03/08/2014 BBC London News


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Now on BBC1, time for the news where you are.

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In a bid to reduce opposition to government plans to build three

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new "garden cities" a proposal has been put forward to compensate

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The Deputy Prime Minister said local people affected by building work

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might get rebates on their council tax or be able sell their homes

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The satellite town scheme is planned to reduce the congestion in London

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and give workers employment in pleasant surroundings.

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The garden city movement began over a century ago in response to similar

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housing pressures to today, a huge demand for homes around London.

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This was the result, Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City

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where parks and gardens were woven amongst the housing.

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The Government thinks similar developments today

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Avoiding the protests, which greeted other recent big

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We could maybe give deductions on their council tax

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for the period of time during which the garden city is being built.

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We could possibly also say to those homes where they think the price

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of their home will be affected - we will guarantee the price

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of their home by buying it, if you like, up front.

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But will it be enough? Earlier this year, rumours swept through this

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town in Buckinghamshire, claims of secret government plans for a new

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garden city somewhere nearby. The shocked parish council got straight

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on to their MP. He also happens to be in the

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Cabinet. This is the result from Dominic Grieve... The problem for

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them seems to have gone away, but it shows how some communities may react

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if the green belt is threatened. Remarks by Nick Clegg seem to have

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surprised that the Department for Communities and Local Government. --

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surprised. We understand a short list could be published by the end

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of the year. A cyclist aged in his thirties

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has died after a crash with It happened last night and

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although a doctor passing-by tried to resuscitate the man,

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he died shortly afterwards. He's the seventh cyclist to be

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killed on London's roads this year. So tonight is the eve of the

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100th anniversary of the start of Britain's involvement in

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World War One. And out of the thousands

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of Londoners who fought and died in the war effort, 10,000 came

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from Islington. Well every single one of their names

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has been placed on commemorative It is the summer of 1914, and here

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in Finsbury, volunteers in their thousands queue to enlist in the

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army, as they walked into the unknown, many of them never

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returned. Three men from this straight, one chap, we do not even

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know his age. This man here. It is something we need to research. He

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would have lived right here? Down this straight, yes. Those who died

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have returned to the streets where they once lived, there are names

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printed on these plaques for a new generation of residence to see. They

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were all individuals who had wives, children, mothers and fathers, all

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of those will have grave. It is something that brings home the

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reality. It is really important. Almost 10,000 Islington residents

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lost their lives during the First World War, they were mostly young

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men who would have lived in neighbourhoods like these, or gone

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to a school like this one. What the commemorative plaques hope to do is

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make their story is a bit more personal. The poor fellow must have

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been injured beforehand and brought back to England and he has died. By

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putting up these plaques with the individual name and age, their time

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of death, where they died, when they died, it will enable local people to

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say, hang on a minute, I want to know more about this particular

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person... This map pinpoints where Islington soldiers came from, it was

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not just the borough 's men that played a part. Women were trained in

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making lenses, for periscopes of submarines and binoculars and

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telescopes. They died 100 years ago but it is hoped that these discrete

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reminders will bring home heroes of Islington once again.

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After another pleasant day there is a lot of dry and fine weather in

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this forecast, some people do want some rain, later in the week we will

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run the risk of that, but for tomorrow, a lot of dry weather, and

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plenty of warm sunshine. Through the evening and overnight we are dry and

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things will be settled, 13, 14 degrees, not quite as muddy as some

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nights we have seen. Off to a great start tomorrow morning, some

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sunshine, as we go through the afternoon we will run the risk of

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some showers cropping up. Many places staying dry, top temperature

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of delete it is going to turn increasingly

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unsettled with the risk of showers through the middle part of the week,

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and rain possibly on Thursday. Good evening. Some of us have had a

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sunny weekend but for others it has not stopped raining for the last

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couple of days, you can see where on the satellite picture, big swell of

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cloud, dominating things. Torrential storms, if you see the coverage, you

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can see how much rain there has been, that has caused issues.

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Thunder and lightning thrown in as well. This area of storms moves

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north out of Glasgow but this clutch of heavy downpours pushing into the

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south-west of Scotland, we will have to keep an eye on that for the

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closing ceremony. One thing is for sure, which showers and blustery

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wind, it will not be anything like as fine and warm

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