:00:00. > :00:07.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:00:08. > :00:14.That's all from me, stay with us on BBC One ` it's time for the news
:00:15. > :00:18.where you are. Good evening. In less than 24 hours,
:00:19. > :00:21.London will get a new television channel. It's being backed by the
:00:22. > :00:27.owner of the Evening Standard newspaper, and it's from where it'll
:00:28. > :00:35.be broadcast. Alice Bhanduhkravi has been finding out more about London
:00:36. > :00:40.Live TV. Piloting one of the new programmes
:00:41. > :00:44.on this channel, the first big launch since the 90s. They will not
:00:45. > :00:50.only fill the schedule with programmes brought in from other
:00:51. > :00:52.broadcasters, but they are commissioning new material,
:00:53. > :00:58.everything from comedy to current affairs. Mostly for an audience of
:00:59. > :01:02.what they call social explorers. It is about people plugged into the
:01:03. > :01:06.city, who can't wait to try new things. There will be a strong
:01:07. > :01:12.emphasis on brand positioning. London is the brand and the
:01:13. > :01:16.personality. Some of the shows such as 2012 fit that personality. It is
:01:17. > :01:21.being made in the offices it now shares with sister company B Evening
:01:22. > :01:25.Standard. Its Russian owners may have deep pockets, but operations
:01:26. > :01:32.are pared back, giving it a distinct look and feel. I'd tone is
:01:33. > :01:41.important, it want a conversational tone. It is not a case of being
:01:42. > :01:46.cheap. I wanted to be authentic. The owner's story so far is successful.
:01:47. > :01:49.He's been credited with rejuvenating the standard but would not be drawn
:01:50. > :01:55.on what would constitute success for this channel. I can't go into
:01:56. > :02:01.numbers. It is basically a share of the London market. We're going to be
:02:02. > :02:05.broadcast in the homes of about 5 million people. So if we get a share
:02:06. > :02:09.of that, that will be a success. Some know only too well how
:02:10. > :02:14.difficult it is to keep a London commercial TV station afloat. I tip
:02:15. > :02:23.my hat to be investment but I would have is serious? About its
:02:24. > :02:29.viability. `` I would have serious questions about its by ability. My
:02:30. > :02:31.experience of running local commercial television stations was
:02:32. > :02:34.disastrous. Many will be hoping history does not repeat itself.
:02:35. > :02:37.Archaeologists have found traces of the Black Death, which killed more
:02:38. > :02:41.than one in three Londoners back in the 14th century. It was discovered
:02:42. > :02:50.by testing the tooth of a skeleton in Farringdon. Here's Emma North.
:02:51. > :02:55.They lived and died in the capital eight centuries ago when half of
:02:56. > :03:00.London perished in the most terrifying experience a society can
:03:01. > :03:08.endure. In 1349, the Black Death was laying ransacked to Europe. An
:03:09. > :03:13.emergency burial ground was dug here in Charterhouse Square. This is a
:03:14. > :03:17.prime example of medieval emergency urban planning. Exactly. A well
:03:18. > :03:22.thought out process and preparation for a disaster that was imminent. It
:03:23. > :03:27.was only during the Crossrail project that archaeologists found
:03:28. > :03:31.proof that this indeed was a plague pit. Victims were given an orderly
:03:32. > :03:37.Christian burial in rows, layer upon layer. This person had traces of
:03:38. > :03:49.Black Death in them. How do you know? We extracted a tube and ? to
:03:50. > :03:54.Canada. `` and sent it off to Canada. They compared it to
:03:55. > :04:00.libraries of the pathogen and that told them that this individual had
:04:01. > :04:08.been exploded `` exposed to the plague. The bodies also tell is
:04:09. > :04:16.great stories about London about is. Life was hard and these people
:04:17. > :04:20.fought each other ` you can tell by the number of broken bones. This
:04:21. > :04:23.area is now being searched for more hidden bodies. These 25 could lead
:04:24. > :04:36.us to thousands more. A look at the weather now with
:04:37. > :04:38.Georgina. It's not exactly a continuation of the weekend's
:04:39. > :04:42.weather but it isn't day ahead of us. Quite a cloudy day with
:04:43. > :04:47.temperatures reaching the mid to high teens in the afternoon apart
:04:48. > :04:53.from where showers fall. Most of us should have a dry day. A fairly
:04:54. > :04:56.cloudy day ahead with threats of showers on Monday and Tuesday.
:04:57. > :05:10.Temperatures peak on Wednesday. Have a very good night.
:05:11. > :05:17.The southerly winds of this weekend will maintain some warmth into next
:05:18. > :05:21.week. The air pollution index in England and Wales is set to reach
:05:22. > :05:25.the high category. In the north-east it stays chilly. In the south-west,
:05:26. > :05:31.it will get progressively more unsettled. Perhaps if you like
:05:32. > :05:37.showers overnight, but mainly in the north and east that Mr low cloud is
:05:38. > :05:44.becoming extensive. Largely frost free away from Shetland where it
:05:45. > :05:48.will be frosty but sunny. Elsewhere, the mist and fog could be
:05:49. > :05:52.problematic through the rush-hour. More cloud than today, but still dry
:05:53. > :05:57.and bright for many initially. This is what is coming later on. Some
:05:58. > :06:03.heavy, thundery downpours spreading their way across Wales and the
:06:04. > :06:06.south-west. Ahead of that, temperatures probably not as high
:06:07. > :06:11.but we could have some home-grown showers for the north-west of
:06:12. > :06:12.England and into Northern Ireland. But equally,