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than 40,000 have made the journey so far this year. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
migrants. That's all from us. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The closure of two west London A ` why campaigners say lives could be | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
On the one hand they are already at full capacity and they are now | :00:11. | :00:24. | |
closing Hammersmith Accident Emergency. That is actually | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
negligence. But | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the NHS governing body says patient Struck`off the medical register ` | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
the Haringey doctor who offered to arrange female genital mutilation | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
on two young girls. Westfield shopping centre is | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
to expand to include more than 1000 new homes, but critics say | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
not enough are affordable. And we're on board the Royal Navy's | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
flagship, moored in Greenwich, before next week's D`Day | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
commemorations. We will take a tour of one of the | :00:52. | :01:06. | |
biggest and most versatile ships in the Royal Navy. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Campaigners have claimed lives could be put at risk with the closure of | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
They say neighbouring hospitals won't be able to cope when the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
emergency units at Hammersmith and Central Middlesex shut in September. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
It comes as NHS bosses have admitted they'll have to use beds usually | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
used for the winter health crisis to treat the influx of patients. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
But they insist no changes are being made that put patients at risk. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
GPs, support your patience. Despite the chanting, the change is on the | :01:41. | :02:02. | |
way for West London hospitals. Four out of mine Accident Emergency | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
departments are to be shot or downgraded. Those at Ealing and | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
chattering Cross will lose some services, and those at Hammersmith | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
and Central Middlesex will shut. At the moment, the Accident Emergency | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
at Hammersmith Hospital sees around 20,000 patients each year. Around | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
one third of those are admitted to the hospital. From September the | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
10th, the ambulances will be going elsewhere, mainly to Saint May is in | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Paddington. The NHS estimates 25 ambulances each day will divert, | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
with 15 patients diverted to the urgent care centre at Hammersmith. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
It says 15 patients a day will have to be admitted that papers from the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
board meeting of Imperial College health care savour the current | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
capacity at Saint Mary's hospital for acute admissions is already at | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
maximum utilisation. It goes on to say additional capacity is central | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
to delivery of the this is unlikely to conclude try to | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
the closure of the emergency unit. That has worried the local council | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
leader, newly elected last week. He even mentioned the hospital | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
reorganisations in his first speech. People of Hammersmith Fulham tell | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
you, hands off our hospital. We cannot have bureaucrats sitting in | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
offices making these decisions, putting lives at risk and taking no | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
notice of the electoral mandate that has been given to Hammersmith | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Fulham. People have spoken. The evidence is not there. They promised | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
decisions will be made on the clinical basis. That is not how it | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
is being done and it does not inspire confidence in her or her | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
team. But NHS bosses say the move is safe. The staff, they say, are in | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
place. In each case, we are moving small teams of doctors managing | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Accident Emergency to a larger unit to provide better care over 24 | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
hours a day, which is much better for the patient. But campaigners are | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
calling for an urgent meeting with the boss of the local hospitals. | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
There's still lots more to come this evening, including: | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
Court action ` the tennis hopeful from south London | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
taking a race discrimination case ` against the game's governing body. | :04:11. | :04:22. | |
The Mayor is facing criticism for approving plans to extend | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
the Westfield Shopping Centre in west London. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
It's said the billion`pound development will create thousands of | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
But critics say the expansion doesn't include enough | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
More on this from Tim Donovan, who's in Shepherd's Bush. | :04:40. | :04:52. | |
Westfield is at the centre of an area between Shepherd's Bush and | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
White city, where everyone wants to see regeneration, more jobs and | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
homes. It is an area where the mayor offers a dispensation. Whereas he | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
hopes to see 40% affordable homes in developments across London, here, he | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
says 15% would be OK. But Westfield came short even of that. Ever since | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
their first place was opened by the air, they have transformed the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
shopping scene in London. Now, Westfield is expanding north at | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Shepherd's Bush. More shops and also new homes. Flats, but not the right | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
kind, according to the local MP. I hope we can persuade or insist that | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Westfield go back and look at this. If they are going to be a good | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
neighbour they ought to think about not just the people who shop there, | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
but the people who live there. The mayor gave the final seal of | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
approval to the extension. It will mean more than 1300 homes. Just over | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
160 defined as an affordable, 12%, below even the already reduced | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
target of 15% for the area. On paper, there should have been 200 | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
affordable homes. Westfield are going to build 40 fewer than that. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
They have also been allowed to get around another planning rule. The | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Mayor's London plan requires that of the affordable housing, 60% is meant | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
to be for social or affordable rent, and the remaining 40% is | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
intermediate, part by, part rent. Westfield have managed to flip that | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
around, meaning they are being allowed to build fewer homes for | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
subsidised rent. It should be at least 50%. There is not much | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
affordable housing. 5% affordable rent. Disgusting. Not ideal, is it? | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
It is not helping anyone, really. Westfield said it was the best they | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
could do in the current economic climate. There had been an | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
independent assessment of what was viable, they said. Although the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
mayor was unavailable, City Hall defended the deal. It depends on the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
cost. This is an extremely expensive site to build on and the main | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
advantage is jobs. We weigh up jobs and housing in the balance when we | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
make these decisions, but it is about the overall economic benefit | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
to the city. Thousands of new jobs are promised here, with a new John | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Lewis store being the major attraction. But questions about big | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
developments and big profits, and whether the mayor has `` secured a | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
big enough quantity of affordable homes. Of course, the mayor has a | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
strong relationship with Westfield, a close partnership during the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Olympics when they opened their second successful store in | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
some credit for attracting them to some credit for attracting them to | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
open another store in future in Croydon, but it has not enabled him | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
to get more housing here. The new Labour Administration who took | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
control of the town Hall last week might look at this again, and they | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
might see if there are any legal avenues to try and raise the amount | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
of affordable homes here. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
murder after the death of a one`year`old girl. Police were | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
alerted by staff at Saint Peters Hospital after the toddler was | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
admitted with serious injuries on Wednesday before being transferred | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
to Saint George's Hospital in tooting. A 35`year`old man and a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
24`year`old woman are being held in police custody. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
The Metropolitan Police have stopped an officer leaving his job so he can | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
face disciplinary proceedings of a death in custody. PC Andrew Birks is | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
being investigated over the death of 40`year`old Sean Rigg at Brixton | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
police station six years ago. The force had originally accepted his | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
resignation was asked to reconsider by the Independent Police Complaints | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Commission. A violent robber from north London | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
has become the latest criminal to abscond from an open prison. | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
37`year`old Simon Rhodes`Butler went missing from a prison in West | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Sussex. He was two and a half years into a sentence for robbery in South | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Norwood. Police have warned the public not to approach him. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
A doctor in Haringey has been struck off the medical register for | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
agreeing to help to arrange female genital mutilation. Doctor | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
name`macro told an undercover reporter that he could arrange the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
illegal surgery for two young girls. A tribunal said he abused his | :09:36. | :09:47. | |
position. Advertising his private surgery in | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Haringey. In 2012 he was filmed by an undercover reporter posing as an | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
aunt who wanted nieces to be circumcised. He was filmed giving | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
advice on how to arrange the procedure. Today he was struck off | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the medical register after a tribunal found him unfit to | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
practice. It said he had abused his position as a doctor and had shown | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
he was willing to exploit two vulnerable children. It said it | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
could not be confident that there would not be a repetition of similar | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
misconduct if he were to continue practising. Female genital | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
mutilation is classed as torture by the United Nations and has been | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
illegal here for almost 30 years. Two months ago we spoke to one woman | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
about the impact the practice had had on her. As I was lying there | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
struggling, fighting for my life, because that is how I felt, I could | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
not breathe, could not do it any more. I can never describe the pain. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
It is not something I have any words for. It is estimated 20,000 girls in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
the UK are at risk of the practice, and a recent BBC investigation found | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
that almost 4000 FGM patients have been treated in London since 2009. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service looked at this case in 2012 but found there | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
was not enough evidence to support a prosecution. It said the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
journalist's evidence was insufficient and when the doctor's | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
computer was searched there was no sign he was involved in the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
practice. The campaigners, this ruling is welcome but it has | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
concerning implications. Doctors and medical professionals are very | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
respected in these communities. So it will enhance the legitimisation | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
of the practice. We expect them to be at the forefront in trying to | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
prevent it. The General Medical Council hopes the decision will send | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
a strong and clear signal that FGM will not be tolerated. | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
A retired Metropolitan Police offers from Hounslow has been accused of | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
indecently assaulting a teenage boy in police custody 27 years ago. He | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
served 30 years with the force and has previously sued the Metropolitan | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Police for racial discrimination. Today, he denied all allegations | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
against him. Leaving court this morning, his case | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
now referred to the Crown Court, where he will answer charges that he | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
indecently assaulted a 15`year`old boy in 1986. He joined The Met in | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
1982. It is alleged he attacked the child while he was in police custody | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
at the Old Bailey, which he strenuously denies. His Camille was | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
marred by allegations of racial discrimination. He was wrongly | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
accused of sending race hate mail to black and Asian officers. After | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
receiving an apology and if they raise their head above the parapet, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
they are targeted, disciplined, criminalised and given bad | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
publicity. He rejoined The Met and received compensation after being | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
passed over for promotion. In total, he has received ?300,000 in damages. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Since retiring in 2012 after 30 years, he was honoured as an Olympic | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
torch bearer during the relay leading up to the London games. And | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
just last week he was elected as an independent councillor in Hounslow. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
He stood for the Labour Party but they suspended him pending the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
outcome of the court case. He looked relaxed here today and he smiled at | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
times as he was given unconditional bail. Asked if he wanted to make any | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
comment, his defence counsel said he completely denies the allegations | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
and looks forward to receiving the full evidence and having his day in | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
court. He will now appear at Southwark Crown Court on June 12 to | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
hear the full charges against him. Still to come before the end | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
of the programme: We're on board the Royal Navy's | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
flagship, moored in London, ahead House prices in London went up | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
by nearly 7% in the past year, meaning the average property here | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
now costs more than ?400,000. The figures come from the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Land Registry. But a group of residents in | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
Waltham Forest have managed to find a way around the spiralling costs | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
of buying a home. Meet John Struthers, father of | :14:18. | :14:33. | |
three, building surveyor and the skipper of this project. Unwilling | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
to wait ten years for a bigger house for his family, he decided to take | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
matters into his own hands and build it himself, recruiting eight other | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
families along the way. We convinced people to help build their own homes | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
and turn it round and rent it. You actually have to find a particular | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
sort of person, or group of families, who really want to get up | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
and help themselves. And these are the local like`minded families who | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
have signed up with him. The heavy lifting is being done by qualified | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
builders but the families themselves will have to entirely fit, paint and | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
decorate their own homes. We've learned all sorts. Tiling, flooring, | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
plastering, painting. So, yeah, I tell my family these days not to | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
call a builder because they've got one here! And nobody will be moving | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
in before all the houses are finished. I feel it is very | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
important because at the end of the day, we came together as a group and | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
because we're going to be working on each other's houses, we want it to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
be just the same standard for all of us. Once they move in, the homes | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
will be owned by the housing association, to which they will pay | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
an affordable rent. They've shown a remarkable dedication and given up | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
evenings and weekends and will continue doing that for the rest of | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
the year. There are a lot of brown field sites in London and there is | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
ideal opportunity for the likes of companies like ourselves to get | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
involved so that we can eat away at the burden of housing in London. If | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
all goes according to plan, the self builders hope to move in by the | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
beginning of next year, bringing with them their ready`made | :16:19. | :16:19. | |
community. Now for tennis, | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
boxing and football news ` all A young mixed`race tennis player | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
from Croydon has been given the right to sue | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
the sport's governing body, claiming his career is being damaged | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
by ongoing race discrimination. 18`year`old Issac Stoute says white | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
players with lower rankings are being favoured over him by the | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
Lawn Tennis Association. After a long legal battle, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
the High Court has said the LTA does have a case to answer, | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Piers Hopkirk reports. Isaac Stoute practising today under | :16:48. | :17:02. | |
the watchful eye of his father. Now, though, he's serving legal papers, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
suing the lawn tennis association for discrimination. For me | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
personally, it is about the other kids who also get racially | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
discriminated against and don't stand up and say anything. I know of | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
many players who have had similar issues and nothing's happened with | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
them in the past so I felt it was my place to do something. Isaac is the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
top`rated under 18 player in Kent but he and his family claim that | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
tennis's governing body as stifled his career, noting lower rank | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
players ahead of him. I believe that if you have the talent, you should | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
be able to get through the sport no matter what. You should be hindered | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
by the organisation or a lack of funding or bigoted views. `` you | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
shouldn't be hindered. It should be down to simply talent. The LTA says | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
it strongly refuse the accusations, adding: `` refutes. | :17:57. | :18:08. | |
Isaac Stoute's battle for success has centred here on the tennis | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
courts but now his focus must switch to the law courts. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Now on to THAT boxing match at Wembley Stadium tomorrow night. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Earlier today Carl Froch and George Groves weighed in, | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
in front thousands of fight fans, ahead of their Super Middleweight | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Hammersmith challenger Groves weighed in at 11 stone 12 pounds | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
and 4 ounces, over a pound less than double world champion Froch. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
The sell`out fight is expected to attract a record breaking crowd | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
On to football and following Arsenal's FA Cup triumph, | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
Manager Arsene Wenger has signed a new contract. | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
The three`year deal will keep the 64`year`old at the Emirates | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
It means the Frenchman's time in charge of | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
the north London club will last 21 years, after he first joined 1996. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
Staying with Arsenal, their Ladies side play in Sunday's FA Cup Final | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
against Everton, but the match comes at a difficult time for the Gunners. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
They're at the bottom of the Women's Super League and | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
their manager Shelley Kerr will step down from her role after the final. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
The players have said they're driven to win for their departing boss. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Sunday's game is live on BBC Two at 4.30pm. | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
Now on to rugby and a retiring fans' favourite. | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
Former England captain Steve Borthwick will lead out | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
Saracens in the Aviva Premiership Final against Northampton Saints | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
After the club lost the Heineken Cup final against Toulon last week, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
tomorrow's match is Borthwick's last chance to lead | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
They've got men all across. During 16 years in the game, Steve | :19:47. | :20:01. | |
Borthwick has enjoyed plenty of highs. An amazing sport. Whether you | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
earn money for it or not, it's a privilege. To be involved with this | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
great club and to play ten seasons at Bath, that's a... I mean, who | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
wouldn't bite your hand off to take that? As well as the good times, | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
there have been plenty of bumps and bruises along the way. I'm not going | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
to answer your question because I answered it once a couple of years | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
ago and there was a problem! Last Saturday, Saracens were beaten by | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Jonny Wilkinson's Toulon in the Heineken Cup final in Wilkinson's | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
penultimate match before retirement. Tomorrow is the perfect | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
chance for Saracens to fight back and with Borthwick, they feel they | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
have the perfect leader. He's led the team for six seasons and has | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
been integral to everything that's happened at the club to progress. | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
But just on a pure playing side, he just brings such confidence in the | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
rest of the group and I think that's the key thing. What will I miss most | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
about playing? Every morning one of my colleagues has a new ridiculous | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
idea for me! I sent him off to see the coaches to see if he can get it | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
through. Now to see if any of those great ideas can translate into | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
premiership glory over Northampton tomorrow. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
And there's full commentary of Saracens against | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Northampton Saints on our radio station BBC London 94.9 tomorrow. | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
20,000 tonnes of the Royal Navy's finest ship has sailed into | :21:46. | :22:05. | |
Greenwich to give Londoners the chance to have a good nose around. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
HMS Bulwark has come to London ahead of a journey to Normandy next week, | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
when it will take part in D`Day commemorations. | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Emma North has been on the ship all day. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Let's hear from her now. There is very little that HMS | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
Bulwark cannot do. She can send out boats, she can send out military | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
vehicles, she can send out helicopters. But for the next three | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
or four days, she is right here in London. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
There is no missing Greenwich Park back row latest guest and this is | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
what Byrd and those on board got up to yesterday. Demonstrating their | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
power in a suspect boat parade. By all accounts, the neighbours weren't | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
too pleased. There were 328 people permanently stationed on board Byrd | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
and if they need to, they can add a further 500 or 600 and read. In the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
case of a follow that duration, there is space for more than 2000 | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
people. This is, they say, what makes Byrd so special. The whole | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
ship can be tilted more than 7 degrees. It floods the vehicle deck, | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
turning it into a dock for landing craft. It's a strange feeling when | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
you are effectively flooding your ship but we do it in a controlled | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
manner and to see all the moving parts and how it is all orchestrated | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
is quite moving to see. Bishop is in London to celebrate the anniversary | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
of the Marines, who have worked in the smallest spaces. It gets very | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
cramped but we all work hard to stay out of each other's way. Everyone is | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
surprisingly polite, for Marines, anyway, and you get used to it. Do | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
you get used to having so little personal space? You do eventually | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
but it still wears you out a little bit. It gets annoying. Especially | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
when 24 of you are trying to get ready for a night out. Everyone | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
starts spraying their aftershave and Cologne at once and it forms of vile | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
concoction in here. It's quite horrible really. Next Tuesday, HMS | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Bulwark will leave, first for Southsea and Ben Normandy, where she | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
will lead a D`day 70th anniversary service. Until then, she will keep a | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
close guard on Greenwich. All the tickets that were on sale | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
for private civilian tours of HMS Bulwark have now sold out but the | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Royal Navy say you can come down anyway. There will be plenty to do | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
and, with a ship of this size, plenty to see. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
I will definitely be taking a look this. Thanks very much. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Let's take a look at the weather now. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
In the centre of London it was a bit on the cloudy side but that isn't | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
the case in the whole of the region because there was some brighter | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
weather to be found. The cloud was extensive first thing but it did | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
move away from the east and the South but across central London, it | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
did stay on the cloudy side. Cloudy but essentially a dry day with light | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
winds and they stay light and we keep dry through the evening. Notice | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
the clear skies across the eastern side. Temperatures are going to drop | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
away through the small hours of the morning and maybe some transient | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
mist and fog, which won't last too long. Temperatures will slip away | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
into single figures, so quite chilly for some, but where you keep the | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
cloud further west, temperatures hold up into double figures. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Tomorrow looks like a reasonable start to the weekend with dry | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
weather and reasonable bright spells. If you are poorly you should | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
season sunshine but cloud amounts will increase as the day goes on. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Still the clouds could break and there will be brighter weather | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
creeping through. The winds are still light and it will be warmer | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
than today. Easily up to 19 or 20 in the centre of town and I think it | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
will feel quite pleasant despite the cloud coming and going. The London | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
triathlon is taking place over the next couple of days and the Brownlie | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
brothers will be out tomorrow. You can catch live action on BBC One. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Plans for Saturday night? Well, the weather won't get in your way. It | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
stays essentially dry. Maybe a shower to the north of London but in | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
town, a reasonable evening. Into the second part of the weekend, weather | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
fronts to the north`west of the UK won't bother us. We will see bright | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
spells around but cloud amounts are likely to increase and there could | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
be one or two microlight showers on Sunday afternoon. We've seen a lot | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
worse as we can scope. Saturday looks like a decent day with sunny | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
spells, 20 degrees. Maybe up to 21 on Sunday despite extra cloud. More | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
unsettled over the next week. Before we go, a reminder | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
of tonight's main news headlines: There's been a big rise in number of | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
migrants reaching Europe illegally. Many taking treacherous sea routes | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
from North Africa, risking their lives in makeshift boats, come in | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
the hope of a better life. CAR HORN BLARES | :27:02. | :27:18. | |
Whoa! HE GASPS | :27:19. | :28:00. | |
Driving parents crazy. You have to tell the police | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
whatever it is that you know. | :28:07. | :28:23. |