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Now on BBC One, it?s time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Good evening. I'm Asad Ahmad. A week after the governor of the Bank of | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
England signalled that interest rates may rise soon, a third of | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Londoners say they are worried that they will not be able to pay their | :00:34. | :00:47. | |
rent and mortgages. The figure comes from the chartered Institute of | :00:48. | :01:01. | |
Housing, which warns that some residents face being priced out of | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
several areas in London. Robin Haase finally bought his first | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
family home. But even with financial help from his family, staying in | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Barnet, where he and his govern both work and grew up was beyond reach. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
We were lucky to find something at the price we have, where we are in | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Potters bar. But obviously, we would ideally -- we are way off living | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
where we would ideally like to live. There is nothing in that price | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
racket that we could afford. A survey by the chartered Institute of | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Housing suggests that he is not alone. 34% of Londoners questioned | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
agreed that they might have to leave their local area because of the cost | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
of housing. 30% are concerned about being able to pay their rent or | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
mortgage now, and a third are concerned that they will not be able | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
to meet their monthly payments in a year's time. If you are a homeowner, | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
once you have bought your house and you are comfortable usable then, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
housing costs do not move that much, although interest rate rises | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
may be coming. But for renters, your friend can go up every year. He said | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
the findings are similar to those from the last up of years, and | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
points to the need to build more houses. Earlier this month, the | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
mayor renewed his commitment to do just that, announcing plans to build | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
50,000 new homes on brownfield sites in the capital. But this latest | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
research suggests that the issue of housing continues to be a major | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
source of stress for Londoners, who often feel worse off than their | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
parents, and fear that the next generation will be right out of the | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
capital altogether. Parents and school children in | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
south-west London say that they are angry at plans remove a footbridge | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
over a busy road in Twickenham. They argued that their journeys will | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
become ordained risk, but Transport for London says crossing the road | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
will actually become easier. Safety always comes first on the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
journey home from school. Ali and her family regularly take this | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
footbridge, as it means they can avoid the busy road below. This page | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
offers the community, primarily children, safe passage across an | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
extremely busy dual carriageway. children, safe passage across an | :02:48. | :02:48. | |
extremely busy dual carriageway It is a major London artery. The | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
crossing takes children from one side of the great Chertsey road to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
the other, but parents say they are concerned after discovering plans to | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
remove it and replace it with a ground level panic and crossing A | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
ground level panic and crossing. A lot of parents are concerned about | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
the safety of their children, particularly those who are tried to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
get a level of street savviness. get a level of street savviness | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Transport for London said it would make it easier to cross the road and | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross together. I don't access | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
that. I think the reason they are taking the bridge down is to save | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
money. I don't think I would be allowed to walk home alone if not | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
for the bridge. According to recent traffic data, almost 55,000 vehicles | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
flow through this part of the road every day. Campaigners say they | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
can't understand why anyone would want to remove the bridge, which | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
provide safe passage. If you look at what has been proposed, it is a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
simple solution. It is a road crossing. That is all that has been | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
put forward. We have seen of the argument about cost or any | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
alternatives. A consultation is in progress, parents here claim that | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
very few local residents were informed about it on something TfL | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
disputes. In a statement, they say they have written to local | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
residents, schools and stakeholders in the area about these plans and | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
will answer any questions or concerns they may have. For the time | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
being, though, people will continue to campaign against the proposals. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Finally, some lucky Londoners got a small windfall this morning, | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
courtesy of a treasure hunt on social media. An American | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
millionaire who used Twitter to help followers find cash in the US | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
decided to try the idea in London and this morning, several people | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
solve clues to find envelopes of cash hidden in trees and bushes | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
around Kensington Gardens. They found ?50 each. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
I hope you had no complaint about today's weather, because there is | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
more of it to come tomorrow. Some cloud during the day, but lots of | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
sunny spells as the temperature reaches a high of 25 Celsius. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
There is more news on our website at the usual address. That is it for | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
For the majority of the British Isles, today has wrought long spells | :05:04. | :05:17. | |
of warm sunshine and it is the longest day. There is plenty more to | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
come this evening, and yet more on the cards for tomorrow. | :05:25. | :05:25. |