16/04/2014 BBC London News


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Blakelock. Here on One we can now join the BBC's news

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Good evening. The number of applications for a Primary School

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place in London has passed the 100,000 mark for the first time.

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Figures released this afternoon show that 20% of children have missed out

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on their first choice of school. While five thousand pupils have not

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received an offer from any of their six choices. Marc Ashdown reports on

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the growing pressure on London's school system.

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An anxious wait in this household. Like parents across the city, the

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refresh button is worn out waiting for an e`mail confirming a school

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place. It is everything, really. Starting her at four years old, both

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my husband and I've stayed at university for a long time and we

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know this is the beginning of a long career at school. You want to get it

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right. The situation will only get worse. The Department for Education

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estimates that a further 133,000 primary aged pupils will need a

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place in London alone over the next few years. They are going to need

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more of these. Lots more. more of these.

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The school in Barnett is brand`new. Sort of. It was a small school but

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on Monday it moves to a new site with double the capacity. In the old

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site, we had children everywhere. Every part of the building, learning

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groups and classes. We had over 600 children on quite a small site, but

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we coped and we were bursting at the seams. The council has already

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created thousands of extra places and admits that there is no letup.

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Local authorities can only do so much. All new schools have to be

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academies or free schools. Out of their control. It has led to

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criticism that they do not always match supply with demand. What is

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critical is the free schools have to be supported by local parents and

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they have to get parents to say that they wanted this school in this

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area. It cannot just pop up anywhere. They have to have parental

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support. They also need new buildings, often a serious stumbling

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block. The mayor is about to announce up to ten sites that he

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will lease to be used for new schools, some recently closed police

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or fire stations. This year, 102,000 pupils applied for a place, up 3% on

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last year. Across London, body percent did not get a first choice

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school. 95% of one of their chosen six schools, meaning that 5000 got

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none. In Redbridge, day of keeping busy and keeping things crossed has

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paid off. They got their top choice school.

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Unemployment in the capital is at a five year low, having fallen to

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7.8%. The Office for National Statistics says 343,000 people were

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out of work in the last quarter, a fall of 12,000. It brings the total

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number of those employed in London to more than four million.

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The man cleared of killing PC Keith Blakelock in the 1985 Tottenham

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riots has told the BBC he would feel angry too if he were a member of the

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murdered policeman's family. Nicky Jacobs, who was 16 at the time of

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the killing, was found not guilty last week. In his first interview

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since being cleared he said he reiterated his innocence. I was on

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the estate when he died. But that was not there, I was not in the

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crowd chasing him. I was not urging anyone on to do anything to him. And

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you can see the full interview on tonight's 'Newsnight' programme over

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on BBC Two. The capital is one of the first

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cities in the world to get its own internet domain. From the end of the

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month, thousands of businesses can apply for a web address ending with

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'dot London' rather than 'co dot uk'. Anyone in the world can

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register but, initially, people in the capital will get priority. Tarah

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Welsh reports. The way they trade here has not

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changed much for hundreds of years. But even this most traditional

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business is keeping up with the times. We want to be part of London

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going forward as well. So we have plans for a new market and it seems

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apt to have a new domain name. London is one of the first cities to

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get its own domain. And it has some high`profile supporters. At the

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moment, able want to say that they are from London sold in name

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includes London, and it is very confusing. It is very simple when

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you can just say my business dot London. But is this just nice to

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have or is it essential for businesses? The naming system has

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become quite clogged. For many small businesses, it is difficult to get

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their name .com, because that may already have been sold. Also .co

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.uk. So dot London is an opportunity to get a short, relevant name. Most

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names will start at under ?50 but popular ones could spark a bidding

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war. Small businesses may find themselves bidding on a domain,

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especially if they do not have the .com. They will want to be dot

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London domain but they may be up against ten or 15 other businesses.

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That will force up prices. That has not put this group of session

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musicians off. They have already got beers. We know that artists around

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the world search for music services specifically in London because of

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the reputation. Being directly aligned with London and the domain

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name will hopefully ensure that we are inexplicably linked. ``

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inextricably linked. Tens of thousands registered when dot Berlin

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launched last month. Those behind London will be hoping for a similar

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take`up. The London Underground says that

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should travellers will face disruption this Easter. Sections of

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the Bakerloo, district, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines as part `` as well

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as the overgrown vines will be closed this weekend.

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That's all from me. I'll say good night and hand you over to Susan

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Powell with the weather. That's all from me. I'll say good

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night and hand you Good evening. Plenty of blue skies and sunshine

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across the region through today. Tomorrow, workload, but don't be

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disheartened. I do not think it will spoil your day. It will mostly be

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patchy cloud, and still plenty of sunshine to come. Overnight, largely

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clear skies and a little bit of cloud may drift down from the north.

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With clear skies, temperatures dropping sharply. Towns and cities

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down at six degrees. Rural areas, closer to freezing. Gardeners

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beware. First thing tomorrow, but if sunshine to get the day underway. Is

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it pans out, we will see the sunshine becoming more hazy, staying

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right into the afternoon. As we lose the easterly winds, we will pick up

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more of a westerly and it will feel warmer. Sunspots could hit 20

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degrees. That is the way it is shaping up for Thursday double

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review with a look at the summary for the next couple of days. `` but

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I will leave you. The National forecast follows.

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Good evening. The good news is that it will be a reasonably sunny start

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to the Easter weekend. The bad news is that it will not stay that way

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for many of us. Overnight tonight, many of us will be dry with patchy

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rain across Scotland. Some of us will -- some of this will track into

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northern England and were. Quite patchy in nature. Not a lot of rain.

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Dry further south. Maybe a touch of frost across the far south-east. The

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other end of the UK, blustery showers across the North West of

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Scotland but further south, patchy rain across northern and will. --

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North England and

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