10/02/2014 BBC London News

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Jeremy Paxman Welcome to BBC London News. River

levels along a 15 mile stretch of the terms have reached their highest

level since records began. Thames Valley Police have declared a major

incident as many homes have been evacuated. There is a growing

feeling they have been left to flood in order to save the more densely

populated areas of London in some areas. At the moment it is living up

to its name. Where leas and waders are essential footwear for the

people of Wraysbury. We keep barricading with sandbags. Homes had

barely dried out from the last flooding in January, these makeshift

defence is a case of damage limitation. Everything is on

bricks, you have to use your imagination. It is incredible what

you do with things. Which have things piled up to the ceiling.

People say they are looking to the future and worrying about having

homes that will be repeatedly flooded and become not insurable.

This water has not just come from nowhere, it is fast flowing. Many

point the finger at flood defences which they say prioritise certain

areas but leave them vulnerable There is a lot of land which would

flood that has not been allowed to flood. There is a bit of ill feeling

in Wraysbury and having the Army at Datchet where the levels are nothing

like as bad as here. But much of Chertsey remains cut off. The worst

ever flooding was in 1947 and that record looks like being broken. This

property has never flooded, the river is half a mile away, but every

hour it creeps closer. We feel like we have been abandoned. We need

advise and a plan. The Environment Agency do not have a plan, they do

not know what they are going to do. The agency insists they are coping.

More rain is a given. The questions will follow, but now the priority is

somehow keeping dry. Alice is in Wraysbury which has been

particularly badly hit. How is it looking tonight? Many people have

had to leave their homes, sandbags are in place, friends and neighbours

are helping each other. Some people are waiting around there homes

expecting worse to come as the water levels rise. Some people cannot get

to work because they cannot get their cars out the dried. There is

another problem on train services because flooding has disrupted train

services. There were problems getting out of London to the West.

First Great Western services were suspended out of Paddington this

evening because of flooding in Maidenhead. Services are back up and

running, but they are few and far between. Tomorrow if Network Rail

cannot fix the problems on the rail there will be serious problems for

commuters tomorrow. Talks aimed at preventing a second

48 hour Tube strike ended without agreement. It means the strike plans

to start at 9pm tomorrow is still due to go ahead. Members of the RMT

and TSSA unions are angry over plans to close the underground's ticket

offices. They said they were not confident a deal could be reached.

We are making little progress. We want to turn around and over the

strikes and make progress, but at this stage the company need to move.

A BBC London undercover investigation has exposed criminal

gangs illegally selling and installing pay`TV services at a

fraction of their true crossed. Crime experts warn that hacked

satellite and cable TV is becoming the new norm.

All these sky movies. These are the fraudsters selling pay`TV at a

fracture of the cross. Like this shop at Upton Park, cashing in. And

a Venezuelan satellite installer in Greenwich. He is rather proud of his

blooming, criminal business. I have got many people. This is how it

works. We buy set`top boxes that have been encrypted to hack into

legitimate pay`TV services like Skype. A package of the best

channels can cost more than ?80 a year. Here you pay a monthly

subscription at a fraction of the price. All this is hitting the

pay`TV companies and the large numbers employed in creative

industries. It is a crime and it is depriving revenue to a business that

genuinely should have that. It is a criminal offence. This company

ignored us when we asked them why and so did Julio. We invited him

round he thinks to install a satellite dish, but he is about to

see a video he might recognise. That is you. That is you installing an

illegal set`top box. We have been recording you secretly for the last

few months. I am from the BBC and I want to know why you have been

installing illegal set`top boxes. What is your explanation? Are you

aware it is illegal to do what you are doing? We heard reports of

scores of similar fraudsters operating not just in London, but

across the country. A full weather forecast is coming up

in a moment, but first the outlook for the London weather.

It is a pretty grim forecast. Some areas could see as much as an extra

two inches of rain. We have got severe flood warnings meaning a risk

to life for tonight down the Thames. We have got further Met

Office warnings for heavy rain throughout the week, including one

for tomorrow. It should be mostly dry tonight, but quite a cold night

tonight. There is a dry early morning rush hour, but rain will

spread in from the west. We can look forward to a drier and brighter

afternoon. That is the local weather, now let's get the national

weather. Good evening. You have my permission

to complain about too many repeats with the British weather at the

moment because yet again it looks as though our winter weather is set to

continue with a repeat of last week. Sunny spells and scattered showers

today and this is the next area of low pressure pushing in from the

west. It influences our weather for the rest of the week. More rain to

come and gales and severe gales to come. Ice is a possible risk. That

means a cumulative total perhaps or 40-70 millimetres and that is an

extra two to three inches. It will exacerbate the flooding we have

already got across England at the moment. The cloud, wind and rain is

already pushing in from the west. There will be a widespread frost.

Ice could be a problem first thing in Northern Ireland. Snow in the

hills and maybe in the North East of Scotland we could see snow at lower

levels. Rain through northern England and Wales and Somerset. Some

of that rain could be quite intense coupled with squally, gusty winds on

exposed coasts. In the east it starts off relatively dry, but it

will not be long before the wind and the rain spreads further east. Up

into the North the snow showers continue on the hills, but by the

end of the afternoon we could see wet snow even at lower levels. A

cold day. There is a potential for some snow showers at lower levels

across England and Wales on Tuesday night and into Wednesday. On

Wednesday it is this area of low pressure which is the main factor in

Wednesday's weather. More wet and windy weather. An early amber

warning has already been issued from the South West. Severe gales are

likely as we continue to see some very wet weather coming into central

and southern areas. The strongest winds follow in behind those

showers. In Scotland you are probably wondering what the

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