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We're live at one of the country's biggest shopping centres

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as the countdown to Christmas nears an end.

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Today may be billed Frenzied Friday and tomorrow Super Saturday,

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but will consumers spend as retailers hope?

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Why it could be a tough year ahead...

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Wider things like the European referendum, they do take time

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to filter through and it will have a sort of longer-term

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impact on the way people feel about their confidence

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Also ahead on the programme tonight...

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Manned checkpoints and barricades - a new ring of steel is planned

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But why snow globes and Christmas crackers are catching

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I'm backstage at the Hackney Empire at Sleeping Beauty,

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Good evening and welcome to the programme. We are live from

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Westfield shopping centre, just one of them in London that is filled

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with people picking up last-minute Christmas gifts. Others are getting

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into the festive spirit in other ways on the ice rink below us. There

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has been much talk this year about what would happen post-referendum.

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Well, figures out today suggest that actually spending has held up, but

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will it continue? Mark Ashdown has been chatting to shoppers about

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whether their spending habits have changed at all and are looking to

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the lengths that retailers are going to to attract them.

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Well, relax, you're in the Merman Lagoon now.

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Westfield's latest attraction isn't a store at all,

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but an underwater experience complete with boat ride

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Today's ONS figures show consumers are still willing to spend,

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but shops like this recently opened branch of Charlotte Tilbury

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are coming up with creative ways to woo business.

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People definitely want to experience things whilst shopping rather

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than just transacting, and I think that's where we win

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big-time because you come in here and there's so much to do

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These destination shopping malls are increasingly attracting people

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from their own high streets and further afield...

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Some last-minute Christmas presents, we've travelled from Qatar.

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Big luxury brands, you wouldn't find on a typical high street,

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This wall here takes customers through the journey

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So, for example, you have different levels of stitching and quilting.

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There's no robots at the Bentley factory, 4,000 people work there.

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People sort of like all this, they like to come...

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It's not just shopping, it's coming and learning something.

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We want people to go away learning maybe an anecdote or something

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And, of course, they want you to buy something.

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That might just be a key ring or a toy car...

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But if you do have a few hundred thousand pounds left

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after your spending spree, you could come downstairs here.

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This showroom is right underneath Westfield.

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You can take one of these for a test drive and still have it

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Back in the real world, this data shows the economy

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is more reliant than ever on consumer confidence.

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I've really cut down this year, absolutely.

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Because of the referendum, things like that?

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It's just generally you realise your money is not

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It's really the household budget that affects how people make

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So things like interest rates, if you're paying a little bit more

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or less on your mortgage, it'll change how much you have

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in your monthly budget to spend and whether or not you've got to do

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more for your hours at work because of the state of the economy

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and actually wider things like the European referendum,

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they do take time to filter through and they'll

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have a longer-term impact on the way people feel about their confidence

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The pain has been felt more in high streets.

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More pound shops, not very nice shops.

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I think people don't really try very hard.

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Everything is closed there, the shops are shut down.

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It seems places on the outskirts of London, like Harrow,

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are struggling in the shadow of out-of-town malls.

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If you were doing your Christmas shopping, where would you go?

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Obviously the internet generally tends to be

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cheaper because they do not have the overheads that the high

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But there are signs - this family business only

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I want them to support the independent retailers

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and hopefully we can give them special service as well.

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If this has been an up-and-down year, 2017 promises

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Well, let us speak to Rachel from the British Retail Consortium and

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her colleagues. Thank you for joining us. Please give us a sense

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of keep calm and spending after the referendum, that is what the figures

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seem to tell us. That is true, it has not been a spectacular year for

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retail but the sales figures in the three months post-referendum were

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pretty solid. If consumer spending was the key driver of growth after

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the referendum, that must raise questions about what are not and how

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long that can continue? Yes, it does raise questions and what we will see

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over this Christmas, I think, is that it will be challenging to have

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more growth than last year. Most consumers have said they were

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watched their Budget this year and that will have an overall effect on

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sales. Figures have suggested that people are spending significantly

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less this Christmas. These sorts of marketing term spike frenzied Friday

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and Super Saturday, are the ways of retailers trying to entice shoppers?

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I do not think so, we have seen a huge number of visitors, over 30

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million since the beginning of the Christmas season at Westfield

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shopping centre. Spending half ?1 million an hour. The Speaker alone.

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So it has been a pretty busy Christmas period for us. If it is a

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more challenging Christmas, Rachel, as you mentioned, how is the

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landscape looking for 2017 for retailers and consumers? 2017 looks

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really challenging and that is mainly because prices are going to

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go up. So far we have seen shop price deflation for over three years

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now but because of the devaluation of the pound, prices will go up

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mixture and that will squeeze the of consumers. While the devaluation of

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the pound and the spending of tourists, as that enjoyed the

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capital and there could be a shock coming to us? It has not just

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enjoyed in the capital, the rest of the UK has been translated from the

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price rises because retailers are still selling stock that they bought

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before the referendum. I think London gets an advantage from having

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all those tourists coming over and we have seen tourists spend grow

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massively since the referendum. Both of you, thank you very much for

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joining us this evening and Avery, Merry Christmas to both of you.

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Thank you very much indeed. We will have more from Westfield shopping

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centre bit of this evening, including a modern-day ankle and

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some festive voices. So do stay tuned. Now over the Alex Bushill who

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has the rest of the day 's news. Alex.

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A ?5 million "ring of steel" is being planned to protect some

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of the Square Mile's highest skyscrapers from terrorist attack.

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Manned checkpoints, rising street bollards and crash-proof barricades

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are among the measures proposed according to a Corporation of London

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Nice in July, Ilori attack kills over 90 people. On Monday in Berlin,

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12 people died at a Christmas market. The challenge in London is

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how to keep the capital functional whilst protecting us against larger

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vehicle borne attacks. We have seen the attacks like in Berlin, Ilori

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that was simply hijacked and driven into a busy area. We cannot discount

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these types of attacks but one that we would call a vehicle borne on

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cause of device or a large truck that is packed full of explosives

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being driven into a building. This is why it is especially important

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that security has the address not only the high-level protection

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measures but the ground level of any type or form that an attack might

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take shape as. A new report shows that MI5 and counterterror police

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have advised that the city skyscrapers should be better

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protected. In the report has said... When security plans were first drawn

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up in 2007, they focused on protecting individual buildings but

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as more skyscrapers are built and planned in this area, it was felt

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the only way to protect them all was to create a so-called ring of steel

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surrounding this whole area of London at an estimated cost of ?5

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million. Bordering Liverpool Street, the bank of England and down the

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Fenchurch Street, the ring is designed to protect the east of the

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city, home to some of the most iconic as newest skyscrapers of the

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capital. This eastern section of the City of London is of special

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importance because there will be a number of media landmarks built and

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developed around this area that could be of interest and set the

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ideology of terrorists. This will include manned checkpoints and

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bollards. The ring of steel was response to IRA bombs in the early

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90s. So are the protective measures familial -- so while these

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protective measures are familiar, it is hopefully that these scenes will

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not come again. A specialist police team created

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to tackle online extremism is on course to remove its 250,000

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item of harmful material The Counter Terrorism

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Internet Referral Unit, based within Scotland Yard,

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was set up in 2012. Let's get more from Emma North,

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who joins me now... And this is a new team,

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with a complex and difficult task... That is correct. They are the only

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team in the world to do this kind of job, operated by the Met. This year,

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officers removed more than 120,000 PCs of extremist material from the

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Internet, more than double what they did last year and we are talking

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about nasty stuff they are taking down. Jihadists videos including

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beheadings and so-called hearts and minds films aimed at families,

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getting them to encourage their sons or daughters to fight in the lights

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of Syria. We have heard a lot about the rise of the so-called lone wolf

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fight this year. They get a lot of their training material from the

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Internet. Chief Superintendent Clarke Javid from the Met, he reads

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this team, he has said we cannot underestimate how influential these

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videos can be. We see them trying to influence others to commit acts in

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their name, we are seeing material broadcast from Islamic State

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encouraging others to tell, explaining how they should make

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exporters. We think it is important to remove that material where we can

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add to stop vulnerable people finding it so easily on social media

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sites. There has been calls for more international help. Absolutely, this

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is because we are seeing more videos of different sorts appearing on the

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internets, more far-right material is appearing, which the Counter

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Terrorism Internet Referral Unit must take down as well. We are

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talking about speeches that are found at meetings, demonstrations

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and films that are getting more and more sophisticated. This is begging

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the question, is this actually a job for the police? Should it not be the

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job of companies that run these Internet services to take these

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thumbs down? The police have said in the main these companies are very

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good to deal with, they do cooperate but there are some that are unloving

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and this is why they need delights of Interpol and Europol to join

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forces but this team to make everybody pull their weight. Thank

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you for that. Chelsea have been cleared

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of breaking any Premier League rules in their handling of claims

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of historical sexual Gary Johnson accepted a ?50,000

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payment from Chelsea last year and signed a confidentiality

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agreement after claiming he was sexually assaulted

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by the club's chief scout The Premier League says Chelsea

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has no case to answer, but has asked that the club agrees

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to a full safeguarding audit Harrods is to give more customer

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tips direct to its restaurant staff after waiters and chefs threatened

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an unofficial strike. The Knightsbridge department store

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says it's reviewing the way it shares out service charges,

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after its union said workers could walk out

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during the post-Christmas sales. The store said it had not been made

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aware of any industrial action. Well, more now on the Christmas

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getaway and a busy day But also a busy time

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at London's airports. Almost a 120,000 passengers

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are expected to fly out of Heathrow today, making it the most popular

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day for flights in the lead-up And at Stansted they're

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expecting their busiest ever Christmas, as Leigh Milner has

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been finding out. Today more than 40,000 passengers

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will walk through these gates, making it the busiest departure

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day before Christmas. But if you think that's busy,

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double the amount of passengers will be flying in and out of this

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airport in just one week's time. And with both Christmas and New Year

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landing on a weekend, it seems holiday-makers are making

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the most of it. We're going for Christmas

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and New Year, my grandma You were born there,

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so we are going back What are you doing in an airport

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the day before Christmas Eve? Because we want to be leave it

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all behind and go off and go skiing, But we're just going to make

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the most of it, anyway. We used to live abroad

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and we like the warmth. Spanish people too, so we just

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thought we would go back No family there, just thought

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you would spend it together? Now, if you are running a bit

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late for your flight, bear in mind it will take

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approximately eight minutes to get through security,

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but if you don't follow the rules, it could take you up

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to five times as long and at this time of the year,

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you've got extra Snow globes is a huge one,

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that is a liquid and, again, And also party crackers because they

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contain small detonators. So, of course, we see

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different things coming through at Christmas,

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but again, just the same as any day of the year,

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we just want people to get through. It might have been ten years

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since the new rules were introduced, but it seems a few of you still need

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a little reminder. Now, remember, pop your make-up

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in a little plastic bag and if it is over

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100 mil, bin it. Leigh Milner, BBC London News,

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at Stansted Airport. For sports fans, Boxing Day

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wouldn't be Boxing Day One of the most prestigious events

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in horse racing will be taking place at Kempton Park,

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where a huge crowd is expected. The race before the race

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as the Kempton Park ticket office gets ready for the arrival of 20,000

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people for Boxing Day's The atmosphere is amazing,

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the roar from the crowd on the big race is unreal and the mood

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in the office is brilliant. We all joke with each

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other and we have a nice lunch on Christmas Eve,

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so it is all good. We have a great team

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here and the planning So, everything is as it should be,

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a finely-tuned machine now. The legendary Kauto Star won this

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race a record five times and is the only horse to claim

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the Jockey Club Chase Triple Crown with triumphs at Haydock,

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Kempton Park But he could have a rival

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for that latter achievement. Cue Card won the King George last

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year and this season has already completed the first leg

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of the Triple Crown Stablemate Thistlecrack will be

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among the challengers on Boxing Day, He has got all the attributes,

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plenty of pace, he has won over two miles, he has won over two

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and a half miles and three miles, I think he was a horse

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that was quite difficult to handle So now I think he is a boy

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that has become a man. The fine line between triumph

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and tragedy in racing was clear for all to see at Kempton in October

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when an accident left jockey Freddy Tylicki paralysed

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from the waist down. He was released from hospital this

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week and transferred to the London Spinal Cord Unit

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where his recovery will continue. It is great to hear that he has been

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moved out of hospital All of our thoughts

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are with Freddy over this really Boxing Day's most famous trophy has

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a new look to it this year. For someone, it will make

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the perfect late Christmas present. Well, that's all from me for now,

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but we can rejoin Riz Thank you very much, Alex. Yes, I

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have come outside, I have my coat and my scarf on. It is feeling very

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festive. We have a special breed in case you did not see earlier in the

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programme, for you later. Stay tuned. Firstly, Christmas would not

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be Christmas without pantomimes. Wendy has been speaking to the woman

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behind some of the capital's most successful ones and she has said

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this year she has turned pantomime on its head.

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Christmas at the Hackney Empire means panto and for the last 18

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years, they have been written and directed by the same woman.

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This year, she's taken on Sleeping Beauty, but her princess

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doesn't need to be rescued by a prince, thank you very much.

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It was really important to me that she was going to be someone

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who really kicks butt, actually, and was a warrior.

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I like the idea of a woman being a warrior and I thought,

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yes, this is important, let's turn it on its head and let's

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But they haven't strayed too far from panto tradition.

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The audience still gets to shout those most loved lines like...

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And you won't find soap or reality TV stars here -

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You go from Olivier Awards to being booed every day.

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If they are not booing, I'm not doing my job right.

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Backstage, Gavin Spokes gets his dame face on.

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And lets me into the secrets of the role in which he

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There was a famous dame called Jack Tripp and he said

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you only need to do this, that, and that, and that's

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all you need to do, apparently, and repeat and repeat

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The audience is the final person to bring the production alive.

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That's what makes it a bit more special, I suppose.

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Oh, no, it isn't - Christmas without a panto.

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From Hackney to Harrow, Richmond to Romford and everywhere

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in between, this century's long staple is still making us smile -

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which is what we need at the end of this year.

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If you prefer to stay indoors, let me tell you about one of the real TV

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highlights of this festive season, it is the feature length animation

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by the graphic novelist and the creator of the Snowman, Raymond

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Briggs. What can we expect? Key moments in 20th-century London and

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the voices of Brenda Blethyn and Jim Broadbent. Am I to understand that

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you wish to get married to a man? Yes, madam. It tells the story of

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two ordinary Londoners, their lives, love... And 40 years of change

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across the capital. Ethel and earnest recounts the lives of the

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parents of Raymond Briggs. It was a story written on this very S. London

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St after marrying in 1930, Ethel and earnest moved here to Wimbledon,

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where they lived happily for the rest of their married life.

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Originally a graphic novel, it has been brought to the screen by

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director Roger Meanwood, one of the original animators of the Snowman

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back in 1982. With the modern technology, we no longer have the

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light box but a tablet that we draw upon. Yet, bringing 20th-century

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London to buy the animation was no small feat. For the animation

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process itself, we had over 100 people, that includes the animators,

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their assistants and also the clean-up people who added the final

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lines to the drawings. So the end credits go on for a long time. Jim

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Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn star in the film and taking part was almost

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a case of art imitating life. It is so reminiscent of my own parents

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life. In so many ways. It even looks like my own mother. When those

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voices came over, I just felt my mother was any written. I spent the

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whole two days of recording in tears. It was a love story that

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lasted over 40 years, that included war, child rearing and the onset of

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old age. For those wanting to tune into this very London deal, Ethel

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and earnest errors on BBC One, 730 on the 24th of December.

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I mentioned we had a treat earlier. Meet some of the members of the

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London community Gospel choir who have sung with the lights of Kylie

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Minogue, Madonna and Sir Paul McCartney. How much do you love this

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time of year? We love it, especially the food. What will you be singing

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for us this evening? This evening we will be singing joy to the world.

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Thank you. Whilst you get prepared and get into position, we will, of

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course, get that all-important weather forecast. It is starting to

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drizzle here. John Hammond has the forecast.

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If you are dreaming of a white Christmas, dream on. It will not

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happen. Lovely picture from one of our Weather Watchers. The rain is on

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its way. That is arriving in the capital, just about now. I mentioned

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band of rain, but the odd heavy burst, that will rush through and

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the skies will clear, no real dramas for the rest of the night. It will

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be largely clear. Temperatures will not fall too low but it will be to

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the first thing tomorrow morning. Temperatures in rural spots are

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closed everything so you might have to scrape the windscreen. If you are

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heading out for last-minute Christmas shopping there will be

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blue skies and it will be bright and breezy. It should stay dry

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throughout the day, showers will only be isolated. No problems if you

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are on the move across this half the country. Furthermore, a different

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story. Nine or 10 degrees should cover it. As we head into the

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evening, tomorrow evening, it will be largely dry for a time.

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Thickening cloud coming in from the West but the rain will hold off

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until Christmas Day, just the odd spot of drizzle. Here is the big

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picture for Christmas Day. That big area of low pressure to the North

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West, that is Storm corner. Wrapped within that system, a lot of warm

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here and that will be the noteworthy thing about Christmas Day, it will

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be remarkably mild for the time of year. Not quite tee shot Weatherup

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but nearly. On Christmas Day we could have some sunshine and in 12

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places we could get up to the mid-teens. Fair bit of cloud and

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later in the day we could see a splash more. 14, possibly 15 degrees

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and through Monday, bank holiday, it will be dry. The sun coming out and

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that unsettled prospect class. Next week, we have the return of

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overnight frost and fog. Back to Riz Lateef.

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We are going to be tube the festive sound of the Gospel community choir

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singing Joy to the world. I would like to thank you for your company.

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It has been quite a year. From all the BBC London team, we wish you a

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Merry and peaceful Christmas. Good night.

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# He rules the world with truth and grace

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Christmas is about family. I'll have that.

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Let's get this Christmas party started!

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