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News at 6.00pm. For this evening, it's goodbye are from me, on BBC One | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
we join the BBC's news teams where ever you are. Goodbye. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on BBC London News: The overseas investors buying up, | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
but not moving in to London's sky`high properties. We need to be | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
thinking about ways to tax empty property. Punitive taxing on empty | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
flats in order to make some return to the community from the damage | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
done. sky`high properties. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
A planning expert says the mayor needs to do more to help | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
the capital's communities. The man who robbed a building | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
society while on the run is giving another lifetime. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the capital's communities. Plus, taking off in South London ` | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
the latest hospital helipad reducing transfer times | :00:49. | :00:48. | |
for the most critically ill. Our ability to get the emergency | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
department to the scene in a matter of minutes means they care they get | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
is of a higher quality, and can save lives. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
for the most critically ill. And repeated online | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
for a new generation ` the films giving us a glimpse | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
of life in London 80 years ago. Londoners are being priced out of | :01:08. | :01:27. | |
the housing market because of "dirty Russian money and Chinese gamblers". | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Those are the claims today of one of the country's most respected | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
planners, as further evidence emerged | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
of the pressures in the capital. Peter Wynne Rees has just retired | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
as head of planning at the City of London after 30 years. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
He says the mayor ` as strategic planning authority ` | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
should be imposing height restrictions on developments | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
and creating real communities. Let's get more from | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
our political editor, Tim Donovan. Yes, more signals today about the | :01:46. | :01:59. | |
housing situation in London. A report by the National Housing | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Federation saying how on affordable housing is becoming here, and saying | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
it threatens economic growth because it means wages are lagging behind at | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
the cost of housing. The latest Help to Buy figures show that less than | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
1% of mortgages have happened in London. Less than 1% of the ones in | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
London are through Help to Buy. It has not contributed to the housing | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
bubble. Then we have Peter Wynne Rees, who is regarded as perhaps the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
most influential public planner in the capital over the last couple of | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
decades. He has supervised the gherkin etc, and he says we are | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
building the wrong things and it could cost us dearly. We met across | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
the Thames from where he said one mistake has already been made. The | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
St George 's towering Vauxhall. And where another is about to happen. A | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
skyscraper even taller containing mainly apartments and a luxury hotel | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
given the green light by the mayor last week. He says it typifies what | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
is going wrong. I think it is last week. He says it typifies what | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
is going wrong. I think homogenised international architecture, out of | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
scale with the surroundings, damaging the London skyline and | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
giving a very bad impression to people who visit London. And for | :03:19. | :03:19. | |
what purpose? giving a very bad impression to | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
people who visit London. And Simply to provide safety deposit boxes for | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
international investors. It is not creating the right homes or the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
right communities, he says. People are buying them for a financial | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
security. They are furnishing the man locking the door. Maybe they, | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
location. The rest of the time they are empty. All that is missing is | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the tumbleweed blowing in between the buildings. He shows me what he | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
the tumbleweed blowing in between the buildings. He shows me thinks | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
are the homes we should be building. A 1970s estate in Pimlico. Seven or | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
eight floors high, enclosed, plenty of greenery. Any reason why this | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
could not be replicated? He claims the mayor should be getting more | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
money out of developers and imposing height restrictions. Only the mayor | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
can say it is not appropriate. He can set a height limit if he wants. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
If the market says in that case it cannot build here, what do we lose? | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Nothing. The international market will lose. What you to the claim | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
that they won't invest your? People in London will be able to buy a | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
home. It seems to me to be a win, win situation. We are getting dirty | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Russian money being laundered here and Chinese gambling. The Chinese | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
pay a 10% deposit when they buy these places. Then they take a | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
financial futures contract. It is a combination. The mayor says foreign | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
investment in places like Vauxhall and Battersea will boost the economy | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
considerably. He says he is delivering a record number of homes | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
and tackling the issue of properties left empty. I want to see the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
councils using their powers to impose purity of `` punitive council | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
taxes on people who buy a flat and leave them empty. We are providing | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
for absolutely everybody in London. The difficulty is we are trying to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
cope with a shortfall that goes back 30 years. The rate of acceleration | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
is starting to take off now. After 30 years constrained by his planning | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
role in the Square mile, he now feels it is time to speak out. He | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
clearly sees this problem as critical? Yes. And in the next week | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
or so, he will be giving evidence at a London assembly inquiry into tall | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
buildings and what we are getting out of them. He does see the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
situation is pretty critical. He looks at an area like this, an | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
industrial wasteland, and he thinks the mayor needs to be giving a much | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
clearer signal. If the mayor is saying he wants to build real | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
communities here, the price of the land comes down and the developers | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
are less interested. The mayor and City Hall say this money from | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
Chinese investors is absolutely crucial. It establishes London is a | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
big economic centre. Millions are going to be going into paying for | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the extension to the Northern line, and important infrastructure. Thank | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
you. our political editor, Tim Donovan. | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
Plenty more ahead tonight, including: | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
The moving story of a suicidal man reunited with the stranger who saved | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
him, now captured in a documentary. tonight, including: | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
There are calls for the Met Commissioner to withdraw | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
his acceptance of the resignation of an officer involved | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
in the case of a man who died while in police custody. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
40`year`old Sean Rigg, a paranoid schizophrenic, | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
died after being restrained at Brixton police station in 1987. | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
`` 2008. An inquest into his death found five | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
officers had used unsuitable force. His family are urging Sir Bernard | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Hogan`Howe not to accept one of the officer's resignation before | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
a new investigation is conducted. Marc Ashdown reports. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
In inquest jury described it as unsuitable force. 40`year`old Sean | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
Rigg, known to have mental health problems by police, was restrained | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
for eight minutes by police officers. A short time later he died | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
of heart problems. That was 2008. Now the IPCC is reinvestigating and | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
was about to summon the officers involved, only to find that PC | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Andrew Birks is allowed to be re``` is to be allowed to be resign. | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Offices of always played the get out of jail card to resign or retire | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
before any proceedings have been brought against them. The | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
opportunity for them is that they literally get away with it. So I and | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
my family are absolutely livid that the Commissioner has accepted his | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
resignation. The IPCC has expressed extreme disappointment that they | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
were not even told the officer was about to leave. They have written to | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
the Metropolitan police are urging them to revise the decision. The | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
pressure will be mounting here, too. The Home Secretary, in her | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
hard`hitting speech last week to the police Federation, promised to end | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
this practice of officers retiring or resigning before facing | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
disciplinary measures. Sean Rigg's family want to see action. This is | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
not an isolated case. It is part of a systemic problem we see around the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
country. It sends a clear message out that the police are above the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
law. The Met are considering the request to block the resignation. If | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
not, PC Andrew Birks will officially reserve `` resign on Sunday, in | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
which case Sean Rigg's family will launch legal action on Monday. | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
Marc Ashdown reports. Detectives have launched a murder | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
investigation ` after the body of a 38`year`old woman was found | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
at a house in Northolt on Tuesday. The woman ` who's not been formally | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
identified yet ` was discovered after officers were called to | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
a disturbance at Merton Avenue. A 41`year`old man has been | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
arrested on suspicion of murder. An armed robber known | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
as the 'Skull Cracker' has been jailed to life ` with a minimum | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
of ten years ` after admitting to robbing a building society while | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
on the run from open prison. Michael Wheatley, 55, | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
stole more than ?18,000 in a raid in Surrey, four days after he | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
absconded from prison in Kent. Let's get more from Gareth Furby, | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
who's outside the building society in Sunbury on Thames. | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
Michael Wheatley was recaptured in East London some five days after the | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
events here in Sunbury. Today, for the first time in court, we heard | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
precisely what happened inside this building society. The court was | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
shown CCTV footage, which revealed that Michael Wheatley had turned up, | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
told the story that he was from Island, had money to deposit. As he | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
was leaving the building society, he suddenly produced, to the horror of | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
the staff, a handgun, pointed it at the deputy manager, forced him into | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
the back of the shop into the safe, open it and produce ?18,000. Today | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
we have had political condemnation of this decision to allow him day | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
release from that prison in Kent. I don't want to see this man run rings | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
around the justice system and receive a derisory sentence again. I | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
could not believe that for a 13 life sentences he had only got a minimum | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
tariff of eight years last time in an open prison, and then he escaped. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
I think it has been an embarrassment. We need to sort it | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
out. Passing sentence today, a 10`year sentence, the judge told | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Michael Wheatley that he went to the same brand here in Sunbury that he'd | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
robbed in 2001. He therefore deliberately targeted the branch and | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
planned the raid. People here and elsewhere will be hoping that never | :11:51. | :12:00. | |
again is he given day release. The air ambulance service has officially | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
opened its second hospital helipad. Those running it say the new base at | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
St George 's Hospital in tooting could mean the difference between | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
life and death for some patients. A landing which will save minutes and | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
lives. This is the impressive addition to St George 's Hospital, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
providing another lifeline to London and beyond. How often do you get | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
called out? Between three and four times a day. This is the first | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
helipad to open south of the River Thames. People will be flying into | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
here as patients from across London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It has | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
brought 30 patients here since April. The key to their survival is | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
speed. The air and villains makes a massive difference. Our ability to | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
get the emergency department to the scene in a matter of minutes means | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the care they get is of a much higher quality, much quicker, and | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
can save lives. Harvey was one of their first customers. After | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
sustaining critical head injuries in a playground incident, it would have | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
taken 35 minute by road to getting here. To they sedated Harvey on the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
scene and brought him here within 11 minutes. All of the medical team | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
have said he is a little miracle, really. Officially opened today by | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
Boris Johnson, it cost ?5 million to construct and would not have been | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
possible without huge donations from the helicopter landing pad appeal | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
and the county air and villains trust. With around 1600 major trauma | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
accidents in London each year, this helipad will mean that when time is | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
of the essence, many more lives like Harvey's will be saved. Thank you | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
for saving my life. A great `` a grateful eight`year`old. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
in Sunbury on Thames. says it will ask the | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
High Court to rule on whether technology used by cab hire company | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
Uber complies with licensing laws. The Licensed Taxi Drivers | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
Association has complained that Uber's drivers are using | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
a smartphone app to calculate fares, despite it being illegal | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
for private vehicles to be fitted with taximeters. | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
TfL says its own investigations have found | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Uber is not in breach of the rules. Workers on the Heathrow Express rail | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
service are to stage a fresh strike next month. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Governors at an independent Islamic primary School in Luton have hit | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
back at Ofsted after a report criticised it. It says the school | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
library has books with fundamentalist views. Today the | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
chairman of the governors threatened to take Ofsted to court if it did | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
not withdraw the claims. When Ofsted inspectors called at his school | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
earlier this month, their findings left staff here railing. The | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
emergency inspection rated the school as inadequate. In a draft | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
report, Ofsted inspectors say the school fails to prepare pupils from | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
life in modern`day Britain. It also says books in the library contain | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
few is apparent in British society. And that books in the children's | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
library contained fundamentalist Islamic views. Today the school's | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
chair of governors told me they reject the entire report. He says | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
inspectors came with an agenda. Now we don't staech teach sex education | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
in our school. When the parents found out they were upset that the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
children were questioned without their consent. The Ofsted inspection | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
was triggered after the school's head teacher expressed views on a | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
local radio programme about Islam and homosexuality. One local | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
councillor is concerned Ofsted's handling of the case has been | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
unfair. My concerns are how they went about conducting the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
inspection, were they under specific orders? Did they treat this | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
inspection any differently from a regular mainstream or other | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
independent schools. The school is urging Ofsted to withdraw its | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
findings. We challenge the entire report. We said to Ofsteded in a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
letter to them, unless they do a reinspection we will seek a judicial | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
Ofsted have review. Yet to comment, they have shared a copy of the draft | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
report with the school in confidence. It's expected to be | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
published in the next few weeks. Still to come: The businesses hoping | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
to cash in on the Tour de France when it comes to the capital this | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
summer. Plus NEWS REEL: | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
The pch C on the beat doesn't lose much time in a case like this. The | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
curious case of stolen tea in London in the 40s. The online archive of | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
films showing life in Britain. Next, his story touched the hearts of | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
millions of people across the world. Jonny Benjamin was talked down off | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
Waterloo Bridge six years ago by a passer`by and launched and online | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
campaign to find the man who saved him. Now, their journey has been | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
captured in a documentary film to help raise awareness of mental | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
illness. It is being screened at the British Film Institute tonight. Our | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
arts correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, has the story. The first time they | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
meet in six years. Jonny Benjamin is reunited with the man who stopped | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
him from taking his own life on Waterloo Bridge. His search for Neil | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Laybourn has been captured in a moving documentary of their journey. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Fantastic to see you. Fantastic to see you. Really good, really good. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
It was difficult to relive everything that I went through six | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
years ago. I had to go back to that place in order to find it, to be | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
honest. I had no recollection of that day. I had absolutely no | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
recollection. I didn't remember Neil's name, I called him mike. I | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
had to go back into that really dark place to be able to trace him. It's | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
all coming back. Through those six years, it was a life`changing time | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
for me. I'd gone through meeting new kinds of people and starting a | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
career in fitness, that I hadn't done before. I was only in my first | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
sort of couple of months in London, that day when I saw Jonny on the | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
bridge. Jonny has a schizoaffective disorder through his search to find | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
his Good Samaritan he smashed an awareness and debate on the web. His | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
campaign, #findmike, many shared his story. We know living in a city is a | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
risk factor for mental illness. London is the schizophrenia capital | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
of the world. It's partly to do with the frenetic way of life. The stress | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
of living in a big city. This is one of the most beautiful views of | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
London. What are your views when you come across here now? I dreaded | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
walking on this bridge. It brought back so many bad memories. I can | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
walk across it and I feel positive. I feel like I've really turned a | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
corner. Looking for a man who changed my life. It's nice to know | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
that through saving Jonny's life that day that he's gone on to help | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
other people. To save their life. The film Finding Mike can be viewed | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
from 7.00pm this evening. It's the biggest annual sporting event in the | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
world. This summer the Tour de France will come to the capital | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
passing by London landmarks like the Olympic Park, the Houses of | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Parliament and finishing at Buckingham Palace. With thousands | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
wanting to catch a glimpse of the race, transport bosses are urging | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
spectators to plan ahead. The 2012 Olympics. The marathon. London's | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
roads are used to hosting huge sporting events and it doesn't get | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
much bigger than this. On the 7th July, the world's greatest cyclists | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
will arrive in the capital for the third stage of the Tour de France. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
The race starts in Cambridge and enters London via Epping Forest. It | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
will zoom past the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and head from the East | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
End to the West End before finishing on the Mall. Many roads along the | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
route will be shut for most of the day. There will be travel | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
disruption. It will be very important that people plan ahead. | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
All the information is available online. We are delivering it to | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
people's homes. Just like at the Olympics for people to plan ahead. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
It will be an ordinary day for him, but an exciting day with this going | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
on. In over a month it will be a completely different scene here at | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
the Mall, both sides of the road will be filled with thousands of | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
spectators waiting to watch the 200 riders come past here on their final | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
sprint to the end of Stage Three. Tour de France is good for business. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Anything that brings cycling back into the public eye sees a spike in | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
business. Yes, people are coming in and asking if we are doing special | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
events. Asking if we have the team recipe Mr Kit and bikes. Some | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
businesses aren't so optimistic. The trade deter rates. People stick | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
where the events are going on. They do suffer, like with the Olympics it | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
went down 25%. The souvenirs are on sale. Many hotels and restaurants | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
are fully booked. It seems London would like the Tour to come back | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
more often. He helped shape the way the country was viewed by other | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
nations for decades. Now, an online archive of films depicting life in | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Britain during the 1930s and 1940s has been completed. Among them films | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
showing London's preparation for war and more, curiously, Scotland Yard | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
officers investigating the case of some stolen tea. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
NEWS REEL: It's the eve of... The 30s and 40s | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
were dark decades. While the world was being torn apart by war, Britain | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
wanted to show how well it was holding together. The British | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Council made this collection of short films to highlight the best of | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Britain. These films were made at a time when we had a particular | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
version of Britain and Britishness that we wanted to give. We wanted to | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
say our personality. Our national identity was a particular type. And | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
I think what we did is gloss over the kind of ` there was poverty in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
those days, food queues. There was crime and problems. We didn't talk | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
about those. NEWS REEL: | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Most of the youngsters... This film shows Londoners making their final | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
preparations before entering the war. The message ` they were keeping | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
calm and carrying on. It was then sent to embassies and consulates | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
around the world. Britain was desperate at the time to get the | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
United States into the war. They needed to prove it was a very solid, | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
reliable country who was pulling together to defeat Hitler. So they | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
had really a quite strong propaganda. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
NEWS REEL: A few brief particulars is all he | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
wants. After the war the Council was keen to show off a strong, reliable | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
police force. Take this film of Scotland Yard Flying Squad officers | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
investigating stolen tea. NEWS REEL: | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
This paper man you say they saw him drive off. Is it a little fella with | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
a cap? That's right. Auto I know him. The last of the collection has | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
been digitised and put online. The British Council is encouraging | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
people to watch them and go out and make their own modern`day versions | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
to help bring Britain's image up`to`date. Great stuff. What about | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
the British weather? Let us ask Jay, how is it looking for the next few | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
days, getting better? That is the message. It will be improving. Today | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
was a mixed bag. We saw things brighten up for a time There was | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
sunshine to be found. We saw this line of cloud developing which | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
brought some pretty sharp showers over London and to the west of | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
London. To the west of London we saw the thunder and the lightning. There | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
were heavy downpours in and around the London area. Still a risk of one | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
or two over the next few hours. The trend is for all the showers to fade | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
away. It's a dry night. We will keep the breeze. The breeze will ease | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
fair bit of cloud over night fair bit of cloud over night | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
tonight. That cloud will keep temperatures up. It's mild over | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
night, 10, 11, 12 degrees. The cloud over night. That takes us into | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
tomorrow morning. It will be quite a cloudy start to the day. All in all | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
a useable day, dry, pretty much everywhere. Inspite of a lot of | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
cloud, it will brighten into the afternoon. A lot of cloud around. It | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
will be dry. If you have plans for the morning get out and about. The | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
weather won't bother you at all. The breeze not too strong tomorrow. The | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
cloud will brighten up a bit. Temperatures around 15 or 16 | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
degrees. Inland 18, 19. Into the evening, if you have plans for | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
getting out and about, leave the umbrellas at home, fine and dry. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
There will be breaks in the cloud. The start of the weekend, high | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
pressure dominates. The weather is looking good through the start of | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the weekend. It will be dry, bright, there will be spells of sunshine. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
The outside chance of the odd spot of rain. Most places will be fine | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
and dry. The winds are not particularly strong. All in all | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
pretty good on Saturday. With a bit of sunshine temperatures should get | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
up into the low 20s. Similar temperatures on Sunday. The Outside | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
chance of a shower. Good weekend. Thank you very much. The national | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
headlines: Private letters between Tony Blair and George Bush written | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
in the run`up to the Iraq war will not be published in full. The Iraq | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
inquiry Chairman has said that only quotes or suggestions of the notes' | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
content will be made public. Nick Clegg says he doesn't believe "for a | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
second" that the Business Secretary was involved in a plot to oust him. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Vince Cable has faced questions about what's been described as an | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
attempted coup organised by his longstanding friend, Lord Oakeshott. | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
The Government says new Help to Buy figures show the scheme isn't | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
causing a house price bubble. The Treasury says 27,000 householders | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
have used the scheme to get mortgages and almost all were | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
outside London where prices are rising less quickly. From me and the | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
team here, thank you for watching and do enjoy your evening. Goodbye. | :27:29. | :27:35. |