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reports. From the original concept in the early 70s... To I d | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on BBC London: a teenager is found guilty of stabbing this | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
schoolboy to death on a bus in a row over a hat. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
The boy's mother calls for a life sentence. If you take like you | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
should go to prison, because I will never see my son again. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight: the brother of a man who was shot | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
dead in the Alps is told he won't face prosecution. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Plus they've swum here ` now it's your turn. The Olympic Aquatics | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Centre is set to open to the public. And... | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
# A distant echo of far`away voices boarding far`away trains. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
The forgotten tube. Memories of life underground from another generation. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Good evening. A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
14`year`old boy on a bus in south`east London. Kevin Ssali was | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
stabbed to death in September 2012, just a few hundred yards from the | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
bakery where 16`year`old Jimmy Mizen was murdered four years ago. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Tonight, Jimmy Mizen's father told BBC London this case highlighted the | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
importance of witnesses coming forward to help break the cycle of | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
violence. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Guy Smith reports. | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
The teenage killer, here wearing a baseball cap, takes a knife from his | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
shoe before entering the bus. He walks up the stairs. We don't show | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
it, but Rory Cox then attacks his victim. This is 14`year`old Kevin | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Ssali, in the white T`shirt, his hand on his chest. He has been | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
stabbed through the heart. It is September 2012 in Lee in south`east | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
London. Today, Cox, who is now 18, was convicted of his murder. He was | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
on bail at the time for a separate robbery. The Old Bailey heard Kevin | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
was killed after an argument over a hat. His mother was in court | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
listening to all of the evidence. My son was a very good child, a happy | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
son, he loved music, had a lot of friends. He always had respect for | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
me, he always said, "Andre Villas`Boas yes, money" , `` yes, | :02:26. | :02:37. | |
mummy" . First, it was forensic, then messages, poems, even old | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
school ties, but were left at the scene, a reminder of just how young | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Kevin Ssali was. But police say it was those who witnessed what | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
happened and then talked to officers that helped solve the case. The | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
evidence was overwhelming. Detectives not only had CCTV from | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
the bus, but also at least ten witnesses came forward who could | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
either identify the killer or saw him take a knife from his trainer as | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
he got on the bus. The fatal stabbing was just a few hundred | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
yards from the bakery where 16`year`old Jimmy Mizen was murdered | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
six years ago. This afternoon, his father urged witnesses of serious | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
crime to never stay silent. In Jimmy's case, witnesses were | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
prepared to come forward and testify as to what happened and I understand | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
in this case, the same thing has happened. If we really want to make | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
some changes to our communities and neighbourhoods, it is up to each and | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
every one of us to do something to try and make that come about. The | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
murder of a young boy of such a minor dispute has shocked his | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
family. The killer will be sentenced next month. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Plenty to come tonight, including: Throwing out the big bins. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Why Lambeth is the latest council to introduce smaller ones. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
The brother of a man shot dead in the French Alps in 2012 says he's | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
relieved that police are taking no further action against him. Zaid | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
al`Hilli, who was arrested last year on suspicion of conspiracy to | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
murder, has always said he had nothing to do with the deaths of his | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
brother, Saad, his sister`in`law, her mother and a passing cyclist. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Tarah Welsh is outside his house in Chessington. Tarah, remind us of the | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
background of this case. Well, it was an horrendous crime in | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
one of the most picturesque locations in the French Alps. Saad | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
al`Hilli, his wife, mother`in`law and a French cyclist, all shot | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
dead. The amazing thing about this story was that the two little girls | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
survived. A four`year`old was hiding under her mother's skirt and a | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
seven`year`old survived being shot. Now, Saad's brother was accused of | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
arranging the killings because of an alleged family dispute over | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
inheritance. He has always denied having anything to do with the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
killings and he told that to the BBC's Panorama last year. Did you | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
kill your brother? No, of course not. Did you arrange for anyone else | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
to kill the family, to kill your brother and relatives? No, the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
people who killed my brother are French. Well, today, Zaid al`Hilli | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
was freed from bail. Surrey police said there was not enough evidence | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
to charge him. He was seen leaving his home here earlier today and he | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
told reporters he was relieved, but this is a French led investigation | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
and French police say that Mr al`Hilli is still the main suspect. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
They had 20 investigators working on this and are still pursuing a number | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
of lives. They want to find a motorcyclist and a BMW seen in the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
area at the time of the murders. Tara, from Chessington, thank you. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
From March, Londoners will be able to swim in the Olympic Aquatics | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Centre. For less than ?5, anyone can take a dip in the pool, used in 2012 | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
by stars such as Rebecca Adlington and Ellie Simmonds. The rest of the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
park will open bit by bit, meaning that by the 5th of April, almost all | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
of the site will be open to the public. Let's join our Sports News | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
Correspondent, Adrian Warner, is overlooking the park now. | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
`` who is. If you look behind me, you can see the lights of the | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
aquatic centre. There is nobody swimming in there tonight, they have | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
put them on just for us to show you. If you remember, this building | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
was supposed to be the iconic building, the most beautiful | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
building of the Olympic Park. It didn't really turn out that way, did | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
it, during the games? But now it has been redesigned, it is coming into | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
its own. Not much beauty in its design during | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
the Olympics, a bit bloated, like a slug with blow`up armbands, but the | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
large dams have now been removed and replaced with huge windows. And now | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
you can finally see the design. The slug has become an elegant | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
stingray, a wavelike roof 160 metres long, and from the 1st of March, the | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
two swimming pools and diving pool will be open to the public for | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
training and recreational swimming. The prices are around the average | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
prices for borrowers in the area, so do most people are going to pay is | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
around ?4 50 for an adult, then to ?3 50 for an adult. Children is an | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
LAPs, senior citizens, from ?2 50, ?2. Last summer, the north of the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
park is open permanently. From April the 5th, the South will be open | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
again. Apart from the Olympic Stadium, which is being rebuilt. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
This is the view from the Orbit Tower, which park owners hope will | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
become one of London's most popular tourist attractions. But they are | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
changing the park as well, so that Londoners can use it like any other | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
part. This place during the Olympics was always very busy. Thousands of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
people making their way along here to the various venues. But you can | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
see they are now building a children's play area. They want this | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
to be a much calmer place, where Londoners can bring their children | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
every day. The stadium will host matches at the 2015 Rugby union | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
World Cup, and West Ham United football club are moving in in 2016, | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
but this year is also important for major events. We have the Tour de | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
France coming through the park, on day three of the Tour de France. We | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
have sport Relief in March, and the ride London cycling event, 100 miles | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
of riding starting in the Olympic Park, so we have major events coming | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
through. So the park will be at the centre of world attention again this | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
summer, but the hope is it will become an everyday playground for | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
London as well. And Adrian, there has been | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
discussion today about whether enough affordable homes are being | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
built on the park? Yes, a big debate at the London | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Assembly, where the mayor was answering questions. He set a target | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
of 35% of all the housing at the new neighbourhoods around this Olympic | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Park being affordable housing, but the first neighbourhood that is | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
being built, job, the percentage is just 28%, so today he faced question | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
on the Labour's spokesman on housing. I want to make sure that we | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
get that 35% across the whole of the park, and even then, it is not very | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
good. We don't want this to be a gilded enclave. Right, but we don't, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
on the other hand, wanted to be a place where there are `` want it to | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
be a place where there are jobs, aspiration, mixed communities and | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
the rest of it. People want to see homes on the ground, homes built in | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
London, rather than windy aspiration for a higher and higher proportion | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
of affordable `` affordable. That is unachievable and never gets built. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
This is an area with some of the highest unemployment in the country | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
and some of the youngest people in the country, under 25, and the | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Keating, the challenge, is to make sure they are not priced out of the | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
housing market, as all of these new developments place. | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Adrian, many thanks. Burglars have attempted to steal the | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
ashes of Sigmund Freud. The remains of the founder of psychoanalysis and | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
his wife were contained in an ancient Greek urn that belonged to | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Freud. It was damaged during a burglary at a crematorium in Golders | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Green. The Met has described the incident as "despicable and callous" | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
and urged anyone with information to contact Crimestoppers. | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
A man armed with a six inch knife who was rugby tackled the ground by | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
police outside Buckingham Palace been sentenced to 16 months in | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
prison. David pal Mark was sentenced for trespass and position of the | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
blade `` David Bell mah. He jumped a vehicle barrier in October at an | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
apparent protest of his incapacity benefit being stopped. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
David Cameron has been urged to look at reforming the Independent Police | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
Complaints Commission. Tottenham MP David Lammy raised the issue in | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
Prime Minister's Questions, saying cases like the shooting of Mark | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Duggan and plebgate have undermined the organisation's credibility. I am | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
always prepared to look at reforms of organisations like this. There | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
was a big reform years ago to make the IPCC more independent. He's | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
shaking his head and saying it isn't working, I am very happy to look at | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
arguments. In the issue of PC Wallace, it was deeply shocking, to | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
see an email that purported to be somebody who had witnessed an event, | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
and you are told it's a member of the public and it turns out it is a | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
serving police officer. That was deeply troubling and deeply | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
disturbing, so I'm not saying all is well. I think the vast majority of | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
British police service do a magnificent job. They put their | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
lives on the line for a stay at the day, we should always recall that, | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
but I'm happy to look at proposals as to how we can strengthen these | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
arrangements. Lambeth has become the latest | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
council to shrink the size of its wheelie bins. It says it will help | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, but many residents are | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
furious. It's thought one in four local authorities across the country | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
have shrunk their bins by up to 50%. Sarah Harris has the details. | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Millie Pilsen from Clapham is a conscientious recycler, but with a | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
family of five, she found it hard to fit her general rubbish in the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
standard wheelie bin. That was before Lambeth Council replaced it | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
with an even smaller one. I have got five adults and I am going to get | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
the same ways, regardless of how same Matt Ridley Biggles or the bin | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
is. I have always recycled and have a separate bin for food. Now they | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
want another bin for non`recyclable, non`food waste, so | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
my house will be overloaded with bins. This is one of the smaller | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
bins Lambeth Council has provided householders with. Councillor Imogen | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Walsh was one of those who brought in the policy, to encourage | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
recycling and cut costs. The money to replace the bins came from | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
central government and she says it has been a great success. 140 litre | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
bin, together with the food waste, is absolutely plenty of most people | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
and, actually, people are happy to do the right thing for the | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
environment and the sensible thing financially. How big your bin is | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
will depend on where you live. If you live in neighbouring Richmond, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
you won't have a wheelie bin at all, because they use sacks. In Barking | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
and Dagenham, like Lambeth, they use the smaller, slimmer model of | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
wheelie bin. These 60 litre bins are largely being phased out. Most | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
councils are using these, the standard 240 litre bin. In Barnet, | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
they get three standard sized bins, including one to recycling. Most | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
people we spoke to were very happy with their lot. All of the recycling | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
is in this one and normal rubbish in that one. Plenty of space for all of | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
us and all of our family. The argument against smaller bins is | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
that people are more likely to resort to fly tipping or dumping | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
rubbish on their neighbours. Millie says it will not be long before her | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
garden will resemble a tip, and she says she wants her bigger bin back. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
The families of four men who died while in police custody are calling | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
on the Government to change how the police deal with people with mental | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
health problems. Relatives of Sean Rigg, who died in 2008 at Brixton | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Police station, were among those who met Health Minister Norman Lamb | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
today. They spoke to our Special Correspondent Kurt Barling. Today, | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
for families went in search of a listening ear from the Minister of | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
health, Norman Lamb. Since 2008, the family Sean Rigg have battled to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
ensure accountability for the actions of police officers that led | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
to his death. Nothing has changed since Sean died, so we are here to | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
prove to the Minister that nothing has changed and we want to know what | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
the Government is going to do about that. Today, the family join forces | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
with other families of men who had died from restraint related in | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
injuries after Sean Rigg. We want them to take our case seriously, to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
hear what we have to say, what the families have to say, because it | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
affects us really badly and something has to be done. The | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
families were hoping to impress upon the minister had the use of | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
dangerous restraint with vulnerable people can end in fatality and slow | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
and painful legal redress. After 90 minutes, anticipation turned to | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
expectation. He has offered that he will help the families to try and | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
facilitate a meeting between himself and the families and Damian Green | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
MP, who is the Minister of Policing, so that is a great step and it will | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
be the first of its kind. Inquest has supported breed families for | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
many years and hopes that this open discussion might lead to a broader | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
debate the change. I think the fact that people are still dying in | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
shocking circumstances shows how far we still have to go. However, the | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
fact that there is dialogue with the families of those who died and with | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
inquest shows it is at least on the political agenda. Although this was | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
a private meeting, the families hope it is very much part of | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
accountability, they hope it will bring reform and reform that will | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
make officers on the ground more accountable for their actions and | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Auden `` when ordinary citizens lose their lives. Still to come tonight. | :17:07. | :17:18. | |
How Londoners on the tube inspired one photographer's best work. | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
The country's first ever pay`as`you`go cafe has opened in | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
east London, where everything is free, except the time you spend | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
there. You don't need to pay for tea, coffee or biscuits, but you get | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
charged three pence`a`minute for a seat at the cafe on Old Street. Asad | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
Ahmad explains. The idea comes from Russia. It's based on real`life | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
social networking and it works by paying for that most valuable of | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
things, time. Everything is for free. Tea, coffee, cookies, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
vegetables. You can bring your own food here, you can work with your | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
computer, free Wi`Fi. At the entrance, there is a cupboard full | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
of old alarm clocks. You write down the time you came, and when you | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
leave, we can trace how much time you spent here. It's quirkiness has | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
proved so popular in the Soviet Union, the owners are considering | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
doing a Starbucks, and going global. What better city to start their test | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
with that in London? When I go to a coffee shop, I don't go for the | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
coffee, but the area, the place. I'm paying for the place as opposed to | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
the coffee, which is it. It's a super interesting idea. The coffee | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
is great. Yeah, I really like it. The owners believe the cafe promotes | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
a new way of social networking, saying the model isn't about making | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
money or profits, but its aim is just to include everyone. It's the | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
way people communicate. Social networks. The openness of it. And | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
the lack of status. And social networks, you know, need this. They | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
need real life. Time is genuinely money in this cafe, so the clock is | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
ticking to see if there's enough time in London for it to make a | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
profit. Interesting. A man from London has beaten 15 international | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
teams to win one of the world's toughest rowing races. Tom Salt from | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Kennington, along with team mate Mike Burton, completed the | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
3,000`mile race from the Canary Islands to Antigua in just over 41 | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
days and two hours. During the challenge the pair said they battled | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
40`foot waves, tropical storms, as well as seasickness. Congratulations | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
to them. For many long`suffering commuters, a journey on the Tube can | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
be seen as a bit of an ordeal. But for one photographer, it's provided | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
artistic inspiration. Bob Mazzer has put together a book of images | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
capturing a sense of London Underground, during the seventies | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
and eighties, as Charlie Rose reports. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Perhaps it's never been the most inspirational backdrop for the daily | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
commuter, but to a photographer on his late`night journey home, the | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
London Underground presented some unmissable opportunities. It's a | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
whole little world under the ground. A slightly scary idea. | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
His job as a film projectionist meant he was always travelling home | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
late on the tube. He didn't mind. Every picture tells a story. She was | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
doing all this posing, on the phone out here, and she seemed like | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
someone who was being filmed. When she got off the phone, she hitched | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
up with this much older guy, who I presumed was her sugar daddy, and | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
they went off and down into the tube and I followed them because I want | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
to know what was going on. And I never found out. I lost them. This | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
is the baby, yeah. Much of the time, his only companion was his trusty | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
camera. You had to do everything by hand, including focusing. But | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
sometimes he also had the company of his long`term partner. Things were | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
different, people did smoke. On the Underground. I, myself, when I was a | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
student, had been known to go round and round on the Circle line | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
chatting to friends. A different sort of place, I suppose. Less | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
bright, and a lot dirtier. The London Underground is also much | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
busier now. But that is ideal for Bob, who still rides the tube trains | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
looking for the next story. I find it a fascinating place, subterranean | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
world. The British Museum, home to the Elgin Marbles and a world famous | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
collection of Egyptian mummies, is celebrating its busiest ever year. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
More than six a half million people visited in 2013. Brenda Emmanus has | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
been finding out why it's so popular. Eldorado, Powell and gold | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
in ancient Colombia is one of the current exhibitions drawing visitors | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
to the British Museum. The popular London attraction celebrates its | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
255th anniversary today. With the announcement of record visitors last | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
year. When opened in January 1759, it could boast of 75 people through | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
its doors each day. Tickets were free but you had to apply. Last | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
year, up to 25,000 people visited the museum each day. In 2013, the | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
museum received over 6700 visits. Beating the previous record of 6 | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
million in 2008. I think we had a terrific programme of activities | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
last year at the museum, lots of wonderful exhibitions that people | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
were very keen to come to. I think certainly there has been an Olympic | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
fact, so lots of tourists were in London this year as a result of what | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
they saw on their TV screens in 2012, so a combination of those | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
things plus the amazing collection at the museum just keeps bringing | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
people through the doors. They say sex sells and this Japanese art | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
certainly drew crowds but it was the exhibition of life and death in | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Pompeii which led to the institution 's biggest summer ever. Today's | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
visitors confirmed the venue's popularity. If the collections, it's | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
the buildings, the history, and this fabulous conversion in the central | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
court. Brilliant. Just the sheer mass of things. I was here | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
yesterday, too. It was always that to be free, always set up to be for | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
everybody. Native or foreign`born, the studious, curious, anybody want | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
to do experience the collections, and it has remained that way. It was | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
the first of a new kind of amusing, national, not blind to the church or | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
king, and now has one of the largest collections in the world with | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
millions of people constantly pouring through its London doors. | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Over to Wendy for the a look at the weather. It was milder today, I | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
guess. 12 degrees in London where it it | :24:45. | :24:56. | |
should've been. Showers could start to cause trouble so staying out of | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
the next few `` few days. As we go through the night, some heavy | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
showers, some is worth putting the flood warning number at the game. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Seven flood warnings across many areas and they will be vulnerable to | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
its pieces of rain we are going to get in the next few days. This | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
evening and overnight, showers are going to be quite heavy. It's coming | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
through on a cold front, broken up into pieces. Not constant rain but | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
heavy bursts here and there. With that, the Windmill with that, the | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
wind will whip up from a southerly direction so it means it's going to | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
be a mild night `` the wind will whip up. Between five and`7 Celsius. | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
On the how it will be less gloomy today. Some brightness and sunny | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
spells and then some showers starting to work through during the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
afternoon. Loan through on a fairly brisk southerly wind. The risk is | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
they go through one after another and that means in some places, we | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
will have a lot of rain by the end of tomorrow. It will be on the mild | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
side, tempered as getting into double figures. Thursday and Friday, | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
the showers risk lining up one after another with the flow of the wind | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
and where that happens, there could be up to 20 million metres over the | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
next 48 hours. It's just rain we don't need, especially in some | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
areas. Saturday, it looks like there will be a spell of wet and windy | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
weather for Saturday as well and then, one or two showers around on | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Sunday but they should be mostly light with a bit of sunshine in | :26:32. | :26:32. | |
between. Wendy, thank you very much indeed. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
The main headlines now. The Prime Minister says he will veto any | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
proposal by the mainly state`owned Royal Bank of Scotland to increase | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
the overall level of pay and bonuses. But David Cameron refused | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
to back a limit on share`based pay`outs. A woman has told a jury | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
how the Coronation Street actor, William Roache, sexually assaulted | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
her when she was 14. At a separate trial, a jury has heard how the | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
former BBC One DJ Dave Lee Travis indecently assaulted a trainee | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
newsreader during the 1980s. A teenager has been found guilty of | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
murdering a 14`year`old boy on a bus in south`east London. Kevin Ssali | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
was stabbed to death in September 2012. And the brother of a man shot | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
dead in the French Alps says he's relieved that police are taking no | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
further action against him. Zaid al`Hilli was arrested on suspicion | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
of conspiring to murder his brother, Saad, and three other people. That's | :27:28. | :27:37. | |
it for now. More on day's stories on our website and Alice Bhandhukravi | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
will be back with our late news. From me and the team here, thanks | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
for watching and enjoy your evening. Bye bye. | :27:45. | :27:47. |