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