:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,
:00:00. > :00:11.A rising football star whose career was wrecked after he was allegedly
:00:12. > :00:13.abused at two London football clubs speaks out.
:00:14. > :00:23.It comes as other former players raise concerns at the pace
:00:24. > :00:26.of the police investigation into the football abuse scandal.
:00:27. > :00:31.The train operators with the worst performance in a decade.
:00:32. > :00:36.The Mayor says they're failing passengers.
:00:37. > :00:40.And I'll be looking ahead to the Christmas commuter shutdown -
:00:41. > :00:43.I'll have the details you need to know if you're
:00:44. > :00:46.Plus the Surrey Wildlife Park helping hedgehogs
:00:47. > :00:57.And a taste of Christmas past - ever wondered how some
:00:58. > :01:16.Welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef.
:01:17. > :01:20.First tonight - a rising football star whose future in the game
:01:21. > :01:22.was wrecked by the trauma of alleged abuse at two London clubs
:01:23. > :01:30.Paul Collins buried his medals to shut out painful memories.
:01:31. > :01:33.He was just 12 when he was targeted by paedophile coach Eddie Heath -
:01:34. > :01:42.But now, as other players have come forward,
:01:43. > :02:00.Playing football was Paul Collins's cream, a dream he says was shattered
:02:01. > :02:05.by the abuse he suffered at the abuse of talent scout Eddie Heath
:02:06. > :02:10.while he was a teenager athletic. He would slap your leg, you played well
:02:11. > :02:15.today, but he moved his hand to the top of my thigh and a squeeze me.
:02:16. > :02:19.His hand went much deeper than it should have done, but I would just
:02:20. > :02:24.normally go quiet, looked to my left and look to see if the player was
:02:25. > :02:28.looking. Nine out of ten times, I felt as if they knew and were
:02:29. > :02:32.looking out of the window quiet. You just carry on as normal, as if
:02:33. > :02:38.nothing had happened. He says the abuse went on for years. We would go
:02:39. > :02:46.into a little room if I got cramp, he would rub you down. He would make
:02:47. > :02:49.sure he rubs you down quite high. He would get aroused of robbing you,
:02:50. > :02:56.and you could tell he would get aroused. There was times I lay there
:02:57. > :03:00.in hopes on a knock on the dole. He has locked his mettle in the garage.
:03:01. > :03:10.Three decades later, he wants to look at them now and show his wife.
:03:11. > :03:16.I feel proud. You should be proud. Such a long time. I knew this moment
:03:17. > :03:30.would come eventually. I feel very hurt. It feels good to see them
:03:31. > :03:34.again. It's been a long time. Oh. Since last month when other former
:03:35. > :03:40.players came forward saying how they were abused as children, the NSPCC
:03:41. > :03:43.has received more than 1700 calls. Paul has kept the memories about
:03:44. > :03:48.what happened to him locked up here in a garage where he grew up more
:03:49. > :03:51.than 30 years ago. He believes his story like many others may well be
:03:52. > :03:56.just the tip of the iceberg. This isn't just a football problem. These
:03:57. > :03:57.people, these paedophiles, will always grab the tide towards
:03:58. > :04:14.situations where they can get access to young people.
:04:15. > :04:17.-- gravitate towards. I wouldn't be surprised as we do see as the story
:04:18. > :04:19.evolves over the weeks and months to come, that there will be other
:04:20. > :04:21.sports and areas of society that will similarly have these problems
:04:22. > :04:23.coming to light. In a statement to us, Charlton athletic say there is
:04:24. > :04:26.an internal investigation underway at the club and they are taking the
:04:27. > :04:28.matter seriously working alongside the police. Everything comes out in
:04:29. > :04:31.the end. If you would have stopped that in the beginning, someone like
:04:32. > :04:33.me and hundreds of others would never have gone through, because he
:04:34. > :04:37.would have been stopped. Eddie Heath would have been penalised 40 had
:04:38. > :04:46.done, and imprisoned, dubbed the one have been hurt. The investigation
:04:47. > :04:47.continues, said by some to be the biggest in history.
:04:48. > :04:50.Well Emma North is here now - because you've been looking
:04:51. > :04:56.What's the latest on other clubs implicated in the abuse scandal?
:04:57. > :05:01.In addition to what happened to Paul Collins, Eddie's name has come up
:05:02. > :05:08.again and again in the context of goes against -- bees against
:05:09. > :05:14.players. Gary Johnson, Chelsea youth player, was one of the first victims
:05:15. > :05:19.to come forward. He has now died. Last year, Chelsea paid Gary Johnson
:05:20. > :05:24.?50,000 compensation, but told him not to go public. Eddie Heath was
:05:25. > :05:30.also at Leyton Orient in the 1950s and 60s, where there are also been
:05:31. > :05:35.allegations. Chelsea also had links to a convicted paedophile who was a
:05:36. > :05:39.scout at the pub. -- at the club. Crystal Palace and Millwall say they
:05:40. > :05:43.have no trace or contact of him, despite him saying he had links to
:05:44. > :05:47.them. They are investigated all allegations against him. A third
:05:48. > :05:56.name has been linked to abuse in London, QPR's scout until his death
:05:57. > :06:00.in 2000 and talk... 2002. It is found that he was allowed to go back
:06:01. > :06:04.to work for QPR after an investigation into allegations of
:06:05. > :06:08.abuse. Concerns raised today by another former player about the pace
:06:09. > :06:12.of the police investigation. This whole thing that has snowballed in
:06:13. > :06:17.the media was started by one man, Andy Woodward, a former youth player
:06:18. > :06:20.at Crewe. He has let all these people making all of these claims,
:06:21. > :06:24.all these investigations to come forward. Today, he said five weeks
:06:25. > :06:28.after he first went public, the police haven't even asked him for a
:06:29. > :06:32.statement. He says this hurts. He needs to let go of that pain still
:06:33. > :06:36.waiting, has kept quiet about it. The Met police say 30 clubs are
:06:37. > :06:39.participating in an investigation, and the National police chief
:06:40. > :06:42.Counsel says they are trying to deal with the claims as swiftly as they
:06:43. > :06:46.can, but they're getting more calls than expected which is what is
:06:47. > :06:48.leading to delays. Thank you very much.
:06:49. > :06:57.I'm in a pub in the middle of the Buckinghamshire countryside. Find
:06:58. > :07:00.out why this is a must visit spot for the Chinese, who have also
:07:01. > :07:13.decided to buy it. It may come as no surprise to
:07:14. > :07:19.passengers who have endured much of disruption on Southern Railway and
:07:20. > :07:21.Thameslink that the company who runs them has recorded its worst
:07:22. > :07:29.punctuality figures in more than a decade.
:07:30. > :07:31.Laura-Jane Silverman, a mother from St Albans,
:07:32. > :07:43.Like most parents, time with her children is precious to Nora Jane.
:07:44. > :07:47.She has a demanding job as a careers consultant in London, and relies on
:07:48. > :07:52.Thameslink trains to get him to St Albans in time to put the children
:07:53. > :07:57.to bed -- to Laura Jane. Great and reliability on trains means that is
:07:58. > :08:01.increasingly hard. If you know you're going to be late, I have to
:08:02. > :08:07.call my parents to add them to get across town during rush hour to take
:08:08. > :08:10.over the nanny has to get home to her children. And we are paying
:08:11. > :08:17.extra for childcare in terms of extra time, and taxis. What usually
:08:18. > :08:21.is ready a really expensive journey becomes a journey that is just not
:08:22. > :08:25.worth making, because you are working at a loss at the end of the
:08:26. > :08:30.month. It's now not a feeling of frustration or anger, it is just
:08:31. > :08:35.complete powerlessness. What do we want? Trains on time. Last week, she
:08:36. > :08:40.organised a protest against Thameslink at St Albans Station.
:08:41. > :08:44.Like many, she pays nearly ?4000 a year. Standard servers. Her campaign
:08:45. > :08:53.group's now calling for compensation. -- a year for
:08:54. > :08:58.substandard service. Analysis released today by London's mayor
:08:59. > :09:03.Sadiq Khan's office found that between the 13th of November and the
:09:04. > :09:09.10th of September this year, only 62% of -- trains were on time. That
:09:10. > :09:13.is the worst performance by any rail country in the country. Southern
:09:14. > :09:22.services were the worst, with just 57% of trains on time. Thameslink's
:09:23. > :09:27.it was just over 60%. Nobody from Govia was available. The process has
:09:28. > :09:33.been blamed on strikes, London Bridge development and signal
:09:34. > :09:37.failures. Transport for London and the May have put together a strong
:09:38. > :09:41.business case to take over those suburban Southern and railway lines
:09:42. > :09:48.and run them much more tightly. On top of worsening services, Govia's
:09:49. > :09:52.commuters raise average fare rises of nearly 2% in the new year, which
:09:53. > :09:54.they say is adding insult to injury and should be scrapped.
:09:55. > :09:56.Well unfortunately delays aren't the only issue
:09:57. > :09:58.for commuters this Christmas - with even more rail closures
:09:59. > :10:03.Marc Ashdown, who's at Paddington for us -
:10:04. > :10:18.He Southern railways continue as you heard. Pretty much whether you're
:10:19. > :10:21.travelling from throughout this festive period, you can expect
:10:22. > :10:25.disruption. At Paddington tomorrow things will grind to a halt.
:10:26. > :10:30.There'll be no trains from Christmas Eve all the way through until the
:10:31. > :10:34.29th of December. Things are shutting down for six days due to
:10:35. > :10:38.Crossrail works. Services will start instead at Ealing Broadway. At
:10:39. > :10:43.Liverpool Street, no trains on the great Eastern line from Christmas
:10:44. > :10:48.Eve until the 2nd of January. Trains will start at Ingatestone autumn
:10:49. > :10:55.instead. West Anglia trains are not affected. Timetable changes between
:10:56. > :10:58.Christmas Eve and the 27th of December at Charing Cross. If you
:10:59. > :11:02.are planning to travel through Waterloo, there are various line
:11:03. > :11:05.closures. Timetables will be affected over the festive period.
:11:06. > :11:13.Expect disruption wherever you are travelling from. Add to that a tube
:11:14. > :11:16.strike in the New Year? That's right. London Underground workers
:11:17. > :11:20.announced this afternoon they will be walking out for a 24-hour strike
:11:21. > :11:25.in the New Year over a long-running dispute over jobs and ticket office
:11:26. > :11:31.closures. That strike is due to happen at 6pm on the 8th of January.
:11:32. > :11:35.It involves both the unions, RMT and TSSA, so thousands of workers
:11:36. > :11:38.involved. One glimmer of good news, there was due to be a driver's
:11:39. > :11:42.strike on the Central line on Christmas Eve, which has this
:11:43. > :11:47.afternoon been expanded. If you're travelling over the festive period,
:11:48. > :11:51.it will be very difficult to -- has been suspended. You're likely to
:11:52. > :11:54.face disruption, so the advice is to check before you travel and keep on
:11:55. > :11:57.top of things with the BBC London travel team, who will have regular
:11:58. > :12:02.updates on our radio station and the website as well. Thank you very
:12:03. > :12:04.much, the latest from Paddington. So exasperated commuters,
:12:05. > :12:06.packed and delayed trains, and Britain's worst strike in 20
:12:07. > :12:09.years - has meant misery Well, BBC London is hosting
:12:10. > :12:13.a special Question Time style debate about the ongoing crisis
:12:14. > :12:14.on Southern's rail services on Sunday the 8th of January
:12:15. > :12:19.and we'd like to hear from you. If you live or work
:12:20. > :12:21.in London or the South East and want to be in the audience,
:12:22. > :12:36.please send an email to bbc rail you've been affected -
:12:37. > :12:39.and you could be Just seven months ago,
:12:40. > :12:45.he led Crystal Palace out at Wembley for their first FA Cup final for 26
:12:46. > :12:48.years, but today Alan Pardew Chris, is it fair to say
:12:49. > :13:04.the pressure had been It certainly had. The run to the FA
:13:05. > :13:06.Cup final where they lost to Manchester United after extra time
:13:07. > :13:11.couldn't mask what has been a dreadful year in the league. They
:13:12. > :13:16.have only one in six league games in 2016, most recently only one of
:13:17. > :13:19.their last 11. On Saturday the loss to Chelsea, which left them just a
:13:20. > :13:22.point above the relegation zone. It is Premier League results on which
:13:23. > :13:28.all managers are judged these days. No one can afford relegation from
:13:29. > :13:33.the Premier League. He was popular when he was appointed two years ago,
:13:34. > :13:37.who is appointed by the chairman, he is still chairman that has left
:13:38. > :13:43.power after American investors bought the club. Alan Pardew's
:13:44. > :13:46.position has been in doubt ever since the Americans arrived. It was
:13:47. > :13:51.today said that it wasn't only the Americans wanting to leave, but it
:13:52. > :13:54.was time to leave. Pardew said he was sad his time had ended and that
:13:55. > :14:00.he hopes his special bond with the club hasn't been affected.
:14:01. > :14:05.Indications as to who will replace him? People are already in
:14:06. > :14:08.speculation is mounting that Sam Allardyce will be the first choice.
:14:09. > :14:14.He was sacked by England in September after just one game in
:14:15. > :14:17.charge after newspaper exposed him apparently advising agents how to
:14:18. > :14:23.get around FA rules on player signings. He is a favourite, a
:14:24. > :14:27.specialist in keeping clubs up. Chris Coleman, Wales manager and
:14:28. > :14:31.former Palace packed and has also been linked with the job, but it
:14:32. > :14:34.looks like Sam Allardyce is the man that they wanted the diverse --
:14:35. > :14:39.Palace captain. Thank you very much. I'll be finding out
:14:40. > :14:42.how you can help these guys survive the winter
:14:43. > :14:44.in We take a journey through time
:14:45. > :14:47.exploring 400 years of seasonal traditions in English
:14:48. > :14:50.homes, with a visit to a perennial favourite
:14:51. > :14:54.for Londoners, the Christmas Past
:14:55. > :14:56.exhibition here at the Geffrye When the Chinese President
:14:57. > :15:09.visited Britain last year - our then Prime Minister,
:15:10. > :15:11.David Cameron took him out Well the pub they visited
:15:12. > :15:14.in Buckinghamshire, has since become a hot favourite
:15:15. > :15:17.with Chinese tourists. So much so that a Chinese
:15:18. > :15:20.businessman has not only bought the pub, but wants to recreate
:15:21. > :15:23.it across China. Let's join Asad Ahmad who's
:15:24. > :15:38.at The Plough in Cadsden. It's nice out here, but come inside,
:15:39. > :15:42.because it's a bit chilly. Have a look at what the fuss is about here
:15:43. > :15:45.at The Plough in Cadsden. If this is where Chinese tourists are coming.
:15:46. > :15:49.This is where they have put on the map when I come to London. They take
:15:50. > :15:52.half a day to come out here to the Buckinghamshire countryside to enjoy
:15:53. > :15:55.this traditional English pub. It's beautiful in here, lovely lighting.
:15:56. > :16:03.It goes back hundreds of years. Like you say, the reason they come here
:16:04. > :16:05.is one of that. It's because of this, this picture. This picture of
:16:06. > :16:08.David Cameron having a drink with the Chinese premier and enjoying
:16:09. > :16:10.fish and chips afterwards. They actually sat at this table
:16:11. > :16:15.afterwards in order to enjoy their fish and chips. Speak now to the
:16:16. > :16:22.proprietor here. What an odd thing to do. As lovely as this pub is,
:16:23. > :16:26.they come here just because the Chinese premier came here. It's not
:16:27. > :16:30.so odd. If you have three English guys having a drink, they go to a
:16:31. > :16:34.Chinese. You'll have three Chinese guys offer a drink and they'll go,
:16:35. > :16:38.let's go for an English. It's not that different, is it? Only say that
:16:39. > :16:46.Chinese tourists are coming here, how many upcoming? Yesterday, how
:16:47. > :16:50.many came? 58. What are they ordering? They want fish and chips
:16:51. > :16:56.and the same drink that the president drank, IPA. You have been
:16:57. > :17:00.taken on, a Chinese member of staff, to deal with the Chinese tourists.
:17:01. > :17:05.Are you surprised at how many upcoming? Actually, there are more
:17:06. > :17:11.and more Chinese tourists coming here. They want to try what our
:17:12. > :17:20.president tried. He's a bit of a pop star, isn't he? Everyone likes him,
:17:21. > :17:23.really popular. Difficult for us to comprehend, but that is what is
:17:24. > :17:27.going on. Let's hear from the businessmen who is buying the pub,
:17:28. > :17:30.where he wanted to put it on his list.
:17:31. > :17:33.There is no concept like the British pub in China at the moment.
:17:34. > :17:35.For example, people could drink, having
:17:36. > :17:37.brunch and also a afternoon teaor talk about business, watching
:17:38. > :17:39.football and drink until late evening.
:17:40. > :17:49.That's why we think there's huge opportunities in China like that.
:17:50. > :17:55.Let's speak to some locals. Andrew, you have been coming here for years.
:17:56. > :17:58.Are you surprised? It's very surprising, but ever since the
:17:59. > :18:01.Chinese president came we have been stunned by the number of Chinese
:18:02. > :18:06.people coming here. They seem to think it brings them luck in their,
:18:07. > :18:14.they are very suspicious people -- superstitious people, nice people,
:18:15. > :18:21.coming here regularly. Mick, DC many Chinese tourists here before? Not
:18:22. > :18:26.really. -- DDC? Hopefully the pub will stay the same, because it's
:18:27. > :18:30.nice that the locals can come in here after work, and come and have a
:18:31. > :18:36.drink and hopefully it stays the same. It is a lovely atmosphere in
:18:37. > :18:39.here this evening. If I get the camera to spin around here, you'll
:18:40. > :18:43.see another spot watch Chinese tourists want a picture taken
:18:44. > :18:47.exactly where I'm standing, because of that picture. That is exactly
:18:48. > :18:50.where the Chinese premier stood, and they want to do everything he did in
:18:51. > :18:53.this pub. It's very odd, but there you are. Back to you. Of course they
:18:54. > :19:03.did! Thank you very much indeed. Seeing a hedgehog in the capital
:19:04. > :19:05.can be a rarity today - as numbers of hedgehogs
:19:06. > :19:07.continue to decline. Rescue centres are warning that many
:19:08. > :19:10.newly born hoglets are too small Caroline Davies reports
:19:11. > :19:13.from one of Europe's I'm here in the Wildlife Aid
:19:14. > :19:17.Foundation in Leatherhead with some Quite a few of these have
:19:18. > :19:20.been brought in this year to this centre
:19:21. > :19:22.because of the mild winter. If we go through here,
:19:23. > :19:25.we can see a few more. There have been around
:19:26. > :19:27.200 hedgehogs that have Simon is the one
:19:28. > :19:30.who runs the centre. Simon, why is it
:19:31. > :19:32.important to keep these Basically, their population has
:19:33. > :19:37.dropped so much since the 1950s, from 30 million
:19:38. > :19:39.down to 1 million. So they need all the
:19:40. > :19:41.protection they can get. They've got to be
:19:42. > :19:43.our most iconic, and These two are pretty
:19:44. > :19:54.different sizes, but shouldn't they both be
:19:55. > :19:57.in hibernation at the moment? He is about 1100 g, but he's been
:19:58. > :20:01.on medication, so he could be hibernating, that
:20:02. > :20:02.would be no problem. He would not make it
:20:03. > :20:06.through the winter. He would go into hibernation,
:20:07. > :20:08.but he'd never come out the other side because he's got not
:20:09. > :20:11.enough body fat on him. So that's the sort
:20:12. > :20:13.of size comparison. He will grow into that
:20:14. > :20:15.by next spring with a So other than these hedgehogs,
:20:16. > :20:19.why has the decline been But it's all sorts of
:20:20. > :20:23.factors within that. It's loss of hedgerows,
:20:24. > :20:25.it's more use of pesticides and It's use of slug pellets, you know,
:20:26. > :20:29.to stop bugs and things. More cars, more roads,
:20:30. > :20:34.everything added together and a hedgehog population
:20:35. > :20:36.is absolutely plummeting. So you've got quite a few
:20:37. > :20:39.hedgehogs here at the moment. So, is this your normal amount
:20:40. > :20:43.here at this time of year? And I think really because
:20:44. > :20:46.the winter has been not It's been a mild autumn,
:20:47. > :20:50.people have been out in their gardens more so they're seeing
:20:51. > :20:53.them and managing to pick them up. So it's good for the hedgehogs
:20:54. > :20:55.that they're brought in. But it causes us
:20:56. > :20:57.an awful lot of work. And I can see there's
:20:58. > :21:00.an awful lot of newspaper that's been involved
:21:01. > :21:03.in keeping them warm. But you have a problem
:21:04. > :21:05.with that at the moment. Normally we have loads of newspapers
:21:06. > :21:09.and each of these cages will use about half
:21:10. > :21:14.a newspaper at least a day. And with all the hedgehogs we've
:21:15. > :21:16.got in, that's about 40 or 50 newspapers
:21:17. > :21:19.a day in total we need. So we're doing a big appeal,
:21:20. > :21:23.asking people to ring us up and if they've got
:21:24. > :21:25.newspapers let us know. But we're desperate
:21:26. > :21:26.for newspaper at the moment, and obviously
:21:27. > :21:28.desperate for their food, because they eat their way
:21:29. > :21:31.through 15,000 cans of cat food If you have some
:21:32. > :21:36.leftover newspapers and you want to save the hedgehog,
:21:37. > :21:43.give these guys a call. So if you hang stockings,
:21:44. > :21:54.send Christmas cards or even kiss under the mistletoe,
:21:55. > :21:56.the museum can tell you when and why Each year, the Geffrye
:21:57. > :21:59.in Shoreditch, recreates Our Arts Correspondent
:22:00. > :22:02.Brenda Emmanus has been The decorations, the food,
:22:03. > :22:11.the communion of family and friends. It's all part of our festive
:22:12. > :22:15.tradition, and for a quarter of a century, in east London's Geffrye
:22:16. > :22:18.Museum has offered an insight into how we celebrated over
:22:19. > :22:25.the last 400 years. You start it in the 1630s,
:22:26. > :22:28.why is that significant? This time is when kind
:22:29. > :22:38.of the middle classes, the middling sort of as we know
:22:39. > :22:41.at the time really coming to kind It's a really interesting
:22:42. > :22:44.time because at this stage, this dinner that we see
:22:45. > :22:47.here hasn't changed very much since So we've got lots of
:22:48. > :22:51.kind of sweet food. Sugar at the time would have
:22:52. > :22:53.been a real luxury, so they're showing off that they can
:22:54. > :22:56.kind of display all their wealth. Christmas Past is an annual festive
:22:57. > :22:59.exhibition which allows us to step back through the centuries
:23:00. > :23:01.and discover how the popularity of Christmas has waxed
:23:02. > :23:06.and waned over time. So we're back to grandeur
:23:07. > :23:09.and opulence in this 18th-century We have the main centrepiece
:23:10. > :23:13.in this room is this As you can see, it's
:23:14. > :23:16.very decorative. It would have been decorated
:23:17. > :23:19.with kind of icing sugar. Some cakes they'd
:23:20. > :23:23.have used green food colouring, and it would
:23:24. > :23:24.have contained arsenic. So you'd have some people
:23:25. > :23:27.getting quite sick from But luckily, our cake is pink,
:23:28. > :23:31.so we don't have any This would have come as part
:23:32. > :23:35.of the big 12th night celebrations, so it would have been
:23:36. > :23:38.eating the cake and people will have You have shopkeepers displaying
:23:39. > :23:41.these beautiful cakes and people being so absorbed
:23:42. > :23:43.looking at the displays. Through 11 period living rooms,
:23:44. > :23:46.Christmas past brings to life the origins and meanings of many
:23:47. > :23:49.traditions, from feasting and kissing under the mistletoe,
:23:50. > :23:55.to sending cards and parlour games. This is our Victorian room,
:23:56. > :23:59.and as you can see, it's kind of so There's a bit of a misconception
:24:00. > :24:02.that the Victorians Although they did kind
:24:03. > :24:08.of revive lots of customs, quite a lot of what they popularised
:24:09. > :24:12.lots of things that had been I think for the Victorians,
:24:13. > :24:15.it's all about children. For the first time, we have
:24:16. > :24:18.some toys in our room. So these are some lovely
:24:19. > :24:20.wooden toys here. But they all have a kind
:24:21. > :24:22.of moral message. So you have a cathedral building
:24:23. > :24:25.blocks, or Noah's ark. So it's all about learning
:24:26. > :24:30.or a religious message. How much has Christmas
:24:31. > :24:35.evolved by then? Lots of the traditions
:24:36. > :24:37.we see in this room have I think a of things
:24:38. > :24:41.will be the same, but I Looking forward,
:24:42. > :24:44.I think there's a real concern about living green and kind
:24:45. > :24:49.of looking at the environment. Things may have changed over time,
:24:50. > :24:55.but this exhibition has been an essential part of the Christmas
:24:56. > :24:58.tradition here in the capital Let's get a check on the weather
:24:59. > :25:16.shall we - John Hammond Dreams of a white Christmas are
:25:17. > :25:21.fading. Another one bites the dust. In fact, it will be remarkably mild
:25:22. > :25:24.on Christmas Day. Beautiful shots taken earlier this afternoon in
:25:25. > :25:28.Clapham. Red sky at night, doesn't necessarily mean a fine day
:25:29. > :25:32.tomorrow. We have Barbara looming out in the Atlantic. That is
:25:33. > :25:36.whistling towards us. Towards the more northern part of UK, we will
:25:37. > :25:41.just get a glancing blow, no great dramas. There are some rain and wind
:25:42. > :25:46.forecast. Relatively quiet overnight tonight. Last night, we saw quite a
:25:47. > :25:50.lot of fog forming. There will be a few patches of fog later on, but not
:25:51. > :25:56.as dense or widespread as we saw last night. Quite chilly, you might
:25:57. > :26:00.have do scrape the windscreen tomorrow morning if you're on the
:26:01. > :26:03.move. It looks like being a fine and bright start to the day. Plenty of
:26:04. > :26:07.sunshine up there. For the most part, it will stay dry for the bulk
:26:08. > :26:11.of the day, but as Barbara approaches, we will see an increase
:26:12. > :26:15.in cloud and wind, and eventually some rain knocking on the door by
:26:16. > :26:18.the end of the afternoon. Ahead of that, after that chilly start,
:26:19. > :26:32.temperatures will pick up into double
:26:33. > :26:36.figures, so a relatively mild day. Where is his entree, it should feel
:26:37. > :26:38.quite pleasant. We'll see a splash during tomorrow evening. Heavy rain
:26:39. > :26:40.for a time, and gusty winds. That'll clear, and Christmas evil start on a
:26:41. > :26:43.dry, bright note. Another winner system looming in the Atlantic, but
:26:44. > :26:46.ahead of that run of westerly bright and breezy. On Christmas Eve, if you
:26:47. > :26:50.have last-minute shopping today, though I will not -- Christmas Eve
:26:51. > :26:54.will start. It won't be terribly cold out there, temperatures should
:26:55. > :26:58.get into double figures. Maybe a bit cooler than that in one or two
:26:59. > :27:06.places in the breeze, perhaps not feeling all that one. Looking to
:27:07. > :27:09.Christmas Day, another weather system carpet ahead of that really
:27:10. > :27:12.one hour. No sign of slow, but temperatures in the mid-teens. That
:27:13. > :27:13.is one. German police say they now believe
:27:14. > :27:19.it's likely their main suspect, Anis Amri, did drive the lorry that
:27:20. > :27:22.ploughed through a Christmas market on Monday killing twelve
:27:23. > :27:26.and injuring 49 people. A former youth player has spoken out
:27:27. > :27:29.allegations of abuse at two Paul Collins says he was targeted
:27:30. > :27:34.by the paedophile coach Eddie Heath. That's it for now, we'll be back
:27:35. > :27:38.later during the 10pm news. From me and all the team here -
:27:39. > :27:43.do have a lovely evening.