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Tonight on BBC London News: the widow of a man killed on a cycling | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
superhighway says someone else will die if changes aren't made | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
immediately. It was just so needless, so needless. They have to | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
do something about it today. If they don't, they're negligent. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
We'll hear from Transport for London on whether they plan to | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
change the layout. Also tonight: a west London | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
hospital closes its A&E overnight because it can't guarantee patient | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
safety. Plus, look for a job job or lose | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
your entitlement to a council home - the warning from one local | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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authority in London. And: | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
From the pavement to the West End stage - we're with the musicians | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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marking 20 years of Stomp. Good evening. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
The widow of a cyclist killed on a Cycle Super Highway says someone | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
else will die if changes aren't made immediately. Debbie Dorling | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
says there's "a definite design fault" with the superhighway where | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
her husband died. Two cyclists have lost their lives in accidents at | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
the Bow roundabout in the space of three weeks. Most recently a 34- | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
year-old woman collided with a lorry. | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
Flowers on the Bow roundabout. This is one of the Mayor's flag ship | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
superhighways. It encourages cyclists to use this route. As far | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
back as February, campaigners told TFL the junction was woefully | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
inadequate. Debbie Dorling's husband died there just three weeks | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
ago, an experienced cyclist. He was on his way to work at the Olympic | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Park when he was killed by an HGV turning left. Our lives have been | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
devastated, and I have personally been traumatised by everything | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
that's happened. When I looked at the junction, it was just so | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
needless, so needless, because somebody somewhere - what possessed | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
them to actually design it the way they have I just - I can't | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
understand it at all. This roundabout is just half a mile from | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
the Olympic site, and it's meant to be one of the main routes there for | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
cyclists. A number of times TfL and the Mayor have been told of | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
concerns, as we showed in August, the blue lane stops in the middle | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
of the junction. Newham doesn't want the highway in Stratford yet. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
You can see the cycle superhighway ends there - a very dangerous spot, | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
and cyclists are then brought on to the pavement, which doesn't appear | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
to be shared use at all. Over the weekend, cyclists on a | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
ride highlighting dangerous junctions held a minute's silence | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
to the 34-year-old woman who died on the roundabout Friday night. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
What's your message to the Mayor and to Transport for London? | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
message to them is if they don't to something about that junction today, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
somebody else will be killed, and they need to sort the traffic flow | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
out. What they've done is they've actually - it would appear that | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
they've actually chosen speed of traffic over safety. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Metropolitan Police are investigating all of these | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
incidents, and they'll work with trveltrvel to see if there is -- | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Transport for London to see if there is anything else we can do. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Cycling has grown. There are vast numbers of cyclists on our roads. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
We need to make sure they feel safe. Meanwhile, drivers in both | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
incidents have been arrested and bailed. There is no pressure from | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
politicians, cyclists and the relatives who died at this junction | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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Lots more to come, including: No third runway for now - the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
villagers moving out as the threat of airport expansion remains. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Five teenagers have been convicted of killing a 15-year-old boy as he | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
arrived at school in south London. Zac Olumegbon was stabbed four | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
times, twice in the heart. The group will be sentenced next month. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Alex Bushill has been following the case and joins us now from the Old | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
Bailey. Alex? Ambushed outside his school, hunted down, then murdered. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
The 15-year-old and a younger friend were confronted by a rival | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
gang as they arrived at school last year. Zac Olumegbon was a member of | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
the Trust No-one Gang. His rivals were the Guns and Shanks gang of | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
nearby Brixton. They were armed by at least two knives. They had | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
driven to the school in Norwood, specifically to stab stack Zach. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
When he saw them arrive outside the school gates, he ran into Gypsy | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Road Gardens, it was there he was stabbed twice in the heart. He | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
collapsed into the arms of one of his teachers. At the Old Bailey his | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
defending council said he found himself hunted down and killed. He | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
had only just arrived at school. He died metres from it. As for his | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
friend, he sought sanctuary inside the grounds of the school. It did | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
him little good. He was repeatedly stabbed in the arm. Today four | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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teens were found guilty of murder, one for manslaughter. They will all | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
be sentenced next month. Thanks for that update. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
A nightclub where two women from London were crushed to death will | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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not reopen to the public. Nabila Nanfuka from Neasden and Laurene- | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Danielle Jackson from Wembley were fatally injured at the Lava and | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
Ignite nightclub in Northampton last month as people rushed to | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
leave the building. Northampton Borough Council said that the | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
license would not be re-instated after the company which owned the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
club went into administration. The Labour MP Alan Keen has died at | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the age of 73 after a battle with cancer. Mr Keen had been the MP for | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Feltham and Heston in west London since 1992. He was known for his | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
passion for football, having worked as a scout for Middlesbrough before | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
entering politics. A London hospital is to shut its | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
emergency department overnight over concerns it doesn't have enough | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
staff to run it safely. The Central Middlesex Hospital will close its | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
A&E to nighttime admissions from tonight. The move comes as Health | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Service managers in the area have started discussions over what three | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
local hospitals will be doing in the future. Here's our political | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
correspondent Karl Mercer. Business as usual at the Central | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Middlesex Hospital this afternoon, but from this evening, things are | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
changing The A&E here is to close overnight - temporarily we're told | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
- because there simply aren't enough consultants here to run it | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
through the night. It's a temporary closure, which was made in an | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
expedient fashion because we reached a point where there weren't | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
sufficient permanent members of staff overnight here for us to | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
assure ourselves that patient safety wasn't going to be | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
compromised. All of which is a blow to Bridie | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Ahmed, a frequent visitor to the Central Mid's A&E in and out on | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
dozens of occasions over the past few years, as she lives with a | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
long-term illness. It's like my second home. I spend a lot of time | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
down there in outpatients and in A&E, and last weekend when I found | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
out they were going to close it at nighttime, I was or Fayeed. I | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
thought I have to do something about this. I need it. I don't want | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
to go to the other hospital or St Mary's. I want my local hospital. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
The temporary closure of the A&E comes as local managers look to | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
find a more permanent solution to the future of three local hospitals. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Among the options suggested are plans to shut the emergency | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
departments at Ealing and the Central Middlesex, moving them to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
nearby Northwick Park. That despite these words from the Health | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Secretary, when we interviewed him last month. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Before the election, people were saying oh, the A&E department at | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Ealing is under threat, but I have no expectation there will be any | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
let. Andrew Lansley has said that'lling's A&E will be safe, but | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
I am afraid his track record on protecting A&Es in thereon is about | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
as bad as it could be, and I'm afraid it looks like the A&E at | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Ealing will go as well. Already in the last year three have had their | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
futures decided. Queen Mary's has been decided. The Union and the | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
King Korge are set to go. More work needs to be done at | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
looking at what the benefits are of consolidation. There are many | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
benefits of consolidating services into smaller areas, but at the same | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
time everything is done due to local consultation. The whole point | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
of the merger is to try to make sense of a massive deficit which | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
has unfortunately been around with NHS London for years now. This is | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
all about trying to find wives keeping all three going sca. There | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
will be a public consultation on the future of health care in north- | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
west London. The decision on these hospitals expected next July. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Tube drivers have threatened to strike at Christmas if they're not | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
paid an extra �350 for working on Boxing Day. Members of the ASLEF | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Union,- which represents more 1,500 drivers, have warned of walkouts | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
that could include Christmas Eve or Boxing Day itself. They are | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
demanding triple pay and a day in lieu for working on Boxing Day and | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
have given tube chiefs official notice of a strike ballot. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Should people who are not in and not actively looking for work be | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
refused a council home? That's what local politicians in Wandsworth are | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
proposing. This week councillors will vote on a pilot scheme that | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
will change the terms and conditions for new residents moving | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
in to council accommodation. But housing groups have hit out at the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
plans, saying that vulnerable people could be put at risk. Ayshea | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Buksh reports. Here in Wandsworth, there are 17,000 people living in | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
social housing such as this. Their tenancy agreements mean if they | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
want to, they have a home for life, and that's something the council | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
wants to drastically change. The council are looking to restrict | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
their social housing in the future. Anyone who is unemployed must prove | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
they're actively seeking work. understand times are tough at the | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
moment and jobs aren't that easy to come by. However, the one thing | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
that is certain in life is if you don't bother to apply, you're never | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
going to get one. What we're looking for is evidence people are | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
trying to obtain work either by applying for training or applying | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
for jobs. It's not the first time they have made headlines over | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
restricting council accommodation. Following the riots this summer, | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
they decided to evict any tenants involved in the violence. So far, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
only one family has been affected. While their son's case goes through | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the courts, the council is preparing to take action. There are | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
currently 6,5 hundred people on the housing waiting list in Wandsworth. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
For the Leader of the Opposition, the councillor needs to urgently | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
address the housing crisis. Part of the solution is building more | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
houses and providing more accommodation. Starting to make | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
rules and regulations is not really the way forward. OK. Incentivise | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
people in work and some other categories perhaps, but that | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
doesn't solve the housing crisis. am not in favour of reducing the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
allocations towards people who are in the greatest need. I think the | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
argument is about how do we supply housing to those who are most in | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
need in society? The council's Housing Committee will decide | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
whether or not to introduce the scheme this week. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
The Tottenham MP David Lammy has criticised the level of financial | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
help given to those whose homes and businesses were damaged during the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
London riots. He said that the response by insurance companies and | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
banks since riots and looting broke out in the summer had been | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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You fall on hard times, you axe -- you expect help. It is not | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
acceptable that if you go to a disaster zone, people are helped | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
three months later, in this country its people are standing destitute. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
The insurance companies have been woeful, shame on them. Banks were | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
who were bailed out by British taxpayers are still charging | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
interest on properties that are no longer standing. Shame to be living | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
in Britain in 2011 and see that happen. I'm joined now by Lance | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Chinnian, whose flat was one of 27 destroyed after a carpet shop was | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
set on fire in Tottenham. Thank you for coming in, do you were at that | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
debate this morning. Remind us of your experience on the night your | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
flat was set on fire. I was at home as most of my neighbours were, we | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
knew there was rioting going on as it was all over the news channels. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
I think about 3 o'clock in the morning, our alarm went within the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
building. Within a few seconds people were banging on the door | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
shouting get out, fire. We managed to get down the fire escape, there | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
was already smoke coming up. When we came out of the building we | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
could see the carpet shop was on fire. It must have been terrifying. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
I know you have had help with your mortgage, what about the other | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
claims you are involved in? How easy or difficult has it been? | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
have had a lot of support from the council. Wonderful support from a | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
variety of sources. In terms of the insurance claims and the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
compensation claims for people who did not have insurance, it seems to | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
be one obstacle after another. of this is because it comes under | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
the Riot Damages Act, how easy as that been to claim under? | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
process itself was reasonably easy in terms of filling in the form, | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
submitting paperwork, trying to get evidence of what property you had | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
in the flat. But it seems to have gone into a black hole. Of all the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
people who have applied that I know, not a single person has had any | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
payout at all. You have had no money? No money at all in terms of | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
the compensation claim. This is one big stumbling block that is | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
preventing people from moving on. People are keen to put this behind | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
them and move on, yet without some kind of money to start rebuilding | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
our lives, it is really difficult to. We have to leave it there, but | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
thank you for coming in. Still to come before 7:00pm: They have | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
performed to over 14 million people and to celebrate 20 years in the | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
West End, the cast of stomp put on a very special performance. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
It is a secret part of Westminster Abbey there has been closed to the | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
public since the 13th century. Prince Charles is backing of a �12 | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
million campaign to open it up. 18 months ago, residents living in | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
a village near Heathrow celebrated after learning plans for a third | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
runway had been scrapped. The plans would have seen Sipson flattened. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Such was the uncertainty that 200 people moved out, selling their | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
homes to the company that owns the airport, BAA. But as Sadie Nine | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
reports, the village remains in limbo because the company is still | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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hopeful expansion plans will get Sipson was here long before | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Heathrow Airport and is a real village. But three years ago, it | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
made the news big time. It was the scene of mass protest against a | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
third runway that would have flattened the village. Sipson! | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
a change of government, the plans were scrapped and Sipson celebrated. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Even though they won a great victory, people started to move out | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
in huge numbers. You are off? yes. Moving to Cowley. We are | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
moving because we need a bigger house. Could you not change this? | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
You could, but the amount of money it was going to cost to do that, | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
and the fear of pumping that much money into a house that could be | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
knocked down in five years' time and you won't get the money back. | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
This maxed -- mass exodus is nothing new. Academics have been | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
researching this age-old phenomenon and it is known as planning blight. | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
When you go for big infrastructure plans, it is very difficult to get | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
plans agreed. In that process, people get nervous about hanging on, | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
and so you blight an area. Their decision was made easier by BAA, | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
they offered them a good price for their properties. 300 home owners | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
were eligible and an amazing three quarters of them took it up. BAA | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
are now renting out those properties on short-term lets. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
don't want to leave the village, I am pretty heartbroken about leaving | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
it. We wanted to buy another house in Sipson. We contacted BAA and | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
asked if we could buy one of their properties and they said they are | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
not selling. We asked BAA why they insist on only renting out the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
properties that they now own. business community nationally, and | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
trade unions and the aviation industry's still believe there is a | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
strong case for expansion of airports in the south-east, and a | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
third runway is an option that is to be considered. Until the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Government comes up with a clear plan of how they are going to | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
address this urgent need, a third runway remains an option. It would | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
be premature of us to sell those properties and have to buy them | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
back. It seems that Sipson still has a very uncertain future. It is | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
a shame. I have had 20 years here. I don't really want to go. It is a | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
complete shame that it has come to this. Sibson was a beautiful place | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
to live. Not good. -- sipped some Former Sipson resident Pauline | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Kenny, ending that report by Sadie Nine. And you can see the full | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
story on Inside Out London. That's tonight at 7:30pm here on BBC One. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Chelsea defender John Terry says it's his duty as England captain to | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
face allegations that he racially abused QPR's Anton Ferdinand. The | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Football Association and the Metropolitan Police have begun | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
investigations into the alleged incident at Loftus Road last month. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Terry, who didn't play in the 1-0 win over Spain on Saturday, will | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
captain tomorrow's match against Sweden at Wembley. It is the | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
biggest honour off all, I am very fortunate to be captain. Once were | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
out there, the fans are always one. The fans are great and always will | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
be. There are different supporters to come to watch England, I get a | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
couple of cheers but I got a great response when I warmed up by the | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
A �12 million campaign has been launched to open up one of the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
capital's best kept secrets to the public. And now Prince Charles has | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
added his support to it. Which is perhaps not all that surprising as | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the building in question is, in effect, his local church. Gareth | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Furby is at Westminster Abbey for us now. Gareth, sounds intriguing? | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Yes, it is. You can't often say this, but this is a genuinely | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
secret part of London. Somewhere the public haven't seen since it | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
was billed back in the 13th century. Today, I was lucky enough to get a | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
sneak preview -- since it was built. It involved a steep climb and | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
descent of this building. London's tourists must have explored every | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
inch of the abbey. Surely there are no secrets left. But there is one, | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
and it is through this door. There are 78 steps to climb. I have | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
counted everyone. And that awkward access is the reason why the try | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
for him... It means third layer, has been off-limits to the public. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
Now the late poet Sir John Betjeman said the view from here was the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
best in Europe and he may have had a point. I think it is an amazing | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
view, I think it gives you an extraordinary vision of this | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
remarkable Gothic building. What is also remarkable are the faces on | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
the walls. Again, hidden from public view and dating back to the | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
13th century. Is mirrored -- represent a king, and a good way | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Monk but it is part of the decoration -- it might represent a | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
king, and Abbott or a monk. This is a grotesque. There is a great | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
medieval tradition. Sometimes it was to remind people, to frighten | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
them, to remind them of the need to lead good lives. Much of Britain's | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
history is remembered within these walls, so why keep some of it | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
hidden? Prince Charles has now backed a campaign to raise �12 | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
million to open the third layer. want to open up this space, we want | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
people to have the experience of coming into this secret part of the | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Abbey, and we want to display up here a great many of art treasures. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
One thing they will have to build is a lift, as even the journey down | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
can be awkward. They will have to find the money to | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
build a lift that fits with the architecture, and that alone will | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
cost a lot. The Abbey is adamant the money can now be raised, now | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
that Prince Charles is on board, and they say this could happen as | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
soon as 2014. It's the West End show which began | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
life on the streets of London and went on to take banging, knocking | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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performance today in the square where it all began. Our | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
entertainment correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, reports. | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
Matchboxes. Brooms. And bins. Just a few of the simple props that | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
along with their unique synchronised movement and physical | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
comedy have made Stomp a worldwide sensation. Today, the trip by in | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Covent Garden Piazza, with a special performance celebrating 10 | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
years in the West End -- the troupe are in. This is where I started as | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
a street performer years ago. All week, we worked there, earned our | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
money and it was one of the first places where we did a routine with | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
the big dustbins. Over 14 million people have experienced this award- | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
winning show, which has seen the cast involving everything from | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
advertisements and major awards ceremonies like the Oscars to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
performances on world stages, including several performances in | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
London. I think rhythm and humour are universal languages and if you | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
put them together, you get something that hits to the core. It | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
is great, because there is no barrier with language, any | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
nationality can come and see it, which suits the West End and New | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
York. It means we can travel all over the world and communicate with | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
different people. You make it look very easy, how difficult is it? | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
When we first begin, it is really hard. You get into the show, it | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
takes about a year, I would say, until you have a better | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
understanding of what you have to do. Is it important that a show | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
like this is in the West End? Definitely. It needs different | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
stuff. I am a West End Wendy, I love West End shows, the old stuff, | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
the new stuff, but Stomp is very different. 20 years of playing | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
loudly and proudly together, with enough success to warrant four | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
touring companies around the world, home fans can feel the noise at the | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
ambassadors Theatre. We have just a few days to go until | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Children In Need and we'd love you to help us raise money, simply by | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
having a good night out. Last year we invited you to watch Pudsey on | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
the West End stage with the team of Jersey Boys. Before that, he joined | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
Mamma Mia. This year, Pudsey will join a Gala performance of the | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
musical Rock Of Ages on Wednesday, and you can be there too. To find | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
out how just go to our website, bbc.co.uk/london, where you'll can | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
Now, let's take a look at the weather with Peter. | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
You look like you are wrapped up warmly. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
I am. What a change. Over the weekend we had the lovely autumn | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
sunshine. Today our weather has reverted to type, some poppy -- | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
proper November anti cyclonic gloom. This week, a dull, bank start. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
Don't despair because as we go through the week, very gradually | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
skies will brighten and by the end of the week, it won't feel quite so | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
chilly. This evening, the mist and drizzle is closing in, the cloud is | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
shrouding the tops of the North Downs. Already some fog on the | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
higher parts of the M25. The cloud shrouding tops of the Chiltern | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Hills as well, fog as the M40 climbs up past High Wycombe. Watch | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
out for that have -- if you are driving. Overnight, it will turn | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
quite chilly, minimum temperatures of six or seven. We have mist and | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
drizzle to contend with. Tomorrow morning, a bit of deja-vu, but I | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
think the day will dry up and brighten up by the afternoon. Some | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
light grey sky, perhaps a bit of blue. If we get some sunshine | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
breaking through, the temperature will lift to 11 or 12. We have been | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
hovering around 10 degrees. Midweek and a bit brighter on Wednesday, | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
perhaps the odd shower to the north of London on Thursday. The outlook | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
for the end of the week, temperatures heading back into the | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
:27:23. | :27:24. | ||
mid-teens, just in time for next Tonight's headlines: two men, Gary | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
Dobson and David Norris, have appeared in court charged with the | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
murder of Stephen Lawrence, 18 years after the teenager's death. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
The court has said that new scientific evidence will be central | :27:34. | :27:37. |