02/05/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening. Next week's three`day Tube strike is on. Earlier this

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evening, talks between union leaders and London Underground ended with

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the two sides failing to reach an agreement. Tonight, Mayor Boris

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Johnson said "London was being held to ransom by the RMT union", who are

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angry at the proposed closure of ticket offices. Here's our transport

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correspondent, Tom Edwards. Next week, you can now expect more

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of this. Queues, cramped trains and congested roads as today, talks at

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the conciliation service ACAS broke down. It's the inconvenience it

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causes and they know that we rely so heavily upon it. It's got to be, but

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what can you do really? Why bother? They earn enough money as it is.

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Change has got to happen. It's nonsense, absolute nonsense. Luckily

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it doesn't bother me that much because I can walk to work every day

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so I am not affected by it. This dispute is over closing ticket

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offices and job losses. Bosses want staff in the ticket halls and say

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there will be no compulsory redundancies. The RMT union says

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it's a safety risk and want review of the closures. There was some

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movement today from both sides ` it wasn't enough. They've not taken up

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our offer to suspend the action and the implementation. They spent eight

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hours talking about very little. Regrettably the strike is still on.

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The strike is due to start on Monday at 9:00pm. It will last 72 hours and

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finish on Thursday night. The sticking point with the talks were

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the 950 job losses and the review of the closure of all of the ticket

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offices. But this is becoming an increasingly bitter and ugly

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dispute. The last time we had a 72 hour strike was in 2007. London

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Underground says it's extremely disappointed the talks failed. We

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put together a form of words. We said we would extend and put this

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current proposal on hold for three to four weeks. We said we would be

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prepared to go through a station by station review and at the end of the

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24 week period we would come back to ACAS. We said we would put on hold

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any voluntary severance and any other agreements that were put in

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place previously. In return I asked for the RMT to withdraw this

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dispute. Their reaction was, we don't think we can accept that,

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we're going to take this information back to the executive and I will not

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recommending it. That was the view of the RMT. That means commuters are

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again bracing themselves for more disruption. At the moment no talks

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are planned for the weekend. Firefighters were on strike today `

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in the first of a series of walk`outs which will continue over

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this Bank Holiday weekend. The action lasted five hours. Tomorrow,

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there'll be another walk`out, with a further strike planned for Sunday.

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It's over a long`running dispute over pensions.

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The Bank of England has said it would be dangerous to ignore the

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surge in house prices over the past year. One of its deputy governors

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has said a property crash is the biggest worry. The warning comes as

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a penthouse in central London is reported to have been sold for ?140

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million. An award`winning headteacher faces

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being struck off after admitting a string of expense offences ` which

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include charging the school ?7,000 for her own birthday party. Jo

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Shuter had been credited with turning around Quintin Kynaston

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Academy in St John's Wood. But now she's been found guilty of

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"unacceptable professional conduct". Marc Ashdown reports.

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A darling of top politicians, a CBE. Once headteacher of the year. Now,

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Jo Shuter's career in education could be over. Welcome to the

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school. This is an outstanding school. She turned around Quintin

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Kynaston School but in 2012 a whistle`blower raised concerns over

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the finances. A government investigation found she was

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personally paid ?28,000 public speaking in school time, ?13,000 was

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claimed for overnight hotel stays for senior managers, ?7,000 was

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spent on her 50th birthday party. Furniture for the school worth

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?1,500 was delivered to her home. Overall they raised queries on at

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least ?40,000 in the budget. Jo Shuter resigned in June and this

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week, in front of a government panel, admitted a large number of

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the allegations. This is the report into this professional misconduct

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and in it the panel say they are satisfied Jo Shuter is guilty of

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unacceptable professional misconduct and they do so taking into account

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the role of teachers, especially headteachers and their influence on

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pupils, parents and the community. They say they should be viewed as

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role models. The maximum punishment they can hand down is what is called

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a prohibition order, which would effectively see Jo Shuter struck off

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the teaching register in England. Some of the money was paid back but

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Westminster Council referred the case to the regulator and said today

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they felt the matter was too serious not to take further. You come to the

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school as a role model. She admitted using her school personal assistant

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to sort out speaking engagements and book holiday flights for friends and

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family, arrange rental of her luxury villa in a Turkish hotspot ` all in

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office hours. There were also numerous personal taxi journeys

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charged to the school and phones and an iPad for Jo Shuter's children

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paid for too. Some travel expenses were claimed twice. The panel said

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the allegations did not refer to dishonesty or fraud, but some

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believe the story may not be over. There is potentially also a police

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investigation that has yet to be completed by the Met, so

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unfortunately this may go on a bit longer but not necessarily. I was

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trying to get through to Jo Shuter. She is currently head at another

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school in east London and today was not available for comment. If the

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panel recommends a ban, the Secretary of State Michael Gove will

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have to decide if she is fit to continue.

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That is it from me for tonight. The weather forecast now for the Bank

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Holiday weekend. The weather is set fair, it should

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be fine and dry. We did see some rain around today, but that it

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clearing away. Through the night tonight, it will turn pretty chilly.

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For tomorrow, the forecast will bring with it some sunshine.

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Temperatures falling away out and about in the countryside. We could

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get low enough for a touch of frost but in central London temperatures

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starting at 4`5d. A light wind. Although it is cold, it is going to

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be a bright start. The north`easterly breeze dragging in

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more cloud through the afternoon across northern areas, but further

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south, holding on to the best of any dry, bright weather with

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temperatures at 14 ` 15 degrees. After the sunshine on Saturday, it

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should turn cloudy but warmer for the rest of the weekend. Now look at

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the Outlook with Nick Miller. Neuer-macro don't worry, this is not

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the repeat. It is live. This is the forecast you are more likely to see

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in January than May, but this is a cold night for the time of year. We

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have got some cloud coming into the West, stopping the temperature going

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down too far. It may produce light rain later in the night, maybe a

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rogue shower from patchy cloud in East Anglia. For most, dry, clear,

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temperatures are on the way down and will end up lower than this in the

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coldest rural spots by morning. -4 in rural Scotland in the coldest

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moral spots in southern England, so gardeners take note, frost for some

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of us are begins. What about the rest of the weekend? High pressure

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is here as it begins. You may think, great, settled weather, it does

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protect the south and east of the UK but Atlantique weather fronts coming

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to the north and west, giving some rain at times. First, for tomorrow,

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it is a fine start. Chilly, a lot of dry weather around from the word go.

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Quite a bit of

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