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Tonight on BBC London News: Has the Mayor lost his fight for a new | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
airport in the Thames estuary, following recommendations to expand | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
Heathrow or Gatwick? It is not going to happen, is it? | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Well, you may be right in your pessimism, I can't rule that out, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
uncharacteristic though it would be. But it is up to us now to make the | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
case. We'll talk to the Mayor live and | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
look at the Heathrow recommendations in more detail. The latest proposals | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
are for a new runway to the north`west of the airport, or an | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
extension to the existing runway. But both would have serious | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
logistical challenges, not least putting part of the M25 into a | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
tunnel. We'll look at what today's report | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
will mean for air travel in the south east. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Plus a round up of the day's other news, including: The trial of two | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
men accused of killing Lee Rigby hears the closing statements. | :01:10. | :01:25. | |
A very good evening. It was the Mayor's bold vision for the future | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of aviation in the south east. Close down Heathrow, use the land to build | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
thousands of much needed houses and create a brand new airport in the | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Thames Estuary. That vision hasn't been totally dismissed today, but it | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
certainly doesn't appear to be one of the front runners. In his interim | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
report, Sir Howard Davies earmarked Heathrow and Gatwick for possible | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
expansion. Boris Johnson's been told his idea isn't off the table | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
entirely, and a decision on its viability will be made in the first | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
half of next year. We'll hear from the Mayor in a moment, but first, | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
here's our Political Correspondent, Karl Mercer. | :02:00. | :02:13. | |
He has had the maps out and has drawn up plans. But today it seems | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
that Boris Johnson's ambition for an airport in or near the Thames | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
estuary is struggling to keep its head above water. But as the mayor | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
emerged from a lunch with medical journalist today, he was trying to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
put a positive spin on events. His plans have not reached the short | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
list. Instead they will be looked at in more detail before a final | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
decision next year. It is a good result. Do you really believe that? | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
You have been bombed so far down the running order that it is not going | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
to happen. Yellow map the well, you may be right in your pessimism, | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Karl. I can't rule that out, uncharacteristic though it would | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
be. You might be right. But it is up to us now to make the case and I do | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
think it is a brilliant case. It is a case he has not been shy in | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
making. Expansion at Heathrow has been backed by the Davies commission | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
today, but it has been the target of the mayor's vitriol for years. If I | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
am elect did mayor in May I will campaign against the expansion of | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Heathrow. I want to make one final point which is relevant to this | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
area! I will not support, in fact I will oppose a third runway! I would | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
like to see all politicians accepting the need for expansion, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
which the madness, and being prepared to back the Airports | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Commission. And the business community needs to be able to get to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
and from global markets. There is an economic argument. The mail will | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
continue to lobby for something out East, either in estuary on the Isle | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
of Grain, where opinion is split. Most people can't believe they are | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
even thinking about it. A hub airport in north Kent will bring | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
untold benefits to up to half a million people when it is built in a | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
few years' time. The mayor's fallback position was for expansion | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
at Stansted, but that was also not on the short list, not something | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
that worries the airport. We don't need any infrastructure changes to | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
the airport to expand. But Sir Howard Davies highlighted the need | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
for rail link improvements to the East in general and Stansted in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
particular. We are also looking at the road network. On the today's | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
plans, Gatwick could be in line for a second runway before 2030. It is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
not the option the mayor is yet ready to consider. | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
So let's remind ourselves of what's being recommended. Sir Howard Davies | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
has told the government he favours three options to increase airport | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
capacity. Two of them centre on Heathrow, the third on the idea of a | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
second runway at Gatwick. Option one is a third runway at Heathrow to the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
north west of the airport. The second is to extend the length of | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Heathrow's northern runway to enable two independent runways to operate. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Option three ` a new runway at Gatwick. But today's report puts | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Heathrow expansion back on the agenda. Our Transport Correspondent, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Tom Edwards, is in Harmondsworth, an area that would be affected. Yes, we | :05:30. | :05:41. | |
are in St Mary's church, and Heathrow primary school are getting | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
ready for that Carol concert. This church could be demolished if the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
runway here goes ahead. Expansion at Heathrow is an issue that divides | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
people here. Two people from West London, and two | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
very different views on Heathrow expansion. Hello, can I help? At | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
this car company in Isleworth, they employ 50 people and hundreds of | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
drivers. They welcome the news that a third runway is now back on the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
table. Businesses will be ecstatic. Heathrow is the goose that laid the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
golden egg for this community. We have 1500 corporate customers. 90% | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
of them are here because Heathrow is here. Geraldine Nicholson works at a | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
local school. Expansion of the airport would leave her living on | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
the edge of a runway. The communities are all linked. We all | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
have children who live here who go to the various schools. All of them | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
would be affected by noise pollution. You can't be near an | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
airport that is going to expand and not be hit by that. Public transport | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
will be affected, roads will be affected. It is not just about one | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
village and people losing their homes, this is about the entire | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
southern part of Hendon borough. `` Hillingdon borough. Harmondsworth | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
village is one of those that could the destroyed. St Mary's church, two | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
pubs, shops and homes would all go. The village of Sipson down the road, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
mostly now owned by the airport, would survive. The Heathrow control | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
tower is a local landmark. Campaigners have already defeated | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
one third runway that was planned for these fields here. It would have | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
taken out the whole of the village of Sipson. The latest proposals are | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
for a new runway to the north`west of the airport, or an extension to | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
the existing runway. But both would have serious logistical challenges, | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
not least putting part of the M25 into a tunnel. There are also | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
recommendations to allow more night flights, and to use both runways at | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
the same time if there are delays. It will be continuous and with a | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
high standard of pressure. How will you make that pressure effective? By | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
public meetings. The style has changed, but the sentiments haven't. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The debate over expansion of airports in the south`east has been | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
going on for generations. This was a commission that looked at it in | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
1968. Please understand the disruption that we have all felt in | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
terms of having our sleep disrupted. Today, any expansion at Heathrow has | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
and will be met with a well orchestrated campaign. There will be | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
fury in West London that a third runway is still on the agenda, that | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
lots of people will lose their homes and even more will be under a new | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
flight path in an area where noise is already a huge problem. I can | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
foresee this is the beginning of a major campaign in 2014 to try and | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
stop a third runway at Heathrow once again. Many who live here always | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
knew that whatever anyone said, expansion would be considered again. | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
Now, whatever happens at Heathrow, it will not please everyone. | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
Let's speak to Councillor Keith Burrows, from Hillingdon Council. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
What was your reaction today to the idea that this area is under threat? | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
We are fiercely disappointed and concerned that the Davies commission | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
has put forward two options that will affect the whole of the area. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
They have put Heathrow back on the table. In terms of jobs, you concede | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
that Heathrow is important to the area? They say it is important to | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
the area and there are jobs, but if Heathrow was not here, there would | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
still be the capability to create other jobs anyway. That is a bit of | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
a red herring. It is just scaremongering. You have a lot of | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
links to this church. What impact would it have if it had to be | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
destroyed? If this had to be destroyed, this was where I was | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
married in 2000. My daughter was christened here. If it came through | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
here, it would have devastation for me personally, but also everyone who | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
visits their loved ones in the graveyard. What now from a council | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
point of view? The leader of the council always said that we would | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
keep a fund available if the runway ever reappeared. As a council, we | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
will continue to fight the third runway. We put the residents first | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
full up long way to go with this. We can speak to the Mayor Boris | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
Johnson, who joins us from City Hall. Good evening, or is it, | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
because you have in putting on a brave face today, considering your | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
big vision is not on a short list? Well, it is not as gloomy as that. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
If you look at what Sir Howard is proposing, he says he wants to hear | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
more about the Isle of Grain site. He cannot yet rule it in or out. He | :11:12. | :11:24. | |
cannot compare it with other airports with detailed plans for | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
extending their runways. There is now a six`month period in which we | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
can make the arguments for the Isle of Grain site. I think they are | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
fantastic arguments based on a better environmental outcome, less | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
noise pollution and more job creation. And long`term | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
competitiveness for the UK economy. There will be an opportunity now to | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
look very hard at the proposals coming from Heathrow, both the | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
runway ideas you have heard in that report are extremely expensive and | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
difficult and involve building these pontoons over the M25 . We hear you, | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
but it is not on the short list and Sir Howard Davies did say that due | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
to cost and environmental impact, it is not on the short list. But if you | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
are so opposed to Heathrow expansion, why not just get behind | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
the Gatwick option, which is on the short list? The Gatwick option is | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
interesting and certainly less injurious than the Heathrow option, | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
but it does not satisfy London and the UK's need for greater | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
connectivity. Whatever happens, if you build a second runway at Gatwick | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
and you keep Heathrow as it is, the airlines will keep going to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Heathrow. You will not build up those extra links to the world that | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
we need and that so many of your interviewees have talked about | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
today. We have a situation now where it is easier to fly to China from | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Helsinki than it is from London, and that is because of the shortage of | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
capacity and the lack of a big enough hub airport. The trouble with | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Heathrow is that it is in the wrong place. I do hear you and you have | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
been loud and proud about your opposition to Heathrow expansion, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
but you do not want to be remembered as the mayor who could have done | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
something to stop Heathrow expansion by backing Gatwick, but you did not | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
because you were so distracted tidy idea of Boris Island? Well, we are | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
going to fight for the right solution. That is my job. I have to | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
stick up for what I think is right for London. I don't think Heathrow | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
is the right way. By the way, another issue is that a third runway | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
at Heathrow has been suggested many times before. In my view, it is not | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
the deliverable. `` it is not deliverable. You said you're going | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
to fight it. We have heard from Zac Goldsmith, who said he would force a | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
by`election if expansion went ahead, or they would not stand | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
again. Words aside, you say you are fighting it but what would you | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
actually do if expansion gets the go`ahead? Would you stand down as | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
mere? I do not see what that would achieve. `` mayor. My job is | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
persuasion. Clearly, what we have to do is win the argument about the | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
right way forward. At the moment, a lot of people support the idea of an | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
SUV airport, even a lot of people in that part of the country, who see | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
the economic benefits that it would bring. Loads people understand the | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
advantage you would get from the housing land that you would liberate | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
`` liberate at Heathrow. We have the chance to make the case. How would | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
you fight it, Boris? In the way that I have been fighting it for the last | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
four or five years. Six years, since I have been elected. We have been | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
able to stop it so far. And I believe that we have the right set | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of arguments to get a fantastic result for this city. And have you | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
told David Cameron your feelings? You can take it from me, unless I | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
specifically tell you otherwise, I am in constant contact with members | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
of the government. You spoke to him today? I do not believe in | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
discussing my private conversations with friends and colleagues. But if | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
it has an effect on London? My feelings are well known to you and I | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
hope to others. Going down the route of Heathrow, I think it is wrong for | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
the city. There are huge numbers of Londoners affected by noise | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
pollution and we can sort this out and have a solution that is | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
environmentally friendly. Mr Johnson, you have made that point | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
and we thank you. Thank you for your time. | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Our political editor has been listening to that and following | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
today's developments. He joins us from Westminster. The mayor is | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
insisting that his ideas is being considered. But why this looks | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
daunting for him is that contained in the detail of this report, Howard | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Davies was part of the way with the mayor. He describes this as an | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
imaginative plan. He says that in the end, of all the options, this | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
could bring the most benefit in terms of flights and noise. But it | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
looks at the moment is to be completely impossible to deliver and | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
the ideas are not there. The obstacles to great, says Davies. He | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
does not see where the answers are going to come from. A potential cost | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
`` of ?110 billion. What would that mean in terms of charges for the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
airline? In terms of Fayers? The impact on the affected area, the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
habitat, where will the compensatory habitat be for the birds in the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
estuary. ``? Will not be a prolonged legal wrangle about that? And | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
finally, what do you do about Heathrow and the city of and | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Southend, which Davies predicts would also have to close? Biggest | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
social and economic upheaval. The mayor said several times, at least | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
we're still in the game and we can still make the case. But I'm not | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
sure that he has a role to contribute formally to the enquiry | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
because Howard Davies said today that he is not sure that Boris | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Johnson has got any more information on this one. They need to carry out | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
an empirical process. And as you entered, the inevitable political | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
battles overseas role to come. A number of people saying that this | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
might at least persuade the party leaders to come and say before it be | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
election where they stand. Zac Goldsmith, one of those opponents of | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
expansion, as repeated today that he would trigger a by`election if after | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
the next election the Conservatives favoured Heathrow. I've asked him | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
today whether, if he was a principled, he should be going into | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
this election as an independent, unless the Conservatives rule out in | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
their manifesto expansion of Heathrow. I have already said that | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
if we have Heathrow expansion in our manifesto, I would not stand as a | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
conservative will stop if you ask me to go further, I cannot. There would | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
be a clear choice between you, who actively rejects it, and other | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
candidates standing and saying that they are going to wait and see. I'll | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
understand and I would not agree to be a Conservative MP if there was | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
going to be an agreement on Heathrow expansion. But the remains a | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
question about how much this will be an election issue in 2015 if the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
three main parties are saying that we need to wait and see. It could | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
neutralise this as an electoral issue, which is what David Cameron | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
and George Osborne wanted. Tim Donovan, thank you. Coming up | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
later, Arsenal's Jack Wilshere is charged by the FA for allegedly | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
making an offensive gesture during a Premier League aim. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
`` game. The jury in the trial of two men | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
accused of murdering soldierly Rigby in Woolwich in May has heard closing | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
speeches. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale both deny murder. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Chris Rogers is outside the Old Bailey. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Proceedings began today with a significant legal decision. The | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
judge precisely over this case, Mr Justice Vos need, told the jury that | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
they should no longer consider the count of conspiracy to murder a | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
police officer. He added that some of the comments made by Michael | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Adebolajo from the witness box, such as being a soldier of Allah, trying | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
to justify the killing, should not be considered as a defence to | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
murder. The family have been here throughout the trial and they came | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
today to hear the summing up. It began with the prosecution, with | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Richard Whitton QC reminding the jury that Islam, one of the world's | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
great religions, is not on trial, nor could it be. They then showed | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
images of the bloody knives found in Woolwich that date, saying that | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
killing to make it political point, to put pressure on the government is | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
murder and remains murder whether the government in question is good, | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
bad or dreadful. The defence asked the jury question. Do you think that | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
this the cruellest, most sadistic, most cowardly killing that has ever | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
occurred in our nation's history? It is not. He told the jurors that the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
proper charge would have been treason, terrorism or maybe | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
manslaughter. Michael Adebowale has not given evidence in this trial and | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
his defence lawyer will sum up tomorrow. | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
Jack Wilshere has been charged by the Football Association over an | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
alleged gesture at their match with Manchester City last weekend. Sarah | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Orchard is here. Tell us, what happened? Arsenal lost 63 during | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
that match. `` 65 and three. We do not have any footage of the gesture | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
itself, but it was recorded on video and it has later been picked up by | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
the Football Association. It is thought that the gesture was in the | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
direction of the Manchester City fans, and the FA now has powers to | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
actually charge people retrospectively and Premier League | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
matches. Jack Wilshere now has until 6pm tomorrow night to respond to the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
charge. And meanwhile, Chelsea are in action tonight. They are in the | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
League Cup quarterfinal, away at Sunderland. It matches between these | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
two are having to go by, it will be a cracker. They met in the league | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
earlier this once `` this month and that finished 4`3. Josie had been | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
unbeaten in the last ten. To keep abreast of that, there is full | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
commentary on our local radio stations. `` Chelsea had been. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
House prices in London have increased and 12% over the last year | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics. The | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
average cost of a home in the capital is ?437,000. Continuing our | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
living in London series, Warren Nettleford reports on how some less | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
fashionable bearers are seeing some of the steepest price rises. `` | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
'Living in London'. Waltham Forest is one of London's | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
poorest boroughs. More than a quarter of jobs here are low | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
played. `` low`paid. Traders steadied with shoppers looking for a | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
bargain. But if they were looking for a bargain in the housing market, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
it could be in for a shock. This house, three bedrooms, sash windows, | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
how much is it worth? It could probably go for ?400,000. Probably | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
?350,000. Well. ?525,000? ! Whatever next? Is that too much? Of course it | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
is! This is one of London's most of the popular to Dirirsa sold the | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
houses are in demand. For many, the area is fast becoming unaffordable. | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
This is a ground floor conversion... Even though prices are high, estate | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
agents say that there are no shortage of buyers. We have seen an | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
increase in prices over the last three years. In the last 12 months, | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
prices have increased in some parts by 50%. Applicant levels are very | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
high. Open days are receiving between 30 and 40 applicants. Sophie | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
lives with her son, Barney, and this is his room. It is also Sophie's | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
room. She has the top bunk. They would like to move somewhere bigger | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
but the prices mean that is not an option. Walthamstow is a strange | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
bubble that has gone crazy. Everybody, apparently, wanted to buy | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
in Stoke Newington but they could not afford to Sobiech coming here. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
It does not really help those of us who are already here and looking to | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
upsize. `` so they are coming here. Boris Johnson mist is on target for | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
house building last year. With the lack of supply, prices look set to | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
increase. So for now, Sophie is having to stay put as the housing | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
market looks set to move in one direction. | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
Time for a look at the weather. By this time tomorrow, it will be | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
blowing a gale and adjust our team to track it down. The weather this | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
evening, not quite so wild. But there is some rain out there. The | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
wind is fairly light, remaining that way overnight. The rain will be | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
fairly light, eventually petering out by the end of the night. And as | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
the cloud thins, the could be a bit of misting is by dawn. Minimum | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
temperatures around five degrees. Tomorrow morning, flattering to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
deceive. Dry, bright, with maybe a sliver of blue. As we move into the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
afternoon, the wind will be freshening and more cloud will be | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
arriving across the London area. Even so, it will be miles for the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
time of year. The top temperature tomorrow, 11 degrees. And then, when | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
it starts getting dark, the rain will be arriving. By the time the | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
rush hour is well on the way, the strong wind will be with us as well. | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
You will see bright colours in the rain band. The wind could be gusting | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
up to 40 mph, or up to 50 mph south of the Thames. Up to ten millimetres | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
of rain generally. Here are and they are, some places could get 15 | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
million metres of rain. `` here and there. The rain will eventually move | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
away tomorrow night, and brighter, colder weather will be with us on | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Thursday. The chance of light rain on Thursday but blue sky. Friday, | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
dry and bright for the most part. The next batch of windy weather | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
arriving after dark, taking us into the weekend. Sunday will be bright | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
and breezy with some scattered showers. It is looking rather | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
unsettled but not all the rain will fall during daylight hours. Watch | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
out for those gusty winds tomorrow evening. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
Stay in tomorrow evening, I think. Peter, thank you. You can see more | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
on the news `` off today's use on our website, and there will be back | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
later during the ten o'clock News. From all of the team here, have a | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
lovely. | :27:43. | :27:46. |