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Tonight on BBC London News: After a ten-year legal battle to affect | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
them, travellers return to Dale Farm. They have got children going | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
to school here, elderly being treated by the doctors, so they are | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
not leaving Basildon. We will hear from Basildon Council. Also on the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
programme: An inquest finds gross failures at an Essex hospital led | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
to the death of a mother and her newborn baby. They neglected her | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
throughout, like especially the last three or four hours she was | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
being neglected. Eviction notices are served on the | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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# Don't Stop Believing... Rocking Ford Children in Need, | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Percy joins the cast for a special At least 10 families have moved | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
back to the UK's largest illegal travellers' site in Essex, taking | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Basildon Council 10 years at a cost of around �20 million to Vic the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
families from Dale Farm. The job of removing all the caravans and | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
chalets from the 51 unauthorised plots was completed on Monday, but | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
this morning some of the travellers were back, vowing to continue their | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
fight to return to what they describe as home. Alex Bushill | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
reports. Just as the clean-up operation | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
draws to a close, they have returned. Basildon Council has | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
spent the last four weeks and millions of pounds evicting illegal | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
travellers from the site at Dale Farm. It is easy to tell which were | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
the illegal plots, they are marked by these craters. These walls of | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
earth were aimed at preventing them from returning, but they have | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
failed. And this stretch of road alone, there are now 11 caravans. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
This access road is bound by Patrick Egan, and he has welcomed | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
others back who are not entitled to stay here. The council were told | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
before the eviction to provide them with places to go, and they would | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
not do it. He even temporary places, they would not do it. Now they have | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
got nowhere to go, and when they get the 28 day notices, when they | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
do get them, before they are, they are going to have to go to cowpox | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
in the area or fields in this area. They are not leaving Basildon. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Given their return, was the eviction and all the money it costs | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
to carry out a wasted effort? have been many threats made by the | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
travellers that they would move back on, move to the Tesco car park | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
and so forth, moving to my garden where I live in a mansion, which is | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
news to my wife! So far, up until today, those threats have not been | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
carried out. We cannot condone any more breaches of criminal law. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Local residents in the settled community simply despair, people | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
like Christine, who has run his neighbouring garden centre for 25 | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
years. Oh, I just think it is horrendous. The money that has been | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
spent. It gives the area a bad name. Tonight, from those travellers who | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
have now returned, a threat: They are only the first, and they | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
promise that more will follow. And we can join Alex Bushill at the | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Dale Farm site now. Are there more developments tonight? Well, yes, | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
this evening four caravans that was cited further up the road have | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
moved. Were they were was subject to the original High Court | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
injunction, which meant that the orders could have been arrested and | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
been in contempt of court, facing prison sentences. Instead, the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
owners have moved them further down the road. It means that where they | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
are now, if the council wants to move them on, they have to restart | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the legal process. In summary, it seems the travellers are playing a | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
canny game of cat-and-mouse, and fauna at least the council are | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
playing catch-up. -- for now. Coming up later in the programme: | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
While London is the most attractive city in Europe for foreign shoppers. | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
-- why. Sarena Ali lost her baby and her | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
own life as a result of a gross failure at an Essex hospital, that | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
is the verdict of an inquest into the death of the young mother, who | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
died at Queen's Hospital in Romford earlier this year. A coroner has | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
found that nursing staff failed to monitor her properly when she | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
experienced problems during childbirth. Paul Curran reports. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
The failings in the treatment Sarena Ali received was so serious | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the coroner ruled they amounted to neglect, a rare verdict for an | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
inquest. This is his actual word, neglect, they neglected her | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
throughout. Like especially the last three or four hours she was | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
being neglected, and she was asking for help, and I was going back and | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
forwards for help. Nobody helped. Sarena Ali went to the Queen's | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Hospital in Romford in January to be induced. Within hours, she was | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
complaining of constant pain. Despite this, midwives failed to | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
monitor properly. Several times her husband and her brother begged them | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to help, but they were fobbed off. They were all standing behind the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
counter and chatting. They were laughing with each other. They | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
ignored me completely. Clare Phillips was a patient of the | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
antenatal ward at the same time. There was not a smile for you, are | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
you OK? There was not any of that. You know, if you do not want to do | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the job, do not do the job, no matter how much under pressure you | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
are, it does not take a minute for a smile or a bit of reassurance. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
There was none of that. Sarena Ali eventually collapsed with a | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
ruptured womb. Her baby was delivered by Caesarean section but | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
was dead. Sarena died five days later. Two midwives have been | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
suspended, once seen leaving court and a scarf said that staff were | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
overworked. But a review by the hospital said their attitudes were | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
to blame. We as a trust have made extensive changes to our maternity | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
services in recent months, hiring more than 70 extra midwives, new | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
consultants and retraining a number of staff. Our systems have been | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
improved, new ways of working have been introduced to ensure that | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
women are receiving dedicated 1-1 care during labour. Even after | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Sarena Ali's death, I have heard patients complaining about that. It | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
is not a culture that will change overnight. It will need a lot of | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
hard work. Of course, no changes can bring back this man's wife or | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
baby, but also -- he hopes no one else will suffer their fate. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
The inquest into the death of a teenager who died in a nightclub | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
crush has heard she died from injuries that affected her breeding. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Laurene-Danielle Jackson was injured at the Lava & Ignite | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
nightclub in Northampton when partygoers rushed towards the exit. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Another north London teenage girl was also killed in the incident. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has announced it plans to stop trading | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
shares in the club on the Stock Exchange. Chairman Daniel Levy says | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
that Spurs need to become a private company in order to raise the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
necessary funds to build a bigger stadium. The club hopes to delist | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
its shares in January. The road signs that will be used to | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
mark out the Olympic lanes next summer have been revealed. The | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
signs show how motorists and buses will have to give way to official | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
vehicles. The priority lanes of four athletes, sponsors and VIPs. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
The signs will be installed next year but will not become active | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
until a few days before the opening ceremony of the 27th July. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
The anti-capitalist protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral have | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
been given 24 hours to pack up their tents and leave. The City of | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
London Corporation has attached eviction notices too tense with a | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
warning that the demonstrators will face legal action if they cannot | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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Another busy day for St Paul's activists. Yesterday the mayor | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
caught them crusties, today some name-calling of their own at City | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Hall. Back at camp, a feeling of deja vu. The City of London | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Corporation have said to the press that they will be serving a notice | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
of addiction today. We were here a fortnight ago, but legal action was | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
suspended while talks took place between the camp and Corporation, | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
talks that broke down. So legal action went alive again today. This | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
is the lawyer who obviously pulled the short straw, he is handing out | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
eviction notices, sticking them on to the various attends. As soon as | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
they were attached, activists cut them off. Does it matter that they | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
are cutting their Mark? BELL RINGS, it does not matter, it | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
Looking at the mood around me, I do not think anyone is going to want | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to shift in the next 24 hours, no. Will you be here in six months' | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
time? It is not for me to say, I could not prejudge what will happen | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
legally. The Corporation of London, before this eviction takes place, | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
it will have to go to committee, and that may slow things down. Also, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the tents on this side of the pavement are on Corporation of | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
London Land, but if you follow this line of bollards, the tense to the | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
left of that are on St Paul's ground, and that could slow things | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
down. The legal arguments will probably centre around whether | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
people's right to access the pavement drums the rights of people | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
to protest in this particular way. The mayor has been accused of | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
making misleading claims to MPs relating to inaccurate figures he | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
presented about the success of his key youth crime project. Today | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Boris Johnson admitted that he has been warned by his own officials | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
not to use interim reoffending figures. Political editor Tim | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Donovan explains. The mayor claimed last year that | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
his special unit at Eltham was reducing reoffending from 80% down | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
to 14%. Alarmed, the head of the project wrote to City Hall in | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
January, saying this was wrong. The date of the mayor used was just an | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
indicator and should not be taken as the formal reconviction rate. As | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
such, it is not directly comparable to the national rate of reoffending | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
for this age group. But it did not stop the mayor, who repeated the | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
claims before MPs in August. We cut reoffending rates down to 19%, that | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
is a model that should be replicated around the country. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Eltham project gives extra support to inmates. It is very important to | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
the mayor's credibility in tackling youth crime. The UK Statistics | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Authority has already raised concerns about his claims, and | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
today he described its head as a Labour stooge. Why did you continue | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
to use these figures? Well, if I should have... I could have... If I | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
heard, it was in not saying, these figures are temporary, provisional, | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
they do not represent the final analysis, and we will have to see | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
how the unit fares in succeeding years and months. Exactly what | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
impact this has on reoffending will only be known once offenders have | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
been tracked for a year after they have been released, that is the way | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the Ministry of Justice calculates these things. But there is | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
information emerging already which indicates the project is not having | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
the desired impact. The offenders are hand-picked for | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
the unit, and BT aim is to get them into college or a job when they | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
leave, but in the 18 months to March, of 136 offenders released, | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
24 had been in education, training or employment for six months, just | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
17%. In the last six months alone, of 42 offenders, just five are | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
studying or are in a job, a rate of only 12%. Clearly, the state of the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
current jobs market could be having an impact, but it is by no means | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
clear that when the formal assessment is revealed, it will | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
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have proved effective for worth the More now on the trial into the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
killing of Stephen Lawrence. Today three eyewitnesses gave their | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
account of what they saw on the night the teenager was attacked in | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
south-east London back in 1993. Home affairs correspondent Guy | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Smith has been in court and joins us now from the Old Bailey. What | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
has the jury heard today? Well, the first eyewitness was a hospital | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
worker at the time, and he had just finished a ship. He told the jury | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
that it was a cold but clear night on a full 22nd 1993. He was waiting | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
for a bus at a bus stop in Eltham. As were two Blackboys, Stephen | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Lawrence and Dwayne Brooks. They were talking about football, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
general chit-chat. They had been waiting for some time for the bus, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
so the two voice walked down the road when a group of white youths | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
appeared, than cross the road and surrounded the Pep. He said that | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
when Brooks got away, but Stephen Lawrence didn't. He said that he | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
went down by the sheer weight of numbers. These were his words, | :13:41. | :13:50. | |
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Well, two days later, when he heard that one of the two boys had been | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
killed, he said that it was quite a shock. Did any of the other | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
witnesses described the attack in more detail? Well, there was a | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
second witness, Alexander Murray, a French au pair at the time, who was | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
also waiting for a bus. She said the two black men were happy and | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
nice. She was sitting down having a cigarette then the attack happened, | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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I gather one of the witnesses gave a description of one of the | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
attackers. Yes, Joseph Shepheard was visiting his girlfriend in the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
area. He also lived on the same estate as Stephen Lawrence, so he | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
knew him by sight. He also saw the attack on Stephen, and he gave a | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
description of four white youths. Under cross-examination, he was | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
asked what he meant by fair-haired, when he was describing one of the | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
attackers. Quite unusually, he looked around the courtroom and | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
pointed to a woman, who was asked to stand up and show the colour of | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
her hair. In fact, it was the chief crown prosecutor for London. Well, | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
tomorrow here at the Old Bailey we will hear more evidence, | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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particularly from Dwayne Brooks, Still to come tonight: I'm at the | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Shaftesbury Theatre as the actors or not for the special gala | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
performance of Rock of Ages for Children In Need. Some of us saw | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
the Sun today. How much blue sky tomorrow and what sort of weather | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
can Pudsey expect on Friday? A full weather forecast for you later in | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
the programme. London is the top city in Europe | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
for shopping. That's according to a new chart by the Economist which | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
has rated cities according to their attractiveness to foreign shoppers. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
And in London's case, those shoppers are worth �3 billion to | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the economy. Alice Bhandhukravi reports. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
You might think that London is an expensive city and the millions of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
tourists who visit every year may agree with you. But they are still | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
coming and they are still spending and that's because London now | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
officially has the best shopping in Europe. I think what London Office, | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
which many other cities in Europe do not offer, is the range of | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
stores and brands. We have seen many start their expansion from the | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
UK, from London into the rest of Europe. Tax-free shopping has | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
increased 30% since last year and the fastest growing group of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Spender's come from China, the Middle East, Russia and Nigeria. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
give you a sense of the importance of this business, consider this. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
The average amount spent by a Chinese chopper in London it is | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
over �1,000 every time they go to the till. -- shopper. Browns, in | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the West End, is an internationally renowned British retail and knows | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the importance of its foreign customer base which accounts for | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
60% of sales. By the end of this year, it will have a special | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
website devoted to Chinese customers written entirely in | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Mandarin. But his London actually benefiting from all this? | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
Absolutely. Certainly there is a portion of the spending which is | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
very high end, so tourists come in and go to high end jewellery shops | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
and spend lots of money, but it's not only that. We see high street | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
stores, brand names, chain stores, seeing a lot of foreign tourists | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
going in. Retailer is a very important area of job growth for | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
London. Both the leisure and tourist and retail sectors are very | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
very strong and are providing new jobs for Londoners, and that is a | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
really important thing. Important especially if the rest of the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
economy is dragging its heels. Children in Need night is almost | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
upon us and people across the capital are helping to raise money. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
We're doing our bit too, thanks to the cast of the West End show, Rock | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
of Ages, in a special BBC London gala performance. Let's join Wendy | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
Hurrell at the Shaftsbury Theatre now. It looks like it's filling up | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
there, Wendy. It certainly is. The audience is here, Vanessa, gabby | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
Roslin, and a true star of the show, lovely Pudsey, who is being mobbed | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
so far. All of tonight's money from Rock of Ages goes towards Children | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
In Need and goes to projects like Dream art, which helps inner-city | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
children whose parents don't have money for art projects and after- | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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school projects, and at 10-year-old The last two years I have been | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
coming here in Westminster. The project runs art classes for young | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
people who live in the inner-city across London. We are taught | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
lessons in acting, singing and dancing. All the things I would | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
like to do but couldn't it was not for this place. We could be like | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
trains. Floating in the air like that? I think she should be | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
standing up because it's hard to move up. I used to be really shy. | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Now I'm confident I can perform anywhere. I always used to hide in | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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my room but I always sing in front It's a happy place. We get to work | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
with expert teachers to develop our creative skills, express ourselves, | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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take part in shows. As well as The arts can be quite exclusive and | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
is important if available to anyone and not seen as an exclusive | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
elitist thing. It's a fantastic thing about this project, it's open | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
to anyone for the you are going to tie your life story. You only have | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
two minutes. I went to a nursery near her. They have got the skills | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
to be confident and to be proud of themselves and that something which | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
can make you a success. When I'm older I want to be a singer so it's | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
important that I come here. Thank you for supporting us. And keep | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
giving to Children In Need. Yes! Just like they said, she might be | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
on this very stage some time soon, because she wants to be a singer. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
That's what the money goes to for Children In Need, not just about | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
gala performances. It's about raising money for projects just | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
like that. We hoped we could talk to some of the stars of the show. | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
Here he is! Hello, young man. You are on BBC London. If there was | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
ever a show for you, this is good, isn't it? Yes, my hair lends itself | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
beautifully to musical theatre. are you feeling about tonight? | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
looking forward to it, excited. It's such a great show, a real | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
party atmosphere to it up. We are doing it now for charity. I'm | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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excited. Gabby is here as well. How are you doing? He's not letting go. | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
I love her. Did you ever think you might be on stage with a big yellow | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
bear dancing with you? No, I watched Children In Need every year, | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
ever since I was a child. I was extremely lucky, and I would watch | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
it every year. I never thought one day I would get to dance with that | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
one-eyed a beer -- bear. You can still give money on our website at. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Rock on! When the, good luck tonight. -- | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Wendy. She's a Londoner and a fully trained nurse who has worked at | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Now Christie Watson has | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
just been nominated for the Costa First Book Award for her debut | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
novel, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away. And I'm pleased today she's joined us | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
this evening. What an incredible achievement. How do you feel? | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
been a crazy couple of days. I'm very excited, delighted, shocked. I | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
don't think it has sunk in yet. only started writing a few years | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
ago. It was after my daughter was born. Seriously, in the last five | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
years. But, the last three years I have been editing very hard but | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
it's been quite a quick process in the world of literary novels | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
because sometimes they take 10 years or more, so I have been lucky. | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
It's your first book. I know it is set in Nigeria. What is it about? | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
little girl whose life changes be on believe he goes from a | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
comfortable life to a very basic countryside life after her mother | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
finds her father on top of another woman. There's a lot of politics | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
and the background. Have your family giving you their | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
predictions? My father-in-law has written me a cast of characters in | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
K-side have forgotten who I have written about, but they are very | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
proud and supportive. Have you given up being a nurse? I'm a full- | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
time writer but I keep my hand in and it's to have got to leave | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
nursing. It's such a huge part of my life. I am a writer and a nurse. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Some authors in other categories, there are some really interesting | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
people including Julian Barnes. How does it feel when this is your | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
first book and you are among the some of the literary greats, if you | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
like? It must be quite a feeling. Pretty terrifying and awe-inspiring | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
are the same time. I can't imagine how it feels for him. He must think, | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
who is this person who has come from nowhere? I feel really proud. | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
Well, Christie Watson, best of luck. Thank you for joining us. Let's get | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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Just in case you didn't see any, I managed to find some sunshine. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Annabel is collecting for the children's charity, rays of | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
sunshine, and we are going to be collecting for Children In Need | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
late on this week. Today, well, more grey skies than blue sky, but | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
eventually tomorrow, we should end up with more blue-sky than grey sky, | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
so a change overnight tonight. This evening, well, the cloud is back | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
for that it is pretty misty outside London. It has been misty all day. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
I think it will stay dry for the first part of the night, but later | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
on we will get some rain and weak weather fronts arriving. Minimum | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
temperatures, 7-8 Celsius, something like that for that | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
tomorrow morning, a dull and damp start as the breeze blows from the | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
south. In the afternoon, the breeze will be blowing from the West and | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
it should clear the cloud away and we could see a reasonable amount of | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
sunshine and temperatures of 14 Celsius. Friday, bright and breezy. | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
So, if you are earning some money for Pudsey, the weather is looking | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
fine for that. The weekend, back where we started, cloud and a dull, | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
grey mornings. Before that, the short-term outlook is for some | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
brighter skies and a bit of Peter, thank you very much. A look | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
at tonight's main headlines. The Government is promising to do | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
more to help the young unemployed. New figures show a record high of | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
more than a million who are now looking for work. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Doctors have called for an outright ban on smoking in your own car, | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
saying there is evidence of drivers being exposed to high levels of | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
harmful poisons. Critics say it would be an invasion of privacy. | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
After a ten-year battle costing millions of pounds, travellers who | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
were evicted from Dale Farm in Essex have come back, vowing to | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
continue the fight to return to what they describe as home. | :27:35. | :27:39. |