25/04/2014 BBC London News

Good evening. London Underground has been accused

of breaking a deal over plans to close ticket offices. The l`test in

a series of strikes is set to begin on Monday evening, over proposed job

losses if those ticket offices close. This programme has sden a

document which shows that Transport bosses agreed earlier this xear to

review the closures. But Unhons say London Underground has reneged on

that offer. Our Transport Correspondent, Tom Edwards reports.

More strike disruption looms on the Tube. At the centre of the dispute,

the closure of all ticket offices. The strike starts Monday night. I

think people who work on thd Tubes provide a pretty good service. I

think they are treated very badly and I would thoroughly support it.

You've got to sympathise with the Tube workers, but by the sale token

I think I'm on the side really of the commuter who have got to get to

their place of work. This ldtter sent to the late Bob Crow. Ht halted

February's strike over the same issue. It says London Underground

will discuss a review including ticket offices which could result in

some ticket offices remaining open. But LU now says all ticket offices

will now be closed. We have said we would take any proposals of the

trade union, the RMT put forward to us and we would consider those and

respond to them. Unfortunatdly not a single constructive alternative

proposal has been put to us other than us taking absolutely everything

off the table. The breakdown of relations over the review is a big

part of this dispute. LU saxs the timetable for the closures hs up for

discussion. Union insiders have told me they think the chances of the

strike on Monday being calldd off are close to zero. They think London

Underground now has little hnterest in compromise and feel the company

is now out to crush the RMT. London Underground claims new technology

means ticket it offices aren't needed, staff will be moved into the

ticket halls. 950 jobs will go but there will be no compulsory

redundancies. However, unions have concerns over safety. There will be

some of what will be called Visitor Information Centres which could be

added to, but Labour says politics is being put above passengers. I

think it's a really dramatic change to London's underground to close all

of the ticket offices. And to begin with, TfL said they were willing to

undertake a station`by`stathon review and they were going to be

open`minded. Now they seem to have reneged on that and are going back

to what is a very rigid and uncompromising view. I cert`inly

think London's passengers otght to be in this debate and ought to have

a chance to comment on what's going to be provided at their loc`l

stations. Business groups h`ve said they are baffled as to why this deal

has unravelled. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has condemned the strike.

The RMT has written to London Underground requesting further

talks. The former chief inspector of

schools has called for bettdr monitoring of teachers who work

abroad. His comments come after it emerged that a convicted paddophile,

who had worked in ten schools in nine countries, abused children at a

London private school. Willham Vahey, who was found dead l`st

month, taught at Southbank International School in Westminster.

Sir Chris Woodhead, who is `lso the school's Chairman of Governors, says

the case shows how offenders can slip through the net.

A UKIP council candidate who made racist and anti`Islamic rem`rks is

still due to stand for the party in next month's local elections. That's

despite being suspended by his party leadership. UKIP is now conducting

an investigation into how Andre Lampitt was selected to stand in

Merton. Here's our Political Correspondent, Karl Mercer.

On Wednesday, Andre Lampitt was one of the faces of UKIP's partx

political broadcast ahead of next month's local elections. A builder

in Merton, he was also one of the party's candidates hoping to be

elected to the local council. Since the lads from Eastern Europd are

prepared to work for a lot less than anybody else, I've found it a real

struggle. It's getting hard to provide for my family. But ht's his

views on social media that have got Mr Lampitt into trouble. Wrhting on

Twitter, he's described Isl`m as a pathetic, Satanic religion. He said

Nigerians were generally bad and said about Africans, let thdm kill

themselves off. We live in such a multicultural world and sochety to

have someone with those views and opinions actually being allowed to

stand for what is bigotry and racism, it shouldn't be allowed As

a voter, no he should not bd permitted to have such racist

comments and be allowed to stand, unless he wants to stand as a racist

candidate. He's also critichsed the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, saying

he wasn't really British but was Polish. Andre Lampitt has not been

answering calls from the BBC but his party leader has acted. He has

suspended him from the partx. Someone's made a mistake, so I'm

going to have an investigathon into this and somebody must be

disciplined for this. We haven't got a monopoly on stupidity or on people

saying repellent things. But obviously given the criticism we

faced last year, we have put measures in place and mistakes have

happened. I am sorry about ht. Mr Farage may have suspended hhs

candidate, but this is the list that voters in St Helier's ward hn Merton

will face when they go to the polls on May the 22nd. Finalised this

morning after yesterday 's deadline to candidates, it clearly shows Mr

Lampitt is standing and shows his name is against that of the United

Kingdom Independence Party. The row over his comments, it seems, may

have come too late to stop him going before voters.

London's Aquatic centre is to host its first major competition since

its make over after the 2012 Games. The highlight of the Diving World

Series this weekend will be a re`match between Tom Daley, who

trains at the centre, and London 2012 Champion David Boudia. Well

that's about it from me. I'll say goodnight and leavd you

with Nina Ridge with a look at the weekend weather.

Tomorrow, after a damp start, drier weather but also heavy showdrs

developing later on. Overnight, it is looking dry and quiet, btt the

cloud ills through the earlx hours of Saturday morning and we see the

rain sweeping in from the south`west. A damp start to the day

but it will be frost free. @ wet morning to come tomorrow. The band

of rain pushes up the way and we are expecting a drier and brighter

interlude but heavy showers coming through. Though showers could bring

hail and thunder. At 16 degrees or so at the breeze will be taking the

edge of the temperatures. Low pressure in charge on Sundax, so

sunny spells, a few scatterdd showers, some of them heavily.

Temperatures around 14 or 14 degrees. That is how it is looking

for London, I will leave yot for `` with an outlook. We will have the

outlook for the rest of the country. Goodbye.

Good evening. A bit of a disappointing day. A lot of cloud

around and we saw showery outbreaks of rain. Courtesy of this

continental plume which arrived during the early hours and continues

to drift further north. Into the weekend, this area of low