:00:14. > :00:18.Good evening. London Underground has been accused
:00:19. > :00:24.of breaking a deal over plans to close ticket offices. The l`test in
:00:25. > :00:27.a series of strikes is set to begin on Monday evening, over proposed job
:00:28. > :00:30.losses if those ticket offices close. This programme has sden a
:00:31. > :00:33.document which shows that Transport bosses agreed earlier this xear to
:00:34. > :00:36.review the closures. But Unhons say London Underground has reneged on
:00:37. > :00:39.that offer. Our Transport Correspondent, Tom Edwards reports.
:00:40. > :00:45.More strike disruption looms on the Tube. At the centre of the dispute,
:00:46. > :00:48.the closure of all ticket offices. The strike starts Monday night. I
:00:49. > :00:51.think people who work on thd Tubes provide a pretty good service. I
:00:52. > :00:55.think they are treated very badly and I would thoroughly support it.
:00:56. > :00:59.You've got to sympathise with the Tube workers, but by the sale token
:01:00. > :01:03.I think I'm on the side really of the commuter who have got to get to
:01:04. > :01:06.their place of work. This ldtter sent to the late Bob Crow. Ht halted
:01:07. > :01:10.February's strike over the same issue. It says London Underground
:01:11. > :01:14.will discuss a review including ticket offices which could result in
:01:15. > :01:21.some ticket offices remaining open. But LU now says all ticket offices
:01:22. > :01:25.will now be closed. We have said we would take any proposals of the
:01:26. > :01:29.trade union, the RMT put forward to us and we would consider those and
:01:30. > :01:32.respond to them. Unfortunatdly not a single constructive alternative
:01:33. > :01:38.proposal has been put to us other than us taking absolutely everything
:01:39. > :01:43.off the table. The breakdown of relations over the review is a big
:01:44. > :01:49.part of this dispute. LU saxs the timetable for the closures hs up for
:01:50. > :01:52.discussion. Union insiders have told me they think the chances of the
:01:53. > :01:57.strike on Monday being calldd off are close to zero. They think London
:01:58. > :02:02.Underground now has little hnterest in compromise and feel the company
:02:03. > :02:05.is now out to crush the RMT. London Underground claims new technology
:02:06. > :02:11.means ticket it offices aren't needed, staff will be moved into the
:02:12. > :02:15.ticket halls. 950 jobs will go but there will be no compulsory
:02:16. > :02:22.redundancies. However, unions have concerns over safety. There will be
:02:23. > :02:25.some of what will be called Visitor Information Centres which could be
:02:26. > :02:28.added to, but Labour says politics is being put above passengers. I
:02:29. > :02:32.think it's a really dramatic change to London's underground to close all
:02:33. > :02:34.of the ticket offices. And to begin with, TfL said they were willing to
:02:35. > :02:44.undertake a station`by`stathon review and they were going to be
:02:45. > :02:50.open`minded. Now they seem to have reneged on that and are going back
:02:51. > :02:53.to what is a very rigid and uncompromising view. I cert`inly
:02:54. > :02:57.think London's passengers otght to be in this debate and ought to have
:02:58. > :03:02.a chance to comment on what's going to be provided at their loc`l
:03:03. > :03:14.stations. Business groups h`ve said they are baffled as to why this deal
:03:15. > :03:17.has unravelled. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has condemned the strike.
:03:18. > :03:28.The RMT has written to London Underground requesting further
:03:29. > :03:31.talks. The former chief inspector of
:03:32. > :03:34.schools has called for bettdr monitoring of teachers who work
:03:35. > :03:37.abroad. His comments come after it emerged that a convicted paddophile,
:03:38. > :03:40.who had worked in ten schools in nine countries, abused children at a
:03:41. > :03:43.London private school. Willham Vahey, who was found dead l`st
:03:44. > :03:46.month, taught at Southbank International School in Westminster.
:03:47. > :03:49.Sir Chris Woodhead, who is `lso the school's Chairman of Governors, says
:03:50. > :03:51.the case shows how offenders can slip through the net.
:03:52. > :03:55.A UKIP council candidate who made racist and anti`Islamic rem`rks is
:03:56. > :03:58.still due to stand for the party in next month's local elections. That's
:03:59. > :04:01.despite being suspended by his party leadership. UKIP is now conducting
:04:02. > :04:03.an investigation into how Andre Lampitt was selected to stand in
:04:04. > :04:07.Merton. Here's our Political Correspondent, Karl Mercer.
:04:08. > :04:09.On Wednesday, Andre Lampitt was one of the faces of UKIP's partx
:04:10. > :04:12.political broadcast ahead of next month's local elections. A builder
:04:13. > :04:15.in Merton, he was also one of the party's candidates hoping to be
:04:16. > :04:19.elected to the local council. Since the lads from Eastern Europd are
:04:20. > :04:22.prepared to work for a lot less than anybody else, I've found it a real
:04:23. > :04:27.struggle. It's getting hard to provide for my family. But ht's his
:04:28. > :04:51.views on social media that have got Mr Lampitt into trouble. Wrhting on
:04:52. > :04:54.Twitter, he's described Isl`m as a pathetic, Satanic religion. He said
:04:55. > :04:57.Nigerians were generally bad and said about Africans, let thdm kill
:04:58. > :05:00.themselves off. We live in such a multicultural world and sochety to
:05:01. > :05:03.have someone with those views and opinions actually being allowed to
:05:04. > :05:07.stand for what is bigotry and racism, it shouldn't be allowed As
:05:08. > :05:10.a voter, no he should not bd permitted to have such racist
:05:11. > :05:13.comments and be allowed to stand, unless he wants to stand as a racist
:05:14. > :05:17.candidate. He's also critichsed the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, saying
:05:18. > :05:20.he wasn't really British but was Polish. Andre Lampitt has not been
:05:21. > :05:23.answering calls from the BBC but his party leader has acted. He has
:05:24. > :05:26.suspended him from the partx. Someone's made a mistake, so I'm
:05:27. > :05:29.going to have an investigathon into this and somebody must be
:05:30. > :05:32.disciplined for this. We haven't got a monopoly on stupidity or on people
:05:33. > :05:35.saying repellent things. But obviously given the criticism we
:05:36. > :05:39.faced last year, we have put measures in place and mistakes have
:05:40. > :05:42.happened. I am sorry about ht. Mr Farage may have suspended hhs
:05:43. > :05:46.candidate, but this is the list that voters in St Helier's ward hn Merton
:05:47. > :05:49.will face when they go to the polls on May the 22nd. Finalised this
:05:50. > :05:52.morning after yesterday 's deadline to candidates, it clearly shows Mr
:05:53. > :05:56.Lampitt is standing and shows his name is against that of the United
:05:57. > :05:59.Kingdom Independence Party. The row over his comments, it seems, may
:06:00. > :06:01.have come too late to stop him going before voters.
:06:02. > :06:05.London's Aquatic centre is to host its first major competition since
:06:06. > :06:08.its make over after the 2012 Games. The highlight of the Diving World
:06:09. > :06:11.Series this weekend will be a re`match between Tom Daley, who
:06:12. > :06:14.trains at the centre, and London 2012 Champion David Boudia. Well
:06:15. > :06:18.that's about it from me. I'll say goodnight and leavd you
:06:19. > :06:33.with Nina Ridge with a look at the weekend weather.
:06:34. > :06:42.Tomorrow, after a damp start, drier weather but also heavy showdrs
:06:43. > :06:47.developing later on. Overnight, it is looking dry and quiet, btt the
:06:48. > :06:50.cloud ills through the earlx hours of Saturday morning and we see the
:06:51. > :06:56.rain sweeping in from the south`west. A damp start to the day
:06:57. > :07:02.but it will be frost free. @ wet morning to come tomorrow. The band
:07:03. > :07:04.of rain pushes up the way and we are expecting a drier and brighter
:07:05. > :07:09.interlude but heavy showers coming through. Though showers could bring
:07:10. > :07:14.hail and thunder. At 16 degrees or so at the breeze will be taking the
:07:15. > :07:18.edge of the temperatures. Low pressure in charge on Sundax, so
:07:19. > :07:22.sunny spells, a few scatterdd showers, some of them heavily.
:07:23. > :07:29.Temperatures around 14 or 14 degrees. That is how it is looking
:07:30. > :07:38.for London, I will leave yot for `` with an outlook. We will have the
:07:39. > :07:43.outlook for the rest of the country. Goodbye.
:07:44. > :07:47.Good evening. A bit of a disappointing day. A lot of cloud
:07:48. > :07:52.around and we saw showery outbreaks of rain. Courtesy of this
:07:53. > :07:58.continental plume which arrived during the early hours and continues
:07:59. > :07:59.to drift further north. Into the weekend, this area of low