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:00:00. > :00:11.Tonight on BBC London News: The overseas investors buying up,
:00:12. > :00:19.but not moving in to London's sky`high properties. We need to be
:00:20. > :00:26.thinking about ways to tax empty property. Punitive taxing on empty
:00:27. > :00:27.flats in order to make some return to the community from the damage
:00:28. > :00:30.done. sky`high properties.
:00:31. > :00:32.A planning expert says the mayor needs to do more to help
:00:33. > :00:41.the capital's communities. The man who robbed a building
:00:42. > :00:45.society while on the run is giving another lifetime.
:00:46. > :00:48.the capital's communities. Plus, taking off in South London `
:00:49. > :00:48.the latest hospital helipad reducing transfer times
:00:49. > :00:55.for the most critically ill. Our ability to get the emergency
:00:56. > :01:01.department to the scene in a matter of minutes means they care they get
:01:02. > :01:03.is of a higher quality, and can save lives.
:01:04. > :01:05.for the most critically ill. And repeated online
:01:06. > :01:07.for a new generation ` the films giving us a glimpse
:01:08. > :01:27.of life in London 80 years ago. Londoners are being priced out of
:01:28. > :01:30.the housing market because of "dirty Russian money and Chinese gamblers".
:01:31. > :01:32.Those are the claims today of one of the country's most respected
:01:33. > :01:34.planners, as further evidence emerged
:01:35. > :01:37.of the pressures in the capital. Peter Wynne Rees has just retired
:01:38. > :01:40.as head of planning at the City of London after 30 years.
:01:41. > :01:42.He says the mayor ` as strategic planning authority `
:01:43. > :01:44.should be imposing height restrictions on developments
:01:45. > :01:45.and creating real communities. Let's get more from
:01:46. > :01:59.our political editor, Tim Donovan. Yes, more signals today about the
:02:00. > :02:01.housing situation in London. A report by the National Housing
:02:02. > :02:07.Federation saying how on affordable housing is becoming here, and saying
:02:08. > :02:13.it threatens economic growth because it means wages are lagging behind at
:02:14. > :02:18.the cost of housing. The latest Help to Buy figures show that less than
:02:19. > :02:23.1% of mortgages have happened in London. Less than 1% of the ones in
:02:24. > :02:29.London are through Help to Buy. It has not contributed to the housing
:02:30. > :02:34.bubble. Then we have Peter Wynne Rees, who is regarded as perhaps the
:02:35. > :02:41.most influential public planner in the capital over the last couple of
:02:42. > :02:44.decades. He has supervised the gherkin etc, and he says we are
:02:45. > :02:50.building the wrong things and it could cost us dearly. We met across
:02:51. > :02:55.the Thames from where he said one mistake has already been made. The
:02:56. > :02:59.St George 's towering Vauxhall. And where another is about to happen. A
:03:00. > :03:03.skyscraper even taller containing mainly apartments and a luxury hotel
:03:04. > :03:05.given the green light by the mayor last week. He says it typifies what
:03:06. > :03:11.is going wrong. I think it is last week. He says it typifies what
:03:12. > :03:13.is going wrong. I think homogenised international architecture, out of
:03:14. > :03:18.scale with the surroundings, damaging the London skyline and
:03:19. > :03:19.giving a very bad impression to people who visit London. And for
:03:20. > :03:24.what purpose? giving a very bad impression to
:03:25. > :03:28.people who visit London. And Simply to provide safety deposit boxes for
:03:29. > :03:32.international investors. It is not creating the right homes or the
:03:33. > :03:35.right communities, he says. People are buying them for a financial
:03:36. > :03:42.security. They are furnishing the man locking the door. Maybe they,
:03:43. > :03:46.location. The rest of the time they are empty. All that is missing is
:03:47. > :03:48.the tumbleweed blowing in between the buildings. He shows me what he
:03:49. > :03:52.the tumbleweed blowing in between the buildings. He shows me thinks
:03:53. > :03:57.are the homes we should be building. A 1970s estate in Pimlico. Seven or
:03:58. > :04:04.eight floors high, enclosed, plenty of greenery. Any reason why this
:04:05. > :04:08.could not be replicated? He claims the mayor should be getting more
:04:09. > :04:15.money out of developers and imposing height restrictions. Only the mayor
:04:16. > :04:22.can say it is not appropriate. He can set a height limit if he wants.
:04:23. > :04:27.If the market says in that case it cannot build here, what do we lose?
:04:28. > :04:35.Nothing. The international market will lose. What you to the claim
:04:36. > :04:39.that they won't invest your? People in London will be able to buy a
:04:40. > :04:43.home. It seems to me to be a win, win situation. We are getting dirty
:04:44. > :04:49.Russian money being laundered here and Chinese gambling. The Chinese
:04:50. > :04:59.pay a 10% deposit when they buy these places. Then they take a
:05:00. > :05:04.financial futures contract. It is a combination. The mayor says foreign
:05:05. > :05:10.investment in places like Vauxhall and Battersea will boost the economy
:05:11. > :05:13.considerably. He says he is delivering a record number of homes
:05:14. > :05:18.and tackling the issue of properties left empty. I want to see the
:05:19. > :05:24.councils using their powers to impose purity of `` punitive council
:05:25. > :05:28.taxes on people who buy a flat and leave them empty. We are providing
:05:29. > :05:33.for absolutely everybody in London. The difficulty is we are trying to
:05:34. > :05:39.cope with a shortfall that goes back 30 years. The rate of acceleration
:05:40. > :05:44.is starting to take off now. After 30 years constrained by his planning
:05:45. > :05:49.role in the Square mile, he now feels it is time to speak out. He
:05:50. > :05:57.clearly sees this problem as critical? Yes. And in the next week
:05:58. > :06:00.or so, he will be giving evidence at a London assembly inquiry into tall
:06:01. > :06:04.buildings and what we are getting out of them. He does see the
:06:05. > :06:09.situation is pretty critical. He looks at an area like this, an
:06:10. > :06:13.industrial wasteland, and he thinks the mayor needs to be giving a much
:06:14. > :06:20.clearer signal. If the mayor is saying he wants to build real
:06:21. > :06:24.communities here, the price of the land comes down and the developers
:06:25. > :06:32.are less interested. The mayor and City Hall say this money from
:06:33. > :06:37.Chinese investors is absolutely crucial. It establishes London is a
:06:38. > :06:40.big economic centre. Millions are going to be going into paying for
:06:41. > :06:41.the extension to the Northern line, and important infrastructure. Thank
:06:42. > :06:51.you. our political editor, Tim Donovan.
:06:52. > :06:56.Plenty more ahead tonight, including:
:06:57. > :07:00.The moving story of a suicidal man reunited with the stranger who saved
:07:01. > :07:07.him, now captured in a documentary. tonight, including:
:07:08. > :07:11.There are calls for the Met Commissioner to withdraw
:07:12. > :07:15.his acceptance of the resignation of an officer involved
:07:16. > :07:17.in the case of a man who died while in police custody.
:07:18. > :07:19.40`year`old Sean Rigg, a paranoid schizophrenic,
:07:20. > :07:26.died after being restrained at Brixton police station in 1987.
:07:27. > :07:29.`` 2008. An inquest into his death found five
:07:30. > :07:32.officers had used unsuitable force. His family are urging Sir Bernard
:07:33. > :07:34.Hogan`Howe not to accept one of the officer's resignation before
:07:35. > :07:40.a new investigation is conducted. Marc Ashdown reports.
:07:41. > :07:47.In inquest jury described it as unsuitable force. 40`year`old Sean
:07:48. > :07:49.Rigg, known to have mental health problems by police, was restrained
:07:50. > :07:56.for eight minutes by police officers. A short time later he died
:07:57. > :08:00.of heart problems. That was 2008. Now the IPCC is reinvestigating and
:08:01. > :08:04.was about to summon the officers involved, only to find that PC
:08:05. > :08:10.Andrew Birks is allowed to be re``` is to be allowed to be resign.
:08:11. > :08:15.Offices of always played the get out of jail card to resign or retire
:08:16. > :08:21.before any proceedings have been brought against them. The
:08:22. > :08:25.opportunity for them is that they literally get away with it. So I and
:08:26. > :08:33.my family are absolutely livid that the Commissioner has accepted his
:08:34. > :08:39.resignation. The IPCC has expressed extreme disappointment that they
:08:40. > :08:41.were not even told the officer was about to leave. They have written to
:08:42. > :08:50.the Metropolitan police are urging them to revise the decision. The
:08:51. > :08:57.pressure will be mounting here, too. The Home Secretary, in her
:08:58. > :09:02.hard`hitting speech last week to the police Federation, promised to end
:09:03. > :09:05.this practice of officers retiring or resigning before facing
:09:06. > :09:12.disciplinary measures. Sean Rigg's family want to see action. This is
:09:13. > :09:15.not an isolated case. It is part of a systemic problem we see around the
:09:16. > :09:20.country. It sends a clear message out that the police are above the
:09:21. > :09:26.law. The Met are considering the request to block the resignation. If
:09:27. > :09:30.not, PC Andrew Birks will officially reserve `` resign on Sunday, in
:09:31. > :09:32.which case Sean Rigg's family will launch legal action on Monday.
:09:33. > :09:35.Marc Ashdown reports. Detectives have launched a murder
:09:36. > :09:38.investigation ` after the body of a 38`year`old woman was found
:09:39. > :09:41.at a house in Northolt on Tuesday. The woman ` who's not been formally
:09:42. > :09:44.identified yet ` was discovered after officers were called to
:09:45. > :09:49.a disturbance at Merton Avenue. A 41`year`old man has been
:09:50. > :09:53.arrested on suspicion of murder. An armed robber known
:09:54. > :09:56.as the 'Skull Cracker' has been jailed to life ` with a minimum
:09:57. > :10:00.of ten years ` after admitting to robbing a building society while
:10:01. > :10:03.on the run from open prison. Michael Wheatley, 55,
:10:04. > :10:07.stole more than ?18,000 in a raid in Surrey, four days after he
:10:08. > :10:10.absconded from prison in Kent. Let's get more from Gareth Furby,
:10:11. > :10:18.who's outside the building society in Sunbury on Thames.
:10:19. > :10:28.Michael Wheatley was recaptured in East London some five days after the
:10:29. > :10:31.events here in Sunbury. Today, for the first time in court, we heard
:10:32. > :10:38.precisely what happened inside this building society. The court was
:10:39. > :10:42.shown CCTV footage, which revealed that Michael Wheatley had turned up,
:10:43. > :10:48.told the story that he was from Island, had money to deposit. As he
:10:49. > :10:53.was leaving the building society, he suddenly produced, to the horror of
:10:54. > :10:59.the staff, a handgun, pointed it at the deputy manager, forced him into
:11:00. > :11:03.the back of the shop into the safe, open it and produce ?18,000. Today
:11:04. > :11:11.we have had political condemnation of this decision to allow him day
:11:12. > :11:16.release from that prison in Kent. I don't want to see this man run rings
:11:17. > :11:20.around the justice system and receive a derisory sentence again. I
:11:21. > :11:24.could not believe that for a 13 life sentences he had only got a minimum
:11:25. > :11:28.tariff of eight years last time in an open prison, and then he escaped.
:11:29. > :11:35.I think it has been an embarrassment. We need to sort it
:11:36. > :11:39.out. Passing sentence today, a 10`year sentence, the judge told
:11:40. > :11:45.Michael Wheatley that he went to the same brand here in Sunbury that he'd
:11:46. > :11:50.robbed in 2001. He therefore deliberately targeted the branch and
:11:51. > :12:00.planned the raid. People here and elsewhere will be hoping that never
:12:01. > :12:07.again is he given day release. The air ambulance service has officially
:12:08. > :12:11.opened its second hospital helipad. Those running it say the new base at
:12:12. > :12:20.St George 's Hospital in tooting could mean the difference between
:12:21. > :12:24.life and death for some patients. A landing which will save minutes and
:12:25. > :12:27.lives. This is the impressive addition to St George 's Hospital,
:12:28. > :12:35.providing another lifeline to London and beyond. How often do you get
:12:36. > :12:41.called out? Between three and four times a day. This is the first
:12:42. > :12:46.helipad to open south of the River Thames. People will be flying into
:12:47. > :12:52.here as patients from across London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It has
:12:53. > :12:58.brought 30 patients here since April. The key to their survival is
:12:59. > :13:01.speed. The air and villains makes a massive difference. Our ability to
:13:02. > :13:06.get the emergency department to the scene in a matter of minutes means
:13:07. > :13:11.the care they get is of a much higher quality, much quicker, and
:13:12. > :13:15.can save lives. Harvey was one of their first customers. After
:13:16. > :13:19.sustaining critical head injuries in a playground incident, it would have
:13:20. > :13:23.taken 35 minute by road to getting here. To they sedated Harvey on the
:13:24. > :13:28.scene and brought him here within 11 minutes. All of the medical team
:13:29. > :13:34.have said he is a little miracle, really. Officially opened today by
:13:35. > :13:37.Boris Johnson, it cost ?5 million to construct and would not have been
:13:38. > :13:40.possible without huge donations from the helicopter landing pad appeal
:13:41. > :13:47.and the county air and villains trust. With around 1600 major trauma
:13:48. > :13:52.accidents in London each year, this helipad will mean that when time is
:13:53. > :13:58.of the essence, many more lives like Harvey's will be saved. Thank you
:13:59. > :14:04.for saving my life. A great `` a grateful eight`year`old.
:14:05. > :14:06.in Sunbury on Thames. says it will ask the
:14:07. > :14:09.High Court to rule on whether technology used by cab hire company
:14:10. > :14:11.Uber complies with licensing laws. The Licensed Taxi Drivers
:14:12. > :14:13.Association has complained that Uber's drivers are using
:14:14. > :14:16.a smartphone app to calculate fares, despite it being illegal
:14:17. > :14:17.for private vehicles to be fitted with taximeters.
:14:18. > :14:20.TfL says its own investigations have found
:14:21. > :14:23.Uber is not in breach of the rules. Workers on the Heathrow Express rail
:14:24. > :14:28.service are to stage a fresh strike next month.
:14:29. > :14:35.Governors at an independent Islamic primary School in Luton have hit
:14:36. > :14:41.back at Ofsted after a report criticised it. It says the school
:14:42. > :14:44.library has books with fundamentalist views. Today the
:14:45. > :14:51.chairman of the governors threatened to take Ofsted to court if it did
:14:52. > :14:54.not withdraw the claims. When Ofsted inspectors called at his school
:14:55. > :14:58.earlier this month, their findings left staff here railing. The
:14:59. > :15:04.emergency inspection rated the school as inadequate. In a draft
:15:05. > :15:10.report, Ofsted inspectors say the school fails to prepare pupils from
:15:11. > :15:14.life in modern`day Britain. It also says books in the library contain
:15:15. > :15:19.few is apparent in British society. And that books in the children's
:15:20. > :15:25.library contained fundamentalist Islamic views. Today the school's
:15:26. > :15:38.chair of governors told me they reject the entire report. He says
:15:39. > :15:42.inspectors came with an agenda. Now we don't staech teach sex education
:15:43. > :15:46.in our school. When the parents found out they were upset that the
:15:47. > :15:51.children were questioned without their consent. The Ofsted inspection
:15:52. > :15:54.was triggered after the school's head teacher expressed views on a
:15:55. > :15:58.local radio programme about Islam and homosexuality. One local
:15:59. > :16:05.councillor is concerned Ofsted's handling of the case has been
:16:06. > :16:09.unfair. My concerns are how they went about conducting the
:16:10. > :16:14.inspection, were they under specific orders? Did they treat this
:16:15. > :16:17.inspection any differently from a regular mainstream or other
:16:18. > :16:22.independent schools. The school is urging Ofsted to withdraw its
:16:23. > :16:28.findings. We challenge the entire report. We said to Ofsteded in a
:16:29. > :16:35.letter to them, unless they do a reinspection we will seek a judicial
:16:36. > :16:39.Ofsted have review. Yet to comment, they have shared a copy of the draft
:16:40. > :16:45.report with the school in confidence. It's expected to be
:16:46. > :16:51.published in the next few weeks. Still to come: The businesses hoping
:16:52. > :16:54.to cash in on the Tour de France when it comes to the capital this
:16:55. > :16:56.summer. Plus NEWS REEL:
:16:57. > :17:00.The pch C on the beat doesn't lose much time in a case like this. The
:17:01. > :17:10.curious case of stolen tea in London in the 40s. The online archive of
:17:11. > :17:14.films showing life in Britain. Next, his story touched the hearts of
:17:15. > :17:18.millions of people across the world. Jonny Benjamin was talked down off
:17:19. > :17:22.Waterloo Bridge six years ago by a passer`by and launched and online
:17:23. > :17:26.campaign to find the man who saved him. Now, their journey has been
:17:27. > :17:30.captured in a documentary film to help raise awareness of mental
:17:31. > :17:33.illness. It is being screened at the British Film Institute tonight. Our
:17:34. > :17:40.arts correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, has the story. The first time they
:17:41. > :17:43.meet in six years. Jonny Benjamin is reunited with the man who stopped
:17:44. > :17:47.him from taking his own life on Waterloo Bridge. His search for Neil
:17:48. > :17:51.Laybourn has been captured in a moving documentary of their journey.
:17:52. > :17:55.Fantastic to see you. Fantastic to see you. Really good, really good.
:17:56. > :17:59.It was difficult to relive everything that I went through six
:18:00. > :18:03.years ago. I had to go back to that place in order to find it, to be
:18:04. > :18:06.honest. I had no recollection of that day. I had absolutely no
:18:07. > :18:13.recollection. I didn't remember Neil's name, I called him mike. I
:18:14. > :18:21.had to go back into that really dark place to be able to trace him. It's
:18:22. > :18:26.all coming back. Through those six years, it was a life`changing time
:18:27. > :18:30.for me. I'd gone through meeting new kinds of people and starting a
:18:31. > :18:34.career in fitness, that I hadn't done before. I was only in my first
:18:35. > :18:43.sort of couple of months in London, that day when I saw Jonny on the
:18:44. > :18:50.bridge. Jonny has a schizoaffective disorder through his search to find
:18:51. > :18:56.his Good Samaritan he smashed an awareness and debate on the web. His
:18:57. > :19:03.campaign, #findmike, many shared his story. We know living in a city is a
:19:04. > :19:08.risk factor for mental illness. London is the schizophrenia capital
:19:09. > :19:14.of the world. It's partly to do with the frenetic way of life. The stress
:19:15. > :19:18.of living in a big city. This is one of the most beautiful views of
:19:19. > :19:24.London. What are your views when you come across here now? I dreaded
:19:25. > :19:29.walking on this bridge. It brought back so many bad memories. I can
:19:30. > :19:32.walk across it and I feel positive. I feel like I've really turned a
:19:33. > :19:38.corner. Looking for a man who changed my life. It's nice to know
:19:39. > :19:44.that through saving Jonny's life that day that he's gone on to help
:19:45. > :19:55.other people. To save their life. The film Finding Mike can be viewed
:19:56. > :19:58.from 7.00pm this evening. It's the biggest annual sporting event in the
:19:59. > :20:02.world. This summer the Tour de France will come to the capital
:20:03. > :20:05.passing by London landmarks like the Olympic Park, the Houses of
:20:06. > :20:08.Parliament and finishing at Buckingham Palace. With thousands
:20:09. > :20:16.wanting to catch a glimpse of the race, transport bosses are urging
:20:17. > :20:21.spectators to plan ahead. The 2012 Olympics. The marathon. London's
:20:22. > :20:26.roads are used to hosting huge sporting events and it doesn't get
:20:27. > :20:30.much bigger than this. On the 7th July, the world's greatest cyclists
:20:31. > :20:35.will arrive in the capital for the third stage of the Tour de France.
:20:36. > :20:40.The race starts in Cambridge and enters London via Epping Forest. It
:20:41. > :20:44.will zoom past the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and head from the East
:20:45. > :20:49.End to the West End before finishing on the Mall. Many roads along the
:20:50. > :20:52.route will be shut for most of the day. There will be travel
:20:53. > :20:55.disruption. It will be very important that people plan ahead.
:20:56. > :20:59.All the information is available online. We are delivering it to
:21:00. > :21:03.people's homes. Just like at the Olympics for people to plan ahead.
:21:04. > :21:06.It will be an ordinary day for him, but an exciting day with this going
:21:07. > :21:10.on. In over a month it will be a completely different scene here at
:21:11. > :21:14.the Mall, both sides of the road will be filled with thousands of
:21:15. > :21:22.spectators waiting to watch the 200 riders come past here on their final
:21:23. > :21:26.sprint to the end of Stage Three. Tour de France is good for business.
:21:27. > :21:30.Anything that brings cycling back into the public eye sees a spike in
:21:31. > :21:35.business. Yes, people are coming in and asking if we are doing special
:21:36. > :21:43.events. Asking if we have the team recipe Mr Kit and bikes. Some
:21:44. > :21:49.businesses aren't so optimistic. The trade deter rates. People stick
:21:50. > :21:54.where the events are going on. They do suffer, like with the Olympics it
:21:55. > :22:00.went down 25%. The souvenirs are on sale. Many hotels and restaurants
:22:01. > :22:05.are fully booked. It seems London would like the Tour to come back
:22:06. > :22:10.more often. He helped shape the way the country was viewed by other
:22:11. > :22:14.nations for decades. Now, an online archive of films depicting life in
:22:15. > :22:20.Britain during the 1930s and 1940s has been completed. Among them films
:22:21. > :22:23.showing London's preparation for war and more, curiously, Scotland Yard
:22:24. > :22:28.officers investigating the case of some stolen tea.
:22:29. > :22:37.NEWS REEL: It's the eve of... The 30s and 40s
:22:38. > :22:43.were dark decades. While the world was being torn apart by war, Britain
:22:44. > :22:46.wanted to show how well it was holding together. The British
:22:47. > :22:51.Council made this collection of short films to highlight the best of
:22:52. > :22:54.Britain. These films were made at a time when we had a particular
:22:55. > :22:59.version of Britain and Britishness that we wanted to give. We wanted to
:23:00. > :23:03.say our personality. Our national identity was a particular type. And
:23:04. > :23:08.I think what we did is gloss over the kind of ` there was poverty in
:23:09. > :23:10.those days, food queues. There was crime and problems. We didn't talk
:23:11. > :23:14.about those. NEWS REEL:
:23:15. > :23:17.Most of the youngsters... This film shows Londoners making their final
:23:18. > :23:22.preparations before entering the war. The message ` they were keeping
:23:23. > :23:27.calm and carrying on. It was then sent to embassies and consulates
:23:28. > :23:30.around the world. Britain was desperate at the time to get the
:23:31. > :23:35.United States into the war. They needed to prove it was a very solid,
:23:36. > :23:40.reliable country who was pulling together to defeat Hitler. So they
:23:41. > :23:46.had really a quite strong propaganda.
:23:47. > :23:50.NEWS REEL: A few brief particulars is all he
:23:51. > :23:58.wants. After the war the Council was keen to show off a strong, reliable
:23:59. > :24:03.police force. Take this film of Scotland Yard Flying Squad officers
:24:04. > :24:07.investigating stolen tea. NEWS REEL:
:24:08. > :24:12.This paper man you say they saw him drive off. Is it a little fella with
:24:13. > :24:17.a cap? That's right. Auto I know him. The last of the collection has
:24:18. > :24:21.been digitised and put online. The British Council is encouraging
:24:22. > :24:26.people to watch them and go out and make their own modern`day versions
:24:27. > :24:36.to help bring Britain's image up`to`date. Great stuff. What about
:24:37. > :24:40.the British weather? Let us ask Jay, how is it looking for the next few
:24:41. > :24:45.days, getting better? That is the message. It will be improving. Today
:24:46. > :24:49.was a mixed bag. We saw things brighten up for a time There was
:24:50. > :24:53.sunshine to be found. We saw this line of cloud developing which
:24:54. > :24:56.brought some pretty sharp showers over London and to the west of
:24:57. > :25:00.London. To the west of London we saw the thunder and the lightning. There
:25:01. > :25:05.were heavy downpours in and around the London area. Still a risk of one
:25:06. > :25:10.or two over the next few hours. The trend is for all the showers to fade
:25:11. > :25:14.away. It's a dry night. We will keep the breeze. The breeze will ease
:25:15. > :25:17.fair bit of cloud over night fair bit of cloud over night
:25:18. > :25:22.tonight. That cloud will keep temperatures up. It's mild over
:25:23. > :25:25.night, 10, 11, 12 degrees. The cloud over night. That takes us into
:25:26. > :25:29.tomorrow morning. It will be quite a cloudy start to the day. All in all
:25:30. > :25:33.a useable day, dry, pretty much everywhere. Inspite of a lot of
:25:34. > :25:37.cloud, it will brighten into the afternoon. A lot of cloud around. It
:25:38. > :25:43.will be dry. If you have plans for the morning get out and about. The
:25:44. > :25:51.weather won't bother you at all. The breeze not too strong tomorrow. The
:25:52. > :25:57.cloud will brighten up a bit. Temperatures around 15 or 16
:25:58. > :26:01.degrees. Inland 18, 19. Into the evening, if you have plans for
:26:02. > :26:05.getting out and about, leave the umbrellas at home, fine and dry.
:26:06. > :26:08.There will be breaks in the cloud. The start of the weekend, high
:26:09. > :26:13.pressure dominates. The weather is looking good through the start of
:26:14. > :26:16.the weekend. It will be dry, bright, there will be spells of sunshine.
:26:17. > :26:20.The outside chance of the odd spot of rain. Most places will be fine
:26:21. > :26:23.and dry. The winds are not particularly strong. All in all
:26:24. > :26:27.pretty good on Saturday. With a bit of sunshine temperatures should get
:26:28. > :26:31.up into the low 20s. Similar temperatures on Sunday. The Outside
:26:32. > :26:37.chance of a shower. Good weekend. Thank you very much. The national
:26:38. > :26:40.headlines: Private letters between Tony Blair and George Bush written
:26:41. > :26:49.in the run`up to the Iraq war will not be published in full. The Iraq
:26:50. > :26:53.inquiry Chairman has said that only quotes or suggestions of the notes'
:26:54. > :26:57.content will be made public. Nick Clegg says he doesn't believe "for a
:26:58. > :27:04.second" that the Business Secretary was involved in a plot to oust him.
:27:05. > :27:08.Vince Cable has faced questions about what's been described as an
:27:09. > :27:12.attempted coup organised by his longstanding friend, Lord Oakeshott.
:27:13. > :27:17.The Government says new Help to Buy figures show the scheme isn't
:27:18. > :27:20.causing a house price bubble. The Treasury says 27,000 householders
:27:21. > :27:24.have used the scheme to get mortgages and almost all were
:27:25. > :27:28.outside London where prices are rising less quickly. From me and the
:27:29. > :27:35.team here, thank you for watching and do enjoy your evening. Goodbye.