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Tonight on BBC London News. It's the final day of campaigning for | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
the men and women who want to be mayor. The two front runners are | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
standing by to make their final appeals for your vote, live. We | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
will also give you a simple guide on how to vote at the polling booth | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
tomorrow. Also tonight: A show of strength in | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the skies. The Typhoon jets arrive which will protect London during | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the Olympics. Scientists appeal to campaigners | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
not to destroy their field of genetically modified wheat. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Some kids just don't do athletics so this will be a really big chance | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
for them. And the youngsters who will take | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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centre stage at the opening Good evening and welcome to the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
programme. Tomorrow millions of Londoners head to the polls to | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
choose the person who will be mayor for the next four years. Whoever | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
wins will control a budget of nearly �15 billion, have the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
largest personal mandate of any politician in the country, and be | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
the figurehead who represents London around the world. It has | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
been a hotly fought campaign, where transport, crime and the economy | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
were key issues. But trust and integrity have also featured. Today | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
all the candidates wanting London's top job have been out across the | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
capital for the final day of campaigning. Tim Donovan reports. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
Nice to see you? And many thousands of leaflets have been exchanging | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
hands these last few weeks. Today, he got backing from his | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Conservative leader. Not necessarily a help according to | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
recent polls. David Cameron said, I am giving the country the chance to | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
have many more Boris Johnsons. I want one in Birmingham, Leeds and | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
Bradford, he said. 24 hours left! His focus was clear enough. Behind | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
in the polls, the final surge needed. If there is strong Labour | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
support, can he count on enough of it? The winner of this contest | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
becomes the political face of the Olympics. Latest polls predict | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
Boris will be keen. The Lib Dems are hoping they can defy the polls, | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
which suggests they are suffering in coalition of. People really like | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
the policies, the fact we are the most ambitious in terms of building | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
new homes in London and I think people will respond positively | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
tomorrow. Some Londoners are yet to make up their minds and a lot of | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
those undecided voters will be voting Liberal Democrat tomorrow. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
We have great policies, we have a positive vision of London for the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
future and that is what people want to hear. They do not want to hear | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
about arguments about the past, they want to hear about the future. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
The Green candidate says her main objective was to make London | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
affordable for. It is moving out of the range of so many people. The | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
poverty gap is opening. We have to make housing cheaper and more | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
secure and reduce fares and make sure the police are trusted by the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
majority of the population, and whether as mayor or an Assembly | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
member, people can hold me to a count on all the policies I have | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
written down. The candidates know these last few hours could make a | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
difference, a last chance to remind people of their core beliefs. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
in five jobs is dependent on the success of the financial services | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
industry which is being hit heavily by the EU. People say I am | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
independent and then see my policies and like it even more -- | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
see that I am independent. In two days time, they will will discover | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
if it was worth it. We have heard from other candidates. Let's hear | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
from the two leading candidates, Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone, | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
out on the campaign trail. First to Mr Livingstone, in Kilburn. As we | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
heard, you have been campaigning for weeks. What has been the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
defining moment that has crystallised what this election is | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
all about? It was when a young mother in Barking came up to me | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
right at the beginning and said, you have to win. People are saying | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
good luck and all that, and suddenly you realise it really | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
matters to people because these are the worst economic times for 80 | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
years and anything you can do to put money back in people's pockets, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
by reducing energy bills, cutting fares, bringing back the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
educational maintenance allowance. What the mayor can do to help | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
people get through these times. Four years ago, there was not that | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
sense of urgency. I have been struck by how desperate people are | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
for me to win because they think I am on their side. There will be | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
some undecided voters. We know that second preferences really matter. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
To help people to make up their minds, just some up for us in 30 | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
seconds, no more, why Londoners should vote for you. Your time | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
starts now. Transport for London officials are working on two plans, | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
one is a 7% cut in phase in October if I win, one is a 5% increase plus | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
2% in case Boris Johnson wins, that is in January. That is why I can | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
say the difference between a Labour mayor and a Tory mayor over the | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
next four years will save you �4,000 if you live in the centre of | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
London and �1,700 if you live in the outskirts. I will start | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
building council homes... You 30 seconds are up. We must turn down | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
to Boris Johnson. You have been campaigning for weeks. -- we must | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
turn out to Boris Johnson. What has been the defining moment for you? | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
The thing that really brought home to me the difficulties young people | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
are facing was I was at Croydon College talking to a young | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
apprentice about his plans to go forward and run his own restaurant | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
business, and I understood the huge challenge we face in this city to | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
get people into work and I think if you look at our apprentice scheme, | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
what we are doing to create 200,000 jobs over the next four years, my | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
advantage is getting the cash that London needs and I hope I have the | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
right policies, I know I do, to take this City forward and to lead | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
London out of recession. For me this is about jobs, growth and | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
taking London forward into the future. And for people making up | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
their mind, in 30 seconds, and you have heard that I will stop you | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
after 30 seconds, why should Londoners vote for you? I hope they | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
will vote for me because I will invest in the transport system, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
keep fares down in an honest and sustainable way, but more police on | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the streets, get the budgets from government that London needs and | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
above all, managed my budgets in a fair and sustainable way so we can | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
cut council tax by 10% and maintain vital freedoms like the freedom | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
pass. I will create jobs, 200,000 of them, over the next four years, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
take London into the future, not a lurch back to their mistakes and | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
the waste... Time is up, thank you very much Ken Livingstone and Boris | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Johnson. Maybe you have decided who to cast | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
your vote for, maybe you will be deciding later. But what exactly do | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
you have to do when you get into the polling booth tomorrow? Here's | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Karl Mercer to explain how Londoners vote for the mayor and | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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Some things in an election never changes. All you need is a pencil, | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
a ballot paper, and a ballot box. But when you go into the polling | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
station tomorrow, things are slightly different because you will | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
get three ballot papers. One to vote for your candidate for mayor, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
one for your local constituency member of the London Assembly and | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
one for a top-up list. This is because the Assembly is made up of | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
40 members who represent one constituency. The other 11 seats | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
are to reflect the way the capital has voted. It is here parties like | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
UKIP, the Lib Dems, the Greens and the BNP have picked up some votes | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
in the past. Then you can vote for mayor, first preference and second | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
preference. If the candidate wins more than 50% of first preferences, | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
they will be mayor. So far no one has, which means it will all be | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
done to the crucial second preferences. They are reallocated | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
until somebody crosses the 50% threshold. Last time, 400,000 | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
people did not use their second preference. The winning margin was | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
just 140,000 votes. There are spoiled ballot papers in many | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
elections, sometimes because they choose to and sometimes because | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
they do not understand, so we have tried to provide many different | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
kinds of information to make sure as many people know how to fill in | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
the ballot paper as. With the polls opening at 7 o'clock tomorrow | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
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morning, the blow up ballot boxes These are the seven candidates for | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
mayor. You will find more information about the candidates | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
for the London Assembly, and the details of these policies, on our | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
website. Still to come: | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
The Government warns if we have another dry winter, standpipes | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
RAF Typhoon jets will be flying over London and the south-east of | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
England this week as part of a security training operation for the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Olympic Games. It is the first time fighter aircraft have been | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
stationed at RAF Northolt since the Second World War. Jonathan Beale | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
reports. The sound of the engines from four | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Typhoon jets announce their arrival in London, marking the start of | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
this major Olympic security exercise over the next eight days. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Hurricane fighter planes are dressed in line, waiting for a | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
signal. It is the first time fighter planes had been based at | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Northolt in west London since the Second World War, when Hurricanes | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
were flown here in the Battle of Britain. Now in peace time, the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
RAF's most advanced fighter jets are training to act in the Olympics | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
if necessary, as a last resort. we decide that an unknown aircraft | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
is a threat to the Games, there will be decision-making at the | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
highest political level to take care of that aircraft. The Typhoons, | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
along with military helicopters with snipers and spy planes, will | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
be flying over the main Olympic sites over the next few days. There | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
will be a lot of military hardware on show. As well as the Typhoon, | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy's largest warship, will be sailing up the | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
Thames, to Greenwich. Ground braced -- ground-based air-defence systems | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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It is unusual air activity but there is nothing to worry about and | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
it is all part of us preparing for the Olympics and to reassure the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
public we are watching. We will still be there at the Olympics but | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
very much out of side. The focus will be on security around the | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
capital, but HMS Bulwark will be stationed near Weymouth. This is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
just the exercise but later this summer, they will be ready to act | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
if necessary. This exercise is about training military personnel | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
involved in the Olympics and it is also about deterrence for any | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
potential attackers. It is also about reassuring, not just people | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
here but the wider world that will be watching. Of course, this | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
military hardware would only be used as a last resort. | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
Scientists in Hertfordshire developing genetically-modified | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
wheat have written an open letter to activists urging them not to | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
destroy the experimental plants. The researchers fear that a | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
campaign group called Take the Flour Back is planning to wreck the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
trial site near Harpenden. Scientists claim the work could | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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help reduce pesticide use. Sarah It is not what you would expect on | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
a walk in the middle of the Hertfordshire countryside, but | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
researchers who planted this crop of GM wheat are not taking any | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
chances. They have been working for years to develop a plant which | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
contains the synthetic gene to deter pests. But protesters have | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
threatened to dig it all up. We are appealing to them to change their | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
mind. To protest peacefully. We do not want to be building fences. We | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
need to be able to carry out research without the threat of it | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
being destroyed. There has been no proper safety research for GM wheat. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
This is the campaign video for protesters who intend to, what they | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
call, decontaminate the countryside by pulling up the GM crop. We feel | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
they are not adhering to the precautionary principle which has | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
been outlined by the EU. Although they are small scale, they are | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
open-air trials which is our problem. We are prepared for people | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
to do trolls in the laboratory but they are bringing it into the open | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
air and there is a risk of cross- contamination and a danger to | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
public health. But scientists are following government guidelines and | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
saying there is no chance of the modified strain spreading into | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
neighbouring fields. Genetically- modified week has been grown here | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
successfully back in the 1990s. But in 2000, attempts had to be | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
abandoned after protesters broke into the field and tore up the crop. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
And it was not the only place GM crops have been destroyed across | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
the countryside over the years. The protesters have agreed to talk to | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the scientists but so far, the May 27th demonstration will go ahead as | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
planned. Police in Luton are urging a | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
business-as-usual approach to this weekend's EDL march. Last year, | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
businesses boarded-up properties and shoppers stayed away to avoid | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
the rally. Police said there could be 2000 protesters but they will be | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
kept away from the town centre. Luton is going to be open for | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
business as far as it can be. The business will not be normal as any | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
other day. There will be lots of police officers. They are here for | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
your safety and security. If there is any misbehaviour or criminal | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
activity, we will deal with it then and there. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Still to come tonight: Today, the plans for the Paralympic opening | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
ceremony were announced here at the Circus Space in Hackney, so there | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
is a hint of what to expect. To we could see a return to | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
standpipes in the streets, according to the Environment | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Secretary. Caroline Spellman said that could be a possibility if we | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
have another dry winter. London and the south-east are experiencing a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
drought already and a hosepipe ban is in force. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
It has been the wettest April on record, yet here we are in a | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
drought potentially so serious, but the government is not ruling out a | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
return to scenes like this in 1976, when we had to resort to stand | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
pipes. It is far too early to tell yet whether we will have the wet | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
winter we do need, but whereas it is most unlikely we would have | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
standpipes this year, if we have another dry winter, that becomes | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
more likely. The lack of rain is only partially to blame, according | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
to the union which represents workers at Thames Water. The GMB's | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
has too many reservoirs have been sold off and resources have been | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
mismanaged. This is Hornsey waterworks. This party still used | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
by Thames Water. But over here where there was once a reservoir, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
there are now flat. This, say unions, is symptomatic of a sell- | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
off by Thames Water which has contributed to the drought we are | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
now in. We have now had two drowns in two years. That is because we do | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
not have the storage capability. That has to come down to somebody. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Thames Water have sold off site which they think, not useful and we | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
have got hosepipe bans. Now we have water running through the streets | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
which we cannot correct. That cannot be right. But Thames Water | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
insists it has got the situation under control. This, we have closed | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
some of our facilities as and when they become redundant following | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
improvements to our network. A lot of the site the GMB is talking | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
about, were not used to store water at all. London has not run out of | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
four to six years ago, it has not run out of water this year. What we | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
have had this year is a water shortage and what we have done to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
mitigate that shortage is put in a hosepipe ban. Nevertheless, the | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
possibility of more stringent measures will confound some, | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
especially if they are currently wading around in floodwater. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
And there is lots more on this on an Inside Out London special: | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
Drought 2012, later this evening at 7:30pm here on BBC One. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Next, to the innovations in space exploration being made on an | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
industrial estate in Hertfordshire. Space city, just outside Stevenage, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
makes a quarter of the world's satellite. Now one company based | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
there has been chosen to make a new system which will get closer to the | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
sun than ever before. I know it does not look like we are | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
going boldly where no man has gone before, but walk through this door | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
on an industrial estate in Stevenage, and you onto the surface | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
of Mars. This is Bruno. He is our Mars Rover prototype. Six year ifs | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
from now, Bruno's successor should be scouring the Red Planet hunting | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
for signs of life. Mars is a long way away and even sending a command | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
signal there and back can take 20 minutes. It is very important that | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
the Rover can make as many decisions for itself as possible. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Space is a British success story right now. Satellite business alone | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
is worth �7.5 billion a year. The company's bread and butter is | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
launching a satellite which been our television signals and that | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
helps fund space exploration - Mars, Mercury and now the sun. This is | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
the solar or bitter, a project worth almost a quarter of a billion | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
pounds that will see a spacecraft travel closer to the sum than ever | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
before. It will carry a set of instruments to look at the surface | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
of the Sun and try and understand the link between the two and we | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
will have a better understanding of how to protect ourselves. In these | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
surgically clean workshops, British engineers and scientists are | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
working on new machines. De football now and in less than | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
hour's time, Chelsea will kick-off in their last Premier League | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
fixture before Saturday's have a cup final against Liverpool. While | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
the Blues have struggled in the league this season, they have taken | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
the FA Cup by storm. There is a good spirit at the | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
moment in the dressing room and that is connected to the positive | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
results we are getting. It is also exciting because we have so many | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
targets to play and I think it is better to be like this than to not | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
have any targets. Meanwhile, Tottenham are away to | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Bolton as they also battled to hold onto it up four spot in the Premier | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
League. Fabrice Muamba will attend the match. It will be the first | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
time the midfielder has attended a game since he suffered a cardiac | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
arrest on the pitch in March. More than 3,000 volunteers, many | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
from east London, will take part in the opening ceremony for the | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Paralympics. The details were revealed today and will also | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
include a fly-past by a charity which trains disabled people to | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
become pilots. Brenda Emmanus has more. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
The circus based in the heart of Hackney has been training people of | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
all ages and abilities in performance skills for over a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
decade. Today, it was revealed they will play a significant part in the | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Paralympic Games opening ceremony. They will be teaching a special | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
group of performers who will be part of the event in August. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
think there has been a long term perception that disability arts is | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
mediocre, it is what they do, for them, marginalised, get wised, | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
dismissed. And all of our work is absolutely about putting deaf and | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
disabled people at the forefront. Now we have a massive arena to do | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
exactly that. Organisers announced that the event will include a cast | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
of over 3,000 and will be a showcase for deaf and disabled | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
artists, challenging perceptions with a ground-breaking experience. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
The biggest challenges we are doing this show for half a billion people | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
and that is a big number. Thrilling and daunting but there is an | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
extraordinary team at LOCOG supporting us and enabling us to | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
create this most magnificent and truly spectacular show. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
training programme for the 50 specialist performers will take | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
place here for eight weeks. This ceremony is about participation and | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
induces the -- implicity. Today, the schools in the host boroughs | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
were also announced. The East Leake Community School in Newham were | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
dancing for joy. Their students will be involved in | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
a bespoke part of the Paralympic Games opening ceremony. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Olympics is such a great things that many kids do not understand. I | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
think it is a really big on that kids go there, to feel the | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
excitement and see the whole world compete in athletics, swimming, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
some kids do not do athletics so I think this will be a really big | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
chance for them. And a massive opportunity for these delighted | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
youngsters when they are in the spotlight at the Olympic Stadium. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
Peter is here with a check on the weather. It is very topical at the | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
We have got a special programme about the drought this evening. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
However, I am going to talk about rain. The right sort of rain but it | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
will end up in the wrong place. You will know what I mean if you watch | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
that programme later on BBC One. It looks like the heaviest rain will | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
be with us once it gets dark. There is the satellite view, lots of | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
cloud across south-east England. You can see where the rain is | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
coming from, bright echoes moving across the southern North Sea. Some | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
of the rain we will get later this evening and over tonight tonight | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
will be heavy and thundery and the Met Office has issued a weather | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
warning for that heavy rain. So, let's take a look at what we can | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
expect. Those bright echoes, eventually coming into the London | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
area. It looks as though the heaviest of the rain can turn up to | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
the north of London. The counties to the north of London at the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
moment will get the wettest weather. There will be some heavy rain south | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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of the Thames. That is an inch to an inch and a half of rain. There | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
are a lot of flood alerts in force across south-east England. If there | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
will be a flood warning, you may want to make a note of the | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
Floodline number. Tomorrow, the heavy rain will turn light and | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
showery. The Thunder will rumble itself out. Still a chance of | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
getting wet with a light shower in the afternoon. Temperatures up to | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
10 or 11 Celsius. And then, some more rain on Friday night. That | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
will probably turn it much colder for the Bank Holiday weekend. The | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
bottom numbers, air temperatures at night. They could be a touch of | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
frost again on the grass. A reminder of the headlines: The | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
coroner hearing the inquest into the death of an MI6 worker found | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
locked in a bag in his London flat has said she believes someone else | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
was involved in his death. But she said it was doubtful that Gareth | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Williams' death will never be explained. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Over 2000 government employees are being paid through private | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
companies are not paying tax at source. Big chief-executive of the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Student Loans Company has been using the same practice. | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
The leader of Ireland's Catholics has said he will not resign, | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
despite revelations in a BBC documentary. It said evidence | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
suggested that Cardinal Sean Brady did not alert the parents of | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
children who had been abused by a priest. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
All the mayoral candidates have been out on the capital's streets | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
today for one last day of campaigning. Tomorrow, millions of | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Londoners will go to the polls to elect the person who will hold the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
top job at City Hall for the next four years. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
RAF Typhoon jets will be flying over London this week as part of a | :27:32. | :27:35. |