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Thank you very much. Goodbye from me. And on BBC One we now join the | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
BBC's news teams where you are. Tonight on BBC London News, millions | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
of journeys are disrupted by the Tube strike as commuters struggle to | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
and from work. It's a massive inconvenience. I don't think they | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
should be striking. I absolutely support them. It makes travel | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
difficult. That is the point. The union says the action was well | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
supported, but London underinsists half the services ran. The UKIP | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
leader, Nigel Farage, takes his strong immigration message to one of | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Berkshire's most diverse towns. Plus A second show in London to transfer | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
to Broadway. I feel I belong here a lot more now. Harry Potter on | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
Broadway. Londoner, Daniel Radcliffe, on his late st | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
performance in New York. Good evening. Welcome to the programme. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The first full day of the Tube strike has disrupted the journeys of | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
millions of commuters. Today's action, by the RMT, over plans to | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
close ticket offices, brought parts of the network to a standstill. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
There is a row over how effective the action has been. London | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Underground says over half of services have been running, a better | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
result for commuters than the last time the RMT walked out. The union | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
insists the support for the strike was "solid." Here's nick beak. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Rush`hour this morning, but these passengers were going nowhere fast. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
This was Earl's Court, West London. Further east, down the tracks at | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Liverpool Street, more crowds and more queues. Clapham Junction | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Station was packed as commuters looked to Network Rail trains, where | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
they couldn't get the Tube as normal. Across the capital, | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Londoners who arrived to find stations closed asked themselves | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
just how am I going to get into work? It's a massive inconvenience. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
I don't think they should be striking. It's been chaos because of | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
this strike. It caused murder on the buses and cabs and everywhere you go | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
it's chock block. I'm stuck. I'm debating whether to go home. It's a | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
long walk! The Circle and Waterloo and City lines have been closed | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
altogether. Other lines have been running, but with big restrictions. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
The RMT claims support among Tube staff was "solid." They cannot | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
tolerate the cuts to their jobs, terms and conditions and the close | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
sure of every ticket office. We are determined to stick it out until the | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
end. But London Underground claimed more staff had come in to work than | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
during the last strike in February. That half of services were running. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
A record number of buses had also been brought into action. This | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
morning, as well as this evening, drivers were facing delays with | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
extra traffic on the roads. Unlike previous Tube strikes, the RMT is | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
the only union taking action today. So is there a danger they will lose | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
the support of the public? Yes, I can understand people need to get | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
paid properly. Whatever they are disputing. Fair enough. Don't take | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
it out on us. It doesn't make me feel better. Do you support them? Do | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
I support them? Is um... Yes... , but not right now. I absolutely | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
support them. Of course it makes travel difficult. That is the point. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Is not a view shared by the government. It's a totally | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
irresponsible and unnecessary strike that impacts on the economy and | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
makes it difficult for people in London to get to work. Once again, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
working from home seems to have been a popular option. More may well have | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
taken to two wheels to try to navigate what is a bitter political | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
row with Londoners caught in the middle. Nick is outside Waterloo | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Station for us this evening. What is the situation like there tonight? | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Good evening. As ever there is a constant stream of commuters making | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
their way up to that famous entrance to the station. It's difficult to | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
work out whether it's considerably buzzer or quieter than normal. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Certainly people are making their way into the entrance without any | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
problem whatsoever. Going down onto the Tubes. What is the picture they | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
find there? I have been on the platforms in the last half an hour | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
or so. I can give you a snapshot. There are four Tubelines, three are | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
operating, with a reduced service, the fourth line, the Waterloo and | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
City line isn't operating. That has been the case all day. One story | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
emerging today is the number of people on the roads. We heard about | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
a record number of buses, it seems many more people have been taking to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
their cars. There has been a lot of congestion in London this evening. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
That is likely to be the story for the remaining 24`hours. London | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Underground say that they have had 50% of services running. The unions, | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
for their parting say, yes, they caused disruption, with these | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
strikes every Londoner will have their individual story about how | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
much they were disrupted. Nick, thank you very much. Today's action | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
is the first in a series of strikes. Next week, a further three`day | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
strike is planned. What is causing the standoff between unions and | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
London Underground bosses? Is our transport correspondent, Tom | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Edwards, reports now on a dispute in which both sides are standing firm. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Another day of claims and blame games as commuters dragged | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
themselves through the disruption into work. Massive inconvenience for | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
people travelling by Tube, it brings London to a relative standstill. The | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
strike is due to changes in the Tube's history, job losses, | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
redeployment, closing ticket offices. LU want staff on | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
concourses. At quieter ones staff will work alone. We hope it will | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
allow London Underground to move their position to stop being so | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
dogmattic and be reasonable and allow us to get to a situation where | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
they can call a halt to the job losses and call a halt to closing | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
every single booking office and have proper, meaningful consultation | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
without predetermined outcomes. This letter to the late Bob Crow out | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
conditions as the union understand. Transport bosses say all ticket | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
offices now will be closed. The RMT's approach has been just to say | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
no to everything. I haven't heard a single constructive proposal from | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
them over the last 40 meetings or so that we had. I wait for the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
constructive proposals. When I get them of course we will respond and | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
listen. I don't have a monopoly on good ideas on this. I'm interested | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
and keen on their ideas. Let's hear them. The Tube has a history of | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
strikes. This was 1962. We are entering a turbulent period. TFL has | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
to save ?4.2 billion by 2020 after its Government grant was cut. These | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
changes will save ?50 million a year. It could also provide valuable | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
retail space. Why don't we keep the ticket offices open to give people | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
the sense of safety and security they want? The Mayor himself once | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
opposed ticket office closures, politics is a big part of this | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
dispute. There is a leadership contest at the RMT. Are Londoners | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
suffering because of your disengagement here? No. I think | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
what... What is happening, I don't want to intrude into private grief | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
of the RMT, there is unquestionably I think an issue about the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
succession, the leadership there. There is a power vacuum. The RMT | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
deny that and insist it's about the issues. The Government choose today | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
to celebrate Catch a Bus Week, their prop got stuck in question l | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
traffic. The message is clear ` sort it out. Everybody needs to get back | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
round the table. It's insanity it turned into a strike. The Uno | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
changes have to come. People are not using ticket offices any more. Other | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
unions are talking to bosses about these changes. So far a compromise | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
between London Underground and the RMT looks a long way off. And Tom | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
joins me now. So, where do things go from here? We have three days of | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
strikes planned for next week. The earliest we could get talks is | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Friday. That is cutting it really, really fine. An area of movement | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
perhaps is the creation of these, what are called, visitor information | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
centres. Like desks that are being created at some of the key stations, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
perhaps will get more of those. At the moment, both sides are | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
incredibly entrenched. It all depends on how long each side can | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
sustain this. It doesn't bode well for commuters. Thank you. Stay with | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
us. Still to come tonight. We will have the travel details to help you | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
get around the capital. Plus... Find out later what happened when we | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
tried wheelchair rugby. A London UKIP council candidate has | :09:32. | :09:44. | |
resigned from the party following offensive comments he made about the | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
comedienne Lenny Henry. In social media messages he said Mr Henry | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
should immigrate to a black country. Meanwhile, the leader of UKIP has | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
been in Slough drumming up support for next month's elections. Nigel | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Farage has met with many local activists in what is one of | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Berkshire's most diverse towns. So how has his message of curbing | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
immigration been received? Today he was campaigning in one of mosteth | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
ethnicically diverse town. He says, no matter. | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
Your immigration policy would have Slough not ever exist, why should | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
people here vote for you? We have three political parties who support | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
a total open door to 485 million people with no checks or controls of | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
any kind at all. We support an immigration policy that says we | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
should not discriminate against people from India and New Zealand in | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
favour of Poland, Romanian and Bulgaria. We need an immigration | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
policy that controls, not just quantity, but quality as well. | :11:05. | :11:21. | |
Slough is one of the mosteth ethnicically diverse area. You are | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
standing for us? You are. We have a Rabbi standing for us. A mixed race | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
candidate in the North of England. A practicing Muslim who will win a | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
seat for us in Yorkshire. We have a diverse bunch of people probably | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
than the other parties. Traditional Labour vote have come over to UKIP. | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
The We keep on having Labour and the Conservatives, they don't keep their | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
promises. Elsewhere in the town UKIP's appeal is less obvious. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
People come from outside this country, willing to work, there is | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
nothing wrong with it. Without immigration you can't run this | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
country. People that are working and qualified and good for the economy. | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Lot of Eastern European workers are coming, in that way people are fed | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
up. If he and his party have the success they are predicting they | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
have to broaden their appeal. The battle to win over the voters of | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
Slough could be critical. 150 years ago it opened as a small draper's | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
shop on Oxford Street. Today, John Lewis has 32 stores employing over | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
76,000 people. The flagship shop in London is celebrating the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
anniversary. We can join Emma North, who can tell us more. Down there you | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
can see London trying to cope with the Tube strike and the | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
rough`and`tumble of the high street. Up here we have a relatively | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
peaceful place. A perfect location for sun downer. This was built to | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
celebrate 150 years of John Lewis. It survived seven recessions, three | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
depressions and two world wars. Since 18 64, John Lewis has pledged | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
a certain standard of service to it Staff are lovely. The stock is | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
beautifully displayed. I'm a fan. You don't work for them, do you? No. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
The The price is reasonable. The stuff is quality. I love John Lewis. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
John Lewis draper's shop on Oxford Street used a typical Victorian | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
business model. In 1929 that his son established the partnership where | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the workers share the profits. How radical would it have appeared at | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
the time? Very radical. There are newspaper articles going across the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
world explaining his system and why it was so radical and different to | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
what happened before. The original shop was destroyed by a bomb in | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
1940. The Oxford Street flagship was completed on the same site in 1960s, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
staffed by some people still on the pay roll. It started off in toys and | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
garden furniture. I did boys ware, boys uniforms. I did wools, needle | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
work. Overalls, stationery, buttons. Has John Lewis changed in all that | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
time? The principles are still the same. It's just you don't feel quite | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
as intimate as you were when it was a smaller organisation. It is brand | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
that hasn't escaped parody. This website mocks the perceived smugness | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of their customers. They are accused of playing it safe. It is a fair | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
criticism and one of their strengths. Over the coming years | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
they have to think how to engage with younger consumers and look at | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
self fridges and what they do in terms of their stuff. Shopping is | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
changing fast. If it survive globalisation, the internet and a | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
cut throat high street, who knows if John Lewis could see another | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
century`and`a`half. A little bit of good weather this summer wouldn't | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
hurt either. Let me pick my way past the ban in a ya plant. This is open | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
open for the summer. They recreated the original draper shop. People can | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
see what the original John Lewis looked like. It's open from | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Saturday. They just need the weather now. We will get that later on. | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
Thank you. See England rugby union captain, | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
Chris Robshaw is used to training sessions but today he was trying out | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
wheelchair rugby. His club Harlequins have teamed up the GB | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Wheelchair team to promote the game. Our sports reporter Sara Orchard has | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
the story. We're more used to seeing England's rugby union captain Chris | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Robshaw doing this. But today he and his Harlequins team`mates had a | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
lesson about their sister sport, wheelchair rugby. In rugby people | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
talk about the hits and the collisions and that's awesome. We | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
hear the metalwork shatter against each other. That's why people love | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
to watch the sport as well. Some big lads in the team so yeah it's good | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
to get a bit of a crash and a bang against them. Tell me, you're being | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
a bit soft on them, weren't you? Of course. We were warned not to injure | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
any of them. We took it easy on them. Harlequins and the GB | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
wheelchair team aren't just larking about. They've launched a | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
partnership to share coaching and management expertise as well as | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
building community links. Wheelchair rugby was one of the most in demand | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
tickets at the London 2012 Paralympics and it was one of the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
first sports to sell out. But some of the lucky people to get those | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
seats were the Harlequins players. Everyone loved it. The atmosphere in | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
the stadium was brilliant. Guys getting flipped out of their chairs, | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
guys doing ridiculous things in wheelchairs. There were guys who | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
could sidestep and play for Australia which doesn't make sense. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
People know the sport now, they've seen it and heard of it. The crowds | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
in London were absolutely phenomenal. It was the most | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
sought`after ticket in the Games and I think we could have sold out the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
venue ten times over, to be quite honest. But since then, you know, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
our participation rates are grown by 40%. That's fantastic. I think Sport | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
England will agree we are one of the success stories over the last 12 | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
months in terms of legacy. The GB wheelchair team finished fifth at | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
the London Paralympics. With these new partnerships and increasing | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
growth of the sport, by Rio 2016, hopefully they won't just be | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
smashing metal but winning some as well. Some may still fondly remember | :17:43. | :17:54. | |
him as Harry Potter but Londoner Daniel Radcliffe has had a | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
successful stage career ever since. His latest play The Cripple of | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Innishmaan has just been nominated for six Tony awards after | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
transferring from the west end to Broadway. Our Arts Correspondent | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Brenda Emmanus caught up with him last week in New York. There comes a | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
time in every fella's life when he has to take his heart in his hands | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
and make a try for something. He's proved he's not averse to risk | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
taking by following his heart in making the career decision to commit | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
to stage acting following his huge success as boy wizard Harry Potter. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
And after a sold`out run in the West End, Daniel Radcliffe reprises his | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
lead role in the politically incorrect comedy The Cripple Of | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Inishmaan on Broadway. I wondered if maybe you might like to go out | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
walking with me one evening? Fancy bumping into you in New York as one | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
does. I think you've earned your thespian stripes now. Do you feel | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
relaxed and comfortable with theatre? Yeah, I do. It's never not | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
nerve wracking. As I think most people will tell you, it's an | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
important part of your nightly process. But, yeah, I definitely | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
feel, I suppose I used to walk into rehearsal rooms with the thought in | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
my mind that everyone was going what's he doing here? He's only | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Harry Potter. What's he doing in the theatre rehearsal room? That's | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
definitely how I walked into the room is on Equus. I was full of | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
insecurity about that but then, having done Equus and now a musical | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
on Broadway and now show in London which has transferred to Broadway, I | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
definitely feel like they belong here a lot more now. He regards this | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
production as his best stage work yet but critics both in London and | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
New York have been impressed with his body of theatre work to date. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
How do you explain Whitman? What is your name? Allen Ginsberg. Of | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
course, film is still a passion and Daniel now has to juggle both. Have | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
you worked out how much time you're going to spend here in New York and | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
in London the West End, how much time you're going to devote to film | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
and theatre? I will always I think just be going with a most | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
interesting work is. At the moment, I suppose I'm spending half my year | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
in London, half my year over here. You know, I suppose ideally I would | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
keep it like that. Being able to split time like that is a perfect | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
world. If I can just say as it is, it would be perfect. The turning now | :20:20. | :20:31. | |
to today's strike on the Underground. You've been getting in | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
touch about your journeys. I'll share a few of them. Matt Jackson | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
says his journey into town was fairly painless. He got on the first | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
bus and got a seat. John Taylor from Cambridge who depends on station | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
staff assistance because of a disability says he cannot praise the | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
staff at King's Cross or Covent Garden enough. Tapesh Majumdar | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
arrived at work on time. He says Tube strike will not affect us but | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
just the strikers themselves. Thanks for getting in touch with us. Well | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
with the strike continuing until tomorrow evening. Let's get a | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
picture of how services are looking. Alice Bhandhukravi has the details. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
That's right. Well if today is anything to go by, the services | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
which worked well today will continue to operate tomorrow, that | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
means the Overground will be running tomorrow, the DLR, and there will be | :21:18. | :21:29. | |
extra buses services. Tomorrow we can expect more problems on the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
following lines. First and foremost, the Waterloo City line, which has | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
no service at all. All other lines have some form of service but there | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
may be long gaps between trains and many stations are closed. The | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
following lines are all running from one end of the line to the other, | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
albeit with station closures so it's best to check before you travel on | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
the Northern Line, the Jubilee Line and the Victoria Line. | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
The Circle Line is running between Hammersmith and Aldgate, but it | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
won't be stopping at Notting Hill Gate, Ladbroke Grove for instance, | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
there are other station closures too on that stretch. The Hammersmith | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
City is running but only between Edgware Road and Barking, again with | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
station closures along the way. For the Piccadilly Line, there is no | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
service, except for between Hammersmith Heathrow Terminal one, | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
two and three, and between Arnos Grove and Cockfosters. It won't be | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
calling at Heathrow terminal four or five. There's a patchy service on | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
the District Line, with some stations closed en route. And it's a | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
similar picture for the Central line, some trains are running, | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
especially to the far west and the far east of the line, but trains are | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
not stopping at all the stations on the line, so check for updates on | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
that. Finally there is no service on Heathrow Connect, Heathrow Express | :22:45. | :22:45. | |
has a reduced service. Alice, thanks very much indeed. And | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
of course we'll be keeping you up`to`date with all the latest | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
travel information throughout the strikes. There are regular updates | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
on our radio station BBC London 94.9. And you can also follow | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
developments on our website and on Twitter. Some good weather would | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
help. Time now to get a check on the weather with Sara Thornton. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
We did better than we could have done in central London because we | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
have had a few showers around but largely today they have been in the | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
south and west of London. Quite heavy out there with some to come | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
and they are cropping up towards the west of London says something to be | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
aware of. For tomorrow, it's shaping up to be a nice day. A high of 17 | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
Celsius. It came after a fairly slow start this morning. A lot of cloud | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
around but eventually I whole started to appear in the cloud | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
giving as sharp showers to the south and east. A weather warning for the | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
next hour or so but largely dying away tonight. The next area of | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
concern is missed and low cloud tomorrow morning. It could affect | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
some of the airport 's first thing tomorrow morning but largely, that | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
starts to lift and we will see the sunshine starting to break through. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
And those temperatures zoom up once more. Warmer than today. 19 | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
Celsius, 66 Fahrenheit. We do have a change for Thursday. What a mess of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
a pressure chart. Low`pressure circulating around. A band of rain | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
and heavy showers. And then some sharp showers getting going through | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the afternoon. A good chance of seeing them. Not too much brightness | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
around and will feel colder. It will be colder still for Friday. We will | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
start to see a northerly wind coming in and that is going to peg the | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
temperatures back. 19 tomorrow, and then a slow slide in the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
temperatures towards the weekend. Friday itself, a lot of grey weather | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
around, a lot of cloud, and it will feel quite cold. Some sharp frosts | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
this weekend, gardeners beware of that. Then we start to wallop again | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
towards the bank holiday. That's what we like to hear. Thank you. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
More on the day's stories on our website and I'll be back with the | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
latest during the ten o'clock news. Thanks for joining us and have a | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
lovely evening. Bye bye. We welcome immigration, | :25:25. | :25:50. | |
we want immigration. # Time for hope and action | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
to set our people free # Tell them all just where to go | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
by voting BNP... # We think it's because | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
the BNP message of hope is out of kilter with | :26:17. | :26:30. | |
the politicians' agenda | :26:31. | :26:34. |