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Commemoration events have been taking place | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
across the capital marking the day 100 years ago Britain went to war. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
And as we've been hearing, it?s culminated in a mass act | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
of remembrance at ten o'clock as lights are dimmed for an hour. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
This is the moment the Houses of Parliament paid its respects. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Further down the river, like many other London landmarks, the | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
At Piccadilly Circus, the famous neon lights on the giant | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
advertising hoarding displays a roll of honour, as a tribute to | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
some of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
This is the picture over the capital right now, the darker`than`usual | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
scene a sombre reminder of the night this country went to war in 1914. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Let's cross now to Asad Ahmad at City Hall with | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
a clear vantage point of London's skyline, including Tower Bridge. | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
It is here here this evening. It makes you think what it must have | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
been like 100 years ago when Britain found itself reluctantly going into | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
World War I. You may not be able to see the Tao of London, plunged into | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
darkness. And modern London here. `` the tower of London. There are some | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
lights on, but generally it is again quite dimly lit. This is the | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
culmination of a whole day's events which have been taking place around | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
London remembering those who died in 1914 during the First World War. I | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
have been looking at some of the events which have been taking place. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
The smell of fuel was sick in the air. The Chelsea pensioners waited | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
to climb aboard their carriages, Edwardian vehicles all of which were | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
on the road during the great War. Some were more mobile than others. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
There was no shortage of photo opportunities. My father was in the | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Royal Marines. I had an uncle in the trenches. They didn't talk about | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
their experiences a great deal. Those people gave the ultimate. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Nothing can beat that. If they bring you home in a box, that's it | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
finished. With military precision, the remainder of the cars were | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
started and the great War centenary procession on its way, stopping | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
first at Lancaster house for a private viewing of war paintings and | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
then... Greeted by crowds at the Imperial War Museum, where they | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
stayed for the rest of the afternoon. They shall not grow old | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
as we that are left to grow old... But it was not just soldiers | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
remembered today. A two`minute silence marked the memory of | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
London's Underground staff also killed during the war. Over 1000 | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
underground staff lost their lives in the 1914`18 war, but as well as | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
that, London transport has a huge role to play in getting troops to | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
the Western front. A huge number of buses were commandeered by the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
government. And of course it was also important that we capped London | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
moving even as the war progressed. Westminster Abbey is just one of the | :03:21. | :03:33. | |
landmarks plunged into darkness, drawing on Sir Edward Grey's famous | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
words about the lights going out all over Europe. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
There is one candle remaining at Westminster Abbey, on the grave of | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
the Unknown Soldier. That will go out at exactly 11 o'clock, the exact | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
time Britain found itself going to World War I. London found itself | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
playing a pivotal role during the war effort, not only because of the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
thousands of men and women who joined the effort, not just because | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
of the strategic role London play during the war effort, but also much | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
of the weaponry made in London and sent out to the front line. Not just | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
in Woolwich, but also in Enfield, home to the Lee Enfield rifle. Our | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
reporter has been to Enfield to attend some of the commemorations | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
and visit the factories were those famous rifles were made. | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
A service in Broomfield Park, to remember the sacrifice Enfield's men | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
made 100 years ago. They remain in our thoughts for ever. The entire | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
nation came together to assist the war effort, but Enfield played one | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
of the most important roles. It was home to the factory that made these. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
This is the classic World War I Lee Enfield rifles. Many historians | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
believe this site was the home of mass production in the UK. Today it | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
is made up of mostly offices and houses, but during the First World | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
War 20,000 men and women from Enfield worked here and produced 2 | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
million Lee Enfield rifles. It was used by every British soldier. It | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
was designed in this factory. You have the D and the E combined | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
denoting it was made in Enfield. Local people were brought in at the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
start of the war to deal with the increased demand for weapons. You | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
had people at 14 who could get 18 shillings a week, a very good | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
starting wage for a youngster. Some men had been in the factories for 30 | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
years when the war started, so you had people of all ages. During the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
war they started using women in ever larger numbers. Many of the women | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
were replacing men who were sent to fight. 3000 Enfield soldiers never | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
made it back home. Just across the river, you could see | :05:56. | :06:06. | |
a very dark looking tower of London. That is where an amazing tribute is | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
being paid. 120,000 ceramic poppies have been laid in the moat around | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
the tower of London. They will continue being laid until Armistice | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Day, when a final total of 888,246 copies will exist, one for every | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
British soldier who died during the First World War. `` poppies. 100 | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
years since the start of the First World War. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Councils in East London are trying to crack down | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
on street sellers offering the legal high nitrous oxide, or laughing gas | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Drug charities warn that abusing the substance can lead to serious | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
The men with balloons have just inhaled nitrous | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
It makes you high for a few minutes and is readily | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
available from street vendors who fill a balloon from their canisters | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Recently more and more people are lining up to try it out. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Dizzy high, your eyes go kind of blurry. | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
When you do it, it's the best feeling. | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
Nothing special, I mean you are dizzier but I don't like it. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
It restricts oxygen to the brain and can cause serious injury or | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
Police have been pretty powerless to act until now. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Local councils have found a way to clamp down. | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Here in Hackney, they are preventing illegal street trading. | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
In a single night recently, they managed to confiscate more | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
One of the issues for us is the antisocial behaviour | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
The nightlife we want to encourage, but not | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
if it means residents are upset and can see the litter from the nitrous | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Charities are worried. Home Office figures show last year 350,000 young | :07:57. | :08:10. | |
people between 16 and 24 admitted trying nitrous oxide | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
recreationally. People will be tempted to keep reusing it over a | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
prolonged period, which does increase the risks of asphyxiation. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Or they could have an accident while they are unconscious. The government | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
told us they had written to organisers of festivals and the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Notting Hill Carnival urging them to take steps preventing it being sold | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
at events, but at the moment nitrous oxide is easy to find. The growth on | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
London streets is difficult to stop. A mother from Surrey whose | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
five`year`old daughter has type one diabetes has won her fight to | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
be able to send her to school. Teresa Dodson says her daughter had | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
to stay home after Surrey County Council refused to provide the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
medical help she required at school. Imagen needs her blood sugar levels | :08:51. | :09:04. | |
tested up to 15 times a day to work out what you should eat and when she | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
needs her insulin. 6.6. Perfect. During her first day at school she | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
wasn't tested enough and her blood sugar plummeted. When I collected | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
her, she was in a hypoglycaemic state. She was 3.4. I could see | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
straightaway. Her mother then took on the role of teacher while she | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
applied for her daughter to be granted special needs status so she | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
would get one`to`one care. Every minute, every hour, every second, | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
you have to manage them to keep them safe. Her having the support in | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
school, it's vital. She can't go to school without it. But Surrey county | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
council refused and two other families funding on the grounds that | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
their children's needs were medical, not educational, a view | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
they challenged. If they don't have the condition managed, they have | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
problems with concentration, behaviour and some cognition | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
difficulties, so it does affect their education if their condition | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
isn't managed appropriately in school. A tribunal agreed, and | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Surrey county council has now granted all three children special | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
needs status, meaning Imagen can finally get excited about starting | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
school. Being at home and keeping her save is all well and good but | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
it's not a normal life for a five`year`old child. They need to be | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
out exploring the world and enjoying everything that is out there. I am | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
early excited for her. There is hope parents will soon face fewer | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
obstacles. From next term, schools must follow new rules to make sure | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
children with medical conditions are children with medical conditions are | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
properly supported. They are rules that Surrey county council says it | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
is looking at closely. Time for me to wish you | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
a very good night. We have some parched parks and | :10:58. | :11:10. | |
thirsty gardens so some rain would not go amiss. That is what we will | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
have. It will become Brian Clay overnight, so it would be quite cool | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
tomorrow. `` it will become dry and clear overnight. Some cloud will | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
move in from the west through the afternoon. The sunshine will hang on | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
in the east and we will see temperatures up to 23, with perhaps | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
24 in a few places. As for the rain, Wednesday morning it looks like it | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
will clear during the afternoon. A breezy day. Fine on Thursday, rather | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
unsettled towards the weekend. Thomas Chaffin at has more detail, | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
but we will leave you with some pictures over London, with the | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
lights out to remember the day that Britain went to war 100 years ago. | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
Quite a fresh evening out there this evening. It's going to turn chilly | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
in a few spots by the early hours of Tuesday. Underneath the clear, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
calm, tranquil conditions... Not completely clear because there are a | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
few showers. You may have been caught out in some across the South | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
today. After midnight, you can see the vast majority of the UK has dry | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
weather, whereas Cornwall, Devon, just about nudging into Wales, | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
possibly Northern Ireland and the south-west of Scotland, a few | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
showers. But clear skies is the story tonight. Colder in rural | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
spots. The Glens of Scotland, really nippy first thing on Tuesday. It | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
starts off sunny for many of us. Tuesday is going to be a bit of an | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
East-West split. In the afternoon, across the south-west we will see a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
few showers, a bit of sunshine too, not such a bad day. There might be | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the odd heavy burst of rain here and there, but effectively it is | :13:13. | :13:15. |