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Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
crisis continue. Tonight on BBC London News: The free | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
suggested the limit Ton Tonight on BBC London News: The free | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
schools struggling to find suitable sites. This head's been told to open | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
on an industrial estate. This small area would have to be the car park, | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
playground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
space. We've learnt that many more are having problems trying to open | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
for the next academic year. Also on the programme: Anger towards the | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
police over a man with learning difficulties who was allegedly | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
assaulted by officers. Train companies accused of | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
prehistoric practices for dumping human waste on tracks at busy | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
stations. Also tonight, a musical treat like | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
no other. We check out the world's only underwater concert. | :00:58. | :01:11. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. BBC London has learnt | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
that around a quarter of the free schools hoping to set up in London | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
in September are having problems finding sites. Free schools are at | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the heart of the Government's plans to transform education, but many are | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
finding the process of opening very frustrating. One proposed school is | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Harperbury in Radlett in Hertfordshire. Parents there say | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
they're angry that they've been told to open their free school on an | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
industrial estate, a location, they say, is totally unsuitable. Sarah | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
Harris reports. Time for school. It is the final | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
year of primary school for William. He was expecting to start his | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
secondary education at a new school, Harperbury School, in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
September. That has fallen through leaving him with an option that is | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
not ideal for his family. William has to get on a bus at 7:30am | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
costing ?1000 a year for us. It is also a Church of England school, our | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
third choice. It is a religious school and we are not religious | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
people. It would not have been a choice for us at all. We are finding | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
ourselves in a position we did not anticipate at all. This is the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
sticking point for the new free school according to the head teacher | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
who has already been appointed and is being paid. This suggested | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
building on an industrial estate, he says, is not fit for purpose. There | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
is virtually no outside space. This would have to be the car park, they | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
ground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside space. It | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
is sandwiched between the railway track and the main road. Getting | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
into the site itself would be a health and safety nightmare. The | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Department for Education said that the project has their full support. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
We are still considering a number of possible options. They said they | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
would work to secure the most appropriate site for the best price. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
The head met with some of the parents today to give them the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
latest news on the free school. Free schools are not controlled by local | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
education authorities but are funded by the government and usually set up | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
by parents. 200 children here alone who were expected to go to a free | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
school in September are now preparing for a much longer journey | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
to school. Let's talk to our Political Editor, Tim Donovan, who's | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
at Westminster. Tim, is it just this group having problems finding a | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
site? No. It has never been a particularly easy part of this | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
process, ever since the policy began. But there is a sense in which | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
it is getting harder, not least because there is not an | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
inexhaustible supply of vacant buildings and the best options have | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
already been snaffled up, perhaps. We are not getting anything | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
officially from the Department for Education on this. There are about | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
40 to 50 free schools approved for London come this September. We know | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
of ten weather is either a delay, the school has been put back for | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
more than a year or it is going into temporary accommodation. There are a | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
number that clearly have not got a permanent site. There are clearly | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
tensions, competing interests, when you have a department like the | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Department of Health wanting to do something with a premises like this. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
I know of an example in south`east London where a council similarly had | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
planned for a former health building to be turned into housing but the | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Department for Education have snapped in for a free school `` | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
stepped in. Was it not the original hope that free schools would be | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
appearing in vacant buildings? It has not quite emerged like that. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
There is potentially an issue of managing expectations. If you are | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
encouraging parents to set up schools but you cannot provide the | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
bricks and mortar, there is a problem. There was talk about police | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and fire stations. But a number of those are being sold. The maximum | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
value is being achieved on most of those because the money is money | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
that needs to be pumped back into services. The mayor says he would | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
make available ten sites that most of the land he has is in east | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
London. It is proving more problematic than most people thought | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
at the beginning. Thank you. Coming up later in the programme: The Met | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
commissioner admits the capital's police service needs to do a better | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
job of solving crime. He says this is the year of detection. | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
The family of Faruk Ali who has severe austism has claimed that he | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
was assaulted by two police officers while he was helping binmen outside | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
his Luton home. A public meeting was held to discuss the allegations | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
where people demanded that the officers involved be taken off duty. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Bedfordshire Police is already under investigation over the death last | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
year of a man in police custody. Sally Chidzoy reports. | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
Who thinks they should be suspended immediately? Anger ran deep | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
throughout this public meeting. Do not touch me. The room was packed | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
and not everyone was allowed in. At the centre of the case, Faruk Ali, a | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
man who was severely autistic. It is alleged he was built beaten up in an | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
unprovoked attack by police officers as he was putting out his | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
neighbour's bin for collection. We are so upset. It is difficult to | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
care with `` for someone with autism and severe learning disabilities. It | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
changes from day to day and this has put such psychological pressure on | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
him. Pictures of his injuries allegedly linked to the incident | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
have been handed to police. These exclusive images provided by | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
witnesses show the police car used by the officers on the day of the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
reported attack. It was parked near Faruk Ali's house. The family's | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
lawyer points out he does not just want suspensions at this stage. We | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
want a declaration that there is something that has gone wrong and | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
further to that we require a recommendation for change. Change to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
be implicated by the police to make sure nothing like this happens | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
again. Do you think we trust you? The assistant chief constable and | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the police and crime commission looked a little cowed by events. The | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
incident was reported later in the morning. It will be part of the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
investigation and as I said in the meeting, the officers will have to | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
account for all of their actions and decisions in the course of the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
interaction. The decision on this occasion has aimed to restrict the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
officers are not suspend. That decision will be reviewed as the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
investigation progresses. It is the job of the police and crime | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
commission to hold the chief constable to account. Police admit | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
this incident and the recent death in custody of another man has | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
undermined trust and confidence in policing here. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
London's train companies are being accused of putting passengers' | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
health at risk because they're dumping human waste on the tracks at | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
some of the capital's busiest stations. Transport unions have | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
called it prehistoric and the shame of our railways. The Government says | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
it accepts it's unpleasant and is investing in new rolling stock | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
fitted with sewage tanks. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
reports. King's Cross is a new, clean ?500 | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
million station, but old practices are still going on here. Look away | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
now if you are squeamish. This is work toilet waste is dumped straight | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
onto the tracks. I think it is pretty gross. Quite disgusting. I | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
think it is awful. Unhygienic. I am German. We do it differently in | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
Germany. It is also happening at Liverpool Street station and | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
Paddington. Old rolling stock still discharges sewage onto the track. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
East Coast trains says it's cleaner than passengers are told not to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
flush in stations. `` it's cleaner 's and passengers. It his | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
prehistoric what they are doing. We think for a members it is completely | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
unhealthy and also for the travelling public. It is not right | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
raw sewage should the thrown onto the railway track. They are paying | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
high enough fares. They should have a decent respectable railway and | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
sewage should be contained properly. Who was responsible? The Gottman has | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
called this practice disgusting and told the train companies to stop. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
The company that does it here is run by the government. The train | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
companies say the number of trains without effluent tanks is decreasing | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
and newer models are introduced. The government says new trains in and | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
out of King's Cross and Paddington are due to be introduced in 2017 so | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
this will not be a problem. They are looking at ways to help upgrade the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
fleet out of Liverpool Street. Why are you still doing it? This stems | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
from trains built before the mid`90s. Billions more pounds are | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
being spent over the next few years on new trains and improving | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
stations. You think it will be resolved in the long`term? It is | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
impossible to put a date on it but Williams powers are being spent on | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
new trains. Until then, commuters and workers will have to put up with | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
what the unions call the scandal that shames Britain's railways. The | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
BBC has learned that Legoland Windsor has decided to close its | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
hotel this weekend because of fears over safety after threats were | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
received from extreme far`right groups. A spokeswoman for Legoland | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
says it's the first time any part of the park has had to close for | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
reasons of safety since it opened in 1996. The Metropolitan Commissioner | :11:47. | :11:58. | |
has admitted that the capital's police force must improve the way it | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
solves crime. Talking to the London Assembly, Sir | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Bernard Hogan`Howe called for a year of detection. We can find out more | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
from our home affairs correspondent Guy Smith who's outside Scotland | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
Yard now. What did he say? This morning the | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
commissioner accepted the Met Police were doing a pretty poor job of | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
catching criminals. He qualified it by saying that this year there had | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
been a slight improvement but admitted it was not good enough. He | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
identified one of the main problem is being that London had a transient | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
population, 29% of all those they arrest were foreign nationals. He | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
said it made it a lot harder to detect suspects. For example, by the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
time officers had checked out fingerprints, all too often, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
offenders had skipped the country. He talked about possible solutions, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
namely CCTV. We are told London has more cameras than any other city in | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
the world. He said that CCTV could be a possible solution. In | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
particular around facial recognition. Overall, he said the | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Met Police could do a lot better. The Chinese have the year of various | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
animals. For me, this is the year of detection. It is something we have | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
got to get better at. The tendency to record the crime rather than | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
detecting it. I think sadly we have come a little administrative. We | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
record it. Doing something about it is really important to me. Take us | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
through the detection rates. Through the most serious crime, murder, the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Met Police are doing a pretty good job. Over the last financial year, | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
81% of homicides were cleared up. But then most murder victims know | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
their attacker. Rape, they are not doing so well. There were more than | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
3300 reported attacks over the past ten months. A suspect was detected | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
less than one in five times. Only 19% were identified, charged, | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
summoned to court or convicted. If you look at high`volume crime, there | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
is a lot more work to be done. Only 14% of robberies were detected. 12% | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
of burglaries. If you have your car stolen, you can forget it. There is | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
very little chance of getting justice. Only 6% of offences were | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
detected. The commission recognises this is an important area, a lot | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
more work needs to be done and that is why he is calling this the year | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
of detection. Still to come tonight: We're on | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
London Eye to mark a high for tourism in the capital. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
And making a musical splash underwater ` why you'll need to take | :14:54. | :15:10. | |
your goggles to enjoy this concert. The number of super rich buying | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
property in London is increasing according to data from a leading | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
estate agents. It says the capital is home to more than 4000 people | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
with assets of at least ?20 million. The number is expected to rise to | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
nearly 5000 bike 2023. A death rays on sale in the heart of Mayfair. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Seven floors of interior designed luxury living, complete with double | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
height dining space, a cinema and a gym. And if you are paying ?25 | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
million, which is what this houses on the market for, you are going to | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
want a pool. With a price tag like that, this property is destined for | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
the super rich or the ultrahigh net worth individuals, as they are | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
called. London has more of those than any other city in the world. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
Estate agents Knight Frank keep a keen eye on this particular type of | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
client, partial as they are to investing in property. And they say | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
it is not only good for their business, it's good for all of us. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Ultra`wealthy people don't just moved here in isolation. They bring | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
their businesses here and are creating jobs and opportunities. The | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
overseas investment we have seen just in the property market has | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
meant there has been development going on in London which we may not | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
have seen, because the banking crisis here meant funding was not | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
available for a lot of developments. Because it came from overseas, that | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
was able to happen. So if the super rich buying in a completely | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
different league and create wealth for the rest of us in the process by | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
way of a trickle`down effect, what's the problem? The answer is the | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
ripple effect. NEETs the impact of high net worth individuals tends to | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
be via of what happens to people who are displaced. People displaced from | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
the central London areas from Clapham to Wandsworth, the people | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
from Clapham and one is whether now moving further out as well. It's an | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
analysis that seemed to resonate. First`time buyers won't be able to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
buy in London, it will have to be out of London. Are you taking | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
business out of London because all the workers will have to move out. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Often they have the property but they don't live there. The | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
properties are often empty. They go to very expensive shops, the people | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
who work there get paid, it might be good. There are always going to be | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
winners and losers. It's safe to say estate agents targeting the | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
extremely wealthy are likely to be quids in. Meanwhile, residents in | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
one part of South London are protesting over what they claim is | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
gentrification of the area. They say they're being forced out of their | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
council`owned homes. Lambeth says it wants to sell the properties in | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
order to build more social housing. As Tarah Welsh reports, the cause | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
has got some high profile support. Her clothes worn by the rich and | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
famous and her name is known around the world, and today Vivienne | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Westwood is putting it to a campaign in Clapham. Selling houses for money | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
and breaking down a community, it is absolutely disgusting. They are | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
angry because the council is selling houses that some of these people | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
have lived in for 35 years. It is against people, it is pro`business, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
pro`rich, pro`banks, and that's what the squeeze is all about. It's a | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
labour of love. I've enjoyed doing all sorts to it, including putting | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
central heating in. Many of these homes were derelict in the 70s and | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
the council said people could live in them temporarily, as long as they | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
did their own repairs. They only have to pay a few pounds a week. Now | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
the council wants them back. Have a look online. Today the protest is | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
came face`to`face with prospective buyers. The council has already made | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
?45 million by selling these houses. I buy a development, it puts food on | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
my table and that's what I have to do to go forward in life. Let's hope | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
they are rehoused and financially sound but, you know, it's the way | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
things are at the moment. This house will be auctioned on Tuesday and the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
guide price is ?605,000, but the developers here tell me they think | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
it will go for more than that. The council says that money will be used | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
to refurbish and build homes for homeless families. With that | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
?685,000, I can build three council houses. On that basis we will be | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
getting more social housing as opposed to rich persons housing. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
They also say residents got first refusal to buy their homes or be | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
rehoused. Many have already left, some are challenging the Acton in | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
court, but all here agree that communities like this shouldn't be | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
broken. Next, to one of the most unusual concerts you may ever see. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Forget dressing up for the occasion, for this gig you just need your | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
swimwear and an ear for the unusual. As Sonja Jessup reports from | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Islington. Diving deep beneath the water, suddenly shapes and sounds | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
seem strange, unfamiliar. This is an underwater consulate. And just | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
listen... You can see people swimming above | :20:35. | :21:00. | |
you and images distorting. There are speakers both above and beneath the | :21:01. | :21:13. | |
water. Harmonies can turn haunting. Sound travels around four times | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
faster through water than it does through air. The idea here is the | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
swimmers aren't just hearing it differently but they are feeling the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
music, too, as they swim and float through the vibrations. It vibrates | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
your bones. Even if your head was under water and you put your hands | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
in your ears, you are still going to hear it. Joel, from Hackney, came up | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
with the idea while swimming. He is taking his underwater consulate on | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
tour across Europe. It's always continuous trying stuff out to find | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
out what kind of music, some use it just doesn't work underwater. Here, | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
submerged in sound, the audience get to be in control. You float, you | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
dive, you can pop out between the two worlds. Now touring again, the | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
concert could return to London later this year, still searching for more | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
sounds that work better in the wet than the dry. From the most unusual | :22:11. | :22:22. | |
to the most popular. Tourism in London is booming. Last summer's | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
good weather is partly the reason, and it helped outdoor attractions | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
like Kew Gardens and London Zoo see record rises in visitor numbers. | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Emma North is on the London Eye now. What better place to talk about one | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
of the world 's most visited cities than from a place that arguably | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
offers one of the best views? About two minutes ago we hit the top, all | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
135 metres high of the London eye. That, like the rest of London's | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
tourism figures, have been rising. London has enjoyed a record rise in | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
the number of people going to its attractions. 12% more people visited | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
the city's attractions in 2013. It was the big hitters that got the top | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
ten. The most visited, the British Museum, that had a record number of | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
20% more people going last year, about 6.7 million. The second was | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
the National Gallery, that was up 14%, 6 million people went there. | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Third, the Natural History Museum, 5.3 million people went there. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Joining me to talk about London's amazing tourism boom is Simon | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Calder, the travel writer, and branding expert. This is a very | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
popular city, how do we cram in? That is a good problem to have, but | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
it is most definitely a problem. Right now, London looks like the | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
most alluring place on the planet, but it's creaking at the seams. If | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
you are at the Natural History Museum, as I was a couple of weeks | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
ago, you could barely move. Every minute of every hour of every day | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
that that museum is open, 30 people are cramming into it. This is going | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
to open the argument about whether we should be charging for museums. | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Personally, I'd much rather see the opening hours extended long into the | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
evening, give everybody a chance, including Londoners, to see the | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
cultural treasures. How do Londoners enjoy the city? Quite. People will | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
be saying, let's charge everyone else who isn't from a London | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
postcode, that is politically difficult. We have to keep | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
reinventing, bring back more attractions to keep people coming | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
back. We've had a double bounce, 2012, a fantastic summer last year. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
What happens if we get a sport free wash`out in 2014? I don't think it | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
will solve Simon's problem. London has the infrastructure to attract | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
people in their millions. It's the diversity of London's cultural and | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
tourism offerings, from the largest institutions and to the smallest | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
galleries which push culture down the line. That is enough of us | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
talking, let's leave you with a view of the thing that makes everybody | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
come. Here's London! That view does come to us courtesy | :25:09. | :25:21. | |
of some very nice whether this evening. | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
In the middle part of the day we had the mackerel skies. This is how it | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
looked over Regents Park throughout the day. That is usually the | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
precursor to something of a weather front but the weather fronts we are | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
getting over the next couple of days are only introducing cloud, not very | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
much rain. Over the next ten days, there is generally settled weather | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
and dry weather. That is because we've got high pressure, the word I | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
is going to be used highly over the next few days. A little tenuous at | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
the moment, some weather fronts from this low pressure system crossing | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
through. We go through the weekend and into Monday, the high pressure | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
is right over the top of us. Not always wall`to`wall sunshine. At the | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
moment, we still have a little bit of clear sky but we will see some | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
cloud drifting from time to time through the night. We will have the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
breeze picking up from a south`westerly direction. That means | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
it will not be quite as chilly as the previous two nights. There | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
shouldn't be too much of a frost first thing tomorrow morning, apart | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
from maybe a couple of sheltered areas. It would be quite as chilly | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
tomorrow morning either. Throughout tomorrow it will stay dry. There | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
will at times be some sunny breaks. The breeze is picking up a little | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
bit. Temperature is doing quite nicely, up to around 11 or 12. For | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Friday, the cloud will be a little bit more stubborn. The weekend | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
looking glorious. We could hit 16 or 17 degrees. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
A reminder of today's news. The US Secretary of State and European | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
foreign ministers including William Hague have urged Russia to hold | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
direct talks with Ukraine, after key talks in Paris aimed at easing | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
tensions between the two countries. Parents in Hertfordshire say they're | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
outraged after being told they should open a free school in a | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
warehouse on an industrial estate. The original site for Harperbury | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
School in Radlett fell through. That's it for now. From all of us on | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
the team, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening. | :27:45. | :27:47. |