:00:00. > :00:00.Correspondent Fergus Walsh is the And on BBC One, we now join the
:00:07. > :00:08.BBC's news teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London News, a
:00:09. > :00:20.special report. The capital's black economy, where ?40 buys a day's work
:00:21. > :00:22.from Romanian migrants. The Business Secretary tells us
:00:23. > :00:31.he'll crack down on people who refuse to pay the minimum wage. It
:00:32. > :00:36.is a serious breach of the law. It is our aim to drive this off the
:00:37. > :00:38.streets, throughout the country. There's concern that the practice is
:00:39. > :00:40.driving down wages of British workers.
:00:41. > :00:44.Also tonight: The new trains the government says will help to ease
:00:45. > :00:47.overcrowding for commuters. The London computer game designer
:00:48. > :01:01.who sold his company for 400 million after just two years.
:01:02. > :01:03.Plus: I told him, if you want to give up with football, keep up with
:01:04. > :01:06.his chores. Lenny Henry on the West End
:01:07. > :01:15.performance which has won him a prestigious award.
:01:16. > :01:18.Good evening. Welcome to the programme.
:01:19. > :01:21.An investigation by BBC London has revealed the desperately low wages
:01:22. > :01:26.for which migrants in the capital are prepared to work. Our undercover
:01:27. > :01:30.filming shows labourers from eastern Europe being paid ?40 a day or less
:01:31. > :01:35.` well below the legal minimum wage ` all cash in hand. The Business
:01:36. > :01:40.Secretary, Vince Cable, has promised to act against employers who break
:01:41. > :01:43.the law. And there are concerns that the practice is driving down wages
:01:44. > :01:56.for Londoners trying to get work in the building trade.
:01:57. > :02:00.Waiting for work on the seven Sisters Rd, north London. Some
:02:01. > :02:06.locals who have watched this scene, day in, day out, so the numbers
:02:07. > :02:14.appear to be growing. It is just increasing every week. TRANSLATION:
:02:15. > :02:19.It is growing every day. But what is this lifelike, and how much or how
:02:20. > :02:24.little might be paid? To find out, we asked two Romanians to go
:02:25. > :02:31.undercover. Let's call them Andre and barriers. `` Darius. Both
:02:32. > :02:37.carried a hidden camera. It is day one, and Andre has just joined a
:02:38. > :02:43.group waiting for any offer of work. They talk about how little they can
:02:44. > :02:50.be paid. TRANSLATION: My boss was paying me ?37 50 a day. TRANSLATION:
:02:51. > :02:59.I worked from 9:30am till four for ?10. The national minimum wage is ?6
:03:00. > :03:08.31 and our. Some here offering work want to pay as little as possible.
:03:09. > :03:15.So how would our two Romanians do when they accepted work here? And at
:03:16. > :03:24.another pick`up point in Cricklewood? Andre ends up carrying
:03:25. > :03:30.mattresses. Scores of them. And he is asked to climb a ladder to fix a
:03:31. > :03:34.pipe with some tape. We showed this footage to a health and safety
:03:35. > :03:38.expert. It is not just that this chap is being asked to do dangerous
:03:39. > :03:41.jobs, it is evident that nobody is thinking about whether the jobs are
:03:42. > :03:47.dangerous in the first place. They don't seem to care. You are just
:03:48. > :03:56.there basically to do that, do that and go away. And after all this,
:03:57. > :04:03.what does he term? `` what does he earn? ?40, which works out at ?5 71
:04:04. > :04:09.per hour, under the minimum wage. On another day with another employer,
:04:10. > :04:16.Andre is taken to a flat in Primrose Hill, one of London's most exclusive
:04:17. > :04:25.areas. But the working conditions aren't the safest. A cement mixer
:04:26. > :04:28.nearly falls on him. I ended up emptying it and the wheel fell off,
:04:29. > :04:32.which was why it ended up slamming me to the floor. It is a scandal,
:04:33. > :04:39.because they are using untrained people. His pay off ?7.14 an hour
:04:40. > :04:42.may be over the minimum wage, but the man who is hiring does not want
:04:43. > :05:07.it declared to the tax office. And then, on the seven Sisters Rd,
:05:08. > :05:13.Darius is approached by this man. He is a businessman and need some
:05:14. > :05:16.building work done. He is offering a lot more than just one day's work,
:05:17. > :05:22.and he wants someone to travel all the way to Birmingham to do it. But
:05:23. > :05:36.he certainly does not want to pay much for it. Darius is driven 120
:05:37. > :05:40.miles, taken to the back of a shop. He is shown a wall which needs
:05:41. > :05:46.plastering, and a room with a mattress on the floor where he is to
:05:47. > :05:54.sleep. The next day, he starts work, retailing another room. At the end
:05:55. > :06:02.of the day, he asks for his pay. ?40, which works out at ?4.70 an
:06:03. > :06:07.hour. Again, below the minimum wage. It is a kind of slavery. You can't
:06:08. > :06:13.live with that money. What does the government think of such low wages?
:06:14. > :06:16.It is a serious breach of the law. I don't know the details of the
:06:17. > :06:20.circumstances, but that must be investigated. It is our aim to drive
:06:21. > :06:22.this off the streets not just of London, but throughout the country.
:06:23. > :06:29.And the campaigning group Migration Watch says such pact this is our
:06:30. > :06:33.driving down wages for all builders. Migrants from Eastern Europe have
:06:34. > :06:38.driven down wages in that sector. Ordinary working class people are
:06:39. > :06:42.losing out. Darius decided he had had enough after just one day,
:06:43. > :06:47.packed his bags and left. We asked Jamal Sayeed why he had paid someone
:06:48. > :06:52.left `` less than the minimum wage for nine hours of work. His response
:06:53. > :06:58.was that he had agreed to pay our labourer ?40 for a single job of
:06:59. > :07:04.plastering comely, and he says Darius did not work nine hours. Our
:07:05. > :07:08.secret recording, though, suggests otherwise.
:07:09. > :07:14.Joining me in the studio now is Shadow Business Minister, Ian
:07:15. > :07:19.Murray. Some shocking footage there. We
:07:20. > :07:26.heard Vince Cable saying they are going to crack down on employers. I
:07:27. > :07:30.assume you agree. What would you do? We would crack down on bogus
:07:31. > :07:34.self`employment and rogue employers. The difficulty is that the
:07:35. > :07:37.government have only made two prosecutions since 2010 for people
:07:38. > :07:40.who have flouted the national minimum wage. They have we announced
:07:41. > :07:44.the naming and shaming policy more than they have used it. So while we
:07:45. > :07:50.agree the government has to do more in action rather than words. But
:07:51. > :07:54.migrant workers being exploited in London is not a new issue. Why
:07:55. > :07:58.didn't Labour do more when they were in power? It is important to make
:07:59. > :08:01.sure the national minimum wage is enforced properly. We would find
:08:02. > :08:05.people ?50,000 if they were caught flouting the national minimum wage.
:08:06. > :08:09.It is important for people who work in London to be given jobs that pay
:08:10. > :08:15.the minimum wage as a hair minimum. We want to promote a living wage, a
:08:16. > :08:19.decent day's pay for a ease and day's work. But it was labour that
:08:20. > :08:22.introduced the policy of open borders. Do you take some
:08:23. > :08:26.responsibility? The borders come from the European Union. We have
:08:27. > :08:30.admitted that there was a problem with some of the transitional
:08:31. > :08:33.arrangements, but that has been tightened up. We need to train our
:08:34. > :08:36.guns on the people who pay less than the national minimum wage and not
:08:37. > :08:42.the people working for less than the map `` national minimum wage. But at
:08:43. > :08:49.the time of EU enlargement, the UK was one of the few countries that
:08:50. > :08:52.did not put Labour restrictions in. But the big issue is employers not
:08:53. > :08:56.paying the national minimum wage. If there was a level playing field, the
:08:57. > :09:00.good witnesses could compete with the bad businesses who are
:09:01. > :09:05.undercutting wages. If you were in government now, what would you do to
:09:06. > :09:10.catch those who are operating under the radar and not paying the minimum
:09:11. > :09:13.wage? We would strengthen the fines to ?50,000 to anyone caught who was
:09:14. > :09:18.not paying the national minimum wage. That sends a strong signal
:09:19. > :09:23.that if you are caught, you will be punished. We would extend the naming
:09:24. > :09:26.and shaming and we would send a strong message to contract does that
:09:27. > :09:30.they have to be careful about making sure the people they are using our
:09:31. > :09:35.paying the legal minimums and promoting a living wage where
:09:36. > :09:39.possible. You have touched on the issue of driving down wages for
:09:40. > :09:42.people who are in the building trade. How are they supposed to
:09:43. > :09:46.compete with this going on? It is difficult to compete, because you
:09:47. > :09:50.have got the good businesses who do all the national minimum wage
:09:51. > :09:55.qualifications properly and pay their taxes and look after staff
:09:56. > :09:58.happily. They are being undercut by rogue employers. We have seen some
:09:59. > :10:02.serious reaches of health and safety in your clip, it is endangering
:10:03. > :10:07.lives. Too many people are still killed in the building trade. We
:10:08. > :10:10.must send a message that that is unacceptable. At the end of the
:10:11. > :10:14.spectrum, what about homeowners getting building work done? If they
:10:15. > :10:18.go with a significantly lower quote, should they take any responsibility
:10:19. > :10:23.for perhaps helping to keep this black`market vibrant? Anyone who
:10:24. > :10:29.employs a subcontractor needs to be aware that there are laws to protect
:10:30. > :10:32.health and safety and wages. People have to be vigilant when using a
:10:33. > :10:39.subcontractor that they are looking after their employees properly. A
:10:40. > :10:42.lot of the building work is being pushed underground. We need to
:10:43. > :10:45.enforce the national minimum wage properly and make sure employers are
:10:46. > :10:52.heeding their response of... Towards employees.
:10:53. > :10:55.Lots more to come, including: We get exclusive access to the secret rail
:10:56. > :11:05.tunnels being opened to the public for the first time.
:11:06. > :11:08.The government's unveiled a new train which it hopes will ease
:11:09. > :11:12.overcrowding on one of the country's busiest commuter routes. The larger
:11:13. > :11:24.carriages will carry hundreds of thousands of passengers across the
:11:25. > :11:27.Thameslink network. Thames Link commuters heading home
:11:28. > :11:35.tonight on one of the busiest stretches of railway in Europe. It
:11:36. > :11:41.is 2014! Train services seem to have been stuck in the 1970s. They are
:11:42. > :11:49.pretty awful, dirty, old, cold. Not good. Is this the answer, the new
:11:50. > :11:53.Thames Link trains? Part of a 6.5 billion pounds upgrade of the
:11:54. > :11:57.north`south route. There will be more space, they will be longer and
:11:58. > :12:02.they will also be used on new links into Cambridgeshire, Kent and
:12:03. > :12:07.Sussex. Is this the end of crowded trains in London? It is not the end
:12:08. > :12:14.of crowded trains in London, but it is a big step forward. With Thames
:12:15. > :12:20.Link, you have a new interest and new trains to go with it `` a new
:12:21. > :12:22.infrastructure. You can have huge extra capacity by having more trains
:12:23. > :12:27.going through central London during the peak hours. It is promised that
:12:28. > :12:34.these trains will deliver 40% more seats serving the capital. But
:12:35. > :12:37.before we get carried away about this commuting nirvana, there will
:12:38. > :12:43.be some disruption, particularly at London Bridge as they reconsider
:12:44. > :12:47.that station. Commuter groups say the frequency of some services will
:12:48. > :12:51.be cut during that work, but operators say it will be worth the
:12:52. > :12:56.wait. We have to rebuild the access to the station in order to make the
:12:57. > :13:02.Thames Link programme work and allow us to deliver the 24 trains per
:13:03. > :13:05.hour. That means there will be big changes to the timetable around
:13:06. > :13:10.London Bridge and we have to commit to making sure those changes are
:13:11. > :13:17.minimised and that we communicate them to pass injures. Commuters have
:13:18. > :13:21.seen years of fares going up and trains getting more crowded. The new
:13:22. > :13:25.trains will be rolled out in two years' time. For these passengers,
:13:26. > :13:28.any improvements are long overdue. Five men have been convicted for the
:13:29. > :13:32.murder of a 16`year`old who was stabbed more than 20 times in west
:13:33. > :13:35.London. Hani Abou El`Kheir was set upon by a gang of ten people
:13:36. > :13:39.carrying swords and knives last January. He was killed while walking
:13:40. > :13:51.through an estate in Pimlico just yards from where he lived.
:13:52. > :13:53.Could this man be London's equivalent to Facebook's Mark
:13:54. > :13:56.Zuckerberg? By all accounts, 37`year`old Demis Hassabis is an IT
:13:57. > :13:58.whizz kid whose company is at the forefront of developing artificial
:13:59. > :14:01.intelligence. And he's just sold his two`year`old company for ?400
:14:02. > :14:09.million to Google. We sent Chris Rogers to find out more about the
:14:10. > :14:15.man behind the deal. Already a star in the academic and
:14:16. > :14:17.gaming world, Amman has now made a remarkable rise in the business
:14:18. > :14:24.world. Other than that, little is known about Demis Hassabis or deep
:14:25. > :14:27.mined technologies. The offices of the company are on the fourth floor
:14:28. > :14:30.of the company are on the fourth floor office building in Russell
:14:31. > :14:32.Square. You would not know it is to look at the building. In fact, the
:14:33. > :14:38.37`year`old founder of deep mined technologies is just as hysteria is
:14:39. > :14:44.as the company itself. BBC London has managed to compile his CV. Demis
:14:45. > :14:48.Hassabis is very clever. In 1989, aged 13, he becomes a chess master
:14:49. > :14:55.and is ranked second in the world in the under 14 category. I first made
:14:56. > :15:02.contact with Demis Hassabis when he was about nine years old, maybe
:15:03. > :15:10.younger. He was a child, I will call him prodigy. He only attended school
:15:11. > :15:18.for one year, in the sixth form. He didn't like school, and he was home
:15:19. > :15:22.educated. In 1997, he gets a double first at Cambridge university in
:15:23. > :15:26.computer science. In 2003, he retires from competitive play at the
:15:27. > :15:34.mind sports Olympiad after winning it a record five times. Demis
:15:35. > :15:37.Hassabis is definitely a genius. He has won the mind sports Olympiad
:15:38. > :15:43.more than anyone else come a record five times. It is the hardest
:15:44. > :15:49.competition in the world. In 2005, he begins a Ph.D. In neuroscience,
:15:50. > :15:52.perhaps the inspiration for deep mined technologies, which he
:15:53. > :15:58.launches seven years later. He has a rare ability to see a bigger picture
:15:59. > :16:03.and to see the overall vision of how to connect our understanding of the
:16:04. > :16:07.brain with our understanding of what computers can do. That is perhaps
:16:08. > :16:12.why Google have made a ?400 million deal with his company. We understand
:16:13. > :16:16.that the company can already play arcade aims. They can work out the
:16:17. > :16:18.rules, devise a strategy and complete the game without human
:16:19. > :16:23.assistance. The deep mined website does not give much away, there is
:16:24. > :16:26.just one page, but we believe the company is devising a search engine
:16:27. > :16:31.that can predict what we want and need.
:16:32. > :16:42.Still to come: award`winning actor Lenny Henry talks about acting,
:16:43. > :16:46.leaving comedy to go to acting. Who is that making that noise, man? It's
:16:47. > :16:51.too loud. Who is that crossing the camera? This is unprofessional.
:16:52. > :17:01.That's what you are. It's all coming later on.
:17:02. > :17:06.A network of secret railway tunnels beneath central London is being
:17:07. > :17:10.opened to the public the first time. `` for the first time. The so`called
:17:11. > :17:13.Mail Rail was built to transport parcels and letters, but was closed
:17:14. > :17:15.in 2003 after being in service for 75 years. Our Correspondent David
:17:16. > :17:26.Sillito has been to take a look. This is Oxford Circus, certainly one
:17:27. > :17:34.of the busiest and best known parts of London. However, any fuss? 70
:17:35. > :17:41.feet below, we have this `` beneath us. 76 miles of tunnel, silence, an
:17:42. > :17:49.abandoned railway. A bit of secret Britain. So this is your world? Yes,
:17:50. > :17:54.this is my domain. It's like having a giant train set. I used to have a
:17:55. > :18:05.train set when I was a boy, so I've upgraded a little bit. Mt Pleasant
:18:06. > :18:10.station. You won't find it on an underground map, it has one driver
:18:11. > :18:18.and no passengers, apart from today. OK, we can go now. In its
:18:19. > :18:24.heyday, millions of letters trundled through London, but costs rose and
:18:25. > :18:31.it was closed in 2003. You can still see the last day's rotor. What are
:18:32. > :18:36.these? These are stalactites, like grows in a cave. They are very, very
:18:37. > :18:43.delicate. They grow fast, but they are delicate. However, plans are
:18:44. > :18:49.afoot to reopen this part of the track near Mount Pleasant, a chance
:18:50. > :18:53.to share this strange experience. The experience of going on the train
:18:54. > :18:57.is what makes the right. It is the cramped and thus of the space inside
:18:58. > :19:10.and the sound is it screeches around the corners `` `` crampedness. It
:19:11. > :19:13.snakes unseen, and heard through Oxford Circus and just five metres
:19:14. > :19:20.separated from the Bakerloo line. A subterranean view of London.
:19:21. > :19:24.Fascinating. We are going back in time again now. It was a once in a
:19:25. > :19:27.lifetime event for Londoners in 1814 ` a frozen Thames. So much so the
:19:28. > :19:31.capital celebrated with a frost fair. Now, 200 years on, we can get
:19:32. > :19:35.a sense of what it was like thanks to some of the images and souvenirs
:19:36. > :19:38.that have survived. Let's find out more from Sonja Jessup, who is down
:19:39. > :19:45.by the Thames. Something we're unlikely to see, I imagine.
:19:46. > :19:51.Yes, indeed. It is an incredible thought. Try and picture it for a
:19:52. > :19:55.moment, the River Thames, frozen over ride from London Bridge all the
:19:56. > :20:01.way out to Blackfriars Bridge `` right from London Bridge. Many
:20:02. > :20:03.Londoners depended on the river for their livelihood, and they had to
:20:04. > :20:09.come up with something, so they thought of this frost fair. Under
:20:10. > :20:13.winter skies today it is hard to imagine this water turning to ice.
:20:14. > :20:19.The River Thames frozen solid, and Londoners coming out to celebrate.
:20:20. > :20:23.You can see people tentatively coming onto the ice and the street
:20:24. > :20:29.has been formed by a series of shops and stalls. This is just one of the
:20:30. > :20:34.Prince that recalls this frost fair of 1814, stalls sprang up and maroon
:20:35. > :20:40.boatmen charged those on foot for safe passage. Over here you have
:20:41. > :20:44.roasted meats, and some gin. If you are looking for all of the fun of
:20:45. > :20:53.the fair, there are some skittles and some swinging votes. An
:20:54. > :20:58.enterprising `` enterprising printers found a way to sell
:20:59. > :21:01.souvenirs. It is the novelty of it being on the ice, and they bought
:21:02. > :21:07.the printing press onto the ice, that is what is special `` brought
:21:08. > :21:10.the printing press. Also special, this 200`year`old slice of
:21:11. > :21:15.gingerbread. This was thusly meant to be eaten there and then but the
:21:16. > :21:21.gentleman kept it instead `` this was obviously. You can still smell a
:21:22. > :21:26.little bit of ginger. A faint spice, which is incredible. In fact, so
:21:27. > :21:30.people were desperate for keepsake and they snapped off a bit
:21:31. > :21:33.Blackfriars Bridge. Over at the Museum of London, paintings of
:21:34. > :21:41.earlier frost fairs and frozen Thames have gone on display. This,
:21:42. > :21:48.from 1677. Lots of figures throwing snowballs, skating on the ice, and
:21:49. > :21:51.also trying to cross the river. So how come we have not seen the Thames
:21:52. > :21:56.freeze over more recently? It wasn't that it was much colder, the reason
:21:57. > :22:01.has a lot to do with London Bridge. The old bridge was demolished in
:22:02. > :22:06.1831. It had a lot more arches, slowing the river down. These days
:22:07. > :22:10.it flows too fast to freeze. We are unlikely to ever see it again, but
:22:11. > :22:15.we still have those surviving souvenirs from the Londoners who
:22:16. > :22:18.were there. I think you can tell from many of the pictures how rowdy
:22:19. > :22:24.and chaotic it would have been out there on the ice. I am told that the
:22:25. > :22:30.gin was very potent. If you would like to see the display, it is split
:22:31. > :22:32.between two museums, the London Docklands Museum and the Museum of
:22:33. > :22:39.London. It's consolidated his reputation as
:22:40. > :22:43.a dramatic actor. Lenny Henry has picked up the Critics Circle Award
:22:44. > :22:45.for Best Actor for his role in the Pulitzer Prize`winning play Fences.
:22:46. > :22:52.But as Alice Bhandhukravi has been finding out, he hasn't lost his
:22:53. > :22:58.inimitable style of comedy. I'd told the boy, if you want to play
:22:59. > :23:03.football, keep up with his chores. His performance in Fences has been
:23:04. > :23:07.described as towering. The story of a complex character in racially
:23:08. > :23:09.segregated America. Today, critics are honouring him for this
:23:10. > :23:15.challenging piece of theatre which saw him on stage for almost three
:23:16. > :23:20.hours per night. I don't read the reviews, because if you get a really
:23:21. > :23:25.horrible one in the first week of the play, it's slightly leaves you
:23:26. > :23:30.like this are the rest of the run. I read everything at the end. I was
:23:31. > :23:35.aware on the day after the last day, I read everything, and I thought,
:23:36. > :23:38.this is wonderful. I have to be a steward out there with the
:23:39. > :23:41.passengers. It is something of a departure for one of the biggest
:23:42. > :23:46.names in British comedy. But it's not the first time a dramatic role
:23:47. > :23:50.has earned him critical acclaim. His Othello was widely praised. So how
:23:51. > :23:56.do the two disciplines umpire `` Compaq was not someone said on their
:23:57. > :24:00.deathbed that acting was easy and comedy was hard. But I like using
:24:01. > :24:04.everything I learned from comedy to transplant into drama. Is it hard
:24:05. > :24:08.for a comedy performer, somebody who made their name in comedy, to come
:24:09. > :24:14.and prove themselves? Do you feel you had a big challenge ahead? I
:24:15. > :24:18.read all of the reviews for Othello, and the expectation was it would be
:24:19. > :24:23.a car crash. They all said they thought it would be a disaster.
:24:24. > :24:28.Actually, backstage, I absolutely thought it was a disaster. I was
:24:29. > :24:33.very frightened. Today though, it seems all worth it. I wish my mum
:24:34. > :24:38.was here, she died in 1998, and if she was here today she would be
:24:39. > :24:42.wearing a very big church hat. She would be very proud. Lots of people
:24:43. > :24:47.sitting behind her like this. I can't see, Mrs Henry, can you take
:24:48. > :24:49.the hat off. No, leave me alone. My son is getting an award. He has
:24:50. > :25:00.arrived. Glad to see he has not lost his
:25:01. > :25:05.sense of humour. What about the weather?
:25:06. > :25:10.Not so funny, it's getting colder and it's on its way for the next
:25:11. > :25:14.couple of days. We will have a short, sharp cold snap over the
:25:15. > :25:18.middle of this week. It will bring with it a fair amount of cloud and
:25:19. > :25:23.some rain. Don't be completely surprised to see a fuse snowflakes,
:25:24. > :25:27.would you believe? `` a few snowflakes. This evening first of
:25:28. > :25:33.all, we have had showers on and off through the day. Most have come in
:25:34. > :25:39.on the south westerly wind, pushing them across Kent and Sussex. But as
:25:40. > :25:42.the wind has backed round to a southerly direction they have been
:25:43. > :25:46.pushed into London, Surrey and Berks and that is where we have a concern.
:25:47. > :25:49.A yellow weather warning in place for areas south of London throughout
:25:50. > :25:54.the first part of tonight because some of the showers will be heavy,
:25:55. > :25:59.and the ground is saturated. Showers on and off through the night, and
:26:00. > :26:03.the wind coming round to the east as we start tomorrow, and that is
:26:04. > :26:07.crucial for that little cold snap we will have through Wednesday and
:26:08. > :26:10.Thursday. By the end of the night, temperatures will be about three or
:26:11. > :26:15.four degrees because there is a fair amount of cloud and there will be no
:26:16. > :26:19.frost forming. We will still have those showers first thing tomorrow,
:26:20. > :26:23.and there could be heavy ones. They will merge into longer spells, and
:26:24. > :26:27.you can see snowflakes here and there. Doesn't look like it will
:26:28. > :26:31.settle, if anywhere, just on the grass, but don't be surprised to see
:26:32. > :26:35.the rain turning to smoke as we go through tomorrow afternoon. An
:26:36. > :26:39.easterly wind making a chilly `` turning to snow. Similar
:26:40. > :26:43.temperatures to what we have overnight tonight, so feeling
:26:44. > :26:47.suddenly chilly through the day tomorrow. Still chilly on Thursday.
:26:48. > :26:51.A gloomy day and we could have one or two bits of snow here and there.
:26:52. > :26:52.Then wet and windy to finish Friday, then back to normal on
:26:53. > :26:58.Saturday. Thank you. Now the main news
:26:59. > :27:01.headlines: The British economy's growing at its fastest rate since
:27:02. > :27:04.the start of the financial crisis. The government says the official
:27:05. > :27:06.statistics show its economic plan is working.
:27:07. > :27:10.Labour says the rise is long overdue.
:27:11. > :27:15.William Roache has told a court that he's never committed any sex
:27:16. > :27:18.offences. The Coronation Street star, who denies rape and indecent
:27:19. > :27:24.assault, said he's never met any of his alleged victims.
:27:25. > :27:28.An investigation by this programme has uncovered evidence of a black
:27:29. > :27:30.market trade in the capital of cheap migrant labour. The Business
:27:31. > :27:35.Secretary Vince Cable has promised to act against employers who break
:27:36. > :27:38.the law. More on the day's stories on our website and we'll be back
:27:39. > :27:40.later during the 10:00pm news. From me and the the team here, do have a
:27:41. > :27:43.lovely evening.