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