:00:00. > :00:00.Somerset Levels, John Kay sent this report. I dread the I
:00:00. > :00:00.Somerset Levels, John Kay sent this That's all from the BBC News at Six
:00:00. > :00:10.so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams
:00:11. > :00:13.where you are. Tonight on BBC London News. Building
:00:14. > :00:17.on floodplains. One council tells us it's now stopping the development of
:00:18. > :00:21.thousands of new homes. Any of the sites we are considering which are
:00:22. > :00:26.at risk of flooding, as shown by what we sue today, those sites will
:00:27. > :00:32.not be developed. There are fears that this could add to the housing
:00:33. > :00:37.crisis. Also ahead: Overcrowded and understaffed. The damning report
:00:38. > :00:42.into London's oldest prison. Plus, the gift of life. Kidney transplant
:00:43. > :00:47.patients at St George's Hospital say thank you to their donors and staff.
:00:48. > :00:49.And, we talk to the Londoner who's become one of the most famous models
:00:50. > :01:05.in the world. Good evening and welcome to the
:01:06. > :01:09.programme. BBC London has learnt that plans to build thousands of new
:01:10. > :01:14.homes in a flooded area of Berkshire are to be ruled out. The Royal
:01:15. > :01:17.Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, with I is currently consulting on
:01:18. > :01:21.proposals for 12,000 properties has promised to put a stop to any
:01:22. > :01:25.development on the worst hit floodplains. As we report, it could
:01:26. > :01:31.mean a failure to meet house building targets, which could then
:01:32. > :01:35.add to the housing crisis. This current crisis has temporarily taken
:01:36. > :01:39.the spotlight off another, the need for more housing. Now it seems the
:01:40. > :01:43.floods will have a big impact on where new homes can be built. People
:01:44. > :01:48.have to work together to make this work. These campaigners say it
:01:49. > :01:51.should never be on a floodplain We shouldn't really build where the
:01:52. > :01:56.river wants to go naturally when it floods. We wouldn't build in the
:01:57. > :02:01.river, so why build where the river goes when it's overflowing? This
:02:02. > :02:05.site in Wraysbury is earmarked for development. Like much of the
:02:06. > :02:09.village, it's still waterlogged If the evidence of flooding clearly
:02:10. > :02:13.demonstrates that regardless of how you develop the site, you cannot
:02:14. > :02:17.deal with that flooding risk, which you can see today by simply looking
:02:18. > :02:21.out of the window, then we will happily go to the inspector and say
:02:22. > :02:25.` this site cannot be developed That leaves them with a problem The
:02:26. > :02:30.Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead say it is needs to build
:02:31. > :02:34.12,000 new homes in the next 15 years. It's an area that is nearly
:02:35. > :02:38.all green belt. Much of that under develop #d land is on floodplains.
:02:39. > :02:42.The council say it is can build 9,000 homes on areas that won't
:02:43. > :02:46.flood. That leaves a potential shortfall of 3,000 properties. We
:02:47. > :02:52.would like to have house, but I don't see where we will put them
:02:53. > :02:57.houses at all, man. The council and all of these people have to work out
:02:58. > :03:03.that plan there, but it's a very hard plan to work because with this
:03:04. > :03:08.flood here, everybody that's... Nobody is safe right now. Only have
:03:09. > :03:12.to come to an area like this to understand why people are opposed to
:03:13. > :03:17.more building. Actually, a lot of these homes are dry inside because
:03:18. > :03:21.they were built on a raised platform. There is another issue.
:03:22. > :03:25.It's thought that developments would bring more concrete and more homes
:03:26. > :03:31.and that would increase the chances of flooding because the water would
:03:32. > :03:35.have nowhere to go. Catherine now lives in Wraysbury but in Malaysia
:03:36. > :03:40.she was regularly flooded. Homes there are designed with the river in
:03:41. > :03:47.mind. The flood got to four feet deep. How my family cope is to move
:03:48. > :03:51.everything upstair. We lived upstair when the down stairs were flooded.
:03:52. > :03:54.We have cement floor and we clean it. The council is considering
:03:55. > :03:59.building on the green belt. The water may be subsiding, but the
:04:00. > :04:06.demand for housing only keeps growing. As you may have heard, the
:04:07. > :04:10.Government is calling on insurance companies to make swift payments to
:04:11. > :04:16.homeowners and businesses hit by the floods. Let's join our reporter
:04:17. > :04:20.Nick Beake, who is in Berkshire People are facing a costly clearup
:04:21. > :04:25.operation, aren't they? Good evening. Yes, indeed they are.
:04:26. > :04:28.Welcome to the Manor Hotel here This was one of so many businesses
:04:29. > :04:32.that has been flooded in the past week or so. You can see the sandbags
:04:33. > :04:36.here. They did their job. The problem was, like in other place,
:04:37. > :04:40.they were flooded by the water rising from below. The basement was
:04:41. > :04:45.flooded. You can still see how tonight they are pumping water out
:04:46. > :04:48.from there. The water level Rosin credibly high there. Inside two
:04:49. > :04:52.conference rooms have been badly affected by the water. We filmed
:04:53. > :04:56.there earlier. They have had to pull up the carpets. There has been
:04:57. > :04:59.problems with the fur youure and some of the floorboards are rotten.
:05:00. > :05:04.A difficult time for them here. We were talking to three businesses in
:05:05. > :05:07.Datchet. For so many families and residents they face their own
:05:08. > :05:11.problems, as they try to make insurance claims. It's a long and
:05:12. > :05:16.often painful process. Our first report tonight is from Sarah Harris.
:05:17. > :05:20.Not the usual day at the office for Richard, the insurance loss
:05:21. > :05:26.adjuster, he has half a dozen calls to make for customers on this road
:05:27. > :05:31.alone. Hello. Nice to see you. All right? Louise has been living in a
:05:32. > :05:36.hotel since Wednesday. Water in her house has gone down, she has come
:05:37. > :05:40.back to find there are thousands of pounds worth of damage. It's
:05:41. > :05:45.disheartening really. I suppose in some ways a bit of a shock as well.
:05:46. > :05:50.That hasn't hit me yet. I think the reality is, when we come back in
:05:51. > :05:55.here, I think afterwards it will be the mess. The result of the
:05:56. > :06:00.flooding, all the clearing up and everything. I think that's when it's
:06:01. > :06:06.going to really hit. Insurance experts say the lowest payouts for
:06:07. > :06:10.this kind of damage are around ?15,000. Many cars, left out on the
:06:11. > :06:13.streets, have been written off. Julie has been given the go`ahead by
:06:14. > :06:17.her insurance company to move out and into a hotel. She's worried
:06:18. > :06:21.about what all this is going to do to premiums next year. I think
:06:22. > :06:24.they're just going to slap it on everyone really. Although these
:06:25. > :06:28.houses, the opposite to the me aren't flooded, the ones the other
:06:29. > :06:34.side, the next road down are. We will cop it around here. You know. A
:06:35. > :06:38.mobile advice centre has been setup on Staines high street for customers
:06:39. > :06:43.worried about flooding insurance claims. I started to repair things
:06:44. > :06:46.from the last rain damage and damage we had. Half way through that we
:06:47. > :06:50.ended up with having the severe flood warning. At that point, you do
:06:51. > :06:55.as much as you can, but you are never sure when it will end. The
:06:56. > :06:59.advice we are giving to customers, or potentially people who will be
:07:00. > :07:02.affected, make sure you have your insurance policy handy. Relevant
:07:03. > :07:07.contact details, but also think of safety first. The cost of the damage
:07:08. > :07:12.is likely to run into hundreds of millions of pounds. For most being
:07:13. > :07:17.properly covered is giving them a valuable life line on the long road
:07:18. > :07:23.back to normality. Sarah Harris BBC London News. Testing times for
:07:24. > :07:26.residents then. Businesses too massively affected by this. One
:07:27. > :07:29.problem, getting out the message that they are open for business At
:07:30. > :07:33.this particular place they say so many people have cancelled. Tonight,
:07:34. > :07:36.the local Rotary Club honoured their booking. They say they are in the
:07:37. > :07:40.minority. Other people have not been coming. They are losing tens of
:07:41. > :07:44.thousands of pounds every week. We can talk to three businesses in
:07:45. > :07:48.Datchet tonight who have joined us. Mandy, you are the owner of this
:07:49. > :07:52.particular place. Will Beckett you own a florist over the way, Julie
:07:53. > :07:56.West you own a dress agency. Thank you for being here this evening
:07:57. > :07:59.It's been an extremely difficult week. Give us a picture of what you
:08:00. > :08:03.have had to go through? We have ended up losing a lot of our
:08:04. > :08:09.conference business. A lot of our wedding... A wedding booked for last
:08:10. > :08:13.Friday on Valentine's Day. We had Valentine's bookings, we had to turn
:08:14. > :08:16.all of that way to other hotels and restaurants. We had a lot of
:08:17. > :08:20.conferences last week and this week which, most have cancelled because
:08:21. > :08:24.we didn't know where we would lab last Tuesday or Wednesday with the
:08:25. > :08:27.floods the way they were. The insurance process. What are your
:08:28. > :08:30.fear abouts that? You have concerns? We have never claimed on the
:08:31. > :08:37.insurance since I started up business back in 93. My worry is if
:08:38. > :08:40.we have to do something now, that we will be penalised for years to come.
:08:41. > :08:45.That is a big worry for us even though we are not in the floodplain.
:08:46. > :08:50.It's the first time it happened due to a few mistakes there was a wall
:08:51. > :08:55.breached at the end of Datchet a farmer's bridge that had a small gap
:08:56. > :09:00.that would let water in. We don t think it would happen again. Will be
:09:01. > :09:05.investigated. Will, it wases Valentine's Day last week, couldn't
:09:06. > :09:09.have come at such a bad time? It was the big day of the year for us. With
:09:10. > :09:12.the floods that took it out. We did it elsewhere to mitigate the loss.
:09:13. > :09:17.The insurance companies, I'm sure, will pay out, but eventually. My
:09:18. > :09:22.biggest worry is small businesses like ours is the cash flow. Cash
:09:23. > :09:26.flow kills businesses. What we need is something like the Government
:09:27. > :09:29.saying no money is no object. If the Government the were to say, small
:09:30. > :09:36.business like our, they would give us an interest`free loan for six
:09:37. > :09:40.months. That is nothing, local authorities if they gave us a
:09:41. > :09:46.holiday on our business rates that again would help. That's the sort of
:09:47. > :09:49.help we need. Indeed. You lost up to ?10,000. Julie, for you, you
:09:50. > :09:52.couldn't get insurance, could you? Couldn't get flood insurance because
:09:53. > :09:56.of where you lived, tell us about that? New business we opened in
:09:57. > :10:00.catch net November. We have been penalised because of the postcode.
:10:01. > :10:03.So, it didn't matter who the broker tried to get insurance with, we were
:10:04. > :10:09.told they could try and underwrite it with a different insurance
:10:10. > :10:12.company, but with the fee would be astronomical. With a new business I
:10:13. > :10:16.couldn't afford to take that that on. You think there needs to be a
:10:17. > :10:20.shake`up of the insurance system? Definitely. They have us where they
:10:21. > :10:24.want us. They can write whatever script they like much we have to
:10:25. > :10:27.follow. At the moment, being a new business, I don't know what the
:10:28. > :10:31.future will bring because I don t have flood cover. OK. Julie, thank
:10:32. > :10:36.you all for being with us this evening. We did invite the
:10:37. > :10:38.Association of British Insurers to be with us this evening, they
:10:39. > :10:42.weren't able to do so. They said in the past few months they have paid
:10:43. > :10:46.out ?14 million and said today they are doing all they can to try and
:10:47. > :10:49.allay the fears of businesses here and elsewhere. That they will
:10:50. > :10:54.support residents and businesses through these most difficult of
:10:55. > :10:58.times. Back to you. From Datchet, Nick, many thanks. We will of course
:10:59. > :11:03.have a full weather forecast later in the programme. Also coming up:
:11:04. > :11:07.Fighting for her children. The mother who wants the Russian
:11:08. > :11:14.authorities to help bring them back to London.
:11:15. > :11:22.The future of Pentonville Prison in North London has been put in doubt
:11:23. > :11:24.after a highly critical report. The Chief Inspector of Prisons found
:11:25. > :11:28.that London's oldest jail is seriously overcrowded with staff
:11:29. > :11:33.shortages and inmates left feeling unsafe. Here's our special
:11:34. > :11:39.correspondent, Kurt Barling. A prison built in 18 54, conditions
:11:40. > :11:46.described as "likely to embarrass the Victorians." Such is the state
:11:47. > :11:50.of the overcrowding and vermon infestation at Pentonville Prison
:11:51. > :11:55.prison. They will need to be a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow
:11:56. > :11:58.if the Government is to recover a jail, the Chief Inspector believes,
:11:59. > :12:03.is not kushtly `` currently fit for purpose. We want prisoners to come
:12:04. > :12:06.out of prison less likely to offend than when they went in. There was
:12:07. > :12:10.good work on that in Pentonville Prison, the level of chaos and need
:12:11. > :12:14.in the prison, the lack of staffing, the poor environment, made that
:12:15. > :12:20.really difficult to do. At pent onville, the the report say there is
:12:21. > :12:26.was a high indense of drug use, overcrowding, 12 36 inmates in a
:12:27. > :12:31.jail designed for 913, living with rats and cockroaches. Unusually high
:12:32. > :12:35.staff sickness and absence rate and fearful inmates. This is Government
:12:36. > :12:39.policy, which is allowing more and more people to go into the prison
:12:40. > :12:43.system who don't need to be there. Who could be managed safely in the
:12:44. > :12:46.community. This means that we have a suicide every three days. We will
:12:47. > :12:51.have a riot. There are serious problems in the prisons. The
:12:52. > :13:04.national offender management service told us:
:13:05. > :13:09.Foreboding from the outside, according to the author of this
:13:10. > :13:14.report, frightening on the inside for the inmates. Her Majesty's
:13:15. > :13:15.inspector of prison lays the gauntlet down to the Government
:13:16. > :13:27.saying ` invest or shut up shop An international charity is backing
:13:28. > :13:34.a mother from North London who's fighting to be reunited with her two
:13:35. > :13:38.of her children. She won a landmark ruling last November ordering her
:13:39. > :13:41.ex`husband to return the boys from Russia. The charity says the
:13:42. > :13:47.authorities there have failed to enforce the court order.
:13:48. > :13:54.A mother's love for her child. Rachael Neustadt is longing to
:13:55. > :13:59.cuddle her two eldest sons like this, but she hasn't seen in five
:14:00. > :14:05.months, and now she has no idea where they are. Most people not
:14:06. > :14:09.having gone through this themselves, would have a hard time
:14:10. > :14:22.understanding the depth of the sadness. And the fear and anxiety in
:14:23. > :14:29.the not knowing. Not knowing if they are OK and when this will all come
:14:30. > :14:33.to an end. Her sons, Daniel and Jonathan, seen here near their home
:14:34. > :14:40.in London, were taken to Russia by their Russian father 14 months ago.
:14:41. > :14:44.It was meant to be a two we holiday but he hasn't returned them. This is
:14:45. > :14:50.the moment last November when she heard that Russian courts had made a
:14:51. > :14:54.ruling ordering her sons to be returned to her. But nobody has seen
:14:55. > :14:59.them all their father since. Now charity action for app but children
:15:00. > :15:07.`` abducted children is calling for action. I think pressure onto the
:15:08. > :15:13.Russian government to say that basically, this was the first
:15:14. > :15:19.example of a convention case. We will want to see it done properly.
:15:20. > :15:22.The decision was correct. Now it has to be enforced. Officials here at
:15:23. > :15:26.the brush and embassy have so far refused to come and on the case
:15:27. > :15:32.Rachel says he and her and the have asked for help but have had no
:15:33. > :15:38.reply. Since December, we have asked for several times for an interview
:15:39. > :15:42.but there has been a response. Boys with their baby brother shortly
:15:43. > :15:52.before they were abducted. Treasured moments that their mother hopes will
:15:53. > :15:55.soon be repeated. Despite a chronic shortage of organ
:15:56. > :15:58.donors, one of London's top hospitals has managed to increase
:15:59. > :16:01.kidney transplants by 60% over the last two years. Alex Bushill went to
:16:02. > :16:05.St George's hospital in Tooting to find out more and meet some of those
:16:06. > :16:15.who've helped transform the lives of others. Neal and Peter are brothers
:16:16. > :16:18.but they share more than blood. They share a kidney. Peter had a red
:16:19. > :16:22.autoimmune condition that meant his body attacked his own kidney. After
:16:23. > :16:28.renal failure, he needed a new one. His brother said he could have one
:16:29. > :16:34.of his. I was really well informed. There were no surprises. My recovery
:16:35. > :16:39.has been fantastic. You have got his kidney inside you. A wonderful
:16:40. > :16:44.thing. It has been amazing and life changing for me. I will be for ever
:16:45. > :16:50.grateful to my brother for making such a difference to the quality of
:16:51. > :16:55.my life. Last year, St Georges conducted 145 kidney chance plants.
:16:56. > :16:58.That is up 50% in two years. The success is in part because of John
:16:59. > :17:04.and Alex, donors who gave their kidneys to people they will never
:17:05. > :17:09.meet. It is unusual just because I don't know the recipient. But I feel
:17:10. > :17:15.that if it is right, it is right. It is the best thing I have done in my
:17:16. > :17:18.life. If you are not a doctor or a medical any sort, there is little
:17:19. > :17:23.chance the average person has of changing a life, or, who knows, even
:17:24. > :17:29.saving a life. That is why I did it. You have got two kidneys, you need
:17:30. > :17:34.one, why not? Theirs is a remarkable act of giving that wasn't possible a
:17:35. > :17:43.few years ago. The law changed in 2006. Consultancy are seeing the
:17:44. > :17:45.benefits. This year we did five altruistic donor transplants. People
:17:46. > :17:50.donated their kidneys to people they did not know. There is also a change
:17:51. > :17:56.that people who do not know somebody may want to volunteer and donate a
:17:57. > :18:00.kidney to somebody they have met on social media. The law has been
:18:01. > :18:05.updated to allow that to happen Today, St Georges celebrated the
:18:06. > :18:10.success, bringing this year's donors and recipients together. But they
:18:11. > :18:23.then there is still much to be done. `` they no much is still to be done.
:18:24. > :18:29.Still to come tonight: one of our most photographed faces.
:18:30. > :18:41.I will speak to her about her new role as a designer. Are you one of
:18:42. > :18:46.the thousands of Londoners who discard their broken phone or camera
:18:47. > :18:56.rather than get it fixed? There might be held at hand. `` help.
:18:57. > :19:01.A pair of headphones which have seen better days. It is one of many items
:19:02. > :19:07.brought to the restart project in Hackney, where broken electricals
:19:08. > :19:11.are given a new lease of life. It is a community repair is then swear we
:19:12. > :19:19.have volunteer repairers who like to fix stuff. People bring their
:19:20. > :19:25.gadgets, and so the volunteers have a look at them and help them to
:19:26. > :19:29.learn how to prepare `` repair the stuff. I have brought an old digital
:19:30. > :19:34.radio. I got this for free because it kept blowing a fuse. It is
:19:35. > :19:39.actually probably worth a lot of money. The scheme started two years
:19:40. > :19:45.ago and has proven so popular they have held 40 parties across London
:19:46. > :19:51.and helped over 500 people. We think there is a real value in repairing
:19:52. > :19:57.things that you have. There is so much waste going on in the UK, and
:19:58. > :20:01.so many things aren't repairable. In London we threw around 7% of
:20:02. > :20:06.electronic waste which is still working or repairable. Each of us
:20:07. > :20:13.will discard 350 kilograms of it by 2020. Councils across the capital
:20:14. > :20:18.are now trying to tackle the issue. They sent 200 tonnes of old
:20:19. > :20:22.electronic so weak to this plant in Kent. All of it is collected from
:20:23. > :20:26.London and the South East. We receive broken vacuum cleaners,
:20:27. > :20:31.kettles, microwaves, literally everything around the house. It
:20:32. > :20:35.comes to us for a cycling. It gets put on to the conveyor belt and fed
:20:36. > :20:43.through the plant and separated into the commodities like gold. In
:20:44. > :20:50.Hackney, the party seems to have been at says. `` a success. There is
:20:51. > :20:59.certainly more happy faces leaving than there were arriving.
:21:00. > :21:04.Football, and Brentford has moved a step closer to building a new home.
:21:05. > :21:07.The Mayor's office has approved a 20,000 seater stadium at Lionel
:21:08. > :21:09.Road. The plans also include hundreds of new homes and other
:21:10. > :21:12.community facilities. The proposals will go through if there are no
:21:13. > :21:15.objections by the government. In athletics, Croydon sprinter James
:21:16. > :21:18.Dasaolu has had to pull out of next month's World Indoor Championships.
:21:19. > :21:21.The athlete, ranked number one in the world over 60 metres this year,
:21:22. > :21:28.tore a hamstring during the final of the Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham
:21:29. > :21:31.at the weekend. She's the Londoner with one of the
:21:32. > :21:35.most famous faces in the fashion world. Cara Delevingne has modelled
:21:36. > :21:38.for top designers and graced many a front cover. Backstage at London
:21:39. > :21:41.Fashion Week, our entertainment correspondent Brenda Emmanus caught
:21:42. > :21:43.up with the 21`year`old who says, despite her jetset lifestyle, she
:21:44. > :21:46.still finds this city the most inspiring in the world. There is
:21:47. > :21:58.flash photography at the start of this report.
:21:59. > :22:05.She is the model of the moment who has bagged herself a new role
:22:06. > :22:09.designing a collection for luxury brand, Mulberry. Seen here at the
:22:10. > :22:11.presentation of her handbag creations, she confessed that
:22:12. > :22:19.earlier efforts were not as impressive. Did you have ambitions
:22:20. > :22:26.to be a designer? I was a real big tomboy. I did textiles at school. I
:22:27. > :22:30.never wanted to design clothes. I designed a clown bag that I wanted
:22:31. > :22:36.to fit as many things in as possible. It is disgusting. But this
:22:37. > :22:42.is a different level. She hangs out with the likes of Rhianna, has
:22:43. > :22:48.famous eyebrows, and it is this unique image that has her in high
:22:49. > :22:54.demand for shows and shoots around the world. I think she has just got
:22:55. > :23:02.personality. A lot of the models aren't encouraged to show their
:23:03. > :23:06.personalities. They all have to look uniform and bland. I think a lot of
:23:07. > :23:11.the time they have to look ill. I am so sick of trade to find pictures to
:23:12. > :23:15.put in the newspaper of morals who don't look like they are about to be
:23:16. > :23:20.hospitalised. She doesn't look like that. But she is also busy building
:23:21. > :23:31.a film career with several projects that for release. One is inspired by
:23:32. > :23:38.the Amanda Knox story. It is so romantic. It is about right to find
:23:39. > :23:42.the right project. When you model, people try to typecast you. You have
:23:43. > :23:48.to prove yourself a lot more if you are model because people put you in
:23:49. > :23:56.that you aren't stupid blonde who is going to get killed... That is not
:23:57. > :24:00.me. It is not just because I live here. People get given more of a
:24:01. > :24:04.chance here. The way the city is is inspiring. How many different
:24:05. > :24:15.cultures and people lived together, it is like they are only going to
:24:16. > :24:17.produce beautiful things. Time for a check on the weather with
:24:18. > :24:22.Wendy. Time for a check on the weather
:24:23. > :24:27.There are some bits of good news this week. Let's go through them. It
:24:28. > :24:31.could be a lot worse. The weather, basically, is going to be distantly
:24:32. > :24:35.average this week. Nothing exceptional either way, which is.
:24:36. > :24:39.What we need. For the middle part of this week it will be mostly dry It
:24:40. > :24:44.is going to be fairly cloudy but it will also be calm and it is going to
:24:45. > :24:48.be quite mild. There is change to things on Thursday. A low pressure
:24:49. > :24:52.system from the Atlantic. We have a spell of rain from the warm front, a
:24:53. > :24:58.spell of rain from the cold front, and then some showers dotted around.
:24:59. > :25:01.It could be a lot worse. I don't think there is going to be any
:25:02. > :25:05.particularly heavy rain through Thursday all day we will have to
:25:06. > :25:10.keep an eye on it. We did have some showers today. Some of them have
:25:11. > :25:14.been heavy. A rumble of thunder in Essex. They are fading out at the
:25:15. > :25:19.moment. It will become dry overnight. At the moment we have got
:25:20. > :25:23.some clear skies. The temperature will fall back quickly tonight,
:25:24. > :25:29.loads of three or four Celsius. There could be one or two missed ``
:25:30. > :25:34.mist patches overnight. You can also see that the cloud is building as we
:25:35. > :25:39.go through the night. It means tomorrow is going to be another dull
:25:40. > :25:43.start. We also have some drizzle in the air first thing. As the day goes
:25:44. > :25:47.on it is going to improve. It will be mostly dry for the afternoon The
:25:48. > :25:51.cloud will be tending to break up a tiny bit. There may even be sunny
:25:52. > :25:56.spells breaking through. Temperatures again app to around 11
:25:57. > :26:01.or 12 degrees. I am tempted to say it could feel like early spring into
:26:02. > :26:05.the afternoon on the sunny spells. There is some goodies. Then comes
:26:06. > :26:08.Thursday. As we have said, there is going to be an area of low pressure
:26:09. > :26:15.through the country which adverts will bring some rain overnight. One
:26:16. > :26:20.or two showers in the afternoon but don't be too alarmed. There are
:26:21. > :26:25.going to be breaks in between them. It is going to be quite a breezy day
:26:26. > :26:28.as well. For Friday, one or two showers are possible again but there
:26:29. > :26:34.will be some sunny weather to be had. How is that? Very good! Thanks.
:26:35. > :26:37.A reminder of the day's headlines: The rate of inflation has dropped
:26:38. > :26:38.below 2% for the first time in four years.
:26:39. > :26:40.The rate of inflation Economists say it could ease the
:26:41. > :26:43.pressure on family budgets, especially if wages continue to
:26:44. > :26:46.rise. The Court of Appeal has ruled that
:26:47. > :26:49.judges in England and Wales can still hand out whole`life sentences
:26:50. > :26:52.to the most serious offenders. Last year the European Court of Human
:26:53. > :26:59.Rights ruled that they were a breach of human rights.
:27:00. > :27:02.French police investigating the murder of the Saad al`Hilli have
:27:03. > :27:06.arrested a man. The engineer from Surrey was shot dead along with his
:27:07. > :27:11.wife and his mother in the Alps in 2012.
:27:12. > :27:14.The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has told BBC London that
:27:15. > :27:19.plans to build thousands of new homes on the worst hit flood plains
:27:20. > :27:23.in Berkshire are to be ruled out. And the future of Pentonville Prison
:27:24. > :27:25.has been put in doubt after a highly critical report. The Chief Inspector
:27:26. > :27:27.of Prisons found the jail is seriously overcrowded and
:27:28. > :27:34.understaffed, with inmates feeling unsafe.
:27:35. > :27:37.That's it for now. I'll be back latest for you during the ten
:27:38. > :27:39.o'clock news. Until then, from all of us on the team, thanks for
:27:40. > :27:43.watching and have a lovely evening.