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That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's goodbye from me and on BBC One, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
News. Disruption on day two of the tube strike. LU says it's operating | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
services on all its lines. The RMT says platforms have been | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
"dangerously overcrowded". Meanwhile the Mayor says David | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Cameron's promised a speedy change to the law on strikes. There will be | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
a plan to protect the citizens of the great commercial world city from | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
wildcat strikes. But this evening Downing Street is denying the | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
mayor's claim. And with more strikes looming next week, we'll speak to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
the RMT and London Underground live. Also ahead, a step closer to the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
so`called 'Robin Hood tax' that some say could hurt London's financial | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
services. Plus the love affair between London and New York as | :00:56. | :01:14. | |
played out on Broadway. Good evening. This week's tube strike is | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
due to end in a few hours' time but another one is just around the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
corner. A three day walk`out is planned for next week. For millions | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
of passengers it's been another day of disruption. London Underground | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
claims that just over half of its services were operating. And that | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
there were trains running, albeit with skeleton services on all eleven | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
lines. The RMT union says that at some stations and platforms there | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
was "dangerous overcrowding. We start tonight with our Transport | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Correspondent, Tom Edwards. He is on the platform at Oxford Circus | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
station. What is your assessment of today? It does not look too bad down | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
here on the platform. It is not that busy on the Bakerloo line. Although | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
there are a few trains coming and going. The real problem we have | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
found is above ground. The roads have been gridlocked. This has been | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
a really tough day for some Londoners. Day two and more weary | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
resignation as the RMT strike hits London's tube. Commuters struggled | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
to work and back home again. The bus did not come. When it arrived, it | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
was full. I have been waiting for the bus to get to work. There was an | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
hour wait for cabs at Paddington. Data from TfL shows that nine out of | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
ten regular Oyster users still used its services. Any switched to | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
buses. All buses were again in service today. The rest stayed at | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
home or found other ways to get to work. The roads were more congested | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
than usual. We were looking at enormous delays. Junction four of | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
the M4 to Piccadilly, which normally takes an hour, it was taking | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
something like two and a half hours. In effect, a 150% increase in | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
congestion. Experiences varied. This dispute is about the closure of all | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
ticket offices. London Underground says that they are underused and 950 | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
job losses. This was lantern and ends usual, there was claim and | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
counterclaim of the impact. `` this was lantern and as usual. I'm going | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
to be late for work because of the strike. It is an inconvenience. It | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
has been very easy with my journeys. It has been empty. This French | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
family have had to change their plans on a trip to the capital. They | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
told us that compared to Paris, Londoners seem much more civil | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
during industrial action. I apologise to everyone who has been | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
having a tough time of it at the moment. It has been, I'd appreciate, | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
very convenient for loads of people. And today, the mayor said that he | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
had been told by the Prime Minister that tougher strike laws will be a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
priority if the Conservatives form the next government. I have had it | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
from his lips in public that on day one of a new Cameron | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Administration, and let's hope it is a majority government, he will be | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
able to deliver a deal that gives us the protection that Londoners want. | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
Downing Street says it has no plans of introducing a strike law on day | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
one of nothing is off the table long term. The has accused the May of | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
posturing. `` the mayor. At the moment, three days of strikes are | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
planned for next week. There was a softening of the | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
language from both sides this morning. You often get that at this | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
stage of a dispute. Later in the afternoon, it was also announced | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
that we would get talks at ACAS on Friday. The good news is that both | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
sides are still talking but the bad news is that we have been you | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
before. Indeed. Tom Edwards there. Well, more strikes are planned for | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
next week. Let's talk to both sides and find out what it will take to | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
get an agreement. Joining me here in the studio is Mike Brown, Managing | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Director of London Underground and Mick Cash, the Acting General | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Secretary of the RMT union is in our Westminster studio. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Good evening to both of you. Talks being held on Friday, but cannot | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
imagine that helps industrial relations when you send a letter to | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
the late Bob Crow saying that you agreed to discuss a station by | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
station review, including ticket office closures, and then that does | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
not happen. It is happening. Why have seen the pack personally. I | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
look added yesterday. It is about two inches thick. `` I looked again | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
yesterday. It is working through the Piccadilly line, station by station. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
We agreed the agenda and Mick's colleagues wore in the room when we | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
agreed it. We have followed that agenda. We will stick to what we | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
committed to do. But does the review includes ticket offices or is it | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
about staffing levels in the stations? There is a difference. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
There is but we have a model around a ticket selling service continuing. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
What is the answer to that question? We think it is better to free up | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
people to more proactively go and assist people when they have a | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
problem with ticketing. To do an instant refund on an Oyster card, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
for example. We think that is important to do. I've said that we | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
will review all of the stations on the network. Let me ask you again. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Does the review includes ticket offices? We do not think ticket | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
offices are part of the future but we wait to hear constructive ideas. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
I look forwards to constructive thoughts from the RMT but you do not | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
have constructive thoughts when you hold people to ransom. Let's put | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
that to make cash. `` Mick Cash. It is good to see you but this is | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
the second time we have spoken this week and I think your answers are | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
evasive. In February, we undertook to suspend the actions show that we | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
could have a review, station by station. What is clear is that | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
unfortunately London Underground are turning around and saying that we | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
can have a review of the booking offices will close. To ask, that is | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
not the proper way to have a review, the cars you are predetermined the | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
outcome. On Monday, Mike, I made a suggestion that if you suspended the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
closure or booking offices and suspended over 1000 jobs, allowing | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
proper consultation with ourselves and the travelling public, that we | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
would suspend the action. And your evasiveness around booking offer | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
just `` booking offices, I would say, is pretty worrying. What is the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
objection to closing ticket offices if there will still be a member of | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
staff in the station, just not necessarily behind a pane of glass? | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
We wanted to examine, in detail, not only the staffing on the platforms. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
It is interlinked. But also the impact of the closure on booking | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
offices. But we have not had that. That is the point of a meaningful | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
consultation. Can I say that this morning, I was on the radio on BBC | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
London, and I've got told that Boris Johnson had said that they planned | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
to keep some booking offices open. Let Mike Brown answer. There is a | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
visitor information centre being sent up. `` set up. They will sell | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
tickets. That is important for people who are less annoyed with the | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
network will stop we have to deliver a modern service that gives value | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
for money to Londoners. We have to move forward with technology. My | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
commitment is that we will have a dedicated supervisor on every | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
station, visible and helping passengers. We will have more | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
customer assistance. But the issue for Londoners is, where are you | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
prepared to copper mines? Otherwise the talks on are pointless. Exactly. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
And we have been here before. To be honest, if the RMT keep leaping into | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
industrial action before they even talk, and it ballot was called for | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
this dispute before we even had one single meeting. I am afraid that | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
that is the problem we face. It is great to the other trade unions, who | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
are still at the talks. Final thought, Mick Cash? This is a bit of | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
deja vu. It is no accident that today we had Boris Johnson | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
threatening to get strikes band. He has is own political agenda and now | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
I know why. Mike Brown is saying no because it is clear that it is not | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
about the station booking offices it is about Boris Johnson and his | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
political agenda. It a disgrace. Thank you for your time. Let's see | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
what happens on Friday. Lots more to come including the | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Londoners putting their best foot forward to beat the strike. And | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Europe's top court has rejected the Europe's top court has rejected the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
UK's challenge to the introduction of an EU financial transactions tax | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
which ministers have said will damage London's economy. It has been | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
four tough years for London's councils but how much Will austerity | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
influence the way that people vote in the local elections? Europe's top | :10:42. | :10:59. | |
court has rejected the UK's challenge to the introduction of an | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
EU financial transactions tax which ministers have said will damage | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
London's economy. The European Court of Justice described the challenge | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
as premature, since the details of the tax had not been finalised. The | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
UK said it was prepared to take further legal action. Chris Rogers | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
reports. Anger over bank bonuses and salaries | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
outside Barclays annual general meeting last week will stop for | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
many, the root of our economic crisis lies with the greed of banks. | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Keep going, I don't want to be late. Since the credit crunch, there has | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
been a determination to make bankers give something back to the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
taxpayers. In this atmosphere of anger, the EU proposed a tax on | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
transactions, often called the Robin Hood tax, a small charge on trades | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
and equities across EU markets, including London. The funds raised | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
would be piled back into public services and rebuilding broken | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
economies. This tax would balance the economy, and stop the gambling | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
of the city. It would make sure that the city paid back some of the money | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
that we all lost because of the financial crisis that because to. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
And it would give government the money to save public services like | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
the NHS. The government refuses to sign up to the tax and today it lost | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
its legal challenge in the European Court of Justice. It argued that | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
increasing costs will mean London's financial centre will lose out to | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
competition in New York or Singapore. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
The value of savings and pensions relies on things going well over | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
there. They need to make money, not lose it. That is why the government | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
and our own London may have vowed to carry on challenging the proposals | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
for a transaction tax. The debate is over whether they are banking the | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
bankers or you, the taxpayer. `` backing of the bankers. The | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
government is sticking with the taxpayer. Our estimates are that if | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
the FTT was introduced, it could cost the taxpayer ?3.6 billion. That | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
would be a hit to savings. Despite the likelihood of legal challenges, | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
the European Court's decision matters. The government's | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
determination to detect the city of London is seen as a test of the | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
city's influence over the EU. It failed and European elections are | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
just around the corner. On that note, they have marched on | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
the streets and taking their message to parliament. Now health | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
campaigners are bidding for a seat and next month's European elections. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
The National health action party says it wants to fight what it calls | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
the privatisation of the health service. Comedian and actor Rufus | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
Hound is signed up as a candidate, alongside two of the doctors who | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
fought to save Lewisham Hospital's A Here's our Political | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Correspondent, Karl Mercer. These are scenes the capital has become | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
familiar with over recent years. Londoners have not been slow in | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
coming forward when it comes to standing up for their local | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
hospitals. Hoping to harness that energy to win seats in the European | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Parliament is the National Health Action Party, standing eight | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
candidates including the comedian and actor Rufus Hound. I announced | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
my intention to stand on Jonathan Ross because I am bloody showbiz. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Top of their list of candidates though are two of the local doctors | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
who led the fight to save Lewisham's A To win a seat they'd have to | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
get around 170,000 votes. I'm standing because I am willing to do | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
the job. If I got elected it would send a powerful message to Brussels. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
The people are saying no more running down of the NHS. No more | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
privatisation. Richard Taylor, independent, Kidderminster Hospital | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
and health concern, 28,000. Health has delivered election success | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
before. Back in 2001, a local doctor won a seat in parliament on a ticket | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
of saving his local hospital. My main job is to show that you can get | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
elected and once you what they are, you can be effective. European | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Parliament elections are good for established parties like the Greens | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
or UKIP or the British National Party, because they can get a C in | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
different regions with 7% of the vote. If you are a really small | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
party, or really new, then even that hurdle is too high. Perhaps then the | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
answer is a rallying cry from your most famous candidates family. My | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
son said, I am going to find the guy selling the NHS and kick him in the | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
goodies. `` the goolies. Let's start kicking people in the goolies! It is | :15:44. | :15:56. | |
not just European elections coming up but local elections, too. Local | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
councils have had their budgets cut by central government. It has | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
affected some of the private errors in the UK. Tim Donovan takes a look | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
at how savings have been made and what effect they have had on council | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
services. This has been one of the toughest periods the capital's | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
councils have faced, covering some of the most deprived areas of the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
country. In the government's efforts to cut | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
the deficit and public spending, local government has been a | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
particular target. He has decided not to cut spending on the NHS, | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
schools, but that means the cuts elsewhere get much bigger and local | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
authorities have not been exempt. What has this meant in the capital? | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
This is what London Councils has to say. Between 2010 and 2015, it says, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
government money for councils has been cut by more than one third. | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Here is another indicator of the capital's position. Shown by the | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
reduction of spend per Welling, while the government has cut | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
spending by ?300 per dwelling on average across the country, in | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
London it has been cut by ?540 per dwelling. The services clearly have | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
not collapsed and rather than complain too loudly, most | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
administrations do appear to have got on with things as best they can. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Some argue it has spurred creativity. Councils of all | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
political complexion have been innovative in the way they have | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
moved towards different commissioning models, they have | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
reconfigured services and on different partnerships. For many | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
people, the impact of austerity will be felt. But there are some specific | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
issues which might make a difference to an election in some places. Take | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
libraries. A totemic hydra some out for how cardiac has fallen. There | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
have been 30 on my bees which have closed out of 350. According to | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
another calculation, more than 340 library staff have lost their jobs. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
Libraries can close because of lack of demand or centralisation. How | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
much will it influence how people vote? There is no disguising the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
fact that we are only halfway through these cuts and at the same | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
time, councils are catering for a rising population may need | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
transport, housing, schools and particularly, more elderly or | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
requiring care. London councils spend a third of their budgets on | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
older people about is rising by about 3% every year. We have shown | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
that could rise further because people will have fewer family | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
members to rely on in future. The implications for councils are that | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
they need to find other ways of reducing spending because the | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
settlement they are getting is decreasing year`on`year. So, in four | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
years' time, the state of services and finances could be very | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
different. London's West End and New York's | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
Broadway have long shared their stars and their shows, with Phantom | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Of The Opera as one of the most successful musicals on either side | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
of the Atlantic. Our Entertainment Correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
reports from New York and speaks to some of the talent who sustain this | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
love affair. I Tim Cook trial last year. We have | :19:35. | :19:49. | |
been accustomed to American stars on London stages but British to has | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
long graced the status of Broadway theatres, enthusing audiences and | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
critics alike. There is a strong Anglophilia among audiences. They | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
are always interested to see what actors are in productions. It is a | :20:08. | :20:21. | |
marker something that they believe they will be interested in. The | :20:22. | :20:31. | |
story of a writer and a cabaret performer has its revival here at | :20:32. | :20:44. | |
Studio 54 and stars Michelle Williams. A new production of | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
Cameron Mackintosh's Liz Ms Rabbit opened. An American took the title | :20:56. | :21:08. | |
role having auditioned in London. I have always streamed of being in the | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
show. I have always doomed of this and it is traditionally not played | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
by a black man. It is the first time with a black male in it so it is | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
very exciting. Creative tensions may sometimes occur but this theatrical | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
love affair is set to last. Returning now to the Tube strike. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Millions of people have had to find alternative ways to get to work. And | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
as Gareth Furby reports, for many the best way seems to be the | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
simplest. When the bus queue is going nowhere | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
or there is a nightmare, there is an alternative. This was Shepherd's | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Bush today, the starting point for some walking to work. This software | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
analyst was heading from Marble Arch. It is about an hour for here. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
It's very good for your health. Linda, a corporate financial, was | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
left with no tentative. I will get there, it's just that I need to get | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
their rather fast. So, how long can it take? About 35 or 40 minutes. And | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
unfortunately, he was not joking. We decided to follow Titus Thompson, a | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
PR manager who may just be one of the fastest walkers in London. I am | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
trying to walk fast enough but that I do not make a sweat. I am pretty | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
fast. We clocked him at just over four miles per hour and his target | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
was to get to Park Lane by nine o'clock. Seven minutes. We are at | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
Notting Hill gate, it is pretty bad. Was queues were bypassed. I was | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
thinking about this boss but I do not think I will make it. Clothing | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
was removed. I am working up a sweat. In the end, it still was not | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
fast enough. This is it. 19 minutes late. But for a marathon runner this | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
was a good start of the day. For many others, a good way to beat the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
strike. I wonder how long it took him to get | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
home. Let's get a final thought from our transport correspondent Tom | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Edwards. We heard earlier that both sides still seem quite far apart. | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
What most people want to know is how long can the stalemate go on for? | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
These timescales are very tight. There is only Friday, realistically, | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
to sort this out. We have a buy quality on Monday. It all depends on | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
how much each side is wedded to their position. Having heard the | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
debate earlier, I am afraid it does not sound that promising. Are | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
correspondent Tom Edwards. Let's see if we can get better news with the | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
weather. Better? It was pretty good. For | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
those who had to walk, we have done quite well today. We had some | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
sunshine, 20 degrees, but elsewhere underneath the cloud further north, | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
six degrees only across the eastern side of Scotland. That was the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
maximum temperature. Maybe one or two showers in the Thames Estuary to | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
finish the evening, one or two further north. We are in for a dry | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
early part of the evening. Things bring up out West. Not a cold night | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
by any means, so no problems for gardeners. Tomorrow, pretty grey | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
skies with a weather front close by to us. This time tomorrow, a sparky | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
end to Thursday. Not a write`off but there may be rain first thing. Later | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
in the day when the heat comes through we may have some showers and | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
some thunder out West. Temperatures close to where we have been the last | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
few days. The showers get going through the evening. Tomorrow you | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
can watch out for those. They tend to fade away. You get the sense that | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
things are drifting from north`east to south`west and that is because we | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
will eventually import cooler and fresher conditions from the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
north`east across us. The weekend, bright but colder. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
The headlines... 815 new old boy has been charged with the murder of a | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
teacher stabbed to death in front of her pupils. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
Ann Maguire was months away from retiring after working at Corpus | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
Christi Catholic College in Leeds from more than 40 years. Tributes | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
have been paid to Bob Hoskins who has died from pneumonia at the age | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
of 71. There has been disruption for | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
millions of commuters on day two of the strikes. A three`day walk`out is | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
planned for next week. There will be fresh talks on Friday. | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
That is it for now. Thank you for joining us. I will be back with the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
latest during the ten o'clock news. Until then, have a lovely evening. | :26:25. | :26:25. | |
Goodbye. Some people don't think real change | :26:26. | :26:50. | |
in Europe is possible. Some people don't think real change | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
is necessary. Some people don't think | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
it's worth fighting for. But we want to make Europe work | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
for Britain, and give you the final say | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
with an in-out referendum in 2017. have made Britain's economy | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
stronger and more competitive. a record number of people in work. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
And we're predicted to be the fastest-growing economy | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
in the G7 this year. We're working through | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
our long-term economic plan at home | :27:25. | :27:29. |