26/12/2016 London News

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A record 40% of Londoners buying their first home have ended

They say with many properties just too expensive, moving away

is the only way they can get on the housing ladder.

For Nicola Altham, moving out of London means a bigger kitchen,

which means more mince pies and more space for her guests to eat them.

It also means she and her husband can finally buy a house.

We have a three-bed semidetached house with a garden and lovely,

In London we probably wouldn't even afford a one-bedroom flat.

The compromise came with a longer and pricey commute from Stansted,

This year 40% of first-time buyers in London ended up buying

They bought 74,000 homes outside London.

So how far does London's commuter belt stretch?

One in five Londoners who bought headed to

Some say a tougher climate calls for more drastic action.

Within the M25 alone, there are 100,000 hectares

A hectare is about the size of Trafalgar Square.

Choosing 5% of that to be built on could supply 200,000 homes

which would be enough for London for three or four years

Some estate agents say the housing market isn't completely to blame for

more and more Londoners wanting to be. They say that, as people get

older, people want to move out so they can start a family with more

space. They also say that come next year, when the property market is

expected to cool, more of us will choose to stay. Earlier this year,

it emerged that have wondered the Bosman firefighters, and 's workers

and front line police officers can no longer afford to live in London.

With more and more key workers, such as doctors and teachers, embracing

the journey in and out of town, they were living with narrow the

potential to become the capital's potential to become the capital's

commuter belt. Doctors in London have confirmed

a cancer diagnosis made more surgeon John Hunter made

the original diagnosis. Now the team at the Royal Marsden

hospital say it will help them understand how the disease has

developed over the centuries. A singing builder from Swiss Cottage

who wants to follow in the footsteps He's been making a noise on building

sites around London, and has even impressed

a former spice girl. Walk past a building site

in south-west London and you might just hear

something rather unusual. Gani is a builder who likes

to sing while he works. It is not where you would expect

to hear opera, but his voice is so powerful, it can cut

through pretty much any noise. And he is starting

to attract attention. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has

filmed his singing close I worked opposite her house

and she heard me singing Gani's dream is to perform

professional opera, following the greats like Pavarotti,

but he is self taught and with his current staging

he is being called "Builderotti". Builderotti is good because it is

connected to Pavarotti. He is now singing out while he works

on a building site in Barnes and during breaks he sometimes takes

to nearby streets. Of course there are times

when the work comes first, but this is a builder with big

dreams and a voice to match. Boxing Day, we are in for some

different conditions. It is cold and clear. The temperature is falling

away quickly because there's not a lot of cloud, -2 and minus three

Celsius for most of London. Calder in the countryside with a frost as

well. Towns inside London are just hovering just above. For tomorrow, a

cold, crisp started the day. If frosty start as we head through the

day. Very similar conditions but a touch colder than today. 6-7 C the

maximum temperature. Pulling in a bit more clarity Wednesday.

Overnight, a bit misty and murky. Still sunny spells as well but

turning 40 and gold overnight. and longer spells of rain over

northern isles. By the end of the night, temperatures recovering once

again after a chilly evening, three to five Celsius. Tomorrow and for

the next couple of days, we have this area of high pressure which

will really settle the weather down, compared with of late. We start

tomorrow on a mainly dry note. There will be a few showers continuing in

the north-west and