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high as today. Thank you for joining us. That is all from us and now we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
joined the BBC's news teams where you | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The row over the lack of affordable homes in a luxury | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Friends Provident eI want to make sure residents are getting benefits | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
from it. Also tonight, the mystery over | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
allegations that the Met Police The capital's latest | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
skyscraper is completed. So what do Londoners make | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
of the Cheesegrater? Plus how the makers of War Horse | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
now have another jumbo`sized hit. Welcome to BBC London News, with me, | :00:35. | :00:54. | |
Riz Lateef. First tonight, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the row over the luxury housing development on the Thames that's | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
been called a yuppie ghetto. Boris Johnson today selected | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
an Anglo`Dutch firm to create a new But the Mayor of Newham says | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
the project should not be allowed to go ahead, because he fears there | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
won't be any affordable housing It comes on the day the Green Party | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
accused the Mayor Today little to see but could this | :01:13. | :01:36. | |
one day be among one of London's most sought after address, here a | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
floating island, luxury apartment, bars, restaurants, but Newh`m's | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
mayor fears it won't includd affordable homes for local people If | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
you are going to build something really nice, why shouldn't people on | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
lower income be able to get it. You have a dock, transport link, there | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
is a bunch of morning being spent to make in a fantastic place, you have | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
to contribute something back then. Local teacher David is concdrned. I | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
don't think it is what the area don't think it is what the `rea | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
needs. I am after wear of lots of families who are living in cramped | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
conditions who have several children in one bedroom, where they can't | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
afford to live anywhere elsd. The developers tried to reassure critics | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
developers tried to reassurd critics It will work with the local partners | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
to come up with the right mix. It will work with the local partners | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
to come up with the right mix. At the moment we have a desire to put | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
affordable housing in the scheme but I can't tell you how much or what it | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
will look like. At City Hall the mayor was asked how much affordable | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
housing would be included I can t housing would be included I can't | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
give you the answer to that. What I can tell you... Is there some? | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
give you the answer to that. What I can tell you... Is there sole? Any? | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
I can't give you the answer. But Boris Johnson was also accused of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
breaking his promises over affordable housing across London. He | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
pledged to build 55,000 homes by March next year. But it has been | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
revealed he will fall short by more than 800. He says he will do it by | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
next December. That is nine months later than promised. . So you will | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
be be late rather then short. ? We are going to deliver 55,000 homes by | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
December 2015, and I think that is a massive achievement. If you look | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
round London, you do see everywhere, round London, you do see evdrywhere, | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
now, new homes are being built, but on the whole, they are out of reach | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
for ordinary Londoners. Boris for ordinary Londoners. Borhs | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Johnson wasn't available to give an interview, his spokesman says | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
Johnson wasn't available to give an interview, his spokesman saxs he is | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
interview, his spokesman says he is confident the royal docks | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
development will include a lix confident the royal docks | :03:32. | :03:32. | |
development will include a mix of development will include a lix of | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
homes. Local people will have to wait and see whether they can afford | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
wait and see whether they c`n afford to live there. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
One Londoner's view on how to tackle our housing crisis | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
` stop companies buying up land but then failing to build on it. | :03:45. | :03:56. | |
There are calls tonight for more transparency from the Metropolitan | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Police after accusations th`t it's using spy planes | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
as our transport correspondent Tom Edwards reports. | :04:02. | :04:15. | |
The skies over the capital `re a busy airspace, but could there | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
The skies over the capital are a busy airspace, but could thdre be | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
more up there than passenger planes? Yesterday this plane was spotted on | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
a tracking website, circling south London at 10,000 feet, for | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
two`and`a`half hours. Its registration GBVJT. That plane | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
has come up before in these questions from the Liberal Democrats | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
on the London assembly. The accusation its is a met spy plane, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
then, there was no response for operational security reasons. It is | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
right for the police to keep operations secret but we nedd | :04:50. | :04:50. | |
right for the police to keep operations secret but we need o | :04:51. | :04:50. | |
right for the police to keep operations secret but we nedd o know | :04:51. | :04:50. | |
operations secret but we need o know whether they have these plane, what | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
it is costing the taxpayer. You can't hide aeroplanes, we need to | :04:57. | :04:57. | |
can't hide aeroplanes, we nded to know what it is costing and for the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Met to be open about why thdy have these planes. The tracking website | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
says that plane is over London almost every day. Bloggers and | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
says that plane is over London almost every day. Bloggers `nd those | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
on social media regularly spot planes circling. Darren Burn | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
witnessed one yesterday. His suspicions, it was a spy pl`ne. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
witnessed one yesterday. His suspicions, it was a spy plane. I | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
would be more worried if thd police weren't monitoring people and | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
weren't monitoring phone calls. I think everyone knows it is hmportant | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
think everyone knows it is important to monitor e`mails and monitor phone | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
calls and I don't have a problem with it. Only people who are worried | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
with it. Only people who ard worried about what they are doing should | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
have a problem with it. We asked the authorities about these planes, and | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
so far our inquiries have got nowhere. The national Air Traffic | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
Control service declined to comment. The deputy police chief said he | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
wasn't aware and the Met wotldn t neither confirm or deny they were | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
using them. There are mounthng neither confirm or deny thex were | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
using them. There are mounting calls for the police to have a degree of | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
openness, about whether it is using ariel surveillance. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Niesmt A teenage boy has drowned in the River Thames in Marlow after | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
the River Thames in Marlow `fter playing with friends near the river. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
It's thought Kyrece Marshall`Francis was retrieving a ball | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
when he was swept into deep water yesterday afternoon. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Today, friends gathered at Great Marlow School to pay tributd to a | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
The best person, he was a genuine good person, he was a role lodel to | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
good person, he was a role model to me, I thought that I should be like | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
Kyrece, such a good person. No`one had a bad word to say about him. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Kyrece, such a good person. No`one had a bad word to say about him He | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
was loved by everyone. He will be truly missed. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
The Met needs to raise its game to tackle crime against businesses | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
That's the view of the Deputy Mayor for policing, after figures show | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
that London's police servicd is failing to investigate | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
and catch those targeting both small and big companies. | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
Today, City Hall revealed a plan to change that. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Guy Smith. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Business. The so`called life blood of any city. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
Here, another sale. Money comes in, but all too easily can slip out. | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
Particularly, when it is crhme. Particularly, when it is crime. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Alice managers this well`known store in Carnaby street. The shop has been | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
recently been broken into twice The people who come in and steal... Do | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
the businesses report that hs people who come in and steal... Do | :07:31. | :07:31. | |
the businesses report that hs this We as a business do. It, because we | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
are a massive global company and our are a massive global company and our | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
stock loss is so crucial to us, we try and prevent it, but for smaller | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
shops, I think, sadly, they haven't got the support we do. And that | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
means many crimes can go unreported. Fraud is a real concern. In the last | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
year, there were more than 81,0 0 year, there were more than 81,000 | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
cases. Less than 800 were thought to be | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
solvable. And just nine frauds solvable. And just nine frauds | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
reported ended in court. Thd perception is that business crime | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
will be ignored, that the police won't properly investigate. That | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
means companies are less likely to come forward to report crimd, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
means companies are less likely to come forward to report crime, and | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
even when they do, nothing really happens. | :08:14. | :08:14. | |
Is there a crisis in confidence? happens. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Is there a crisis in confiddnce No. Is there a crisis in confiddnce No. | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
What we are doing here todax, is showing that we have listened, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
showing that we are reinflicting how crime has changed and the patterns | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
have changed. People might say it is not serious, it is still thdft and | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
not serious, it is still theft and of course it can be used thd | :08:30. | :08:30. | |
not serious, it is still thdft and of course it can be used the feed a | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
of course it can be used thd feed a range of things from terrorism, | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
of course it can be used the feed a range of things from terrorhsm, to | :08:34. | :08:33. | |
financing of drug deals so it range of things from terrorism, to | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
financing of drug deals so ht is vitally important. So what has been | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
done? Today City Hall were proud to present their plan. Hoping to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
restore confidence, and are assure businesses. Are you been dragging | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
businesses. Are you been dr`gging your feet too much? We have been | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
focussed on business crime. This strategy comes at the end of one of | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
the longest consultation projects with business, with all the law | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
enforcement to ensure that the service that the public get here in | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
London, is second to none. @nd the strategy includes a business advice | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
centre, an annual crime sumlit, strategy includes a business advice | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
centre, an annual crime summit, and centre, an annual crime summit, and | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
crime mapping to help predict future hotspots. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
It is important stuff. This expensive watch shop in Mayfair is | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
the latest example of business the latest example of busindss | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
crime. Which continues for one in seven of | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
all reported offences in London. Frank Dobson, the Labour MP | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
for Holborn and St Pancras has confirmed he'll be stepping down | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
at the 2015 general election. The former cabinet minister formally | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
announced his decision not to seek a ninth straight general eldction | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
win at a meeting of party members. Bulling work has been compldted on | :09:40. | :09:54. | |
the tallest sky scraper in the city of London. It is better known as the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Cheese greater. Is it a welcome addition to the skyline? Let us join | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Tara who is 47 floors up and a good view on a day like this. As you can | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
see, a new wedge shape in our see, a new wedge shape in our | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
skyline, like a cheese greater. It has to be designed like this so it | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
didn't obstruct protected views of Saint Paul's Cathedral. Frol the | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
didn't obstruct protected vhews of Saint Paul's Cathedral. From the top | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
of the building, as you can see it is windy, and hazy, but you can just | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
about see across London. Yot is windy, and hazy, but you can just | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
about see across London. You have about see across London. Yot have | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
the Olympic Park, the tower behind me and The Gherkin which is next to | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
me. I feels like you can almost me and The Gherkin which is next to | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
me. I feels like you can allost tap me. I feels like you can allost tap | :10:35. | :10:34. | |
it on the head. The developers will it on the head. The developers will | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
tell you this is the tallest building in the city of London, and | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
of course not the entire capital, but the Shard is just across the | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
river and that is much taller, but the Shard is just across the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
river and that is much talldr, but river and that is much talldr, but | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
no`one is in this building yet, so we have taken the opportunity to | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
have a look round. One of the newest additions to | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
London's skyline but it is the top and bottom of this building that is | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
a bit different. Unusually for a sky scraper, the whole of the bottom, | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
the ground floor, is entirely open to the public. So this will be | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
public park. As you move up the building the views only get better, | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
but blink and you will miss them They are the fastest scenic live | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
lifts in London, if not Europe. They travelled about 15mph. And they can | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
cover 45 floors in just 30 seconds. So inside it is all shiny and new | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
but it is the outside of the billing that is more unusual. A chedse | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
greater shape designed to protect views of a more traditional | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
landmark. The wedge shape was landmark. The wedge shape was | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
developed, so as the building is smaller at the top, allowing it to | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
be right outside of the silhouette of the Dome of St Paul's whdn viewed | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
of the Dome of St Paul's when viewed from the West End. 85% of the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
structure was built off site from the West End. 85% of the | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
structure was built off sitd and put structure was built off sitd and put | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
together like a giant Meccano set and now another sky scraper with a | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
funny name is open for business. funny name is open for business | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Is there a real need? The Shard still has lots of empty space? When | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
we decided to bill the building we did a lot of research and we | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
identified there was real ddmand for identified there was real demand for | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
this type of accommodation hn the this type of accommodation in the | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
city. That has been borne ott this type of accommodation hn the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
city. That has been borne out by the fact here we are having completed | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
the construction stage the building is over half let. That is ddspite | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
the construction stage the building is over half let. That is despite it | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
having some of the highest rents in the city, so, businesses are still | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
willing to pay a premium to peer out over the capital. | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
So the architects like it. The developers like it but more | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
importantly what do Londoners think about this new building? It is | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
another building up here, another new big building. It is good but I | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
hope the older buildings don't get tampered with. I don't particularly | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
like it Why not Too Tam. Thhnk tampered with. I don't parthcularly | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
like it Why not Too Tam. Think lit attract a lot of people to come and | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
work in London. All the old concrete ones from the '60s were so hideous | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
the new buildings are better. I don't like it at all. Think it is | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
hideous. But you like this one? I think it is better than what was | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
there before. Is People will start moving in over the next few month, | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
but if you look out across the skyline you can see lots of cranes, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
building work going on, so it skyline you can see lots of cranes, | :13:15. | :13:15. | |
building work going on, so ht might building work going on, so it might | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
not be long before we have `nother not be long before we have another | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
competitor for the name of the quirkiest sky scraper in our ever | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
changing skyline. Probably. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Thank you. The woman who was in charge | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
of Haringey's children's services during the Baby P scandal h`s been | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
awarded nearly ?680,000 Sharon Shoesmith had won | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
a ruling that she was unfairly dismissed over the abuse of toddler | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Peter Connelly, who died in 2007 The authority says it won't comment | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
on the payment, which details in the council's | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
accounts for the past year. Still to come tonight. The sisters | :13:51. | :14:04. | |
from Tottenham shooting for come none wealth success in Nell bat. | :14:05. | :14:05. | |
from Tottenham shooting for come none wealth success in Nell bat He | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
has gone to creator of the star offel fan tum. We talk to Toby about | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
his work with fabulous beasts. Now all this week we have bden | :14:12. | :14:23. | |
looking at London's housing crisis, and the more radical solutions to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
help tackle it. Continuing our series home truths, tonight we hear | :14:28. | :14:28. | |
from one Londoner who says lore from one Londoner who says lore | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
needs to be done to make landowners build houses on empty sites in the | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
capital. Dave Hill says it is build houses on empty sites in the | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
capital. Dave Hill says it hs time local politicians were given extra | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
powers I have lived in London since 1989. I came to seek my Fortune from | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the stick, eventually I got a proper job and I bought a proper house here | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
in Hackney and I have lived in Hackney ever since. Now, it is gent | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
fibbing like mad, house prices through the roof, and you sort of | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
wonder how on earth are my children going to live round here? We | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
wonder how on earth are my children going to live round here? Wd are | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
trying. It will take a lot of different thing, one of the most | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
important things is to make sure that land which is availabld for | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
building new homes on, is actually brought into use and those houses | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
are built. So this is the sort of place I was talking about. I walk | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
past this most days. About three years ago we were shown the plans | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
for the site. Block of flats. Since then nothing has happened. There | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
could be all kinds of God rdasons but you would like toe what they are | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
and if something could be done to move things along a bit. A lot of | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
people in housing, including politicians think one of biggest | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
problems is land banking where by politicians think one of biggest | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
problems is land banking where by it is possible for somebody to get | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
building on a piece of land, but they have reasons for not doing so. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Largely to do with sitting on it for a long time and selling it for a | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
large profit. So there is an argument, some people will make for | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
greater, and more effective powers of compulsory purr charks which | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
local authorities could use, the Mayor of London could use, which | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
would be an incentive to stop people from sitting on land and stalling | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
from sitting on land and st`lling developments when they could do | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
something about A lot of that land is privately | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
owned but quite a lot So there is a particular question | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
about how local authorities can get that public land brought | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
into use for housing. We have come to Barking | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
and Dagenham, where housing has always been a big | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
issue locally, because the council here feels it has found some | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
innovative new ways to make sure new In terms of councils building, | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
themselves, and I think councils do much more, we have strained every | :16:39. | :16:52. | |
sinew in Barking and Dagenham within the Council s | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
Housing Finance to do that. Other councils can do more | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
in that respect. We have, I think, | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
shown that with bringing in institutional investment, | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
setting up special purpose vehicles Other London councils could | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
do exactly the same. Talking to Ken brought home to me | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
how important it is for London boroughs to be imaginative | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
and innovative in making sure that land they control is brought forward | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
for housing. But it also showed the value | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
of giving those authorities some additional powers | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
so that they can make sure that land, which is privately held, | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
is built on by developers You can get in touch on our Facebook | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
site, or on Twitter ` using the #BBCHomeTruths ` or email | :17:27. | :17:43. | |
us at [email protected]. And tomorrow we'll hear | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
from social housing expert, Lord Best, who thinks one solution | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
to the housing problem is to encourage older Londoners to move | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
into smaller properties. If we can find the ideal fl`t for | :17:52. | :18:03. | |
people who are in their late 50s, people who are in their late 50s, | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
60s, early 70s and get people to leave then that is a three`bedroom | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
suburban house, and moved to their flat, we solve all kinds of problems | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
at the same time. Join us for that tomorrow. Back to tonight. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
So the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games gets unddrway in | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Glasgow this evening. A host of up and coming athletes from London and | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
many established names too will be in action over the next 11 days | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Let's cross to our sports rdporter, Sara Orchard who's in Glasgow for | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
What sort of atmosphere can they expect? It is a bit of a cliche but | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
expect? It is a bit of a clhche but it is reminiscent of the 2012 | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Olympic Games. Every bus drhver and Olympic Games. Every bus drhver and | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
every cabbie is talking about Olympic Games. Every bus driver and | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
every cabbie is talking abott it. every cabbie is talking abott it. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Just to explain where I am talking to you from, behind me you can see | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
two venues that will be used in the games. The Scottish exhibithon | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
centre nicknamed as the armadillo, centre nicknamed as the arm`dillo, | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
for obvious reasons, and also the Hydro. One of the sports both venues | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
will be hosting is netball at will be hosting is netball `t | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
different stages of the competition. Team England has two sisters from | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
Tottenham in their squad called Sasha and Kadeen Corbin. Thdy | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
started out with their mother who started out with their mothdr who | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
could not be prouder of her two girls. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Before they travelled to Gl`sgow sisters Sasha and Kadeen Corbin had | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
a few precious days at home but were still out training at Northumberland | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Park School just behind White Hart Lane feeling proud of their England | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
selection and also their north London roots. | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
Not a lot of people do get to represent | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
their country plus the area they are from so it is great that we have | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
It is just amazing to have that kind of support. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
To have it, it just feels like the best thing ever and we just | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
want to go out there and perform to the best of our ability every single | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Netball is one of the most sought`after tickets at the Glasgow | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
games and organisers moved the final to a bigger venue to satisfy demand. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
Its growing popularity also means occasionally | :20:15. | :20:15. | |
It is funny, we don't necessarily get recognised. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
I think people say "I know xou from somewhere but I don't know where." | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
And I've never seen this person in my life. | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
The pair were introduced to the sport by their mother Vholet | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Who still plays and could not be happier with their Commonwealth | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
happier with their Commonwe`lth Games selection. | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
This is their first major competition | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
I don't know if it has sunk in quite as much yet but I do know when they | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
told me about the selection tears just came to my eyes. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
And it was joy and thinking they have actually got there together. | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Violet and five others from the local netball club have | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
travelled to Glasgow to watch England, who played their fhrst | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
`` play. Who are the first London is hoping for medals? We are spoiled in | :21:02. | :21:18. | |
the Greater London area for athletes. Let's pick out a few. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Firstly, tomorrow in the judo we have Ashley McKenzie from Qteens | :21:23. | :21:23. | |
have Ashley McKenzie from Queens Park who is going in the under 0 | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Park who is going in the under 60 kilograms category. He went out of | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
the London Olympics in the second round. Our younger viewers might | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
round. Our younger viewers light know him a little better from his TV | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
show exploits on celebrity Big Brother. Next on to cycling, a man | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
who needs very little introduction, Maida Vale's Sir Bradley Wiggins, | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
making his highly anticipated Maida Vale's Sir Bradley Wiggins, | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
making his highly anticipatdd return making his highly anticipated return | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
to the track in the team pursuit. And then weight lifting, Croydon | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
pars lifter who mist out on the London Olympics will go in the 48 | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
kilograms category. Double trouble in the pool, Waltham Forest's Daniel | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Fox races in the 400 meter freestyle and Andrew Willis goes in the 200 | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
and Andrew Willis goes in the 2 0 meter backstroke. `` Daniel Falk. | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
The action starts tomorrow because the opening ceremony is first and we | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
have the build up here on BBC1 from 8pm. Thank you for joining ts. Good | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
luck to all of them. Now to something rather different. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
It's the adaptation of the Ross Collins book about a little | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
girl visited by a phantom elephant, and uses the puppeteering mastery | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
The Elephantom is the National Theatre's latest hit to | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
And just like Warhorse ` the star of the show is a puppet. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
It's the adaptation of the Ross Collins book about a little | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
girl visited by a phantom elephant, and uses the puppeteering mastery | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Toby Olie, One of the puppeteers manipulating the enchanting Joey, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
So, Toby, where do you start when you have | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
this successful children's book and you have to bring the character | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
The main challenge on this show was finding a way | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Both Finn Caldwell, the other co`director of the show, | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
and myself were puppeteers on the original version of Warhorse and | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
wanted to make another show where the puppet was the main character. | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
We tried a lot of different things and actually it | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
was inflatables that gave us the ghostly, ethereal effect. | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
The majority of the performance members were also in Warhorse. | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
And we wanted to celebrate the fact that there was a bhg group | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
of us who had gone through this amazing time together working | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
on this show and that we should all make another show as a company. | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
Warhorse proved a critical success, with audiences seduced | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
by the puppets making Joey the horse a star. | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
The fact that an audience can see the puppeteers but still believe | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
in a character makes them a very theatrical essence in themselves. | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
In an age of digital technology and computer graphics, quite lo`fi | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Does it take a different kind of focus and attention | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
when you have such an animated being to perforl with? | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
You probably do have to be more engaged but it is not reallx | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
a big stretch because he is so playful and mischievous hn his | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
character that it makes it really appealing to want to play whth him. | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
The Elephantom gets up to mischief at the New London Theatre | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
Time for a check on the weather now with John Hammond. | :24:47. | :24:58. | |
Peter Gibbs is here. Is it more of the same? Pretty much. If you are a | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
fan of the heat more to come the same? Pretty much. If you are a | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
fan of the heat more to comd over fan of the heat more to come over | :25:08. | :25:08. | |
the next few days. The highdst the next few days. The highest | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
temperatures in and to the west of central London. Further east there | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
was a breeze from the Thames Street keeping the temperature of the lower | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
but still ran the mid`20s, pleasant enough but not if you are a fan of | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
less heat. A few areas of cloud have worked westwards. Any threat of a | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
shower will be more out west from our region through this evening | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
That is moving away, it is essentially a fine evening. Just a | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
nice breeze and overnight. Things have been warming up in the | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
sunshine. At least if you kdep have been warming up in the | :25:45. | :25:45. | |
sunshine. At least if you keep the window open and you will get | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
something of a breeze coming through to offset the fact that temperatures | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
will not fall lower than 16 or 17 will not fall lower than 16 or 7 | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
degrees for most of us. And then it is on into another fine day | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
tomorrow. Bit of patchy cloud but not amounting to much. I will drift | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
through from East to West with those through from East to West with those | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
fairly light easterly breezds but fairly light easterly breezds but | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
that will stop any sort of oppressive feel in the sunshine when | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
it becomes quite strong. Temperatures much the same as we | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
have seen today, up to the high 20s in London and to the West. Out | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
towards the Thames estuary xou are towards the Thames estuary you are | :26:18. | :26:19. | |
looking at something like 24, 2 5 looking at something like 24, 20 5 | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
degrees will stop with another fine evening to come. If you are planning | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
a barbecue for Thursday evening it's looking pretty good. On Friday, spot | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
the difference, bit of patchy cloud but not much more. Just a chance | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
maybe as the heat builds we could set off a few showers but very few | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
and far between. Through thd weekend and far between. Through the weekend | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
we start to see a change with a weather front coming in frol the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
north`west and eventually bringing something cooler and fresher during | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Sunday and just a chance of one or two showers but plenty of hdat | :26:50. | :26:50. | |
Sunday and just a chance of one or two showers but plenty of heat you | :26:51. | :26:51. | |
two showers but plenty of hdat you before then. A quick reminder of the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
day's main news. Two planes carrying 40 of the 298 | :26:57. | :27:16. | |
people who died on flight MH`17 have arrived in | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
the Netherlands. The Dutch Prime Minister, and the King and Pueen, | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
were among those waiting at Meanwhile David Cameron has said the | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
government will look carefully at all outstanding arms export licences | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
to Russia. There are more than two 150 licences still in | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
place. The family of a studdnt who went missing, and was eventually | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
found dead, say they were spied on by undercover officers from Scotland | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
Yard. The family of Ricky Rdel had been campaigning for police to treat | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
their son's death as murder. DRUMBEATS CONTINUE | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
WITH SWELLING, DRAMATIC MUSIC | :27:48. | :28:32. |