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Good evening. Next week's three`day Tube strike is on. Earlier this | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
evening, talks between union leaders and London Underground ended with | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
the two sides failing to reach an agreement. Tonight, Mayor Boris | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Johnson said "London was being held to ransom by the RMT union", who are | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
angry at the proposed closure of ticket offices. Here's our transport | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
correspondent, Tom Edwards. Next week, you can now expect more | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
of this. Queues, cramped trains and congested roads as today, talks at | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
the conciliation service ACAS broke down. It's the inconvenience it | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
causes and they know that we rely so heavily upon it. It's got to be, but | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
what can you do really? Why bother? They earn enough money as it is. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Change has got to happen. It's nonsense, absolute nonsense. Luckily | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
it doesn't bother me that much because I can walk to work every day | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
so I am not affected by it. This dispute is over closing ticket | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
offices and job losses. Bosses want staff in the ticket halls and say | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
there will be no compulsory redundancies. The RMT union says | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
it's a safety risk and want review of the closures. There was some | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
movement today from both sides ` it wasn't enough. They've not taken up | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
our offer to suspend the action and the implementation. They spent eight | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
hours talking about very little. Regrettably the strike is still on. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
The strike is due to start on Monday at 9:00pm. It will last 72 hours and | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
finish on Thursday night. The sticking point with the talks were | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the 950 job losses and the review of the closure of all of the ticket | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
offices. But this is becoming an increasingly bitter and ugly | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
dispute. The last time we had a 72 hour strike was in 2007. London | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Underground says it's extremely disappointed the talks failed. We | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
put together a form of words. We said we would extend and put this | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
current proposal on hold for three to four weeks. We said we would be | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
prepared to go through a station by station review and at the end of the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
24 week period we would come back to ACAS. We said we would put on hold | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
any voluntary severance and any other agreements that were put in | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
place previously. In return I asked for the RMT to withdraw this | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
dispute. Their reaction was, we don't think we can accept that, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
we're going to take this information back to the executive and I will not | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
recommending it. That was the view of the RMT. That means commuters are | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
again bracing themselves for more disruption. At the moment no talks | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
are planned for the weekend. Firefighters were on strike today ` | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
in the first of a series of walk`outs which will continue over | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
this Bank Holiday weekend. The action lasted five hours. Tomorrow, | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
there'll be another walk`out, with a further strike planned for Sunday. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
It's over a long`running dispute over pensions. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
The Bank of England has said it would be dangerous to ignore the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
surge in house prices over the past year. One of its deputy governors | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
has said a property crash is the biggest worry. The warning comes as | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
a penthouse in central London is reported to have been sold for ?140 | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
million. An award`winning headteacher faces | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
being struck off after admitting a string of expense offences ` which | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
include charging the school ?7,000 for her own birthday party. Jo | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
Shuter had been credited with turning around Quintin Kynaston | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Academy in St John's Wood. But now she's been found guilty of | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
"unacceptable professional conduct". Marc Ashdown reports. | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
A darling of top politicians, a CBE. Once headteacher of the year. Now, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Jo Shuter's career in education could be over. Welcome to the | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
school. This is an outstanding school. She turned around Quintin | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Kynaston School but in 2012 a whistle`blower raised concerns over | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
the finances. A government investigation found she was | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
personally paid ?28,000 public speaking in school time, ?13,000 was | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
claimed for overnight hotel stays for senior managers, ?7,000 was | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
spent on her 50th birthday party. Furniture for the school worth | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
?1,500 was delivered to her home. Overall they raised queries on at | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
least ?40,000 in the budget. Jo Shuter resigned in June and this | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
week, in front of a government panel, admitted a large number of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the allegations. This is the report into this professional misconduct | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
and in it the panel say they are satisfied Jo Shuter is guilty of | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
unacceptable professional misconduct and they do so taking into account | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
the role of teachers, especially headteachers and their influence on | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
pupils, parents and the community. They say they should be viewed as | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
role models. The maximum punishment they can hand down is what is called | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
a prohibition order, which would effectively see Jo Shuter struck off | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the teaching register in England. Some of the money was paid back but | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Westminster Council referred the case to the regulator and said today | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
they felt the matter was too serious not to take further. You come to the | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
school as a role model. She admitted using her school personal assistant | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
to sort out speaking engagements and book holiday flights for friends and | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
family, arrange rental of her luxury villa in a Turkish hotspot ` all in | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
office hours. There were also numerous personal taxi journeys | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
charged to the school and phones and an iPad for Jo Shuter's children | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
paid for too. Some travel expenses were claimed twice. The panel said | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
the allegations did not refer to dishonesty or fraud, but some | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
believe the story may not be over. There is potentially also a police | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
investigation that has yet to be completed by the Met, so | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
unfortunately this may go on a bit longer but not necessarily. I was | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
trying to get through to Jo Shuter. She is currently head at another | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
school in east London and today was not available for comment. If the | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
panel recommends a ban, the Secretary of State Michael Gove will | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
have to decide if she is fit to continue. | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
That is it from me for tonight. The weather forecast now for the Bank | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Holiday weekend. The weather is set fair, it should | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
be fine and dry. We did see some rain around today, but that it | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
clearing away. Through the night tonight, it will turn pretty chilly. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
For tomorrow, the forecast will bring with it some sunshine. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Temperatures falling away out and about in the countryside. We could | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
get low enough for a touch of frost but in central London temperatures | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
starting at 4`5d. A light wind. Although it is cold, it is going to | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
be a bright start. The north`easterly breeze dragging in | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
more cloud through the afternoon across northern areas, but further | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
south, holding on to the best of any dry, bright weather with | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
temperatures at 14 ` 15 degrees. After the sunshine on Saturday, it | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
should turn cloudy but warmer for the rest of the weekend. Now look at | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
the Outlook with Nick Miller. Neuer-macro don't worry, this is not | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the repeat. It is live. This is the forecast you are more likely to see | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
in January than May, but this is a cold night for the time of year. We | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
have got some cloud coming into the West, stopping the temperature going | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
down too far. It may produce light rain later in the night, maybe a | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
rogue shower from patchy cloud in East Anglia. For most, dry, clear, | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
temperatures are on the way down and will end up lower than this in the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
coldest rural spots by morning. -4 in rural Scotland in the coldest | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
moral spots in southern England, so gardeners take note, frost for some | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
of us are begins. What about the rest of the weekend? High pressure | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
is here as it begins. You may think, great, settled weather, it does | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
protect the south and east of the UK but Atlantique weather fronts coming | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
to the north and west, giving some rain at times. First, for tomorrow, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
it is a fine start. Chilly, a lot of dry weather around from the word go. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Quite a bit of | :08:40. | :08:40. |