we could see snow at lower levels as well. It is a similar

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story for South Yorkshire and into Derbyshire and perhaps the Midlands.

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Even if we do not get the snow, and we keep the showers, it will be a

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cold night, so that could lead to icy stretches on the roads. That

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will pale into insignificance because the wind is already picking

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up and an intense band of rain continues to push in across the

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country. This time it will be a bit more prolonged for tomorrow. The

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wins either significant feature There is an amber warning for the

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gusts of wind. Let's look at the afternoon. In the Northern Isles and

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the far north of Scotland it is quite quiet. Snow continues across

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the mountains and sharp showers in northern Ireland and northern

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England. The winds pick up into the North West and the South of Wales.

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The band of rain is still clinging on to East Anglia and the Essex and

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Kent coasts. Blizzard conditions are possible overnight in Scotland and

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on the higher ground. By Thursday things potentially get a little

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quieter. There will be some showers around, but wet and windy weather

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set to return as we move towards Friday.

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