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That's it from us. Have a very good night. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC London News. | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
Two years ago campaigning for re-election Boris Johnson claimed | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
his rival had claimed more time in Havana than in Havering. Since | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
winning a second mayoral Territorial Army term, the BBC has learned that | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
he has spent more time in Doha than he has in Dagenham. He is in danger | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
of becoming a zone one mayor, withsy the accusation he made about his | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
predecessor. This report contains some flash photography. Ken | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Livingstone went around the world to promote the capital, taking in | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
places like India on his travels. Boris Johnson has done the same. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
That has not stopped the current mayor publicly criticising his | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
predecessor. He went to Havana more than Havering. It was a line | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
repeated in the 2012 manifesto. Analysis of his dairy for 2013 shows | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
he spent more time at the say voi than every outer London -- Savoy | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
than every other outer London borough. He hoped outer London to | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
vote him back in. He turned his back on it. It is interesting about the | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
foreign visits. He talks a lot to developer friends. I represent | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Shoreditch, which is about to have a very big development. I hope he'll | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
come here and talk as much to Londoners about their issues than | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
the foreign investors. The mayor's passport was well used. There was a | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
big trip to China. There have been many others. Has he turned his back | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
on the outer London boroughs? The mayor made it clear that outer | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
London was a priority to him. He went there 100 times in his four | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
years. That is 100 official engagements, not just political | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
visits or anything else. And that was twice, or three times what Ken | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Livingstone had done. The mayor's team, like the man | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
himself, remain bullish. He has not forgotten his roots, they say. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Expert to see more of him overseas. A thief has stolen the medals of a | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
92-year-old veteran on the 70 anniversary of D-Day. The conman | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
entered the home in Barnet. It happened on frie while | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
commemorations were taking place in France. The thief got away with all | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
11 of the veteran's medals. Bus passengers can now take an extra | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
journey even if they don't have enough credit on their Oyster card. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
The policy is being introduced ahead of all buses going completely | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
cashless next month. Cash was once king on London's buses | :02:59. | :03:10. | |
and the only way to pay your fare. All that is changing. In a month's | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
time, the capital's bus network will go completely cashless. To prepare | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
for the move, today Transport for London launched the initiative. The | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
scheme means even if you don't have enough credit for travel, so long as | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
you have a positive balance on your Oyster card, in my case 20 p, you | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
can use the bus. If you have a negative balance you will not be | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
able to travel. What about Londoners in more remote areas, where there | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
are fewer places to top-up. We have done some reviews of the areas where | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
we need more ticket shops where you can top-up. We have opened a few new | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
ones. The majority of passengers use Oyster cards to pay for their | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
travel. Only 1% pays for their journey with cash. Collecting that | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
cash costs ?24 million a year. TFL say they will save ?130 million over | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
nine years, all to be reinvested back into the bus network. Not all | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
commuters are keen on the idea. If I cannot get to a place where they | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
sell an op Oyster Card you can only do it in a shop, if it is not open | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
and the station is not open, you have to get on the bus to use cash. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Bus bosses insist going cashless is the best way forward for London. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
The Queen's baton was in the Olympic Park in Stratford today, as part of | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
the build-up to the Commonwealth games next month. It arrived in | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
style. There's a sort of lovely connection | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
with sport and people getting inspired. You know, we all hope the | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Commonwealth games will do something for the whole country n the same way | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
the Olympics did. Time now for the weather forecast with Sara. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Good evening. We have seen temperatures up into the 20's today. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
The same for tomorrow. We have the risk of sharp showers developing | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
through the afternoon. We are off to a dry start first thing tomorrow | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
morning. A little bit of that rain may linger here and there. Most of | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
the capital starts on a dry note tomorrow. Good spells of sunshine. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Temperatures on the rise through the day. In the afternoon we have a risk | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
of sharp showers dwroping, particularly towards the -- | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
developing, particularly towards the north. Tuesday - a different | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
picture. A risk of one or two light showers. Pressure is pushing across | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
the south of the UK. It will be cooler and fresher. A lot of dry | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
weather through this week. That is it from the BBC London | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
weekend team. I wish you a very good night. | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
Good evening. It was quite warm today and humid. There was sunshine | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
and also thundery | :06:12. | :06:12. |