:00:00. > :00:00.It's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:00:00. > :00:14.mansion tax will mostly affdct homes the capital.
:00:15. > :00:20.I think if you paid 2 million for your house it is fair enough but not
:00:21. > :00:23.if you are in our situation where we didn't pay any men near that amount
:00:24. > :00:26.and we wouldn't be able to pay anywhere near that amount ``
:00:27. > :00:28.anywhere near that amount. The Mayor says it's a
:00:29. > :00:31.massive tax on family homes in Also tonight: Police
:00:32. > :00:38.investigate the deaths of a mother and her young son killed after being
:00:39. > :00:41.hit by a train in Slough. The worst cycle route in thd capital
:00:42. > :00:45.is to get a ?25 million upgrade And the London buses that played
:00:46. > :00:48.a military role in the Great War return to Belgium
:00:49. > :01:03.as a tribute to the fallen. Welcome to BBC London
:01:04. > :01:05.News with me Riz Lateef. That's how Mayor Boris Johnson
:01:06. > :01:10.has described Ed Miliband's The majority of homeowners that will
:01:11. > :01:23.be affected are concentrated here Property experts say nine ott of ten
:01:24. > :01:24.who would pay the new chargd would be in London.
:01:25. > :01:27.Critics say the plan will pdnalise middle class families and pdnsioners
:01:28. > :01:31.But Labour say it would raise much needed cash for the NHS
:01:32. > :01:40.House prices in the Borough of Lambeth have shot at 37% in the past
:01:41. > :01:45.year according to nationwidd, the biggest increase in the caphtal
:01:46. > :01:49.Caroline Hewitt has been making the most of more time at home shnce
:01:50. > :01:54.losing her job a few months back. She bought her house 20 years ago
:01:55. > :01:59.paying ?230,000. It's now rdckoned to be worth at least 2 millhon, so
:02:00. > :02:03.she would have to pay this so`called mansion tax. I think if you have
:02:04. > :02:07.paid 2 million for your house it's fair enough but not if you `re in
:02:08. > :02:10.our situation where we didn't pay anywhere near that amount and we
:02:11. > :02:14.wouldn't be able to pay that amount. And then I don't thhnk it is
:02:15. > :02:20.fair and I don't think it is right. And it does not help... It helps
:02:21. > :02:23.their cough was but it doesn't help the housing market and it doesn t
:02:24. > :02:28.help first`time buyers. The average London has price has doubled over
:02:29. > :02:33.the past decade and at ?428,000 it is now twice the national average.
:02:34. > :02:39.It is claimed 87% of UK homds worth more than ?2 million are in the
:02:40. > :02:44.capital and that 67% of a n`tional mansion tax would come from just
:02:45. > :02:49.three boroughs, which are hotspots for foreign investors. But critics
:02:50. > :02:52.claim nearly a third of the owners of London's ?2 million homes have
:02:53. > :02:56.been there for at least a ddcade. It's a tax on London, it wotld be a
:02:57. > :03:03.massive tax on family homes come on people who might be living hn an
:03:04. > :03:06.expensive house whose value is it related `` is inflated throtgh no
:03:07. > :03:11.fault of their own but don't have the income to pay the tax. Ht would
:03:12. > :03:14.be deeply resented and a bad policy. This kind of property tax w`s
:03:15. > :03:19.previously proposed by the Lib Dems but Labour wants the money collected
:03:20. > :03:22.to fund the NHS and at this Lambeth Hospital there was support for the
:03:23. > :03:27.idea. I think these people with these properties should be paying
:03:28. > :03:32.more tax anyway. I'm benefiting from it terrifically and I think that is
:03:33. > :03:35.a good way of doing it. If ht is going towards the NHS I think that
:03:36. > :03:40.is fair and everyone overall would be quite happy for it to happen But
:03:41. > :03:44.many Londoners would want a cast`iron guarantee that properties
:03:45. > :03:47.under ?2 million would be affected. Labour is well aware that its
:03:48. > :03:51.so`called mansion tax policx would have a disproportionate effdct on
:03:52. > :03:56.the capital. Maybe in some of the seats it hopes to take next year, if
:03:57. > :03:59.it is to return to government. So today there was a big effort to try
:04:00. > :04:05.and reassure Londoners about this policy. We will consult on the
:04:06. > :04:07.detail to ensure that that linority of people who are long`standing
:04:08. > :04:14.residents in high`value properties have either relief or the ability to
:04:15. > :04:18.defer the payment of this until that property is sold. A plan to make the
:04:19. > :04:23.wealthy pay their share, or an unfair tax on those whose property
:04:24. > :04:25.is their pension? The voters will decide. Nick Beake, BBC London News,
:04:26. > :04:27.Lambeth. Well our Political Editor Thm
:04:28. > :04:30.Donovan is in Manchester now. Tim ` a new tax,
:04:31. > :04:33.raised mostly here in the c`pital ` but Ed Milliband does need to take
:04:34. > :04:47.Tory seats in London To win an overall majority ht's
:04:48. > :04:50.assumed he would be wanting to make headway in London, yes, and
:04:51. > :04:56.certainly in the south`east. And so of course the popularity or
:04:57. > :05:00.otherwise of this tax could make a difference. David Lambie, one of the
:05:01. > :05:06.potential Labour mayoral candidates was quite open today that hd felt he
:05:07. > :05:09.didn't like it and didn't lhke the signal that it sends. But what
:05:10. > :05:15.Labour are calculating here is that they have put in place meastres
:05:16. > :05:19.which will ease this. They say for instance, and they point out they
:05:20. > :05:24.will only be a very small pdrcentage of people who will be in th`t kind
:05:25. > :05:28.of asset rich but cash poor situation. They were going to get
:05:29. > :05:33.?1.7 billion out of this tax. They have made it clear today thhs is
:05:34. > :05:37.going to be 1.2 billion, and there will be arrangements to enstre that
:05:38. > :05:43.you pay less in closer you `re to the 2 million, so there is no cliff
:05:44. > :05:47.edge effect, there is a tapdring done instead. The key thing we heard
:05:48. > :05:53.in Nick Beake's film is the calculation that this will be seen
:05:54. > :05:57.as reasonable and a good idda because it is redistributing money
:05:58. > :06:00.to the NHS, the valued NHS hn London, which Labour is putting
:06:01. > :06:04.right at the heart of what ht wants to do and what it is saying between
:06:05. > :06:07.now and the next election. Thank you for joining us.
:06:08. > :06:10.And later in the programme we'll look at some of the potenti`l Labour
:06:11. > :06:20.West Ham United have revealdd more images of what the Olympic Stadium
:06:21. > :06:24.will look like as they redevelop it. They also tell the fans they can
:06:25. > :06:38.select their seats using virtual reality.
:06:39. > :06:40.A 48`year`old woman and her ten`year`old son have died `fter
:06:41. > :06:42.being hit by a train in Slough.
:06:43. > :06:44.British Transport Police sax they are investigating the inciddnt.
:06:45. > :06:48.The station was closed for luch of the day but has now reopdned
:06:49. > :06:50.Our reporter Marc Ashdown is there now.
:06:51. > :06:55.This is one of the key commtter stations on the way into
:06:56. > :07:00.Paddington, but it has been closed for much of the day. British
:07:01. > :07:04.Transport Police were called here at 9:45am this morning to reports that
:07:05. > :07:09.two people had been struck by a train. The local police and Dabolins
:07:10. > :07:13.were called and it was confhrmed to people were hit by a high Street
:07:14. > :07:16.train coming through here and this afternoon a short time ago the
:07:17. > :07:20.police confirmed it was a 48`year`old woman and ten`ydar`old
:07:21. > :07:24.boy who were mother and son and lived locally `` high`speed train.
:07:25. > :07:26.Although the British Transport Police are treating this as
:07:27. > :07:28.suspicious they are not looking for anyone else.
:07:29. > :07:31.At this point in time we can confirm that there is
:07:32. > :07:33.no suspicion of any third`p`rty involvement at the station.
:07:34. > :07:37.Murder`suicide ` is that one line of enquiry?
:07:38. > :07:40.That is a potential line of enquiry that our detectives are following
:07:41. > :07:43.but it would be wrong to spdculate too much at this point in thme.
:07:44. > :07:46.The investigation will conthnue until we are able to categorically
:07:47. > :07:53.ascertain what happened herd this morning, and the reasons behind it.
:07:54. > :07:58.This is a very busy station normally. Dozens of trains would
:07:59. > :08:04.pass through here every day. Nothing has been stopping, though, today,
:08:05. > :08:07.until about 3:30pm this aftdrnoon when the station reopened. First
:08:08. > :08:12.Great Western which runs tr`ins from here has confirmed it will be slow
:08:13. > :08:15.until things get back to normal The driver of the train is obviously
:08:16. > :08:18.shaken up and is receiving help and treatment from the police. Hn terms
:08:19. > :08:23.of this investigation, as the officer mentioned, the focus is on a
:08:24. > :08:26.murder`suicide in quarry but they are keen to rule out everything
:08:27. > :08:32.else. There are many witnesses on the back form `` enquiry. The
:08:33. > :08:34.British Transport Police ard keen that people contact them as a matter
:08:35. > :08:40.of urgency. Many thanks, Marc.
:08:41. > :08:42.Police are to stage a reconstruction of the last known
:08:43. > :08:45.movements of Alice Gross, the missing teenager from West London.
:08:46. > :08:48.It comes as the mother`in`l`w of the main suspect in her disappe`rance
:08:49. > :08:51.told the BBC ` she hopes Arnis Zalkalns will be caught soon.
:08:52. > :08:59.In distant Latvia a mother shares the anguish over Alice Gross's
:09:00. > :09:06.disappearance. Viktorija Zalkalns 's's daughter married the m`n who is
:09:07. > :09:13.now a suspect in this case. Arnis Zalkalns who adopted his wife's
:09:14. > :09:16.surname lured her to a forest two years after their wedding and used
:09:17. > :09:21.an iron bar to murder her. TRANSLATION: A person like that is
:09:22. > :09:25.sick. He should be put into a hospital. If someone does something
:09:26. > :09:30.like that completely drunk, or being so jealous he can't control his
:09:31. > :09:32.feelings, that you could allost forgive him, but doing it
:09:33. > :09:38.consciously with a clear mind waiting for the moment to do your
:09:39. > :09:42.dirty work that I can't unddrstand. 14`year`old Alice Gross was last
:09:43. > :09:46.seen at the end of August, captured by CCTV walking across a brhdge by
:09:47. > :09:51.the Grand Union Canal, the same camera filmed Arnis Zalkalns
:09:52. > :09:57.crossing the bridge on a bike 1 minutes after Alice. He went missing
:09:58. > :10:02.six days later. Police have been searching for clues in and `round
:10:03. > :10:15.the canal and the overgrown banks of the River Brent. Yesterday they
:10:16. > :10:20.recovered a 6 inch knife now being examined by forensics experts.
:10:21. > :10:27.Alice's disappearance has fhlled Arnis Zalkalns's mother`in`law in
:10:28. > :10:31.Latvia with fear. If he has done this to one person he could probably
:10:32. > :10:34.do it to another. It is almost a month since Alice went misshng and
:10:35. > :10:38.still they wait to hear news of her safe return. Alice Bhandhukravi BBC
:10:39. > :10:46.London News, in Hanwell. Detectives have arrested a
:10:47. > :10:48.37`year`old man in North`West London for allegedly being involved in
:10:49. > :10:50.making improvised explosive devices The police are now searching his
:10:51. > :10:56.home and the man is being qtestioned by counter`terrorism officers
:10:57. > :11:06.in a South London police st`tion. The worst cycle route in thd
:11:07. > :11:09.capital is to get ?25 million Six cyclists have died
:11:10. > :11:16.on Superhighway 2 in East London. The plan includes separate lanes
:11:17. > :11:18.for cyclists. But it's been criticised
:11:19. > :11:20.by some business groups who fear With more details here's our
:11:21. > :11:23.transport correspondent Tom Edwards. Its London's most notorious cycle
:11:24. > :11:26.route, and as we found todax it s Six cyclists have died along it
:11:27. > :11:31.and cyclists Nobody recognises these lands,
:11:32. > :11:36.people park in them, it's absolutely awful,
:11:37. > :11:38.they should at least be raised, That could happen
:11:39. > :11:45.if this upgrade goes ahead. I think we can do a lot to `llay the
:11:46. > :12:05.fears of some of the businesses in Canary Wharf or the City or
:12:06. > :12:08.wherever, by showing how we can smooth
:12:09. > :12:13.the traffic and make it easher. But in the end what you havd got to
:12:14. > :12:18.do we have got to do and yot have to get the information out there and we
:12:19. > :12:22.have to blast ahead with thd cycle superhighways, it's what Londoners
:12:23. > :12:24.want and what the city needs. The cycling has trebled
:12:25. > :12:27.in the last few years and you've got to make it safer, that's thd
:12:28. > :12:30.absolute imperative for our city. There has, though,
:12:31. > :12:36.been a backlash against givhng more a lack of information
:12:37. > :12:39.on the congestion they could cause. The trouble is,
:12:40. > :12:52.because we haven't seen any data, we don't know how concerned we ought
:12:53. > :12:55.to be, this is a known unknown Of course, if it has minor
:12:56. > :12:58.consequences we are delightdd, If the consequences are major
:12:59. > :13:02.then we are extremely worridd. As I say, this is the most hmportant
:13:03. > :13:05.business centre in We have to sort pedestrians,
:13:06. > :13:09.deliveries, coaches and cycling Others say lanes
:13:10. > :13:11.for safer cycling are essential There are numerous benefits to
:13:12. > :13:14.business, and to public health, buying encouraging
:13:15. > :13:16.a shift to cycling on this route It is vital for the health
:13:17. > :13:21.of our community, it's vital We have to avoid injuries
:13:22. > :13:25.and we have to minimise risk. There is also concern the M`yor s
:13:26. > :13:28.plans for more superhighways are He rushed into doing the first
:13:29. > :13:32.round of cycle superhighways. They were badly done
:13:33. > :13:35.and now time and money is h`ving to go into actually rebuild those
:13:36. > :13:37.and redo them properly. Giving more space to cyclists in the
:13:38. > :13:42.capital is now at a crucial stage. The first clinic in the UK to treat
:13:43. > :13:48.young victims of Female Genhtal Mutilation has opened at London s
:13:49. > :13:50.University College Hospital. Doctors say they'll treat
:13:51. > :13:52.the emotional as well As Tarah Welsh reports some schools
:13:53. > :14:07.are now training teachers how to What have we been learning `bout
:14:08. > :14:11.this week? The rainbow fish. She is a teaching assistant and today's
:14:12. > :14:14.lesson is how to tell what the characteristically feeling, but she
:14:15. > :14:20.also educates adults about how to identify children that may be at
:14:21. > :14:23.risk of FGM. They will not change in front of you. Academically they will
:14:24. > :14:27.go down because they don't want to get involved. And then she tells her
:14:28. > :14:31.own story. I was six years old when it happened to me and I wouldn't
:14:32. > :14:35.want any six`year`old girl to go through that. It's the pain from
:14:36. > :14:45.hell. And she's trying to Sheriff from teachers across Walthal Forest.
:14:46. > :14:49.`` share it. She is passion`te about this issue and can go out to talk to
:14:50. > :14:52.schools and head teachers and governors and also most importantly
:14:53. > :14:55.the front`line staff dealing with the children. This is one woman in
:14:56. > :15:00.one school in one borough and this sort of training for teachers is
:15:01. > :15:05.rare, though there are plans to make it compulsory for some publhc sector
:15:06. > :15:10.staff. She says we need to be much more forward about raising the
:15:11. > :15:15.issue. We need to educate the parents. In secondary school if
:15:16. > :15:22.these girls have rights tell them about FGM. Don't mince words, don't
:15:23. > :15:27.use scientific words, use plain old English, otherwise I guarantee you
:15:28. > :15:30.30 or 40 years down we will have liked rather children who grew up
:15:31. > :15:34.and are now adults and say they were not protected. Many girls are taken
:15:35. > :15:38.abroad to have the procedurd done. It's illegal but few girls speak out
:15:39. > :15:41.because his family tradition. Though the adult clinic at UCH has seen an
:15:42. > :15:46.increase in demand so has sdt one up just for children. They can be
:15:47. > :15:50.examined if treatment is necessary and that can be provided. Clinic
:15:51. > :15:53.will be set within paediatrhc services, so that it will h`ve all
:15:54. > :15:57.the advantages of the paedi`tric clinic. FGM is being talked about
:15:58. > :16:01.more and more and the government says it's doing a number of things
:16:02. > :16:05.to try and prevent it, but ht wants to end it within a generation. But
:16:06. > :16:09.that will be a challenge because this is a brutal tradition that
:16:10. > :16:12.girls have had to put up with for hundreds and hundreds of ye`rs.
:16:13. > :16:25.Tarah Welsh, BBC London News. Still to come: Dust off your
:16:26. > :16:31.umbrella. You may soon need it. I will tell you when in the forecast
:16:32. > :16:35.later. Join me with this unsung hero on the First World War battlefields
:16:36. > :16:41.of Belgium, as we find out how the buses went to war.
:16:42. > :16:44.With less than two years until the next mayoral election
:16:45. > :16:47.the race to replace Boris Johnson is already gathering pace.
:16:48. > :16:50.At the Labour Party Conference, many potential candidates are trying
:16:51. > :16:54.to gather support, but most of them aren't prepared to admit whdther or
:16:55. > :17:04.Our political editor, Tim Donovan, sent this report from Manchdster.
:17:05. > :17:10.It's a long`haul to City Hall, in Manchester some have set off earlier
:17:11. > :17:14.than others. The first of the MPs to declare, the man from Tottenham I
:17:15. > :17:18.think that some people are hedging their bets. They are waiting to see
:17:19. > :17:23.what happens after the general election. Is Labour going to win?
:17:24. > :17:26.Are we going to form the Government. Am I going to be Secretary of
:17:27. > :17:31.State... Isn't that fair to do that? That is up to them. I'm cle`r I want
:17:32. > :17:36.to be Mayor of London that hs why I'm being honest with the electorate
:17:37. > :17:42.about it. The other person to join the race is a transport journalist
:17:43. > :17:45.who wants to draw others? They are jockeying for position whether they
:17:46. > :17:49.want a ministerial approach. They don't want to embarrass thehr
:17:50. > :17:53.electorates to say, we might go off and be Mayor. They have varhous
:17:54. > :17:57.reasons. It's a great shame. London needs this debate. The fringe comes
:17:58. > :18:01.alive as day turns to night, you have to keep to alert or it's easy
:18:02. > :18:07.to miss as the potential candidates as they go from event to evdnt. Now,
:18:08. > :18:15.we think a half dozen or so of these major Labour figures could be
:18:16. > :18:26.interested in the position of next Mayor. Very few are prepared to put
:18:27. > :18:30.their head above the parapet and declare before the the general
:18:31. > :18:33.election. In relation to tr`nsport and infrastructure, relating to
:18:34. > :18:37.justice and human rights. Trade union rights. These are important
:18:38. > :18:41.issues for anybody who wants to serve out ` Would you like `nother
:18:42. > :18:49.job? Listen, I enjoy thoroughly being the MP for Tooting. Sdrving my
:18:50. > :18:54.constituents. No declaration seems imminent from this former Transport
:18:55. > :19:00.Secretary. At the moment, I'm fully occupied by generating the policies
:19:01. > :19:03.that we need to win in 2015`201 . Pro`growth policies that will see
:19:04. > :19:06.that people's standards of living is advanced and that we're abld to deal
:19:07. > :19:12.with, in London, huge popul`tion growth. The former Olympics Minister
:19:13. > :19:17.appears to be the early frontrunner. It seems Evermore likely shd will
:19:18. > :19:23.stand but... I don't want to sound coy about it. But I don't think it's
:19:24. > :19:30.a time to decide or certainly not to declare. I am working on, you
:19:31. > :19:34.know... If I stood for Labotr's nomination as Mayor of London, I'm
:19:35. > :19:50.working on a detailed set of policies. Who knows what max emerge
:19:51. > :19:52.hechl is not anointing anyone. `` the `` the only thing that will be
:19:53. > :19:56.certain is that it's not hil. West Ham United have revealdd more
:19:57. > :19:58.details of their development of the Olympic Stadium
:19:59. > :20:00.in Stratford, including the news that fans will be able to sdlect
:20:01. > :20:03.their seat using virtual re`lity. To explain more,
:20:04. > :20:09.our sports reporter, Sara Orchard, Thank you. Starting off with bad
:20:10. > :20:12.news. I can't bring you those virtual reality images. . They are
:20:13. > :20:17.being kept exclusively for West Ham fans. If you have a season ticket or
:20:18. > :20:21.lucky enough to be in corporation hospitality you will see thd seat
:20:22. > :20:25.you sit`in and the sights of the pitch around you and behind you as
:20:26. > :20:33.well. What I can share with you today is the brand new CGI hmages.
:20:34. > :20:37.It includes the leadup to the stadium and images of that digital
:20:38. > :20:41.wrap that West Ham want to get approved around the outside of it,
:20:42. > :20:45.not confirmed yet though. If we remind ourselves of where wd are
:20:46. > :20:51.with the Olympic Stadium. It was awarded to West Ham in March 20 3.
:20:52. > :20:58.The original cost of building it for the Olympics was ?429 million. Then
:20:59. > :21:03.up to ?190 million is expected to be the cost of developing it into West
:21:04. > :21:06.Ham's ground, that includes rearranging and reducing thd seating
:21:07. > :21:12.and adding a roof. What did the club have to say today? Much has been
:21:13. > :21:18.made in recent weeks of Tottenham Hotspurs' current predicament. They
:21:19. > :21:21.will be out of their stadiul when they have to redevelop Whitd Hart
:21:22. > :21:29.Lane it had been muted they might come here to use West Ham's ground.
:21:30. > :21:35.That was blown out of the w`ter by the Vice Chair who tongue`in`cheek
:21:36. > :21:38.said that would not be happdning. It was all about the fans. It was ebbed
:21:39. > :21:42.by the vice captain, Mark Noble One of the best obviously
:21:43. > :21:45.in the country. Hopefully,
:21:46. > :21:47.one of the best in Europe. I mean, it's an amazing thing
:21:48. > :21:50.for a fan to come What an amazing place to go
:21:51. > :21:56.and watch football and you're in the heart of London and ht's
:21:57. > :22:08.going to be a lovely place. A source within the stadium had told
:22:09. > :22:12.a construction website cracks had appeared in the wheeling whdre the
:22:13. > :22:15.stadium roof will be taking up. I spoke to the company delivering the
:22:16. > :22:19.stadium to West Ham they didn't deny the cracks. They played down the
:22:20. > :22:22.significance saying the stadium transformation remains on track and
:22:23. > :22:25.there is no question the long`term construction will be delivered on
:22:26. > :22:29.time. Back to you. Thank yot very much.
:22:30. > :22:31.Now they may seem like an unlikely mode of military
:22:32. > :22:34.transport, but the allied w`r effort of 1914 was so great that mhlitary
:22:35. > :22:37.commanders mobilised London buses to carry troops on the Western Front.
:22:38. > :22:41.Only a handful of these survive and one of them is back on the road in
:22:42. > :22:44.Belgium as a tribute to the crews and vehicles that never camd home.
:22:45. > :22:54.Under the great arch of Yprds' Menin Gate, the evening remembrance
:22:55. > :22:59.On the pavements, heads turn to watch a visitor
:23:00. > :23:11.Rumbling over the cobbles for the first time in a century
:23:12. > :23:14.The B`type bus was a regular sight on London's streets.
:23:15. > :23:20.In 1914, it was recruited for the war effort.
:23:21. > :23:28.This is one of only four which survive.
:23:29. > :23:30.1,000 buses, each bus could carry about 25 soldiers,
:23:31. > :23:35.So 25 soldiers in each bus, being ferried to and from locations
:23:36. > :23:38.day in, day out, obviously puite a sizeable number of troops.
:23:39. > :23:42.This bus, like those before it, has been transformed.
:23:43. > :23:45.The windows boarded up, gloss paint and brass smothdred
:23:46. > :23:56.Going to war was a hazardous business for thd buses,
:23:57. > :24:01.which struggled on narrow mtddy lanes and for volunteer drivers
:24:02. > :24:09.This is the voice of the late George Gwynn.
:24:10. > :24:14.After the Government made the Bill, London buses really did get really
:24:15. > :24:24.A man in a bus in front of me was killed.
:24:25. > :24:27.We like, through that very personal story
:24:28. > :24:31.of London busmen, volunteerhng, bringing their buses to the front,
:24:32. > :24:35.open up a fresh insight into the nature of the First World War.
:24:36. > :24:42.bus will retrace a very different route.
:24:43. > :24:51.Eventually, this war veteran will regain its civilian splendotr, but
:24:52. > :24:55.for now its sight and sound provide a new way for locals and visitors to
:24:56. > :25:09.Wonderful stuff. Robert Hall with that report.
:25:10. > :25:12.It's that time of the evening for a check on the weather,
:25:13. > :25:25.Tonight is the highest chance of getting rain. You can see the stripe
:25:26. > :25:29.of cloud over northern Engl`nd. You can see another one coming hnto
:25:30. > :25:33.Northern Ireland and Scotland here. All of that is sinking south, as we
:25:34. > :25:37.go through the next few hours. It will produce rain here and there,
:25:38. > :25:41.even into tomorrow afternoon for some of us. In the meantime though,
:25:42. > :25:45.we have some clear skies. Once again, in the first part of tonight,
:25:46. > :25:49.the temperature really will fall back quite quickly. We may just be
:25:50. > :25:53.in single figures for a timd. It will be feeling quite nippy after
:25:54. > :25:56.sunset. Then the cloud will come in. That will lift the temperattre, if
:25:57. > :26:01.anything. By the end of the night, many of us will be at around 10`11
:26:02. > :26:06.degrees, something like that. The rain will come through in the early
:26:07. > :26:10.hours. We will wake up to it tomorrow. There might be thd need of
:26:11. > :26:15.a brolly first thing for thd commute. It is moving slowlx
:26:16. > :26:18.south`eastwards. As we go through the afternoon the cloud will break,
:26:19. > :26:21.we will see sunny spells. There may also be one or two showers breaking
:26:22. > :26:27.out, even into the afternoon. They could be on the heavy side luch they
:26:28. > :26:30.will be well isolated. Tempdratures, 18`19 degrees at the top end. On
:26:31. > :26:34.Thursday, with all the sunshine we are going to have, it will be higher
:26:35. > :26:38.than that, London itself getting to 21 degrees Celsius. Nice looking day
:26:39. > :26:41.on Thursday. As we go through the week to Friday though there will be
:26:42. > :26:46.more cloud in the sky. Noer weather front comes through. That is going
:26:47. > :26:49.to be weakening all the timd. Cloudy, rather than wet. Thd fine,
:26:50. > :26:52.dry weather and the warm we`ther will stay into the weekend. Lovely,
:26:53. > :26:55.Wendy, thank you very much hndeed. America and Arab allies havd
:26:56. > :26:59.launched air strikes into Sxria against the extremist group,
:27:00. > :27:01.the so`called Islamic State. At least 70 IS militants ard
:27:02. > :27:04.reported dead, along with 50 Labour are pledging to create 3 ,000
:27:05. > :27:09.more health and care jobs if they Ed Miliband made the promisd
:27:10. > :27:15.at the party's annual conference Money to pay for this will come
:27:16. > :27:21.from a mansion tax on properties More on the day's stories
:27:22. > :27:33.on our website. Until then, from us here, thanks for
:27:34. > :27:43.watching and have a lovely dvening.