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have a second baby. End of story. That's it for now. Now on BBC One, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Welcome to BBC London News. The number of estate agents on the | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
capitals high streets is on the rise. In one area in south`west | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
London there are 15 branches on one street. Local traders say it's | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
forcing them out because they can't afford the rents. Emma North has | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
more. It is a part of London which likes | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
to sign the city. Barnes boasts plenty of small businesses, a sense | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
of community, and estate agents. Lots and lots of them. At the last | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
count there were 15 branches on this street alone. There was nothing | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
special about the property. It has certainly made business kina. We | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
like the competition. There is nothing better than selling a | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
property or when my manager comes in for a valuation and Chuck says the | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
keys. That is a great feeling. With a lack of houses coming on the | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
market, offers of hundreds of thousands of pounds above the asking | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
price are not unheard of. There is a domino effect. High prices mean the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
estate agents make bigger profits. They are able to pay higher rent and | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
landlords around here are putting their prices up as well. As a | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
result, small businesses are finding it hard to survive. Local firms are | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
all too aware of how to have ends might get. It does not bring people | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
into Barnes, does it? You come here because you want to go shopping, not | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
to look and estate agents. You can do that anywhere. So, we want to | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
give the shops going. It is perhaps no surprise Barnes is a hotspot. But | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
here in Walthamstow they are popping up to. Right across London, in fact. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Although if there is any sign of a downturn, they could go as soon as | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
they arrived. These businesses do not have a long`term plan. I cannot | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
see, there is just not enough business to go around for everybody. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
People need to think very carefully who they choose to sell or let their | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
homes to. But recent history shows once prices rise they don't go down. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Even though the agents are changing the very areas they are trying to | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
sell. A senior city executive has repaid | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
more ?42,000 in train fares, which he's believed to have dodged by | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
using an Oyster card. Southeastern Trains said the man would catch a | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
train from Sussex without buying a ticket. At Cannon Street, he then | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
used his Oyster card to pass through the barriers, so paying only seven | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
?7.20 for an incomplete journey. He is believed to have done this for | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
five years before being caught in November last year. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
could stand as Labour's candidate for the next London mayoral | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
elections in two years' time. Party insiders hinted today that talks | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
have been taking place about formally approaching Baroness | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
Lawrence to stand in 2016. Marc Ashdown reports. | :03:06. | :03:19. | |
She spent 18 years fighting for justice after the murder of her | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
son. Could Doreen Lawrence now take on the top job in London? Labour | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
appears to think so. Policy coordinator broke today, she is a | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
class act, going from strength to strength. People in Westminster are | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
starting to tip her as a potential mayor for our capital city. Now that | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
is an interesting idea. Just this week, Doreen Lawrence was named in a | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
poll as the most powerful woman in the country, so it is easy to see | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
how she would be a popular choice. She was not available for comment | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
today, but a source told us no formal approach has yet been made. | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
So, would Londoners vote for her? Yes, if she did it, I would do it. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
She's amazing, isn't she? Really amazing. It's about time there were | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
more non`white representation for London. The job would put her in | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
charge of The Met police, slightly awkward paps, though some would say | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
she is an interesting, refreshing candidate. Of course, the job is | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
complex, it covers more than policing, for which she is best | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
known. ?11 billion of the budget is on transport plus hundreds of | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
thousands on housing. I think candidates would want her to have a | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
wide view of what she would do at City Hall. Many still see tacit jowl | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
as the most likely Labour candidate, but party insiders describe Baroness | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Lawrence as an influential, dynamic campaigner who could have that broad | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
appeal needed to win over Londoners and wingback City Hall. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
Well, let's take a look at the weather now with Kate Kinsella. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
After a glorious spring day, pleasant evening with sunshine. Once | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
the sun sets, there is a chilly evening on the cards, temperatures | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
into single figures. Blue sky and sunshine tomorrow morning. A bit of | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
a north`westerly breeze, some fair weather cloud bubbling up. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Temperatures between 14 and 15 degrees. High pressure dominates for | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
the next few days. Plenty of sunshine, feeling warm during the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
day but chilly overnight. Plenty of fine, dry weather to come. That's a | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
bit more cloud to the end of the week, but the wind is light and the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
temperatures stay in the mid teens. That's it for now. I'll be back just | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
before 10.20pm, but for now, have a lovely evening. | :05:54. | :06:09. | |
We got to 17 degrees in the sunshine in London and many places enjoyed a | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
pleasant day. A different story for the zero wherein was quite wet and | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
windy. You can see that cloud is moving south. Things do improve | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
across Scotland. Showers become confined to the far north and the | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
winds ease | :06:29. | :06:30. |