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there are major concerns about the spread of disease. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
us. On the programme tonight. More than | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
half of London's A departments are failing to meeting Government | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
waiting time targets. Patients can be left for hours. The time I | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
waited, it made me feel like I wasn't important. They didn't care. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Anything could happen to me in that waiting room. And I still don't | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
think they would rush to see me It think they would rush to see me. It | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
comes as another hospital's A is likely to close. Also tonight. One | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
cyclist is killed in a collision with a bus in Croydon. Elsewhere, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
two others are seriously injured on London's roads. Claims the price of | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
a property could rise by 30% over the next five years. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
And cutting out hundreds of years of rot. How experts are trying to save | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
one of London's oldest trees. Good evening and welcome to the | :00:54. | :01:10. | |
programme. More than half of London's A units have this year | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
failed to meet waiting time targets at least 50% of the time. A report | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
by the London Assembly shows that many emergency departments regularly | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
fail to see patients within the required four`hour treatment time. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
This on the day another hospital learnt that its Accident and | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Emergency unit is likely to close. Here's our Political Correspondent, | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Karl Mercer. Chantel is a statistic the NHS would not be proud of. But | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
one that represents a difficult year for the capital's emergency | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
departments. Last October she went to her local A with stomach pains. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
It took five and half hours for her to be seen. The time I waited, it | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
made me feel like I wasn't important. They didn't care. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Anything could happen to in that waiting room. And I still don't | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
think they would rush to see me. waiting room. And I still don't | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
think they would rush to see me The think they would rush to see me. The | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Government says that 95% of patients should be seen within four hours. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
But half of the capital's A missed that target in at least 6 | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
weeks. Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals missed it every | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
week of the year. Chelsea and Westminster didn't miss it at all. | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
We were seeing figures in the summer months we normally see in December. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
With winter coming along, and rising costs of heating bills, patients | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
will not stay in their houses long enough, so we think the pressures | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
will get worse. One of the worst performers last year was Barnet and | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Chase Farm hospitals. Already at the centre of plans to close one of its | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
A How do you sleep at night? Today campaigners found out that | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
they wouldn't be allowed to challenge that closure in court The | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
decision means that the most vulnerable people in society, many | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
of whom don't have their own transport, expectant mothers, those | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
in need of emergency care, children, the elderly, will have unnecessary | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
suffering, and it's not acceptable. With the strategy comes a much | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
improved medical process. People will have faster decision`making in | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
hospital, and go through the system quicker and get better health care. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
We have modelled the capacity and have become confident we have got it | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
right. The changes at Chase Farm are being mirrored across London. With | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
plans to close or downgrade at least eight A, it's likely the protests | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
will continue. But NHS bosses say keeping things the same, would be | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
unsafe for patients. I think the key thing is, in the medium term, if | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
we're going to war avoid this situation in future, we're going to | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
have to undergo radical changes of the system in order to make it a | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
high quality service for patients. It's an argument that has been made | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
often and over many years in London. It will be made more often in the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
coming months at a time when traditionally the NHS is at its most | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
stretched. And Karl's here. So some serious | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
concerns over how A departments will cope this winter? Yes, winter | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
is always the busiest period for the NHS. The worry for people in the NHS | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
and campaigners is that, this year, winter levels over the spring and | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
summer, and now we have campaigners and those at the top of the NHS | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
warning that this winter could well be the most difficult yet. I think | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
that's where the problem has come in. The decision at chase farm | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
hospital today, why are we shutting A when the winter is expected to | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
be the worst and the NHS bosses say that's why we're changing services, | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
so we can get over these winter humps. And I gather tomorrow we're | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
going to learn more about the challenges facing the NHS in London? | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Yes, a big important report for the whole London. The medical director | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of the NHS has been looking at how A works and will make his | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
recommendations about how it does in the future. Thank you. Lots more to | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
come. Training dogs to help change the lives of London youngsters and | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
it's all thanks to your Children In Need donations. | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
A cyclist has died in Croydon after being involved in a collision with a | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
bus. The man in his 40s was killed on a busy high street around midday. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
As our Transport Correspondent, Tom Edwards reports, it's the third | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
cyclist death in a week. Rush hour in Cannington. And another | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
collision involving a cyclist. It was on cycle superhighway seven, | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
collision involving a cyclist. It was on cycle superhighway seven one | :05:41. | :05:40. | |
of the Mayor's flagship schemes, and of the Mayor's flagship schemes, and | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
involved a bus. It's unclear what happened but the lane markings had | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
been removed due to resurfacing work. The cyclist was taken to | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
hospital with serious injuries. You see this all the time. It's | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
heartbreaking. The bus was too close to him. He got pulled underneath. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Hours later, this happened in Croydon, game, bus involved. Here, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the cyclist, in his 40s, died in hospital. `` again. In Spitalfields | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
last night, bystanders lifted a car off a cyclist so she could receive | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
treatment. Conflict is built into most junctions in London, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
conflicting movements of large vehicles turning left, people going | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
straight on, moments of inattention from a driver or a cyclist can | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
result in serious injury and death and we need to design that conflict | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
out of London's roads. The latest figures show in 2012, the number of | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
cyclists who died, compared media fear, fell to 14, down 14%. But, the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
fear, fell to 14, down 14%. But the number of serious injuries to | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
cyclists increased to 657, up 1 %. DFL say far more cyclists are now on | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
the roads. It maintains cycling is statistically now much safer `` TSL. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Today in City Hall, cycling groups have been briefed on the planned | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
improvements. The authorities now admit the first few cycling | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
superhighways were not good enough. There will be more of these, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
segregated sections of superhighway, opened last week by the Mayor, as | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
well as improved junctions. We recognise this will take time, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
however, we will be judging this according to the promises the Mayor | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
made at the beginning of the term, and the progress he is made by the | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
time you picture the end of his term. We urge him to go as fast as | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
possible. With three cyclists dying this week, scrutiny of cycling | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
safety shows no sign of stopping. No one from City Hall or Transport for | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
London was available for interview. It's emerged that the terror suspect | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
who escaped surveillance by dressing in a burka had been remanded in | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
custody three times. MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee were told | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
that Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed had been arrested in July, remanded in | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
custody and released on bail in August as well as on two prior | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
occasions. He disappeared ten days ago and was last seen fleeing a | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
mosque in Acton in a burka. Officers from Wandsworth Prison have been | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
disciplined for reportedly going on a night out wearing T`shirts that | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
said "We Have Madeleine McCann" Madeline was just three years old | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
when she went missing from a holiday apartment in Portugal. The prison | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
officers are believed to have posted photos of them wearing the T`shirts | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
on Facebook two months before their managers found out. A staff member | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
from Scotland Yard's call handling unit has been arrested on suspicion | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
of misconduct in public office. The 33`year`old woman was detained at | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
her Essex home by detectives investigating alleged corrupt | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
payments to public officials and is being questioned at an east London | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
police station. She's the 79th person arrested as part of Operation | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
Elveden. Thousands more Londoners could be priced out of the capital | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
as the demand for housing continues to outstrip supply. A leading estate | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
agents claims the cost of a home will continue to rise for at least | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
another five years. And that around 50,000 new affordable homes need to | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
be built in London every year to meet demand. Alice Bhandhukravi has | :09:26. | :09:37. | |
more. 24`year`old John Dewhurst is in a fortunate position, along with | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
his brother, he has a budget of 45 hundred pounds, and has the money in | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
place but there's not much to spend it on. Flats like this one are few | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
and far between. There's been a couple that I've tried to go and see | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
but before I've even been able to, they have gone off the market. It's | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
quite intimidating. When there are so many people looking for so few | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
properties, I guess there can be a sense of desperation sometimes. New | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
figures from the Institute of chartered surveyors demonstrate the | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
increasing gap between what is needed and what is available. In | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
October, 74% of surveyors reported increased demand and 13% reported a | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
fall in supply. It's not the first time we have faced a situation like | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
this. The last time the population peaked at 8.9 million was back in | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
the 1930s. Then, slum housing was cleared to make way for new homes. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
The estate agents say we need to the same at a rate of 50,000 a year | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
particularly at the lower end of the market. What we have seen over the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
last five years since the credit crunch, a shift, if you like, of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
builders building towards the higher end of the market because that's | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
where they could get the sales during the credit crunch. And what | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
that has left us with is an imbalance, and we need to redraft | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
that. This is the kind of development we need more fulsome | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
here in Camden, 53 new homes are being built, more than half of which | :11:12. | :11:12. | |
will provide affordable housing. being built, more than half of which | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
will provide affordable housing. But there is a drop in the ocean for | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
this when you consider what's needed in London. Sharp questions at City | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Hall today made even the Mayor's modest target, 55,000 new homes by | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
2016, seem a little uncertain. In a year's time, everything will be on | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
site, and we will see a lot of completions coming in. Against the | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
55,000 target. Until that happens, first`time house`buyers like John | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
will have to keep on hunting. A court's heard how fighter jets were | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
scrambled to intercept a plane after two passengers threatened to blow it | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
up. The aircraft was en route from Pakistan to Manchester when it was | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
diverted to Stansted, triggering a full terrorism alert. The two | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
defendants are charged with endangering an aircraft. Gareth | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
George, is outside Chelmsford Crown Court and can tell us more. Yes, in | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
Court and can tell us more. Yes in May, a Pakistan airlines flight took | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
off around the Manchester but the jury were told how it didn't reach | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
its destination. It is ten minutes from Manchester Airport when it was | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
diverted to Stansted Airport. On its way to Stansted, it was escorted by | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
two RAF Typhoon fighter jets. We have some pictures of the plane | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
after it landed at Stansted. You can see from the police cars surrounding | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
it, just how seriously this incident was taken. Two passengers were | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
arrested. Both from Lancashire. The prosecution say they became angry | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
when their offers to help one of the other passengers who had become ill | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
on the plane, were turned down by cabin crew. One man is accused of | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
saying, quote no more crew, no mob passengers, Finnish, everything " | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
passengers, Finnish, everything. " The jury was told this isn't a | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
terror trial. The men are not political extremists. And they | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
didn't have the capacity to carry out their alleged threats. The trial | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
is expected to last five weeks. Both men denied a charge of endangering | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
the safety of an aircraft. Next, the British Medical | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
Association wants if more than 1 million people are | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
now using electronic cigarettes, but the British Medical Association | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
wants them banned. One London restaurant chain says people should | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
smoke them outside. But according to a BBC poll, most people don't mind | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
them being used in public. Warren Nettleford has the story. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Is this smoking or isn't it? It looks like smoke but it is largely | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
water vapour. They look like cigarettes but they are not, they | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
are an electronic cigarettes, or e`cigarettes. It is not against the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
law to smoke them in public places, like here in Westfield. Catherine | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
regularly smokes e`cigarettes and she wants more smokers to make the | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
switch. I think it is really important that electronic cigarettes | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
are allowed to be used in public as wide as possible so as many smokers | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
`` is possible are aware, because the more that can switch, the bigger | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
the game. A BBC poll asked... 22% the game. A BBC poll asked... 22% | :14:36. | :14:47. | |
said yes, 75% said no. As if they should be banned in public, 34% said | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
yes and 62% said no. Simon Mullins owns a chain of restaurants in | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
central London and he does not think there is a place for e`cigarettes in | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
restaurants and bars. I think they should be banned, but there is no | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
law that it should be the case for a bar, there is still insufficient | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
medical evidence to support a law to ban them, but I think they should be | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
clarity and in my opinion, I would take them outside like other | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
cigarette smokers. But the British Medical Association want to go | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
further, arguing that smoking of any kind should be discouraged. Our | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
concern with the use of e`cigarettes is that this normalises that | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
behaviour again, and the biggest concern is that it becomes glamorous | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
again. Our poll suggests that we have a relaxed view about | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
e`cigarettes of it seems more venues will soon make their own decisions | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
about how it will affect them. Still to come: the Christmas lights | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
are being switched on in Oxford Street and Jessie J did the honours. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
We speak to her about eliminating the West End and her plans for | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
Christmas. And the race to save this giant oak | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
tree, one of London's oldest. It's Children In Need on Friday and, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
this week, we're looking at how the money you donate makes a difference | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
to charities which help young people in the capital. We all know many | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
children love playing with dogs but one project in Croydon uses them to | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
dramatically change the lives of children with special needs. Sonja | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Jessup has been finding out more. It is dog training with a | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
difference. The club is called Waggy Tails, and while the dogs are | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
clearly having fun, it is the children who really benefit. It is | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
really fun. I like playing with the dogs. Well done, Joe. The club aims | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
to help young people with special needs. Many find it hard to | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
communicate and make friends, but the charity says being around these | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
dogs is making a huge difference. They just seem to talk more, they | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
are more confident in speaking, so we have had children who have had | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
very, very little speech and then suddenly they are initiating | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
conversations. It is really exciting. When Ellie first came | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
here, she didn't want to join in at all. A year later, she is far more | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
confident and reluctant to go home. Before coming here, Ellie didn't | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
really talk or communicate or want to, and we have sort of found that | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
dogs have been a way of opening her up to have conversations with | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
people. I just like playing around with the dogs. I just feel a lot | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
calmer and more stressed. The money from Children In Need means the club | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
can employ five trained therapists. And that means they can provide more | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
places the young people with the most challenging needs. So why do | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
they think that dogs can help so much? It is very motivating for the | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
child, because it is something they are particularly interested in. The | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
other thing is that when people are communicating with them, they can | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
focus their attention onto the dog, rather than giving lots of eye | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
contact to the child. The club also teams of children with buddies, | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
teenagers from local schools who can help them make friends. I enjoy | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
coming in every week and seeing everyone, the smiles that they give | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
when they see you, and with the dogs. It is just fun, a fun | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
atmosphere. And with a long waiting list, they are hoping that the | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
Children In Need funding can mean more young people can join in. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
Great stuff. And thank you for your donations. | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
And on Friday, we'll be meeting some of the Londoners whose fantastic | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
fundraising efforts go to support charities like Waggy Tails. So tune | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
in to Children In Need night from seven o'clock on BBC One. And if | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
you'd like to be a part of the broadcast itself, tickets are on | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
sale through the Tower of London ice rink box office. They cost ?10, with | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
at least ?7.50 going to Children In Need. | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
It's one of the moments that signifies the kick`start of the | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
festive season here in the capital ` the switching on of the Oxford | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Street lights. This year, it's pop star Jessie J that's drawing the | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
crowds. We can join Brenda Emmanus. Yes, it is all quiet on the west end | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
front at the moment apart from the cleaning up trucks and the crowd | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
control barriers, that are coming down. It really was an exciting | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
atmosphere appear, about half an hour ago, as everybody poured into | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
witness the illuminating the West End, this year by a 1`5p lighting | :19:39. | :19:52. | |
installation, ``1`5p. ``1`.5 million. A host of celebrities were | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
here, including Conor Maynard, James Arthur, but it was Jessie J who was | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
chosen as a celebrity to turn on these lights. 750,000 volts it has | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
taken to create this amazing installation behind us ``lightbulbs. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
We spoke to Jessie J to ask about how she felt about the privilege of | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
turning on the lights and what she up to for Christmas. When I was | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
asked, I was in shock, thinking it was a very Christmas type thing to | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
do, and then usually I work up until Christmas Eve and don't realise it | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
is Christmas, so to be able to be part of something so prestigious and | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
memorable for the club kids, adults, two arrests, Christmas in the UK, I | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
feel very privileged ``tourists Home is where the heart is and my | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
heart is London, so I will be at home. Jessie J follows in the | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
footsteps of Robbie Williams and West life and the Spice Girls and | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
turning on the Christmas lights. It turning on the Christmas lights It | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
is hoped they will draw into wrists ``tourists. Can I just ask you, I | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
know you have been working. Turnaround and speak to BBC London. | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
I have to do my job. Did you like the lights? She likes them, but she | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
has to do her job. People do like them, it does trigger an exciting | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
time of the year and a great time to kick off the Christmas season. It is | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
getting a bit noisy with the trucks, so back to you in the studio. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
We better leave them to get on, they have a job to do to get Oxford | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Street back and moving quickly. It stands majestically in a | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
remembrance garden in Southgate But this beautiful old oak tree, which | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
is more than 800 years old, has begun to subside and decay. Now | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
specialists are desperately trying to give it new lease of life. Helen | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Drew reports. Branches flying, this is mentioned | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
in oak, in the 19th century, reported to be the oldest oak in | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
London ``Minchenden. The tree has been growing for over 800 years but | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
this Cracker gave away the fact that it has extensive internal decay. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
it has extensive internal decay ``this crack here. Is with age, if | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
the structure deteriorating all living things, so it is starting to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
deteriorate and structurally move and subside, so we need to take the | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
weight bearing of the tree, of the Crown, to prolong the survival of | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
the tree. The tree will also be infused with specific fundi which | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
will aid its survival. Without taking drastic action, the local | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
council say the outcome could be catastrophic. We don't want a | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
resident coming into the garden and a branch falling off and killing | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
them. There is over six tonnes being taken away, you don't want it | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
falling. Boasts six tonnes of chopped timber are no longer part of | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
the tree but will live on in the remembrance garden where the tree | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
sits. We will use it for features within the garden, such as seating, | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
or we can get it made into a notice board, which will give the history | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
of the Minchenden oak garden. Taking huge branches of such a precious | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
tree is an unfamiliar side, but it is the only way this oak will stand | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
a chance of living for another 800 years. | :23:40. | :23:39. | |
Let's hope so. Peter's here with the weather. Nice | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
to see some sunshine in November. And even more of it to enjoy | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
tomorrow. However, it is wind screen scraper and de`icer time. Even the | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
thin, high cloud is disappearing and temperatures will be tumbling. It is | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
going to get quite cold overnight tonight and in a moment, you will | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
see that blue tinge appearing on the weather map. Also some indications | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
of a little bit shallow fog towards the end of the night, but a cold | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
night ahead. The temperatures I show you in the little boxes on the | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
weather map are the air temperatures, around a bed head | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
height, so about a metre and a half above the ground. Surface | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
temperatures will be a good deal lower than those values, very close | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
to or below freezing everywhere tonight, so we are looking at frost | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
on the grass, ice to clear off the windscreen in the morning. The good | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
news, of course, is that the roads and the pavements have had plenty of | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
time to dry out, so we haven't got to worry about ice on those in the | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
morning. You might want your shades to stop being blinded by that low | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
sun. The shadow fog clearing away, the frost melting, a lovely sunny | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
day, top temperature up to around 10 Celsius, that is 50 degrees in | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
Fahrenheit. Staying dry during daylight hours, more clout, and then | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
after dark, some showery rain will move across as from the West. They | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
could be the odd burst of rain as the weather fronts move through | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
tomorrow night but it should be out of the way by Thursday morning and | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
temperatures won't get so low tomorrow night, because we will have | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
some clout in the sky, that is where the rain is coming from. Thursday, | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
another bright day but some breezy conditions and that wind will make | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
it particularly cold. If you do the sums, with a temperature of around | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
nine Celsius, the wind blowing at something like 20 mph, it will feel | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
more like five Celsius, so although we have double figures or very close | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
to, it will feel a good deal colder than that. But the breeze keeps the | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
air well mixed, so we shouldn't be worrying about frost to start the | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
day on Friday. Friday is going to be dry, bright but without the wind it | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
won't feel as cold. So temperatures very similar to Thursday but it | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
won't feel as cold, because the wind chill will not be there. So as far | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
as the outlook is concerned, a good deal about autumn sunshine to show | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
off those autumn colours. Frost tonight, so watch out for that first | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
thing in the morning, but I think some lovely sunshine for the rest of | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
this week with the rain coming during the night. | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
Sounds good, Peter, thanks very much. | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
A reminder of the day's headlines: There's growing desperation tonight | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
among survivors of the typhoon that left a trail of destruction across | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
the Philippines. Many are facing a fifth night | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
without food, water and shelter and there are serious concerns about the | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
spread of disease. The energy firm EDF has become the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
fifth of the six big energy firms to raise its prices. But its increase | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
of 3.9% was significantly lower than those of its rivals, raising the | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
prospect of a price war between the energy companies. | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
New mothers are to be paid to breast`feed their babies under a | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
research project aimed at boosting low rates of breast`feeding. Mothers | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
taking part in the study will get vouchers to spend at shops and | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
supermarkets. More than half of London's Accident | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
and Emergency departments have failed to meet waiting time targets | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
at least 50% of the time. The Government says 95% of patients | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
should be seen within four hours. A cyclist has been killed in Croydon | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
in the third fatal bike accident in London over the past week. The man | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
died after he was hit by a bus on Addiscombe Road. | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
That's it for now. More on the day's stories on our website and I'll be | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
back with our late news. From all of us on the team here, have a lovely | :27:42. | :27:44. |