:00:00. > 3:59:59Campaigners say prices are rising three times faster than wages. That
:00:00. > :00:07.is all from BBC News Tonight on BBC London. How the
:00:08. > :00:16.capital's commuters are among the hardest hit by the latest rise in
:00:17. > :00:19.train fares. It is the capacity problem particularly coming in from
:00:20. > :00:22.Redding. Very often, you can't get a seat and are paying a huge amount,
:00:23. > :00:27.not even to have a comfortable journey. We'll find out if the new
:00:28. > :00:30.fares are fair and how they might affect you. Also tonight. Hundreds
:00:31. > :00:38.of flood alerts in place across the South East after yet more heavy
:00:39. > :00:43.rain. I'm in Surrey where people say they have seen the worst flooding in
:00:44. > :00:46.40 years. They are preparing for even more rain. The Catholic Church
:00:47. > :00:52.investigates why it took three days to find the body of a priest in a
:00:53. > :00:55.supermarket car park. And as more of the capital's restaurants adopt a no
:00:56. > :01:10.booking policy, why you might have to queue to dine out in London.
:01:11. > :01:17.Good evening. More than half a million people commute by train into
:01:18. > :01:20.London every day. And from today, they'll be paying more for the
:01:21. > :01:25.privilege. Across the country, the average fare has gone up by 2.8%.
:01:26. > :01:30.But if you're a season ticket holder, as many London commuters
:01:31. > :01:36.are, prices have risen even more. On average you'll be paying over 3%
:01:37. > :01:39.more. It's true, the rise is the smallest for four years because of a
:01:40. > :01:47.Government`imposed cap. But critics say the cost of using trains is
:01:48. > :01:50.rising faster than wages. The price rise may be smaller than in recent
:01:51. > :01:53.years but that's of little comfort many commuters. Alex Bushill is
:01:54. > :01:58.outside Victoria Station for us this evening. A New Year and new fares.
:01:59. > :02:03.No surprise this, they are going up again. Season tickets on the train
:02:04. > :02:08.is up 3.1%. Among the worst affected, these commuters from
:02:09. > :02:12.Redding. It's the capacity problem particularly coming in from
:02:13. > :02:15.Redding. Very often, you can't get a seat so you're paying a huge amount
:02:16. > :02:19.not to have a comfortable journey. I don't mind paying the money because
:02:20. > :02:23.I know I have to get to work so the money needs to get paid. Rising
:02:24. > :02:28.every year is not fair, I don't think. Maybe every three years is
:02:29. > :02:31.fair enough, but not every year. It's not right. Even a modest
:02:32. > :02:36.increase is hotly contested. The rail company says the smallest race
:02:37. > :02:39.in three years per passenger groups point out how to get prices are
:02:40. > :02:43.increasing twice as fast as wages. One of the hardest hit are commuters
:02:44. > :02:48.using the Shenfield to London line. From today it will cost 3.6% more,
:02:49. > :02:53.an additional ?96 on an annual season ticket. From Redding, 3.2%
:02:54. > :02:58.increase. An annual season ticket now costs more than ?4000. For those
:02:59. > :03:04.on the Bedford and battled on line, they are up by 3.1%, the average
:03:05. > :03:07.increase across all lines. Anyone using the Hartford line has seen a
:03:08. > :03:12.3% hike. The train company say the extra money will be reinvested back
:03:13. > :03:16.into the network. Billions of pounds are being spent on huge improvements
:03:17. > :03:19.to the rail network in and around London for the viewer only have to
:03:20. > :03:22.go to King's Cross to the vast amount of money spent to improve the
:03:23. > :03:29.station there. There's also many other smaller schemes, less usable,
:03:30. > :03:34.helping to improve the speed we make trains travel and the ability for
:03:35. > :03:38.them to carry more passengers. So, ?16 billion will now be reinvested
:03:39. > :03:42.over the next five years. Passenger groups are not happy. I asked one
:03:43. > :03:46.white meter shouldn't pay for improvements they will benefit from.
:03:47. > :03:51.The investments are welcome but it shouldn't just be fare payers to pay
:03:52. > :03:54.for it. The rest of the world recognises that investment in the
:03:55. > :03:59.railways doesn't just benefit the users, but everybody, less traffic
:04:00. > :04:03.on the roads, less pollution and a better economy. We think the country
:04:04. > :04:08.needs to follow suit and otherwise, London will find itself priced out
:04:09. > :04:12.of the world economy. Ticket price increases for travelling excuse and
:04:13. > :04:15.within London, on the Underground, won't be revealed until next week.
:04:16. > :04:18.For those committing out of the city, they know where they stand,
:04:19. > :04:27.the wait is over, and they will be paying more as of today. There are
:04:28. > :04:30.nearly 100 flood alerts in place across the South East after
:04:31. > :04:33.yesterday's heavy rain. Roads have been closed and trains have been
:04:34. > :04:36.cancelled. The Environment Agency is keeping a close eye on rising river
:04:37. > :04:40.levels in Surrey including several areas which were seriously flooded
:04:41. > :04:43.over Christmas. It's issued flood warnings in Elstead. Guildford,
:04:44. > :04:51.Horley and Leatherhead. Our reporter, Tarah Welsh is in Surrey
:04:52. > :04:55.for us this evening. Tarah. Well, we have certainly seen wide today, we
:04:56. > :04:59.have been across Surrey, lots of roads are being closed, and just
:05:00. > :05:03.take a look behind me. There is not usually water here. This is a flood
:05:04. > :05:08.plain and now the water is a few centimetres away from the road and
:05:09. > :05:13.this area flooded badly over Christmas. Just down the road from
:05:14. > :05:18.here, we were speaking to staff there who said they had a power cut
:05:19. > :05:24.and they were seeing patients by candlelight. You can understand why
:05:25. > :05:28.there were concerns about more rain. This is usually an access road to
:05:29. > :05:31.Leatherhead football club. But after yesterday 's rain, it is now under
:05:32. > :05:37.water. So with the football pitch on the clubhouse. It is the river which
:05:38. > :05:41.has burst its banks. It runs parallel with the football club. 150
:05:42. > :05:47.metres from here. The police came down yesterday with a red alert
:05:48. > :05:52.flood warning which is quite a rare one. And they said they wanted a
:05:53. > :05:56.place locked for safety and the Alec Este turned off the mains, which
:05:57. > :06:01.obviously we did. It's the second time it is flooded in two weeks. On
:06:02. > :06:06.Christmas Eve there was four feet of water here. Volunteers help to clear
:06:07. > :06:10.it, but now it is back. Rivers are rising and roads are closing and
:06:11. > :06:12.homes are threatened again. Many in the south`east were flooded and
:06:13. > :06:17.without power after last weeks storms. The water was all swirling
:06:18. > :06:27.around here. Peter had to leave his home by boat. It was about a foot
:06:28. > :06:31.deep. I stayed by the front door. The water kept coming up so I
:06:32. > :06:35.thought, I'd better get going and get the furniture up on blocks. One
:06:36. > :06:40.of the flood warnings as for this area and you can see why. Usually,
:06:41. > :06:43.you can't make out the river from here. But now there's water
:06:44. > :06:48.completely covering this flood plain. Now, flood warning means an
:06:49. > :06:52.area is at risk of flooding. And anyone likely to flood should take
:06:53. > :06:57.action. Doing things like getting sandbags and moving electrical is
:06:58. > :06:59.upstairs. But for some, that is too late. Belongings and the holiday
:07:00. > :07:08.season completely ruined. Rain is expected across London and
:07:09. > :07:11.the south`east over the next 48 hours and we have just heard that
:07:12. > :07:17.the Thames Barrier will be closing tonight because of concerns about
:07:18. > :07:21.strong wind leading to large floods. In Surrey, people have been
:07:22. > :07:26.telling me this on the worst floods they've seen since 1968. They say,
:07:27. > :07:29.yes, they are worried about more rain coming over the next few
:07:30. > :07:32.hours, but they are more concerned about the long`term future. Some of
:07:33. > :07:36.them don't know when they're going to able to go back to their homes,
:07:37. > :07:40.and another told me today that his insurance will cover the damage but
:07:41. > :07:44.he says he has been told he can't renew with that same company. So,
:07:45. > :07:49.miserable start to the New Year for many people here. The situation
:07:50. > :07:54.affecting many thousands of people tonight. Thanks very much for that.
:07:55. > :07:58.A bit more on the weather now, as damage to a train track caused by a
:07:59. > :08:01.landslide in Surrey will take at least a month to repair. More than
:08:02. > :08:04.40 metres of the embankment at Ockley collapsed after the recent
:08:05. > :08:07.storms. Network Rail says the size and location of the damage make it
:08:08. > :08:13.awkward to repair and passengers will have to use alternative routes.
:08:14. > :08:17.And of course we'll have a full weather update from Sara Thornton
:08:18. > :08:20.later in the programme. Also to come. Driving artists out. Are
:08:21. > :08:30.property prices pushing our creative industries out of the capital?
:08:31. > :08:36.A 72`year`old man has been punched and kicked by a group of teenagers
:08:37. > :08:40.after he asked them to stop throwing sweets at rail passengers. British
:08:41. > :08:46.Transport Police have released pictures of three young men they
:08:47. > :08:49.want to speak to. The attack happened on Platform A at St Pancras
:08:50. > :08:55.International Station exactly two weeks ago. Officers say the assault
:08:56. > :08:58.was unprovoked and malicious. The Catholic Church in Luton is
:08:59. > :09:03.investigating the death of a priest found dead in his car in a
:09:04. > :09:05.supermarket car park. Police believe the body of 42`year`old Father
:09:06. > :09:08.Joseph Williams from Luton lay undiscovered at Morrisons in
:09:09. > :09:19.Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire for three days. Yvonne Hall reports.
:09:20. > :09:23.Struggling to come to terms with the loss of a much loved colleague.
:09:24. > :09:28.Father Kevin McGinn or, at Luton's Holy Ghost Catholic Church today.
:09:29. > :09:33.People have lost some who served, someone they liked and admired. And
:09:34. > :09:39.also, for us, as priests, it's the loss of up colleague who has been
:09:40. > :09:41.with us since 2011 but has been a priest since 2000. 42`year`old
:09:42. > :09:46.father Joseph Williams was found dead in his car in a supermarket car
:09:47. > :09:51.park and police believe his body had been there for three days. Desperate
:09:52. > :09:57.Francis, the Church in Luton has launched an investigation. So far,
:09:58. > :09:59.there are no clues. The CCTV at the church showed him looking at the
:10:00. > :10:04.church just before he went shopping. There's absolutely nothing in the
:10:05. > :10:09.house, nothing in his behaviour or anything like that, which indicates
:10:10. > :10:13.anything abnormal. Police officers investigating father Joel's death
:10:14. > :10:18.say they don't believe any suspicious circumstances and
:10:19. > :10:22.postmortem examinations were due to be held today. The result of that
:10:23. > :10:27.should be known within the week. Father Josef was due to spend a
:10:28. > :10:33.belated Christmas with his family on January the 16th. The data that is
:10:34. > :10:36.now set for his funeral. The Apollo Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue will
:10:37. > :10:39.re`open its doors later this month after being forced to close after
:10:40. > :10:45.part of its ceiling collapsed before Christmas. More than 70 people were
:10:46. > :10:48.injured, some seriously, as plaster and wooden beams from the Grade II
:10:49. > :10:53.listed building fell onto the audience. It was hoped that
:10:54. > :10:56.performances would resume this weekend. But due to ongoing
:10:57. > :11:04.investigations, performances will start on the 13th. Still to come
:11:05. > :11:11.before the end of the programme. 60,000 people join the call for the
:11:12. > :11:15.Southbank Skate Park to stay put. And he's buried in an unmarked grave
:11:16. > :11:18.beneath Euston Station. Now money has been raised to commemorate the
:11:19. > :11:28.maritime explorer who named Australia.
:11:29. > :11:32.We often hear about problems associated with London's rising
:11:33. > :11:37.property market but what may not be so obvious is the impact it's having
:11:38. > :11:45.on our artists. For hundreds of years, the capital has acted as a
:11:46. > :11:48.magnet for the best creative minds. But these days, affording to live
:11:49. > :11:52.and work here presents a challenge of its own. The effect is that
:11:53. > :11:58.artists are being priced out of London. Rita Monjardino reports. It
:11:59. > :12:02.may not look like much from the outside, but this former biscuit
:12:03. > :12:07.factory in Bermondsey is worth 380 artists are based. The arts
:12:08. > :12:12.organisation which rents out the studios had hoped to remain here for
:12:13. > :12:14.several more years. So, news of the owners had sold the building to a
:12:15. > :12:21.high`end property developer came as a shock. It is the speed at which
:12:22. > :12:24.regeneration is happening, and being pushed out of the centre. You can
:12:25. > :12:28.never settled, you can never be secure in a building. Artists
:12:29. > :12:33.studios always start developing ties and links with the communities,
:12:34. > :12:36.projects which happen, but when you are constantly being moved, you
:12:37. > :12:42.can't. The property boom makes it easier to convert commercial sites
:12:43. > :12:45.into homes and putting London's artists community under a huge
:12:46. > :12:49.strain. Most artists live below the poverty line and can't begin to
:12:50. > :12:55.compete with London's rapidly escalating property prices. Some are
:12:56. > :12:58.now leaving the capital altogether. Purfleet in Essex is about 20 miles
:12:59. > :13:03.from Bermondsey. This production centre is home to a number of
:13:04. > :13:08.artists including Philip, a sculptor who lives in Hackney but now works
:13:09. > :13:12.here. I wanted to move back to London and looked for quite some
:13:13. > :13:14.time, trying to find somewhere suitable for me. There's lots of
:13:15. > :13:21.artists studios available, but pretty much far too small for what I
:13:22. > :13:26.need. And far too expensive. His studio belongs to a charity which
:13:27. > :13:30.owns and manages hundreds of artists bases across London. For many years,
:13:31. > :13:34.it specialised in taking over rundown buildings and recently,
:13:35. > :13:36.though, it started working with a small number of developers on
:13:37. > :13:41.including affordable artist work spaces into their new builds. It's a
:13:42. > :13:47.model the founder wants to see more of. The developer gets the planning
:13:48. > :13:52.consent and makes a profit and creates affordable housing, and we
:13:53. > :13:55.get permanent affordable studios which are high quality because they
:13:56. > :14:01.are new build and the local authority and London gets a
:14:02. > :14:05.permanent cultural resource. Bus schemes like these take time and
:14:06. > :14:08.support from planning authorities. In the meantime, London's artists
:14:09. > :14:26.are being priced out of the very areas that they helped transform. If
:14:27. > :14:29.there was any doubt over the strength of feeling about plans to
:14:30. > :14:32.move the skateboard park at the Southbank after decades of use, then
:14:33. > :14:38.a 60,000 signature petition has sent out a clear signal. Campaigners have
:14:39. > :14:41.also made thousands of objections to the area's redevelopment arguing the
:14:42. > :14:44.skateboard park should stay where it is because it's culturally
:14:45. > :14:48.significant. Warren Nettleford is on the South Bank for us now.. Take a
:14:49. > :14:50.look at this. You can see how well used on this basis. It indicates why
:14:51. > :14:53.people feel so strong you buy this area should not move. The concrete
:14:54. > :14:57.may be moved and they feel that area is theirs and that's why they feel
:14:58. > :15:03.it should not move. They live for skating. Biko has been here for 15
:15:04. > :15:07.years and Amelia is more of a newcomer. They also have something
:15:08. > :15:12.else in common. Anger at plan they say will affect the area's cultural
:15:13. > :15:16.identity. This place is hallowed ground and has been loved and skated
:15:17. > :15:21.every single day. It's not a skate park. It wasn't purpose`built for
:15:22. > :15:26.skateboarding but the skateboarders are made of their home. It's such a
:15:27. > :15:30.natural space, not just for us but for graffiti artists and whoever
:15:31. > :15:46.wants to come here. For me with my long board, even and you can't
:15:47. > :15:51.recreate that. the need to convert this area into retail space. It is
:15:52. > :15:53.important culturally the skaters stay at Southbank Centre, that is
:15:54. > :15:57.why we are building a new space. Do I think it is more important that
:15:58. > :16:01.they stay in that particular undercroft rather than thousands and
:16:02. > :16:05.thousands of other young people have access to opportunities? I don't
:16:06. > :16:09.think that is more important. Already more than 60,000 have signed
:16:10. > :16:14.a petition against the plans and now they have more signatures. This time
:16:15. > :16:21.individual planning objections. In these boxes there are 23,000
:16:22. > :16:26.signatures. These skaters feel about the issue. We have 100,000 people
:16:27. > :16:30.who have subscribed to the preservation statement and public
:16:31. > :16:34.opinion is huge. People have gathered today and we have immense
:16:35. > :16:36.support. It could be some time until the council make their final
:16:37. > :16:43.decision. Until then, the skating goes on. Where it always has.
:16:44. > :16:46.Those campaigners delivered 24 of those boxes to Lambeth town hall
:16:47. > :16:49.earlier today and will wait to see what the council has to say when
:16:50. > :16:52.they make their decision. The Southbank Centre say the new
:16:53. > :16:57.skateboard park is only 100 metres away and put it will be better than
:16:58. > :17:00.before and they are working with an architect to make sure their new
:17:01. > :17:06.centre is better than before but these skaters here are not
:17:07. > :17:09.convinced. Football and Championship side
:17:10. > :17:12.Queens Park Rangers have been granted planning permission to build
:17:13. > :17:17.a new training ground in west London. The proposed site is that
:17:18. > :17:21.Warren Farm in Southall. Chris Slegg has been following developments.
:17:22. > :17:25.It is good news for QPR. They are trying to get back to the Premier
:17:26. > :17:28.League. They have ambitious plans for the future. They announced last
:17:29. > :17:32.month they want to build a new stadium. That is a long way off but
:17:33. > :17:40.today, planning permission to build this new training complex and
:17:41. > :17:45.Southall, Charlie Austin scored the winner for them yesterday. He and
:17:46. > :17:48.his team`mates currently train at the Harlington complex and they have
:17:49. > :17:54.been trying to get away from there for a long time. The new site is 15
:17:55. > :17:56.minutes eastwards of their, closer into London. They will be a will to
:17:57. > :18:02.benefit from some of the facilities that top clubs get to experience.
:18:03. > :18:04.Ealing Council have been keen to see Warren Farm redeveloped for a long
:18:05. > :18:09.time and that is why they signed this agreement with QPR. QPR say
:18:10. > :18:12.they will be `` there will be scope for community use at their new
:18:13. > :18:19.facility and they hope it will be opening 9016. There was news about
:18:20. > :18:25.an incident which took place at Millwall yesterday? Yes, Millwall's
:18:26. > :18:28.home defeat to Leicester, 3`1, a fan came onto the pitch and appeared to
:18:29. > :18:33.take the flight from the assistant referee. The officials had to go and
:18:34. > :18:36.get a new flag for the game to continue. The fan was arrested and
:18:37. > :18:40.taken to Lewisham police station and today the Metropolitan Police
:18:41. > :18:43.confirmed he has been bailed to appear at Bromley magistrates Court
:18:44. > :18:48.on January the 16th, charged with entering the field of play and was
:18:49. > :18:52.causing criminal damage. We have been hearing about the weather and
:18:53. > :18:55.there could be disruption for football fans this weekend? Yes, a
:18:56. > :18:59.busy weekend of football and Charlton are worried about the state
:19:00. > :19:03.of the pitch at the Valley, not as bad as what we saw at Leatherhead
:19:04. > :19:08.earlier in the programme but there will be a pitch inspection at the
:19:09. > :19:12.Valley tomorrow, at 11am to see whether that match against Oxford
:19:13. > :19:18.can go ahead. That much is still on at the moment but it is very much
:19:19. > :19:22.doubt because of the weather. The name Matthew Flinders may not
:19:23. > :19:27.immediately mean much to you, but he was one of our most intrepid naval
:19:28. > :19:31.explorers. He named Australia but his grave has been a marked police
:19:32. > :19:36.Euston Station. That is about to change. More than ?100,000 has been
:19:37. > :19:40.raised to erect a statue of him, 200 years after his death.
:19:41. > :19:47.Millions of people passed through Euston Station without knowing they
:19:48. > :19:51.are walking over the grave of one of our most distinguished explorers,
:19:52. > :19:56.Matthew Flinders. Now a statue showing the man who was first to
:19:57. > :19:58.circumnavigate and even named Australia has been commissioned
:19:59. > :20:02.thanks to a fundraising effort by the government of South Australia
:20:03. > :20:06.where Flinders is already a famous hero. We have been really thrilled
:20:07. > :20:10.with the interest and response from the British public and the project
:20:11. > :20:16.is fully funded now, which is terrific. We have raised about
:20:17. > :20:21.?120,000, which will make `` which means the project will go ahead.
:20:22. > :20:23.John Flinders is thrilled his relative is about to get the
:20:24. > :20:28.recognition his family believe he truly deserves, 200 years after his
:20:29. > :20:33.death. We look forward to the opportunity of trying to enhance his
:20:34. > :20:38.reputation and we wanted to put a statue in somewhere that the public
:20:39. > :20:41.could see it and then try and ask questions more about him and what he
:20:42. > :20:47.actually achieved. In Australia there are dozens of statues of
:20:48. > :20:50.Flinders and his cat, trim, who travelled with him. Historian Kate
:20:51. > :20:54.Williams says there are a number of reasons he has been forgotten here.
:20:55. > :20:59.Matthew Flinders wasn't a self publicist. A lot of our great
:21:00. > :21:03.heroes, Lord Nelson, look, they were. They said, I have done great
:21:04. > :21:09.things and put it out there in the newspapers. Matthew Flanders didn't.
:21:10. > :21:13.He died young, only 40. Only `` over the next few months the decision
:21:14. > :21:19.will be made over exactly where the statue will go before it is unveiled
:21:20. > :21:25.in the summer. For most of us having to queue is
:21:26. > :21:29.part and parcel of living in London but are you prepared to stand in
:21:30. > :21:33.line for the privilege of eating out? Well, a growing number of
:21:34. > :21:39.restaurants insist you do exactly that as they adopt a no booking
:21:40. > :21:41.policy in favour of customers having to queue outside. Emilia
:21:42. > :21:47.Papadopoulos has been looking at the trend.
:21:48. > :21:51.The last train home, waiting at the tills and not forgetting Wimbledon.
:21:52. > :21:56.The British are famous for queueing and in London it seems it may be
:21:57. > :21:59.going from bad to worse. The reason? More and more restaurants refusing
:22:00. > :22:06.to take bookings. And this is the result. Here in Soho it is early
:22:07. > :22:11.evening, wet, damp and miserable, but already crowds gathering outside
:22:12. > :22:15.this burger bar. And it's not the only one. It's happening all over
:22:16. > :22:20.the capital. There are rumours it's a trend that's been imported from
:22:21. > :22:24.the states but has it been welcomed? It annoys me because sometimes in
:22:25. > :22:27.the middle of the day you want a book somewhere where you know where
:22:28. > :22:31.you want to go and the last thing you want is to be waiting for
:22:32. > :22:36.something. Me personally, I wouldn't, even on a nice warm
:22:37. > :22:40.evening. If there was somewhere I definitely wanted to go on to try at
:22:41. > :22:44.least once, if the queue wasn't too big I would check it out. I probably
:22:45. > :22:49.wouldn't try again. The no booking is all asleep divides opinion in
:22:50. > :22:53.London. Many diners say it is frustrating but it has provided a
:22:54. > :22:56.safety net for the restaurants. They say protects them from cancellations
:22:57. > :23:01.and no shows and helps keep prices down. Queueing for dinner seems to
:23:02. > :23:05.have become fashionable though some think there could be economic
:23:06. > :23:10.reasons behind it. There are number of theories, one is that housing has
:23:11. > :23:13.become expensive that many people are having to share, young people
:23:14. > :23:19.are having to share and therefore they can't entertain at home, so
:23:20. > :23:23.typically they will go out to eat. Many will be hoping it is the end of
:23:24. > :23:31.line for cues, but it looks like this trend is here to stay.
:23:32. > :23:35.And near extinct kangaroo is among the residents of London Zoo who have
:23:36. > :23:41.been counted today as part of their annual stock take. Hundreds of
:23:42. > :23:46.species live at the zoo and the new arrivals being counted for the first
:23:47. > :23:49.time as a baby tapir, two flamingo chicks and the first spiny headed
:23:50. > :23:53.lizards born in Britain. Now the weather forecast, weather
:23:54. > :23:58.warnings in place and the Thames Barrier closing tonight.
:23:59. > :24:05.There is a lot to think about, more met `` more wet and windy weather
:24:06. > :24:08.tonight, a particular concern towards the south and south`west
:24:09. > :24:12.because of a combination of rain, the high winds and the spring tides.
:24:13. > :24:17.For us, we do have a spell of wet and windy weather to move towards us
:24:18. > :24:20.as we go through this evening. That what is after what was a brief
:24:21. > :24:25.respite today, you can fear that `` you can see the satellite picture
:24:26. > :24:28.this afternoon and cloud has been advancing towards us. We have an
:24:29. > :24:33.area of low pressure pushing another band of wet and windy weather
:24:34. > :24:36.towards us as we speak and you will see the squeeze on the isobars which
:24:37. > :24:40.means we're in for windy weather as we go through not only tonight but
:24:41. > :24:44.through tomorrow as well. Wet and windy spell of weather to come
:24:45. > :24:48.through this evening and overnight. Still dry in many places but if I
:24:49. > :24:52.step back you can see the rain is starting to sweeping and as it comes
:24:53. > :24:58.in it will be heavy. It clears away quickly. Gone by the early hours of
:24:59. > :25:03.tomorrow morning. Temperatures overnight, not a cold start to
:25:04. > :25:07.things tomorrow but a gang of showers banding together in the line
:25:08. > :25:13.sweeping through rush hour. They will be heavy as they come through,
:25:14. > :25:17.particularly with hail mixed in to watch for those and more showers to
:25:18. > :25:22.come as we go through the afternoon. Dry interludes but the wind will
:25:23. > :25:25.pick up through the day. Gusts of 30 or 40 miles an hour as we go through
:25:26. > :25:29.tomorrow afternoon. Even in the drier spells. We will continue with
:25:30. > :25:32.showers through tomorrow evening and into the first part of the night,
:25:33. > :25:39.into Saturday morning. Showers keep going all the time perhaps the slot
:25:40. > :25:42.before we reach breakfast time on Saturday morning because then this
:25:43. > :25:46.area of rain makes its way up from the near continent and this will be
:25:47. > :25:50.quite heavy for first thing on Saturday morning. Watch as it sweeps
:25:51. > :25:54.through towards the north`east. A damp start to the weekend. It will
:25:55. > :25:58.be windy, plenty of rain to watch out for. Before things start to
:25:59. > :26:03.improve a little for Saturday afternoon. But again, like we have
:26:04. > :26:08.just seen, it is a brief respite. We have a trough feature giving showers
:26:09. > :26:11.in the early hours of Sunday morning and another system winding itself up
:26:12. > :26:17.out towards the south`west, the squeeze on the isobars says we have
:26:18. > :26:22.a web and windy spell. `` wet and windy spell. No letup for the next
:26:23. > :26:25.few days. Tomorrow, early showers for rush hour and further showers in
:26:26. > :26:29.the afternoon and wet weather on Saturday morning and yet more wet
:26:30. > :26:31.and windy weather for Sunday. That is a lot of rain heading our way.
:26:32. > :26:40.Thanks very much. The main headlines, tidal surges and
:26:41. > :26:45.high winds are threatening coastal areas. The Environment Agency has
:26:46. > :26:48.issued flood warnings indicating a danger to life. The Thames Barrier
:26:49. > :26:53.will close late tonight, rising River belle is also in Surrey are
:26:54. > :26:58.being monitored. `` rising River levels in Surrey are being
:26:59. > :27:01.monitored. There has been criticism of the rising fares, the average
:27:02. > :27:06.season ticket has gone up by over 3%, the smallest increase in four
:27:07. > :27:09.years but critics say fares are rising faster than wages. Nigella
:27:10. > :27:13.Lawson says she was last modified after distortions of her private
:27:14. > :27:16.life were displayed in court. She was speaking during her first
:27:17. > :27:21.broadcast interview since her two former personal assistants were
:27:22. > :27:24.cleared of Ford last month. And the Catholic Church in Luton is
:27:25. > :27:29.investigating the death of a priest found dead in his car in a
:27:30. > :27:33.supermarket car park. Police believe the body of a 42`year`old Father
:27:34. > :27:37.Joseph Williams from Luton lay undiscovered for three days. That is
:27:38. > :27:43.it. I will be back later during the 10pm News on BBC but for now, from
:27:44. > :27:46.everyone on the team, I do hope you have a very good evening. Goodbye.