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There was relief for the retail sector facing a huge | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
hike in business rates, but will it be enough to stop | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
I don't know what we will do about it. We will probably pay but it is | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
sucking the life out of us, really. And MPs in London slam the extra | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
funds for social care saying it We'll have full | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
analysis of the budget. Calls for new powers to restrict | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the amount of toxins from building sites, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
to improve the quality of our air. Construction is a power thirsty | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
business. Whenever going to be able to pull down an old factory like | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
this without vast amounts of diesel in powerful machinery. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
And the boy with a rare liver condition that means he has to spend | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
the rest of his life, living under a lamp. | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Further devolution for London is the headline announcement made | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
by the Chancellor in his budget, which is exactly what our | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
But there was a lot more talked about, so let's have a look | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
at the main areas in bite size Budget chunks. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
A massive issue in and around London. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Well, ?2 billion has been announced for Social Care over | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
the next three years, but that's for the whole of England. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Changes to the system mean firms here are facing steep rises, | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
so a hardship fund has been announced to the tune of more | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
On top of that, there's ?1,000 discount in rates for pubs. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
It'll get many people excited, but there are no new powers | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
for City Hall, and nothing's been announced that we didn't | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Not a mention of Crossrail 2 or a new Thames crossing, | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
which will be a massive disappointment to many. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
As for policing, there's no more money for that either. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
And that's something the Mayor of London isn't happy about. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
It'll also put added pressure on the new Commissioner | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
And when it comes to our schools, which have led the entire country | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
when it comes to improvements, there's no more money there. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Instead, many are set to lose out under a new funding formula. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
I'll be putting some of those points to the Minister | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
for London very shortly, but first let's look at social care | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
with our Political Editor, Tim Donovan, who's at Westminster. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Pressure on hospital wards this winter has combined with a growing | :02:53. | :03:07. | |
awareness of a growing population here in the capital with needs that | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
are often not straightforward and need complex care. And that has | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
shocked -- shot this issue up the agenda. The local authorities who | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
have become so associated with the political difficulties over solving | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
this will get more money. Every council has the potential to get | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
more under a new fund. Catherine was among many | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
watching closely today. She has multiple sclerosis and has | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
been in this private care home Pleased the Chancellor was offering | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
more help, so far as it goes. I don't think it's | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
the end of the problems. It is certainly a big move | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
towards helping council But the main problem, | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
which is a national problem, not just here in Surrey, | :03:48. | :03:59. | |
is that social care has been completely | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
underfunded and is in crisis. Not just in Surrey, but Surrey has | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
now achieved a special status in all this because first | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
there was a thread from its Tory leader to raise council tax by 15%, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and then questions about why that Today, just minutes before | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
the budget, it boiled over Saying that the leader | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
of Surrey County Council, David Hodgkin said there | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
was a gentleman 's agreement between him and the government | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
which meant they would not have My question is what deal was done | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
with Surrey County Council? He said I didn't answer the question | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
about a special deal for Surrey. I think I've answered it now three | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
times but I'll do to fourth time. There was no special deal | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
for Surrey that was not Taking to the dance floor | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
in Westminster this afternoon, a borough where the adult care | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
budget has had to be cut by a third It will keep people out | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
of hospitals, and all that. And people who can't afford | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
to look after themselves, This is a gift given | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
to people in transition. But Labour said the extra money | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
announced today wouldn't make much Our hospitals are having | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
to keep patients wardful, two wardful of patients | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
that they cannot discharge into the community because there | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
are no services available for them. So, yes, this is welcome but it goes | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
nowhere near far enough. Others say, though welcome, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
it'll take more than cash. It has to be about the | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
services and what works. Local authorities, the NHS working | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
together, and we've got So, an emergency bailout | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
this year but bigger, When it comes to business rates, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
changes to the system mean many firms in London will see massive | :06:06. | :06:19. | |
hikes in the amount they pay. So the Chancellor today | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
announced an emergency fund Nevertheless, the Institute | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
for Fiscal Studies estimates companies here will still be worse | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
off in the coming years, while firms in the north | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
of England will benefit. Karl Mercer has been gauging | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
opinion in the East End. There is one further area | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
in which I can announce action The Communities Secretary and I have | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
listened to the concerns raised The revaluation and has undoubtedly | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
raised some hard cases. While the Chancellor | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
was on his feet in the Commons, Hackney's Brewers were on theirs | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
on the bottling line. Two small firms, like hundreds | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
across London, who are facing big You go from the right, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
four in, that's my grandad. Bob Cooke was born in the flat | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
above his Hackney pie and mash shop. At 69, he is still | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
making 700 pies a day. But, from April, his business rates | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
are set to go up nearly ?2000. I said to my wife, it's | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
a terrible thing, I don't know We will probably pay it, but it's | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
sucking the life out of us, really. Just around the corner, it's | :07:36. | :07:48. | |
a similar story at this brewery. Four years old tomorrow, they, too, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
will see their rates go up. In Hackney itself, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
the average is 46% rate hike. And these are all people that make | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
up our local community. They are neighbours, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
they are friends, Today, the Chancellor announced | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
a little help for London. ?72 million will come to London's | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
councils to help businesses hardest My first impressions | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
are it's not enough. I've been speaking to small | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
businesses across London over the last few weeks and months, | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
including those who represent The Chancellor appears to have | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
listened a bit but his announcement My worry is that small | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
businesses in London, who worked their socks off, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
may go under. London will remain as one of only | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
two cities in the UK where business The majority of cities, actually, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
business rates will go down. What we see is in the most | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
successful cities, London and Reading, actually, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
business rates will go up. What that means for businesses | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
in London, particularly large businesses, is they are the ones | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
that will bear the brunt Details of the scheme to help | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
firms affected will be Well, the Chancellor also announced | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
that he'd reached a deal with the Mayor of London, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Sadiq Khan on further Karl Mercer, you've | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
looked into this. It didn't take me long to look at | :09:06. | :09:17. | |
it, either. Five pages. First page title page, second page, a load of | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
signatures. 2.5 sides of the actual deal. It isn't a weighty tome, there | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
isn't a lot in there we did know before. Just a couple of things. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
They're talking about piloting new ways of raising money to pay for big | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
infrastructure. More control of business rates. And more powers to | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
tackle congestion, some pilot projects going on about that. From | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
my point of view, not too much in there. I wonder what the mayor | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
thought. You can look at this as a glass half full or empty. This is a | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
glass half full. It's good news because the government still | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
believes individuation. It recognises that decisions are best | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
made when they can pack those that they affect. That is good news for | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
us. Talking the talk, playing nicely with the government. I understand | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
there something we haven't heard today, maybe an announcement next | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
week about health devolution for London. Giving London hospitals more | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
power than anywhere else in the country to keep the money they raise | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
from selling land. We will look closely at that. | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
And there's nobody better to chat to on the subject | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
than Gavin Barwell, the Minister for London. | :10:33. | :10:33. | |
When it comes to concrete actions that matter, committing to Crossrail | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
to or funding for policing or schools, we heard nothing. Instead, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
a piece of paper signed by yourself but it isn't much to go on. I think | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
we had a lot of concrete things in this budget. We had extra funding | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
for social care, which is a huge issue. We had relief for small | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
businesses and for our pubs in terms of business rates. Extra funding for | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
new schools and extra money for maintenance for existing schools. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
And this important step forward for devolution so I think there is a lot | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
in here Londoners should welcome. How much for social care in London? | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
?2 billion across England, how much for London? So, we're going to get | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
the individual funding local authority by local authority but ?2 | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
billion is a very significant injection of funding and it shows | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the Chancellor has this and the concerns people have in London and | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
across the country in terms of making sure we get the social care | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
issue right. He said something else important as well which is we will | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
come forward with a green paper to have a look at how we reform the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
social care system because it is crucial in terms of making sure our | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
National Health Service can cope with the changes. Another thing you | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
mentioned was business rates, how the Chancellor has announced help | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
for small businesses. All that does is he is admitting he got it wrong, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
announcing changes and then he has to introduce an emergency fund to | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
help the people he has made the changes to. He'd already introduced | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
a ?3.5 billion transition fund to help businesses facing higher bills | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
as a result of this. When he listens to the concerns expressed to him, we | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
should welcome that. There are three things he's done. A ?300 million | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
fund for local authority to help hardship cases. There's also | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
specific help for our pubs, and for about 16,000 small businesses that | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
are the worst affected because their rates have gone up so they are | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
losing the small business rate relief. You may be pleased and the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Chancellor may be pleased but the CBI are not pleased. They say it | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
isn't enough. The Institute for fiscal policy says London businesses | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
will be worse off over the next five years while businesses up north will | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
be better off. We are still funding businesses outside London. It is the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
case London is one of those parts of the country well later both -- | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
rateable values are going up, that's a sign of our good economy. But the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Chancellor has listened to the concerns London businesses have | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
concerned and there is a total of ?400 million more funding to go | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
ahead with the relief. One more thing, infrastructure. We heard | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
nothing about Crossrail two, nothing about a new Thames crossing. With | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
the autumn budget, is that where he has had a word with you and said, | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
don't worry, wait for the next budget, you'll be fine? On Crossrail | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
two, we're waiting for the interim business case to come shortly, that | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
is the key moment where we can reassure ourselves about the funding | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
of the scheme and it releases the crucial housing we desperately need. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
The government is clear in principle be want to see Crossrail two to | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
happen. Thank you for joining us on the programme. | :14:06. | :14:06. | |
This is BBC London News on Budget Day. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
Stay with us, as we've got other things to come too, including... | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
The little boy trapped in his room for 20 hours a day due to a rare | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
condition that affects just 100 people in the world. | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
I'll be with Pauline Collins and Joan Collins having the time of | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
their lives at the premiere of their new film. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
But, first, the Mayor of London has been very vocal | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
about dealing with air pollution since he was elected last year, | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
which is why he's now got the construction industry fixed | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
You may not think it, but building sites are thought | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
to produce extremely high levels of nitrogen oxide, which is why, | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
as part of our Toxic London series, Jim Wheble has | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
The careful dismantling of Ford's stamping plant at Dagenham. | :15:00. | :15:12. | |
But amidst the mess is a quiet, clean revolution in construction. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
This is one of our normal diesel generators that's running | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
And this is one of our hybrid generators, which, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
when it is running, is completely silent. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Before the hybrids, only diesel generators would have supplied | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
the electricity to this type of site. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
And considering just clearing all this lot will take 2.5 years, | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
that's a great deal less diesel being consumed. | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
We've been using our hybrids here for one month and we've already | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
saved over 3000 litres of diesel we haven't had to use to power | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
And that's probably about ten tonnes of carbon that we've | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
saved from being emitted into the atmosphere. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
It's estimated that up to 7% of London's and nitrogen oxides | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Because since the VW omissions scandal, there is now doubt | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
What we're doing now with the project is figuring out | :16:09. | :16:24. | |
onop the sites and we're doing something called PEMS, portable | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
emissions measurement systems, and we're taking total emissions | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
measurements from those engines to see how they perform in | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
In 2015, City Hall did ban the use of older types of polluting | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
But they are pushing for more broader powers. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
So, what we'd like is the powers akin to what we're using for the low | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
emission zone, so the ability to enforce emissions | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
standards across London, like we do with vehicles, | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
but to do it for construction machinery, machinery used | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
In the shadow of the ultimate symbol of green energy. | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
Powering demolition this way might be the stuff of Mad Max movies, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
but it's hoped the dawn of a cleaner age in construction | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
A Commissioner from the Independent Police Complaints Commission has | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
stepped down from her duties while Police Scotland investigate | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Jennifer Izekor was in charge of the inquiry into three police | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
The case collapsed and all were cleared last July. | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Scotland Yard has confirmed they're looking at two criminal | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
It's said the suspension does not indicate any concern | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
He lives in Luton and he is one of just a hundred people | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
in the world who suffers from a liver disease called | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
It means he has to spend 20 hours of every day sitting and lying | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Alpa Patel has been to meet him and his family, who are desperate | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Four-year-old Ismail has spent almost his entire life like this. A | :18:05. | :18:21. | |
rare liver condition means he eats, sleeps and plays under phototherapy | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
lights for a minimum of 20 hours a day. Because he is missing an enzyme | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
in his liver to break down what we call jaundice, he hasn't got that at | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
all, so unfortunately because it builds up, it is a toxin in the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
blood, and as a toxin if it goes to the brain first thing they said is | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
he will get death, he will get brain damage, may be permanent. He has to | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
be propped up in his medical phototherapy bed, which she hates, | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
especially because we have a seven-year-old sister. So he wants | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
to run around like a normal for your old boy, run around the house and | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
play around with her. It is almost like a prison for him. It's hard. | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
Your family take care of him 24 hours a day. How are you coping? Not | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
very well, to be honest. The family have a care that comes for six hours | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
a week but they are hoping to raise money through a crowdfunding page | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
for a full-time carer. Sleepless nights. Our little sister, the | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
seven-year-old, isn't getting any quality of life either. We're | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
basically spending all our time with him, in and out of hospital, so we | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
don't get to play with her. Having someone to be with him, we can at | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
least get a bit of a break, a little bit of a rest and then be able to | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
concentrate on caring for him even more. It's very likely that Ismail | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
will spend the rest of his life restricted by his rare condition. | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Frustrating for an energetic and cheeky little boy. But his family | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
say they'll do everything they can to make sure he has the best quality | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
of life possible. And our best wishes to Ismail and his family. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
Now, our next guests have decades of film | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
One is best known for her role as Shirley Valentine, the other | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
It is of course Pauline Collins and Joan Collins, | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
who are at the premiere of their latest film | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
Before we hear from Alice Bhandukravi who's with them, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
here's a clip from The Time of Their Lives. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
I want to enjoy the rest of my life. So to why. I'm going to reinvent | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
myself out of the Ashes. Is your wife dead or, shopping? I want | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
another chance at life. Here they are now, Joan Collins, Pauline | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Collins. I have to say you both look stunning. Thank you. You've been on | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
a bit of an adventure in this film. We certainly higher. We went on a | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
great adventure, we went all through England, France, we went on buses, | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
caravans, coaches, ferries... And we're nothing like each other, | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
either in my full-time dig-mac the film. It's two women who would never | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
meet, from different planets to come together. This is the dominant one. | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
Surprise surprise. To help her get two more funeral. Franco Nero, he is | :21:38. | :21:55. | |
worth dying for. Pauline is an abuse housewife and I see her as that. She | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
doesn't believe she is, but she is. When she says she sees me, she means | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
in the character. Not the real Pauline. It's International Women's | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
Day today. It's a wonderful day to open and I was going to ask you | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
about the fact there aren't that many roles for women where the women | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
are the protagonists, particularly older women, where they are the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
protagonists in the story. There is this one. I cannot think of any one | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
except for the Marigold Hotel. And this is really... We other leads, we | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
are in every scene, we dominate the screen, I hope. Well, she dominates | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
it. We're very, very lucky to have these roles. I hope more films, long | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
showing women in this light. There are more women of our age now. That | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
may be want to see life doesn't stop. And maybe coming back to you | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
in 20 years' time. It's never too late for another chance, as the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
byline of the film says. Thank you very much for joining us. | :23:09. | :23:09. | |
How glamorous are they! We go from the red carpet to the | :23:10. | :23:22. | |
grey skies because sunshine was very, very difficult to find today. | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
However watchers had a go but they didn't have much luck. This was the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
scene in talking earlier on. Very cloudy skies. How about Richmond | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Park? Cloudy here as well. It produced outbreaks of rain. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Tomorrow's forecast, it'll look very different, much brighter with spells | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
of sunshine developing, and it still feel mild. Today, some splashes of | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
rain. It was quite patchy and light through the afternoon but there are | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
still some bits and pieces of drizzle. This evening and tonight, | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
particularly to the south of town, it'll stay cloudy, very crisply, | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
misty and murky, probably largely dry in the north. Wherever you are, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
it is a mild night. When you wake up tomorrow morning, you'll notice mild | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
fuel to the weather. There will be some cloud around but it will break | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
up very nicely. Getting on into the afternoon, more in the way of | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
sunshine developing, the best of that across northern parts of the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
region. Look at the temperatures. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
got 16 degrees. Not bad going at all for this point in March and it will | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
feel very pleasant with a sunshine. Turning chilly tomorrow evening with | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
those clear skies but high-pressure pretty close by as we go through | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
tomorrow night, which means fine weather. A rather chilly feel on | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
Friday morning. A fine start to the day but the cloud is lurking, moving | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
in from the West, with it a little bit of patchy rain so by the middle | :25:02. | :25:13. | |
part of Friday, cloudy, with the odd spot of rain, temperatures up to the | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
teams. There will be some sunshine through the weekend. | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Before we go, a reminder of what's making the headlines on Budget Day | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has delivered the Budget. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Labour has accused him of "utter complacency" with a budget | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
which ignored the state of the economy. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
And let's get a final thought from our Political Editor, | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Tim, is it fair to say this was a very anti-London budget? | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
That would be going a little bit too far but the issue is it is a verdict | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
pending because we have to wait to see how these big national pots are | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
redistributed, so how much do London councils get for social care, how | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
much exactly for business rates. There is a national competition for | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
original ways of dealing with congestion. Could London get 700 | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
million? Nothing on Crossrail. Some people feel the emphasis has moved | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
to infrastructure elsewhere. And then the devolution, the talk was of | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
pilots, future announcements, not the kind of changes which could lead | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
to the capital addressing its own needs with the money it can raise | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
from its own people. Some way to go on that. OK, thanks very much. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
That's it from us this Wednesday evening, but there's more | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
from us later tonight, at 10:30pm on BBC One, | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto our screens, | :26:34. | :27:22. | |
setting the stage alight...literally. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Stars were a-swinging... Could somebody help me? | :27:26. | :27:31. |