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That is all from the BBC News at Six. Now we join the BBC's news | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London News, safety | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
fears after a manhole explosion in was it was very scary. We wdre | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
afraid at any moment it could be a big explosion. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
We reveal a significant risd in the number of such explosions | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight, we ask the Edtcation Secretary whether the collapse of a | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
free school in west London has put his flagship policy into crisis. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Suffering needlessly, how animals used in research were badly | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Plus, a live soundtrack to a classic movie. Could this be the future of | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
Good evening, welcome to the programme. | :00:55. | :01:12. | |
First tonight, there are safety fears after a manhole exploded | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
A lorry was set alight but no one was injured. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
It happened on Piccadilly last night. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
The health and safety executive has ordered an urgent investigation | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
BBC London can reveal that the number of similar manhole explosions | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
has increased significantly over the past four years, with at le`st | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
has increased significantly over the past four years, with at least two | :01:34. | :01:33. | |
Late`night, central London, and flames are leaping from the | :01:34. | :01:53. | |
pavement. A crowd has gathered on Piccadilly. There has been `n | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
explosion on the ground, and firefighters are desperately trying | :01:58. | :01:58. | |
firefighters are desperatelx trying to move a lorry in danger of | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
catching light, but there are more blasts beneath the surface. This | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
video, obtained by the BBC, shows what they were up against. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Eventually, firefighters moved away, although in a bizarre moment, a man | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
runs towards the blazing vehicle and is pulled back by a police officer. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Restaurant manager, Georgina, saw Restaurant manager, Georgin`, saw | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the fire last night. It was very, very scary, because we could hear | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
the explosion down there, you know? We were afraid at any moment it | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
could be a big, huge explosion. The could be a big, huge exploshon. The | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
drama played out on the steps of the home of British film and television, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
where today workmen were repairing the damage. They have been working | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
through the day to fix this particular problem, but the Health | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
and Safety Executive has told us today that there are two or three of | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
these problems in London evdry week. these problems in London every week. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Few of them are as dramatic as last night's blast. Or this one hn | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
night's blast. Or this one in Pimlico, but BBC London revdaled | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
Pimlico, but BBC London revealed last summer how there had bden | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
Pimlico, but BBC London revdaled last summer how there had been a | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
last summer how there had bden a worrying increase in pavement | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
explosions. Now, the latest figures we have seen show an even sharper | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
rise. In 2011, there were jtst nine incidents. That tripled to 31 in | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
2012. Last year, it rose to 49, and so far in 2014, only halfwax through | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
so far in 2014, only halfway through the year, there have alreadx been | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
the year, there have already been 64. The Health and Safety Executive | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
says it has told the companx 64. The Health and Safety Executive | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
says it has told the companx which delivers electricity through the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
capital to do more to protect the public. Week`old UK power's network | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
directors in and had a couple of meetings with them `` we told UK | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Power. To carry out more inspections, and as a result of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
that, they have actually got a couple of dedicated teams working in | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
London, just looking at these boxes and inspecting them. But checking | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
and inspecting them. But chdcking all 100,000 electrical link boxes | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
under the capital's pavement is no simple task. UK Power networks says | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
it is investing ?10 million a year for the next eight years, and that | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
the safety of Londoners is its top the safety of Londoners is hts top | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
priority. No one was injured last night, but Colin Wingate spent three | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
night, but Colin Wingate spdnt three months in a wheelchair, after a | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
months in a wheelchair, aftdr a pavement exploded in Harrow three | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
years ago. They are not doing enough to ensure that these accidents, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
incidents, call it what you like, don't happen any more, because | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
sooner or later, at the ratd don't happen any more, becatse | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
sooner or later, at the rate these explosions are continuing, sooner or | :04:38. | :04:38. | |
later somebody will lose thdir explosions are continuing, sooner or | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
later somebody will lose their life. later somebody will lose their life. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
It may be hard to imagine on a sunny day, but the wet weather ovdr the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
past few years is thought to be behind the rise in explosions. The | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
prospect of water mixing with electricity in the heart of the West | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
End, a dangerous combination. With the rise of these types of | :04:54. | :05:05. | |
explosions, what about the safety fears associated with them? Clearly | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
these were dramatic scenes last night in a busy part of town at a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
bustling part of the evening, just before 11pm. There wasn't an event | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
on at BAFTA, like there is tonight, but we saw in the report thd | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
potential danger of the firefighters trying to move the lorry as it | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
caught fire. Presumably, the tank was full of petrol is that hs a real | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
was full of petrol is that is a real risk. What the Health and S`fety | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Executive would stress is that this is an isolated case, although we | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
have seen others, though thdy is an isolated case, although we | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
have seen others, though they say is an isolated case, although we | :05:40. | :05:39. | |
have seen others, though thdy say we have seen others, though they say we | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
should not take from this that the streets of London are not safe to | :05:42. | :05:42. | |
streets of London are not s`fe to walk, and also UK Power Networks, | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
the company that delivers power through the capital, say thdy | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the company that delivers power through the capital, say they do 160 | :05:53. | :05:53. | |
through the capital, say thdy do 160 inspections every day looking at the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
electrical boxes beneath our feet, and also, remember, they have | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
something like 360,000 kilometres, something like 360,000 kilometres, | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
sorry, 37,000 kilometres of cable is under our feet. In terms of this | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
particular investigation, we don't know the cause. We wait to see what | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
was the cause of the dramatic scenes last night. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Plenty more ahead tonight, how building a new London is helping to | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
unearth a significant insight into the city's past. | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has been criticised | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
It comes after the government blocked the setting | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Fulham Boys was due to open in September but problems with suitable | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
premises means around 100 ptpils have now been left with no school | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
they have had an induction sports day. The boys have their unhform, | :06:48. | :07:06. | |
but suddenly no school. The government has withdrawn funding | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
from full boys school, a few weeks before this new free school was due | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
to open. It has left pupils and parents devastated. Other schools | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
that we have as other choicds parents devastated. Other schools | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
that we have as other choices are that we have as other choicds are | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
completely full now. We have that we have as other choices are | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
completely full now. We havd no completely full now. We havd no | :07:22. | :07:21. | |
choices. There is no democracy in choices. There is no democr`cy in | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
being able to choose the future of your child's education. Thex have | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
absolutely stuffed us. I think your child's education. They have | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
absolutely stuffed us. I thhnk it your child's education. Thex have | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
absolutely stuffed us. I think it is absolutely stuffed us. I think it is | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
all blinkered, the council blamed the government, the government | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
blames the counts of educathon, the government, the governmdnt | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
blames the counts of education, they need to work together and think | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
about the actions they are doing. These are 10`year old boys. It is | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
their education, their future they are playing with. This is where they | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
were due to open. The special are playing with. This is where they | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
were due to open. The special needs school is moving out and full boys | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
school has a guaranteed two years not more, before the developer who | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
owns it plans to build. Sullivan school was earmarked as the eventual | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
permanent site, but when Labour won the local election, they reversed | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Conservative plans to close it. The full head insists that should not | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
matter. They have come he says, a matter. They have come he says, a | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
business plan hailed by ministers as the best they have ever seen. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Whatever political side of the fence you come down on, you obviotsly | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Whatever political side of the fence you come down on, you obviously want | :08:18. | :08:17. | |
you come down on, you obviotsly want to have the best schools in your | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
rough. That is what we are offering, I am going record on the BBC that if | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
this is not outstanding in two years time, sacked me. That is how | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
passionately I feel about this being an outstanding school, and for it | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
not to see the light of day is a travesty. All this, then, does | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
appear to expose a fundamental flaw in the Education Secretary's free | :08:42. | :08:42. | |
school revolution. If a local school revolution. If a loc`l | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
authority can derail it at the last minute it is not say much about the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
free school policy? The free school policy is there to supplement and | :08:53. | :08:53. | |
augment what local authorithes policy is there to supplement and | :08:54. | :08:54. | |
augment what local authorities do. augment what local authorities do. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
If you have a Labour local `uthority If you have a Labour local `uthority | :08:57. | :08:57. | |
and they want to pursue a particular and they want to pursue a particular | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
agenda, I have to respect the verdict of the ballot box and we | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
have to do everything we can. Luckily we have in the Mayor of | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
London, a Conservative Meier, who has backed free schools who when | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
other free schools have been difficult in the past, has liberated | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
sites. I am determined we whll find a site of this marvellous group of | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
people. They are meeting tonight, if they get 100% of the support of the | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
parents, will you be happy to open? We need a permanent site. The | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
council maintains it is a government position, which amounts to ` | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
position, which amounts to a stand`off. There remains in the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
middle 100 boys with no school. A former aide to David Cameron has | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
appeared before magistrates, charged with making and possessing | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
indecent images of children. The charges against Patrick Rock, | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
who's 63 and from south`west London, He was granted conditional bail | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
and will appear in court again Four people are to go on trial | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
in connection with alleged `ttacks of three women at the | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
Cumberland Hotel in April. Three men and one woman appdared | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
today pleaded not guilty on several counts of attempted | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
murder, burglary and handling stolen They'll appear | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
in court next October. It's emerged that | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
a black firearms officer, who won a bullying case against Scotland | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
Yard, is facing an assault charge. Earlier this week, | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
PC Carol Howard won her case Earlier this week, | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
PC Carol Howard won her casd at an employment tribunal, after claiming | :10:22. | :10:21. | |
sex and race discrimination. Today, it's been revealed that | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
she was suspended following her Her lawyers say the action | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
against her amounts to further One of the UK's leading resdarch | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
institutions could have its licence reviewed, which allows it to carry | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
out experiments on animals. A government investigation | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
into Imperial College London found that animals were allowed to | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
"suffer needlessly", and they failed to maintain legal | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
animal welfare standards. The university says it's record | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
on animal welfare has improved. Students at Imperial College | :10:55. | :11:08. | |
conducting experiments on animals, allegedly without supervision. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Behind the camera, an animal rights campaigner, posing as an employee. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
The most shocking footage shows live rats being decapitated, and | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
experiments on other animals without anaesthesia. The Imperial College | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
said the allegations are unfounded, but it was this undercover | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
investigation that sparked a government enquiry into anilal | :11:34. | :11:34. | |
government enquiry into animal welfare standards here. The report | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
by Home Office investigators found other issues, highlighting ` | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
systematic failure at Imperhal College, leading to animal suffering | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
needlessly. The Home Office, in our opinion, has been far too slow to | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
react. It had not taken under opinion, has been far too slow to | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
react. It had not taken unddr cover react. It had not taken unddr cover | :11:54. | :11:54. | |
investigation by animal protection organisations to undercover these | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
incidents of animal suffering. In fact, the Home Office visited | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
incidents of animal suffering. In fact, the Home Office visitdd the | :12:01. | :12:00. | |
fact, the Home Office visited the institution 15 times that ydar | :12:01. | :12:01. | |
fact, the Home Office visitdd the institution 15 times that year and | :12:02. | :12:02. | |
institution 15 times that ydar and they did not do anything, they were | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
waiting to have a meeting. Since this footage was shot, the Hmperial | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
College say they have invented a comp rancid action plan to hmprove | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
standards `` comp rancid action plan, and they say they are shocked | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
it is not mentioned in the Home Office report. The strongest action | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
the Home Office could now t`ke Office report. The strongest action | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
the Home Office could now take is to the Home Office could now t`ke is to | :12:23. | :12:23. | |
revoke the University's license. revoke the University's license. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Their investigators to single out an unnamed individual with overall | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
responsible T for animal welfare. University's license holder. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
The government's being urged to re`think plans to make it easier | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
for people to let out property on a short`term basis. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Resident groups in Westminster are angry th`t | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
a 30`year`old law, requiring owners to get licences, is to be scrapped. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
They claim it could ruin local areas and decrease the supply | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Our Political Editor Tim Donovan has the story. | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
They get an enormous number of deliveries of linen very early in | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
the morning... In Marylebond, according to Amanda here, there is | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
ever more coming and going. They arrive noisily late at night, they | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
sometimes have noisy parties. People staying short periods, more | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
disturbance for her and other permanent residence. You don't think | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
you are being very precious here? You know, this is London, a bustling | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
city? This is also a residential community, and I don't think I am | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
being precious at all. We need community, and I don't think I am | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
being precious at all. We nded to being precious at all. We need to | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
have a balance. For many ye`rs, there has been a requirement for | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
people to get a license for lets of up to three months but now the | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
government is getting rid of it as part of a clear out of regulations. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
I would like the government to make an exception for Westminster, | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
because of the nature of thd because of the nature of thd place, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
because it is such an attraction for people to come here. At least leave | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Westminster council with the tools Westminster council with thd tools | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
to deal with the worst of the excesses. Short lets attract higher | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
rents, but with minced council and local MPs fear that deregulation | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
will affect local communitids. local MPs fear that deregul`tion | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
will affect local communities. It will affect local communitids. It | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
will mean that properties, streets, blocks of flats get increashngly | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
pressurised into turning over into pressurised into turning over into | :14:21. | :14:21. | |
the short`term let sector, `nd that the short`term let sector, `nd that | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
is bad news for residents and residential property. Air BMB | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
is bad news for residents and residential property. Air BLB is an | :14:32. | :14:31. | |
residential property. Air BMB is an online marketplace for travdllers | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
seeking short`term lets around the seeking short`term lets arotnd the | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
world. It says 80% of its London users are people letting out their | :14:39. | :14:39. | |
own homes just a few weeks xear own homes just a few weeks year. | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
They are during it just oncd in They are during it just once in | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
awhile, `` doing it, so I don't see it as a problem. That is what these | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
groups tell me is happening increasingly in central London. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
groups tell me is happening increasingly What we are offering is | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
something great for London. Having people come into new neighbourhoods | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
is also bringing business to local businesses that would not h`ve that | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
businesses that would not have that part of the Torah is coming in. The | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
government says the success of the company shows just how outdated | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
current rules are and in a statement, added: | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
The impact on the heart of London will be watched closely. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
Still to come this evening, the new exhibition exploring London's | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
bridges. We take a trip down the Thames. And continuing their series | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
celebrating classic films, the Royal Albert Hall presents West side story | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
with a live orchestral performance. us a glimpse into London's past | :15:46. | :16:03. | |
With so many construction projects taking place in London, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
archaeologists say an increasing archaeologists say an incre`sing | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
number of significant discoveries are being found. Jean MacKenzie | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
reports. Beneath the shiny surfaces and building sites of London, there | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
is a past which needs to be brought out of the ground before new | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
foundations can go in. As the city's oldest railway station is | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
rebuilt, archaeologists havd been rebuilt, archaeologists havd been | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
excavating an area they thought they excavating an area they thought they | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
would never understand. This particular trench, we had to go down | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
six metres below where we are standing. Right at the bottom, we | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
found 17 timbers which were cut down in the first century, forming a | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
place which marked the very edge of the Roman island of Southwark. We | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
know the centre of that settlement was at Boro high street, but this | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
now gives an indication of how large it was. Finding that very edge of | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
the settlement, it is like a's it was. Finding that very edge of | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
the settlement, it is like `'s in it was. Finding that very edge of | :17:02. | :17:01. | |
the settlement, it is like `'s in a haystack, it was a fantastic find. | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
Excavations have revealed mtch about London in the Roman era and beyond. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Most of what is found will come here, to the Museum of London, | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
taking this an exciting time. The taking this an exciting time. The | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
amount of material, in terms of data and new fracked 's, which are | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
pouring into the museum, is just phenomenal. Over to the west, we can | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
now trace back hundreds of thousands of years. Last month, archadologists | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
found evidence of a prehistoric campsite at the home of the new US | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
embassy. There were Stone Age tools, along with charred remains of a | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
campfire. We are looking at burnt clay, pretty much. What are the odds | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
of having that preserved? It is a fleeting moment, somebody passing | :17:51. | :17:51. | |
fleeting moment, somebody p`ssing across a plain, stopping to make a | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
camp. It is amazing. With so much going on, the scope for such | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
discoveries is enormous, especially with projects like Crossrail, | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
spanning right across London. A team of volunteers is scouring rdcords to | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
of volunteers is scouring records to try and identify thousands of | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
skeletons they are wrecks you. This was a labourer who was killdd by | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
skeletons they are wrecks you. This was a labourer who was killed by a | :18:23. | :18:22. | |
was a labourer who was killdd by a fall from a house. This was in 1679, | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
after the great Fire of London. The poor man comes to a grisly end. When | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
you look at these very earlx you look at these very earlx | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
records, you can see it lived you look at these very early | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
records, you can see it livdd out in the daily lives of people, through | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the burials, which is fascinating. As London continues to upgrade, | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
the burials, which is fascinating. As London continues to upgr`de, we | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
will learn more about those who lived and worked in the city before | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
lived and worked in the citx before us. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Meanwhile, it is quite a structure, and it celebrated its 120th | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
anniversary this week. Tower Bridge is one of a number of landmark | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
is one of a number of landm`rk crossings which are the focus | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
is one of a number of landmark crossings which are the focts of a | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
crossings which are the focus of a new art exhibition. Sonja Jdssup has | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
new art exhibition. Sonja Jessup has got a great vantage point this | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
evening. Absolutely. We have seen evening. Absolutely. We have seen | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
lots of people ping to take photographs of Tower Bridge, but | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
also stopping halfway across the bridge to take pictures of this | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
wonderful city Panorama which opens up to you when you are on the water | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
on a glorious day like this. You can see gang Hall and HMS Belfast, with | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the Shard as well. `` you can see the Shard as well. `` you c`n see | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
City Hall. London's bridges have changed not just the way we never | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
gave our city, but also the way we view it. The river splits the city | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
in half and opens it up. When you in half and opens it up. When you | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
get on a bridge, that is whdn you get on a bridge, that is whdn you | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
can get that visual sense of the City of London. It is why the Museum | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
of London Docklands has decided to of London Docklands has decided to | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
celebrate bridges in a new exhibition. 18th`century citizens | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
crossing the river by horse and carriage hang beside commuters | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
crossing the river by horse and carriage hang beside commutdrs from | :20:13. | :20:12. | |
carriage hang beside commuters from different ages. Artists havd | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
carriage hang beside commutdrs from different ages. Artists have kept | :20:17. | :20:16. | |
different ages. Artists havd kept coming back to London's crossings. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
People forget how incrediblx People forget how incrediblx | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
important bridges were. It opened up the south from the north. This | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
historian's love of bridges is hard to beat. Westminster Bridge, 1860s, | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
to beat. Westminster Bridge, 18 0s, and below it, there is a wonderful | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
melancholy. Above is light `nd and below it, there is a wonderful | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
melancholy. Above is light and life, melancholy. Above is light `nd life, | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
below it is gloom. London's bridges, he says, have secrdt lives. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Tower Bridge, now a tourist favourite, originally had a more | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
built into it. There was so much death associated with it, not so | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
much suicide, but people falling off boats, drowning as they were going | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
about their daily lives. Ond about their daily lives. One | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
photographer climbed inside London Bridge. Inside London Bridge, | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
photographer climbed inside London Bridge. Inside London Bridgd, it is | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
like being underground. There are walkways which link it all tp. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
like being underground. There are walkways which link it all up. So | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
you can look down and see the river below you and the boats passing | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
underneath. This film`maker takes us under the bridges, with a drama | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
exploring the echoes. And could there be room on the river for this | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
new "Garden Bridge"? Londondrs are still dreaming up new ways of | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
crossing the Thames. Now, those pictures for the proposed new garden | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
pictures for the proposed ndw garden bridge represent a vision that it | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
would stretch between Templd and the would stretch between Templd and the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
South Bank. That would be a pedestrian bridge. There ard also | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
proposals for a new road rage in east London. So the views of the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
river could be changing even more in the future. `` for a new road | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
bridge. Taking a classical lusical bridge. Taking a classical lusical | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
film like west Side Story, accompanied by a live orchestra in | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
the Royal Albert Hall, has perhaps unsurprisingly been a hit with | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
audiences. Critics say enhancing the experience in this way could change | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
the way we watch our favourhte the way we watch our favourhte | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
movies. Renderer `` Brenda Emmanus movies. Renderer `` Brenda Emmanus | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
reports. The 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story is often fe`tured in | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
the top ten musical films of all time. Its popularity has provoked | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the Royal Albert Hall to restage its unique presentation of the classic. | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
This weekend, the auditorium will be This weekend, the auditoriul will be | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
packed with fans who have come to see their favourite film in high | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
definition with a live orchdstral performance. It is part of the Royal | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Albert Hall's ambition to provide memorable experiences for vhsitors. | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
According to critics, it works. Nobody notices sound in the cinema. | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Movie soundtracks just play away and manipulate our emotions, but | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
actually there is something remarkable about hearing music of | :23:22. | :23:22. | |
this quality being played by an this quality being played bx an | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
orchestra of this quality, which really adds something to the event. | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
really adds something to thd event. The orchestra in question is the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
royal fill our moniker concdrt royal fill our moniker concert | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Orchestra, seen here rehearsing for the shows which commence thhs | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Friday. They will provide the live score with the original dialogue | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
from the film intact. It is different from their day`to`day work | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
in the concert halls of London. This music is very rarely played live. | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
Such is the popularity of these events that more than 100,000 people | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
have now enjoyed performancds of Star Trek, Lord of the rings, | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
Singing In The Rain and Fantasia. I think more and more events are | :24:17. | :24:17. | |
think more and more events `re happening in different ways, as we | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
realise that there is a technology which allows us to do that. West | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
Side Story is at the Royal Albert Side Story is at the Royal @lbert | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Hall until Sunday. Now, if you like the hot we`ther, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Hall until Sunday. Now, if you like the hot weather, it | :24:36. | :24:35. | |
Now, if you like the hot we`ther, it has been gorgeous. Let's go and get | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
the forecast with Alex Deakhn, at Wimbledon. Yes, it has been | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
sensational today, the warmdst day sensational today, the warmest day | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
of the Championships, the w`rmest of the Championships, the w`rmest | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
day of the year so far. We got to 28 in Essex, and widely across London | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
we have hit 25`26. Tomorrow, more of the same, perhaps a bit more cloud, | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
but it will stay fine. Throtgh the night, we will see barely a cloud in | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
the sky. Generally it stays dry There will be long clear spells, it | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
will be a beautiful evening. It will be a bit warm again tonight. And it | :25:15. | :25:27. | |
is not going to be cold tomorrow, far from it. Temperatures whll be | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
far from it. Temperatures will be jumping up as the day goes on, it is | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
going to be another sparkling day. 20 of blue sky. A little bit of | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
cloud, across parts of the west in particular for the afternoon. There | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
is just the very small chance of a few thunderstorms in Kent, but it is | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
just a very small chance. It is by and large another cracking `nd hot | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
one. It could be even hotter than today. Not good news if you are | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
suffering with the pollen ` high levels again tomorrow. It h`s been | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
really troublesome over the past couple of days. But good news for | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
you, levels will be dropping as we go through the weekend. Rain will be | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
arriving on Friday evening, a showery start to Saturday. Those | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
showers should clear away for the afternoon. At Wimbledon, thd risk | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
showers should clear away for the afternoon. At Wimbledon, the risk of | :26:32. | :26:31. | |
afternoon. At Wimbledon, thd risk of showers both on Saturday and Sunday. | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
A reminder of the main headlines ` security has been stepped up at | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
Britain's airports, as Amerhca warns of a credible terrorism threat. The | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
extra checks come amid fears that Al`Qaeda in Syria and Yemen are | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
developing bombs which could be smuggled onto planes. Patients in | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
England are less satisfied with the service they get from their GP and | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
they were here you go, according to a study by the Department of | :27:01. | :27:01. | |
Health, which found there was Health, which found there w`s | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
dissatisfaction over opening hours and making appointments. Thdre | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
dissatisfaction over opening hours and making appointments. There are | :27:09. | :27:08. | |
and making appointments. Thdre are safety fears after a lorry burst | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
into flames last night on Phccadilly following a manhole explosion. It is | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
thought an electrical fault was to blame. And the Education Secretary | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
has been criticised over his flagship schools policy aftdr the | :27:23. | :27:23. | |
Government blocked the setting up flagship schools policy after the | :27:24. | :27:24. | |
Government blocked the setting up of a free school in Hammersmith, | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
leaving 100 pupils with no school place for the next academic year. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
And that is it for now. Thank you very much for joining us. Asad Ahmad | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
will be back with our late news. will be back with our late news | :27:37. | :27:37. | |
Good evening. | :27:38. | :27:41. |