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Goodbye from me. Now we joined the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
An investigation reveals Met Officers and staff breached data | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
protection law hundreds of times, in some cases passing on information to | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
criminals. They've been leak data or information to known criminals. Some | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
involving sexual offences. Serious criminal acts. Scotland Yard says | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
the offences were committed by a tiny percentage of its workforce. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Also tonight: After a three`day Tube strike is suspended, we ask if the | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
row over ticket office closures is over. On the campaign trail. Ed | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Miliband tells Londoners what he can offer them ahead of this month's | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
elections. Plus, # I never thought it would happen | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
with me and a girl from Clapham... The former frontman of Squeeze on | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
going solo for 15 years and his love of South London. | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
Hello and a very good evening. A major investigation into the | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Metropolitan Police has revealed officers and staff breached data | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
protection law 300 times over the last five years. In two cases, | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
confidential information was passed on to criminals. Now, there are | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
calls for Scotland Yard to review its security procedures. The Met | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
says the number of offenders is a tiny percentage of its workforce. | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
The Metropolitan Police is entrusted to uphold the law. Today, we learnt | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
how, in some cases, their own officers broke it. Abusing their own | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
IT systems and protocols and breaching data protection laws. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
There have been 300 police breaches during nearly five years dating back | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
to 2009. Two`thirds were subject to formal action being taken, including | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
criminal prosecutions. Many cases involve using work computers or | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
smartphones to access online pornography. One police officer made | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
sexual comments about children on a website. A Special Constable posted | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
racist comments online. Amongst the most serious offences were, on two | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
separate occasionses officers leaking information to criminals, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
include to a none gangster with links to firearms `` occasions and | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
known. This begs a simple question ` why did they escape criminal | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
prosecution? Leaking data or known information to known criminals. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
Serious criminal acts. Therefore, they should be suspended from duty | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
there and then. They should have a chance to prove if they are innocent | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
or guilty in a court of law. No`one from the Met was available for | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
comment today. They released a statement in which they said they | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
had systems in place to learn any lessons needed. They weren't on to | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
say the `` went on to say the number of employees disciplined for mis se | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
represents 0.01% of those employed by the Met. Others argue that the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
nature of this request is misleading in itself. We know a lot of them are | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
fairly trivial because some of the punishments are words of advice. The | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
reality is they are not all serious cases. By lumping them altogether it | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
make it is sound as if the cases are all of a serious nature. The | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
breaches are embarrassing for the Met. There are calls for the force | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to review how it uses, stores and controls confidential information. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Lots more to come tonight, including: Could this pair of | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
pyjamas really help reduce the risk of MRSA? The latest trial at a south | :03:57. | :04:08. | |
London hospital. Millions of commuters breathed a shy of relief | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
after the three`day Tube strike was suspended. The planned walk`out was | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
because of a dispute over ticket office closures. Both the union and | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
London Underground are claiming significant progress has been made. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Where does this leave the prospect of future strikes? Here's our | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
transport correspondent, Tom Edwards. At last, some respite for | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
commuters. It's unlikely this is the end of the dispute. The Tube strike | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
is not on. Unnecessary chaos. London is busy enough. Keep the trains | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
working. With new technology we are making it easier for our customers | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
to plan and pay for their journsees. An agreement to start the biggest | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
changes in the history of the Tube. It seems all ticket offices will | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
close. 950 job losses. Part of the new deal, no redeployed staff will | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
have their pay cut. Nobody will lose any money in this programme. There | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
is no compulsory redundancies of course. Voluntary severance is open. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Anybody who wants a job can still have a job. There had been will be a | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
station by station review. Transport bosses say it won't include ticket | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
offices. The RMT union say it is will make a case to save them. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Today, the Mayor mentioned again another contentious area, driverless | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
trains. Ticket offices though will be shut. We will close 260 odd | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
ticket offices. Let us be clear about that. As we have said, at | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
mainline stations, really big stations, there will be of course a | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
role for visitor information centres or whatever. The traditional ticket | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
office is going to be a thing of the past. We haven't predetermined the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
outcome. The people of London will be really worried about the Mayor of | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
London getting involved in very delicate situation and inflaming the | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
situation. He shouldn't be doing that. He should allow us to have | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
proper discussions and meaningful (inaudible) without determining the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
outcome. The RMT is in the middle of a leadership contest. London | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Underground ran half of all it services. It claimed today it would | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
with have imagined managed more this week. There is concern that | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
passengers have missed out on having a say. I would like to see the Mayor | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
talking to the trade unions. Like to see London Underground consulting | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
with commuters. Consulting with experts and with those who use the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Tubes to make sure of the best service possible that is affordable. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
If you want an idea of what the Tube could look like in future. Look at | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Paris. There are ticket offices, but only at the main stations. I'm used | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
to this kind of machinery. It's not an issue to not have the ticket | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
agent to buy tickets. It's better to have people selling tickets. There | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
is less and less human contact. You put your money in and get a ticket. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
That is what you want no. This dispute still has the potential for | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
more strikes in the future. Tomorrow is here now `` Tom is here now. Good | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
news for the short`term. This process is far from over? I don't | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
think anyone at the RMT will claim it as a victory. I get the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
impression there isn't really the appetite for more strikes over this | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
particular issue, ticket office closures. At best they have managed | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
to get pay protection. These close sure of the ticket offices, that | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
whole process is still going to be going on. I think this is just the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
beginning. That is one way of looking at it. TFL have to cut their | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
budget by ?4.2 billion by 2020. For example, we have another dispute on | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Friday over pay and pensions. Automated trains. That has also been | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
discussed today. That will be fiercely opposed. Commuters, I | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
think, will fear this is just the start. OK. Thank you. Detectives are | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
appealing for information following the death of a teenager in Brixton. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
17`year`old Alim Uddin was found with stab wounds at Tilford House | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
yesterday evening. He was taken to hospital, but later died. A | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
16`year`old boy has been arrested in connection with his murder. A pair | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
of running shoes signed by Usain Bolt has been stolen in Croydon. The | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
trainers, worth around ?2 o o 0,000, were on display at a commercial | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
property. They were framed alongside a photo of the athlete after he set | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
a new world record five years ago. The luxury how tell chain, | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Shangri`La, has opened its first UK hotel in London in the Shard. The | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
built on the 34th to 52nd floor, it hopes to attract travellers | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
particularly from Asia. All rooms will have ceiling to floor glass | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
windows. The most expensive suite cost ?14,000 a night. Ed Miliband | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
has been in Croydon drumming up support ahead of the local and euro | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
elections. The visit marks the launch of Labour's campaign to win | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
key seats in the capital. In the second of our interviews with the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
party leaders, our political correspondent, Karl Mercer, has been | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
speaking to Mr Miliband about how he plans to attract the London vote. | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
Campaign launches can be strange affairs. Part politics, but plenty | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
of cheer leading. Ladies and gentlemen, the future Prime | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Minister, my good friend, Ed Miliband. In a hand`picked room of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Labour supporters, Ed Miliband was very much preaching to the | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
converted. His big promise today was a crackdown on empty homes in London | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
with more powers promised for local councils. We are saying we will | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
increase the premium that councils can charge from 50% of council tax | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
to 100%. Charge it after a shorter period and end the nonsense of | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
people putting a chair in a home saying it's no longer empty. We have | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
massive housing crisis in London. Labour is talking about it and | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
showing how we will act. This is an important part of it. It's | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
scratching the surface of empty homes. If you say to a millionaire | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
developer we will charge you ??2,000 a year instead of ?1,000 it won't | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
make a huge difference. You are talking about 60,000 properties? We | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
need to build more homes. We are building 20,000 homes a year in | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
London at the moment, we should be building at least 60,000. We have to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
go further on that. On your empty homes policy, you say it's a | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
scandal, 60,000 empty homes sitting here in London. Press releases, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
13,000 are in Tory boroughs. 47,000 of these empty homes are in Labour | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
boroughs, which means Labour boroughs are sitting there not doing | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
enough to bring these empty homes back into use, does it not? Not at | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
all. What is happening is that Labour authorities are using the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
maximum powers that they have. They are doing everything they can, the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
government has offered them the powers. That is why you need a | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Labour government. Earlier in the day he had been in Streatham, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
clearly shocked at London's rising how prices. There was familiar | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
territory too in his message today. We will bring back the 50p rate of | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
tax for those earning over ?150,000. It is the right thing to do to | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
reverse David Cameron's millionaire's tax cut. Are you not | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
in danger of taxing those, the wealth creators in London, who | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
generate the wealth that makes this city and the British economy work I | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
think everyone in London is a wealth creator. I don't think wealth is | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
created by a few people at the top of our country. That is a big | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
difference. It's an argument we will have over the next year between us | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
and the Tories. They think the wealth creators are a few people who | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
work in our banks. Financial services is important. People who go | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
out in Croydon, do 60 hours a week, are as much wealth creators as | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
people at the top of our society. The Labour leader was among friends, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
this time in Tower Hamlets. Reaching out beyond his party remains a | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
challenge. Some people will see you as being the problem to Labour's | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
success. They will look at you and say ` this is not a Prime Minister | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
in waiting. They can't imagine you leading the country. Let us have | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
that argument over the next year. I will look forward to that argument. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
What you have seen with me over the last three`and`a`half years is | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
someone making arguments about how our country needs to change. Whether | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
it's on energy prices or the private rented sector or the living wage and | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
the cost`of`living crisis, it's me who has been leading the way. He | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
says he is leading the way. Will the voters follow on May 22nd? Now, as | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
we've been hearing, a violent armed robber, nicknamed the Skull Cracker, | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
has absconded from an open prison in Kent. Michael Wheatley failed to | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
return from day release. He's said to have been spotted in Twickenham | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
last night. In 2002 he was given 13 life sentences for carrying out a | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
spring of bank raids, ordered to serve at least eight years. The case | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
has raised questions about how and when prisoners are released. To | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
discuss this, with me now is jult Lyon from the Prison Reform Trust | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
and Mark Reckless, the Conservative MP for Rochester who would like to | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
see changes to sentencing. People will be shocked that someone who was | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
given 13 life sentences is on day release, should they be shocked? | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
What they should be thinking about is, how on earth do you release | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
somebody who served a long time in prison? How do you do that safely | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
and sensibly? There are only ` in a prison population of about 84,000, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
there are about 40 people who will never come out of prison. When | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
people are being prepared for release, what is the best way of | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
preparing them for release and what is the best way of reducing | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
reoffending? Many people would argue that supervising people in open | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
prisons releasing people on temporary licence. Assessing them, | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
helping them to find jobs and safe housing is the best way to do it. It | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
does also raise the question, doesn't it, of how many years is | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
enough? Is eight years enough, for example, if someone has been given | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
13 life sentences? I would argue very strongly it is not. Your | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
viewers hearing 13 life sentences for armed robbery, yet the minimum | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
tariff is set only at eight years. The judge has to look at the | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
individual circumstances, but I think in parliament we need to set | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
the guidelines for sentencing. At the moment we say what the maximum | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
sentence is, which is rarely applied. Occasionally, on knife | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
crime, there was a minimum sentence when someone is convicted a second | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
crime. If there are to be guidelines they should be set by parliament, | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
accountable to the public so we get sentences what the public want to | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
see. The problem is, a began goal, they are seenor judges. I trust the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
discretion of the individual trial judge. If that will be constrained | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
and there will be guidelines they need to be set and approved by | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
parliament so they reflect what the public want. You have questioned | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
obviously sentencing itself. Returning to this issue of day | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
release. This case aside, why do you think that open prisons are | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
important? Well, the whole idea of day release is that people get the | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
chance to work out in the community. I have two prisoners working in my | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
office on a daily basis. They are hard`working, diligent, they have | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
been doing very well. A lot of the big building companies have people | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
working on that same basis. So that means that somebody is going into | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
proper paid employment. They will become a taxpayer and take | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
responsibility. That is what you want really. The President of the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Chief Association of Police officers said he was surprised at this | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
decision of allowing day release and freedom? Well, at some point people | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
get towards the end of their sentence. The design of open prison | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
is actually for people who have served a long sentence in a closed | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
environment. If you like, another world. To try and bring them into | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
our world, here, they need some transition. They need help to do | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
that. Really, you have to focus on cutting reoffending rates. That | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
seems to be one of the best ways of doing it. Do you agree, or do you | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
think there needs to be a wider look at the use of day release?s | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
ministers have mentioned that today? Is We don't want to be leaving | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
someone at the prison door with a small amount of money and no | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
connections to society. I do think you want to try and work with people | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
while they are in prison to rehabilitate them and make sure the | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
work carries on to the outside. If someone is released it makes sense | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
to have a transitional period. What is most important is that people | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
have the length of the sentence that the public need to get the | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
protection they deserve. Sentences have got longer and longer. We have | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
to be careful not to over do it. Not sure in this case. We have to leave | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
it there. Thank you. Is Still to come tonight: Welcoming | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
the Queen to Essex ` as Her Majesty joins the congregation at Chelmsford | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
Cathedral. Next: can a pair of pyjamas really | :17:29. | :17:46. | |
help reduce infections like MRSA? They were designed by an 18`year`old | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
student from Croydon using copper, which is known for its antiseptic | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
qualities. Now doctors at a south London hospital are trialling the | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
use of the fabric on patients. Charlotte Franks has been speaking | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
to one mother who believes the pyjamas may have saved her life. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Looking at this pair of the jammers, it is hard to believe that they may | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
have saved Gemma's life after she was left fighting a serious | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
infection following a Caesarean almost two years ago. It was itchy, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
red, really sore. I tried different types of antibiotics. I felt | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
absolutely awful, no energy. Doctors said it was the worst case of MRSA | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
they had ever seen. A family friend heard that Gemma was ill and brought | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
her an unusual gift that she had invented at school. She had been | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
researching antibacterial fabrics for a project, and designed a pair | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
of pyjamas made with copper. The copper invades cells with bacteria, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
so that diminishes the bacteria. Gemma was desperate for any sort of | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
remedy, and I gave her the pyjamas and she actually used it directly | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
against the wound. And within a couple of days, there were some | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
great effects. Throughout history, metals have been used for their | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
healing properties. Many of us think nothing of using a silver plaster | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
like this to help heal a wound or a cut. Like silver, copper also has | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
anti`septic qualities, but the difference is, copper is much | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
cheaper. Not long after trying the pyjamas, Gemma's wound started to | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
heal. Nearby Croydon university hospital heard about her case and | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
was so impressed that they have taken steps to clinic to trial | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
them. If it works, we will use it routinely on all our post`operative | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
wounds, and also following childbirth, we could use it instead | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
of conventional dressings. Amber is now at university and working on new | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
designs which she hopes will help more people like Gemma, who is still | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
convinced that the pyjamas saved her life. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Hundreds of people turned out to welcome the Queen and the Duke of | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Edinburgh to Essex. They joined a congregation at Chelmsford Cathedral | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
to celebrate the centenary of the diocese of Chelmsford. Richard | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
Daniel reports. It was a day of celebration. A day | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
when a new city prepared to welcome the monarch. God save the Queen! | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Today was the climax of celebrations to mark the centenary of the | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Chelmsford diocese. They have manicure the lawn with some nail | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
scissors. We are proud and happy. There is a fantastic buzz about the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
place. Finally, the moment they had been waiting for. The Queen and Duke | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
of Edinburgh, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant, by their way to the | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
Cathedral's West door. In his address, the bishop told the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
congregation the Chelmsford diocese was the most diverse and most | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
glorious in the country. Joking, the only way is six. The diocese in | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
chums that which covers five London boroughs and Essex, is the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
second`largest in the country. 100 years ago, it was part of somebody | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
else's even larger diocese. And for the King family, waiting since six | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
this morning, their patience was rewarded. She smiled at us and said | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
that was very kind when we gave her the flowers. Two years ago, the | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Queen granted Chelmsford city status in her diamond jubilee year. Today, | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
the people of the new city said thank you. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
He was the frontman of the '70s band Squeeze, whose hits include Cool for | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Cats and Up the Junction. Singer`songwriter Glenn Tilbrook has | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
been going solo for the past 15 years, writing and recording at his | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
home in southeast London. That's where Helen Drew caught up with him | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
as he prepares to go on tour this summer. | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
Squeeze had many hit singles and 13 albums in the late 1970s, '80s and | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
'90s. The man who wrote Cool For Cats is Glenn Tilbrook, one of the | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
band's main singers. Now solo, he has just released his third album. | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
It is an acoustic`based album, and the music comes from all over the | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
place. It is a much overused word, but it is properly eclectic. It | :22:30. | :22:43. | |
sounds unlike anything I have done before. I am very pleased. The album | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
is called Happy Ending and was recorded at his Charlton studio, | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
half a mile from where he was born. I like it round here. I like the | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
combination of beauty and grottiness in equal measure. In a completely | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
non`patronising way, I really enjoy that. Has it influenced your music? | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
I think it does influence my music and lyrics. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
# I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
Clapham...# Glen has toured around the world, both with and without | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
Squeeze. He has also worked with many famous names. Johnny Depp, yes. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
He is a Squeeze fan, and one of Johnny's people rang up and said he | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
would like to get together. So we got together, and then I asked if he | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
would be on the record, and he and Vanessa Paradis, they were together | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
at the time, came and each did something for the record. And they | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
were really lovely people. That is not bad, Johnny Depp asking you to | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
get involved on a record! These things happen few and far between, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
but I cherish them when they happen. Glen Tilbrook is touring the country | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
this summer and autumn, including several London gigs. | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
It's that time of the evening for a look at the weather and bank holiday | :24:10. | :24:21. | |
sunshine. Not normally words you find in a sentence together. But | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
yes, we had some, and it has filtered through to the new working | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
week, with temperatures reaching 20 degrees in central London today. It | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
is going to turn increasingly unsettled during the rest of the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
week. Low pressure is over us at the moment, so we do have a few showers | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
around across the Thames estuary and Essex at the moment. There is a line | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
that will drag itself close to London, but mostly going up west and | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
north of London over the next few hours. But there will be dry and | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
clear whether to be had, and temperatures will be holding in | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
double figures overnight. We start the day tomorrow with sunny spells | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
again. It is still unsettled weather, so we may see some showers, | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
particularly in the afternoon. But you can see the numbers in the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
breeze. That is a strong south`westerly that is pushing the | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
showers through, so even if you get a heavy one, they should be whizzing | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
through and you should return to sunny skies. Temperatures are bit | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
cooler, but that is where it should be at this time of year. So far so | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
good, but later in the week, we will not be able to avoid those weather | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
systems. One comes through for Thursday, giving us quite a dousing | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
of rain. And then the next weather system comes through on Saturday, | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
bringing heavyweight and probably strong winds as well `` heavy rain. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
So enjoy the sunshine while it is their tomorrow, because there will | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
be quite a wet day on Thursday, showers around on Friday, and for | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
the start of the weekend, it will be wet, but it should whiz through | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
quickly, because there will be a breeze. Bit of everything this week. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
That is it for now. More on the day's stories on our website. Asad | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Ahmad will be back with our latest news. Watching and have a lovely | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
evening. Bye`bye. at the European elections | :26:29. | :26:59. | |
on May the 22nd. | :27:00. | :27:02. |