:00:00. > :00:00.There is more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back
:00:00. > :00:00.with the latest News at ten. Now, time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:16.Bye`bye. Good evening and welcome. A
:00:17. > :00:21.three`day Tube strike, which was due to begin this evening, has been
:00:22. > :00:24.suspended. Leaders of the RMT union, who met Tube managers this morning,
:00:25. > :00:29.said they'd made significant progress in their dispute over
:00:30. > :00:32.ticket`office closures. Let's speak now to Helen Drew, who's outside
:00:33. > :00:41.London Underground's headquarters. Helen, good news for everyone? It is
:00:42. > :00:45.certainly good news in the short`term, Alice. It means that we
:00:46. > :00:48.want needs to be setting our alarm clocks any earlier to counteract
:00:49. > :00:52.travel disruption in the morning, but this dispute is not over. London
:00:53. > :00:56.Underground is still going to press their head with its plans to review
:00:57. > :01:01.closing its ticket offices, and the RMT is still against it. `` press
:01:02. > :01:05.ahead. As the bank holiday weekend comes to an end, the Tube strike
:01:06. > :01:10.being called off is welcome news to commuters, including those enjoying
:01:11. > :01:21.the son The Sands. I have to admit, I was thinking about planning my
:01:22. > :01:31.travel. I am really happy about that, because it is so
:01:32. > :01:38.inconvenient. I am very pleased: I have some meetings in town and now
:01:39. > :01:42.we will be able to get there. The three`day strike was part of an
:01:43. > :01:46.ongoing dispute over London Underground plans to close all
:01:47. > :01:50.ticket offices and cut jobs, but after just 90 minutes of talks
:01:51. > :01:53.between them and the RMT union, a decision was made not to strike. But
:01:54. > :02:00.this doesn't mean the dispute is over. London Underground still plans
:02:01. > :02:04.to review potential station closes. It is a very open discussion, and
:02:05. > :02:08.what we are going to do is continue with our station by station review,
:02:09. > :02:14.we are also going to discuss our draft implementation plan, and
:02:15. > :02:18.beyond that we will come back to ACAS and review the findings. And
:02:19. > :02:26.the RMT still intends to campaign against those closures. We have got
:02:27. > :02:30.some clear and standings from London Underground in terms of how we will
:02:31. > :02:33.move forward, allowing us to campaign to keep every booking
:02:34. > :02:38.office open. This was the disruption caused by last week's strike over
:02:39. > :02:42.the same issue. For the next few days at least, commuters won't have
:02:43. > :02:47.to relive the chaos. Of course, a future strike is still
:02:48. > :02:51.possible. What happens next is that the RMT and London Underground will
:02:52. > :02:56.get back together for talks to be held at ACAS, the conciliation
:02:57. > :02:58.service. And that station by station review will go ahead with the
:02:59. > :03:07.participation of all the relevant trade unions, and that is due to be
:03:08. > :03:10.completed by the 23rd of May. A 13`year`old boy has appeared in
:03:11. > :03:12.court charged with a man's murder in south west London. 39`year`old
:03:13. > :03:16.Martin Thomas was found stabbed to death at his home in Roehampton two
:03:17. > :03:19.weeks ago. The boy, who can't be named because of his age, was
:03:20. > :03:24.remanded in custody. Another teenager, aged 15, is also charged
:03:25. > :03:27.with murder. Now, with immigration a central
:03:28. > :03:29.issue in the current European election campaign, some people are
:03:30. > :03:32.asking how best to educate those children who don't have English as
:03:33. > :03:36.their mother tongue and what impact it has on the other pupils. The
:03:37. > :03:46.BBC's Mike Sergeant has been to Brent, one of the most diverse
:03:47. > :03:49.boroughs in Britain. Byron Court in northwest London, one
:03:50. > :03:54.of the most multicultural and multilingual schools in the country.
:03:55. > :03:59.600 children, 42 different languages. Many of these children
:04:00. > :04:03.spoke no English at all when they arrived aged five, six, seven or
:04:04. > :04:09.eight. Now, a few years later, their confidence is growing. It was very
:04:10. > :04:13.hard, but I learned it in two months. You learned English in two
:04:14. > :04:17.months? Yeah. Well, not all of the words, just some of them. When I was
:04:18. > :04:21.two years old, I went to nursery, and then I learned a bit of English
:04:22. > :04:24.there. And when I came here, I got to learn all my English.
:04:25. > :04:27.This part of London has more languages spoken than all most
:04:28. > :04:33.anywhere else in the UK, so what is the impact of all of this diversity
:04:34. > :04:36.on educational standards at school? The guiding principle here is to
:04:37. > :04:42.treat all children equally. Success, though, requires plenty of support
:04:43. > :04:47.and funding. Click on one of those and tell me if
:04:48. > :04:50.it is a source of light... There needs to be enough good
:04:51. > :04:53.teachers to help those struggling and support the ones surging ahead.
:04:54. > :04:56.The local council says the large number of migrant families initially
:04:57. > :05:02.lower school standards, but not for long. In Brent, our children perform
:05:03. > :05:09.just below national averages when they are assessed at seven years
:05:10. > :05:11.old. But by the time they are 11, they've caught up with national
:05:12. > :05:16.standards, and at 16 they are flying.
:05:17. > :05:19.There's lots of research that shows being bilingual is ultimately an
:05:20. > :05:21.advantage, but what if your child is not from a migrant family. Some
:05:22. > :05:29.education experts have their concerns. The problem is not really
:05:30. > :05:32.migrant children. The problem is that children who are native
:05:33. > :05:34.speakers of English being taught alongside non`native speakers of
:05:35. > :05:37.English, and in my experience and talking to parents, there are many
:05:38. > :05:40.parents whose children are in classes where the majority of
:05:41. > :05:42.children don't speak English, and they feel that their
:05:43. > :05:44.English`speaking child is at a disadvantage. This could have
:05:45. > :05:48.long`term and very serious social consequences.
:05:49. > :05:50.And with immigration an increasingly important political issue, the
:05:51. > :05:51.educational challenges making the system work for all children,
:05:52. > :06:03.whatever their backgrounds. Mike Sergeant there. Now let's take
:06:04. > :06:07.a look at the weather with Sara Thornton.
:06:08. > :06:11.Hello. A lovely bank holiday weekend has been rounded off today with the
:06:12. > :06:14.best of the temperatures, a beautiful bank holiday Monday,
:06:15. > :06:19.another fairly nice day tomorrow, quite breezy but eventually some
:06:20. > :06:23.sunny spells. Through the day today, temperatures up in the high teens,
:06:24. > :06:27.but some high cloud advancing from the West courtesy of this frontal
:06:28. > :06:29.system. That is marching towards us through this evening and the first
:06:30. > :06:33.part of the night, and then it will give us some rain in the early hours
:06:34. > :06:36.of tomorrow morning before it makes its way towards the east. Tomorrow
:06:37. > :06:42.morning, some cloud around, temperatures up in double figures,
:06:43. > :06:46.the breeze does pick up through the next 24 hours. 17 Celsius with sunny
:06:47. > :06:51.spells in the afternoon, perhaps 18 in 12 spots. Through the week, we
:06:52. > :06:53.run the risk of some showers, breezy but sunshine.
:06:54. > :06:57.That's all for now, I'll be back during the ten o'clock news, but for
:06:58. > :07:09.now, from everyone here, have a lovely evening. Goodbye.
:07:10. > :07:13.The sunshine today for the bank holiday produced the highest
:07:14. > :07:14.temperature of the