14/09/2014 BBC London News
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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening, and welcome to BBC London's weekend news, with me, | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Millions of Londoners who earn roughly | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
between ?25,000 and ?45,000 are said to be struggling to make ends meet. | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
A report out tomorrow says there's an urgent need to make the city more | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
affordable for so-called "middle-earners", by reducing costs | :00:31. | :00:31. | |
Here's our Political Editor, Tim Donovan. | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
Lucy is an admin assistant earning ?24,000 a year. A single parent with | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
a 12-year-old daughter. My cooker was condemned a few months ago, and | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
I haven't been able to get a cookie yet, because that is quite a big | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
expenditure and there is hardly anything left for me to be able to | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
save. I've got one of those Pam Hobbs which I have been using for | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
the last few months. When I said at ago I have not got a cooker, they | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
just think it is ridiculous for stop according to a report by the Centre | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
for London think tank, as many as one in five Londoners are like Lucy. | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
Costs need to be reduce, incomes raised, say the report. It | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
recommends a shake-up of working credits to be earned between | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
different burners and generations in the same household. Loans for more | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
training to allow people into higher paid jobs. Low interest loans for | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
community season tickets. More local authority housing. We have to | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
radically increase the national minimum wage, we need living wage | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
zones will stop we need to reduce the cost of housing. The lowest | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
housing built in London since the 1920s. He identifies the trapped | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
middle earners, 25,000 43,000 in the report. One of the things you | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
certainly don't do is increase income tax on people earning | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
?26,000. Lucy wonders how long-term she can stay in London. I have 3 | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
?26,000. Lucy wonders how long-term something in my account and I have | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
?20 in saving. You are living from pay cheque to pay cheque. What do | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
you do? It's hard. Lucy Mpofu ending that report | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
from Tim Donovan. The Queen's Jubilee Barge has been | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
snubbed by the people of Richmond, who've decided not to give | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
the "Gloriana" So far, September has been warm and | :02:30. | :05:13. | |
fine. That will continue into much of this week. It is going to keep | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
what -- warming up. We will have some share was dotted around today, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
and then we will have cloud across London and the Home Counties. No | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
lower than 10-12 Celsius. It will be something of a grey start tomorrow. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
You might need an umbrella first thing. Most places will be dry. And | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
there will be some sunshine about. And it looks like we will exceed | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
those temperatures as we go through Wednesday and Thursday, approaching | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
25 Celsius with some warm, continental air coming from the | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
south-east. Join me again at 10:20pm. Have a very good evening. | :06:00. | :06:01. |
