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Correspondent Fergus Walsh is the And on BBC One, we now join the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC's news teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London News, a | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
special report. The capital's black economy, where ?40 buys a day's work | :00:09. | :00:20. | |
from Romanian migrants. The Business Secretary tells us | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
he'll crack down on people who refuse to pay the minimum wage. It | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
is a serious breach of the law. It is our aim to drive this off the | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
streets, throughout the country. There's concern that the practice is | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
driving down wages of British workers. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight: The new trains the government says will help to ease | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
overcrowding for commuters. The London computer game designer | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
who sold his company for 400 million after just two years. | :00:48. | :01:01. | |
Plus: I told him, if you want to give up with football, keep up with | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
his chores. Lenny Henry on the West End | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
performance which has won him a prestigious award. | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
Good evening. Welcome to the programme. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
An investigation by BBC London has revealed the desperately low wages | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
for which migrants in the capital are prepared to work. Our undercover | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
filming shows labourers from eastern Europe being paid ?40 a day or less | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
` well below the legal minimum wage ` all cash in hand. The Business | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Secretary, Vince Cable, has promised to act against employers who break | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the law. And there are concerns that the practice is driving down wages | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
for Londoners trying to get work in the building trade. | :01:44. | :01:56. | |
Waiting for work on the seven Sisters Rd, north London. Some | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
locals who have watched this scene, day in, day out, so the numbers | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
appear to be growing. It is just increasing every week. TRANSLATION: | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
It is growing every day. But what is this lifelike, and how much or how | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
little might be paid? To find out, we asked two Romanians to go | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
undercover. Let's call them Andre and barriers. `` Darius. Both | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
carried a hidden camera. It is day one, and Andre has just joined a | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
group waiting for any offer of work. They talk about how little they can | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
be paid. TRANSLATION: My boss was paying me ?37 50 a day. TRANSLATION: | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
I worked from 9:30am till four for ?10. The national minimum wage is ?6 | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
31 and our. Some here offering work want to pay as little as possible. | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
So how would our two Romanians do when they accepted work here? And at | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
another pick`up point in Cricklewood? Andre ends up carrying | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
mattresses. Scores of them. And he is asked to climb a ladder to fix a | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
pipe with some tape. We showed this footage to a health and safety | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
expert. It is not just that this chap is being asked to do dangerous | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
jobs, it is evident that nobody is thinking about whether the jobs are | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
dangerous in the first place. They don't seem to care. You are just | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
there basically to do that, do that and go away. And after all this, | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
what does he term? `` what does he earn? ?40, which works out at ?5 71 | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
per hour, under the minimum wage. On another day with another employer, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Andre is taken to a flat in Primrose Hill, one of London's most exclusive | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
areas. But the working conditions aren't the safest. A cement mixer | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
nearly falls on him. I ended up emptying it and the wheel fell off, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
which was why it ended up slamming me to the floor. It is a scandal, | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
because they are using untrained people. His pay off ?7.14 an hour | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
may be over the minimum wage, but the man who is hiring does not want | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
it declared to the tax office. And then, on the seven Sisters Rd, | :04:43. | :05:07. | |
Darius is approached by this man. He is a businessman and need some | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
building work done. He is offering a lot more than just one day's work, | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
and he wants someone to travel all the way to Birmingham to do it. But | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
he certainly does not want to pay much for it. Darius is driven 120 | :05:23. | :05:36. | |
miles, taken to the back of a shop. He is shown a wall which needs | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
plastering, and a room with a mattress on the floor where he is to | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
sleep. The next day, he starts work, retailing another room. At the end | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
of the day, he asks for his pay. ?40, which works out at ?4.70 an | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
hour. Again, below the minimum wage. It is a kind of slavery. You can't | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
live with that money. What does the government think of such low wages? | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
It is a serious breach of the law. I don't know the details of the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
circumstances, but that must be investigated. It is our aim to drive | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
this off the streets not just of London, but throughout the country. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
And the campaigning group Migration Watch says such pact this is our | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
driving down wages for all builders. Migrants from Eastern Europe have | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
driven down wages in that sector. Ordinary working class people are | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
losing out. Darius decided he had had enough after just one day, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
packed his bags and left. We asked Jamal Sayeed why he had paid someone | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
left `` less than the minimum wage for nine hours of work. His response | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
was that he had agreed to pay our labourer ?40 for a single job of | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
plastering comely, and he says Darius did not work nine hours. Our | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
secret recording, though, suggests otherwise. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Joining me in the studio now is Shadow Business Minister, Ian | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Murray. Some shocking footage there. We | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
heard Vince Cable saying they are going to crack down on employers. I | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
assume you agree. What would you do? We would crack down on bogus | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
self`employment and rogue employers. The difficulty is that the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
government have only made two prosecutions since 2010 for people | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
who have flouted the national minimum wage. They have we announced | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
the naming and shaming policy more than they have used it. So while we | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
agree the government has to do more in action rather than words. But | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
migrant workers being exploited in London is not a new issue. Why | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
didn't Labour do more when they were in power? It is important to make | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
sure the national minimum wage is enforced properly. We would find | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
people ?50,000 if they were caught flouting the national minimum wage. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
It is important for people who work in London to be given jobs that pay | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the minimum wage as a hair minimum. We want to promote a living wage, a | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
decent day's pay for a ease and day's work. But it was labour that | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
introduced the policy of open borders. Do you take some | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
responsibility? The borders come from the European Union. We have | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
admitted that there was a problem with some of the transitional | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
arrangements, but that has been tightened up. We need to train our | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
guns on the people who pay less than the national minimum wage and not | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
the people working for less than the map `` national minimum wage. But at | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
the time of EU enlargement, the UK was one of the few countries that | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
did not put Labour restrictions in. But the big issue is employers not | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
paying the national minimum wage. If there was a level playing field, the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
good witnesses could compete with the bad businesses who are | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
undercutting wages. If you were in government now, what would you do to | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
catch those who are operating under the radar and not paying the minimum | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
wage? We would strengthen the fines to ?50,000 to anyone caught who was | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
not paying the national minimum wage. That sends a strong signal | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
that if you are caught, you will be punished. We would extend the naming | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
and shaming and we would send a strong message to contract does that | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
they have to be careful about making sure the people they are using our | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
paying the legal minimums and promoting a living wage where | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
possible. You have touched on the issue of driving down wages for | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
people who are in the building trade. How are they supposed to | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
compete with this going on? It is difficult to compete, because you | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
have got the good businesses who do all the national minimum wage | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
qualifications properly and pay their taxes and look after staff | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
happily. They are being undercut by rogue employers. We have seen some | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
serious reaches of health and safety in your clip, it is endangering | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
lives. Too many people are still killed in the building trade. We | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
must send a message that that is unacceptable. At the end of the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
spectrum, what about homeowners getting building work done? If they | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
go with a significantly lower quote, should they take any responsibility | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
for perhaps helping to keep this black`market vibrant? Anyone who | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
employs a subcontractor needs to be aware that there are laws to protect | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
health and safety and wages. People have to be vigilant when using a | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
subcontractor that they are looking after their employees properly. A | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
lot of the building work is being pushed underground. We need to | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
enforce the national minimum wage properly and make sure employers are | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
heeding their response of... Towards employees. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
Lots more to come, including: We get exclusive access to the secret rail | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
tunnels being opened to the public for the first time. | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
The government's unveiled a new train which it hopes will ease | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
overcrowding on one of the country's busiest commuter routes. The larger | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
carriages will carry hundreds of thousands of passengers across the | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
Thameslink network. Thames Link commuters heading home | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
tonight on one of the busiest stretches of railway in Europe. It | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
is 2014! Train services seem to have been stuck in the 1970s. They are | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
pretty awful, dirty, old, cold. Not good. Is this the answer, the new | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
Thames Link trains? Part of a 6.5 billion pounds upgrade of the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
north`south route. There will be more space, they will be longer and | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
they will also be used on new links into Cambridgeshire, Kent and | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Sussex. Is this the end of crowded trains in London? It is not the end | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
of crowded trains in London, but it is a big step forward. With Thames | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Link, you have a new interest and new trains to go with it `` a new | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
infrastructure. You can have huge extra capacity by having more trains | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
going through central London during the peak hours. It is promised that | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
these trains will deliver 40% more seats serving the capital. But | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
before we get carried away about this commuting nirvana, there will | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
be some disruption, particularly at London Bridge as they reconsider | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
that station. Commuter groups say the frequency of some services will | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
be cut during that work, but operators say it will be worth the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
wait. We have to rebuild the access to the station in order to make the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Thames Link programme work and allow us to deliver the 24 trains per | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
hour. That means there will be big changes to the timetable around | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
London Bridge and we have to commit to making sure those changes are | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
minimised and that we communicate them to pass injures. Commuters have | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
seen years of fares going up and trains getting more crowded. The new | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
trains will be rolled out in two years' time. For these passengers, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
any improvements are long overdue. Five men have been convicted for the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
murder of a 16`year`old who was stabbed more than 20 times in west | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
London. Hani Abou El`Kheir was set upon by a gang of ten people | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
carrying swords and knives last January. He was killed while walking | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
through an estate in Pimlico just yards from where he lived. | :13:40. | :13:51. | |
Could this man be London's equivalent to Facebook's Mark | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
Zuckerberg? By all accounts, 37`year`old Demis Hassabis is an IT | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
whizz kid whose company is at the forefront of developing artificial | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
intelligence. And he's just sold his two`year`old company for ?400 | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
million to Google. We sent Chris Rogers to find out more about the | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
man behind the deal. Already a star in the academic and | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
gaming world, Amman has now made a remarkable rise in the business | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
world. Other than that, little is known about Demis Hassabis or deep | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
mined technologies. The offices of the company are on the fourth floor | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
of the company are on the fourth floor office building in Russell | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
Square. You would not know it is to look at the building. In fact, the | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
37`year`old founder of deep mined technologies is just as hysteria is | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
as the company itself. BBC London has managed to compile his CV. Demis | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
Hassabis is very clever. In 1989, aged 13, he becomes a chess master | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
and is ranked second in the world in the under 14 category. I first made | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
contact with Demis Hassabis when he was about nine years old, maybe | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
younger. He was a child, I will call him prodigy. He only attended school | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
for one year, in the sixth form. He didn't like school, and he was home | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
educated. In 1997, he gets a double first at Cambridge university in | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
computer science. In 2003, he retires from competitive play at the | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
mind sports Olympiad after winning it a record five times. Demis | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
Hassabis is definitely a genius. He has won the mind sports Olympiad | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
more than anyone else come a record five times. It is the hardest | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
competition in the world. In 2005, he begins a Ph.D. In neuroscience, | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
perhaps the inspiration for deep mined technologies, which he | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
launches seven years later. He has a rare ability to see a bigger picture | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
and to see the overall vision of how to connect our understanding of the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
brain with our understanding of what computers can do. That is perhaps | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
why Google have made a ?400 million deal with his company. We understand | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
that the company can already play arcade aims. They can work out the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
rules, devise a strategy and complete the game without human | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
assistance. The deep mined website does not give much away, there is | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
just one page, but we believe the company is devising a search engine | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
that can predict what we want and need. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Still to come: award`winning actor Lenny Henry talks about acting, | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
leaving comedy to go to acting. Who is that making that noise, man? It's | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
too loud. Who is that crossing the camera? This is unprofessional. | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
That's what you are. It's all coming later on. | :16:52. | :17:01. | |
A network of secret railway tunnels beneath central London is being | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
opened to the public the first time. `` for the first time. The so`called | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Mail Rail was built to transport parcels and letters, but was closed | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
in 2003 after being in service for 75 years. Our Correspondent David | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
Sillito has been to take a look. This is Oxford Circus, certainly one | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
of the busiest and best known parts of London. However, any fuss? 70 | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
feet below, we have this `` beneath us. 76 miles of tunnel, silence, an | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
abandoned railway. A bit of secret Britain. So this is your world? Yes, | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
this is my domain. It's like having a giant train set. I used to have a | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
train set when I was a boy, so I've upgraded a little bit. Mt Pleasant | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
station. You won't find it on an underground map, it has one driver | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and no passengers, apart from today. OK, we can go now. In its | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
heyday, millions of letters trundled through London, but costs rose and | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
it was closed in 2003. You can still see the last day's rotor. What are | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
these? These are stalactites, like grows in a cave. They are very, very | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
delicate. They grow fast, but they are delicate. However, plans are | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
afoot to reopen this part of the track near Mount Pleasant, a chance | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
to share this strange experience. The experience of going on the train | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
is what makes the right. It is the cramped and thus of the space inside | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
and the sound is it screeches around the corners `` `` crampedness. It | :18:58. | :19:10. | |
snakes unseen, and heard through Oxford Circus and just five metres | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
separated from the Bakerloo line. A subterranean view of London. | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
Fascinating. We are going back in time again now. It was a once in a | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
lifetime event for Londoners in 1814 ` a frozen Thames. So much so the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
capital celebrated with a frost fair. Now, 200 years on, we can get | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
a sense of what it was like thanks to some of the images and souvenirs | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
that have survived. Let's find out more from Sonja Jessup, who is down | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
by the Thames. Something we're unlikely to see, I imagine. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
Yes, indeed. It is an incredible thought. Try and picture it for a | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
moment, the River Thames, frozen over ride from London Bridge all the | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
way out to Blackfriars Bridge `` right from London Bridge. Many | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Londoners depended on the river for their livelihood, and they had to | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
come up with something, so they thought of this frost fair. Under | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
winter skies today it is hard to imagine this water turning to ice. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
The River Thames frozen solid, and Londoners coming out to celebrate. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
You can see people tentatively coming onto the ice and the street | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
has been formed by a series of shops and stalls. This is just one of the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Prince that recalls this frost fair of 1814, stalls sprang up and maroon | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
boatmen charged those on foot for safe passage. Over here you have | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
roasted meats, and some gin. If you are looking for all of the fun of | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
the fair, there are some skittles and some swinging votes. An | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
enterprising `` enterprising printers found a way to sell | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
souvenirs. It is the novelty of it being on the ice, and they bought | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
the printing press onto the ice, that is what is special `` brought | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
the printing press. Also special, this 200`year`old slice of | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
gingerbread. This was thusly meant to be eaten there and then but the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
gentleman kept it instead `` this was obviously. You can still smell a | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
little bit of ginger. A faint spice, which is incredible. In fact, so | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
people were desperate for keepsake and they snapped off a bit | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
Blackfriars Bridge. Over at the Museum of London, paintings of | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
earlier frost fairs and frozen Thames have gone on display. This, | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
from 1677. Lots of figures throwing snowballs, skating on the ice, and | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
also trying to cross the river. So how come we have not seen the Thames | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
freeze over more recently? It wasn't that it was much colder, the reason | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
has a lot to do with London Bridge. The old bridge was demolished in | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
1831. It had a lot more arches, slowing the river down. These days | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
it flows too fast to freeze. We are unlikely to ever see it again, but | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
we still have those surviving souvenirs from the Londoners who | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
were there. I think you can tell from many of the pictures how rowdy | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
and chaotic it would have been out there on the ice. I am told that the | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
gin was very potent. If you would like to see the display, it is split | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
between two museums, the London Docklands Museum and the Museum of | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
London. It's consolidated his reputation as | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
a dramatic actor. Lenny Henry has picked up the Critics Circle Award | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
for Best Actor for his role in the Pulitzer Prize`winning play Fences. | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
But as Alice Bhandhukravi has been finding out, he hasn't lost his | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
inimitable style of comedy. I'd told the boy, if you want to play | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
football, keep up with his chores. His performance in Fences has been | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
described as towering. The story of a complex character in racially | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
segregated America. Today, critics are honouring him for this | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
challenging piece of theatre which saw him on stage for almost three | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
hours per night. I don't read the reviews, because if you get a really | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
horrible one in the first week of the play, it's slightly leaves you | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
like this are the rest of the run. I read everything at the end. I was | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
aware on the day after the last day, I read everything, and I thought, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
this is wonderful. I have to be a steward out there with the | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
passengers. It is something of a departure for one of the biggest | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
names in British comedy. But it's not the first time a dramatic role | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
has earned him critical acclaim. His Othello was widely praised. So how | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
do the two disciplines umpire `` Compaq was not someone said on their | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
deathbed that acting was easy and comedy was hard. But I like using | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
everything I learned from comedy to transplant into drama. Is it hard | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
for a comedy performer, somebody who made their name in comedy, to come | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
and prove themselves? Do you feel you had a big challenge ahead? I | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
read all of the reviews for Othello, and the expectation was it would be | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
a car crash. They all said they thought it would be a disaster. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Actually, backstage, I absolutely thought it was a disaster. I was | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
very frightened. Today though, it seems all worth it. I wish my mum | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
was here, she died in 1998, and if she was here today she would be | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
wearing a very big church hat. She would be very proud. Lots of people | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
sitting behind her like this. I can't see, Mrs Henry, can you take | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
the hat off. No, leave me alone. My son is getting an award. He has | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
arrived. Glad to see he has not lost his | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
sense of humour. What about the weather? | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Not so funny, it's getting colder and it's on its way for the next | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
couple of days. We will have a short, sharp cold snap over the | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
middle of this week. It will bring with it a fair amount of cloud and | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
some rain. Don't be completely surprised to see a fuse snowflakes, | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
would you believe? `` a few snowflakes. This evening first of | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
all, we have had showers on and off through the day. Most have come in | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
on the south westerly wind, pushing them across Kent and Sussex. But as | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the wind has backed round to a southerly direction they have been | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
pushed into London, Surrey and Berks and that is where we have a concern. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
A yellow weather warning in place for areas south of London throughout | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
the first part of tonight because some of the showers will be heavy, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
and the ground is saturated. Showers on and off through the night, and | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
the wind coming round to the east as we start tomorrow, and that is | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
crucial for that little cold snap we will have through Wednesday and | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Thursday. By the end of the night, temperatures will be about three or | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
four degrees because there is a fair amount of cloud and there will be no | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
frost forming. We will still have those showers first thing tomorrow, | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
and there could be heavy ones. They will merge into longer spells, and | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
you can see snowflakes here and there. Doesn't look like it will | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
settle, if anywhere, just on the grass, but don't be surprised to see | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
the rain turning to smoke as we go through tomorrow afternoon. An | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
easterly wind making a chilly `` turning to snow. Similar | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
temperatures to what we have overnight tonight, so feeling | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
suddenly chilly through the day tomorrow. Still chilly on Thursday. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
A gloomy day and we could have one or two bits of snow here and there. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Then wet and windy to finish Friday, then back to normal on | :26:52. | :26:52. | |
Saturday. Thank you. Now the main news | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
headlines: The British economy's growing at its fastest rate since | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
the start of the financial crisis. The government says the official | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
statistics show its economic plan is working. | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
Labour says the rise is long overdue. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
William Roache has told a court that he's never committed any sex | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
offences. The Coronation Street star, who denies rape and indecent | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
assault, said he's never met any of his alleged victims. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
An investigation by this programme has uncovered evidence of a black | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
market trade in the capital of cheap migrant labour. The Business | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
Secretary Vince Cable has promised to act against employers who break | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the law. More on the day's stories on our website and we'll be back | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
later during the 10:00pm news. From me and the the team here, do have a | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
lovely evening. | :27:41. | :27:43. |