02/01/2017 London News


02/01/2017

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Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad. for the news where you are.

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As you will have heard, rail fares have gone up today,

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at a time when strikes, delays and cancellations have

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blighted the lives of hundreds of thousands of commuters

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It's why some passengers are planning to make

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sure their opinions about the fare rises are heard loud and clear.

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New Year, new rail prices for Londoners.

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And for hundreds of thousands of commuters the only way is up

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when it comes to the gust of their journey.

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Many had hoped they would be included in Sadiq Khan's

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This is what the mayor said on his campaign Trail.

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I've got a fully-funded package to freeze fares over

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So, Londoners pay not a penny more in 2020.

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But it emerged the mayor can only set fares, not Travelcards or caps.

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He says his pledge only ever referred to TFL prices,

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If he is saying that he is going to promise to do this,

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Always delays, always cancelled trains.

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He should stick to his promise of freezing all the fares to 2020.

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Because they've kind of privatised it, but don't, yeah,

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make it better or make it more, make the trains better or make

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Tomorrow morning, some will be protesting at London stations.

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There's still no end it seems to these disruptions,

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we have no guarantee that there will be no more

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So, passengers need to come together and work with us to lobby

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Fares won't change for those commuters making tube

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How that will be funded is another point of political contention.

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To Ms Riding back to Euston station after the holidays and there is some

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anger about this. Sadiq Khan will be out and about. Not only will he be

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defending his pledge, you will also be appealing for more control for T

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F L over these trains. Well, the increasing frustration

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of the London commute is affecting drivers too and at least one has

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decided to take action about the delays over

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the Dartford Crossing. Anand Surve from Orpington has

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started a petition calling on the Government to pay

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compensation to drivers Thomas Magill caught up

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with him, behind the wheel. Rush-hour at the Dartford Crossing,

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and queues like this one is a familiar sight for those

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who use it regularly. People like Anand,

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who commutes from Orpington And for him, what's more frustrating

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than sitting in traffic is the fact he has to pay for the pleasure,

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a situation he's decided These delays are unacceptable and

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they're getting worse day by day. Therefore, I've launched this

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petition, calling for drivers to be compensated in the event

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of long traffic delays. Anand's petition is calling

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on Highways England to compensate And if he manages to get 100,000

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signatures, then the idea will be But one motoring organisation has

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concerns about the proposal. You can never really be completely

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sure who is to blame It could be on a Highways

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England-managed stretch of road, or it could be on the crossing

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itself, or it could just be that So it's very difficult to be

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able to pin the blame. In practice, it might be a little

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bit more difficult to operate. In a statement,

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Highways England says... And whether things change

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in the future, well, that he hopes will depend

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on the success of his petition. There's been a large fire

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at a recycling centre in west London, which sent thick smoke

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billowing across the M4 motorway. About 80 firefighters were sent

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to Transport Avenue in Brentford this afternoon after dozens of calls

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were received from concerned Young people living in temporary

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accommodation, are being given the chance to break the cycle

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of homelessness through gaining work experience, new skills

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and most importantly, help towards paying

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for a deposit for a flat. Tiffany Sweeney has been

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to Clerkenwell, to find out more. Here at Printworks Kitchen,

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a pop-up restaurant has been set up, staffed by young people living

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in temporary accommodation. They cook and serve the food,

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and all the money goes into a trust fund that can only be used

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for a rental deposit. We noticed that it was sort

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of near impossible for people living in temporary accommodation to really

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build a deposit to move out. The aim of the scheme is to help

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25 young people a year After just 20 shifts here,

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they could have enough money saved to afford to live in their own home

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and be cooking in their own kitchen. Emmanuel came to the UK in 2009 but,

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after living with his mum, he soon found himself

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on the streets. I came here because I wanted to pay

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a full board and my mum I was very upset and she ended up

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shouting at me and stuff like that. I don't know the country

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and I don't know where to go. Like if something happened to me,

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I was very, very scared. There's loads of places you can go

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out to eat and drink and not all of them are doing great things

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to improve the society Whereas Fat Macy's, not only

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are you getting a great experience, but you're also contributing

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to something good. At the moment, this is just

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a pop-up, but the long-term aim is to have a permanent base

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and to help more young It has been a beautiful day

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across the London area today. Not that the sunshine

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helps the feel of things, This was the scene this morning,

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we had a frost across London. It will be more severe

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into tomorrow morning and for the rest of the week,

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dry with often quite a bit of bright weather around

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and certainly it will feel cold as it is at the moment was certainly

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through the to night, you can see the blues right

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across the map. We are going to have a frost

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widespread across London, even in central London seeing

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lows below freezing. Minus two, minus three degrees

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out toward the suburbs. That means we do have a Met Office

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weather warning in force for tomorrow morning

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until mid-morning for the risk As we go through the day,

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we have got some cloud just moving That does not mean it is not

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quite as bright as today, temperatures up a little bit at five

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to seven Celsius. Often bright as we go

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through the week. Another frost as we head

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into Thursday morning Good evening. It has been turning

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colder and clearer and our weather watchers have been capturing the

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sunshine. Here is the scene in Derbyshire and where we have had the

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clear skies by day, we are in for a cold night tonight. Temperatures

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already plummeting, particularly towards the south with some icy

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stretches across parts of central and southern England, and into

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Wales. For the north-west, not as cold, as we have the cloud building.

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But to the south we could see temperatures down to minus four or

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five first thing Tuesday morning. If you have a commute back to work,

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bear in mind you will have to scrape the car and there could be the odd

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patch of mist and freezing fog. But many of us staying dry. More cloud

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in the north and west. Some rain for the north-west of Scotland. For

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eastern

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