:00:00. > 3:59:59Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the
:00:00. > :00:00.crisis continue. Tonight on BBC London News: The free
:00:00. > :00:07.suggested the limit Ton Tonight on BBC London News: The free
:00:08. > :00:17.schools struggling to find suitable sites. This head's been told to open
:00:18. > :00:21.on an industrial estate. This small area would have to be the car park,
:00:22. > :00:25.playground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside
:00:26. > :00:29.space. We've learnt that many more are having problems trying to open
:00:30. > :00:36.for the next academic year. Also on the programme: Anger towards the
:00:37. > :00:38.police over a man with learning difficulties who was allegedly
:00:39. > :00:40.assaulted by officers. Train companies accused of
:00:41. > :00:48.prehistoric practices for dumping human waste on tracks at busy
:00:49. > :00:57.stations. Also tonight, a musical treat like
:00:58. > :01:11.no other. We check out the world's only underwater concert.
:01:12. > :01:15.Good evening and welcome to the programme. BBC London has learnt
:01:16. > :01:18.that around a quarter of the free schools hoping to set up in London
:01:19. > :01:21.in September are having problems finding sites. Free schools are at
:01:22. > :01:24.the heart of the Government's plans to transform education, but many are
:01:25. > :01:28.finding the process of opening very frustrating. One proposed school is
:01:29. > :01:32.Harperbury in Radlett in Hertfordshire. Parents there say
:01:33. > :01:35.they're angry that they've been told to open their free school on an
:01:36. > :01:43.industrial estate, a location, they say, is totally unsuitable. Sarah
:01:44. > :01:51.Harris reports. Time for school. It is the final
:01:52. > :01:54.year of primary school for William. He was expecting to start his
:01:55. > :01:59.secondary education at a new school, Harperbury School, in
:02:00. > :02:05.September. That has fallen through leaving him with an option that is
:02:06. > :02:11.not ideal for his family. William has to get on a bus at 7:30am
:02:12. > :02:18.costing ?1000 a year for us. It is also a Church of England school, our
:02:19. > :02:22.third choice. It is a religious school and we are not religious
:02:23. > :02:28.people. It would not have been a choice for us at all. We are finding
:02:29. > :02:33.ourselves in a position we did not anticipate at all. This is the
:02:34. > :02:37.sticking point for the new free school according to the head teacher
:02:38. > :02:41.who has already been appointed and is being paid. This suggested
:02:42. > :02:47.building on an industrial estate, he says, is not fit for purpose. There
:02:48. > :02:53.is virtually no outside space. This would have to be the car park, they
:02:54. > :02:57.ground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside space. It
:02:58. > :03:02.is sandwiched between the railway track and the main road. Getting
:03:03. > :03:06.into the site itself would be a health and safety nightmare. The
:03:07. > :03:11.Department for Education said that the project has their full support.
:03:12. > :03:15.We are still considering a number of possible options. They said they
:03:16. > :03:21.would work to secure the most appropriate site for the best price.
:03:22. > :03:27.The head met with some of the parents today to give them the
:03:28. > :03:31.latest news on the free school. Free schools are not controlled by local
:03:32. > :03:36.education authorities but are funded by the government and usually set up
:03:37. > :03:41.by parents. 200 children here alone who were expected to go to a free
:03:42. > :03:50.school in September are now preparing for a much longer journey
:03:51. > :03:53.to school. Let's talk to our Political Editor, Tim Donovan, who's
:03:54. > :03:56.at Westminster. Tim, is it just this group having problems finding a
:03:57. > :03:59.site? No. It has never been a particularly easy part of this
:04:00. > :04:03.process, ever since the policy began. But there is a sense in which
:04:04. > :04:07.it is getting harder, not least because there is not an
:04:08. > :04:14.inexhaustible supply of vacant buildings and the best options have
:04:15. > :04:18.already been snaffled up, perhaps. We are not getting anything
:04:19. > :04:22.officially from the Department for Education on this. There are about
:04:23. > :04:28.40 to 50 free schools approved for London come this September. We know
:04:29. > :04:33.of ten weather is either a delay, the school has been put back for
:04:34. > :04:37.more than a year or it is going into temporary accommodation. There are a
:04:38. > :04:43.number that clearly have not got a permanent site. There are clearly
:04:44. > :04:45.tensions, competing interests, when you have a department like the
:04:46. > :04:49.Department of Health wanting to do something with a premises like this.
:04:50. > :04:54.I know of an example in south`east London where a council similarly had
:04:55. > :04:56.planned for a former health building to be turned into housing but the
:04:57. > :05:03.Department for Education have snapped in for a free school ``
:05:04. > :05:07.stepped in. Was it not the original hope that free schools would be
:05:08. > :05:12.appearing in vacant buildings? It has not quite emerged like that.
:05:13. > :05:15.There is potentially an issue of managing expectations. If you are
:05:16. > :05:18.encouraging parents to set up schools but you cannot provide the
:05:19. > :05:22.bricks and mortar, there is a problem. There was talk about police
:05:23. > :05:27.and fire stations. But a number of those are being sold. The maximum
:05:28. > :05:30.value is being achieved on most of those because the money is money
:05:31. > :05:36.that needs to be pumped back into services. The mayor says he would
:05:37. > :05:40.make available ten sites that most of the land he has is in east
:05:41. > :05:49.London. It is proving more problematic than most people thought
:05:50. > :05:52.at the beginning. Thank you. Coming up later in the programme: The Met
:05:53. > :05:55.commissioner admits the capital's police service needs to do a better
:05:56. > :06:03.job of solving crime. He says this is the year of detection.
:06:04. > :06:08.The family of Faruk Ali who has severe austism has claimed that he
:06:09. > :06:12.was assaulted by two police officers while he was helping binmen outside
:06:13. > :06:14.his Luton home. A public meeting was held to discuss the allegations
:06:15. > :06:18.where people demanded that the officers involved be taken off duty.
:06:19. > :06:23.Bedfordshire Police is already under investigation over the death last
:06:24. > :06:32.year of a man in police custody. Sally Chidzoy reports.
:06:33. > :06:38.Who thinks they should be suspended immediately? Anger ran deep
:06:39. > :06:46.throughout this public meeting. Do not touch me. The room was packed
:06:47. > :06:53.and not everyone was allowed in. At the centre of the case, Faruk Ali, a
:06:54. > :06:58.man who was severely autistic. It is alleged he was built beaten up in an
:06:59. > :07:02.unprovoked attack by police officers as he was putting out his
:07:03. > :07:12.neighbour's bin for collection. We are so upset. It is difficult to
:07:13. > :07:16.care with `` for someone with autism and severe learning disabilities. It
:07:17. > :07:21.changes from day to day and this has put such psychological pressure on
:07:22. > :07:26.him. Pictures of his injuries allegedly linked to the incident
:07:27. > :07:29.have been handed to police. These exclusive images provided by
:07:30. > :07:33.witnesses show the police car used by the officers on the day of the
:07:34. > :07:40.reported attack. It was parked near Faruk Ali's house. The family's
:07:41. > :07:44.lawyer points out he does not just want suspensions at this stage. We
:07:45. > :07:48.want a declaration that there is something that has gone wrong and
:07:49. > :07:53.further to that we require a recommendation for change. Change to
:07:54. > :08:00.be implicated by the police to make sure nothing like this happens
:08:01. > :08:04.again. Do you think we trust you? The assistant chief constable and
:08:05. > :08:08.the police and crime commission looked a little cowed by events. The
:08:09. > :08:13.incident was reported later in the morning. It will be part of the
:08:14. > :08:17.investigation and as I said in the meeting, the officers will have to
:08:18. > :08:21.account for all of their actions and decisions in the course of the
:08:22. > :08:25.interaction. The decision on this occasion has aimed to restrict the
:08:26. > :08:29.officers are not suspend. That decision will be reviewed as the
:08:30. > :08:33.investigation progresses. It is the job of the police and crime
:08:34. > :08:36.commission to hold the chief constable to account. Police admit
:08:37. > :08:42.this incident and the recent death in custody of another man has
:08:43. > :08:45.undermined trust and confidence in policing here.
:08:46. > :08:48.London's train companies are being accused of putting passengers'
:08:49. > :08:51.health at risk because they're dumping human waste on the tracks at
:08:52. > :08:55.some of the capital's busiest stations. Transport unions have
:08:56. > :08:59.called it prehistoric and the shame of our railways. The Government says
:09:00. > :09:02.it accepts it's unpleasant and is investing in new rolling stock
:09:03. > :09:10.fitted with sewage tanks. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards
:09:11. > :09:15.reports. King's Cross is a new, clean ?500
:09:16. > :09:20.million station, but old practices are still going on here. Look away
:09:21. > :09:26.now if you are squeamish. This is work toilet waste is dumped straight
:09:27. > :09:32.onto the tracks. I think it is pretty gross. Quite disgusting. I
:09:33. > :09:39.think it is awful. Unhygienic. I am German. We do it differently in
:09:40. > :09:45.Germany. It is also happening at Liverpool Street station and
:09:46. > :09:49.Paddington. Old rolling stock still discharges sewage onto the track.
:09:50. > :09:54.East Coast trains says it's cleaner than passengers are told not to
:09:55. > :10:00.flush in stations. `` it's cleaner 's and passengers. It his
:10:01. > :10:04.prehistoric what they are doing. We think for a members it is completely
:10:05. > :10:09.unhealthy and also for the travelling public. It is not right
:10:10. > :10:12.raw sewage should the thrown onto the railway track. They are paying
:10:13. > :10:18.high enough fares. They should have a decent respectable railway and
:10:19. > :10:23.sewage should be contained properly. Who was responsible? The Gottman has
:10:24. > :10:27.called this practice disgusting and told the train companies to stop.
:10:28. > :10:32.The company that does it here is run by the government. The train
:10:33. > :10:39.companies say the number of trains without effluent tanks is decreasing
:10:40. > :10:43.and newer models are introduced. The government says new trains in and
:10:44. > :10:48.out of King's Cross and Paddington are due to be introduced in 2017 so
:10:49. > :10:53.this will not be a problem. They are looking at ways to help upgrade the
:10:54. > :10:59.fleet out of Liverpool Street. Why are you still doing it? This stems
:11:00. > :11:04.from trains built before the mid`90s. Billions more pounds are
:11:05. > :11:08.being spent over the next few years on new trains and improving
:11:09. > :11:14.stations. You think it will be resolved in the long`term? It is
:11:15. > :11:19.impossible to put a date on it but Williams powers are being spent on
:11:20. > :11:24.new trains. Until then, commuters and workers will have to put up with
:11:25. > :11:34.what the unions call the scandal that shames Britain's railways. The
:11:35. > :11:37.BBC has learned that Legoland Windsor has decided to close its
:11:38. > :11:40.hotel this weekend because of fears over safety after threats were
:11:41. > :11:43.received from extreme far`right groups. A spokeswoman for Legoland
:11:44. > :11:46.says it's the first time any part of the park has had to close for
:11:47. > :11:58.reasons of safety since it opened in 1996. The Metropolitan Commissioner
:11:59. > :12:00.has admitted that the capital's police force must improve the way it
:12:01. > :12:03.solves crime. Talking to the London Assembly, Sir
:12:04. > :12:06.Bernard Hogan`Howe called for a year of detection. We can find out more
:12:07. > :12:08.from our home affairs correspondent Guy Smith who's outside Scotland
:12:09. > :12:15.Yard now. What did he say? This morning the
:12:16. > :12:18.commissioner accepted the Met Police were doing a pretty poor job of
:12:19. > :12:22.catching criminals. He qualified it by saying that this year there had
:12:23. > :12:27.been a slight improvement but admitted it was not good enough. He
:12:28. > :12:33.identified one of the main problem is being that London had a transient
:12:34. > :12:38.population, 29% of all those they arrest were foreign nationals. He
:12:39. > :12:42.said it made it a lot harder to detect suspects. For example, by the
:12:43. > :12:47.time officers had checked out fingerprints, all too often,
:12:48. > :12:54.offenders had skipped the country. He talked about possible solutions,
:12:55. > :13:00.namely CCTV. We are told London has more cameras than any other city in
:13:01. > :13:05.the world. He said that CCTV could be a possible solution. In
:13:06. > :13:11.particular around facial recognition. Overall, he said the
:13:12. > :13:17.Met Police could do a lot better. The Chinese have the year of various
:13:18. > :13:21.animals. For me, this is the year of detection. It is something we have
:13:22. > :13:28.got to get better at. The tendency to record the crime rather than
:13:29. > :13:31.detecting it. I think sadly we have come a little administrative. We
:13:32. > :13:39.record it. Doing something about it is really important to me. Take us
:13:40. > :13:43.through the detection rates. Through the most serious crime, murder, the
:13:44. > :13:49.Met Police are doing a pretty good job. Over the last financial year,
:13:50. > :13:55.81% of homicides were cleared up. But then most murder victims know
:13:56. > :14:01.their attacker. Rape, they are not doing so well. There were more than
:14:02. > :14:07.3300 reported attacks over the past ten months. A suspect was detected
:14:08. > :14:12.less than one in five times. Only 19% were identified, charged,
:14:13. > :14:17.summoned to court or convicted. If you look at high`volume crime, there
:14:18. > :14:21.is a lot more work to be done. Only 14% of robberies were detected. 12%
:14:22. > :14:25.of burglaries. If you have your car stolen, you can forget it. There is
:14:26. > :14:32.very little chance of getting justice. Only 6% of offences were
:14:33. > :14:35.detected. The commission recognises this is an important area, a lot
:14:36. > :14:41.more work needs to be done and that is why he is calling this the year
:14:42. > :14:49.of detection. Still to come tonight: We're on
:14:50. > :14:53.London Eye to mark a high for tourism in the capital.
:14:54. > :15:10.And making a musical splash underwater ` why you'll need to take
:15:11. > :15:13.your goggles to enjoy this concert. The number of super rich buying
:15:14. > :15:16.property in London is increasing according to data from a leading
:15:17. > :15:22.estate agents. It says the capital is home to more than 4000 people
:15:23. > :15:32.with assets of at least ?20 million. The number is expected to rise to
:15:33. > :15:37.nearly 5000 bike 2023. A death rays on sale in the heart of Mayfair.
:15:38. > :15:42.Seven floors of interior designed luxury living, complete with double
:15:43. > :15:46.height dining space, a cinema and a gym. And if you are paying ?25
:15:47. > :15:52.million, which is what this houses on the market for, you are going to
:15:53. > :15:57.want a pool. With a price tag like that, this property is destined for
:15:58. > :16:00.the super rich or the ultrahigh net worth individuals, as they are
:16:01. > :16:05.called. London has more of those than any other city in the world.
:16:06. > :16:08.Estate agents Knight Frank keep a keen eye on this particular type of
:16:09. > :16:11.client, partial as they are to investing in property. And they say
:16:12. > :16:16.it is not only good for their business, it's good for all of us.
:16:17. > :16:26.Ultra`wealthy people don't just moved here in isolation. They bring
:16:27. > :16:28.their businesses here and are creating jobs and opportunities. The
:16:29. > :16:30.overseas investment we have seen just in the property market has
:16:31. > :16:32.meant there has been development going on in London which we may not
:16:33. > :16:35.have seen, because the banking crisis here meant funding was not
:16:36. > :16:40.available for a lot of developments. Because it came from overseas, that
:16:41. > :16:43.was able to happen. So if the super rich buying in a completely
:16:44. > :16:48.different league and create wealth for the rest of us in the process by
:16:49. > :16:52.way of a trickle`down effect, what's the problem? The answer is the
:16:53. > :16:57.ripple effect. NEETs the impact of high net worth individuals tends to
:16:58. > :17:01.be via of what happens to people who are displaced. People displaced from
:17:02. > :17:04.the central London areas from Clapham to Wandsworth, the people
:17:05. > :17:11.from Clapham and one is whether now moving further out as well. It's an
:17:12. > :17:15.analysis that seemed to resonate. First`time buyers won't be able to
:17:16. > :17:18.buy in London, it will have to be out of London. Are you taking
:17:19. > :17:23.business out of London because all the workers will have to move out.
:17:24. > :17:28.Often they have the property but they don't live there. The
:17:29. > :17:32.properties are often empty. They go to very expensive shops, the people
:17:33. > :17:38.who work there get paid, it might be good. There are always going to be
:17:39. > :17:40.winners and losers. It's safe to say estate agents targeting the
:17:41. > :17:48.extremely wealthy are likely to be quids in. Meanwhile, residents in
:17:49. > :17:51.one part of South London are protesting over what they claim is
:17:52. > :17:54.gentrification of the area. They say they're being forced out of their
:17:55. > :17:57.council`owned homes. Lambeth says it wants to sell the properties in
:17:58. > :18:04.order to build more social housing. As Tarah Welsh reports, the cause
:18:05. > :18:08.has got some high profile support. Her clothes worn by the rich and
:18:09. > :18:11.famous and her name is known around the world, and today Vivienne
:18:12. > :18:21.Westwood is putting it to a campaign in Clapham. Selling houses for money
:18:22. > :18:24.and breaking down a community, it is absolutely disgusting. They are
:18:25. > :18:29.angry because the council is selling houses that some of these people
:18:30. > :18:34.have lived in for 35 years. It is against people, it is pro`business,
:18:35. > :18:40.pro`rich, pro`banks, and that's what the squeeze is all about. It's a
:18:41. > :18:45.labour of love. I've enjoyed doing all sorts to it, including putting
:18:46. > :18:48.central heating in. Many of these homes were derelict in the 70s and
:18:49. > :18:51.the council said people could live in them temporarily, as long as they
:18:52. > :18:58.did their own repairs. They only have to pay a few pounds a week. Now
:18:59. > :19:02.the council wants them back. Have a look online. Today the protest is
:19:03. > :19:11.came face`to`face with prospective buyers. The council has already made
:19:12. > :19:15.?45 million by selling these houses. I buy a development, it puts food on
:19:16. > :19:18.my table and that's what I have to do to go forward in life. Let's hope
:19:19. > :19:23.they are rehoused and financially sound but, you know, it's the way
:19:24. > :19:28.things are at the moment. This house will be auctioned on Tuesday and the
:19:29. > :19:32.guide price is ?605,000, but the developers here tell me they think
:19:33. > :19:37.it will go for more than that. The council says that money will be used
:19:38. > :19:44.to refurbish and build homes for homeless families. With that
:19:45. > :19:48.?685,000, I can build three council houses. On that basis we will be
:19:49. > :19:52.getting more social housing as opposed to rich persons housing.
:19:53. > :19:55.They also say residents got first refusal to buy their homes or be
:19:56. > :19:59.rehoused. Many have already left, some are challenging the Acton in
:20:00. > :20:09.court, but all here agree that communities like this shouldn't be
:20:10. > :20:15.broken. Next, to one of the most unusual concerts you may ever see.
:20:16. > :20:18.Forget dressing up for the occasion, for this gig you just need your
:20:19. > :20:25.swimwear and an ear for the unusual. As Sonja Jessup reports from
:20:26. > :20:32.Islington. Diving deep beneath the water, suddenly shapes and sounds
:20:33. > :20:34.seem strange, unfamiliar. This is an underwater consulate. And just
:20:35. > :21:00.listen... You can see people swimming above
:21:01. > :21:13.you and images distorting. There are speakers both above and beneath the
:21:14. > :21:17.water. Harmonies can turn haunting. Sound travels around four times
:21:18. > :21:21.faster through water than it does through air. The idea here is the
:21:22. > :21:26.swimmers aren't just hearing it differently but they are feeling the
:21:27. > :21:31.music, too, as they swim and float through the vibrations. It vibrates
:21:32. > :21:35.your bones. Even if your head was under water and you put your hands
:21:36. > :21:41.in your ears, you are still going to hear it. Joel, from Hackney, came up
:21:42. > :21:45.with the idea while swimming. He is taking his underwater consulate on
:21:46. > :21:50.tour across Europe. It's always continuous trying stuff out to find
:21:51. > :21:55.out what kind of music, some use it just doesn't work underwater. Here,
:21:56. > :22:01.submerged in sound, the audience get to be in control. You float, you
:22:02. > :22:07.dive, you can pop out between the two worlds. Now touring again, the
:22:08. > :22:10.concert could return to London later this year, still searching for more
:22:11. > :22:22.sounds that work better in the wet than the dry. From the most unusual
:22:23. > :22:25.to the most popular. Tourism in London is booming. Last summer's
:22:26. > :22:28.good weather is partly the reason, and it helped outdoor attractions
:22:29. > :22:35.like Kew Gardens and London Zoo see record rises in visitor numbers.
:22:36. > :22:39.Emma North is on the London Eye now. What better place to talk about one
:22:40. > :22:44.of the world 's most visited cities than from a place that arguably
:22:45. > :22:49.offers one of the best views? About two minutes ago we hit the top, all
:22:50. > :22:57.135 metres high of the London eye. That, like the rest of London's
:22:58. > :23:02.tourism figures, have been rising. London has enjoyed a record rise in
:23:03. > :23:08.the number of people going to its attractions. 12% more people visited
:23:09. > :23:13.the city's attractions in 2013. It was the big hitters that got the top
:23:14. > :23:20.ten. The most visited, the British Museum, that had a record number of
:23:21. > :23:24.20% more people going last year, about 6.7 million. The second was
:23:25. > :23:31.the National Gallery, that was up 14%, 6 million people went there.
:23:32. > :23:35.Third, the Natural History Museum, 5.3 million people went there.
:23:36. > :23:39.Joining me to talk about London's amazing tourism boom is Simon
:23:40. > :23:45.Calder, the travel writer, and branding expert. This is a very
:23:46. > :23:49.popular city, how do we cram in? That is a good problem to have, but
:23:50. > :23:54.it is most definitely a problem. Right now, London looks like the
:23:55. > :23:58.most alluring place on the planet, but it's creaking at the seams. If
:23:59. > :24:03.you are at the Natural History Museum, as I was a couple of weeks
:24:04. > :24:07.ago, you could barely move. Every minute of every hour of every day
:24:08. > :24:12.that that museum is open, 30 people are cramming into it. This is going
:24:13. > :24:15.to open the argument about whether we should be charging for museums.
:24:16. > :24:19.Personally, I'd much rather see the opening hours extended long into the
:24:20. > :24:24.evening, give everybody a chance, including Londoners, to see the
:24:25. > :24:27.cultural treasures. How do Londoners enjoy the city? Quite. People will
:24:28. > :24:31.be saying, let's charge everyone else who isn't from a London
:24:32. > :24:35.postcode, that is politically difficult. We have to keep
:24:36. > :24:40.reinventing, bring back more attractions to keep people coming
:24:41. > :24:46.back. We've had a double bounce, 2012, a fantastic summer last year.
:24:47. > :24:50.What happens if we get a sport free wash`out in 2014? I don't think it
:24:51. > :24:54.will solve Simon's problem. London has the infrastructure to attract
:24:55. > :24:58.people in their millions. It's the diversity of London's cultural and
:24:59. > :25:01.tourism offerings, from the largest institutions and to the smallest
:25:02. > :25:06.galleries which push culture down the line. That is enough of us
:25:07. > :25:08.talking, let's leave you with a view of the thing that makes everybody
:25:09. > :25:21.come. Here's London! That view does come to us courtesy
:25:22. > :25:32.of some very nice whether this evening.
:25:33. > :25:40.In the middle part of the day we had the mackerel skies. This is how it
:25:41. > :25:44.looked over Regents Park throughout the day. That is usually the
:25:45. > :25:48.precursor to something of a weather front but the weather fronts we are
:25:49. > :25:53.getting over the next couple of days are only introducing cloud, not very
:25:54. > :25:57.much rain. Over the next ten days, there is generally settled weather
:25:58. > :26:03.and dry weather. That is because we've got high pressure, the word I
:26:04. > :26:07.is going to be used highly over the next few days. A little tenuous at
:26:08. > :26:10.the moment, some weather fronts from this low pressure system crossing
:26:11. > :26:13.through. We go through the weekend and into Monday, the high pressure
:26:14. > :26:21.is right over the top of us. Not always wall`to`wall sunshine. At the
:26:22. > :26:25.moment, we still have a little bit of clear sky but we will see some
:26:26. > :26:29.cloud drifting from time to time through the night. We will have the
:26:30. > :26:32.breeze picking up from a south`westerly direction. That means
:26:33. > :26:38.it will not be quite as chilly as the previous two nights. There
:26:39. > :26:41.shouldn't be too much of a frost first thing tomorrow morning, apart
:26:42. > :26:46.from maybe a couple of sheltered areas. It would be quite as chilly
:26:47. > :26:50.tomorrow morning either. Throughout tomorrow it will stay dry. There
:26:51. > :26:53.will at times be some sunny breaks. The breeze is picking up a little
:26:54. > :26:59.bit. Temperature is doing quite nicely, up to around 11 or 12. For
:27:00. > :27:03.Friday, the cloud will be a little bit more stubborn. The weekend
:27:04. > :27:09.looking glorious. We could hit 16 or 17 degrees.
:27:10. > :27:17.A reminder of today's news. The US Secretary of State and European
:27:18. > :27:20.foreign ministers including William Hague have urged Russia to hold
:27:21. > :27:26.direct talks with Ukraine, after key talks in Paris aimed at easing
:27:27. > :27:28.tensions between the two countries. Parents in Hertfordshire say they're
:27:29. > :27:31.outraged after being told they should open a free school in a
:27:32. > :27:36.warehouse on an industrial estate. The original site for Harperbury
:27:37. > :27:44.School in Radlett fell through. That's it for now. From all of us on
:27:45. > :27:47.the team, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening.