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the many they're meeting. That's it. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Welcome to BBC London News. The mayor of one of five London | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
boroughs, criticised by the government for spending hundreds of | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
thousands of pounds on free newspapers, has said he has no | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
intention of getting rid of the paper in his area. Sir Robin Wales, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
the Mayor of Newham, argues it's good value for money and popular | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
with residents. The Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
threatened to shut the council publications, accusing them of | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
peddling propaganda. Richard Slee reports. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
The Newham Mag is published every two weeks and is delivered free of | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
charge to 100,000 residents in east London. It's also one of thd | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
magazines produced by Labour`controlled councils targeted | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
by Eric Pickles as propaganda on the rates, because of the frequdncy of | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
their publication. In a statement, Eric Pickles said, "Localisl needs | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
robust and independent scrutiny by the press and public, and mtnicipal | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
state`produced newspapers stppress that. Town hall Pravdas not only | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
waste taxpayers' money, thex undermine free speech". | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
But the mayor of Newham says his magazine is a vital local sdrvice | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
and he won't scrap it. If wd did away with this we would havd to do | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
hundreds of different leafldts, and people would not necessarilx read | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
them. 75% of people tell us they get a lot of information from it, and | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
since we have produced it wd have gone from 41% saying they are well | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
informed, to 75%. People ard telling us, thank you, we want to know what | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
is going on in our communitx. He also rejects criticism that free | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
council papers are driving local papers out of business. But the shop | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
owner here says that these days he doesn't sell many local papdrs, and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
most of the publishers say that the free magazines and papers lhke this | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
do take away their advertishng revenue. Most of the Newham | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
residents we spoke to said they do read the free magazine and they | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
would miss it. What do you think of it? It's not too bad. It's good | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
information. A lot of peopld put it in the bin but I have a read. It is | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
interesting to see what is going on. The five councils, Newham, | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Greenwich, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets, have two weeks to | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
justify their publications `nd explain why legal proceedings should | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
not be taken against them. Concerns have been raised over the | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
Environment Agency's decision to grant a new licence to a wood | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
recycling company at a wastd site in Hertfordshire where a large fire | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
broke out in 2012. Protestors claim the new company has links to the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
former operators who were fhned for breaching safety rules. The | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Environment Agency insists there are "no operational links" betwden the | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
two companies, and the site will be strictly monitored. | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
For the fifth year in a row, Trafalgar Square has been | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
transformed into the Jerusalem of 2000 years ago for a perforlance of | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
the Passion of Christ. The Wintershall Players' show fhrst | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
started as a play in a barn in Surrey but now attracts thotsands. | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
Tarah Welsh reports. It might be one of the oldest | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
stories, but thousands came along to see it brought to life. It's rare to | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
see a crowd of this size sitting quietly in the centre of London but | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
for 90 minutes young and old seemed focused on the action. Which, quite | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
graphically, tells the Bibld's story. He is killed, murderdd, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
crucified. I think one has to show that, as unpleasant and terrible as | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
it was, otherwise you could argue it is almost blasphemy to pull the | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
punches. It started as a nativity play in a barn 23 years ago but now | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
the Wintershall Players perform all over the world. It's wonderful. I'm | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
beginning to see familiar f`ces We've been here four years `nd we | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
are seeing some old friends, but a lot of new people. We are gdtting | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
more people from abroad comhng to celebrate here in Trafalgar Square. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
James is a professional actor but the rest are volunteers. Evdryone | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
may know how it ends but it seems this is one story that conthnues to | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
move people. And a quick look at the weather It | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
will stay dry and mostly cldar through the evening and tomorrow | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
will be another fine day for the most part with sunny spells, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
although patchy cloud will hncrease, perhaps with some showers for a time | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
in the afternoon. That's it for tonight. We'rd back | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
tomorrow evening at around 6.50pm. For now, have a very good nhght | :04:56. | :05:10. | |
Hello. We are still expecting the weather to change for many of us on | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Sunday. Before then clear skies light winds, it's another cold | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
night. These are the numbers in towns and cities. In rural areas | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
it's going to be widely close to or below freezing. The north-west of | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Scotland not as cold. It's cloudy and wet here. We have more cloud | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
across some eastern parts of England. The breeze will move that | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
cloud further towards the west through the day. Clouds will be | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
well-broken and most places will be dry with sunny spells. The odd | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
shower can't be ruled out in the south-east but the sunshine will | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
hang on in Scotland and Northern Ireland and western areas. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Temperatures sclar to today. -- sclar to today. It's -- similar to | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
today. This weather front comings in, it's around an area of low | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
pressure | :05:58. | :05:58. |