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Tonight on BBC London, gang crime figures are down in the capital, the | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
government claims its Josh Auty of conducting it is working, but is it | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
enough? It means you have to look at the | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
whole social factors around gang violence, that contribute to it. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Also, questions over child protection after a win is a mother | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
is found guilty of killing her baby son. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
A new stadium for QPR, but will it bring new life to this part of West | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
London? And, meet the hockey coach who has | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
been recognised as an Unsung Sporting Hero. | :00:45. | :00:58. | |
Good evening, welcome. We start with news that gang crime figures have | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
come down in the capital. The government claims its strategy of | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
combating gang culture is working. The project was launched a year ago | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
following the violence and disorder during the London riots in 2011. But | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
critics say although it has taken some troublemakers off the streets, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
it does not tackle the root causes or solve the long`term problem. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
A knock on the door of suspected gang members. This raid in August | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
one of many across the capital this year. 1180 gang members are either | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
behind bars or have been issued with gang injunctions, as does and | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
electric packing. On Tuesday, 400 officers burst into 21 homes in a | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
series of dawn raids across Lambeth, Croydon and Sutton. 27 arrests. For | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
a range of offences, including conspiracy to supply drugs, robbery | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
and immigration offences. The Operation Trident is on the front | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
line of the government's war on gang maniacally. But so is tackling the | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
issue from grassroots level. A Home Office minister visits this man. A | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
charity tries to reach out to teenagers caught up in crime and | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
violent. And change their lives. The government is funding projects like | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
this. My hunch is that this sort of approach is going to be far more | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
effective in getting them to turn around and each additional method | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
might have been. The government initiative has focused on 33 areas | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
across England, where gang crime is a major area. 20 are in Greater | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
London. Ministers and the police claim it is working, with figures | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
showing a fall in knife related crime and attempted murder in the | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
targeted areas. A Home Office report highlights nearly ?8 million in | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
government funding has been given to community projects. They are helping | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
the police crackdown, with new offences of threatening with a | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
knife, tougher sentences for the sale and transfer of illegal guns | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
and the introduction of gang member injunctions. The falling crime | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
cannot be attributed to the programme, it was launched in the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
wake of the London riots. Even before these scenes, gang`related | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
crime is falling. The issue is how bored and deep the interventions are | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
in these activities. Whilst the fall in crime is welcome, there is | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
enormous work still to be done. One of the most interesting elements of | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the report is the title, ending gang and youth violence. Really? Can you | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
really ended? This is state in Hackney is one of the hotspots | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
targeted by the government it is one of the hot spots targeted by the | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
government issued if. This man speaks the same language as gang | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
members. He used to be one. Now he runs a charity helpline that offers | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
advice for a way out. A lack of hope, despair, that education, bad | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
housing, broken families, missing fathers, I can go on, because there | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
are a lot of factors that contributed gangs. We really talking | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
about gangs or are we talking about a broken society? Gang related crime | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
might be falling, but it is a stubborn issue. Banks have and will | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
plague our city, but for now, charities welcomed the issue being | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
firmly on the government's agenda. Coming up later, a new wave of | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
strikes as firefighters walk out in an ongoing row over pensions. | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
There are questions tonight about child protection at a Berkshire | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Council after a mother was found guilty of murdering her baby son. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Emma Wilson beat 11`month`old Callum to death, weeks after he was | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
returned to her care from foster parents. The family was known to | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
children services. The council said tonight a serious case review is | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
under way. He was fostered at birth, his mother | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
wanted him adopted, but seven months later, she changed her mind. In | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
November 2010, he was reunited with her at her flat on this housing | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
estate in Windsor. Four months later, he was dead. Among the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
questions being asked, was at the right decision to return him and | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
forced the correct follow`up and monitoring done by those involved? | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
His mother brought him out, including two this children's | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
centre. But she told people here he was her cousin's baby, and when some | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
pointed out scratches, she said they had been caused by a sister who did | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
not exist. The review has been looking at staffing levels at this | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
children's Centre and whether the staff were qualified and | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
experienced. It has been examining how staff and parents apparently | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
noticed bruising on the toddler on as many as three occasions prior to | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
his death, yet no referral was made to children's services. One parent | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
told us the staff here, who have now left, did alert social workers. Over | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
the past two years and more, the local council has been worrying | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
where the blame might be laid. The Royal Borough of Windsor and made | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
its well`known as being one of a handful of so`called Vanguard | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
authorities, chosen to promote David Cameron's Big Society agenda. It | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
also has another reputation, in the year before this child death, it had | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
reduced its council tax by 4%, at that time a record anywhere in the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
country, which showed how willingly it was prepared to embrace times of | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
austerity. Could cost cutting have been a factor? We like to call them | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
efficiencies. Weeks before Callum's death, we filmed the council leader | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
as they prepared their latest budget. They made savings of ?2.5 | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
million to children's services, but part one `` but put 1 million back | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
into child protection. This independent councillor believes the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
pressure to save money may have preoccupied senior managers at the | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
expense of the quality of the service. It has got to impact on | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
services, because you have got a management team that are focused on | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
providing savings, and that time they are taking on trying to | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
identify savings to make is time they are not spent running the | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
service that they are supposed to be running. A number of social workers | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
left the council after their allowances were cut. The borough, | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
with the cost`cutting reputation, ended up paying more for agency | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
staff. The leadership will prepare for the findings and publication of | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
the serious case review into Callum Wilson. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
In a statement, the Royal Borough sake, we are deeply saddened by the | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
tragic death of Little Callum, and Alyson Duffy is with those who loved | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
and cared for him. As with all serious cases of this nature, an | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
independent review has been taken and a final report will be shared | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
early in 2014. It would be inappropriate for us to comment | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
until it is published. It is the regeneration of an area of | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
west London that could rival Kings Cross St Pancras, according to the | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
mayor. The proposals for a `` old oak, and include a new stadium for | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
QPR and a transport hub for HS2. It is hoped it will create up to 24,000 | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
homes and 50,000 jobs. But some are concerned about the impact on the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
local area. If you want to be a Premier League | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
club, the business model that hates you need a big round. Loftus Road is | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
too small. Today, they proposed a new 40,000 seat stadium in the old | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
oak area of West London. If the club wants to push on and the competing | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
with the big clubs, you need a stadium. It is impossible to make | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
18,000 people paid. We are really pleased with the political support | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
we have, but today is the first step in the right direction. It is just | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
north of Wormwood Scrubs prison. The site is currently occupied by motor | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
dealers. This would not just be a home for QPR, this is the proposed | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
area where the main hub station for HS2 would be. If crossrail to get a | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
green light, it could come through as well. It adds up to thousands of | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
new homes and new jobs. The mayor said QPR's proposals could prove to | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
be a real shot in the arm... We have a major football club, | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
hopefully they will be back in the Premier League, as part of the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
different, it brings people, when people come, they spend money, and | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
businesses want to open, creating jobs, and creating somewhere that is | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
economically viable and growing. Not everyone is so convinced. I am | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
worried that local residents, fans and businesses have not been | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
consulted, and if this is a development of Singapore style | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
luxury blocks, not local homes for local people, I would be worried. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
There seems to be a disregard for giving any information for the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
people who live here. Instead of having open skies, we will have | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Canary Wharf meets Manhattan. The proposals are years away from coming | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
to fruition, and it is likely that QPR's investment will only be | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
guaranteed if HS2 becomes a reality. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
In the last hour, London firefighters have gone on strike. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Members of the Fire Brigades Union have forked out for four hours in an | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
ongoing row over pensions. It is the fifth strike in three months. Why is | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
the dispute ongoing? It is a dispute between the union and the | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
government, it comes down to this, did you think that a 60`year`old | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
firefighter will be able to save you? The union do not think so, the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
government does. That is why these people are on the picket line. That | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
are on the picket line between 6pm and 10pm, only a skeleton staff is | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
covering London. The firefighters are convinced these changes would | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
lead to a cut. I asked if this could be resolved. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
It is inevitable because people continue unless the government moves | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
on the central issue, and increase in the retirement age to 60. Most | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
people realise that firefighting is a physically arduous, challenging | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
job, and the idea of having large numbers of people in their late 50s, | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
60, tearing around London and Britain, pulling people out of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
burning buildings, is insane, and these strikes will continue. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
What is the government saying? The Prime Minister says he is | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
disappointed that the union has decided to take strike action. He | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
said he thinks firefighters have some of the most generous pensions | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
in the public sector. The Fire Commissioner said that he thinks | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
that people should think about having a cab out, rather than | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
cooking, to reduce the risk of a fire in their homes. There will be | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
another picket tomorrow. A mother from Hendon says she is | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
desperate for news of her two eldest children, who she says have | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
disappeared with their father in Russia. It is after a Russian court | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
made a ruling three weeks ago that Rachael Neustadt's ex`husband must | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
return their children in the UK. It is over three weeks now and | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Rachael Neustadt has no idea what has happened to two of her children. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Last month, she won a ruling from a Moscow court for her ex`husband to | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
return them. I am completely in the dark, I do not know how they are, | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
where they are, I am really worried. I am really concerned about their | :14:16. | :14:32. | |
welfare. In December, she allowed her ex`husband to take the two | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
eldest on what was supposed to be a two`week holiday to Russia. They | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
never came back. Daniel and Jonathan used to attend a local primary | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
school in north`west London. Their father has been repeatedly ordered | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
by the UK's High Court to return them. In November, finally, a | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Russian court told him to hand them back. He was in contempt of the | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
English system, and now his actions are in contempt of the orders that | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
were made in Russia as well. I do not think that he cares that he is | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
breaking the law. He is missing, as are the two young boys. His phone is | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
off, apparently, Russian bailiffs are looking for him. He is on | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
Interpol's alert list. Still to come tonight: We need a hockey coach who | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
has been recognised as a BBC London unsung sporting hero. | :15:42. | :15:53. | |
The Mayor's bike hire scheme was extended today to south`west London. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Up to 150 docking stations have been installed in Wandsworth and | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
Hammersmith Fulham. The launch comes days after Barclays announced | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
it will not be renewing its sponsorship of the scheme after | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
2015. Here's our transport correspondent, Tom Edwards. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
The Mayor's flagship bike hire scheme today just got bigger. 2000 | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
more bikes, and 150 new docking stations, as it moved into | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Wandsworth and Hammersmith. A lot of people do cycle round here, so it | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
could be popular. It's brilliant. It should be everywhere. Why aren't | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
they in Brixton? I live in Brixton. Although there have been over 7.5 | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
million trips this year, user numbers are down. This expansion | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
comes days after it was revealed the main sponsor would be pulling out in | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
2015. The numbers have been going down. Is | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
that a concern? Not at all. I think we had a great year last year, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
because we have the Olympics and the Jubilee. Obviously, we've had to | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
change the fare package and the pricing. But it is getting 660,000 | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
users a month. Wandsworth and Hammersmith Councils both | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
contributed ?2 million, from planning cash and transport funds | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
respectively, to help pay for the expansion. We have one of the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
youngest populations anywhere in Europe. From Wandsworth's | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
perspective, it is perfect for it. Hammersmith Fulham is a very | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
congested borough, and it is very difficult to get around, whether by | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
bus or car, and these bikes are going to be really, really useful. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Now, though, if the hire scheme expands further, TfL is looking at | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
other ways to try and pay for it. We are not planning any other | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
TfL`funded cycle hire expansion. What we'd like to do now is for | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
business and for the boroughs to come together and tell us where they | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
would like these schemes to be. Let's see if we can get a plan | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
together, perhaps out of sponsorship, and also funds from | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
elsewhere, to see what we can do to expand the cycle hire scheme in | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
places where people with you want it. Elsewhere, the Department for | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Transport is now allowing trials of lower lights for cyclist at the | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
notorious Bow roundabout. 11 sites will follow. All part of efforts to | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
try and make London's streets safer. Let's turn to sport, and Chris Slegg | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
has the round`up ` starting with football. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Thanks. It's been a decent week in Europe for our football clubs, with | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Chelsea and Arsenal into the Champions League last 16 and | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Tottenham through to the Europa League knockout stages. Tomorrow | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
it's back to the Premier League. Arsene Wenger's Arsenal get the | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
action under way at lunchtime. They're away to Manchester City. The | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Gunners are five points clear at the top of the table, six points clear | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
of big spending City in fourth, but this is seen as the sternest test so | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
far to their title challenge. We believe in ourselves anyway, no | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
matter what happens. Let's not forget as well that if you are in | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
City's position, if they lose, they are nine points behind. So they have | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
more negative pressure than we have. We have positive pressure, but we | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
can make a big difference with them. Arsenal are going so well in the | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
League right now. Elsewhere, plenty at stake for all our Premier League | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
teams this weekend. There's a London derby at Stamford Bridge, as Chelsea | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
host Crystal Palace. Palace's fellow strugglers Fulham travel to Everton. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
West Ham, who are just above the relegation zone, take on bottom club | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Sunderland. On Sunday, Spurs hope to get their Champions League bid | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
firmly back on track against Liverpool. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Also on Sunday, the 60th BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
crowned. Of the ten names on the short list, two Londoners are in the | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
running. Two Londoners who are rather good at running. Mo Farah, | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
who followed up his London 2012 success by winning the 10,000 and | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
5000 metres in Moscow this summer, to become only the second man to win | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
both titles at both the Olympics and World Championships. And Newham's | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Christine Ohuruogu, who won the 400 metres in Moscow ` just ` to become | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
the first British woman to take gold at two World Championships. They of | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
course face fierce competition from the likes of Andy Murray and AP | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
McCoy. The full short list of all ten contenders is on the BBC Sport | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
website. We'll also find out the winner of | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
the Young Sports Personality of the Year. Three names are on the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
short`list, two of them from our neck of the woods. Amber Hill, the | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
16`year`old from Bracknell who is already a World record holder in | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
shooting. And Blackheath and Bromley Harriers' Dina Asher`Smith, who was | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
part of the 4x100m bronze medal`winning relay squad at the | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
World Championships. It's not all about those competing | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
at the top level of their sport though. In recent weeks, we've been | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
asking you to nominate London's Unsung Sporting Hero, and now BBC | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
London has a winner. Many of these youngsters in | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
north`east London might never have given hockey a go if it wasn't for | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
the efforts of volunteer coach Matt Lovell. Waltham Forest Hockey Club | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
is, say regulars like Susie Martin, a place transformed since Matt | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
arrived. Matt has been volunteering at Waltham Forest Hockey Club for | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
over eight years now. He started the youth section here, and it started | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
with two or three kids coming along. Now we've got over 150, and at least | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
50 or 60 turning up every week. Matt dedicates at least 30 hours a week | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
to the club, and he has persuaded 14 others to give up their time as | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
coaches. If you meet Matt, he's very determined, and he literally doesn't | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
give up. If you come along and speak to him for more than a couple of | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
minutes, he will probably have roped you into something. It's not just | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
the youngsters that Matt has inspired, but people like Alistair, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
who found hockey a little later in life. I only started playing hockey | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
about two years ago, and I have loved the way that it is a really, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
really friendly club, and Matt plays his role in that. I think Matt is an | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Unsung Hero because he puts in phenomenal hours, working with the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
kids at the club here. We have not been entirely honest with Matt. We | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
told him we were here to film a feature about the sport, but we are | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
actually going to give him this. Because he is BBC London's Unsung | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Hero 2013. Matt, we would like to present you with this award. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
THEY CHEER. Thanks! He does jokes with us | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
sometimes. He's not really that moody. He doesn't ever shout. He | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
makes it so much fun. It makes it easier for us. He always wants us to | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
get it right and wants us to do good. The fact that it has been | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
recognised is amazing, because hopefully it means I can rope more | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
people in and convince more people to give up their time. Matt Lovell | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
is BBC London Sport's Unsung Hero for 2013. | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
Well done, and thanks to everyone who nominated their sporting unsung | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
hero. That's all the sport. New next, the new play about the man | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
responsible for making a huge decision, where to draw the border | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
between India and Pakistani. He had just six weeks to make the | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
decision, which resulted in people being displaced. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
We will move the border 100 yards south. The story of partition is one | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
many people know. Border created to split India and Pakistan into two | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
separate Haitians, after independence was one in 1947. `` two | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
separate nations. For the first time, a you play seen here in | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
rehearsals is to take a look at several at Cliff, the judge sent to | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
draw the line. `` Cyril Ramaphosa. He believes in fairness. When he is | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
catapulted into this extraordinary situation of having to draw the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
line, the partition in the subcontinent in such a ridiculously | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
short timescale, he wants to do the right thing. He wants to do it | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
right. Cyril Radcliffe had six weeks to make his decision, but he had | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
never been to India before, had no knowledge of the culture or his | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
people, and knew nothing of maps. I have been sent to do a job. He had | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
been chosen by the Prime Minister, who wanted to speed up Britain's | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
exit from India. Although he met with key political figures, such as | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
Gandhi, he made the final call. The results are upwards of 1 million | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
people who die in riots and cross`border fighting, leaving more | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
than 10 million people displaced. Cyril Radcliffe never returned to | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
India. 60 years on, his legacy continues to haunt the region. | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
It is Friday evening. How is the weekend whether looking? | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
Not quite as bad as it has been looking. It looks as though we will | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
go all the way to Christmas with this weather. Mild and breezy is how | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
best to describe it. Saturday should be the sunnier of the two days. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Sunday will be cloudy. At the moment, there is some rain around. | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
Some of it is quite heavy, but it should be clearing away from the | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Thames Street at about 9pm. Then the skies were clear, and as the breeze | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
eases, it will get quite chilly. Not quite as chilly as early in the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
week, but he and there, it could be cold enough for a touch of frost on | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the grass. A sunny start to the weekend on Saturday. The freshening | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
breeze will blow more and more cloud across as, so it does look as though | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
it will be quite cloudy in the afternoon. Having said that, | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
temperatures will get into double figures for most of us. As that wind | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
continues to strengthen, it will eventually blow some rain our way on | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Saturday night. As you will see in a moment, some of that rain will be | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
quite heavy. Keep an eye on the numbers inside the arrows, because | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
you will see that the steady winds will be round about 20 miles an | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
hour. It should push that rain through quite briskly. By Sunday | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
morning, most of the rain should be out of the way, and the cloud will | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
be breaking up quite nicely. It won't be quite as sunny as Saturday. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
In the afternoon, we can expect some outbreaks of rain. The breezy | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
weather still with us. Some rain, but not all the time. With that | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
breeze, some good news for kite flying dog. I think that one there | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
is going to be very pleased with the weather! | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
Thanks very much indeed. A quick reminder of the day's headlines. | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
The Government's been accused of turning its back on Syria's refugees | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
by not offering any a safe haven here. It comes as hundreds of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
thousands are forced to live in tents in sub zero temperatures, | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
three years after the civil war began. | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
After the execution of North Korea's second most powerful figure, there | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
are fears about the stability of the secretive communist state. | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
New figures from the Government show that gang crime is down, but there | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
are concerns the roots causes of gang culture in London isn't being | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
tackled. That's it. We will be back with our | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
late news later. Have a great weekend. | :27:46. | :27:46. |