:00:00. > :00:00.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:16.Good evening, and welcome to BBC London's weekend news, with me,
:00:17. > :00:27.Millions of Londoners who earn roughly
:00:28. > :00:28.between ?25,000 and ?45,000 are said to be struggling to make ends meet.
:00:29. > :00:30.A report out tomorrow says there's an urgent need to make the city more
:00:31. > :00:31.affordable for so-called "middle-earners", by reducing costs
:00:32. > :00:42.Here's our Political Editor, Tim Donovan.
:00:43. > :00:50.Lucy is an admin assistant earning ?24,000 a year. A single parent with
:00:51. > :00:57.a 12-year-old daughter. My cooker was condemned a few months ago, and
:00:58. > :00:58.I haven't been able to get a cookie yet, because that is quite a big
:00:59. > :01:05.expenditure and there is hardly anything left for me to be able to
:01:06. > :01:07.save. I've got one of those Pam Hobbs which I have been using for
:01:08. > :01:17.the last few months. When I said at ago I have not got a cooker, they
:01:18. > :01:18.just think it is ridiculous for stop according to a report by the Centre
:01:19. > :01:25.for London think tank, as many as one in five Londoners are like Lucy.
:01:26. > :01:29.Costs need to be reduce, incomes raised, say the report. It
:01:30. > :01:32.recommends a shake-up of working credits to be earned between
:01:33. > :01:37.different burners and generations in the same household. Loans for more
:01:38. > :01:41.training to allow people into higher paid jobs. Low interest loans for
:01:42. > :01:45.community season tickets. More local authority housing. We have to
:01:46. > :01:49.radically increase the national minimum wage, we need living wage
:01:50. > :01:53.zones will stop we need to reduce the cost of housing. The lowest
:01:54. > :02:00.housing built in London since the 1920s. He identifies the trapped
:02:01. > :02:04.middle earners, 25,000 43,000 in the report. One of the things you
:02:05. > :02:11.certainly don't do is increase income tax on people earning
:02:12. > :02:13.?26,000. Lucy wonders how long-term she can stay in London. I have 3
:02:14. > :02:17.?26,000. Lucy wonders how long-term something in my account and I have
:02:18. > :02:22.?20 in saving. You are living from pay cheque to pay cheque. What do
:02:23. > :02:25.you do? It's hard. Lucy Mpofu ending that report
:02:26. > :02:27.from Tim Donovan. The Queen's Jubilee Barge has been
:02:28. > :02:29.snubbed by the people of Richmond, who've decided not to give
:02:30. > :05:13.the "Gloriana" So far, September has been warm and
:05:14. > :05:19.fine. That will continue into much of this week. It is going to keep
:05:20. > :05:24.what -- warming up. We will have some share was dotted around today,
:05:25. > :05:31.and then we will have cloud across London and the Home Counties. No
:05:32. > :05:34.lower than 10-12 Celsius. It will be something of a grey start tomorrow.
:05:35. > :05:41.You might need an umbrella first thing. Most places will be dry. And
:05:42. > :05:47.there will be some sunshine about. And it looks like we will exceed
:05:48. > :05:52.those temperatures as we go through Wednesday and Thursday, approaching
:05:53. > :05:59.25 Celsius with some warm, continental air coming from the
:06:00. > :06:01.south-east. Join me again at 10:20pm. Have a very good evening.