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keep you updated online. That is all from us. Now the news | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
where you are. Is Tonight on BBC London: The Bank | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
of England warns the recent surge in house prices could end in a crash. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
It comes as London's most expensive flat is sold for ?140 million. And | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
why the Bank of England is warning the boom may not be a good thing. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
In the last few minutes, the RMT have confirmed next week's strike is | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
on. I will have all the details. Also tonight, 16 months in jail for | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the judge who lied to police, but criticism that the sentence is | :00:42. | :00:42. | |
racist. And the artist who uses the humble | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
ballpoint pen to create these amazing portraits. | :00:46. | :00:58. | |
Good evening. The Bank of England has given a | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
warning over rising house prices. One of it's deputy governors has | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
said that while the market could cool down safely, a crash is his | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
biggest worry. Sir Jon Cunliffe warned of complacency over the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
issue, and dropped strong hints that new measures could be taken to force | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
the market to slow down. The warning comes as a penthouse in central | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
London is reported to have been sold for ?140 million, which makes it | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
London's most expensive flat. Sarah Harris is in Belgravia for us this | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
evening. Yes, this is the toughest warning | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
yet from the Bank of England about what it sees as this overheating of | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
the property market. Of course, strongest here in the capital, | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
nowhere more so than in this neck of the woods where exclusive properties | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
have been going for record prices. This is the stunning first floor | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
reception room. A multi`million pound Knightsbridge flat for sale. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Interior designed by candy and candy, a similar style to the one | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
that sold just around the corner at Hyde Park for a record ?140 million. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
These types of property are not on the market long, according to the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
estate agent, who believes prices will rise even further, with Eastern | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
European buyers fighting over them. I can see it going higher if there | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
are more than one or two parties bidding for the same property. This | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
property in question is one of the best properties in London, in a key | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
building, potentially one of the key buildings in the world. But this | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
heat in the London property market was described as blinking on the | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
dashboard by Sir John Cunliffe, deputy governor of the Bank of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
England. In a speech, he said there was a risk of a major overshoot in | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
prices, followed by a sharp correction, with negative equity. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Many economists think it is right to make the warning. There are so many | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
things pushing up the price of housing, which is already too high. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
We never saw the end of the previous bubble. Instead of getting a bottom | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
and a rise from a correct level, we are getting a sharp rise from a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
level that was already too high. It is estimated one in 15 London homes | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
are now selling for over ?1 million. Many of the top end buyers are | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
companies from overseas, and some analysts believe the government | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
should make those transactions more costly. Any property purchase, | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
whether through a trust, a company or individually, should pay all of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the taxes due on a property purchase and sale. I think that is one | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
thing, so we need to see through from the property to how it is held. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
With properties looking like this going for ?10,000 per square`foot in | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
London, it might not be surprising the Bank of England is also dropping | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
hints about measures to slow down the housing market in the months | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
ahead. It is worth bearing in mind that the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Bank of England can use this kind of rhetoric to try to dampen things | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
estate agents, they are saying there estate agents, they are saying there | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
is an almost insatiable demand for these kind of luxury flats. I think | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
it may not be too long before these words have to be replaced by some | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
action. Stay with us tonight, as there's | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
lots more to come. We are lifelong Millwall supporters, and later in | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
the show we will tell you why it is important for us to avoid relegation | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
on Saturday. Next week's three`day Tube strike is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
on. Talks between the RMT union and London Underground have ended with | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
the two sides failing to reach an agreement. It means the walk out | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
looks set to begin on Bank Holiday Monday at 9pm. Tom Edwards is at | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
ACAS headquarters where today's talks have been taking place. | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
Yes, talks have been going on all day and I was told these were | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
intense negotiations. We were hearing positive and negative | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
noises, a real mix. Just a few moments ago, the RMT said talks had | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
broken down, the strike is on. That means the strike is going to start | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
from bank holiday Monday at 9pm, 472 hours, until Thursday night. The | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
last time we had a 72 hour strike was in 2007. This is what John Leech | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
from the RMT had to say a few moments ago. We came here and | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
repeated the same message which we made last week, which was that if | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
they would suspend the implementation of their plans to | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
close every single London Underground ticket office, lose 953 | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
jobs from the front line, then we would suspend the industrial action. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
I am afraid to report that they haven't done that. They have not | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
taken up our offer to suspend the action if they suspend their | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
implementation. They spent eight hours talking about very little, so | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
regrettably the strike is still on. Not good news for commuters. The | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
sticking point seems to be these 950 job losses and the review of ticket | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
office closures. What can commuters expect? Disruption will be | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
significant. London Underground managed to run 52% of services but | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
that still meant a lot of problems for a lot of people trying to get | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
round in the capital. Long`term, this doesn't look good. This dispute | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
is getting increasingly bitter and ugly. London Underground have just | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
come out here. What they have said is that they are extremely | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
disappointed with what has happened. A part`time judge who was found | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
guilty of trying to pervert the course of justice has been jailed | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
for 16 months. Constance Briscoe was convicted at the Old Bailey of lying | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
to police who were investigating claims that the former Cabinet | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
minister Chris Huhne had passed speeding points to his wife. Today's | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
sentence has been described as racist by the Society of Black | :07:22. | :07:35. | |
Lawyers, as Chris Rogers reports. Constance Briscoe, one of Britain's | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
first black female judges. She now has an addition to her impressive | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
CV, the first serving judge convicted of perverting the course | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
of justice. Her downfall was her determination to help her friend, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Vicky Pryce, politically destroy her husband, former energy minister | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Chris Huhne, by revealing to newspapers that he had persuaded her | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
to take speeding points on her licence. The subsequent | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
investigation led to the pair being prosecuted. The final chapter in the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
scandal is Constance Briscoe's 16 month jail term. The sentence is | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
double the eight months that Chris Huhne and his ex`wife Vicky Pryce | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
each received for the original offence, in which he passed speeding | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
points on to her. It is a punishment that has widely been seen as a | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
message that nobody is above the law. But the Society of Black | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
lawyers have condemned the sentence as excessive and racially motivated. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
What it shows is that still in these days we have the resonance of | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
slavery and colonialism, and really blatant, in your face racism, where | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
people can't see what they're doing. The justice system has a long | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
history of disparity of treatment of black women, where we are still | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
overrepresented in prison. Human rights lawyers have told us the | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
sentencing is fair as Constance Briscoe was found guilty on three | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
counts of perverting the course of justice, including falsifying | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
documents to explain her role in getting the story into the press. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
The judge make clear this was three counts of perverting the course of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
justice she was found guilty of, and that she is a part`time judge who | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
disgraced the justice system. You have to see it for what it really | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
is. This is on the back`end of other people's unlawful behaviour. The | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Society of Black lawyers plan to lodge a formal complaint. Meanwhile, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
the BBC has learned Constance Briscoe faces further enquiries over | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
her actions during a libel case brought against her by her own | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
mother. An award winning head teacher faces | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
being struck off after admitting a string of expense offences which | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
include charging the school ?7000 for her birthday party. Jo Shuter | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
had been credited with turning around Quintin Kynaston Academy in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
St John's Wood but now, she's been found guilty of "unacceptable | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
professional conduct". Marc Ashdown reports. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
A darling of top politicians, a CBE, once head teacher of the year, now | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Jo Shuter's career in education could be over. She turned around | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
Quintin Kynaston School, but in 2012 a whistle`blower raised concerns | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
over finances. An investigation found she was personally paid | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
?28,000 for public speaking in school time, and ?13,000 was claimed | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
for overnight hotel stays for senior managers. ?7000 was spent on her own | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
50th birthday party. Furniture for the school worth ?1500 was delivered | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
to her home. Overall, they raised queries over at least ?40,000 in the | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
budget. Jo Shuter resigned in June and this week admitted a large | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
number of the allegations. This is the report into this professional | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
misconduct hearing and in it the panel say they are satisfied Jo | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
Shuter is guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, and they say | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
they are taking into account the role of teachers, especially | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
headteachers, and their influence on pupils, parents and the community. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
They say they should be viewed as role models. And the maximum | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
punishment they can hand down is what is called a prohibition order, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
which would effectively see her struck off the teaching register in | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
England. Some of the money was paid back, but Westminster Council | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
referred the case to the regulator and said they felt it was too | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
serious not to take further. She admitted using her school personal | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
assistant to sort out speaking engagements and book holiday flights | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
for friends and family, arrange rental of her luxury villa in a | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Turkish hotspot, all in office hours. There were also numerous | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
personal taxi journeys charged to the school, and phones and an iPad | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
for her children paid for, too. Some travel expenses were claimed twice. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
The panel did say the allegations did not refer to dishonesty or | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
fraud, and some believe the story might not be over. We should not | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
forget there is potentially a police investigation that has yet to be | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
completed. So unfortunately this may go on a bit longer, but not | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
necessarily at QK. I was trying to get through to Jo Shuter. She is | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
currently head of another school in east London and was not available | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
for comment. If the panel recommends a ban, the Secretary of State | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Michael Gove will have to decide whether she is fit to continue. | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
It's emerged a Metropolitan Police detective has been dismissed after | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
allegations that he sexually assaulted two colleagues. Detective | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Constable Alex Manz who lives in Surrey, was arrested in January last | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
year after an investigation by The Met's specialist Rape and Sexual | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Violence Unit. Alice Bhandhukravi joins me to tell us more on this. | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
Detective can Alex Manz was accused of sexually assaulting two female | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
colleagues whilst off duty, but the alleged victims did not want to | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
testify against him, so the Crown Prosecution Service decided there | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
was not enough evidence to prosecute him. However, the Metropolitan | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Police internal watchdog, the directorate of professional | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
standards, carried out its own investigation and Alex Manz was | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
found guilty of gross misconduct and dismissed last October. What is even | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
more disturbing was the fact that Alex Manz was a member of that | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
internal watchdog, whose role is to look into the conduct of police | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
officers. Not only that, but he was the family liaison officer for the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
family of Mark Duggan after Mark Duggan was shot by police in 2011. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
As such, he gave evidence to the IPCC. As we know, that was one of | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
the most high profile cases that The Met has ever had to handle. Many | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
people will be surprised by this but what have the Metropolitan Police | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
copter say? They have been criticised for not disclosing | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
information about this case until it was revealed by the Evening | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Standard. They have defended that position by saying it is not common | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
practice for the police to put this kind of information in the public | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
domain, given that there were no criminal proceedings. They also | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
faced questions over how it is that this former police officer is still | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
entitled to a full police pension. They have said that in order to | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
forfeit his pension, police regulations require an officer to | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
have been convicted. And in this case that is not the situation. | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
Still to come before the end of the programme: Creating an amazing | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
likeness using just a ballpoint pen. We speak to the artist who's adopted | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
a very humble tool for his work. With European and local elections | :14:42. | :14:56. | |
less than three weeks away, political parties have stepped`up | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
their campaigning. And nowhere is that more apparent than in Croydon. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
The town that was hit by riots over two and half years ago is host to | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
London's tightest contest for control of the town hall. Our | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
political correspondent Karl Mercer has been to the area for this | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
report. The people of Croydon are used to | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
the hard sell and once every four years they get it in spades. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Election time has arrived in one of the capital's key battle grounds. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Croydon is the tightest fight in this year's local elections in | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
London. Since 2006, it has been a battle between Labour and the | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Conservative Party. The difference is just for seats at the moment. It | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
is a town that has suffered mixed fortunes. The riots of 2011 brought | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
it unwelcome attention. Last year, more positive news. Plans unveiled | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
for the redevelopment of the town centre. Mike has been the Tory do | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
for the last eight years. He wants to stay on. One of the key things is | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
council tax. People remember the last Labour council. They doubled | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
council tax over 12 years. 27% one`year. Compare that to our record | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
where people this year are paying the same or less than four years | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
ago. For people finding it difficult financially, it is a real issue. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
Have you seen our manifesto? Same old from the Tories. Labour has a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
clear pledge that we would freeze the council tax in 2015 will stop we | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
voted to freeze it this year as well. We will put that before the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
people of Croydon. We have got a manifesto for the town. The | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Conservatives have yet to publish a manifesto. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
parties, but it does not mean they parties, but it does not mean they | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
have given up hope. There are people have given up hope. There are people | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
up and Billy Morgan `` unrepresented. We need another pair | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
of eyes watching over their mistakes `` there are people unrepresented. | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
UKIP is standing more candidates in Croydon than any other borough. It | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
is by no means certain we would support the Tories. I can envisage | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
supporting some of our members `` I can envisage supporting Labour. The | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
centre of the borough has always been a battle between Labour and the | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
Tories. UKIP could win votes off both parties. It is very close. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Which means lots more of this over the next couple of weeks. | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
And there's a full list of candidates standing for election in | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Croydon on the council's website. Their address is on your screen now. | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Time to look ahead at the sport. Crucial games being played this | :18:07. | :18:19. | |
weekend. Massive weekend for London's clubs. Tomorrow is the last | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
day of the Championship season and the Millwall fans will be in full | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
voice at the Den, needing a win against Bournemouth to stay in the | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Championship. The Lions' supporters are going through the mill once | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
again after they faced a similar conundrum last season. I went to | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
meet the fans and Millwall manager Ian Holloway to see how their nerves | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
are holding up. Last week in the last minute of | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
extra time Millwall were thrown a championship lifeline. It is in! How | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
important could that be! Extremely important. To explain the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
significance I went to the cafe to meet up with lifelong fans Stan and | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
Ted. To get to the last game and still be involved, it is quite | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
exciting. You look forward to those moments. I do not want anyone | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
looking at me on the telly when I am crying my eyes out at the end of the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
game. The responsibility and the chance to win. There is also the | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
chance to lose, but it is having the chance to win. As they Millwall | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
supporter, it is never easy. We have to do it the hard way. If Millwall | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
lose or draw, they have to rely on the results of Birmingham and | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Doncaster. But if they win, they stay up. It is the easiest and least | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
stressful result for everyone. It means the players have decided there | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
will be no phone or radio updates from the dugout or in the dressing | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
room. People will be listening to the radio. We cannot afford to do | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
that. It is like a tennis player. If you throw the ball up to serve and | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
then look away, you have no chance of hitting it. The fans have to act | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
as the 12th man, an area Millwall fans consider themselves to be the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
best at. When you have experienced it, you know, you just know. This is | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
our life. Millwall fans make the noise of 100,000 people. It will be | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
something like that on Saturday. In its history, Millwall has pretty | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
much seen and done it all. Cup finals, relegations, promotions. The | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
hope is tomorrow that it will all be about survival. | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
Good luck to Millwall tomorrow against Bournemouth, but it's not | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
just the Lions with a challenging weekend. Reading need a win to | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
secure their place alongside QPR in the Championship play`offs. In | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
League Two, Wycombe Wanders could drop out of the Football League | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
altogether after losing to Bristol Rovers last weekend. They need a win | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
away at Torquay and to hope that other results go their way. It all | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
promises to be quite an afternoon and you can re`live everything that | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
happens on our football show, Late Kick Off, on bank holiday Monday at | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
11.35pm with presenter Mark Clemmit. But if you can't wait that long, of | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
course our radio station BBC London 94.9FM will be following the | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
fortunes of all the capital's clubs this weekend. Including bringing you | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
full commentary of Fulham's vital Premier League clash with Stoke. The | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Whites could be relegated if they lose and other results go against | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
them. Relegation would mean an end to Fulham's 13`year stay in | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
football's top flight. I think there is no doubt about it. We need three | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
points. In order to have the chance to not be relegated. That is the | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
situation, I think. There is nothing to say about it. | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
And lastly it was disappointment for Olympic taekwondo bronze medallist | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
Lutalo Muhammad. He failed to defend his under 87kg European title in | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
Azerbaijan today. The 22`year`old from Walthamstow had to settle for | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
third place. That's all the sport. Big, big weekend ahead. But for now, | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
back to you, Asad. It is a very big weekend. I know you | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
like your art, so take a look at this. This famous image of Audrey | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Hepburn shows her in one of her most famous roles as Holly Golightly in | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. And although you may | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
think you've seen this particular picture before, let me tell you, you | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
haven't. There's something very special about what you see behind | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
me. Wendy Hurrell explains what it is. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Portrait of an artist, but this is not a photograph, it is not even a | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
painting, look again. It is made with a ballpoint pen. Even when you | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
are looking at it close`up, you still cannot quite believe it. I | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
have had people look at the backs of drawings to make sure they were not | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
fakes. People think they are photos. Some pieces of James's art have | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
taken him 300 hours. If he makes a mistake, he risks having to start | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
again. You cannot use Tippex because you can see it. If it is an | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
emergency, you can get a scalpel but about as a risk because it can make | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
it worse. Other ballpoints are available, but this is what he uses. | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
Once cutting`edge technology, today it is a common implement. The bit by | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
road. A typical drawing has over a million pen strokes. `` Bic Biro. He | :23:47. | :23:59. | |
is something of a pioneer in photorealistic artwork. His latest | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
draughtsmanship is on show until the 6th of May in Notting Hill. He has | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
royal ambition. It would be great to do a royal portrait. That would be | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
amazing. The ultimate. That would be amazing. Prince George! Why not? | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
What an incredibly talented man. Now it is time for the weather forecast. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
We had rain yesterday, cloudy today, but we should have a decent amount | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
of sunshine as we head through the next few days. Things are improving. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
Most of us had a dry day today. A weak cold front sliding southwards. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Over the last few hours, it has produced isolated showers. Looking | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
upstream, we have got clearer skies coming down from the North. They are | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
not far away from the capital now. Give it another two or three hours, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
we will see all of the cloud go. Overnight, temperatures will drop | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
like a stone. Clear skies with light winds. It will be called. In the | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
centre of town, temperatures hovering around four, five degrees. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Out in the countryside, a cold night with pockets of frost and the lowest | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
temperatures down to minus one. Warmer around the Thames Street. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Tomorrow's forecast. A decent day coming up. Cold start. But plenty of | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
sunshine. Clear blue skies for most of us. As we head into the | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
afternoon, there will be subtle changes with more cloud floating | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
across the skies from the north`east. Still bright with sunny | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
spells and a dry day. Temperatures up to 15 degrees in the centre of | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
town, 14 or so for Guildford. Around the coasts of Essex and Kent, cooler | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
and fresher. Onshore winds. That takes us on through Saturday | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
evening, should stay fine and dry. The second half of the Bang, day | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
weekend, Sunday and Monday, we will keep the high`pressure `` the bank | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
holiday weekend. The good news is the weather forecast is for more dry | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
weather through Sunday. It will be quite cloudy. Increasing sunshine on | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Monday. Temperatures climbing. Highs potentially of 19 degrees. | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
Not bad at all. The tube strike. The three days of | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
action is juju start on Monday at 90 after talks ended within the past | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
hour without agreement. This is what London Underground had to say. We | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
will be prepared to go through every station by station as a review. We | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
said we would put on hold any voluntary severance. The reaction | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
was, we do not think we can accept that, we will take this information | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
back to the executive and I will not be recommending it. The strike is | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
still going ahead on Monday. They rest often I's main news. The | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
publicist Max Clifford has been jailed for eight years for | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
indecently assaulting young girls and women. The judge said he had | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
exploited his position in the world of entertainment. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Pro`Russian activists using surface`to`air missiles have shot | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
down Ukrainian helicopters. The government in Kiev says a pilot and | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
a serviceman was killed. I will be back later. Have a good | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
evening. Men are even less tolerant of women | :27:42. | :28:06. | |
than they were before. It's shocking it'd happen | :28:07. | :28:07. | |
in a public place. I don't find it funny, | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
but I don't find it offensive. It really is vile. | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
Shock value sells. | :28:15. | :28:17. |