02/01/2017 London News

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

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

at a time when strikes, delays and cancellations have

blighted the lives of hundreds of thousands of commuters

It's why some passengers are planning to make

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

New Year, new rail prices for Londoners.

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

when it comes to the gust of their journey.

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

This is what the mayor said on his campaign Trail.

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

So, Londoners pay not a penny more in 2020.

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

He says his pledge only ever referred to TFL prices,

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

Always delays, always cancelled trains.

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

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

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

Tomorrow morning, some will be protesting at London stations.

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

we have no guarantee that there will be no more

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

Fares won't change for those commuters making tube

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

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

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

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

F L over these trains. Well, the increasing frustration

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

decided to take action about the delays over

the Dartford Crossing. Anand Surve from Orpington has

started a petition calling on the Government to pay

compensation to drivers Thomas Magill caught up

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

and queues like this one is a familiar sight for those

who use it regularly. People like Anand,

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

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

a situation he's decided These delays are unacceptable and

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

petition, calling for drivers to be compensated in the event

of long traffic delays. Anand's petition is calling

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

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

concerns about the proposal. You can never really be completely

sure who is to blame It could be on a Highways

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

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

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

bit more difficult to operate. In a statement,

Highways England says... And whether things change

in the future, well, that he hopes will depend

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

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

billowing across the M4 motorway. About 80 firefighters were sent

to Transport Avenue in Brentford this afternoon after dozens of calls

were received from concerned Young people living in temporary

accommodation, are being given the chance to break the cycle

of homelessness through gaining work experience, new skills

and most importantly, help towards paying

for a deposit for a flat. Tiffany Sweeney has been

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

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

in temporary accommodation. They cook and serve the food,

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

for a rental deposit. We noticed that it was sort

of near impossible for people living in temporary accommodation to really

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

25 young people a year After just 20 shifts here,

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

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

after living with his mum, he soon found himself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to something good. At the moment, this is just

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

and to help more young It has been a beautiful day

across the London area today. Not that the sunshine

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

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

into tomorrow morning and for the rest of the week,

dry with often quite a bit of bright weather around

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

through the to night, you can see the blues right

across the map. We are going to have a frost

widespread across London, even in central London seeing

lows below freezing. Minus two, minus three degrees

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

weather warning in force for tomorrow morning

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

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

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

to seven Celsius. Often bright as we go

through the week. Another frost as we head

into Thursday morning Good evening. It has been turning

colder and clearer and our weather watchers have been capturing the

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

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

already plummeting, particularly towards the south with some icy

stretches across parts of central and southern England, and into

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

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

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

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

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

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

eastern