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Blakelock. Here on One we can now join the BBC's news | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Good evening. The number of applications for a Primary School | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
place in London has passed the 100,000 mark for the first time. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Figures released this afternoon show that 20% of children have missed out | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
on their first choice of school. While five thousand pupils have not | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
received an offer from any of their six choices. Marc Ashdown reports on | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
the growing pressure on London's school system. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
An anxious wait in this household. Like parents across the city, the | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
refresh button is worn out waiting for an e`mail confirming a school | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
place. It is everything, really. Starting her at four years old, both | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
my husband and I've stayed at university for a long time and we | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
know this is the beginning of a long career at school. You want to get it | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
right. The situation will only get worse. The Department for Education | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
estimates that a further 133,000 primary aged pupils will need a | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
place in London alone over the next few years. They are going to need | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
more of these. Lots more. more of these. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
The school in Barnett is brand`new. Sort of. It was a small school but | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
on Monday it moves to a new site with double the capacity. In the old | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
site, we had children everywhere. Every part of the building, learning | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
groups and classes. We had over 600 children on quite a small site, but | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
we coped and we were bursting at the seams. The council has already | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
created thousands of extra places and admits that there is no letup. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Local authorities can only do so much. All new schools have to be | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
academies or free schools. Out of their control. It has led to | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
criticism that they do not always match supply with demand. What is | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
critical is the free schools have to be supported by local parents and | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
they have to get parents to say that they wanted this school in this | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
area. It cannot just pop up anywhere. They have to have parental | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
support. They also need new buildings, often a serious stumbling | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
block. The mayor is about to announce up to ten sites that he | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
will lease to be used for new schools, some recently closed police | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
or fire stations. This year, 102,000 pupils applied for a place, up 3% on | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
last year. Across London, body percent did not get a first choice | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
school. 95% of one of their chosen six schools, meaning that 5000 got | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
none. In Redbridge, day of keeping busy and keeping things crossed has | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
paid off. They got their top choice school. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Unemployment in the capital is at a five year low, having fallen to | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
7.8%. The Office for National Statistics says 343,000 people were | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
out of work in the last quarter, a fall of 12,000. It brings the total | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
number of those employed in London to more than four million. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
The man cleared of killing PC Keith Blakelock in the 1985 Tottenham | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
riots has told the BBC he would feel angry too if he were a member of the | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
murdered policeman's family. Nicky Jacobs, who was 16 at the time of | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
the killing, was found not guilty last week. In his first interview | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
since being cleared he said he reiterated his innocence. I was on | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
the estate when he died. But that was not there, I was not in the | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
crowd chasing him. I was not urging anyone on to do anything to him. And | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
you can see the full interview on tonight's 'Newsnight' programme over | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
on BBC Two. The capital is one of the first | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
cities in the world to get its own internet domain. From the end of the | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
month, thousands of businesses can apply for a web address ending with | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
'dot London' rather than 'co dot uk'. Anyone in the world can | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
register but, initially, people in the capital will get priority. Tarah | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
Welsh reports. The way they trade here has not | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
changed much for hundreds of years. But even this most traditional | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
business is keeping up with the times. We want to be part of London | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
going forward as well. So we have plans for a new market and it seems | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
apt to have a new domain name. London is one of the first cities to | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
get its own domain. And it has some high`profile supporters. At the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
moment, able want to say that they are from London sold in name | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
includes London, and it is very confusing. It is very simple when | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
you can just say my business dot London. But is this just nice to | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
have or is it essential for businesses? The naming system has | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
become quite clogged. For many small businesses, it is difficult to get | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
their name .com, because that may already have been sold. Also .co | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
.uk. So dot London is an opportunity to get a short, relevant name. Most | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
names will start at under ?50 but popular ones could spark a bidding | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
war. Small businesses may find themselves bidding on a domain, | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
especially if they do not have the .com. They will want to be dot | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
London domain but they may be up against ten or 15 other businesses. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
That will force up prices. That has not put this group of session | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
musicians off. They have already got beers. We know that artists around | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
the world search for music services specifically in London because of | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the reputation. Being directly aligned with London and the domain | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
name will hopefully ensure that we are inexplicably linked. `` | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
inextricably linked. Tens of thousands registered when dot Berlin | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
launched last month. Those behind London will be hoping for a similar | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
take`up. The London Underground says that | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
should travellers will face disruption this Easter. Sections of | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
the Bakerloo, district, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines as part `` as well | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
as the overgrown vines will be closed this weekend. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
That's all from me. I'll say good night and hand you over to Susan | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Powell with the weather. That's all from me. I'll say good | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
night and hand you Good evening. Plenty of blue skies and sunshine | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
across the region through today. Tomorrow, workload, but don't be | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
disheartened. I do not think it will spoil your day. It will mostly be | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
patchy cloud, and still plenty of sunshine to come. Overnight, largely | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
clear skies and a little bit of cloud may drift down from the north. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
With clear skies, temperatures dropping sharply. Towns and cities | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
down at six degrees. Rural areas, closer to freezing. Gardeners | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
beware. First thing tomorrow, but if sunshine to get the day underway. Is | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
it pans out, we will see the sunshine becoming more hazy, staying | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
right into the afternoon. As we lose the easterly winds, we will pick up | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
more of a westerly and it will feel warmer. Sunspots could hit 20 | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
degrees. That is the way it is shaping up for Thursday double | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
review with a look at the summary for the next couple of days. `` but | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
I will leave you. The National forecast follows. | :07:29. | :07:40. | |
Good evening. The good news is that it will be a reasonably sunny start | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
to the Easter weekend. The bad news is that it will not stay that way | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
for many of us. Overnight tonight, many of us will be dry with patchy | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
rain across Scotland. Some of us will -- some of this will track into | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
northern England and were. Quite patchy in nature. Not a lot of rain. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Dry further south. Maybe a touch of frost across the far south-east. The | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
other end of the UK, blustery showers across the North West of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Scotland but further south, patchy rain across northern and will. -- | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
North England and | :08:19. | :08:19. |