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cooler through the weekend, but the weather is looking pretty good for | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
most of us. That is it from us, goodbye, time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for the news where you are. officers dedicated to rooting out | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
criminal offices where they are A campaign to stop photos of children | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
being published without pardnts consent, launched by Paul Wdller's | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
wife. I'm in Bethnal Green, one of the areas where firefighters strike | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
is taking place across London, just as there is a warning that the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
number of fires actually gods up during the World Cup. And hoping for | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
glory in Brazil, we profile the World Cup stars from London teams. | :00:46. | :01:09. | |
control. Scotland Yard a decade ago. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
We obtained documents that showed how drug deals, armed robberies | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
and even contract killings were carried out in the full knowledge | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
of serving police officers. Today, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan`Howe and the Deputy M`yor for | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Policing presented a united front in their fight against corrtption. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
The men responsible for heading up Scotland Yard. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
One politician, the other Britain's top cop. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Today at a photo shoot to t`lk about successful police seizures | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
of an insured vehicles. But also another opportunitx to | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
explain to Londoners whether the Met is still corrupt. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
We can't be clear there is absolutely no corruption, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
but we have well over 100 officers dedicated to rooting out crhminal | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
offices where they are. There are relatively few, | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
but we do employ thousands of people and it's entirely possible | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
people are acting improper. Last night, BBC London reve`led | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
the scale of police corrupthon in North and East London a dec`de ago. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
We found that a secret Scotland Yard unit had identified 42 servhng | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
officers as corrupt. 19 ex`officers and the same | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
number of career criminals linked to eight major crime syndic`tes | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
The report, produced in 2002, was a disturbing account of drug | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
deals, armed robberies and contract killings, carried out in thd full | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
knowledge of corrupt detecthves It told us | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
about how important court c`ses failed, about police operathons | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
and techniques being betraydd. And the fact none | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
of the crime syndicates had been seriously disrupted then showed how | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
effective the criminals werd. It still unclear ten years | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
on how many individuals the Met has prosecuted. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
I asked the Met commissioner if he had got a grip on corruption. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Of course there was a report in 2002 about corruption in thd Met. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
There was action taken then and we continue to take acthon now. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
It's vital we maintain the confidence of the public | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
in the British police service of and in particular the Met. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Do you feel confident in thd leaders of Scotland Yard now, that they are | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
telling you the truth, that they have got a grip on corruption? | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
I'm confident they take this issue incredibly seriously. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
You can see in the appointmdnt of a commissioner who is dedicated | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
at looking at these historic cases, so we can prepare | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
for the public enquiry that has been announced by the Home Secretary | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
And that judge`led public enquiry will be into Stephen Lawrence's | :03:36. | :03:36. | |
murder. A recent review of the inithal | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
investigation into who killdd the teenager found reasonable grounds to | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
suspect corruption. Coming tp later... The capital's first dental | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
hospital in 40 years opens hts doors, training the next generation | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
of dentists and transforming patients lives. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Firefighters across London are taking part | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
in a 24`hour strike over a row with the Government over pensions. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
The walk`out is the longest strike yet in the three`year dispute, | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
and coincides with the start of the World Cup in Brazil. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
It comes as London Fire Brigade has called for people to order takeaways | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
during the tournament to avoid cooking after drinking alcohol. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Tarah Welsh is at Bethnal Green Fire Station with more on this. | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
This dispute is ongoing. It's all about the Government wanting to | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
raise the age that firefighters can retire, from 55 to 60 years old It | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
also wants firefighters to pay more into their pensions, somethhng the | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Fire Brigades Union is heavhly against. We are seeing more strikes | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
across London, more people on the picket lines and in Essex, 050 | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
firefighters marched through Eric Pickles' constituency today. They | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
told him that he must support his firefighters. We are very close to a | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
settlement, we've been closd for a while. I do recognise that there are | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
some internal firefighters taking it inside the trade unions, I kind of | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
respect that but we've got puite a good deal for firefighters, there is | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
a good deal on the table and the moderate side of the union would be | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
very willing to settle. We really do need to win this dispute. Wd do need | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
to be in a position whereby the public don't have an ancient | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
workforce that physically c`n't do the job. We do need to defend our | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
members and their pensions, to ensure they are not sacked from the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
fire service because they are not fit enough as they reach 60 and | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
living on the dole. That wotld not be appropriate for the publhc or our | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
members. This strike goes on until 9am tomorrow morning but before | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
then, in case you didn't know, the World Cup kicks off. The Fire | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Brigade today have warned pdople not to drink and then come in and cook. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
They say that has disastrous consequences. In fact, in 2010 | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
during the World Cup, 40% of kitchen fires were caused by food bding left | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
unattended. They also say that one in four that die in fires of alcohol | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
in their system. So what happens if there are fires tonight World Cup | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
related or not? The Governmdnt says there is a contingency plan in | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
place. Fire Station with more on this. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
The rock star Paul Weller and his wife have called for a change in the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
law to stop photos of children being published without parental consent. | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
The singer was awarded ?10,000 on behalf of his children, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
after photos of them were ptblished in the Mail online. | :06:56. | :06:56. | |
David Sillito reports. He's been a famous face when nearly | :06:57. | :07:12. | |
40 years. Paul Weller is usdd to being photographed but his | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
children... These aren't thd offending pictures, they've been | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
taken down, but the incident has left its mark. When the photographs | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
were published, later on we realised they'd been followed all afternoon | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
and this person had been taking photographs covertly of our | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
children. The fact that thex were published seemed so wrong to me it | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
seems absolutely disgraceful. She emerged from court having won a | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
legal battle, but they want more. They want the law changing. This has | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
been a long court case and Hannah Weller says it has been strdssful | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
and unpleasant. She doesn't feel anyone else should have to go | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
through this. But the newsp`pers are going to resist the idea of making | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
this a criminal matter. Espdcially given that many celebrities have at | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
certain moments been more than happy to show off their offspring to the | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
cameras. And there are other problems with getting legal | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
permission. How do you take photographs of crowd scenes, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
football matches, how do yot ask permission? What about forehgn | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
disasters, war, what about children there? Basically, if you do that you | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
are breaking the new law. It's ridiculous. So while it was today a | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
victory for the family's prhvacy, turning photos of children hnto a | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
crime is going to meet some pretty determined resistance. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister s`ys he doesn't agree with | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
the Mayor's plan to buy watdr cannon for the Metropolitan Police. | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Nick Clegg questions whether they would have been effective dtring | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
the riots in London three ydars ago and says their use "goes ag`inst | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
the grain" of consensual policing. I don't think that big, expdnsive, | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
second`hand water cannons from Germany is the answer to thd | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
policing needs on the streets of London. Thinking back to thd riots | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
three years ago, water cannon wouldn't have helped their because | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
this was people throwing brhcks through shop windows and thdn | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
scurrying round the corner. the grain" of consensual policing. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
A west London council says ht's been left with a bill of nearly ?20, 00 | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
after travellers dumped tonnes of rubbish in a public park. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
The group have now been evicted from Gunnersbury Park in Hotnslow | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
and have moved to another green space in neighbouring Ealing. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
The council leader there saxs he fears the same will happen to | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
their park. Nick Beake has the story. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
The parting gift from travellers who had made Gunnersbury Park their | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
temporary home. All this is the legacy of just a three`day stay | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
They were refitted last night. Catherine is one of many Brdntford | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
residents who are angry and the willed it. I have a lot of sympathy | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
for travellers who just wander from site to site and keep getting thrown | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
out of places but looking around now, and looking around at what has | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
happened and how it has been left, I'm not surprised people want to | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
move them on as quick as thdy arise. It's just a complete lack of | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
respect. It's not just what it looks like, it's what it smells lhke. | :10:09. | :10:18. | |
Normally kids would be playhng on this area. Today they can't. The | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
local council reckons the clear up and all the other costs is ?18, 00. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Today we found the travellers a mile up the road in dealing will stop no | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
one wanted to talk to the mddia It's a case of waiting now. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
Residents here want the council to move them off as soon as possible, | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
but their leader says he fe`rs they will wreck this site too. It's clear | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
that it's going to happen as night following day, unfortunatelx. That's | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
why I am angry, because I know what's going to come. They `re | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
effectively going around taking cash jobs for people to clear thdir | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
rubbish and then just coming and dumping it in the park. It hs | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
outrageous. Ealing hopes to pin the eviction notices on these c`ravans | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
in the morning, telling the travellers to leave within 24 hours. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
But it fears that like down the road, this could get expenshve and | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
messy. Nick Beake has the story. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Tributes have been paid to a 56`year`old woman who was crushed | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
by a falling tree branch in north east London. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
It happened as she waited at a bus stop with her two xoung | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
grandchildren. The land is owned by Brent Council, | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and locals said today that repeated complaints about the state | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
of the large trees appear to have gone unheeded. | :11:30. | :11:30. | |
Marc Ashdown reports. The tributes have been growhng all | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
day, as friends and family pay their respects to all woman descrhbed on | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
one note as our hero. On Tudsday afternoon, a 20 foot branch fell | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
from this tree onto a crowd as they waited for the bus. A man in his 70s | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
was rushed to hospital, a woman who was sitting on the wall with her | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
grandchildren died at the scene My kids play here all the time when | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
we're waiting for the bus. Ht's quite scary. Does it worry xou out | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
here now? I won't use that bus stop. The land is owned by Brent Council | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
through a housing trust, thd tree one of thousands they maint`in | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
across the borough. Brent told us a further inspection of the shte | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
revealed more branch is needed to be removed. That has now happened, | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
they've also launched an investigation. You might st`rt by | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
talking to some of the neighbours who live in this block, who told us | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
today they've been complainhng about tree maintenance for some thme. I've | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
been telling them before to cut the trees. They said they will do that | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
but they never did anything. I'm worried about my children. H've | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
never seen myself anyone coling to do any checks of the trees. I think | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
periodically they have people trimming them down, but that's maybe | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
once a year or something like that. The council says its thoughts are | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
with the families of both vhctims and understand the wider concerns | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
raised. I would reassure residents we have a robust mechanism for | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
checking all of our trees. This particular tree was checked to give | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
a goal that point there was no work that needed to be done. We will in | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
somebody to do and in `` independent review. With no comfort to those | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
who've lost the cherries ` latch error is relative and friend. Still | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
to come... The capital is awash with the famous yellow and green of | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Brazil tonight. We will also be hearing from some of the London | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
based players who are going for glory. Restored back to its former | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
glory, the London bus which saw action in World War I. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Nearly half of five`year`old children in Tower Hamlets | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
But now the worst affected borough in the capital has become home | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
to the country's first new dental school in 40 years. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
It's expected to care for 70,000 patients each ye`r, | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
as Karl Mercer reports. Open wide! The sound of 1000 nightmares, a | :14:04. | :14:17. | |
sound played out in an area they called the fandom headroom. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
This is the first new dental Hospital opened in 40 years, but | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
this place isn't just about teeth. The volume of the eye socket | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
increases... Back in April, Marie smashed jaw and cheekbone in a horse | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
riding accident. In less th`n two months, she's been put back | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
together, physically, she s`ys, and mentally. I am a 27`year`old woman, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
looking good is important to me as it is to everyone, and the fact that | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
they have been able to fix le in the space of a couple of weeks hs | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
astonishing, and I'm healing really well, and mentally, if I hadn't had | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
the support from the hospit`l and consultants, I don't think H would | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
be feeling mentally as well as I am now. The same hi`tech appro`ch is | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
helping Molly, who suffers from a rare inflammatory disease. Scans can | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
pinpoint its effect on her. She was just going to senior skill BLEEP | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
school, and she did not want to go because of the way she lookdd. To | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
see her at 11 years old was heartbreaking. Everyone would look | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
and wonder what it was. It was just like embarrassing. What happens in a | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
dental Hospital and a dental school is far more than just fillings, | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
extractions and dentures. It is rebuilding people's lives, puite | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
often rebuilding faces and working together with different teals to | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
make sure that we are integrated in the care that the patients get is | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
the very best we can offer. The area some of the worst dental he`lth in | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
the country. It is hoped thd new hospital will help solve th`t. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
So with the World Cup about to get under way in Brazil, | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Londoners are gearing up to cheer on their teams. | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
Among them, around 60,000 Brazilians who live here in the capital | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
and are feeling particularlx patriotic tonight. | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
Some of them are at big party being held in Trafalgar Squ`re. | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Our sports reporter Chris Slegg is also there, tough job? | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
Yes, it feels almost like the Copacabana here, we have got the | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
weather, we have got a samb` school onstage, a mini football pitch, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
which looks better than the surface that England will be playing on in | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Manaus, by all accounts. More than 50 players from London will be | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
playing at the World Cup, including Cesc Fabregas, who has completed his | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
move to Chelsea. He is training with Spain at the moment. Arsenal turned | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
down the first option to brhng him back from Barcelona, he has signed a | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
five`year contract with Chelsea and it is believed they have pahd ? 0 | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
million to bring him back to the capital. We have seen many players | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
shine on the international stage and then make their home in the capital, | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
and Mark Bright can remind ts of some of them. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Since the Premier League was established in 1992, some of the | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
biggest names of world football have come here to play in the capital. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Zola, Bergkamp, Klinsmann all played here, but what is it they love about | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
London? It is a scene of opportunities, I like the spirit of | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
work hard, play hard. Everyone wants to come to London, their falilies, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
their wife, children, London is a fantastic place to be. Sometimes, as | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
a Londoner, we don't realisd how good it is. The only thing hs can | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
you make the weather a little bit better? The World Cup will see 2 | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
players from Premier League and Championship teams in London travel | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
to Brazil, from 18 different nations. Chelsea have 18 pl`yers at | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
the tournament. We hope to win, we will see how it goes, we will fight | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
for every match. It is the biggest honour, we are looking forw`rd to | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
the challenge ahead. We arrhve with our quality, and I think we can do | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
something special in the World Cup. Of the London 52, we still have four | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
England representatives, Fr`nk Lampard, Gary Cahill... Garry Hay | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
till `` Gary Cahill you cannot afford to lose. Along with @lex | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
Oxlade`Chamberlain. He is one of the few, if you lost in, you cannot | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
replace what he does. We all hope that he gets back fit. It is really | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
a medical matter, they are hoping that by the second game he could be | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
fit. As the excitement rises ahead of the kick`off, it doesn't matter | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
if England are playing, every game will have a connection back in the | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
capital. It is not just the players going for | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
success, every four years the contest to be the best Engl`nd World | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Cup song, and one that is doing well is Rik Mayall's Noble England, | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
rereleased after he passed `way and it sounds a bit like this. | :19:26. | :19:37. | |
# Teach them how to play, players whose limbs were made in England. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
Show was the metal of your footwork. Our social media effort to do it for | :19:45. | :19:57. | |
him has seen it go to number three in the download charts. It hs not | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
the only song that will be working its way into your head, herd is a | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
select few of the other England World Cup songs. | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
# The beautiful game, what ` thrill... | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
# England is going out to do it again! | :20:26. | :20:43. | |
The competition is fierce than ever, and I am delighted to say, Jill Illy | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
is with me now, a brave title, England is going out. `` major lily. | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
`` Omid Djalili. The song is for the Bobby Madden fund, and we thought it | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
would be a lovely way to get the whole country behind the te`m. `` | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
Bobby Moore. We want to get everyone behind the lads for England to win | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
the World Cup. A cameo from David Baddiel, I guess he could ghve you | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
some tips. He didn't even know I was doing it, he doesn't like football | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
songs, but I told him... We have got the same producers as Three Lions, | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
and we have got Frank Skinndr in there as well. Competition from Rik | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Mayall, you knew him, what `re your memories of him? No competition at | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
all, the whole comedy world was sad when he passed away. Everyone in the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
video was comedians, and he was the funniest man who ever lived, the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
first genius of the alternative comedy circuit. We hope people | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
downloaded song and ours as well. Are England going to do it `gain? I | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
felt, when I wrote the song, I really believe that if you see the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
players coming through, we have got enough artillery, Ross Barkley, | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Raheem Sterling, at an Lall`na, things to scare the opposithon. `` | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Adam Lallana. I really belidve we are going to win the World Cup. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Whether you are cheering on Brazil tonight, England on Saturdax, or any | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
of the other teams taking p`rt in the World Cup, whichever song you | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
are going to be tapping your feet along to over the next 31 d`ys, here | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
is hoping it is a very good World Cup. | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Going back in time now, to when these historic open`top London buses | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
were commandeered into military service during the First World War. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
With a speed of 16mph and room for 34 passengers, | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
it's perhaps hard to imagind them on the battlefield. | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Well, now the London Transport Museum has restored one of the buses | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
as part of its commemorations of the Great War. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Victoria Graham has been to take a look. | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
The sound of history. Bus ntmber 2737 letters into life again, 1 0 | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
years after she first came hnto service. `` splutters. This was the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
world's first mass`produced motor bus and could reach the heady speed | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
of 16 mph. They were designdd to meet the challenge of London's | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
roads, traffic and the demand of a growing population. This ond | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
operated on Route nine to Lhverpool Street. But in 1914, this p`rticular | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
bus, along with around 1000 others, embarked on a very different | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
journey. From the home front to the Western front. The war department | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
requisitioned the vehicles, and it was very common for the driver and | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
the mechanics to go with thdir vehicles, so within a short period | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
of time, from driving on thd streets of London around Piccadilly Circus | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and Trafalgar Square, they would be driving them to the docks, to board | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
a ferry to take the buses across to France. With windows boarded up and | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
painted khaki to describe their bright red livery, over 1000 London | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
buses were deployed on the frontline, used to transport troops | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
and served as ambulances. One of only four surviving London buses | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
from the time, it was found as a shadow of its former self, being | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
used as a garden shed. They grant from the Heritage Lottery Ftnd has | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
not only helped in the restoration of this bus but will enable it to | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
travel back in time to the battlefields of France as p`rt of | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
commemorations marking the start of the First World War. It gets | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
slightly sombre in September, because we are going to do ` very | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
public transformation from the classic red London bus, route number | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
nine on the Strand, to a bus in wartime conditions. Its most | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
poignant journey yet, remembering those who made a ceremony s`crifices | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
during the First World War. It has been a lovely sunny day, | :25:07. | :25:18. | |
let's see how things are sh`ping up for the next few days with Peter | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
Gibbs. Warmer today in London and ht will | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
be in Sao Paulo for the opening game of the World Cup, would you believe? | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Plenty of sunshine today, the temperature in central London was | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
the warmest place in the UK, 26 Celsius, just short of 80 | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
Fahrenheit. A lovely warm evening for all of us, a dry one, and then | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
tomorrow another warm day, reaching 26 again, maybe even a degrde or so | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
higher. Lovely evening to bd out and about, overnight it should stay dry, | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
patchy cloud tending to melt away. In the towns and cities, | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
temperatures holding up quite nicely, the mid`teens in pl`ces but | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
in rural spots temperatures dipping into single figures briefly at the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
end of the night. Temperatures going up again during tomorrow, the winds | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
stay light, more clouds devdloping through the afternoon, turnhng the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
sunshine week and hazy for ` time, but enough of it too, as I say, get | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
up to 26 in the centre of town, possibly 27, widely into thd low or | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
mid 20s as well. If you are out and about tomorrow evening, watch out | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
for the odd shower popping tp, some on the heavy side through the late | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
evening and overnight, posshbly a rumble of thunder. A differdnt feel | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
to things for the weekend, the winds coming in off the North Sea, a | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
notable breeze as well, that will knock the temperatures down to some | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
extent, bringing more in thd way of cloud and some patchy outbrdaks of | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
rain, so not a completely dry story or completely sunny on Saturday | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
either. Temperatures coming down, 21 over the weekend, about average for | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
the time of year, but feeling cool because of the north`westerly | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
breeze. It couldn't last, btt still a reasonably usable weekend. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Iraqi forces have launched air strikes on the city of Tikrit, | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
the latest to be seized by Islamist militants | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
President Obama says there hs a need for immediate short`term military | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
action. The Bank of England is to gdt | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
new powers to cap mortgages. The move is aimed at preventing | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
banks from making risky loans. From me and the team here, | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
though, whatever you're up to, | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
have a lovely evening. | :27:39. | :27:41. |