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Correspondent Fergus Walsh is the And on BBC One, we now join the

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BBC's news teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London News, a

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special report. The capital's black economy, where ?40 buys a day's work

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from Romanian migrants. The Business Secretary tells us

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he'll crack down on people who refuse to pay the minimum wage. It

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is a serious breach of the law. It is our aim to drive this off the

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streets, throughout the country. There's concern that the practice is

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driving down wages of British workers.

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Also tonight: The new trains the government says will help to ease

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overcrowding for commuters. The London computer game designer

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who sold his company for 400 million after just two years.

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Plus: I told him, if you want to give up with football, keep up with

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his chores. Lenny Henry on the West End

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performance which has won him a prestigious award.

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Good evening. Welcome to the programme.

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An investigation by BBC London has revealed the desperately low wages

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for which migrants in the capital are prepared to work. Our undercover

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filming shows labourers from eastern Europe being paid ?40 a day or less

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` well below the legal minimum wage ` all cash in hand. The Business

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Secretary, Vince Cable, has promised to act against employers who break

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the law. And there are concerns that the practice is driving down wages

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for Londoners trying to get work in the building trade.

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Waiting for work on the seven Sisters Rd, north London. Some

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locals who have watched this scene, day in, day out, so the numbers

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appear to be growing. It is just increasing every week. TRANSLATION:

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It is growing every day. But what is this lifelike, and how much or how

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little might be paid? To find out, we asked two Romanians to go

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undercover. Let's call them Andre and barriers. `` Darius. Both

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carried a hidden camera. It is day one, and Andre has just joined a

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group waiting for any offer of work. They talk about how little they can

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be paid. TRANSLATION: My boss was paying me ?37 50 a day. TRANSLATION:

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I worked from 9:30am till four for ?10. The national minimum wage is ?6

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31 and our. Some here offering work want to pay as little as possible.

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So how would our two Romanians do when they accepted work here? And at

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another pick`up point in Cricklewood? Andre ends up carrying

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mattresses. Scores of them. And he is asked to climb a ladder to fix a

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pipe with some tape. We showed this footage to a health and safety

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expert. It is not just that this chap is being asked to do dangerous

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jobs, it is evident that nobody is thinking about whether the jobs are

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dangerous in the first place. They don't seem to care. You are just

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there basically to do that, do that and go away. And after all this,

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what does he term? `` what does he earn? ?40, which works out at ?5 71

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per hour, under the minimum wage. On another day with another employer,

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Andre is taken to a flat in Primrose Hill, one of London's most exclusive

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areas. But the working conditions aren't the safest. A cement mixer

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nearly falls on him. I ended up emptying it and the wheel fell off,

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which was why it ended up slamming me to the floor. It is a scandal,

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because they are using untrained people. His pay off ?7.14 an hour

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may be over the minimum wage, but the man who is hiring does not want

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it declared to the tax office. And then, on the seven Sisters Rd,

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Darius is approached by this man. He is a businessman and need some

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building work done. He is offering a lot more than just one day's work,

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and he wants someone to travel all the way to Birmingham to do it. But

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he certainly does not want to pay much for it. Darius is driven 120

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miles, taken to the back of a shop. He is shown a wall which needs

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plastering, and a room with a mattress on the floor where he is to

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sleep. The next day, he starts work, retailing another room. At the end

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of the day, he asks for his pay. ?40, which works out at ?4.70 an

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hour. Again, below the minimum wage. It is a kind of slavery. You can't

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live with that money. What does the government think of such low wages?

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It is a serious breach of the law. I don't know the details of the

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circumstances, but that must be investigated. It is our aim to drive

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this off the streets not just of London, but throughout the country.

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And the campaigning group Migration Watch says such pact this is our

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driving down wages for all builders. Migrants from Eastern Europe have

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driven down wages in that sector. Ordinary working class people are

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losing out. Darius decided he had had enough after just one day,

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packed his bags and left. We asked Jamal Sayeed why he had paid someone

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left `` less than the minimum wage for nine hours of work. His response

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was that he had agreed to pay our labourer ?40 for a single job of

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plastering comely, and he says Darius did not work nine hours. Our

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secret recording, though, suggests otherwise.

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Joining me in the studio now is Shadow Business Minister, Ian

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Murray. Some shocking footage there. We

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heard Vince Cable saying they are going to crack down on employers. I

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assume you agree. What would you do? We would crack down on bogus

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self`employment and rogue employers. The difficulty is that the

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government have only made two prosecutions since 2010 for people

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who have flouted the national minimum wage. They have we announced

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the naming and shaming policy more than they have used it. So while we

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agree the government has to do more in action rather than words. But

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migrant workers being exploited in London is not a new issue. Why

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didn't Labour do more when they were in power? It is important to make

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sure the national minimum wage is enforced properly. We would find

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people ?50,000 if they were caught flouting the national minimum wage.

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It is important for people who work in London to be given jobs that pay

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the minimum wage as a hair minimum. We want to promote a living wage, a

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decent day's pay for a ease and day's work. But it was labour that

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introduced the policy of open borders. Do you take some

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responsibility? The borders come from the European Union. We have

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admitted that there was a problem with some of the transitional

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arrangements, but that has been tightened up. We need to train our

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guns on the people who pay less than the national minimum wage and not

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the people working for less than the map `` national minimum wage. But at

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the time of EU enlargement, the UK was one of the few countries that

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did not put Labour restrictions in. But the big issue is employers not

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paying the national minimum wage. If there was a level playing field, the

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good witnesses could compete with the bad businesses who are

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undercutting wages. If you were in government now, what would you do to

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catch those who are operating under the radar and not paying the minimum

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wage? We would strengthen the fines to ?50,000 to anyone caught who was

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not paying the national minimum wage. That sends a strong signal

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that if you are caught, you will be punished. We would extend the naming

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and shaming and we would send a strong message to contract does that

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they have to be careful about making sure the people they are using our

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paying the legal minimums and promoting a living wage where

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possible. You have touched on the issue of driving down wages for

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people who are in the building trade. How are they supposed to

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compete with this going on? It is difficult to compete, because you

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have got the good businesses who do all the national minimum wage

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qualifications properly and pay their taxes and look after staff

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happily. They are being undercut by rogue employers. We have seen some

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serious reaches of health and safety in your clip, it is endangering

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lives. Too many people are still killed in the building trade. We

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must send a message that that is unacceptable. At the end of the

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spectrum, what about homeowners getting building work done? If they

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go with a significantly lower quote, should they take any responsibility

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for perhaps helping to keep this black`market vibrant? Anyone who

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employs a subcontractor needs to be aware that there are laws to protect

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health and safety and wages. People have to be vigilant when using a

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subcontractor that they are looking after their employees properly. A

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lot of the building work is being pushed underground. We need to

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enforce the national minimum wage properly and make sure employers are

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heeding their response of... Towards employees.

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Lots more to come, including: We get exclusive access to the secret rail

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tunnels being opened to the public for the first time.

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The government's unveiled a new train which it hopes will ease

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overcrowding on one of the country's busiest commuter routes. The larger

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carriages will carry hundreds of thousands of passengers across the

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Thameslink network. Thames Link commuters heading home

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tonight on one of the busiest stretches of railway in Europe. It

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is 2014! Train services seem to have been stuck in the 1970s. They are

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pretty awful, dirty, old, cold. Not good. Is this the answer, the new

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Thames Link trains? Part of a 6.5 billion pounds upgrade of the

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north`south route. There will be more space, they will be longer and

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they will also be used on new links into Cambridgeshire, Kent and

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Sussex. Is this the end of crowded trains in London? It is not the end

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of crowded trains in London, but it is a big step forward. With Thames

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Link, you have a new interest and new trains to go with it `` a new

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infrastructure. You can have huge extra capacity by having more trains

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going through central London during the peak hours. It is promised that

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these trains will deliver 40% more seats serving the capital. But

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before we get carried away about this commuting nirvana, there will

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be some disruption, particularly at London Bridge as they reconsider

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that station. Commuter groups say the frequency of some services will

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be cut during that work, but operators say it will be worth the

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wait. We have to rebuild the access to the station in order to make the

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Thames Link programme work and allow us to deliver the 24 trains per

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hour. That means there will be big changes to the timetable around

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London Bridge and we have to commit to making sure those changes are

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minimised and that we communicate them to pass injures. Commuters have

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seen years of fares going up and trains getting more crowded. The new

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trains will be rolled out in two years' time. For these passengers,

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any improvements are long overdue. Five men have been convicted for the

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murder of a 16`year`old who was stabbed more than 20 times in west

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London. Hani Abou El`Kheir was set upon by a gang of ten people

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carrying swords and knives last January. He was killed while walking

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through an estate in Pimlico just yards from where he lived.

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Could this man be London's equivalent to Facebook's Mark

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Zuckerberg? By all accounts, 37`year`old Demis Hassabis is an IT

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whizz kid whose company is at the forefront of developing artificial

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intelligence. And he's just sold his two`year`old company for ?400

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million to Google. We sent Chris Rogers to find out more about the

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man behind the deal. Already a star in the academic and

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gaming world, Amman has now made a remarkable rise in the business

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world. Other than that, little is known about Demis Hassabis or deep

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mined technologies. The offices of the company are on the fourth floor

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of the company are on the fourth floor office building in Russell

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Square. You would not know it is to look at the building. In fact, the

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37`year`old founder of deep mined technologies is just as hysteria is

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as the company itself. BBC London has managed to compile his CV. Demis

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Hassabis is very clever. In 1989, aged 13, he becomes a chess master

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and is ranked second in the world in the under 14 category. I first made

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contact with Demis Hassabis when he was about nine years old, maybe

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younger. He was a child, I will call him prodigy. He only attended school

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for one year, in the sixth form. He didn't like school, and he was home

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educated. In 1997, he gets a double first at Cambridge university in

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computer science. In 2003, he retires from competitive play at the

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mind sports Olympiad after winning it a record five times. Demis

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Hassabis is definitely a genius. He has won the mind sports Olympiad

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more than anyone else come a record five times. It is the hardest

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competition in the world. In 2005, he begins a Ph.D. In neuroscience,

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perhaps the inspiration for deep mined technologies, which he

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launches seven years later. He has a rare ability to see a bigger picture

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and to see the overall vision of how to connect our understanding of the

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brain with our understanding of what computers can do. That is perhaps

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why Google have made a ?400 million deal with his company. We understand

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that the company can already play arcade aims. They can work out the

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rules, devise a strategy and complete the game without human

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assistance. The deep mined website does not give much away, there is

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just one page, but we believe the company is devising a search engine

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that can predict what we want and need.

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Still to come: award`winning actor Lenny Henry talks about acting,

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leaving comedy to go to acting. Who is that making that noise, man? It's

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too loud. Who is that crossing the camera? This is unprofessional.

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That's what you are. It's all coming later on.

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A network of secret railway tunnels beneath central London is being

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opened to the public the first time. `` for the first time. The so`called

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Mail Rail was built to transport parcels and letters, but was closed

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in 2003 after being in service for 75 years. Our Correspondent David

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Sillito has been to take a look. This is Oxford Circus, certainly one

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of the busiest and best known parts of London. However, any fuss? 70

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feet below, we have this `` beneath us. 76 miles of tunnel, silence, an

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abandoned railway. A bit of secret Britain. So this is your world? Yes,

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this is my domain. It's like having a giant train set. I used to have a

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train set when I was a boy, so I've upgraded a little bit. Mt Pleasant

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station. You won't find it on an underground map, it has one driver

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and no passengers, apart from today. OK, we can go now. In its

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heyday, millions of letters trundled through London, but costs rose and

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it was closed in 2003. You can still see the last day's rotor. What are

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these? These are stalactites, like grows in a cave. They are very, very

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delicate. They grow fast, but they are delicate. However, plans are

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afoot to reopen this part of the track near Mount Pleasant, a chance

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to share this strange experience. The experience of going on the train

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is what makes the right. It is the cramped and thus of the space inside

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and the sound is it screeches around the corners `` `` crampedness. It

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snakes unseen, and heard through Oxford Circus and just five metres

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separated from the Bakerloo line. A subterranean view of London.

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Fascinating. We are going back in time again now. It was a once in a

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lifetime event for Londoners in 1814 ` a frozen Thames. So much so the

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capital celebrated with a frost fair. Now, 200 years on, we can get

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a sense of what it was like thanks to some of the images and souvenirs

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that have survived. Let's find out more from Sonja Jessup, who is down

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by the Thames. Something we're unlikely to see, I imagine.

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Yes, indeed. It is an incredible thought. Try and picture it for a

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moment, the River Thames, frozen over ride from London Bridge all the

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way out to Blackfriars Bridge `` right from London Bridge. Many

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Londoners depended on the river for their livelihood, and they had to

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come up with something, so they thought of this frost fair. Under

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winter skies today it is hard to imagine this water turning to ice.

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The River Thames frozen solid, and Londoners coming out to celebrate.

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You can see people tentatively coming onto the ice and the street

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has been formed by a series of shops and stalls. This is just one of the

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Prince that recalls this frost fair of 1814, stalls sprang up and maroon

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boatmen charged those on foot for safe passage. Over here you have

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roasted meats, and some gin. If you are looking for all of the fun of

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the fair, there are some skittles and some swinging votes. An

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enterprising `` enterprising printers found a way to sell

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souvenirs. It is the novelty of it being on the ice, and they bought

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the printing press onto the ice, that is what is special `` brought

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the printing press. Also special, this 200`year`old slice of

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gingerbread. This was thusly meant to be eaten there and then but the

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gentleman kept it instead `` this was obviously. You can still smell a

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little bit of ginger. A faint spice, which is incredible. In fact, so

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people were desperate for keepsake and they snapped off a bit

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Blackfriars Bridge. Over at the Museum of London, paintings of

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earlier frost fairs and frozen Thames have gone on display. This,

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from 1677. Lots of figures throwing snowballs, skating on the ice, and

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also trying to cross the river. So how come we have not seen the Thames

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freeze over more recently? It wasn't that it was much colder, the reason

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has a lot to do with London Bridge. The old bridge was demolished in

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1831. It had a lot more arches, slowing the river down. These days

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it flows too fast to freeze. We are unlikely to ever see it again, but

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we still have those surviving souvenirs from the Londoners who

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were there. I think you can tell from many of the pictures how rowdy

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and chaotic it would have been out there on the ice. I am told that the

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gin was very potent. If you would like to see the display, it is split

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between two museums, the London Docklands Museum and the Museum of

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London. It's consolidated his reputation as

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a dramatic actor. Lenny Henry has picked up the Critics Circle Award

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for Best Actor for his role in the Pulitzer Prize`winning play Fences.

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But as Alice Bhandhukravi has been finding out, he hasn't lost his

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inimitable style of comedy. I'd told the boy, if you want to play

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football, keep up with his chores. His performance in Fences has been

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described as towering. The story of a complex character in racially

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segregated America. Today, critics are honouring him for this

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challenging piece of theatre which saw him on stage for almost three

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hours per night. I don't read the reviews, because if you get a really

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horrible one in the first week of the play, it's slightly leaves you

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like this are the rest of the run. I read everything at the end. I was

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aware on the day after the last day, I read everything, and I thought,

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this is wonderful. I have to be a steward out there with the

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passengers. It is something of a departure for one of the biggest

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names in British comedy. But it's not the first time a dramatic role

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has earned him critical acclaim. His Othello was widely praised. So how

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do the two disciplines umpire `` Compaq was not someone said on their

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deathbed that acting was easy and comedy was hard. But I like using

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everything I learned from comedy to transplant into drama. Is it hard

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for a comedy performer, somebody who made their name in comedy, to come

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and prove themselves? Do you feel you had a big challenge ahead? I

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read all of the reviews for Othello, and the expectation was it would be

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a car crash. They all said they thought it would be a disaster.

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Actually, backstage, I absolutely thought it was a disaster. I was

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very frightened. Today though, it seems all worth it. I wish my mum

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was here, she died in 1998, and if she was here today she would be

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wearing a very big church hat. She would be very proud. Lots of people

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sitting behind her like this. I can't see, Mrs Henry, can you take

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the hat off. No, leave me alone. My son is getting an award. He has

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arrived. Glad to see he has not lost his

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sense of humour. What about the weather?

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Not so funny, it's getting colder and it's on its way for the next

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couple of days. We will have a short, sharp cold snap over the

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middle of this week. It will bring with it a fair amount of cloud and

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some rain. Don't be completely surprised to see a fuse snowflakes,

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would you believe? `` a few snowflakes. This evening first of

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all, we have had showers on and off through the day. Most have come in

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on the south westerly wind, pushing them across Kent and Sussex. But as

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the wind has backed round to a southerly direction they have been

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pushed into London, Surrey and Berks and that is where we have a concern.

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A yellow weather warning in place for areas south of London throughout

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the first part of tonight because some of the showers will be heavy,

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and the ground is saturated. Showers on and off through the night, and

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the wind coming round to the east as we start tomorrow, and that is

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crucial for that little cold snap we will have through Wednesday and

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Thursday. By the end of the night, temperatures will be about three or

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four degrees because there is a fair amount of cloud and there will be no

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frost forming. We will still have those showers first thing tomorrow,

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and there could be heavy ones. They will merge into longer spells, and

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you can see snowflakes here and there. Doesn't look like it will

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settle, if anywhere, just on the grass, but don't be surprised to see

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the rain turning to smoke as we go through tomorrow afternoon. An

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easterly wind making a chilly `` turning to snow. Similar

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temperatures to what we have overnight tonight, so feeling

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suddenly chilly through the day tomorrow. Still chilly on Thursday.

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A gloomy day and we could have one or two bits of snow here and there.

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Then wet and windy to finish Friday, then back to normal on

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Saturday. Thank you. Now the main news

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the start of the financial crisis. The government says the official

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statistics show its economic plan is working.

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Labour says the rise is long overdue.

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William Roache has told a court that he's never committed any sex

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offences. The Coronation Street star, who denies rape and indecent

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assault, said he's never met any of his alleged victims.

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An investigation by this programme has uncovered evidence of a black

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market trade in the capital of cheap migrant labour. The Business

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Secretary Vince Cable has promised to act against employers who break

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the law. More on the day's stories on our website and we'll be back

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later during the 10:00pm news. From me and the the team here, do have a

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lovely evening.

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