27/12/2016 London News


27/12/2016

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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News.

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People, forced from their homes and businesses

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by major flooding three weeks ago, have still not been able to return.

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A burst water main in Islington caused extensive flood damage,

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but some residents and business owners have had quite different

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experiences getting back on their feet, as Emilia

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This is what Jackie's bedroom looked like three weeks ago. Devastated and

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completely destroyed by flood water. Almost a month on, it's looking a

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little better. But there's still a lot of work to be done. It will mean

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doors, frames, skirting boards, everything's got to be taken out.

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Even though she's had to sleep on her sofa, Jackie says the response

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to the flooding has been efficient. I think all the people that have

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worked on it have been marvellous. It was slow at the start. It seemed

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to take ages for them to get moving. Once they did, everybody's done a

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wonderful job. I wouldn't like to have done the job they've had to do.

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Around 80 residents in Islington were evacuated after this three-foot

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wide water main burst. Many homes and shops were two metres deep in

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water. The flood meant the streets were covered in mud, silt and even

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rats and the clean-up effort took days. Today it all looked like it

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was back to normal, but local businesses have been hit hard. Many,

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like this gallery, lost a lot of their stock before Christmas and

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they're still trying to get rid of the damp. I need to empty that out.

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That's full of water. I come down through the night. Three weeks on?

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Yeah. The financial side I don't know if we can fully recover from it

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as an independent business. Our concern is that as a community for a

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lot of us it's the same. Some of us won't be able to survive the impact

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this will have. Thames Water told us they apologised again to residents

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and also shop owners for the inconvenience. In a statement they

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said they were supporting their customers every step of the way to

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help get their lives back to normal and their insurance claims sorted.

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This month saw similar floods in Lewisham, Stoke Newington and

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Streatham. It's because most of the pipes are over 150 years old.

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Repairing them is now a priority. But here in Camden passage, the

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damage has been done. For these shops, it wasn't a merry Christmas.

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Many of them still don't know when they'll be able to open again.

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A man's been stabbed to death in a street

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Police were called to Adelaide Street at about 7.30am.

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A man in his 30s was found seriously injured

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Police say they think they know who the man is, but he hasn't been

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The area is known to be popular with rough sleepers.

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After nearly 50 years running her beloved shop,

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Peggy Hawkes passed away recently, leaving a hole in the

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Blackheath community none thought could be filled.

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But her family, helped by local volunteers,

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have decided to carry on the way she would have wanted,

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It's a shop that hasn't changed for six decades. Hi, you OK? Even the

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till at Pegga Stores is the same as the one used in the nostalgic TV

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comedy, open all hours. It's the way Peggy wanted it to stay for the 43

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years she ran it behind the counter. Since her recent death, she's been

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so sadly missed, her family, supported by local volunteers, have

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kept it going in her memory. Some of the people that are out of work and

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stuff would come in and ask mum for money. She'd quite often say, look,

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here's a couple of bob, go and get a cup of tea. Even if somebody said to

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her, you know they're never going to come back with that. She said, no,

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if I made them feel better today, it's worth every penny. Other than a

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lick of paint, many of the features Peggy loved have been preserved. The

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shop sells cards, balls of string and knick-knacks, several local

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customers have been coming here for more than 30 years. She's just a

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really, really nice lady. It just has a kind of old fashioned niceness

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about it, this shop. Yeah. Do you think it's nice that it can carry on

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even if she's not here? Yeah, it's always well stocked. You can find

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things here that you wouldn't find anywhere else. That's the sore of

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woman she was, so caring. That's why she was so popular. Everybody knew

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her. People came from miles away to come in this shop, not just because

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of what she sold in the shop, but to see my mum. The family says they've

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had offers to buy the shop all the time. But they're determined to try

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to keep it going as long as they can, with the help of their

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neighbours in Peggy's memory Let's have a quick look

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at the weather with Lucy Martin. Good evening. It's been a lovely day

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for the bank holiday, cold and bright. As we move through into

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tonight, we hold onto the cold theme. We will see a widespread

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frost developing and fog into the early hours. We're staying dry

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through the night, that widespread frost developing quite rapidly. I

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think we'll see a few fog patches into the early hours, though.

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Temperatures falling to freezing, slightly cooler in the countryside.

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It's a cold, frosty and foggy start to the day. The fog patches could be

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dense. Take extra care if you're out on the road. Plenty of cloud around,

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but it's still cold. Temperatures reaching a mix mum of six degrees

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Celsius. Now, I leave you with the outlook.

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Take care if you catch one of those fog patches.

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That's it, we're back tomorrow morning in breakfast. From everyone

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on the team, have a lovely evening. Bye-bye.

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Good evening. It's a wintry night out there. Temperatures as low as

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minus three in one or two places already. For some of us the frost

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never shifted all day long. This shot was taken in Somerset. Tonight,

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some

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