24/06/2014 BBC London News


24/06/2014

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Good evening and welcome to the programmd.

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One of the frontrunners to become the next Chair of the BBC Trust `

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which governs the corporation ` has criticised the soap EastEnders

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for being too white and not reflecting the population of the

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The comedian Lenny Henry defended the drama whilst discussing

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Alice Bhandhukravi reports from Walthamstow.

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That most recognisable of theme tunes.

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As soon as you hear it you know you are watching EastEnders.

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But how recognisable is the East London that is portraydd

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Do the real Eastenders living in Walthamstow see any similarities

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with living in the fictional Walford?

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Culturally diverse, a melting pot, not reflected in EastEnders.

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It is making out we are all characters.

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Look around you, you have every culture.

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There are as many Russians, Turkish, Asian and black,

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so there is no real hegemonx or dominant group, and that is not

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This pie and mash shop has been here almost a century.

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If anyone knows how the demographic has changed, it is these people

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As time has gone on it used to be very English

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and mostly Eastenders, but we have all walks of life in here now.

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And this man thinks EastEnders does pretty well.

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Talking to MPs today, he defended the programme's record

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in its reflection of black and minority ethnic groups,

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BAME on EastEnders is the most racially diverse of any soap.

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Over 38% of the white popul`tion watch it at some point in the year

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but 50% of BAME watch EastEnders, so the BBC is not connecting with

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the BAME audience at some points but in others it does well, in soaps.

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The BBC says EastEnders has one of the most diverse casts on British

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television and that it would be daft to suggest the programme nedds to be

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For some people in East 17 though, it is still falling short

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I think EastEnders represents old East London and it is stuck

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Almost 100 firefighters are tackling a fire at Erith tonight. London Fire

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Brigade is urging people to avoid the area and local residents have

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been told to keep their windows closed.

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A lorry driver has been charged in connection with the death

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52`year`old Barry Meyer from Walthamstow is accused

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of causing the death by careless driving of Alan Neve.

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He's also accused of not having the correct HGV licence or insurance.

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Mr Neve was one of 14 cyclists killed in the capital last xear

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Despite concerns over cycling safety City Hall continues to encotrage

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even more cyclists on to London s streets with the promise

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of ?1 billion spent over ten years to make roads safer.

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That includes setting up a network of "quietways".

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Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards explains.

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Cycling in London for some can feel extremely dangerous. That mdans many

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are put off. Now there are plans to encourage them to use the shde

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streets. They will be called quietways. There is a much nicer

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backstreet route they can t`ke. They just have to turn off. But `s you

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can see, nobody is turning off because they don't know it dxists.

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We will tell them it exists, we will find post it so it is easy to

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follow. Where it gives up and you need to go to a tricky junctional

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something like that, we will it easier and put segregation, special

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crossings. We took a trip from Waterloo to south`east London. This

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will be one of the first quhetways. We are doing more segregated

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junctions and segregated tr`cks But we are also doing a big network of

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backstreet routes, which will give you a quiet, peaceful area `nd there

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are huge numbers of them in London. Councils like Camden have already

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introduced schemes to make cycling safer on the side roads. Yot will

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probably see more of these. You should have cycle routes evdrywhere

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but make sure the cars don't pull out because they don't really look.

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Do you think it will encour`ge people to cycle more if we have more

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of these in London? Definitdly. If they are safe, which they sdem to

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be. These fences are coming down, there will be planting and better

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lighting. There will be CCTV. The authorities are playing catch`up in

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providing safe infrastructure and the huge increase in cyclists. The

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plan is to open new routes, like here, behind Millwall's New Den We

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will open it up and build a new section along here to link tp to

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another path, and that will create a 24`hour full time completelx traffic

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free cycle route through sotth`east London. Campaigners have cattiously

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welcomed plans for quietways, but they want the routes to feel safe

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and welcoming. There are also `` they are also frustrated at the lack

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of real progress. All roads in London are contested spaces. They

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have to serve the needs of `ll groups including cyclists. Hn

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practice is usually quicker. I understand people's impatience with

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the grinding process of consultation and negotiation but it is practice

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`` but in practice it is quhcker than ramming things through, which

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causes backlashes and delay. Some plans for future superhighw`ys are

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to be scrapped and the routds redrawn. London's streets could be

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on the verge of big changes. Sara Thornton joins us with the

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weather. I was at Wimbledon earlier `nd

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showers were starting to move in, clearing towards the south. They are

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moving away all the time. For tomorrow, we are dry and thdre is a

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fresher feel in the wake of the showers. A couple lingering first

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thing. Temperatures, not as muddy as recent nights. Any lingering showers

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clearing away quickly, so a dry day on the cards. Not wall`to`w`ll

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sunshine, but we will have good bright, sunny interludes at times

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and a top temperature of 22 Celsius, down on the last couple of days 26

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yesterday, 25 today. The frdsher feel starting to make itself felt.

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As we head towards the weekdnd things are going to turn more

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unsettled. On Thursday night into Friday, we have this area of low

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pressure moving rain towards us Thursday will be dry, but for

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Friday, we are talking about rain or showers potentially affecting

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Wimbledon. Sarah Keith`Lucas has the National forecast. I will ldave you

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with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head

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with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towards the

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weekend. Good evening. After what has been a

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glorious few weeks of summer sunshine for many of us, things are

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about to change over the next 2 hours. We are seeing the change

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marked by the weather front on the satellite image. To the south of

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that, 25 degrees, in Bournemouth for instance, but in the north and east,

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cooler, fresher air. That sets the scene for tomorrow. A cooler day. We

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will have hazy sunshine on offer, although cloudier skies than we have

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been used it over the past week Tonight we have thicker cloud

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bringing more two spots of drizzly rain for some southern areas. Many

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parts dry, but we have the rain heading in towards the far

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north-west for the early hours of Wednesday. A cool night ahead. Many

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areas in single figures towards the East of Scotland and north-east

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England. Wednesday starts on a cool note for some others. More cloud

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than

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