27/12/2016 London News

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People, forced from their homes and businesses

by major flooding three weeks ago, have still not been able to return.

A burst water main in Islington caused extensive flood damage,

but some residents and business owners have had quite different

experiences getting back on their feet, as Emilia

This is what Jackie's bedroom looked like three weeks ago. Devastated and

completely destroyed by flood water. Almost a month on, it's looking a

little better. But there's still a lot of work to be done. It will mean

doors, frames, skirting boards, everything's got to be taken out.

Even though she's had to sleep on her sofa, Jackie says the response

to the flooding has been efficient. I think all the people that have

worked on it have been marvellous. It was slow at the start. It seemed

to take ages for them to get moving. Once they did, everybody's done a

wonderful job. I wouldn't like to have done the job they've had to do.

Around 80 residents in Islington were evacuated after this three-foot

wide water main burst. Many homes and shops were two metres deep in

water. The flood meant the streets were covered in mud, silt and even

rats and the clean-up effort took days. Today it all looked like it

was back to normal, but local businesses have been hit hard. Many,

like this gallery, lost a lot of their stock before Christmas and

they're still trying to get rid of the damp. I need to empty that out.

That's full of water. I come down through the night. Three weeks on?

Yeah. The financial side I don't know if we can fully recover from it

as an independent business. Our concern is that as a community for a

lot of us it's the same. Some of us won't be able to survive the impact

this will have. Thames Water told us they apologised again to residents

and also shop owners for the inconvenience. In a statement they

said they were supporting their customers every step of the way to

help get their lives back to normal and their insurance claims sorted.

This month saw similar floods in Lewisham, Stoke Newington and

Streatham. It's because most of the pipes are over 150 years old.

Repairing them is now a priority. But here in Camden passage, the

damage has been done. For these shops, it wasn't a merry Christmas.

Many of them still don't know when they'll be able to open again.

A man's been stabbed to death in a street

Police were called to Adelaide Street at about 7.30am.

A man in his 30s was found seriously injured

Police say they think they know who the man is, but he hasn't been

The area is known to be popular with rough sleepers.

After nearly 50 years running her beloved shop,

Peggy Hawkes passed away recently, leaving a hole in the

Blackheath community none thought could be filled.

But her family, helped by local volunteers,

have decided to carry on the way she would have wanted,

It's a shop that hasn't changed for six decades. Hi, you OK? Even the

till at Pegga Stores is the same as the one used in the nostalgic TV

comedy, open all hours. It's the way Peggy wanted it to stay for the 43

years she ran it behind the counter. Since her recent death, she's been

so sadly missed, her family, supported by local volunteers, have

kept it going in her memory. Some of the people that are out of work and

stuff would come in and ask mum for money. She'd quite often say, look,

here's a couple of bob, go and get a cup of tea. Even if somebody said to

her, you know they're never going to come back with that. She said, no,

if I made them feel better today, it's worth every penny. Other than a

lick of paint, many of the features Peggy loved have been preserved. The

shop sells cards, balls of string and knick-knacks, several local

customers have been coming here for more than 30 years. She's just a

really, really nice lady. It just has a kind of old fashioned niceness

about it, this shop. Yeah. Do you think it's nice that it can carry on

even if she's not here? Yeah, it's always well stocked. You can find

things here that you wouldn't find anywhere else. That's the sore of

woman she was, so caring. That's why she was so popular. Everybody knew

her. People came from miles away to come in this shop, not just because

of what she sold in the shop, but to see my mum. The family says they've

had offers to buy the shop all the time. But they're determined to try

to keep it going as long as they can, with the help of their

neighbours in Peggy's memory Let's have a quick look

at the weather with Lucy Martin. Good evening. It's been a lovely day

for the bank holiday, cold and bright. As we move through into

tonight, we hold onto the cold theme. We will see a widespread

frost developing and fog into the early hours. We're staying dry

through the night, that widespread frost developing quite rapidly. I

think we'll see a few fog patches into the early hours, though.

Temperatures falling to freezing, slightly cooler in the countryside.

It's a cold, frosty and foggy start to the day. The fog patches could be

dense. Take extra care if you're out on the road. Plenty of cloud around,

but it's still cold. Temperatures reaching a mix mum of six degrees

Celsius. Now, I leave you with the outlook.

Take care if you catch one of those fog patches.

That's it, we're back tomorrow morning in breakfast. From everyone

on the team, have a lovely evening. Bye-bye.

Good evening. It's a wintry night out there. Temperatures as low as

minus three in one or two places already. For some of us the frost

never shifted all day long. This shot was taken in Somerset. Tonight,

some