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on the BBC News Channel. I'll be back with the late news at 10pm | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now, the news where you are. Goodbye. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
The mayor of one of five London boroughs, criticised by the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
government for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on free | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
newspapers, has said he has no intention of getting rid of the | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
paper in his area. Sir Robin Wales, the directly elected Mayor of | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Newham, argues it's good value for money and popular with residents. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
threatened to shut the council publications, accusing them of | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
peddling propaganda using t`x payers money. Richard Slee reports. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The Newham Mag is published every two weeks, and is delivered free of | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
charge to 100,000 residents in East London. It's also one of thd | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
magazines produced by Labour`controlled councils targeted | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
by Eric Pickles as propaganda on the rates, because of the frequdncy of | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
their publication. In a statement, Mr Pickles said: | :01:00. | :01:16. | |
But the Mayor of Newham says his | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
magazine is a vital local sdrvice, and he won't scrap it. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
If we did away with this we would have to do hundreds and hundreds of | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
different leaflets, people wouldn't necessarily read them. When we asked | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
people, 75% are telling us they get a lot of information from it. Since | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
we produced it, we've gone from 41% saying they're well`informed to 75%. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
So people are telling us, thank you, we want to know what's going on in | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
our community. Sir Robin also rejects crithcism | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
that free council papers ard driving local newspapers out of bushness. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
But the shop owner here says that these days he doesn't sell lany | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
local papers. Most of the ptblishers say the free magazines and papers | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
like this do take away their advertising revenue. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Most of the Newham residents we spoke to said they do read the free | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
magazine and they would miss it What do you think of it? It's not | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
too bad. It's good informathon. I like to have a read. It is | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
interesting to know what's going on. The five councils ` Newham, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Greenwich, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets ` have two weeks | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
to justify their publications, and explain why legal proceedings should | :02:25. | :02:39. | |
not be taken against them. Designer handbags worth thotsands of | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
pounds each have been stolen during a ram`raid at the Chanel store in | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
West London. Thieves drove ` stolen car through a window at the front of | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
the shop in Brompton Road, hn the early hours of this morning. Police | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
say no`one was hurt during the raid, and has urged anyone with | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
information to come forward. Concerns have been raised over the | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Environment Agency's decision to grant a new licence to a wood | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
recycling company at a wastd site in Hertfordshire, where a largd fire | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
broke out in 2012. Protestors claim the new company has links to the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
former operators who were fhned for breaching safety rules. The | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
Environment Agency insists there are no operational links between the two | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
companies, and the site will be strictly monitored. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
For the fifth year in a row, Trafalgar Square has been | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
transformed into the Jerusalem of two millenniums ago. An 80`strong | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
cast from Surrey's Wintersh`ll Players and livestock have performed | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
the Passion of Christ. The group's epic performances of the life of | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Jesus started as humble plaxs in a barn in the grounds of the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Wintershall estate, but thex now attract a 20,000 strong crowd | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
annually in central London. Tarah Welsh reports. It might be one of | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
the oldest stories but thousands came along to see it brought the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
life. It is rare to see a crowd of this | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
size sitting quietly in the centre of London, but for 90 minutds young | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
and old seemed focussed on the action. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Which graphically tells the Bible story. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
He is killed, murdered. Crucified. Now I think one has to show that, as | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
unpleasant as it was. Otherwise you could argue it is almost a blasphemy | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
if you pull punches. This started as a Nativity play in a barn 23 years | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
ago, but no the players perform all over the world. It is wonderful I | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
am be bibbing to see famili`r face, we have been here four years and | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
seen old friends coming. Now we are getting more people from an broad | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
that are coming to celebratd here. James is a professional actor, the | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
rest are volunteers. There `re 7 cast members and that is not | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
including Chester the donkex. I got him out of field. He was like, I am | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
ready, let's go. Off to London. Today being Good Friday, it is a | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
good time and a good place to be. Very moving, touching, I I shed a | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
few tears. It seems this is one story that continues to movd people. | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
And now the latest Easter wdather. So far so good for the start of the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Easter weekend. Although out of sun and in the breeze it felt chilly and | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
through the night it will ttrn cold and the clearing sky, there will be | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
a widespread ground frost developing, particularly in more | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
rural spots. Sunny spells tomorrow, because there will be patchx cloud, | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
and there will be one or two hit`and`miss showers popping up late | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
morning, lunchtime into the first part of the aftertyphoon. There is a | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
nagging breeze with a chill, when the sun disappears behind the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
clouds. Top temperatures rotnd 4 C. Still expecting some rain come to in | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
on Sunday, with the freshenhng wind and cloud and a risk of a fdw | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
showers on Easter Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
And that is all from me for now I will be back at 10.15, for now have | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
a very good evening. Today we have seen temperatures | :05:58. | :06:14. | |
rising if Scotland but again tonight, with the clear skies and | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
light wind temperatures will fall sharply, and for many of us, we are | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
looking at a touch of frost. The satellite picture tells a story | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
nicely. This belt of cloud is sitting in the far north-west of | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Scotland, we have had this cloud bubbling up across eastern areas and | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
with the northerly wind it has felt cold in East Anglia. That cloud is | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
going to melt away, we will get an easterly breeze picking the cloud | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
back in again later in the night in eastern areas and we still have this | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
cloud and rain in the far north west of Scotland, but for most we will | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
have clear sky, light wind, Ness are the temperatures in towns and city, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
spin it round into the countryside, you can see it is colder, close to | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
freezing, it could be down to minus three or four in Scotland. Saturday, | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that band of cloud and rain isn t moving anywhere. We will see the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
breeze dragging in more cloud into eastern areas in the morning, | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
pushing into | :07:06. | :07:06. |