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Tonight on BBC London News: Fresh from briefing the Mayor at City | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Hall, growing speculation that the Government's aviation advisor will | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
sink Boris Island when he outlines options for airport expansion | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
tomorrow. We have already been dithering for over 50 years and it | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
is time for politicians to take action, because doing nothing is not | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
an option. On the eve of the announcement, we look at the | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
favoured airport expansion options and the impact on London. Also | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
tonight: Cracking down on rogue landlords ` the first borough to | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
introduce new rules to improve conditions for tenants. Plus The | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Met's mission to Romania to warn migrants not to come to London | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
unless they've got a job. And from Christmas present to Christmas past. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
A look through London's festive archives. Good evening and welcome | :00:53. | :01:12. | |
to the programme. Speculation around a third runway at Heathrow may well | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
be over tomorrow when the head of the Government's Airports | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Commission, Sir Howard Davies, delivers his interim report on which | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
airports in the South East should be expanded and how. Expansion of the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
West London airport is looking increasingly likely, something the | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Mayor is firmly against, saying it would be bad for London and the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
country. Today, Boris Johnson, who favours a multi`billion pound hub in | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
the Thames Estuary, was briefed on the short list of options. Katharine | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Carpenter reports. The man with the plan. Is the island bed in the | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
water? My report comes out at 7am and you will then discover which | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
option we have short listed. Sir Howard Davies was giving nothing | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
away jogging his briefing. What we know is he has ruled out doing | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
nothing. He made it clear in October he thinks airport expansion is | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
necessary, but where? The commission received 50 proposals but of the | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
main options, Heathrow is one of the biggest political battle grounds. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Airport bosses and business leaders say a third runway should be built | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
with the option for a fourth one, enabling 260,000 more flights by | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
2029. Opponent argue the environmental impact would be | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
disastrous and there are strong indications that Sir Howard will | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
have this on the short list. Another runway is an option at Gatwick, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
built to the site and would double passenger numbers. Stansted is in | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
the frame for a second runway and is one of the favourite sites by the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Mayor. Then there is the flagship policy from Boris Johnson ` an | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
airport in the Thames Estuary. I can never judge if the Mayor is happy or | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
unhappy. We had a very civil discussion about the options and the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
details about the assumptions about the future growth. Anti`expansion | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
campaigners hope he has been listening. We understand he was | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
saying there is no capacity crisis. He is pushing back on the spices and | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
say you need to expand. Today, some voices seemed confident they had | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
made their case and they wanted assurances that politicians would | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
listen. We have already been dithering for over 50 years and it | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
really is time for politicians to take action. Doing nothing is simply | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
not an option. The final recommendations will be published in | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
the summer of 2015. But tomorrow we will know what Sir Howard is | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
thinking. Karl is here. Do we have any idea which way this is going to | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
go tomorrow? Sir Howard Davies and City Hall have been tight`lipped, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
although Sir Howard did seem or as Johnson this afternoon. He will | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
announce three or four options and has been a lot of reporting saying | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
we expect Heathrow to be one of those. Expansion to three or even | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
four runways and perhaps an extra runway at Heathrow and Gatwick. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
We're not sure if that expansion plan at Stansted or indeed the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Thames Estuary will be included. What about the political fallout? | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Any option to expand Heathrow? It is difficult wherever you look. Both | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
conservatives and the Lib Dems ruled out any airport expansion in the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
South East and Labour wanted the third runway at Heathrow and then | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
backtracked and they are against it. Although they might be warming to | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
this idea and there are key marginal seats for the Tories and Lib Dems | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
under the flight path so very difficult for them. Also difficult | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
for Boris Johnson if any of his plans are not included. He spent | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
five years campaigning against the third runway at Heathrow and he has | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
threatened legal challenges in the past. We shall wait and see. Thank | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
you. Lots more to come, including: Dreaming of a bumper Christmas in | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the West End, but will a fund to help the high streets encourage | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
shoppers to stay closer to home. For many boroughs across the capital, | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
rogue landlords and squalid housing are growing problems. Now one | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
council claims to be the first to introduce compulsory licensing of | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
landlords. Newham says conditions for tenants have improved, with more | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
than 100 landlords prosecuted in the first year. As Guy Smith explains, | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
other London councils are now looking to follow their lead. Just | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
some of the living conditions tenants have had to put up with. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Landlords taking advantage of the lack of affordable housing in | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
London. A relatively small kitchen and all of the families in this | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
house share this one. Russell is the head of the housing enforcement team | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
at Newham Council, one of the most deprived orders in the country. This | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
is unacceptable with children living in a room where the means of escape | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
is through the kitchen. That is very dangerous. In this part of London | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
they are trying something different. It is the first Council to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
introduced compulsory licensing for private landlords. Since February, | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
many have met the criteria are providing tenancy agreements and | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
meeting basic health and save these standards. The council is now | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
chasing the last 20% of landlords who failed to register. This | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
landlord will almost certainly be prosecuted and the maximum fine is | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
?20,000. This is about protecting the people and making sure | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
conditions are right and there is not overcrowding and sometimes you | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
get anti`social behaviour. It is about making a better place. A | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
better place, perhaps. But some of the people they are trying to help | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
or unhappy with the early`morning visit. They just knock on the door. | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
This is not just about housing conditions, it is also about | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
ensuring landlords pay income tax on renting properties. Even immigration | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
officers are here, checking identities and whether tenant are | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
illegally in the country or not. These are multiple occupation and | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
they can have 30 people in them, sometimes up to half of them don't | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
have any status to be in the country. Newham Council is preparing | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
to prosecute more than 130 landlords and other errors are reportedly | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
watching this scheme closely. `` other landlords. A man has admitted | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
making a bomb threat on a passenger plane which was forced to land at | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Stansted Airport. A man from Enfield has been jailed for life for | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
murdering his wife at their home ` 38`year`old Minta Addidoh stabbed | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
Akua Agyueman with a kitchen knife in November last year in what was | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
described as a fit of rage and jealousy. She died from her injuries | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
two months later. He will serve a minimum of 17 years. A man has | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
admitted making a bomb threat on a passenger plane which was forced to | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
land at Stansted Airport. The Sri Lankan Airlines plane was flying | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
from Colombo to Heathrow in September when a passenger was | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
overheard claiming that something was on board the flight in the hold. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
49`year`old Alan Patey pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court. He | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
will be sentenced in January. It's one of the busiest road bridges in | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
London. Consultation has begun on proposals to close Putney Bridge for | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
up to a year for essential maintenance work in 2015. But local | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
residents and businesses claim it will cause traffic chaos in South | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
West London. Ayshea Buksh reports. It is a listed structure designed by | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the famous Victorian engineer, joseph Basil Jett. Putney Bridge | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
opened to the public in 1886 but it is set to close for repairs. The | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
council says the waterproof membrane which protects it needs urgent | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
attention. The work has to be done but we must decide whether it is six | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
months in a short period, full closure, or a slightly longer period | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
of 11 months and allowing bosses to move across. Across the river, the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
local authority are less enthusiastic. Full and Putney are | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
plugged into the same economy, people go to schools and on both | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
sides of the bridge, it will be really disruptive. This local mother | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
believes both options will be tough. I think the traffic jams and the | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
bottlenecks will not be better than closing completely so if I had the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
choice, I would say the quicker option and more painful, but get it | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
over with. We travelled through Hammersmith to the side of the river | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
and in the middle of the afternoon it is already pretty congested. It | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
is feared any closure would create more traffic for this part of | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
London. And according to the local campaigner, he fears when it | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
reopens, the needs of cyclists could get overlooked. This is the most | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
important bridge for cyclists in south`west London and they must find | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
a way of finding cycling ways to solve problems. Cycling should be | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
used. Repairs will cost ?1.5 million and they are planned for the year | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
after next. Consultation with residents and local businesses has | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
begun. A former personal assistant accused of defrauding Charles | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
Saatchi and Nigella Lawson has told the court she was given a bank card | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
to buy whatever she wanted. But she escaped criminal told the court it | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
was used to withdraw her salary and was not given strict rules about its | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
use. She and her sister deny fraudulently using credit cards. A | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
London Assembly report says lessons must be learned from a fire on one | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
of the London doctors in September. The report recommends that the | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
company should make us news where life jackets. It suggests that the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
company and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency should be | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
regularly tested on how to manage any evacuation. From the New Year, | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
temporary work restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians who come to | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
the UK are being lifted, which some believe will place an increasing | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
strain on public services. As Gareth Furby reports, Metropolitan Police | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
officers have travelled to Romania to try and discourage locals from | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
moving to Britain without guaranteed work. This was a camp at the old | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Hendon football club and last summer, after complaints from | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
neighbours, it was raided by police. What emerged was out of 68 people | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
evicted, 65 came from a Romanian village. Panorama has followed and | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Met Police officer, Chief Superintendent Adrian Asher, back at | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
the village, to find out why so many came to London. How many people live | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
your? Seven? And what about the toilet and washing? It is a delicate | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
assignment for the officer. Once he has discovered why so many from here | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
came to the UK, he advises them why they should not return to London | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
unless they can support themselves. And even when, work restrictions on | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Romanians are lifted in the New Year. We know that if you come to | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
the UK without any job to go to, you are at increased risk of being | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
exploited or being a victim or perpetrator of crime. Then he goes | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
to the home of a man evicted from the site in London and he knows | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
why. So many from this village headed to the same place. Your | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
cousin was a first and he went? And he phoned you? How many people from | :13:38. | :13:50. | |
here? Do you know? Maybe 400? Thank you for letting me into your home. | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
Thank you. Today, the London Chamber of Commerce said opening up the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
labour market to Romanians and Bulgarians in the New Year would be | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
beneficial to the economy. The major reason London firms are employing | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
migrant workers in so many numbers is because they need them. They need | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
the skills they have. Some disagree. Big business wants to drive down | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
costs and maximise office so it wants cheap labour. As this officer | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
discovered, it is a complex issue which will play out in the New Year. | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
And you can see the full story tonight on Panorama ` The Romanians | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Are Coming. There are eight. In days until | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Christmas, but with tough competition, many smaller high | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
streets are struggling in tough economic times. Today a London | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Assembly committee has been looking at whether ?50 million spent by the | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
mayor to improve the capital's town centres is helping keep shoppers | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
closer to home instead of the West End. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
London's West End. Like any high street, it is struggling against | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
tighter purses and wallets and a change in shopping trends. The | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
internet and large American`style shopping centres are having an | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
impact. At here, retailers can rely on tourism, early dazzling new sales | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
and those who still like a browse. I like to feel the clothes and see the | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
people industry and stop and have a glass of wine with my friends. I | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
have not spent more than last year, because I am waiting for the offers | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
to kick in. That is when I will spend. Although there has been a dip | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
in numbers compared with this time last year, retailers are optimistic | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
that there will be a last`minute surge during pre`Christmas sales. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Meanwhile in outer London, high street is dying. In Willesden | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Green, they have even cancelled the Christmas lights. As the high street | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
loses its shoppers, Tony's barbershop loses trade. They are | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
treating it like central London, and it is not right to look at it like | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
that, because the area is going dead. The mayor has ploughed more | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
than ?50 million into regenerating high streets across London over the | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
last two years. Brent Council was awarded a grant of ?500,000 for | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Willesden Green. The money has been spent. The aim of the project was to | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
have a holistic approach to rid generation. So we used vacant | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
properties to make the high street nicer. The London Assembly's | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
regeneration committee has examined the use of the mayor's out of London | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
fund and say it is working, but more needs to be done. What high streets | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
are for and how they are used is changing. For example, we heard at | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
the meeting today that in Harrow, there was a disused supermarket that | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
has not been used for eight years, with free parking in front of it. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
That is now becoming a low`cost gym. Still to come tonight: bringing | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
festive cheer to those less fortunate ` the schoolchildren | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
helping to deliver 38 tonnes of residence. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
And I will tell you what else will bring you festive cheer, if not the | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
weather ` a look at London Christmases past. That and the | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
weather later. Plenty of football news today. Sara | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Orchard is here. Let's start with managers leaving, because it is not | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
just Tottenham who are without a boss. Yes, we will be talking about | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
championship side Watford, because it was announced that Jan Franco | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Zola has resigned. He said in a statement on the club's website that | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
the decision is in the best interests of the team. It has been a | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
privilege and pleasure to serve this club and I am sure we will see each | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
other again. Last season, the team reached the championship play`offs, | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
but this season, they are 13th in the table. And the sacking of Andre | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Villas`Boas, how have fans reacted? They have not been surprised. It | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
comes after yesterday's 5`0 loss to Liverpool and also after lots of | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
money was spent during the summer by Andre Villas`Boas. After that game, | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
I went down to the ground to see who might be taking over. Probably | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
Capello or Baldini. I don't know. Hoddle, maybe? It is hard to see. We | :18:52. | :19:03. | |
will find out soon enough. No new manager has been named yet, but we | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
do know that the planned for Wednesday night, when Tottenham | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
Hotspur will be hosting West Ham, the Tottenham technical coordinator | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
will be taking charge of the side. And a quick word on today's | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Champions League draw? It is the last 16 of the Champions League, and | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
with Arsenal and Chelsea in the mix, Arsenal arguably with the harder | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
draw. Now, for one group of primary school | :19:27. | :19:48. | |
pupils from north London, this Christmas is not just about | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
receiving presents, it is also about doing their bit to help other | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
children. They have been wrapping presents that will be given to | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
youngsters spending Christmas in an orphanage or a hospital. It is part | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
of a charity project that aims to deliver 38 tonnes of toys across the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
capital by Routemaster. Christmas came early for these 10``year`olds | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
from north`west London. On a trip out from class, they found | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
themselves in a room full of some of the best toys on the market. But | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
they understood that they weren't for them, but for other children | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
less fortunate than themselves. It's just out of the kindness of our | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
hearts. We are just helping people. It is nice for people in hospital to | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
put a smile on people's faces. Teachers have been explaining to | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
children about the true meaning of Christmas, and although some parents | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
may find it hard to believe, staff say giving has been just as exciting | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
for them as receiving. We have done a lot of carol singing and | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
fundraising, but this is the first time they have come to somewhere | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
like this and had the opportunity to pick things out that will be given | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
directly to people that need it. Once the toys are wrapped and put | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
into stockings, they are taken by bus to hospices and hospitals across | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
London. It is all supported by companies. That is what makes it | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
possible. We don't take donations from individuals. We don't shake a | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
can in your face. We feel that is intrusive and we don't like it when | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
that happens to us, so we would rather take help from big companies | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
and give it to those who need it. One of them is two`year`old | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Sebastian from Beckenham, who has been treated in hospital for | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
pneumonia for the last nine days. At St Thomas's today, his present dream | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
came true. Thank you. The stuff we have seen and the people we have met | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
have been amazing. I am sure it is amazing all year round, but it is | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
more special at Christmas. And the kindness is catching. Sebastian's | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
parents won't be sending the adults in their family presents this | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Christmas. They will be making a donation to the hospital instead. | :21:57. | :22:08. | |
A festive Regent Street in 1960. It is just one of a series of | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
photographs from the Museum of London archives, which shows how | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Londoners have celebrated Christmas in the past. And some of the | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
judicial and so are reassuringly familiar. `` some of the judicial | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
and is familiar. Christmas 2013, in full twinkle on | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Oxford Street. The lights first went up in 1955, captured that year by | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
photographer Henry Grant. They were just as sumptuous five years later. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
From the archives at the Museum of London, these are Christmases past. | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
In addition, the Museum of London Docklands has decked out their dark | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
streets of 19th`century Wapping as a Victorian Christmas, complete with | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
their own Santa. Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas! Pressed noses misted toy | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
shop windows in the '50s and '60s, in the same way they would have done | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
100 years ago in Victorian London, though the toys on Christmas lists | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
then were a bit different. The horses then were like hobbyhorses. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
I'm not sure whether children would settle for that nowadays. It is more | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
of a computerised world now. But the kids do like it, especially if they | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
come with their grandmother. They say, "I remember one of those". The | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
trip down a snowy Christmas lane continues in the old photographs. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Londoners in 1952 at Covent Garden, picking a tree. Or a turkey at | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Leadenhall Market in 1953. Or personal moments when the gift is | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
just right. As for the Victorians, this building in the Docklands was | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
crucial for their enjoyment of festive sugar and spice. The docks | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
aren't the first thing you think of when it comes to Christmas, but all | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
the things you rely upon, the sugary Christmas cake, the oranges you hang | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
from your tree or might have around a great centrepiece, all the spices | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
that go into mulled wine and mince pies are things that would come | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
through the docks at Christmas. They would be different from any other | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
time of year, because the market changed what was needed. And of | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
course, it was Victorian Christmas that stuck. St Nicholas is just as | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
busy today, and you need to book to see him here over the next few days. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
In black and white, his image echoes from the past, as do those of | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
everyday Londoners carrying the spirit of Christmas through the | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
ages. Returning to Christmas present and | :24:26. | :24:40. | |
to Wendy, who has the weather. The brolly may be up, but I bet people | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
are already asking about whether it is going to be a white Christmas. | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
They have indeed. Yes, at the end of November, I was asked that for the | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
first time. Early signs are that it will be anything but a white | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Christmas, but we will keep you posted. In the meantime, this | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
trolley tells the story. We have had lively bands of rain going through, | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
and if we turn our eyes to the Bay of Biscay, a massive lot of rain is | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
edging towards us. Tonight, rain for the first part and then it will | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
clear away as we go through dawn. There is not much of a breeze behind | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
the rain, so it will only slowly drag itself away towards the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
south`east. There will be heavy bursts. Eventually, through parts of | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire, it will begin to clear. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Elsewhere, the rain will eventually clear and it should be a dry start | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
to the day tomorrow. Some brightness to begin with, particularly further | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
north and west, but the cloud and rain will edge back towards the | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
south`east as we go through the middle of the afternoon. We have | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
also lost that very mild feel we had today, despite the cloud and rain. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Temperatures tomorrow will be around eight degrees for London and lower | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
than that around the Home Counties. Midweek, we will start with dry and | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
bright weather on Wednesday, but from Wednesday onwards, it will be | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
quite breezy. Thursday and Friday will be bright during the day, but | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
somewhat and windy weather for that Christmas getaway. `` wet and windy | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
weather. A reminder of the headlines: The prime minister has | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
been in Afghanistan today, meeting British service personnel at their | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
base in Helmand province. He reaffirmed his pledge that most | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
will leave by the end of 2014. A 22`year`old man has been remanded | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
in custody after being charged with murdering the missing teenager | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
Jayden Parkinson. She was last seen at a railway station in Didcot in | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Oxfordshire nearly two weeks ago. The head of the government's | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Airports Commission will deliver his interim report tomorrow, at planning | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
options for expansion. A third runway at Heathrow could be | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
back on the cards, something the mayor firmly opposes. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
New hand council has persecuted 134 people after its first year of | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
compulsory licenses for landlords. Other councils are now considering | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
following its example. And Spurs manager Andre Villas`Boas has been | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
sacked following a 6`0 defeat at Manchester City last month and a 5`0 | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
loss at home to Liverpool yesterday. I will be back during the ten | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
O'Clock News. Plenty more on our website. From | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
everyone on the team, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening. | :27:44. | :27:46. |