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there are major concerns about the spread of disease. That is all from

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us. On the programme tonight. More than

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half of London's A departments are failing to meeting Government

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waiting time targets. Patients can be left for hours. The time I

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waited, it made me feel like I wasn't important. They didn't care.

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Anything could happen to me in that waiting room. And I still don't

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think they would rush to see me It think they would rush to see me. It

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comes as another hospital's A is likely to close. Also tonight. One

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cyclist is killed in a collision with a bus in Croydon. Elsewhere,

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two others are seriously injured on London's roads. Claims the price of

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a property could rise by 30% over the next five years.

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And cutting out hundreds of years of rot. How experts are trying to save

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one of London's oldest trees. Good evening and welcome to the

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programme. More than half of London's A units have this year

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failed to meet waiting time targets at least 50% of the time. A report

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by the London Assembly shows that many emergency departments regularly

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fail to see patients within the required four`hour treatment time.

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This on the day another hospital learnt that its Accident and

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Emergency unit is likely to close. Here's our Political Correspondent,

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Karl Mercer. Chantel is a statistic the NHS would not be proud of. But

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one that represents a difficult year for the capital's emergency

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departments. Last October she went to her local A with stomach pains.

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It took five and half hours for her to be seen. The time I waited, it

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made me feel like I wasn't important. They didn't care.

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Anything could happen to in that waiting room. And I still don't

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think they would rush to see me. waiting room. And I still don't

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think they would rush to see me The think they would rush to see me. The

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Government says that 95% of patients should be seen within four hours.

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But half of the capital's A missed that target in at least 6

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weeks. Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals missed it every

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week of the year. Chelsea and Westminster didn't miss it at all.

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We were seeing figures in the summer months we normally see in December.

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With winter coming along, and rising costs of heating bills, patients

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will not stay in their houses long enough, so we think the pressures

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will get worse. One of the worst performers last year was Barnet and

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Chase Farm hospitals. Already at the centre of plans to close one of its

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A How do you sleep at night? Today campaigners found out that

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they wouldn't be allowed to challenge that closure in court The

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decision means that the most vulnerable people in society, many

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of whom don't have their own transport, expectant mothers, those

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in need of emergency care, children, the elderly, will have unnecessary

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suffering, and it's not acceptable. With the strategy comes a much

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improved medical process. People will have faster decision`making in

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hospital, and go through the system quicker and get better health care.

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We have modelled the capacity and have become confident we have got it

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right. The changes at Chase Farm are being mirrored across London. With

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plans to close or downgrade at least eight A, it's likely the protests

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will continue. But NHS bosses say keeping things the same, would be

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unsafe for patients. I think the key thing is, in the medium term, if

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we're going to war avoid this situation in future, we're going to

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have to undergo radical changes of the system in order to make it a

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high quality service for patients. It's an argument that has been made

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often and over many years in London. It will be made more often in the

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coming months at a time when traditionally the NHS is at its most

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stretched. And Karl's here. So some serious

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concerns over how A departments will cope this winter? Yes, winter

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is always the busiest period for the NHS. The worry for people in the NHS

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and campaigners is that, this year, winter levels over the spring and

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summer, and now we have campaigners and those at the top of the NHS

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warning that this winter could well be the most difficult yet. I think

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that's where the problem has come in. The decision at chase farm

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hospital today, why are we shutting A when the winter is expected to

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be the worst and the NHS bosses say that's why we're changing services,

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so we can get over these winter humps. And I gather tomorrow we're

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going to learn more about the challenges facing the NHS in London?

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Yes, a big important report for the whole London. The medical director

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of the NHS has been looking at how A works and will make his

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recommendations about how it does in the future. Thank you. Lots more to

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come. Training dogs to help change the lives of London youngsters and

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it's all thanks to your Children In Need donations.

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A cyclist has died in Croydon after being involved in a collision with a

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bus. The man in his 40s was killed on a busy high street around midday.

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As our Transport Correspondent, Tom Edwards reports, it's the third

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cyclist death in a week. Rush hour in Cannington. And another

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collision involving a cyclist. It was on cycle superhighway seven,

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collision involving a cyclist. It was on cycle superhighway seven one

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of the Mayor's flagship schemes, and of the Mayor's flagship schemes, and

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involved a bus. It's unclear what happened but the lane markings had

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been removed due to resurfacing work. The cyclist was taken to

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hospital with serious injuries. You see this all the time. It's

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heartbreaking. The bus was too close to him. He got pulled underneath.

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Hours later, this happened in Croydon, game, bus involved. Here,

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the cyclist, in his 40s, died in hospital. `` again. In Spitalfields

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last night, bystanders lifted a car off a cyclist so she could receive

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treatment. Conflict is built into most junctions in London,

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conflicting movements of large vehicles turning left, people going

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straight on, moments of inattention from a driver or a cyclist can

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result in serious injury and death and we need to design that conflict

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out of London's roads. The latest figures show in 2012, the number of

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cyclists who died, compared media fear, fell to 14, down 14%. But, the

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fear, fell to 14, down 14%. But the number of serious injuries to

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cyclists increased to 657, up 1 %. DFL say far more cyclists are now on

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the roads. It maintains cycling is statistically now much safer `` TSL.

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Today in City Hall, cycling groups have been briefed on the planned

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improvements. The authorities now admit the first few cycling

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superhighways were not good enough. There will be more of these,

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segregated sections of superhighway, opened last week by the Mayor, as

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well as improved junctions. We recognise this will take time,

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however, we will be judging this according to the promises the Mayor

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made at the beginning of the term, and the progress he is made by the

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time you picture the end of his term. We urge him to go as fast as

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possible. With three cyclists dying this week, scrutiny of cycling

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safety shows no sign of stopping. No one from City Hall or Transport for

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London was available for interview. It's emerged that the terror suspect

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who escaped surveillance by dressing in a burka had been remanded in

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custody three times. MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee were told

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that Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed had been arrested in July, remanded in

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custody and released on bail in August as well as on two prior

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occasions. He disappeared ten days ago and was last seen fleeing a

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mosque in Acton in a burka. Officers from Wandsworth Prison have been

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disciplined for reportedly going on a night out wearing T`shirts that

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said "We Have Madeleine McCann" Madeline was just three years old

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when she went missing from a holiday apartment in Portugal. The prison

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officers are believed to have posted photos of them wearing the T`shirts

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on Facebook two months before their managers found out. A staff member

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from Scotland Yard's call handling unit has been arrested on suspicion

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of misconduct in public office. The 33`year`old woman was detained at

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her Essex home by detectives investigating alleged corrupt

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payments to public officials and is being questioned at an east London

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police station. She's the 79th person arrested as part of Operation

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Elveden. Thousands more Londoners could be priced out of the capital

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as the demand for housing continues to outstrip supply. A leading estate

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agents claims the cost of a home will continue to rise for at least

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another five years. And that around 50,000 new affordable homes need to

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be built in London every year to meet demand. Alice Bhandhukravi has

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more. 24`year`old John Dewhurst is in a fortunate position, along with

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his brother, he has a budget of 45 hundred pounds, and has the money in

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place but there's not much to spend it on. Flats like this one are few

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and far between. There's been a couple that I've tried to go and see

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but before I've even been able to, they have gone off the market. It's

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quite intimidating. When there are so many people looking for so few

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properties, I guess there can be a sense of desperation sometimes. New

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figures from the Institute of chartered surveyors demonstrate the

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increasing gap between what is needed and what is available. In

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October, 74% of surveyors reported increased demand and 13% reported a

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fall in supply. It's not the first time we have faced a situation like

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this. The last time the population peaked at 8.9 million was back in

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the 1930s. Then, slum housing was cleared to make way for new homes.

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The estate agents say we need to the same at a rate of 50,000 a year

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particularly at the lower end of the market. What we have seen over the

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last five years since the credit crunch, a shift, if you like, of

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builders building towards the higher end of the market because that's

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where they could get the sales during the credit crunch. And what

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that has left us with is an imbalance, and we need to redraft

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that. This is the kind of development we need more fulsome

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here in Camden, 53 new homes are being built, more than half of which

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will provide affordable housing. being built, more than half of which

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will provide affordable housing. But there is a drop in the ocean for

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this when you consider what's needed in London. Sharp questions at City

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Hall today made even the Mayor's modest target, 55,000 new homes by

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2016, seem a little uncertain. In a year's time, everything will be on

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site, and we will see a lot of completions coming in. Against the

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55,000 target. Until that happens, first`time house`buyers like John

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will have to keep on hunting. A court's heard how fighter jets were

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scrambled to intercept a plane after two passengers threatened to blow it

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up. The aircraft was en route from Pakistan to Manchester when it was

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diverted to Stansted, triggering a full terrorism alert. The two

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defendants are charged with endangering an aircraft. Gareth

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George, is outside Chelmsford Crown Court and can tell us more. Yes, in

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Court and can tell us more. Yes in May, a Pakistan airlines flight took

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off around the Manchester but the jury were told how it didn't reach

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its destination. It is ten minutes from Manchester Airport when it was

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diverted to Stansted Airport. On its way to Stansted, it was escorted by

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two RAF Typhoon fighter jets. We have some pictures of the plane

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after it landed at Stansted. You can see from the police cars surrounding

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it, just how seriously this incident was taken. Two passengers were

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arrested. Both from Lancashire. The prosecution say they became angry

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when their offers to help one of the other passengers who had become ill

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on the plane, were turned down by cabin crew. One man is accused of

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saying, quote no more crew, no mob passengers, Finnish, everything "

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passengers, Finnish, everything. " The jury was told this isn't a

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terror trial. The men are not political extremists. And they

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didn't have the capacity to carry out their alleged threats. The trial

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is expected to last five weeks. Both men denied a charge of endangering

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the safety of an aircraft. Next, the British Medical

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Association wants if more than 1 million people are

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now using electronic cigarettes, but the British Medical Association

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wants them banned. One London restaurant chain says people should

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smoke them outside. But according to a BBC poll, most people don't mind

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them being used in public. Warren Nettleford has the story.

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Is this smoking or isn't it? It looks like smoke but it is largely

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water vapour. They look like cigarettes but they are not, they

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are an electronic cigarettes, or e`cigarettes. It is not against the

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law to smoke them in public places, like here in Westfield. Catherine

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regularly smokes e`cigarettes and she wants more smokers to make the

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switch. I think it is really important that electronic cigarettes

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are allowed to be used in public as wide as possible so as many smokers

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`` is possible are aware, because the more that can switch, the bigger

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the game. A BBC poll asked... 22% the game. A BBC poll asked... 22%

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said yes, 75% said no. As if they should be banned in public, 34% said

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yes and 62% said no. Simon Mullins owns a chain of restaurants in

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central London and he does not think there is a place for e`cigarettes in

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restaurants and bars. I think they should be banned, but there is no

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law that it should be the case for a bar, there is still insufficient

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medical evidence to support a law to ban them, but I think they should be

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clarity and in my opinion, I would take them outside like other

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cigarette smokers. But the British Medical Association want to go

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further, arguing that smoking of any kind should be discouraged. Our

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concern with the use of e`cigarettes is that this normalises that

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behaviour again, and the biggest concern is that it becomes glamorous

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again. Our poll suggests that we have a relaxed view about

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e`cigarettes of it seems more venues will soon make their own decisions

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about how it will affect them. Still to come: the Christmas lights

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are being switched on in Oxford Street and Jessie J did the honours.

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We speak to her about eliminating the West End and her plans for

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Christmas. And the race to save this giant oak

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tree, one of London's oldest. It's Children In Need on Friday and,

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this week, we're looking at how the money you donate makes a difference

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to charities which help young people in the capital. We all know many

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children love playing with dogs but one project in Croydon uses them to

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dramatically change the lives of children with special needs. Sonja

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Jessup has been finding out more. It is dog training with a

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difference. The club is called Waggy Tails, and while the dogs are

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clearly having fun, it is the children who really benefit. It is

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really fun. I like playing with the dogs. Well done, Joe. The club aims

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to help young people with special needs. Many find it hard to

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communicate and make friends, but the charity says being around these

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dogs is making a huge difference. They just seem to talk more, they

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are more confident in speaking, so we have had children who have had

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very, very little speech and then suddenly they are initiating

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conversations. It is really exciting. When Ellie first came

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here, she didn't want to join in at all. A year later, she is far more

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confident and reluctant to go home. Before coming here, Ellie didn't

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really talk or communicate or want to, and we have sort of found that

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dogs have been a way of opening her up to have conversations with

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people. I just like playing around with the dogs. I just feel a lot

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calmer and more stressed. The money from Children In Need means the club

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can employ five trained therapists. And that means they can provide more

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places the young people with the most challenging needs. So why do

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they think that dogs can help so much? It is very motivating for the

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child, because it is something they are particularly interested in. The

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other thing is that when people are communicating with them, they can

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focus their attention onto the dog, rather than giving lots of eye

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contact to the child. The club also teams of children with buddies,

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teenagers from local schools who can help them make friends. I enjoy

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coming in every week and seeing everyone, the smiles that they give

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when they see you, and with the dogs. It is just fun, a fun

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atmosphere. And with a long waiting list, they are hoping that the

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Children In Need funding can mean more young people can join in.

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Great stuff. And thank you for your donations.

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And on Friday, we'll be meeting some of the Londoners whose fantastic

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fundraising efforts go to support charities like Waggy Tails. So tune

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in to Children In Need night from seven o'clock on BBC One. And if

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you'd like to be a part of the broadcast itself, tickets are on

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sale through the Tower of London ice rink box office. They cost ?10, with

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at least ?7.50 going to Children In Need.

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It's one of the moments that signifies the kick`start of the

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festive season here in the capital ` the switching on of the Oxford

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Street lights. This year, it's pop star Jessie J that's drawing the

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crowds. We can join Brenda Emmanus. Yes, it is all quiet on the west end

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front at the moment apart from the cleaning up trucks and the crowd

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control barriers, that are coming down. It really was an exciting

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atmosphere appear, about half an hour ago, as everybody poured into

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witness the illuminating the West End, this year by a 1`5p lighting

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installation, ``1`5p. ``1`.5 million. A host of celebrities were

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here, including Conor Maynard, James Arthur, but it was Jessie J who was

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chosen as a celebrity to turn on these lights. 750,000 volts it has

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taken to create this amazing installation behind us ``lightbulbs.

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We spoke to Jessie J to ask about how she felt about the privilege of

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turning on the lights and what she up to for Christmas. When I was

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asked, I was in shock, thinking it was a very Christmas type thing to

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do, and then usually I work up until Christmas Eve and don't realise it

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is Christmas, so to be able to be part of something so prestigious and

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memorable for the club kids, adults, two arrests, Christmas in the UK, I

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feel very privileged ``tourists Home is where the heart is and my

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heart is London, so I will be at home. Jessie J follows in the

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footsteps of Robbie Williams and West life and the Spice Girls and

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turning on the Christmas lights. It turning on the Christmas lights It

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is hoped they will draw into wrists ``tourists. Can I just ask you, I

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know you have been working. Turnaround and speak to BBC London.

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I have to do my job. Did you like the lights? She likes them, but she

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has to do her job. People do like them, it does trigger an exciting

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time of the year and a great time to kick off the Christmas season. It is

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getting a bit noisy with the trucks, so back to you in the studio.

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We better leave them to get on, they have a job to do to get Oxford

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Street back and moving quickly. It stands majestically in a

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remembrance garden in Southgate But this beautiful old oak tree, which

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is more than 800 years old, has begun to subside and decay. Now

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specialists are desperately trying to give it new lease of life. Helen

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Drew reports. Branches flying, this is mentioned

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in oak, in the 19th century, reported to be the oldest oak in

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London ``Minchenden. The tree has been growing for over 800 years but

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this Cracker gave away the fact that it has extensive internal decay.

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it has extensive internal decay ``this crack here. Is with age, if

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the structure deteriorating all living things, so it is starting to

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deteriorate and structurally move and subside, so we need to take the

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weight bearing of the tree, of the Crown, to prolong the survival of

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the tree. The tree will also be infused with specific fundi which

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will aid its survival. Without taking drastic action, the local

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council say the outcome could be catastrophic. We don't want a

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resident coming into the garden and a branch falling off and killing

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them. There is over six tonnes being taken away, you don't want it

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falling. Boasts six tonnes of chopped timber are no longer part of

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the tree but will live on in the remembrance garden where the tree

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sits. We will use it for features within the garden, such as seating,

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or we can get it made into a notice board, which will give the history

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of the Minchenden oak garden. Taking huge branches of such a precious

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tree is an unfamiliar side, but it is the only way this oak will stand

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a chance of living for another 800 years.

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Let's hope so. Peter's here with the weather. Nice

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to see some sunshine in November. And even more of it to enjoy

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tomorrow. However, it is wind screen scraper and de`icer time. Even the

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thin, high cloud is disappearing and temperatures will be tumbling. It is

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going to get quite cold overnight tonight and in a moment, you will

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see that blue tinge appearing on the weather map. Also some indications

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of a little bit shallow fog towards the end of the night, but a cold

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night ahead. The temperatures I show you in the little boxes on the

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weather map are the air temperatures, around a bed head

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height, so about a metre and a half above the ground. Surface

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temperatures will be a good deal lower than those values, very close

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to or below freezing everywhere tonight, so we are looking at frost

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on the grass, ice to clear off the windscreen in the morning. The good

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news, of course, is that the roads and the pavements have had plenty of

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time to dry out, so we haven't got to worry about ice on those in the

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morning. You might want your shades to stop being blinded by that low

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sun. The shadow fog clearing away, the frost melting, a lovely sunny

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day, top temperature up to around 10 Celsius, that is 50 degrees in

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Fahrenheit. Staying dry during daylight hours, more clout, and then

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after dark, some showery rain will move across as from the West. They

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could be the odd burst of rain as the weather fronts move through

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tomorrow night but it should be out of the way by Thursday morning and

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temperatures won't get so low tomorrow night, because we will have

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some clout in the sky, that is where the rain is coming from. Thursday,

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another bright day but some breezy conditions and that wind will make

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it particularly cold. If you do the sums, with a temperature of around

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nine Celsius, the wind blowing at something like 20 mph, it will feel

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more like five Celsius, so although we have double figures or very close

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to, it will feel a good deal colder than that. But the breeze keeps the

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air well mixed, so we shouldn't be worrying about frost to start the

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day on Friday. Friday is going to be dry, bright but without the wind it

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won't feel as cold. So temperatures very similar to Thursday but it

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won't feel as cold, because the wind chill will not be there. So as far

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as the outlook is concerned, a good deal about autumn sunshine to show

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off those autumn colours. Frost tonight, so watch out for that first

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thing in the morning, but I think some lovely sunshine for the rest of

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this week with the rain coming during the night.

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Sounds good, Peter, thanks very much.

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A reminder of the day's headlines: There's growing desperation tonight

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among survivors of the typhoon that left a trail of destruction across

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the Philippines. Many are facing a fifth night

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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

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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

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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.

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That's it for now. More on the day's stories on our website and I'll be

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back with our late news. From all of us on the team here, have a lovely

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