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showers and it will be notably fresher with temperatures not as

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high as today. Thank you for joining us. That is all from us and now we

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joined the BBC's news teams where you

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The row over the lack of affordable homes in a luxury

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Friends Provident eI want to make sure residents are getting benefits

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from it. Also tonight, the mystery over

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allegations that the Met Police The capital's latest

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skyscraper is completed. So what do Londoners make

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of the Cheesegrater? Plus how the makers of War Horse

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now have another jumbo`sized hit. Welcome to BBC London News, with me,

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Riz Lateef. First tonight,

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the row over the luxury housing development on the Thames that's

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been called a yuppie ghetto. Boris Johnson today selected

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an Anglo`Dutch firm to create a new But the Mayor of Newham says

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the project should not be allowed to go ahead, because he fears there

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won't be any affordable housing It comes on the day the Green Party

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accused the Mayor Today little to see but could this

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one day be among one of London's most sought after address, here a

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floating island, luxury apartment, bars, restaurants, but Newh`m's

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mayor fears it won't includd affordable homes for local people If

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you are going to build something really nice, why shouldn't people on

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lower income be able to get it. You have a dock, transport link, there

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is a bunch of morning being spent to make in a fantastic place, you have

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to contribute something back then. Local teacher David is concdrned. I

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don't think it is what the area don't think it is what the `rea

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needs. I am after wear of lots of families who are living in cramped

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conditions who have several children in one bedroom, where they can't

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afford to live anywhere elsd. The developers tried to reassure critics

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developers tried to reassurd critics It will work with the local partners

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to come up with the right mix. It will work with the local partners

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to come up with the right mix. At the moment we have a desire to put

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affordable housing in the scheme but I can't tell you how much or what it

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will look like. At City Hall the mayor was asked how much affordable

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housing would be included I can t housing would be included I can't

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give you the answer to that. What I can tell you... Is there some?

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give you the answer to that. What I can tell you... Is there sole? Any?

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I can't give you the answer. But Boris Johnson was also accused of

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breaking his promises over affordable housing across London. He

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pledged to build 55,000 homes by March next year. But it has been

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revealed he will fall short by more than 800. He says he will do it by

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next December. That is nine months later than promised. . So you will

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be be late rather then short. ? We are going to deliver 55,000 homes by

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December 2015, and I think that is a massive achievement. If you look

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round London, you do see everywhere, round London, you do see evdrywhere,

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now, new homes are being built, but on the whole, they are out of reach

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for ordinary Londoners. Boris for ordinary Londoners. Borhs

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Johnson wasn't available to give an interview, his spokesman says

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Johnson wasn't available to give an interview, his spokesman saxs he is

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interview, his spokesman says he is confident the royal docks

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development will include a lix confident the royal docks

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development will include a mix of development will include a lix of

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homes. Local people will have to wait and see whether they can afford

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wait and see whether they c`n afford to live there.

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One Londoner's view on how to tackle our housing crisis

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` stop companies buying up land but then failing to build on it.

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There are calls tonight for more transparency from the Metropolitan

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Police after accusations th`t it's using spy planes

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as our transport correspondent Tom Edwards reports.

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The skies over the capital `re a busy airspace, but could there

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The skies over the capital are a busy airspace, but could thdre be

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more up there than passenger planes? Yesterday this plane was spotted on

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a tracking website, circling south London at 10,000 feet, for

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two`and`a`half hours. Its registration GBVJT. That plane

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has come up before in these questions from the Liberal Democrats

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on the London assembly. The accusation its is a met spy plane,

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then, there was no response for operational security reasons. It is

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right for the police to keep operations secret but we nedd

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right for the police to keep operations secret but we need o

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right for the police to keep operations secret but we nedd o know

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operations secret but we need o know whether they have these plane, what

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it is costing the taxpayer. You can't hide aeroplanes, we need to

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can't hide aeroplanes, we nded to know what it is costing and for the

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Met to be open about why thdy have these planes. The tracking website

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says that plane is over London almost every day. Bloggers and

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says that plane is over London almost every day. Bloggers `nd those

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on social media regularly spot planes circling. Darren Burn

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witnessed one yesterday. His suspicions, it was a spy pl`ne.

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witnessed one yesterday. His suspicions, it was a spy plane. I

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would be more worried if thd police weren't monitoring people and

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weren't monitoring phone calls. I think everyone knows it is hmportant

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think everyone knows it is important to monitor e`mails and monitor phone

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calls and I don't have a problem with it. Only people who are worried

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with it. Only people who ard worried about what they are doing should

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have a problem with it. We asked the authorities about these planes, and

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so far our inquiries have got nowhere. The national Air Traffic

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Control service declined to comment. The deputy police chief said he

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wasn't aware and the Met wotldn t neither confirm or deny they were

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using them. There are mounthng neither confirm or deny thex were

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using them. There are mounting calls for the police to have a degree of

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openness, about whether it is using ariel surveillance.

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Niesmt A teenage boy has drowned in the River Thames in Marlow after

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the River Thames in Marlow `fter playing with friends near the river.

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It's thought Kyrece Marshall`Francis was retrieving a ball

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when he was swept into deep water yesterday afternoon.

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Today, friends gathered at Great Marlow School to pay tributd to a

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The best person, he was a genuine good person, he was a role lodel to

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good person, he was a role model to me, I thought that I should be like

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Kyrece, such a good person. No`one had a bad word to say about him.

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Kyrece, such a good person. No`one had a bad word to say about him He

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was loved by everyone. He will be truly missed.

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The Met needs to raise its game to tackle crime against businesses

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That's the view of the Deputy Mayor for policing, after figures show

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that London's police servicd is failing to investigate

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and catch those targeting both small and big companies.

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Today, City Hall revealed a plan to change that.

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Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Guy Smith.

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Business. The so`called life blood of any city.

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Here, another sale. Money comes in, but all too easily can slip out.

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Particularly, when it is crhme. Particularly, when it is crime.

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Alice managers this well`known store in Carnaby street. The shop has been

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recently been broken into twice The people who come in and steal... Do

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the businesses report that hs people who come in and steal... Do

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the businesses report that hs this We as a business do. It, because we

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are a massive global company and our are a massive global company and our

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stock loss is so crucial to us, we try and prevent it, but for smaller

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shops, I think, sadly, they haven't got the support we do. And that

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means many crimes can go unreported. Fraud is a real concern. In the last

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year, there were more than 81,0 0 year, there were more than 81,000

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cases. Less than 800 were thought to be

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solvable. And just nine frauds solvable. And just nine frauds

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reported ended in court. Thd perception is that business crime

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will be ignored, that the police won't properly investigate. That

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means companies are less likely to come forward to report crimd,

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means companies are less likely to come forward to report crime, and

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even when they do, nothing really happens.

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Is there a crisis in confidence? happens.

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Is there a crisis in confiddnce No. Is there a crisis in confiddnce No.

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What we are doing here todax, is showing that we have listened,

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showing that we are reinflicting how crime has changed and the patterns

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have changed. People might say it is not serious, it is still thdft and

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not serious, it is still theft and of course it can be used thd

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not serious, it is still thdft and of course it can be used the feed a

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of course it can be used thd feed a range of things from terrorism,

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of course it can be used the feed a range of things from terrorhsm, to

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financing of drug deals so it range of things from terrorism, to

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financing of drug deals so ht is vitally important. So what has been

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done? Today City Hall were proud to present their plan. Hoping to

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restore confidence, and are assure businesses. Are you been dragging

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businesses. Are you been dr`gging your feet too much? We have been

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focussed on business crime. This strategy comes at the end of one of

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the longest consultation projects with business, with all the law

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enforcement to ensure that the service that the public get here in

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London, is second to none. @nd the strategy includes a business advice

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centre, an annual crime sumlit, strategy includes a business advice

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centre, an annual crime summit, and centre, an annual crime summit, and

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crime mapping to help predict future hotspots.

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It is important stuff. This expensive watch shop in Mayfair is

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the latest example of business the latest example of busindss

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crime. Which continues for one in seven of

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all reported offences in London. Frank Dobson, the Labour MP

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for Holborn and St Pancras has confirmed he'll be stepping down

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at the 2015 general election. The former cabinet minister formally

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announced his decision not to seek a ninth straight general eldction

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win at a meeting of party members. Bulling work has been compldted on

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the tallest sky scraper in the city of London. It is better known as the

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Cheese greater. Is it a welcome addition to the skyline? Let us join

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Tara who is 47 floors up and a good view on a day like this. As you can

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see, a new wedge shape in our see, a new wedge shape in our

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skyline, like a cheese greater. It has to be designed like this so it

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didn't obstruct protected views of Saint Paul's Cathedral. Frol the

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didn't obstruct protected vhews of Saint Paul's Cathedral. From the top

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of the building, as you can see it is windy, and hazy, but you can just

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about see across London. Yot is windy, and hazy, but you can just

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about see across London. You have about see across London. Yot have

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the Olympic Park, the tower behind me and The Gherkin which is next to

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me. I feels like you can almost me and The Gherkin which is next to

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me. I feels like you can allost tap me. I feels like you can allost tap

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it on the head. The developers will it on the head. The developers will

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tell you this is the tallest building in the city of London, and

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of course not the entire capital, but the Shard is just across the

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river and that is much taller, but the Shard is just across the

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river and that is much talldr, but river and that is much talldr, but

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no`one is in this building yet, so we have taken the opportunity to

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have a look round. One of the newest additions to

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London's skyline but it is the top and bottom of this building that is

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a bit different. Unusually for a sky scraper, the whole of the bottom,

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the ground floor, is entirely open to the public. So this will be

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public park. As you move up the building the views only get better,

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but blink and you will miss them They are the fastest scenic live

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lifts in London, if not Europe. They travelled about 15mph. And they can

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cover 45 floors in just 30 seconds. So inside it is all shiny and new

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but it is the outside of the billing that is more unusual. A chedse

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greater shape designed to protect views of a more traditional

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landmark. The wedge shape was landmark. The wedge shape was

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developed, so as the building is smaller at the top, allowing it to

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be right outside of the silhouette of the Dome of St Paul's whdn viewed

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of the Dome of St Paul's when viewed from the West End. 85% of the

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structure was built off site from the West End. 85% of the

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structure was built off sitd and put structure was built off sitd and put

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together like a giant Meccano set and now another sky scraper with a

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funny name is open for business. funny name is open for business

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Is there a real need? The Shard still has lots of empty space? When

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we decided to bill the building we did a lot of research and we

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identified there was real ddmand for identified there was real demand for

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this type of accommodation hn the this type of accommodation in the

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city. That has been borne ott this type of accommodation hn the

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city. That has been borne out by the fact here we are having completed

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the construction stage the building is over half let. That is ddspite

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the construction stage the building is over half let. That is despite it

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having some of the highest rents in the city, so, businesses are still

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willing to pay a premium to peer out over the capital.

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So the architects like it. The developers like it but more

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importantly what do Londoners think about this new building? It is

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another building up here, another new big building. It is good but I

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hope the older buildings don't get tampered with. I don't particularly

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like it Why not Too Tam. Thhnk tampered with. I don't parthcularly

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like it Why not Too Tam. Think lit attract a lot of people to come and

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work in London. All the old concrete ones from the '60s were so hideous

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the new buildings are better. I don't like it at all. Think it is

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hideous. But you like this one? I think it is better than what was

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there before. Is People will start moving in over the next few month,

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but if you look out across the skyline you can see lots of cranes,

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building work going on, so it skyline you can see lots of cranes,

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building work going on, so ht might building work going on, so it might

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not be long before we have `nother not be long before we have another

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competitor for the name of the quirkiest sky scraper in our ever

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changing skyline. Probably.

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Thank you. The woman who was in charge

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of Haringey's children's services during the Baby P scandal h`s been

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awarded nearly ?680,000 Sharon Shoesmith had won

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a ruling that she was unfairly dismissed over the abuse of toddler

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Peter Connelly, who died in 2007 The authority says it won't comment

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on the payment, which details in the council's

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accounts for the past year. Still to come tonight. The sisters

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from Tottenham shooting for come none wealth success in Nell bat.

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from Tottenham shooting for come none wealth success in Nell bat He

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has gone to creator of the star offel fan tum. We talk to Toby about

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his work with fabulous beasts. Now all this week we have bden

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looking at London's housing crisis, and the more radical solutions to

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help tackle it. Continuing our series home truths, tonight we hear

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from one Londoner who says lore from one Londoner who says lore

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needs to be done to make landowners build houses on empty sites in the

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capital. Dave Hill says it is build houses on empty sites in the

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capital. Dave Hill says it hs time local politicians were given extra

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powers I have lived in London since 1989. I came to seek my Fortune from

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the stick, eventually I got a proper job and I bought a proper house here

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in Hackney and I have lived in Hackney ever since. Now, it is gent

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fibbing like mad, house prices through the roof, and you sort of

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wonder how on earth are my children going to live round here? We

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wonder how on earth are my children going to live round here? Wd are

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trying. It will take a lot of different thing, one of the most

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important things is to make sure that land which is availabld for

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building new homes on, is actually brought into use and those houses

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are built. So this is the sort of place I was talking about. I walk

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past this most days. About three years ago we were shown the plans

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for the site. Block of flats. Since then nothing has happened. There

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could be all kinds of God rdasons but you would like toe what they are

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and if something could be done to move things along a bit. A lot of

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people in housing, including politicians think one of biggest

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problems is land banking where by politicians think one of biggest

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problems is land banking where by it is possible for somebody to get

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building on a piece of land, but they have reasons for not doing so.

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Largely to do with sitting on it for a long time and selling it for a

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large profit. So there is an argument, some people will make for

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greater, and more effective powers of compulsory purr charks which

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local authorities could use, the Mayor of London could use, which

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would be an incentive to stop people from sitting on land and stalling

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from sitting on land and st`lling developments when they could do

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something about A lot of that land is privately

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owned but quite a lot So there is a particular question

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about how local authorities can get that public land brought

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into use for housing. We have come to Barking

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and Dagenham, where housing has always been a big

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issue locally, because the council here feels it has found some

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innovative new ways to make sure new In terms of councils building,

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themselves, and I think councils do much more, we have strained every

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sinew in Barking and Dagenham within the Council s

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Housing Finance to do that. Other councils can do more

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in that respect. We have, I think,

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shown that with bringing in institutional investment,

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setting up special purpose vehicles Other London councils could

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do exactly the same. Talking to Ken brought home to me

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how important it is for London boroughs to be imaginative

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and innovative in making sure that land they control is brought forward

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for housing. But it also showed the value

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of giving those authorities some additional powers

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so that they can make sure that land, which is privately held,

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is built on by developers You can get in touch on our Facebook

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site, or on Twitter ` using the #BBCHomeTruths ` or email

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us at [email protected]. And tomorrow we'll hear

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from social housing expert, Lord Best, who thinks one solution

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to the housing problem is to encourage older Londoners to move

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into smaller properties. If we can find the ideal fl`t for

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people who are in their late 50s, people who are in their late 50s,

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60s, early 70s and get people to leave then that is a three`bedroom

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suburban house, and moved to their flat, we solve all kinds of problems

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at the same time. Join us for that tomorrow. Back to tonight.

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So the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games gets unddrway in

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Glasgow this evening. A host of up and coming athletes from London and

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many established names too will be in action over the next 11 days

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Let's cross to our sports rdporter, Sara Orchard who's in Glasgow for

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What sort of atmosphere can they expect? It is a bit of a cliche but

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expect? It is a bit of a clhche but it is reminiscent of the 2012

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Olympic Games. Every bus drhver and Olympic Games. Every bus drhver and

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every cabbie is talking about Olympic Games. Every bus driver and

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every cabbie is talking abott it. every cabbie is talking abott it.

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Just to explain where I am talking to you from, behind me you can see

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two venues that will be used in the games. The Scottish exhibithon

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centre nicknamed as the armadillo, centre nicknamed as the arm`dillo,

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for obvious reasons, and also the Hydro. One of the sports both venues

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will be hosting is netball at will be hosting is netball `t

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different stages of the competition. Team England has two sisters from

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Tottenham in their squad called Sasha and Kadeen Corbin. Thdy

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started out with their mother who started out with their mothdr who

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could not be prouder of her two girls.

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Before they travelled to Gl`sgow sisters Sasha and Kadeen Corbin had

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a few precious days at home but were still out training at Northumberland

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Park School just behind White Hart Lane feeling proud of their England

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selection and also their north London roots.

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Not a lot of people do get to represent

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their country plus the area they are from so it is great that we have

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It is just amazing to have that kind of support.

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To have it, it just feels like the best thing ever and we just

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want to go out there and perform to the best of our ability every single

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Netball is one of the most sought`after tickets at the Glasgow

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games and organisers moved the final to a bigger venue to satisfy demand.

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Its growing popularity also means occasionally

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It is funny, we don't necessarily get recognised.

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I think people say "I know xou from somewhere but I don't know where."

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And I've never seen this person in my life.

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The pair were introduced to the sport by their mother Vholet

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Who still plays and could not be happier with their Commonwealth

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happier with their Commonwe`lth Games selection.

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This is their first major competition

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I don't know if it has sunk in quite as much yet but I do know when they

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told me about the selection tears just came to my eyes.

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And it was joy and thinking they have actually got there together.

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Violet and five others from the local netball club have

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travelled to Glasgow to watch England, who played their fhrst

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`` play. Who are the first London is hoping for medals? We are spoiled in

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the Greater London area for athletes. Let's pick out a few.

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Firstly, tomorrow in the judo we have Ashley McKenzie from Qteens

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have Ashley McKenzie from Queens Park who is going in the under 0

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Park who is going in the under 60 kilograms category. He went out of

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the London Olympics in the second round. Our younger viewers might

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round. Our younger viewers light know him a little better from his TV

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show exploits on celebrity Big Brother. Next on to cycling, a man

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who needs very little introduction, Maida Vale's Sir Bradley Wiggins,

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making his highly anticipated Maida Vale's Sir Bradley Wiggins,

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making his highly anticipatdd return making his highly anticipated return

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to the track in the team pursuit. And then weight lifting, Croydon

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pars lifter who mist out on the London Olympics will go in the 48

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kilograms category. Double trouble in the pool, Waltham Forest's Daniel

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Fox races in the 400 meter freestyle and Andrew Willis goes in the 200

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and Andrew Willis goes in the 2 0 meter backstroke. `` Daniel Falk.

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The action starts tomorrow because the opening ceremony is first and we

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have the build up here on BBC1 from 8pm. Thank you for joining ts. Good

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luck to all of them. Now to something rather different.

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It's the adaptation of the Ross Collins book about a little

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girl visited by a phantom elephant, and uses the puppeteering mastery

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The Elephantom is the National Theatre's latest hit to

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And just like Warhorse ` the star of the show is a puppet.

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It's the adaptation of the Ross Collins book about a little

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girl visited by a phantom elephant, and uses the puppeteering mastery

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Toby Olie, One of the puppeteers manipulating the enchanting Joey,

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So, Toby, where do you start when you have

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this successful children's book and you have to bring the character

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The main challenge on this show was finding a way

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Both Finn Caldwell, the other co`director of the show,

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and myself were puppeteers on the original version of Warhorse and

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wanted to make another show where the puppet was the main character.

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We tried a lot of different things and actually it

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was inflatables that gave us the ghostly, ethereal effect.

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The majority of the performance members were also in Warhorse.

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And we wanted to celebrate the fact that there was a bhg group

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of us who had gone through this amazing time together working

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on this show and that we should all make another show as a company.

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Warhorse proved a critical success, with audiences seduced

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by the puppets making Joey the horse a star.

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The fact that an audience can see the puppeteers but still believe

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in a character makes them a very theatrical essence in themselves.

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In an age of digital technology and computer graphics, quite lo`fi

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Does it take a different kind of focus and attention

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when you have such an animated being to perforl with?

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You probably do have to be more engaged but it is not reallx

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a big stretch because he is so playful and mischievous hn his

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character that it makes it really appealing to want to play whth him.

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The Elephantom gets up to mischief at the New London Theatre

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Time for a check on the weather now with John Hammond.

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Peter Gibbs is here. Is it more of the same? Pretty much. If you are a

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fan of the heat more to come the same? Pretty much. If you are a

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fan of the heat more to comd over fan of the heat more to come over

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the next few days. The highdst the next few days. The highest

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temperatures in and to the west of central London. Further east there

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was a breeze from the Thames Street keeping the temperature of the lower

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but still ran the mid`20s, pleasant enough but not if you are a fan of

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less heat. A few areas of cloud have worked westwards. Any threat of a

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shower will be more out west from our region through this evening

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That is moving away, it is essentially a fine evening. Just a

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nice breeze and overnight. Things have been warming up in the

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sunshine. At least if you kdep have been warming up in the

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sunshine. At least if you keep the window open and you will get

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something of a breeze coming through to offset the fact that temperatures

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will not fall lower than 16 or 17 will not fall lower than 16 or 7

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degrees for most of us. And then it is on into another fine day

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tomorrow. Bit of patchy cloud but not amounting to much. I will drift

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through from East to West with those through from East to West with those

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fairly light easterly breezds but fairly light easterly breezds but

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that will stop any sort of oppressive feel in the sunshine when

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it becomes quite strong. Temperatures much the same as we

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have seen today, up to the high 20s in London and to the West. Out

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towards the Thames estuary xou are towards the Thames estuary you are

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looking at something like 24, 2 5 looking at something like 24, 20 5

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degrees will stop with another fine evening to come. If you are planning

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a barbecue for Thursday evening it's looking pretty good. On Friday, spot

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the difference, bit of patchy cloud but not much more. Just a chance

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maybe as the heat builds we could set off a few showers but very few

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and far between. Through thd weekend and far between. Through the weekend

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we start to see a change with a weather front coming in frol the

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north`west and eventually bringing something cooler and fresher during

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Sunday and just a chance of one or two showers but plenty of hdat

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Sunday and just a chance of one or two showers but plenty of heat you

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two showers but plenty of hdat you before then. A quick reminder of the

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day's main news. Two planes carrying 40 of the 298

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people who died on flight MH`17 have arrived in

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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

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government will look carefully at all outstanding arms export licences

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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

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Yard. The family of Ricky Rdel had been campaigning for police to treat

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their son's death as murder. DRUMBEATS CONTINUE

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WITH SWELLING, DRAMATIC MUSIC

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