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Thank you. That is all from us for this evening. It is good night from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
me, and on BBC One, we joined the BBC news teams wherever you are. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening and welcome to the programme. Labour has doubled the | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
number of MEPs it has in the capital, winning half of the | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
region's eight seats in the European elections. Labour topped the poll, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
taking one seat from the Conservatives, leaving them with | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
two. It was a bad night for the Liberal Democrats ` they've been | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
left with no London MEPs. And there was no change for UKIP and the Green | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Party ` they kept one seat each. With a full round up of the results | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
and what it means for London, here's our Political Correspondent, Karl | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
Mercer. It was a long night at City Hall as London waited to find out | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
how the European votes had gone. Held up by a bit late `` by a | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
delayed count, they had to wait until the results were finally | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
announced at three o'clock in the morning. The results are as | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
follows... It was bad news for the Liberal Democrats, battered in | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Thursday 's elections the European results were no better. Sarah | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
Ludford, losing her seat after 15 years. I think it is bad news there | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
is no MP from the Liberal Democrats. There are now 18 councils | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
in the capital without Liberal Democrat councillors, and the party | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
controls just one town Hall. As a party we have been here before. The | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
first time I was elected the party was up 3% in the national opinion | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
polls, but the party is resilient. In my London Borough of Sutton, we | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
have an overwhelming majority and others can learn from what we have | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
achieved. These results follow up the disastrous performance in the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
race to become London mayor in 2012. Back then, Brian Paddick got less | :02:18. | :02:37. | |
than 45% of the vote. They will have lost a great deal of their activist | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
base, and that in turn makes it hard to win general election season next | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
year because councillors are closely related to having a decent activist | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
base. Once again, the winners were the Labour Party following up on | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
their strong showing in the borough elections. We are proud of the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
result today. It is not an exceptional results, `` it is an | :03:05. | :03:20. | |
exceptional results. London once again bucked the trend but UKIP's | :03:21. | :03:34. | |
sole winner was in combating mood. The Conservatives lost one of their | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
MEPs down from three to two in London. People predicted a bloody | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
nose for the us, a year to go from the general election we are neck and | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
neck with Labour, it is a good result. With the UKIP threat not as | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
great in London, the Green MEP held on for another five years. I thought | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
tonight was going to be a close run thing so I wasn't sure about | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
returning to the parliament again. Thank you, London voters. A bit of | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
something for everyone in London with most claiming a victory of | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
sorts, apart from the Lib Dems of course. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Karl joins me in the studio now. A bad night for the Lib Dems ` what | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
else have we learnt? In a sense it is two election down, want to go, | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
because next year we will be talking about the general election. The Lib | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
Dems are in a bad place, the MPs in the capital at the moment will be | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
looking over their shoulder, thinking we have to work hard. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Labour will feel they have done well, and in areas like Brent, | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Harrow, Haringey and Ealing, all with key marginal seats they need to | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
take next year, they did really well so they will be feeling bullish. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Sadiq Khan might be mentioned yet again, in terms of being a mayoral | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
candidate. The Conservatives will be saying their vote held up reasonably | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
well in London, they were not that far behind Labour. UKIP have said | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
they will stand a candidate in every constituency, but we didn't see in | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
London the same sort of search result for them in the rest of the | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
country. `` the same sort of surge. | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
Outside of the capital and the Liberal Democrats did manage to | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
retain their MEP in the south east region, which includes Surrey, | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This was despite a strong showing from | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
UKIP, where Nigel Farage was one of four MEPs elected. UKIP also did | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
well in the eastern region, which includes Hertfordshire and Essex, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
winning three seats. The Greens will be disappointed as they just missed | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
out on a seat here even though they polled over 8% of the vote. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Meanwhile one borough has still not declared its final result from last | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Thursday's local election. The count in Tower Hamlets was suspended at | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
three o'clock this morning and won't start again until tomorrow. The | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
delay has been caused because ballot papers for the Bromley South ward | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
have to be recounted. At the moment, Tower Hamlets First Group and Labour | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
have 18 seats each. The Conservatives have four. No party | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
has overall control. In other news, a man has appeared in | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
court charged with arson and murder after a 49`year`old man was stabbed | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
in his flat in New Barnet. At first, police thought Antonio Tommaso died | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
in an accidental fire. But a postmortem examination showed he'd | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
been stabbed and that his flat may have been set fire several days | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
later. Daniel Asubo, who's 30 and from Barnet, will appear at the Old | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Bailey on Wednesday. The Thames Tunnel was once known as | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
the eighth wonder of the world. In Victorian times, hundreds of | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
thousands of Londoners flocked to see it, amazed at how they were able | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
to walk beneath the river. These days it's no longer a tourist | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
attraction. In fact the public rarely get to see it. Charlotte | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
Franks reports. Welcome to the eighth wonder of the world, this is | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
the first tunnel underneath the river anywhere in the world. This | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
underground passage is the birthplace of the tube system, it is | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the Thames Tunnel which runs between Rotherhithe and Wapping and it was | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
designed and engineered by Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard. It | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
opened in 1843 with the screams of excitement and delight of 50,000 | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
visitors. Built originally for horse and carts, the tunnel was to be an | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
alternative to the already overcrowded River Thames, but access | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
was too difficult for anything other than pedestrians so it soon became | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
more than just a means of getting from a to B. This was the world's | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
first underwater banquet hall, shopping parade and fairground. | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
Business men and women used the structure of the tunnel to their | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
advantage. These archways were shops, selling hundreds of items to | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
people walking north and south. They bought trophies ` after all you | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
would need proof that you had ventured beneath the River Thames. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
It was a great feat of engineering, no one believed it could be made. It | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
was the first shield driven tunnel in the world but the process was | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
risky. Brunel came up with the idea of what a tunnelling shield, it had | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
workers in cells and they would do to our shifts and would have to come | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
off because the gas was so much they were almost collapsing. It is now | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
used by London overground trains carrying over a million passengers | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
every day, and a structure that people once thought was impossible | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
has left an important legacy. Now the weather with Georgina | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Burnett. What a way to finish off the bank | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
holiday weekend and it is not looking too much better for the rest | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
of the week. We hold onto that showery rain tonight, quite a lot of | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
cloud around and underneath that, a fairly mild night with temperatures | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
only down to around 11 Celsius. We have rain pushing into the east | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
coast this time so we will have some showers spilling over from that in | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
eastern parts of London in particular. A cloudy day tomorrow, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
but the best of the sunshine will be in the afternoon if there is any at | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
all, and that is when we will see temperatures up to 16 Celsius. Where | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
we hold on to the cloud, as you can see at Saint James Park, only 12 | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
Celsius. We have a wet and cloudy week ahead, the temperatures will be | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
up in the high teens but only if we get sunny spells. Starting to look | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
better by the weekend. That's it. I'll be back later during the ten | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
o'clock news, but for now from everyone on the team have a lovely | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
evening. Goodbye. Good evening. If I were to conduct a | :10:00. | :10:14. | |
straw poll about the weather events today, I suspect we would get a | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
split decision. There were significant differences around, we | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
have sunshine and some warmth, but also this cloud and rain coming up | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
through the Channel into the north of England. On top of that, some | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
showers in the north-west, some of them thundery from Northern Ireland | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
and Scotland, so a real eclectic mix. This will drift away over | :10:41. | :10:41. |