:00:08. > :00:13.Tonight on BBC London News: Hundreds of police officers go on patrol to
:00:14. > :00:20.keep cyclist safe and is up more fatalities. Lorries getting too
:00:21. > :00:23.close to cyclists, cyclist taking chances, it is about general
:00:24. > :00:29.awareness for safety for ourselves and other road users. We ask
:00:30. > :00:34.London's cycling Commissioner whether the campaign will have any
:00:35. > :00:39.long`term impact. Also tonight: The deported criminal who came back to
:00:40. > :00:44.London to rape. We speak to the students who rescued his victim. We
:00:45. > :00:48.could see this girl was in distress so I grabbed him and pulled them off
:00:49. > :00:54.to the floor. Plus, it is all in the detail, the
:00:55. > :00:58.parliamentary bill for HS2, the largest ever, is published today.
:00:59. > :01:02.And... A blast from the past. Why dinosaurs
:01:03. > :01:20.are walking the streets of London. Hello, good evening. Hundreds of
:01:21. > :01:24.police officers were out patrolling dozens of London's busiest junctions
:01:25. > :01:29.this morning in an operation designed to enforce the Highway Code
:01:30. > :01:33.and keep cyclist safe. It follows the deaths of six cyclists within a
:01:34. > :01:37.two`week period. Operation Safeway will run every morning and evening
:01:38. > :01:41.and for the next few weeks. We can join Tom Edwards who has more
:01:42. > :01:49.details. Yes, this operation, what they are
:01:50. > :01:53.doing in particular is picked out cyclists who do not have the proper
:01:54. > :02:00.lights. This type of operation also took place this morning.
:02:01. > :02:05.At Bow roundabout, the Met had been trying to stop road users breaking
:02:06. > :02:11.the law. A cyclist died on this notorious junction 12 days ago.
:02:12. > :02:16.Here, police gave out tickets to car drivers using mobile phones, to
:02:17. > :02:21.cyclist or jumping red lights, and a lorry driver for having no tax disc.
:02:22. > :02:26.I have seen some pretty poor cycling and some poor driving by motorists.
:02:27. > :02:32.It is good they are helping out a little bit. Operation Safeway
:02:33. > :02:37.follows the deaths of six cyclists over a 14 day period. That has
:02:38. > :02:45.increased the pressure on the Mayor to act. This morning, 750 officers
:02:46. > :02:50.were at 70 junctions. This was Blackfriars Bridge. Again, tickets
:02:51. > :02:55.for those breaking the law. But officers cannot be everywhere. In
:02:56. > :03:01.Farringdon, Rhodes had to be closed as a pedestrian was hit by a bus. It
:03:02. > :03:07.is not clear what happened. An investigation is underway but he is
:03:08. > :03:12.in a serious condition. I am wary. You do get cyclists and motorbikes
:03:13. > :03:18.and cars and buses, it is quite a lot to watch out for. I think for
:03:19. > :03:23.the most part cycling in London is not as dangerous as people make out.
:03:24. > :03:28.You have to have common sense. It is a bit of a free for all. Officers
:03:29. > :03:33.were also encouraging cyclists to wear helmets and high visibility
:03:34. > :03:40.jackets. Neither are legal requirements but the Highway Code
:03:41. > :03:43.recommends both. They were not warning cyclists about wearing
:03:44. > :03:47.headphones. These operations will go on until Christmas. Critics say it
:03:48. > :03:52.is nothing more than a sticking plaster. What is really needed is
:03:53. > :03:58.more infrastructure. The police have said they have to do something. At
:03:59. > :04:06.Vauxhall, police were also pulling over more HGVs. Mobile phones, not
:04:07. > :04:11.wearing a seat belt, driving without due care and attention, like
:04:12. > :04:20.dashmack cyclists getting too close to lorry, motorists doing the same,
:04:21. > :04:22.it is about general awareness. This operation is about changing
:04:23. > :04:29.behaviour and raising safety awareness. The number of officers
:04:30. > :04:35.involved will be increased. Tomorrow, there will be a
:04:36. > :04:37.parliamentary debate. It is very difficult to gauge whether this is
:04:38. > :04:42.having an impact. The Met cannot give us any figures
:04:43. > :04:48.for the amount of tickets they have given out today. And totally, I
:04:49. > :04:53.think people are behaving themselves at junctions, particularly when the
:04:54. > :04:57.officers are out. Thank you. Our transport correspondent Tom
:04:58. > :05:01.Edwards there. We can speak now to the Mayor's
:05:02. > :05:06.cycling Commissioner Andrew Gilligan. Did you or the Mayor
:05:07. > :05:10.advised police that they should carry out the safety operation? We
:05:11. > :05:15.discussed it with the police. This was decided with the Assistant
:05:16. > :05:21.Commissioner a week ago today on Monday. It is a short`term measure
:05:22. > :05:25.as you pointed out, but it is not something, we cannot put in the
:05:26. > :05:30.infrastructure overnight so we are doing this in the interim. I think
:05:31. > :05:33.it will make people think twice, particularly if they are stopped.
:05:34. > :05:39.That is an event in someone's life, if they are pulled over by the
:05:40. > :05:43.police and told. We know the Met Commissioner does not like what he
:05:44. > :05:50.sees on London's roads. Is this an initiative being driven by him. It
:05:51. > :05:53.is being driven by us all collectively. We have all been
:05:54. > :05:58.concerned about the spate of deaths. We have plans in place to make
:05:59. > :06:03.London's roads safer. We are spending more money on a network of
:06:04. > :06:07.quiet routes. That will take months, in some cases years, this is what we
:06:08. > :06:14.can do in the short`term. On that note, I think the Mayor is
:06:15. > :06:19.championing a cycling revolution, but does it show the failure of the
:06:20. > :06:26.policy when it was first introduced? You are in a sense playing safety
:06:27. > :06:33.catch up. Even two or three years ago the cycling community was not
:06:34. > :06:37.demanding segregation. When I was a journalist in 2007 with a campaign
:06:38. > :06:43.for segregation, there was no support from the cycling community.
:06:44. > :06:49.Essentially, it was blue paint and recently a coroner said that
:06:50. > :06:53.superhighways Lyle cyclists into a false sense of security. You
:06:54. > :06:57.acknowledge more needs to be done but why is it taking so long?
:06:58. > :07:02.Sheeted specifically unmarketable paint across junctions does that say
:07:03. > :07:09.we are removing that `` she said. There will be semi`segregated,
:07:10. > :07:13.segregated or run backstreets where there is no conflict with lorries.
:07:14. > :07:17.We have changed dramatically over the last couple of years. I would
:07:18. > :07:21.say what the cycling lobby is demanding has changed as well. They
:07:22. > :07:26.were much more in favour of having site list is mixed with general
:07:27. > :07:32.traffic in the past. In the end, the number of deaths is too high,
:07:33. > :07:38.otherwise we would not be having this conversation. So initially, was
:07:39. > :07:41.it a case that it was a grand vision of cycling but perhaps the
:07:42. > :07:46.infrastructure like behind a little bit? I think what we have seen is a
:07:47. > :07:49.massive explosion in the number of people cycling. I think it is fair
:07:50. > :07:53.to say the destruction needs to catch up with that but it is doing
:07:54. > :07:57.it now. We heard at the end of Tom's report that this is now a
:07:58. > :08:01.parliamentary debate and next week there will be a House of Commons
:08:02. > :08:07.transport committee asking whether the new cycling superhighways are
:08:08. > :08:10.safe. What will you say? I will say that we are spending ?1 billion to
:08:11. > :08:15.make sure they are safe and to make sure cyclists are properly catered
:08:16. > :08:20.for. No amount of infrastructure can immunise you against all harm. I've
:08:21. > :08:26.seen some people calling for the deaths to end. People will always be
:08:27. > :08:33.killed. We can hope to reduce it. Even in Amsterdam, there are six or
:08:34. > :08:39.seven deaths in a year. Do you accept 14 deaths is too high? It is.
:08:40. > :08:45.It is a mistake to take a spate as typical of the whole. Thank you for
:08:46. > :08:51.your time. Lots more to come tonight including:
:08:52. > :08:54.The London housing crisis. The Mayor's misses two double the number
:08:55. > :09:01.of homes being built in the capital. `` the Mayor's promises to double
:09:02. > :09:05.the number of homes. It has emerged that a Romanian man
:09:06. > :09:10.jailed today for rape at the deported from the UK eight years ago
:09:11. > :09:14.for imprisoning a woman. Marius Trimbitas dragged his victim from a
:09:15. > :09:18.bus stop to a stairwell in South London before attacking her. Alice
:09:19. > :09:21.Bhandukravi reports. It was the early hours of the sixth of what to
:09:22. > :09:26.do when the brutal rape took based on the new Kent Road.
:09:27. > :09:30.The 24`year`old victim had been out celebrating a birthday with friends,
:09:31. > :09:34.but soon found herself being dragged from the bus stop to this there
:09:35. > :09:39.well. Marius Trimbitas, a Romanian national who had been living rough
:09:40. > :09:46.tried to silence her by putting his hand down her throat. Thankfully,
:09:47. > :09:51.passers`by heard her. These students had been walking home but soon
:09:52. > :09:55.realised something was wrong. It was quite shocking really, to see
:09:56. > :10:00.something like that in process. We could see the girl was in distress
:10:01. > :10:03.and we needed to get this man. I'd grabbed him and pulled him off to
:10:04. > :10:10.the floor. There was no time to think. As we were chasing him, it
:10:11. > :10:16.was just that we were chasing him, strange as it sounds. That night he
:10:17. > :10:19.got away but he left a shoe at the scene which provided a DNA sample.
:10:20. > :10:23.With the help of the homeless community in southern, detectives
:10:24. > :10:27.were able to identify Marius Trimbitas as the attacker.
:10:28. > :10:33.Eventually, he handed himself in but it has emerged he had form. In 2004,
:10:34. > :10:38.he was found guilty of falsely imprisoning a prostitute and
:10:39. > :10:39.deported. In a statement, the Shadow Immigration Minister has raised
:10:40. > :10:54.serious concerns. Detectives are not ruling out the
:10:55. > :10:59.possibility that Marius Trimbitas could have attacked others. I would
:11:00. > :11:03.encourage anyone who has been the victim of any such crime or if
:11:04. > :11:09.anyone recognises him and they have been subjected to something similar,
:11:10. > :11:14.please come forward. The judge said Marius Trimbitas posed a significant
:11:15. > :11:19.risk of serious harm to women in the future. She sentenced him to eight
:11:20. > :11:23.years in prison and will be recommending him for deportation
:11:24. > :11:27.after he serves his sentence. We contacted the Home Office in
:11:28. > :11:32.response to the questions raised in that report but they have been
:11:33. > :11:36.unable to provide any comment. Tube workers could strike for an
:11:37. > :11:40.entire working week over plans to lose 750 jobs and close ticket
:11:41. > :11:45.offices. The leader of the RMT union, Bob Crow, said the proposed
:11:46. > :11:50.five day walk`out could happen in January if members vote in favour
:11:51. > :11:54.for industrial action. Transport for London is facing cuts of ?80 million
:11:55. > :11:57.over the next few years. The Mark Duggan inquest has heard how a
:11:58. > :12:01.police officer ran from the scene of the shooting holding what looked
:12:02. > :12:05.like an object wrapped in cloth. A witness, who was 16 at the time,
:12:06. > :12:09.said the action looked dodgy. The inquest has previously been told
:12:10. > :12:14.that police found a gun several metres from where Mr Duggan was
:12:15. > :12:17.shot. The details of the first phase of the edges to high`speed rail link
:12:18. > :12:20.between London and Birmingham have been published today.
:12:21. > :12:25.It shows exactly what the government would like to build, the
:12:26. > :12:29.environmental impact as well as how people can make their views known
:12:30. > :12:34.and claim compensation. We can get more now from Alex Bushell in
:12:35. > :12:38.Westminster. Everything about HS2 is big.
:12:39. > :12:44.Not least this bill. It runs to 50,000 pages, making it the largest
:12:45. > :12:47.bill before Parliament. If it is approved the government can
:12:48. > :12:51.compulsory purchase the land needed. It also allows critics to put their
:12:52. > :12:55.case before a specially convened parliamentary committee. It ensures
:12:56. > :13:00.the battle for ages to begin is now in earnest. If they just do a
:13:01. > :13:04.state`of`the`art rail link that could rebalance Britain or rather a
:13:05. > :13:08.giant white elephant which will spend `` we will spend years paying
:13:09. > :13:12.for. Today, demonstrators gathered to
:13:13. > :13:18.have their voices heard. Real problem and where the investment
:13:19. > :13:21.needed is commuter journeys. They are a disaster. It comes through
:13:22. > :13:28.Buckinghamshire and we could be accused of being NIMBYs which, to an
:13:29. > :13:34.extent we are, because it is devastating. Huge swathes of
:13:35. > :13:36.countryside. That is why the government is facing growing
:13:37. > :13:43.opposition on its own backbenchers. MPs with constituents along the
:13:44. > :13:48.route fear they could e`voting out if they vote HS2 in. There are many
:13:49. > :13:53.communities, families and communities who will be disrupted
:13:54. > :13:58.for years ahead, if not permanently, in some cases, by this railway. They
:13:59. > :14:06.get all the pain and none of the gain and their voice must be heard.
:14:07. > :14:09.HS2 comes with a price tag of ?42 billion. For that you get increased
:14:10. > :14:14.capacity and significantly shorter journey times from London to
:14:15. > :14:17.Birmingham and beyond. From this depot hard copies of the bill will
:14:18. > :14:23.be dispatched to local libraries along the route. A symbol Rocco `` a
:14:24. > :14:31.single report weighs a tonne, hence all these boxes. I think HS2 will
:14:32. > :14:36.benefit London. The problem we have at the moment is a capacity problem
:14:37. > :14:42.and at the moment, every day, 4000 people are standing when they arrive
:14:43. > :14:45.in Euston Station. HS2 is about addressing the problems of our
:14:46. > :14:52.future generations as well. There is still a long way left to travel. HS2
:14:53. > :14:56.has been dogged over claims that the benefits have been overestimated and
:14:57. > :14:59.the costs underplayed. The government needs cross`party support
:15:00. > :15:08.from the opposition and enough of its own MPs. MPs will make the final
:15:09. > :15:12.decision hopefully before the next general election, before 2015, and
:15:13. > :15:15.many at Westminster believe that deadline will slip, but just because
:15:16. > :15:20.of the size of the problem, but because of the size of the bill as
:15:21. > :15:23.well. A man has been charged with
:15:24. > :15:29.manslaughter 11 years after a body was found between the drama chassis
:15:30. > :15:33.of a concrete mixer in Essex. The body of Lee Balkwell was exhumed for
:15:34. > :15:37.a forensic examination this year. Simon Bromley has also been charged
:15:38. > :15:42.with an offence under the Health And Safety At Work Act.
:15:43. > :15:45.The Government has given extra environmental and two parts of the
:15:46. > :15:50.Thames Estuary. It has agreed to make an area on one of the peninsula
:15:51. > :15:55.is a site of special scientific interest. It means the area, which
:15:56. > :15:57.is home to birds such as nightingales is now legally
:15:58. > :16:01.protected. Critics of plans to build an airport yesterday say this is
:16:02. > :16:08.further proof this is not the right location.
:16:09. > :16:11.Still to come tonight, this may be scaring and thrilling people outside
:16:12. > :16:14.the national portrait Gallery but find out how it will be entertaining
:16:15. > :16:29.audiences at the phoenix theatre. The problem has become a crisis, the
:16:30. > :16:34.words of the mayor today as he promised to double the amount of
:16:35. > :16:37.homes being built in the capital. Boris Johnson also promised ?1
:16:38. > :16:44.billion extra to boost housing for Londoners. Political correspondent
:16:45. > :16:47.Karl Mercer has more. Looking to the skies for
:16:48. > :16:53.inspiration, housing is a hard nut to crack. According to the mayor
:16:54. > :16:57.insult, quite a lot has been when it comes to building homes for
:16:58. > :17:02.Londoners. `` himself. We have probably built about half, less than
:17:03. > :17:09.half of the homes that London needs, and the problem is now a
:17:10. > :17:13.crisis. At the moment, London is only building around 21,000 homes
:17:14. > :17:18.per year. Today the memory promised to double that to 42,000. He is
:17:19. > :17:21.promising to spend ?1 billion on building before 2018 and to set up a
:17:22. > :17:26.new housing bank to lend developers money kick`start building. Most
:17:27. > :17:29.people have said that at least 40,000 has been the figure London
:17:30. > :17:37.should have been building all the time. And indeed the previous one.
:17:38. > :17:43.Do you not think you are failed in the last five years to build enough?
:17:44. > :17:47.I certainly think collectively we have all got to look back at the
:17:48. > :17:51.last 30 years and I admit that we basically have been building about
:17:52. > :17:56.half as much as London needs. The new target is an ambitious one, and
:17:57. > :17:59.it will need sites like this in Greenwich to spring up everywhere.
:18:00. > :18:03.It will need pension funds to invest in house`building and potentially
:18:04. > :18:08.changes in planning law, something is the mayor does not control. The
:18:09. > :18:12.important point is that there has been a failure, and endemic failure
:18:13. > :18:16.for over 30 years now, in terms of housing supply. That is a big
:18:17. > :18:24.supertanker that needs turning around. The mayor's critics remain
:18:25. > :18:29.unimpressed. His conservative estimate is that we need to build
:18:30. > :18:32.40,000 homes a year, we are currently building about half that.
:18:33. > :18:38.We need to be building at least 50 or 60,000 to keep up with population
:18:39. > :18:43.growth. Rapid progress of the great five`year plan will abolish the
:18:44. > :18:48.slums and rehouse 1,300,000 people... Not since the 1930s has
:18:49. > :18:53.London build 40,000 homes per year, but the mayor has set a target by
:18:54. > :18:57.which Londoners can now judge him. Football news now, and sports
:18:58. > :19:00.reporter Sara Orchard joins us, we will talk about a new manager at
:19:01. > :19:03.Crystal Palace in a moment, but first an incident at Leyton Orient
:19:04. > :19:09.at the weekend. Yes, that is right, they were away,
:19:10. > :19:13.they were away at Swindon, they won 3`1, but there was an incident
:19:14. > :19:16.involving their goalkeeper, Jamie Jones. We will show you the pictures
:19:17. > :19:22.in a moment, they do contain violence, so if you want to look
:19:23. > :19:24.away, now is the time to do it. What happened was that the goalkeeper,
:19:25. > :19:28.Jamie Jones, he stepped into what the goal to collect an item when a
:19:29. > :19:32.man from the crowd appears to the left of the screen. He appears to
:19:33. > :19:36.punish Jones more than once before he is restraint by officials. A
:19:37. > :19:41.26`year`old was arrested and has been released on police bail. Jones
:19:42. > :19:46.was unhurt, and the spectator could now face a lifetime ban. The FA have
:19:47. > :19:48.said today they will be speaking to officials from both clubs before
:19:49. > :19:54.they decide what further action they will be taking.
:19:55. > :19:57.And on Saturday, Crystal Palace confirmed their new manager.
:19:58. > :20:02.It has been a long wait, but they finally named Tony Pulis as the new
:20:03. > :20:07.man at Selhurst Park, and he did watch from the stands as they were
:20:08. > :20:11.away to Hull the weekend. And it was a great day for Crystal Palace, only
:20:12. > :20:16.their second win of the season, they won 1`0, and one of the claims to
:20:17. > :20:19.fame of Tony Pulis is that he has never been relegated in his
:20:20. > :20:23.managerial career, but he admitted that with Crystal Palace still in
:20:24. > :20:27.the relegation zone, the job is far from straightforward. It is a
:20:28. > :20:31.smashing club with great history. You know, it is going to be a tough
:20:32. > :20:33.job, I know it is going to be a tough job, and I'm not coming here
:20:34. > :20:39.with any illusions that it is anything other than a tough job. I
:20:40. > :20:43.like climbing hills, this is going to be a tough job, but one I will
:20:44. > :20:48.relish. As you said, a long wait, but our
:20:49. > :20:52.fans reacted? It has been over a month since Ian Holloway stepped
:20:53. > :20:55.down from the role, so a bit of relief that they have finally got
:20:56. > :20:59.someone, but also Tony Pulis does come with a good Premier League
:21:00. > :21:03.pedigree, best known for his time at Stoke where he kept a very steady
:21:04. > :21:08.ship, even led them to the FA Cup final in 2011. From the fans I have
:21:09. > :21:11.been speaking to, most just want an assurance he will maintain the
:21:12. > :21:16.standards and values of the club. They like to play a decent passing
:21:17. > :21:22.game, and they like to bring through the youth, giving our travails in
:21:23. > :21:26.terms of finances, we don't want to speak too much on players, and
:21:27. > :21:30.unfortunately his reputation goes against all of those, but he has a
:21:31. > :21:33.chance to re`establish himself, and I will be bite into the Alistair
:21:34. > :21:44.Burt and the fans: With them on that. `` the Palace spirit and the
:21:45. > :21:49.fans go along with him on that. Art lovers have been asked to help
:21:50. > :21:53.the national portrait Gallery raise money to keep the last portrait of
:21:54. > :21:57.Sir Anthony van Dyck in Britain. The current owner wants to take the
:21:58. > :22:00.painting abroad. The gallery has three months to raise the money
:22:01. > :22:05.needed to buy it. Meanwhile, 20,000 tickets for the
:22:06. > :22:09.Monty Python reunion sold out in just 43 seconds this morning. Demand
:22:10. > :22:13.for tickets has been so great that the team has added more dates to
:22:14. > :22:19.their show, which is coming to London next July.
:22:20. > :22:24.Now, they may have been extinct for millions of years, but if you were
:22:25. > :22:29.in central London today there was a dinosaur roaming free. Easy with a
:22:30. > :22:36.few friends for Christmas as Brenda Emmanus explains.
:22:37. > :22:39.As a tourist hotspot, Trafalgar Square is used to spectacles of all
:22:40. > :22:43.kinds, but the dinosaur roaming amongst passengers buys was nearly
:22:44. > :22:55.enough to frighten the Cockrell of the plinth. `` among passers`by was
:22:56. > :23:01.nearly enough to frighten the blue Cockrell off the plinth. We invite
:23:02. > :23:06.children to, and feed them and give them water. If any of the children
:23:07. > :23:11.misbehave, we feed them to the dinosaurs. Apart from eating your
:23:12. > :23:15.kids, the new show will introduce audiences to a range of creatures
:23:16. > :23:20.from cute baby dinosaurs to giants in a setting that may feel a little
:23:21. > :23:25.unnatural for a dinosaur. The Phoenix is a beautiful theatre, and
:23:26. > :23:32.it affords a beautiful intimacy that will allow the audience to feel
:23:33. > :23:37.really close. Do you get this close with them? Some very lucky children
:23:38. > :23:42.get to, and help us, and we try to stick their heads in his mouth. The
:23:43. > :23:46.company have performed at international festivals the world
:23:47. > :23:52.over, bringing their interactive live shows to family audiences.
:23:53. > :23:55.People would associate as most with schools and museums, so we are a
:23:56. > :24:00.bridge between those institutions that have very strong science based
:24:01. > :24:05.and theatres, which are very much about conjuring magic and
:24:06. > :24:10.transporting people to other realms. Do you love London?
:24:11. > :24:14.There is an official meet and greet with dinosaurs after each show,
:24:15. > :24:18.which could prove exhausting for the stars of the prehistoric experience,
:24:19. > :24:25.which begins its run at the Phoenix Theatre this Sunday.
:24:26. > :24:27.London is clearly never boring, is it? How is the weather shaping up
:24:28. > :24:36.this week? That is boring this week, not much
:24:37. > :24:38.to talk about, and we will be chasing bits of cloud that are
:24:39. > :24:44.difficult to forecast, so very generally for the first part of the
:24:45. > :24:48.week it is going to be cold and still, but not always. We know it
:24:49. > :24:52.will not be raining the whole time, and it will not be too windy, not
:24:53. > :24:56.attributes you normally get for a big area of high pressure, but there
:24:57. > :25:00.is a fair amount of cloud drifting underneath this high and that will
:25:01. > :25:04.foxes as we go through the week. Today is a good example, because
:25:05. > :25:09.while some places have some glorious sunshine, other places are really
:25:10. > :25:13.stuck underneath the cloud. We had hints of it here and there, the
:25:14. > :25:17.cloud was fairly well broken. There is some clear sky, and that is going
:25:18. > :25:21.to pivot towards us through the night, so towards the end of the
:25:22. > :25:24.night we will have clear sky, and of course at this time of the year how
:25:25. > :25:29.much clarity have in the sky at night depends then on how the
:25:30. > :25:33.temperatures fall. It is going to be fairly chilly tonight, the winds
:25:34. > :25:38.light, temperatures in urban areas close to freezing. When you get that
:25:39. > :25:43.little bit of breakage in the cloud, well, temperatures will fall
:25:44. > :25:48.back, minus four is a possibility in rural spots, and that will lead to a
:25:49. > :25:51.frost in the early hours. A mixture of cloud, sunshine when you wake up
:25:52. > :25:57.tomorrow morning, and it will drift around the cloud through the day. In
:25:58. > :26:02.some sunshine for most of us on and off, and the wind will be late
:26:03. > :26:06.again, temperatures not up to much, four or five Celsius. As we go
:26:07. > :26:10.through the middle part of the week, it looks like the cloud will fill in
:26:11. > :26:15.the again, mist and fog overnight may be hard to shift, but Wednesday
:26:16. > :26:20.comes with a slightly milder feel to things, seven or eight Celsius.
:26:21. > :26:24.Thursday is really going to be a very similar day, plenty of cloud,
:26:25. > :26:27.some hints of brightness, temperatures hitting 10 degrees in
:26:28. > :26:31.central London, for example, and then a slight change on Friday,
:26:32. > :26:34.hopefully something brighter by the end of the day, but a nagging wind
:26:35. > :26:38.will turn to the north, feeling cold again.
:26:39. > :26:44.A quick recapture of the main headlines: Police investigating the
:26:45. > :26:49.alleged slavery case are checking 13 addresses across London after claims
:26:50. > :26:51.that three women were held for decades. The couple arrested are
:26:52. > :26:56.thought to be former Communist Party to this.
:26:57. > :27:01.Payday loan companies face a cap on the fees and interest they charge.
:27:02. > :27:04.At the moment, rates can exceed 4000%. It is not clear when the
:27:05. > :27:08.controls would kick in or how they would work.
:27:09. > :27:11.The Royal Bank of Scotland says it is investigating claims that the
:27:12. > :27:16.bank drove firms to close so that it could buy back their assets at rock
:27:17. > :27:21.bottom prices. Two report out today have criticised the way the bank
:27:22. > :27:24.treated small firms. And hundreds of police officers are
:27:25. > :27:28.patrolling London's busiest junctions of the next few weeks in
:27:29. > :27:32.an operation to help improve road safety after the recent death of six
:27:33. > :27:37.cyclists in two weeks on London's roads. That is it for now, thank you
:27:38. > :27:43.for joining us, I will be back with the latest during the ten o'clock
:27:44. > :27:45.news on BBC One. Until then, do have a lovely evening. Bye for now.