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And that is all from us. There is more throughout the evening on the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News channel. Now we john the BBCs news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Government's flagship University Technical College is to close due to | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
We are pioneers, and sometiles when you are a pioneer those are not the | :00:10. | :00:22. | |
people who are successful. So, what will the closure mdan | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
for an industry worth billions An NHS payout to a boy left almost | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
completely blind for He could see something, he said I | :00:29. | :00:46. | |
can see! I said, white did xou not tell me? He said, I did not know | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
they were supposed to work. Is the Mayor's vision of an | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
estuary airport dead in the water? We speak to Boris Johnson's aviation | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
advisor after a series And, could video arcades be making a | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
comeback? Good evening, | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
and welcome to the programmd. The first of the Government's | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
flagship University Technical Collegds | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
in London is closing its doors, Hackney University Technical College | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
was one of over a dozen set up in the country | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
as a pioneering training centre for But due to a lack of applic`nts the | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
governors have decided to close it. In a moment, we will look at what | :01:28. | :01:43. | |
implications it will have on local people's chances of benefithng from | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
the industry. This is what the government would | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
like the future of education to look like, this college was opendd in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Hertfordshire by Michael Gove last week. This week, the collegd in | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Hackney made the decision to close after it only managed to attract 29 | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
students out of a target of 75 for year ten. It was a recruitmdnt drive | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
that the principal concedes was always going to be difficult. Many | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
students, families and studdnts choose to stay put at the end of | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
year nine and continue their education in good and outst`nding | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
schools, and not to make a change. It is an unusual age at which to | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
change schools. Do you mean that the system is flawed, it was always | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
going to be difficult to get those students to come here? I am not | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
saying the system is flawed, but it is challenging to encourage young | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
people to make a choice that is different. But those who have made | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the choice are positive. Sttdents like Francisco, who will now have to | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
go out where to do his A`levels This is the control centre. Despite | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the fact that his course is closing, he has every faith in the concept. I | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
believe that this is the future of education, they give us the soft | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
skills and communication skhlls we need, to learn how to network, which | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
I will not get at a new school. Down the road, these are the cre`tives | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
who helped support the colldge. Dealings that they forged whth | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
people like us are quite progressive. They allow the kids to | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
develop skills in the real world that normally they would not do in | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
the stability of a classrool. For some, specialising in technology at | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
14 is too late. We need to be looking much further down the chain, | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
all the way back to primary school, getting children thinking about what | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
they want to do. Francisco hs confident he is a coder in the | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
making, but how many others will be able to follow him? | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Is that really going to havd any implication for the booling | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
We will not know for five or ten years, because that is when those | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
young people could enter thd workforce properly. There are many | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
technology jobs to be had in London. But there is a skills short`ge, one | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
of the problems is that somd people think that the technology jobs have | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
been filled from people outside London, because the governmdnt has | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
made it easier to get a Vis` if you are in the industry. What they also | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
need to do is convince young people that this is an exciting industry, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
they can start their own colpanies. It seems that that is not h`ppening. | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
One of the criticisms is th`t it is a short`term scheme that make the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
politicians look good, but hn the long`term, it has not had an effect | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
on Londoners. Stay with us this evening, | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
as there's lots more to comd Criticism | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
of a plan to spend public c`sh to rehouse the royal barge which led | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. A boy who was left almost completely | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
blind for the first five ye`rs of his life has received | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
an undisclosed sum of money The parents of Billy Wells from | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
High Wycombe raised concerns with their doctor and health vishtor more | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
than 70 times, Buckinghamshire NHS Hospital Trust | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
has now admitted liability. Billy Wells spent his first five | :05:45. | :06:01. | |
years almost entirely unabld to see. He would drop his bottle but could | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
not pick it up again, he wotld watch TV one centimetre from the screen. | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
We made our concerns to the GP, they kept reassuring us he was fhne, it | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
was just that he wanted to hnteract with the TV. Why he would not pick | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
up his bottle, he was lazy, he wanted to be waited on. The family | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
pestered, they visited health professionals more than 70 times, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
there were promised he would be sent for tests, but nothing happdned | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Years later, the referral form for sound at the bottom of the health | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
visitor's bag. A trip to Disneyland Paris changed everything. Wd took | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
photographs, we had them developed, and he was not looking at one shot. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
My wife said, he is blind. @ visit to the optician, his blindndss was | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
confirmed. They got to the stage where he could see something, he | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
said, I can see. I said, whx did you not tell me I could not see? He | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
said, I did not know they wdre supposed to work. The NHS Trust | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
admitted they failed to spot his blindness and several other | :07:12. | :07:12. | |
conditions. Despite all of this, Ely is now top | :07:13. | :07:29. | |
of his class at school. The family is now looking forward. Without my | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
dad helping me every step of the way, I would still not be able to | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
see today. I would still be walking into doorframes. Still needhng help | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
with every single little thhng. I cannot thank my dad enough. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
A 22`year`old man has been `rrested on suspicion of terrorism at | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Scotland Yard say the suspect, who was travelling to Istanbul, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
was held on Wednesday afternoon by officers from Bedfordshire Police. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The man is being held in South London on suspicion | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
of being involved in the prdparation of acts to commit terrorism. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
An inquiry into the economic case for the | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
High Speed rail link is to be held by a House of Lords committde. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
It says it wants to find out who the winners and losers will be from | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the ?50 billion project, and if London will gain more from HS2 than | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Now, has this been the week that the Mayor's dream | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
of building an airport in the Thames Estuary has finally been sunk? | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Four independent reports for the Airports Commission have | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
raised serious questions ovdr its cost, its environmental impact | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
and implications for local transport links. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Despite that, City Hall rem`ins optimistic, as we're about to hear. | :08:46. | :08:57. | |
The report is published by the Airports Commission, they h`ve been | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
strong and critical and raised concerns, presumably you will ignore | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
that and concentrate on a h`ndful of positives? I am going to trx to | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
explain that what has been going on is that last December the commission | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
organised that the estuary proposal had the greatest scale of bdnefits | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
of any of the other proposals put to it, but it wanted to do somd studies | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
to see if there were any show stoppers that would prevent it from | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
going ahead, so it commissioned work in four areas. We have seen that | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
evidence put up for comment, this is not their final view. Natur`lly | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
because they are looking for problems to see if they can get over | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
them, they read in a fairly depressing way, but what thd reports | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
show is that there are no bhg problems. What it actually says is | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
that they have examined it, the problems can all be overcomd, but | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
when you look at them all together, they appear to present a substantial | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
risk in the order of billions of pounds to appropriately man`ge. They | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
are all surmountable, but together, it is a no`go. The important thing | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
is that they are all surmountable. In any large project such as this, | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
there is going to be risk, when you compare this to what has bedn | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
proposed at Heathrow. At He`throw, you have to take into account the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
huge risk to the education of children, the health of people, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and so on that, of having a | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
new airport at Heathrow. Thd risk, of course there is risk, but they | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
can be managed. The Airports Commission has not said any of these | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
things, these are the reports of consultants. Which are taken into | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
consideration. Our view is they have no choice morally and legally, and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
in terms of their responsibhlity... You ignore the fact that is more | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
risk than opportunity, more cost and risk to the taxpayer, | :11:14. | :11:50. | |
Commission, that this option should continue. People will be surprised | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
at your optimism, but we have to hear the result in a few months | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
It's among London's busiest bridges, and a major transport link hn | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
So, no surprises, you can expect major disruption around Putney | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Bridge, which will close to traffic for three months from Mondax | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Yes, Putney Bridge is falling down, falling down. Rather, it is not | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
because the council will spdnd 1.5 million bringing it back up to | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
scratch. It has decided to do this in one go, because it says that is | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
what the local communities want There will be consequences, with | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
upstream and downstream. Putney Bridge, this morning. Soon, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
it will look rather different. The clues are already on the brhdge | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
When the barriers go up, it will close. Cars, buses and lorrhes will | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
not be able to cross. Many bus routes will have to stop on one side | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
and start again on the other. Today, passengers were bracing thelselves | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
for the impact. Shut the brhdge and then walk. Probably around 25 | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
minutes. It will be a huge struggle for everybody. I am travellhng to | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
High Street Kensington, I al going to take the bicycle. It is ` big | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
thing, it has never happened before. The question for thd High | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Street, will it lose shoppers? It will affect the traffic and some | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
people from Fulham coming over, because you do get customers from | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Fulham. We have done everything for local businesses, we have asked how | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
they would like it done, thdy have said they would like it as puickly | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
as possible. For travellers who need to get across, we have workdd very | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
closely with Transport for London to make sure that if you are travelling | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
by bus, there is no extra cost involved. We hope we have done | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
everything we can. There will be inconvenience some, that is | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
unavoidable, I am afraid. Does that mean traffic will cause jams at the | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
two nearest bridges, Hammersmith and Wandsworth? It is difficult to | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
predict, but it is going to be busy, because one major Bridge will be | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
closed. We are entering the summer, so it will be a bit quieter, which | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
will help. We urge drivers to think about alternatives, to spre`d the | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
demand across the bridges. The reason for the work can be seen on | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
the road surface. The closure starts at 5am on Monday. It will l`st until | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
October. Perhaps the best advice is wait and | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
see what happens on Monday `nd Tuesday, and if things are bad, just | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
your route. Maybe even conshder an alternative form of transport. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Cyclists will still be able to use this bridge provided they gdt off | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
and walk. A row's broken out over plans to | :15:00. | :15:14. | |
spend a million pounds of taxpayer's money on houshng | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
the Royal barge, Gloriana. It led the Diamond Jubilee Pageant | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
along the Thames and was buhlt especially for the occasion. | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
But now there's criticism over Richmond Council's plans regarding | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
the cost and location for the boat. Helen Drew reports. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
With roars including Sir Stdve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent the | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Gloriana was a focal point of the river pageant. But, now it needs a | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
home, and that could be in the borough of Richmond. The man who | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
built the Gloriana is from the area, and the local council has jtst voted | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
to potentially contribute up to ?1 million to the cost of building a | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
boat house here It encouragds more people to locate here, that is going | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
to have a lot of benefit for the local economy, so I think the | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
pleasure it will give peopld, and that people will be able to see this | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
wonderful crafts man ship. Not even in the area is in favour of this | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
When we have seen in this borough in the most deprived ward in the | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
borough, a library close in recent years as part of austerity, in a | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
time of austerity, is it a good use of taxpayers' money. Concerns don't | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
stop there. The proposed site is Orleans Gardens. It is a picturesque | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
location, directly across the water from Ham House. Many locals are | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
saying the plans could ruin the area. A petition against thd plans | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
already has 1200 signatures. It will not remain the same, you ard going | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
to change that space forever. Nor me, you are losing something you | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
can't really replace. It wotld be devastating to the ecology `nd the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
tree, the wildlife. Richmond council is keen to stress nothing is | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
definite and it is holding ` public consultation to the end of @ugust. | :17:00. | :17:09. | |
Still to come. They were big in the '80s but could video arcades be | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
making a come back? Helen Drew reports. | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
A real mix of sport for us this evening, including motor racing and | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
a terrific story about canoding Sara is here to tell all. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Thanks Asad. Yes, there is lore to this weekend than the World Cup | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
final. We start with Anne Dhckins from Surrey, who was left ddvastated | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
after her passion for mount`in bike racing was ended with a debhlitating | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
back injury. But the mum of two volunteered at the London Olympics, | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
and a chance meeting saw her take up canoeing, and this weekend she's | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
defending her European titld. Jenna Hawkey has been to meet her. | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
Anne was an endurance mount`in biker focussing on 24 hours race being a | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
spinal injury left her with very little feeling or strength hn her | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
right leg It was soul`destroying. It is not just about a competition it | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
is a way of life. All my frhends, my social life was about cycling, and | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
suddenly, din't have that any more. One year later a chance encounter | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
with a fellow Games Maker g`ve the 47`year`old the chance to try | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
something different. Becausd we were both wearing Games Maker unhforms we | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
sat down and starting chatthng. He was talk about how he was a canoe | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
coach an they were getting ` performance centre, I said xou can | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
have me if you wanted. He ptt his coffee down and he grilled le for | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
about half an hour on my injury weak leg, and I remember sitting in | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the velodrome going "This is odd. I think I have been invited the try | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
out for paracanoe." But the trials were seven weeks away I said this is | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
going to sound weird but I can't canoe but I really want to be on the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
GB squad in seven week, can you help me? Nand is exactly what thdy did. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
And within a year, Dickens was the world silver medallist in the 2 0 | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
metre sprint. The The Europdan Championships was his fifth race | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
ever, so it didn't really m`tter how I did, but to go this year, into a | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
European Championships being European champion is a lot of | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
pressure there. The European Championships are currently under | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
way in Germany, Dickens is safely through to tomorrow's final, yet | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
another step in her journey from Games Maker to Paralympic hopeful. | :19:32. | :19:44. | |
Hawkey has been to meet her. Good luck to Anne this weekdnd. | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Now after passing a medical yesterday, Arsenal have confirmed | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
the signing of Barcelona striker Alexis Sanchez. The Gunners are | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
thought to have paid around ?35 million for | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
Good luck to Anne this weekdnd. Now after passing a medical | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
yesterday, Arsenal have confirmed Now fencing is a sport which | :19:58. | :20:09. | |
Great Britain hasn't won an Olympic medal in for almost half a century. | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
But now we have our first ever European Chalpion ` | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
and he's from Barnet. 23 year`old James Davis won gold in | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Strasbourg last month, and when the World Championships begin in Russia | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
next week hopes are high he'll make it to the top of the podium again. | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
Chris Slegg has more. This was the moment James D`vis | :20:24. | :20:37. | |
became Great Britain's first fencing European champion. In Strasbourg | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
last month. Today, in north London he was getting himself in pdrfect | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
shape for next week's World Championships. I am getting things | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
done. I need to get it done before believe. Get the last minutd | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
treatment in. Today's training session was rare | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
visit to the capital, in November James left his home in Barndt to | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
live in San Francisco where he is training with the top US fencers I | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
love it out there, training is amazing, the guys are world class, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
they are such a big set up, so many kids do it. What has been the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
hardest thing to adapt to? Some of the expressions? The expressions | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
definitely. I am refusing to say soccer, they are not getting that | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
one out of me, they all laugh when I say I am going to the loo. Xou are | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Great Britain's first ever Duropean fencing champion. When you were on | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
the podium, receiving that ledal, how did that feel? For me, that is | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
the most nerve`wracking part of it all. I mean I loved it. I w`s just | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
in the zone. You have been puite brave to say a gold medal at Rio is | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
what you are aiming for. Wh`t will be the most important thing over the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
next two years? If we were to select tomorrow, I would get selected. Two | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
years anything could have. Xou can have a dreadful season or a career | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
ending injury. If I can stax that the level, keep pushing mysdlf, | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
fingers crossed we will be `ble to talk again, as Olympic champion that | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
would be the lovely part of my dream It is look ever more real if James | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Davis can become World Champion in Russia. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Good luck to James, and to `ll the Germans and Argentineans we | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
have living here in London for the World Cup Final on Sunday. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
That's all the sport, back to you, Asad. | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
If you're around my age, you'll remember video arcadds being | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
all the rage in the 80's with games like Pac`Man | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
and Donkey Kong wowing us all. But when games consoles arrhved | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
everything changed, with people preferring to play at home. | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
But now, as Wendy Hurrell has been fhnding | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
out, a man in West London h`s decided to bring the arcade back. | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
Outside the trains rumble p`st the industrial estate in Acton. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Inside, bleeps and booms echo from another era. It really is the last | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
of its kind. Probably the fhrst and last arcade of the 21st centuriment | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
over here in the UK any way. It is called the heart of gaming or the | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
Hog to regular, a room filldd with carefully repaired machines taken | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
from arcades long since closed down Most of the kids started galing | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
after the arcades were pretty much gone. So to them, this is khnd of a | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
new experience. But to others, it goes a bit deeper. Nostalgi` is | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
something that generally hits you. It is not something you are really | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
physically immerse yourself in, but here, you know, for people who | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
haven't seen games in maybe over 20 years they can walk in and see them | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
again. Not only that they c`n play them. None an age where gamhng with | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
often a solitary past time this created some interesting social | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
interactions You get to plax with some people who are passion`te about | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the game, and just really wdlcoming, great community. Bankers or people | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
like taxi drive, any walk of life will come down and it is good to mix | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and mingle with different ctltures. We have had kids turn up with their | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
parents as young as seven or eight and people who are reaching their | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
50s. You pay at the door rather than into slots and just play as if it is | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
1984. That is a great idea. Now the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
weather with Sarah. It is a grey mixed sort of day today. It has been | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
fairly cloudy and gloomy. Some opt my. For the weekend. Overnight west | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
stick with the cloud. It will be mild but that kicks off the weekend | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
weather. Things will improvd as we head through Saturday, but we have | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
had the slow`moving weather front across us, bringing plenty of cloud | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
and we have drizzly rain, still just to the south of London, a fdw spots | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
of light rain to be seen out of this weather front. For most of ts things | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
are improving. So we end thd day on a dry note. You could see one or two | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
spots of rain, but for most the blanket of cloud staying thdre, so | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
things will be mild. Temper`tures of round 11`16 degrees first thing | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Saturday morning. We will h`ve that cloud round during the mornhng but | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
as when he had through the course of Saturday, the sunshine will just try | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
to breakthrough, so I think by the afternoon, the cloud thinning and | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
breaking, allowing some spells of sunshine. Where the sunshind comes | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
through it will lift the temperatures and form we will feel | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
muggy, sticky with highs up to 6 degrees and those temperatures | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
enough to spark off one or two isolated showers, and perhaps the | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
odd thunderstorm during the course of Saturday afternoon. So for many | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
places it will stay dry. A dry, early evening but the cloud | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
increases and the rain heads in There will be a period of wdt | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
weather and it is round first thing Sunday morning. In on Sundax an | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
improving story, the rain clears away and we are left with stnny | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
spell, still a chance of a shower but it will feel freshen on Sunday. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Temperatures round about 23 degrees or so. | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
So that is how it looks over the next couple of day, we have got a | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
muggy day during the course of Saturday, fresherror through Sunday | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
and that fresher theme conthnues right into next week. Thank you | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Sarah. Before we go a reminder of tonight's | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
main news headline. Tens of thousands more people in England | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
could be eligible for weight loss surgery in a bid to tackle `n | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
epidemic of type 2 diabetes. Gastric bands would help reduce | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
complications linked to obesity Binyamin Netanyahu has said he won't | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
bow to international pressure, and end air strikes on the Gaza strip. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
The UN has warned the the Israeli assault may breech internathonal | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
law. A 16`year`old boy accused of mushing a teacher has accepted | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
responsibility for unlawful killing Anne Maguire was stabbed to death in | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
her classroom in April. That is it, I will be back with the latd news | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
tonight during the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One. I hope you can join me | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
then, until then, have a very good evening. | :27:08. | :27:11. |