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forces and protestors. That is all from BBC News. It is goodbye from | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
attacks are a medical emergency. me. Time now to get the news, travel | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
and weather where you are. Tonight on BBC London News. The | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Mayor is accused of giving Barclays a free ride after failing to secure | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
millions in sponsorship for the extension of his bike hire scheme. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Barclays were expected for ?10 million in cash for the third phase | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
of expansion, they actually provided nothing. Transport bosses say there | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
was little they could do when the bank pulled out. Also tonight... The | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Mafia boss living in London for 20 years. Now a court decides if he | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
should be extradited. Millions of pounds of public money could be | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
about to vanish into thin air, as London continues its battle with air | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
pollution. And disbelief at this death defying stunt. Police condemn | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
the youngsters who risked their lives. | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. The Mayor is being asked | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
to explain why the extension of his bike hire scheme to South West | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
London is being done at taxpayers' expense. It's emerged that no money | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
is coming from the sponsors, Barclays, even though they get | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
exclusive naming rights. Opposition groups claim the bank is, in effect, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
getting at least ?10 million worth of free advertising. Our political | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
editor, Tim Donovan, has the story. This was just before Christmas, | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
another milestone. Extending the bikes to south`west London. But if | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
you'd assume the sponsors, Barclays, were helping to pay for this, think | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
again. Thanks to a document unearthed under the Freedom of | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
information act by one City Hall blogger, we could see that the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
mayor's original intention was to get an extra ?10 million from | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Barclays to pay for this, phase three of the scheme. With the bank | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
pulling out of the sponsorship deal, that money has not and will not be | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
paid. The documents were clear that Barclays were expected to provide | :02:07. | :02:22. | |
?10 million in cash for the third phase expansion for south`west | :02:23. | :02:23. | |
London. They've provided, according to TfL's press office, nothing. It's | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
a bad bill for taxpayers. Local councillors have paid more than ?4 | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
million for it and yet their logos are nowhere on the bikes. The | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
company that has paid nothing is benefiting from the publicity. Under | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
the original cycle hire deal, Barclays agreed to pay up to 25 | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
million over five years, to help fund stage one in central London and | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
stage two, extended to East London. The Mair later claimed he had | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
secured ?25 million more from Barclays for the following three | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
years to fund further expansion. But in fact he hadn't secured that | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
money, meaning the south`west extension has gone ahead without ?10 | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
million from Barclays. It shows what a Poor contract this was from start | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
to finish, poorly negotiated, poorly written. The fact that a big, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
multinational company like Barclays bank can get out of paying money | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
that was due on the sponsorship deal whilst their advertising soul goes | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
ahead, absolutely shocking. London's council tax payers in the | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
local boroughs have actually ended up funding the expansion. Lo and | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
behold, Barclays have still got their branding all over these bikes, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
even though they haven't paid for them. Transport for London said | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
there wasn't extra money from Barclays because they had made a | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
commercial decision not to extend sponsorship. But, as the statement | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
added, they do however remain the sponsor of the cycle hire scheme | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
until 2015. We expect to receive a contribution from them for the phase | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
three extension. The mayor's office had nothing to add today. There's a | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
little under 18 months to find a new sponsor. Later in the programme... | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
Anger at the negative portrayal of their estate on TV. The residents | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
taking on Channel 4. They put in load of washing lines and satellite | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
dishes and upturned shopping trolleys and rubbish bags. You can | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
see this isn't a reality. A Mafia boss who's been on the run in London | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
for 20 years has begun his fight against extradition. Domenico | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Rancadore had been living with his family in Uxbridge, under the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
assumed name Marc Skinner. He was arrested last August and faces a | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
seven year prison sentence in Italy. Our home affairs correspondent, Guy | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
Smith, reports. A quiet suburban Axbridge in a very normal looking | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
house. It's the last place you would expect to find a member of the | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Mafia. Italian police say the crime family of Domenico Rancadore are | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
involved in extortion, racketeering and drug trafficking. He lived a | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
double life here in West London for nearly 20 years, going under the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
name of Marc Skinner. Neighbours say he was easy`going but security | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
conscious. He always seemed very friendly. Thinking about it now, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
when he did move in he did build up the conifers and put the big gate at | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
the front. We always thought he was Spanish. But his quiet suburban life | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
ended here last August when Met Police officers arrested him. His | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
past had finally caught up with him, a past that was rooted here in | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
the birthplace of the Mafia, in Sicily. As a former teacher, he was | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
known as The Professor. He was acquitted twice in the Italian | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
courts but in 1999 was convicted in his absence of being a Mafia | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
associate and was sentenced to seven years. Now he faces extradition and | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
being separated from his wife. But his British lawyer says he's been | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
misrepresented will stop He deliberately left Italy because he | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
did not want to be a member of the Mafia, he did not want to be | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
associated in any way with them. NEETs since his return to the UK, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
he's lived a completely blame free life. By back row Domenico Rancadore | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
is fighting extradition, partly because of poor conditions in | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Italy's prisons, where he now faces seven years. Three men have been | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
arrested following the murder of a man from London on the south coast. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
The victim, who was 20 and has so far not been named, was fatally | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
stabbed yesterday evening in Folkestone. Kent police are | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
appealing for any witnesses to come forward. Investigators from the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission will carry out | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
house`to`house enquiries this evening a week after the deaths of | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
two cyclists in Berkshire. They died following a collision with a black | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
BMW on the A329 in Pangbourne. The police watchdog is examining whether | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
the actions of two officers in a police car influenced events. The | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Chancellor says 50 schools in London will teach Mandarin alongside other | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
European languages in a move which is expected to affect 3000 pupils. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
George Osborne made the comments to businessmen in Hong Kong during a | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
trip to China, where he is building on the UK's trade links. I want | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
students in Britain to understand Asia better as well. Which is why | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
today I'm announcing a new grant for Chinese language teaching, teacher | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
training for 50 London schools. My ten`year`old daughter is already | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
learning Mandarin. I want thousands more children in Britain to learn | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
this language of the future world. Air pollution is recognised by the | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Government as the second`biggest public health threat after smoking. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
And London has the worst air quality of any European capital. The | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
European Commission has launched legal proceedings over the UK's | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
failure to cut excessive levels of nitrogen dioxide. Let's join | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Victoria Graham, who's in central London. | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
I've been standing here for about half an hour and you can smell the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
fumes coming up from the vehicles. That includes toxic gases from | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
nitrogen dioxide. In fairness, London isn't the only city in the UK | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
battling air`pollution problems and it is trying to do something about | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
it, by introducing low emissions zones and clearer `` Vina vehicles. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
But if air quality doesn't improve dramatically there could be a very | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
high price to pay. Cars, motorbikes, lorries and buses. Part of everyday | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
life in a busy city, not least here in London where battling pollution | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
levels is a headache. Although you can't see it, it's all around us, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
particularly on a busy high street like this one. Although they are by | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
no means the only culprit, Wandsworth Council found that buses | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
significantly contributed to harmful nitrogen dioxide. So the Mayor of | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
London replaced some of the older buses with cleaner ones, but has | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
that help? They were part of the answer for Putney, as they will be | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
for the rest of London. It's the rest of London as well we've got to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
worry about. Three quarters of London's Maine roads are well above | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the EU limits. That means there are premature deaths, over 4000 | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
premature deaths in London every year. There's all sorts of health | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
problems associated with these pollutants. We've got to get moving | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
and find a solution quickly. The Government is facing fines running | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
into millions by not reaching their target is to lower levels. And that | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
could be passed on to local councils where levels of pollution remain | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
high. The price is also high for people like Andrea. The fumes from | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
cars and exhaust pipes, the amount of traffic you have in London is | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
unbelievable. That is something I do notice when I'm in a polluted area | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
where there's lots of cars. I do notice I get a tight chest and get | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
breathless. Government says it's investing heavily in transport | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
measures to improve air quality around busy roads, and are working | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
with the European Commission to ensure this happens as soon as | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
possible. The first deadline to lower this toxic gas has been and | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
gone. Current plans estimate that for London, compliance with EU | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
standards will only be achieved by 2025. Just a footnote to this | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
ruling, that it could affect the Heathrow airport expansion plans, if | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
that is seen to add to pollution problems. The Liberal Democrats have | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
said to us tonight at Boris Johnson should be implementing ultralow | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
emissions zones by 2020 least. But before then, because that's when | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Boris Johnson intends to implement them. The Government is keen to | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
stress that air`pollution levels have improved significantly over the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
past few decades. But for people like Andrea, further improvements | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
can't come soon enough. Back to you. More than 20 people have come | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
forward to complain of poor care at a north London hospital. It comes | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
after we featured the case of one elderly patient who was left in | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
unsanitary conditions and without a bed at Barnet Hospital. Now his | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
daughter is leading a social media campaign to highlight the case and | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
wants to hear from others with similar experiences. Marc Ashdown | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
reports. He wasn't being looked after, he was in dirty ropes all the | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
time. He looked unkempt, miserable. Sam Berman speaking last month after | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
her father died in Barnet Hospital. She called the care inhumane. Lots | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
more stories have emerged since then. We're talking about basic | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
human kindness. Julia got in touch with Sam, her mother died in similar | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
circumstances. The care was a disgrace, she says. It seems to me | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
incredible that you can have somebody lying on a hospital ward | :12:03. | :12:22. | |
where we are saying, how she had a stroke? And they are saying, no, she | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
hasn't. She had had a stroke, she was there for seven hours having her | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
stroke. She would have had more chance of a quick reaction if she'd | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
have that stroke at a bus stop. Sam has had messages from more than 20 | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
people. We can't verify them, but all seemed to paint a picture of | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
poor care. The hospital did ask for people to complain directly to them. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
People are too scared to get in touch. A lot of people are getting | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
in touch with me because they know I've got my campaign. I think the | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
general consensus is that people want to remain anonymous at the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
moment. Why? They are scared of anything happening if their | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
relatives go back in. Julia did complain and was assured her case | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
would be used to make sure nothing like that happened again. Three | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
years on, she saw Sam on TV. That made me cry. Then I felt angry | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
because my remote hope that something might have changed as a | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
result of the experience we had with my mother just evaporated. Barnett | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
wouldn't be interviewed but told us they have apologised again to Sam | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
and take complaints seriously. Every time someone else comes forward and | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
I chat to them, it fuels me and the memories of my dad and how he was in | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
hospital. The images flashed back to me. It just spurs me on. So`called | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
free`runners, who filmed themselves hanging from a crane in South | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
London, have been branded irresponsible by police. The | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
youngsters posted their death defying stunt on YouTube. The video | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
emerged as a specialist centre for the sport opened its doors today in | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Poplar. Warren Nettleford is there for us now and can tell us more. | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
As you can see in the background, there are people who are jumping, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
leaping, making the best use of the space, all to enjoy free running. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
There has been a video posted online in recent days where it seems young | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
people have taken things too far. I would advise you not to try any of | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
this at home as it is extremely dangerous. They are more than 200 | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
feet above ground and are taking the biggest of risks. For a moment, he | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
dangles from the crane with just one hand without safety equipment. The | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
teenagers who filmed themselves perhaps wanted notoriety. Instead | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
they have caught the attention of the police. This was filmed in south | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
London. Those who posted the video describe themselves as free`runners, | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
those who practice the art of Park core. Here at the academy, they see | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
it differently. It is just hanging off a crane. It is based on dealer | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
to get some sort of validation or whatever, but it is not part of what | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
we do. The academy opened its doors today in East London for the first | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
time. It is the first indoor training centre for the urban sport | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
of free running. Those who want to learn can learn from experts. I've | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
been doing it for a couple of years. I have always loved climbing. There | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
are no rules. There is no conflict. There can be competition but we | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
don't like to play it that way. We want to push each other to the | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
limit. I think it is absolutely brilliant, just for the pure | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
fitness. It appeals to such a wide range of people as well. Like most | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
sports, free running requires dedication, perseverance and | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
motivation. People who saw this video described as dangerous and | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
stupid. They may describe the video as death`defying, but people here | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
felt it was extremely stupid indeed. Police have asked anybody who can | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
identify those people to come forward. I am joined by Naomi, | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
identify those people to come Why is this sport becoming so | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
popular? It is available now more than it used to be. It is a | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
relatively young sport. There were fantastic teachers and practitioners | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
learning from each other. It is a really satisfying sport. You are | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
moving in a way that your body is designed to move. If anybody is keen | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
to try this out for themselves, it costs about ?7 per session and you | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
can get excellent coaching. People here already enjoying themselves. | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
Still to come: not in a million years did we ever imagine we will be | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
nominated for a BAFTA. A director from north London, more | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
used to making TV commercials, wins a BAFTA. And the Met Office has | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
confirmed we have had the wettest winter on record in the south`east. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
There is some respite in the forecast. I will tell you all about | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
it in a few minutes. It's supposed to look like a genuine | :17:25. | :17:38. | |
London estate, but this Channel four promo video has angered the | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
residents who live on the Aylesbury estate. They claim it was | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
deliberately made to look dirty and unkempt. So much so, that some of | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
them got together and made their own film which they hope the broadcaster | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
will run instead, as Jean Mackenzie reports. | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
A familiar scene Frannie macro TV viewer. This promotional video for | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Channel four shows an estate littered with bin liners and | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
washing. The reality looks different. They put in loads of | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
washing lines and satellite dishes, upturned shopping trolley sees `` | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
trolleys, rubbish bags. This is not the reality. Residents say when it | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
was filmed ten years ago producers brought along props and effects were | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
added later. As I got older and seen it over and over again, I was not | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
really happy with it. I was thinking, that is not home, that is | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
not where I live. Built in the 1960s, the Aylesbury is the largest | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
estate in Europe. Blighted by crime and deprivation in the past, Tony | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Blair made his first speech is premised. Even with its | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
difficulties, some feel this portrayal is not fair. 7500 live | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
here. It will have its problems. But we think things like the idea and | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
re`the negatives. Those living along the corridor teamed up with a local | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
film`maker to create their own version, replacing props with | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
people. We want to feature the residents who live here. And give | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
them a chance to be seen on the estate. The estate is about the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
people and the community and not sodden brutalist architecture. `` | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
not brutalist architecture. The people you want Channel four to | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
start running this instead. `` Channel 4. That is what Channel four | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
needs to put up. `` Channel 4. It is a good estate. Clean and friendly. | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
It is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Channel 4 says that since | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
been contacted by BBC London, it has watched the version produced by the | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
residents and was impressed. It has promised to run the new one at least | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
once. We will watch with interest. When | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
one of the richest men in Belgium bought struggling Championship club | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
Charlton Athletic last month, there were a few raised eyebrows as to | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
why. Today we got a few more answers. Roland Duchatelet, who's | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
worth an estimated ?420 million, has been speaking to our sports | :20:22. | :20:33. | |
reporter, Chris Slegg. Last summer, protests outside the | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
stadium at Standard Liege as some fans protested against Roman do | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
chatelaine. He has since won many of them over. He is still on the club | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
and he owns Charlton Athletic. I think throughout the history of this | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
club, it is a very attractive club. Of course, there is still a lot of | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
work. But again, we are going to try to help to bring this club again to | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
a more stable level than it has been recently. He bought Standard Liege | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
three years ago. This winter he went on a spending spree, buying a German | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
team come at Charlton and a Spanish team. We'll Charlton lose their | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
identity as part of this network? The benefit you Charlton is that it | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
has... They can exchange players. It is an opportunity for younger | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
players. How have you found it working with Chris Powell? Is he a | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
manager for the long`term? Absolutely. We think he has all of | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
the qualities to be for the long`term. In the short term, the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
priority is for the club to move of the relegation zone. Stay up and | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
then we can see if the network works for Charlton. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
He's wanted to win awards for his film`making since he was ten. James | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Griffiths from Highgate is more used to making 30`second TV adverts. But | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
last weekend he realised his dream when he won a BAFTA for his short | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
film, Room eight. Now, as he told our Entertainment Correspondent | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Brenda Emmanus, he'd love to try his hand at making a feature film. | :22:25. | :22:37. | |
Don't open it. Why not? Because you may regret it. Room 8, a short film | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
about a British prison attempting a surreal escape from a Russian | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
prison. Last weekend this happened. James Griffiths... Room 8 won Best | :22:53. | :23:04. | |
Short film at the BAFTAs. Thank you very much. Not in a million years | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
did we ever imagine we would be nominated for a BAFTA. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
It was incredible. Going up on that stage to win a BAFTA, I have been | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
thinking about that since I was ten years old. Just going up there and | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
picking up a BAFTA was amazing. Last year, the film won competition in | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
Bombay, which afforded him the ?40,000 needed to complete the film. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
His work sees him working with major brands and tourist boards. How does | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
the day job compare? The good thing about commercials is that you are | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
constantly practising directing, and constantly kind of working to refine | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
your skills, and your talent. Prior to Room 8, James won another | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
competition for a film shot entirely on mobile phone. Has this inflated | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
your ambition? Blue No, I have always had ambition. My next | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
ambition is to make a feature. I don't think it has changed my | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
ambitions. It has definitely spurred me along. With three awards | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
definitely in the can, a feature film may add another gong to | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
James's collection. Congratulations to him. Now the | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
weather. It probably comes as no surprise that it is official, we | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
have had the wettest winter on record. Yes. Of course, we have seen | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
significant rainfall. It has been mild as well. It is all about the | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
rainfall. Across the UK has been the wettest winter on record. And for | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the South of England, the wettest on record. More than 19 inches of | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
rain. 225% of average. That is until yesterday. Still a week to go. We | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
have had more rain today. Then it shaped up to be a lovely day. A few | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
showers drifting towards us in the last few hours. They will continue | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
to move towards us this evening. It will be a chilly night. In terms of | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
significant rainfall, nothing to talk about tonight. A few showers to | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
think through. That is the best we will see. They will clear away quite | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
quickly. Klopp `` the skies clearing behind. It will be a chilly night | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
and a chilly start tomorrow. Some good spells of sunshine. For the | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
bulk of the day, it will be dry. Later in the afternoon, more showers | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
make their way towards us from the West. It is not until the end of the | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
afternoon we see them coming in. Nine or 10 Celsius. Still feeling | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
quite pleasant. Those showers get going tomorrow evening. They start | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
to clear away in the early hours of Saturday. Watching this area of | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
rain. At the moment it does not look like it will us. Saturday looks like | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
a lovely day. Plenty of sunshine. Cloud towards the West. It is a | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
weekend of two halves. Saturday really pleasant to start with. Dry | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
and sunny. Later, cloud advancing. Isobars gathering together. Brighton | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
on Saturday, grey and damp at times on Sunday. Quite breezy, too. For | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
Saturday, a lot of good weather with The main headlines: At least 21 | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
people are reported to have been killed in fresh clashes between | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
anti`government protestors and police in the Ukrainian capital, | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Kiev. The country's interior ministry says the demonstrators are | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
holding 67 policemen hostage. Rebekah Brooks has told a jury she | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
had no knowledge of phone hacking while she was editor of the News of | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
the World. She was giving evidence on the opening day of her defence at | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
the phone`hacking trial. There are questions over the funding of the | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
extension of the Mayor's bike hire scheme to South West London. It's | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
emerged the sponsor Barclays isn't paying for it, even though they get | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
the advertising said to be worth ?10 million. More on the day's stories | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
on our website, and Sonja Jessup will be back with our late news. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
From me and the team here, have a lovely evening. | :27:37. | :27:42. |