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After the brutal attack on a teenager at a bus stop in Croydon - | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
we hear from people who live and work there. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
It could have happened anywhere in London or across the country. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
It's a real tragedy that it should happen anywhere, | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
that this real tragedy should happen in Croydon. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
A house worth more ?1 million collapses into rubble | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Concerns it's not the first time this has happened in the capital. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Also ahead: Attention coffee drinkers - why these have | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The scheme to get Londoners to recycle millions of disposable | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
And meet the man with a passion for dangerous pets - | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
whose unusual house mates have appeared in blockbuster films. | :00:49. | :01:02. | |
Welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Two more people have been charged in connection with the attack on a | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
teenager in Croydon. That makes a total of 16 arrests and seven | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
charges. The 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian boy | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
was beaten at a bus stop and left with a fractured skull and a blood | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
clot on the brain. Gareth Furby has been | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
to Shrublands Avenue to speak The police tape has gone, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
but for many in this Shannon Brown has lived | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
on the estate all her life. And is 17 years old, | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
the same age as the boy Because obviously he was a young | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
person, and now he's Everyone has to keep themselves | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
to themselves round here. Waiting today at the bus stop where | :01:52. | :02:08. | |
the victim was allegedly attacked, a mother of five. She says the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
atmosphere on the estate can be threatening, and once it's late | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
afternoon, she rarely leaves her home. Around for their GP, five | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
o'clock. Because that's when they come out more and stuff. Also walk | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
past the scene today, Patrick, granted asylum after coming to the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
UK from Sierra Leone. He says he is attacked by five people in Croydon | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
last September after an argument started on a bus. He says his | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
attackers were black. All of a sudden, punching, kicking and things | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
like that. What happened to you? And thinking maybe they are going to | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
stab me. Do you feel safe in Croydon? I feel safe, but... | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Sometimes it's just scary, anyway. What we've got now on this estate is | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
some new graffiti with a message. But some people are saying this | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
incident had nothing to do with racism. A group of young men we | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
spoke to said the area was multicultural. And one of them said | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
he was Kurdish, and had never had any issues on the estate. Croydon is | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
the base for the HQ of the UK visas and immigration service. Today, the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Bishop of Croydon said it would be wrong to see this incident as a | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
reflection of the area. Could've happened anywhere in London or | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
across the country. A real tragedy it should happen anywhere, tragedy | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
it should happen in Croydon, but it's not Croydon is like. Tonight, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
the condition of the 17-year-old is described as serious stable. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Why shops are being urged to close their doors | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
over ?1 million has collapsed into rubble. | :03:57. | :04:24. | |
I would say two thirds of it has collapsed. It happened in the early | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
hours of this morning, and I think we have some pictures, we will show | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
you what this house was like before work started on it. There was | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
actually basement development work, and now windows are hanging out, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
bricks have fallen down. It looks more like a pile of rubble than a | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
house worth more than ?1 million. I've been speaking to the neighbours | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
around here, and many are shocked and extremely angry. The next-door | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
neighbour actually heard this house falling down in the night. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
About 1.30, something like that, I hear a big boom. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
And my dogs started barking, and then my children sort of run | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
from their bedrooms to say that their room was shaking. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
So I thought, "Oh my gosh, I wonder what happened." | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
So we came out on the little balcony that, and there was dust everywhere. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
And then my son ran down and we saw with a few other people | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
So it was sort of from then on, the police came | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
I thought it was a couple of cars crashing or something | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
So yeah, it was a bit distressing, but thank God every one's OK. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Everyone is OK here, but basement developments right across the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
capital have been controversial for a number of years. We have seen | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
other houses in London for like this one behind me has. To tell us more | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
about that is Peter from Safer Basements Group based in Barnes. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
This and the one in barns are extreme examples of what is wrong | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
with the planning process, especially in London where is of | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
accommodation shortages, people are developing and developing. Too | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
often, it happens that the construction method statement isn't | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
being followed. The planning authorities, they issued the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
planning permission, but they don't follow up. If something happens to | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the house or the house is next door, they blame building regulations. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Nothing to do with planning. Or party wall agreement, nothing to do | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
with planning. So they wipe their hands of it. What do you want to see | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
happen? Should basement developers go ahead? I want to be able to make | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
their house better, that is a right. But they should be safe. What must | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
happen is that construction statements should be followed to the | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
letter. They should be checked, followed up so that we can guarantee | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
that when a building work is going on, be it a basement or anything | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
else, it is safe. Thank you very much for joining us. I actually | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
spoke to Kingston Council early this evening, and have found out that the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
owners only submitted a building application for this two days ago. | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
So Kingston Council are saying this work was not approved and obviously | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
no safety measures put in place. There will be an investigation. | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Thank you. A woman has gone on trial over | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the death of a cyclist Michael Mason was knocked | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
off his bike in February 2014 and died nearly three weeks later | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
from a brain injury. The jury at the Old Bailey was told | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
the case has been brought by a private organisation - | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
a cycling charity - 59-year-old Gail Purcell | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
from St Albans denies causing death Two men from north London who used | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
a high speed moped to steal mobile phones from pedestrians have been | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
sentenced at Isleworth Fast-moving traffic, back onto the | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
A406. The thieves reached speeds of over | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
90 miles an hour during a police chase through the streets of London | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
- in which they drove towards oncoming traffic | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
on the M11 motorway. 21-year-old Zuriel Hutson was given | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
a two and a half year jail term while his passenger Sharuk Sheraji | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
was sentenced to two years for stealing ten phones | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
across the capital last November. Next: the increase in London's | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
'hidden' homeless - vulnerable families who suddenly | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
find themselves in need of immediate Well, we can reveal that the number | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
of these Londoners being housed outside of the capital as far away | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
as Manchester and Glasgow But councils tell us | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
they have no choice because of the soaring | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
cost of housing. Three years ago, when she was eight | :08:45. | :08:45. | |
months pregnant with her first daughter, her private | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
landlord evicted her. He didn't want children | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
on his property. Desperate, she went to her counsel, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
who put her in temporary accommodation outside London, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
in Welwyn Garden City. I really struggled to get | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
used to everything. I was all by myself, pregnant, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
almost about to give birth and basically been stripped away | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
from my support network She's still working in retail | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
in London to help pay the rent. More than 80% of my pay goes | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
towards travelling to work. It's been a nightmare, | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
because everything in my life In 2012-13, around 600 people | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
were put in temporary But by 2015-16, that number had | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
climbed to just over 2000, Some of those might be for a few | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
nights, others like Abigail Although most people are sent | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
to areas just outside of London like Thurrock and Welwyn Hatfield, | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
that's not always the case. Some have put in accommodation as | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
far as Newcastle and even Glasgow. Councils say they have to do | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
this because they've Councils find themselves | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
in an almost impossible position. With literally no accommodation | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
that they can use anywhere nearby, and families who have to be, | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
have a roof over their And the problem is getting | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
bigger, as more people People who are in work who, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
you know, people would expect to be able to keep a roof | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
over their heads, are finding of their own, the landlord | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
has put the rent up, the market's risen around them, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and I just can't find anywhere Abigail does have a house, | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
but after three years away from her family and friends, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
she's still waiting to know The new head of the Metropolitan | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
Police will officially Cressida Dick was appointed at | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
the end of February after a fairly She's the first female commissioner | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
in the force's 188-year history and will take the helm just weeks | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
after the Mayor published his Any vehicle that exceeds the weight | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
limit on Marlow Bridge in Buckinghamshire | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
will now be fined ?50. The bridge had to close | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
for two months last Autumn after a 37-tonne lorry got stuck - | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
the driver had ignored the ban on vehicles weighing | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
more than three tonnes. Hundreds of drivers have been turned | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
away from the crossing We've long heard the argument that | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
shops should close their doors in the Winter to save on energy | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
but what about all year Campaigners say it greatly improve | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
air quality in the store - but most retailers worry it | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
could affect trade, as our Environment Correspondent Tom | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Edwards has been finding out. It's Europe's busiest | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
shopping street with half On some days, Oxford Street has some | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
of the highest levels of nitrogen It comes from diesel engines | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
from buses and from cabs, and it's not helped due to something | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
called canyoning, where the nitrogen dioxide gets stuck | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
between the buildings. And if you walk down the street | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
you'll notice most of the shops The real health risk is completely | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
invisible around us. Now campaigners think shops should | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
close their doors to reduce energy use and cut the levels | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
of pollution inside. It would make a huge difference | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
to the health risks to both They'd be saving a huge | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
amount of energy. Most of them are using air | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
conditioning or heating. Research from King's College has | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
shown that pollution in shops can be reduced by up to 30% | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
if the doors are closed. It's very obvious that the shop | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
is open, it's a very inviting, Marks Spencer says it's | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
already doing it and it Of course, there is other benefits | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
that we are getting from this, Since 2007 we've reduced our energy | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
usage across our state by 39%. And doors, and making | :13:13. | :13:34. | |
sure that our buildings, the fabric of our buildings, | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
particularly entrances and exits, are sealed well | :13:40. | :13:40. | |
is an important aspect of that. Retail group say they do take | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
pollution seriously and want more We have 200 million customers a year | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
coming to the West End. They have choices where they shop | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
and the environment So of course it's | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
important commercially. Equally, we have 100,000 | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
staff who work here, we have a right to help London | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
in terms of better air quality, so I think it's really high | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
on the political agenda. It's equally very high | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
in the boardrooms of a lot Campaigners say closing shop doors | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
is a no-brainer, a simple solution How buying a special edition | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
of the Big Issue could win Its high pressure again this week, | :14:11. | :14:22. | |
but not as we've known it over the last few days. Alex played a few | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
changes to the weather in the forecast later. | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
Is the coffee cup the new plastic bag? | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
When the government put a 5-pence charge on carrier bags, | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Now a campaign's begun in the square mile to make us recycle | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Let's join Emma North who's at a recycling plant near Heathrow. | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
If this time yesterday you've just finished a cup of tea or coffee from | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
a copy shop and your name was Natasha, Jerry, John, Henry, well | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
your cup ended up here at this recycling plant near Heathrow. In a | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
minute I will tell you what's going to happen to it in the next few | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
days. First, let's find out why come this time tomorrow that gentleman | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
over there is going to have a much bigger job on his hands as this | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
place fills with coffee cups. To some, copy's not just a pick me up, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
it's become an art form. The more of it we Londoners drink, the more mess | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
we make -- coffee's. We throw away 7 million hot drinks cups a day. The | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
capital is responsible for more than its fair share. But the plastic | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
coating that makes them watertight also means you can't put them in the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
normal recycling bin. So now they have their own special place. These | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
yellow bins are popping up all over the square mile, with this man | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
confident we will take to recycling our cups as easy as mixing beans | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
with water. We have to give consumers a chance to do the right | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
thing. Offer them the facilities, make it easy them to recycle their | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
cups before we start stabbing levies on things. Have faith in people to | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
do the right thing. Do you have faith that people will do this? | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Absolutely. We should give people a chance. It's not the first effort | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
made to solve a comparatively recent problem. This cafe cut the price of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
their drinks for anyone who use their own clock. Did it work? Is not | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
as successful as I would hope, but we do sell our own cups, but they | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
honestly weren't buying as much as we hoped they would. This chemical | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
engineer uses his skills as a recycling entre Pena. Auto-makers | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
ditch the cup? Does carrot or stick work better? Definitely a stick, | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
this is what people respond to. If they try to incentivise people, and | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
we have tried this many times before, we gets more behaviour | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
shifts. If we introduce a slight penalty to people's purchasing | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
habits, then they respond almost immediately, even for a small | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
amount. Nothing is going to make a stitch are flat whites and Bilates, | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
but with fewer than one in 100 drinks cups being resided cult, | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
there is ample opportunity for us and the cups to make a fresh start | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
-- being recycled. And this is what a fresh start could look like. It is | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
a trade, but made with old coffee cups and old kettles and the insides | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
of washing machines. James is from the company that has helped | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
establish scheme. James, you have to ask, why hasn't this been done | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
before? Because it's difficult to collect separately all these | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
different items of recycling, and people generally want to mix | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
everything together. What challenges do you find when trying to deal with | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
this kind of thing? As we see, we have to hand sought the cups at the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
moment. One of the largest problems is contamination, getting our | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
customers to keep everything separated and clean and free of | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
contaminants so we can effectively recycle it. How far do you hope to | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
take this scheme? We hope that this scheme is the blueprint for | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
something much bigger and broadening into further | :18:11. | :18:34. | |
into London and every major city in the UK, and possibly even worldwide. | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
James, thank you very much. The scheme lasts in the Square mile for | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
the next month. If you have a drink in a disposable cup and see one of | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
those yellow bins, put your cup in it. The plan is that if this works, | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
it's just a pilot scheme, it could roll out to the rest of the capital. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
The Big Issue - London's homeless magazine - | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
which is now sold in 75 different countries. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Well this month there is a special edition - | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
filled with work from some of our leading contemporary artists. | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
And for ten readers, the opportunity to win | :19:00. | :19:00. | |
For many in W1, he's a fixture, selling The Big Issue | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
I was a relative stranger in London at the time. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
As well as making a couple of pounds which was much | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
needed in order to get by, it provides a social | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
network and it encourages you to engage with people. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
For something that seemed very negative to begin with, | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
you know, it really has been a positive experience. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
And this issue of The Big Issue is bigger than most. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
That's because it's been a guest edited by a big name | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
in the contemporary art world, Charming Baker. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
Today, he's signing copies to launch this edition filled | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
with special contributions from other well-known artists. | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
I was quite overwhelmed by just how generous the artists were. | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
I know from being in artist, and some of the artists I know, | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
we get asked to do stuff all the time, and some | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
And I was really worried asking people, and that's why I tried | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Not asking people to give money or give art. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
And actually when I flicked through the pages, | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
You go, "Oh, we've got that person, oh, of course, they did it." | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Celebrated artists like Jake and Dinos Chapman | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
And for the founder of The Big Issue himself, | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
a fan of Tai Chi as well as art, painting meant he was able to go | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
from a life on the streets to a life in the House of Lords. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
We're living in a world where semi-people are asking | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
questions about the price of housing, the price of | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
And I think a lot of people are feeling the crunch. | :20:41. | :20:52. | |
And they are saying, "Well, maybe The Big Issue has | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
As well as discussing these themes, this special edition | :20:55. | :21:12. | |
to own an actual work of art, featured in the magazine. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
There are ten golden tickets to be found. | :21:17. | :21:28. | |
He's the man who's turned his passion for | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
Mark Aimey trains venomous snakes, alligators and lizards - | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
so they can be used in films alongside the likes | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Sarah Harris has been to meet him and his unusual house mates. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
They are not the most conventional of housemates, | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
but that's exactly how Mark Amy likes it. | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
He shares his semi in the village of Bovingdon in Hertfordshire | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
with dozens of exotic animals and he wouldn't have | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
He says visitors take it in their stride. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Most of my friends and acquaintances are animal people. | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
So it's unusual to get non-animal people round. | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
Usually they get quite excited and think, what's in here? | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
You know, they are like me, they are like-minded people. | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Hello, Dave, let's see if you're OK today. | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Now Mark is preparing to go on a tour with his animals. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Big Dave is another one of his reptilian friends. | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
He was rescued after his owner died, bonding with unusual pets happened | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
I think I was about the only one, the only kid who got excited | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
Which is a thing which is about that sort of size. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
I said, dad, dad, guess what I found? | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
Training animals has put Mark in demand in the film world. | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
Bond, Harry Potter, and Nanny McPhee movies have | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
all featured his proteges, a sequence in Casino Royale | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
The lighting is so bright that the actual snake couldn't see. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
So sometimes it was striking and biting its own shadow | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
on the floor, which is a behaviour I don't want it to do. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
So I ended up having to put my face very close to the cobra so it had | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
There are, he says, some relaxing moments at home, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
but he claims adventure is never far when your housemates look like this. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Sarah Harris, BBC London News, Hertfordshire. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
On that note - this sounds like the start of a joke: why | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Clover is one of two donkeys at Hackney City Farm supposed to be | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
starring in an Easter procession for the local church. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Sadly though, she can't because she seems to have a phobis | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
of puddles, drain covers and anything in the road. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
Let's get a check on the weather now with Wendy. | :23:46. | :23:57. | |
You aren't afraid of puddles. Can you imagine a weather presenter | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
afraid of puddles? Poor little thing. Never mind. No puddles today | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
though, so a good day, just drain covers to worry about. In fact, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
there are so many beautiful spring sunny shots today from the weather | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
watchers. It was quite hard to choose one, but I did. I was sold by | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
the beautiful blooms at Knightsbridge with the fluffy | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
cumulus clouds over top. We are going to have yet more high pressure | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
as we go through this week. However, it will come with a few changes as | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
well. That is best explained on the satellite picture. We started quite | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
murky today, a lot of mellow cloud around. You can see that on the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
picture. It melted away, and then we had beautiful sunshine. -- a lot of | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
low cloud. Next we have this cloud. That will work in overnight. It's a | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
cold front, and it will bring us a little bit of rain into the early | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
hours of the morning. Then pressure builds behind it once again, but by | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
this point and for the rest of the week there will be a bit more cloud | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
trapped in that high pressure, so we might not have as much sunshine as | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
over the last few days. At the moment, we have clear skies. They | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
will continue through the night as well. Up to about midnight. The | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
temperature will fall away as a result after midnight, but level out | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
as the cloud comes in and the cold front arrives. Along that there will | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
be one or two moderate bursts of rain into the early hours. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Temperatures are settling at a fairly mild 7-9. There will be rain | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
around first thing before the morning rush hour, particularly | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
south of London. Then it lingers and fizzles out as we go through the | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
day, leaving us quite grisly into the afternoon. Plenty of cloud | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
around, quite grey skies. Temperatures lower than today, we | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
got to 17 or 18. 12 or 14 tomorrow. If you're very lucky north-west of | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
London, we might see some late sparkles of sunshine. We'll be | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
clutching at those buckles of sunshine through | :26:01. | :26:12. | |
the west of the week. Here is Wednesday. Moreover breeze, I think | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
the computer being pessimistic on the cloud amount. We could get some | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
bright spells, particularly in the mornings before we start to see it | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
clouding over a bit. Generally speaking, dry and settled conditions | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
through the end of the week and into the weekend. There will be light | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
wind. Temperatures not too bad, feeling quite mild. I don't think | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
we'll have as much sunshine as we have enjoyed throughout today | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
especially. Wasn't it lovely? Absolutely gorgeous. But as you say, | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
not too bad. Ten people have been killed | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
and around 20 others injured in an explosion on the metro system | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
in St Petersburg. Russian security forces also | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
disabled a homemade device found at another underground station | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
in the city. Theresa May has laughed off | :26:47. | :26:47. | |
causes are being considered. Theresa May has laughed off | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
suggestions of a military conflict between and Spain over Gibraltar. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Yesterday it was suggested the Prime Minister would defend Gibraltar | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
during the Brexit negotiations. 16 people have been arrested and seven | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
charged in connection with an attack on a 17-year-old in south London on | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Friday. The team suffered a fractured skull and a blood clot on | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
the brain. He is said to be recovering. Members of the Aslef | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
union have projected the latest proposal put forward -- rejected. | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
The rail union said it was a hugely disappointing outcome. | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
That's it for now, so thanks for joining us. | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
I'll be back later though during the ten o'clock news. | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
From me and all the team here - do enjoy your evening. | :27:40. | :27:42. |