:00:00. > :00:00.We hear from young people with gender identity issues
:00:07. > :00:09.about the impact of having to wait up to two years for treatment.
:00:10. > :00:12.I developed an eating disorder caused by my gender dysphoria.
:00:13. > :00:16.I struggled with depression and self-harm and being suicidal.
:00:17. > :00:20.However, there is concern over what age treatment should be offered.
:00:21. > :00:27.We look at the challenge of paying for adult social care ahead
:00:28. > :00:32.As kids in the capital are encouraged to move more
:00:33. > :00:38.by Lord Coe, we talk to him about anti-doping measures in sport.
:00:39. > :00:41.Plus, how one of the biggest pop stars on the planet surprised
:00:42. > :00:43.a special young fan, and her dad captured
:00:44. > :00:55.We'll tell you why Ed Sheeran arranged a special one-to-one
:00:56. > :01:05.performance for this ten year-old from Croydon.
:01:06. > :01:11.Welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef.
:01:12. > :01:13.Young people who are experiencing gender identity issues are having
:01:14. > :01:17.to wait up to two years to be seen at London's only
:01:18. > :01:22.A leading expert in the field has likened the wait to suffering
:01:23. > :01:29.Ben Hunte has been to meet one young person on the list.
:01:30. > :01:32.I developed an eating disorder caused by my gender dysphoria,
:01:33. > :01:36.I've struggled with depression and self-harm and being suicidal.
:01:37. > :01:39.Alex is one of thousands of teenagers in the UK who would
:01:40. > :01:45.He's asked the NHS for help and has been made to wait more than a year.
:01:46. > :01:48.I felt like I was having to put my whole life on hold to wait
:01:49. > :01:51.for this thing I needed, with no idea at the time
:01:52. > :01:54.because it was so unclear how long it would be and how long
:01:55. > :01:57.It was something that affected the whole family.
:01:58. > :02:02.We were really very frightened and alone,
:02:03. > :02:06.Nobody seemed to be able to advise us.
:02:07. > :02:09.Everyone was saying they didn't know anything about gender issues
:02:10. > :02:11.and it was the Tavistock who would advise on that,
:02:12. > :02:16.but we couldn't see the Tavistock for months and months.
:02:17. > :02:18.Alex is waiting to be seen at the Tavistock, the UK's only
:02:19. > :02:21.clinic for under 18s who have difficulties with
:02:22. > :02:25.They offer everything from counselling to puberty
:02:26. > :02:28.blockers, medication which prevents the body's natural development.
:02:29. > :02:31.And the demand has never been higher.
:02:32. > :02:35.BBC London has learned that between 2016 and 2017,
:02:36. > :02:38.there were just over 2,000 referrals to the clinic.
:02:39. > :02:43.Looking back to the previous year, there were just
:02:44. > :02:49.That equates to a 104% increase - a doubling in the numbers.
:02:50. > :02:53.This demand is leading to long waiting times,
:02:54. > :02:56.which some experts say is damaging to health.
:02:57. > :03:00.For them, the wait is hugely distressing.
:03:01. > :03:04.Every day is an agony, as they see themselves being more
:03:05. > :03:18.and more developing into a physical body that is quite foreign to them.
:03:19. > :03:20.Although the Tavistock Centre acknowledges it can do more
:03:21. > :03:23.to reduce waiting times, the team says some of the treatments
:03:24. > :03:25.are life-changing and can lead to infertility,
:03:26. > :03:29.We offer young people the opportunity over time to be
:03:30. > :03:31.thinking about their options and thinking about what's right
:03:32. > :03:33.for them both in the present and in the long-term.
:03:34. > :03:38.And gender identities may carry on or they may change over time,
:03:39. > :03:41.and I think it's about not racing forward too quickly
:03:42. > :03:47.The centre is now recruiting more staff to deal with
:03:48. > :03:52.Even so, for young people like Alex, the wait continues.
:03:53. > :03:55.We should be worried about young people having
:03:56. > :03:57.to wait for this therapy, because trans teenagers have such
:03:58. > :04:00.a high rate of suicide and mental health problems.
:04:01. > :04:02.We're risking their lives when we make them wait for treatment.
:04:03. > :04:04.No-one knows why the demand for gender therapy has
:04:05. > :04:09.But experts say, despite the wait, any young people who need help
:04:10. > :04:19.Our correspondent, Alex Bushill joins me now in the studio,
:04:20. > :04:25.and Alex, there is a debate over these treatments, isn't there?
:04:26. > :04:31.As we heard in Ben's report there, there are many young people who
:04:32. > :04:34.benefit hugely from the work and treatment that is on offer out there
:04:35. > :04:40.on the NHS, but there are critical voices and B are concerned while it
:04:41. > :04:45.would be of course very cruel to refuse trans people of the treatment
:04:46. > :04:49.that they need, equally they say it would be unfair and unethical to
:04:50. > :04:53.pressurise youngsters to have decisions that they have to make
:04:54. > :04:59.that they later regret. On that point, we have been speaking here to
:05:00. > :05:03.five parents, who have really deep concerns. These are parents of trans
:05:04. > :05:07.children themselves. One of them said his daughter has no proudly, it
:05:08. > :05:11.is a lesbian women, who now believes it was never appropriate for her to
:05:12. > :05:15.have thought of herself as being trans in the first place. That is
:05:16. > :05:20.the point many of the critics focusing on this idea, decisions
:05:21. > :05:26.that people later regret. Critics like the founder of trans gender
:05:27. > :05:28.trend. She is also an author Andy children's communicators expert.
:05:29. > :05:30.We're treating them as if they're adults and they know themselves.
:05:31. > :05:33.Nobody as an adult identifies in the same way as they did
:05:34. > :05:38.We have to give children a chance to grow up before making such
:05:39. > :05:43.There's no evidence base, there's no long-term research.
:05:44. > :05:46.We have no idea of the affect of blockers on the developing
:05:47. > :06:04.She is concerned about the role of social media and goes a step
:06:05. > :06:08.further, arguing there is unfair pressure on gay young people to
:06:09. > :06:12.change the opposite sex in order to become more heterosexual. That last
:06:13. > :06:17.point is a particularly contentious one. As for the Tavistock clinic,
:06:18. > :06:20.the stress that these decisions are not rushed and very many of the
:06:21. > :06:25.trans children or trans young people that they deal with, who are often
:06:26. > :06:30.suicidal before they come to them, this is not only a life changing
:06:31. > :06:32.treatment, it is also potentially life-saving. OK, thanks Alex.
:06:33. > :06:34.Now, as the election campaign got formally underway,
:06:35. > :06:38.the issues of health and tax surfaced immediately in the capital.
:06:39. > :06:42.Some councils have long refused to sign up to NHS plans,
:06:43. > :06:44.which could see some hospitals lose their A department.
:06:45. > :06:47.Today, Labour pledged to put all closures on hold, if elected.
:06:48. > :06:51.While the Tories suggested Labour planned to raise taxes.
:06:52. > :06:55.We can get more from our political Editor Tim Donovan at Westminster.
:06:56. > :07:04.Here at the outset, a pretty good idea of the likely dividing lines?
:07:05. > :07:10.Yes, public services from Labour straightaway, a handful of A Es
:07:11. > :07:12.could be under threat in the capital. There are plans to
:07:13. > :07:18.downgrade some hospitals, the suggestion will be closures. St
:07:19. > :07:22.Helier Hospital in south-west London, one of the cluster of five
:07:23. > :07:26.credit has been an option to close one of these hospitals. Labour CV
:07:27. > :07:29.are not putting off for ever the idea of this kind of
:07:30. > :07:33.rationalisation. The seeing if they were elected they would have an
:07:34. > :07:38.immediate moratorium and hold off and look at this again with an
:07:39. > :07:41.expert panel and also do a lot more public consultation. This was Sadiq
:07:42. > :07:42.Khan, the Mayor of London today. I've seen in West London,
:07:43. > :07:45.in North London, I was in Redbridge of the broken promises
:07:46. > :07:48.from the Conservative Government. A top down re-organisation
:07:49. > :07:52.costing billions of pounds, A Es across London
:07:53. > :07:55.are closed, which means, literally, people's
:07:56. > :07:56.lives being put at risk. And I welcome this announcement
:07:57. > :07:59.to halt the A closures whilst a full review
:08:00. > :08:11.is undertaken. You don't exactly find a lot of
:08:12. > :08:17.politicians campaigning during elections to close A Es. The Lib
:08:18. > :08:21.Dems are looking to make gains in this part of London. The trying to
:08:22. > :08:24.get back in places like Kingston, a hospital that has been named as
:08:25. > :08:25.under threat. This is health spokesman.
:08:26. > :08:27.Fundamentally, if there is not enough money in the system,
:08:28. > :08:30.however you rejig those services, you are never going to be able
:08:31. > :08:35.to provide the quality of care that is needed,
:08:36. > :08:37.and that's why as a party, the Liberal Democrats,
:08:38. > :08:44.we are calling for significant investment to be made in the NHS.
:08:45. > :08:50.The Conservatives didn't want that anyone up for interview but the
:08:51. > :08:56.icing of Labour's policy, how come when the supported the principles of
:08:57. > :09:03.NHS reform in 2015 election, the eye seeing this is all about economic
:09:04. > :09:08.competence. On that note, they have specifically raised the possibility
:09:09. > :09:12.that Labour, in reversing giveaway taxes, which its financial spokesman
:09:13. > :09:17.has been suggesting, that it may well be the Tories claim that Labour
:09:18. > :09:21.may well half the threshold at which you pay inheritance tax, you will be
:09:22. > :09:25.paying it much earlier. That 40% rate. Labour say there is no
:09:26. > :09:30.intention to do that. But you have to wait and see their manifesto. The
:09:31. > :09:33.Lib Dems have been focusing on education and schools, they have
:09:34. > :09:36.been welcoming the suggestion today it has been suggested the
:09:37. > :09:41.Conservatives are facing controversy over death of the funding formula
:09:42. > :09:43.which could reduce money to many of London's schools. It is already
:09:44. > :09:48.leading suggestion schools are going to have to lay off staff. There is a
:09:49. > :09:52.suggestion the Tories are not going to go ahead with that proposal. Of
:09:53. > :09:59.course, there is an election tomorrow, not here in London but
:10:00. > :10:04.London. The four home counties, the Conservatives are dominant and, of
:10:05. > :10:11.course. These four. 186 councillors they have at the moment, compared to
:10:12. > :10:15.36 Lib Dems, 25 Labour, 13 you get, and 20 others. One thing they agree
:10:16. > :10:19.on is caring for an ageing population. You may remember that
:10:20. > :10:24.controversy involving Surrey. There was the suggestion might have split
:10:25. > :10:29.council tax up by 15%. The scrap those plans. How are they going to
:10:30. > :10:31.pay for this care? We visited a care home in Surrey and asked residents,
:10:32. > :10:42.staff and the politicians. Hello, Doreen. It is not your
:10:43. > :10:46.average care home seen, it's here at Priory Court near Epsom they have
:10:47. > :10:51.their very own pub room. One apple juice coming up. Some light relief
:10:52. > :10:55.is needed. Resident here and thousands more across the Home
:10:56. > :11:01.Counties know they epicentre of a row over how their care should be
:11:02. > :11:04.paid for. It costs up to ?1000 a week here. Some other home charged
:11:05. > :11:07.2000 per week and councils don't have enough money to meet the
:11:08. > :11:13.growing number of those who who can't find themselves. Surrey says
:11:14. > :11:19.it has to find an extra ?60 million every year. I think there is this
:11:20. > :11:23.turn a worry as to where is the money going to come from? The older
:11:24. > :11:27.you get the more you worry about things. I think families get worried
:11:28. > :11:32.as well. We asked politicians from Surrey County Council the -- council
:11:33. > :11:36.to tell residents what their party would do to solve the funding
:11:37. > :11:40.crisis. I believe it's time the Government looked at putting up a
:11:41. > :11:46.special tax or insurance policy for the elderly. So that over the years
:11:47. > :11:51.we have sufficient funds to pay for your care when you get elderly. The
:11:52. > :11:56.Government recently announced an extra ?1 billion for adult social
:11:57. > :12:03.care. In my view, that's not enough. The Lib Dems called for ?2 billion
:12:04. > :12:10.to tackle the crisis. It's a lovely thing, we can live longer, but it
:12:11. > :12:15.needs a lot of funding. The Council to be addressing the Government, we
:12:16. > :12:21.need a nationally funded integrated system that provides for adult
:12:22. > :12:32.social care and the NHS services to work together. How are you going to
:12:33. > :12:36.do it? How are you going to find it? We will probably have to look at
:12:37. > :12:41.more taxes or some other way of funding, maybe for me, did the EU,
:12:42. > :12:46.some of the money which we are not going to be sending over to
:12:47. > :12:49.Brussels, maybe some of it, and I think we should be using some of it,
:12:50. > :12:55.Tippett marbles into the NHS and the carer needs. We spoke to the four
:12:56. > :12:58.main parties on Surrey County Council here at Priory Court this
:12:59. > :13:01.morning, but labour and the Green party rolls are represented on the
:13:02. > :13:05.authority with one seat each. We're going to ask them how they would
:13:06. > :13:09.tackle the crisis in funding for adult social care. We would look to
:13:10. > :13:13.do as other counties have done, whether it is Berkshire or Dorset,
:13:14. > :13:17.Oxfordshire, streamline your local authority which would make one-off
:13:18. > :13:23.savings and ongoing savings, which could be used to fund adult social
:13:24. > :13:27.care. The real challenge is in terms of local councils, we need to
:13:28. > :13:31.prioritise care, prioritise the future, prioritise the most
:13:32. > :13:35.vulnerable people in the UK before Corporation tax cuts. Back at Priory
:13:36. > :13:38.Court, what do the residents think? Have you heard anything today from
:13:39. > :13:45.any of the politicians that have given you any hope they might have
:13:46. > :13:50.the answers? I'm afraid not. They all follow the party line. The oral
:13:51. > :13:56.coming up with the same thing, that something has got to be...
:13:57. > :13:58.Something, I don't know for. A sentiment which was going to the
:13:59. > :14:05.polls tomorrow will no doubt agree with.
:14:06. > :14:07.Police investigating the murder of an 80-year-old at an allotment
:14:08. > :14:10.in north west London have released an image of a man
:14:11. > :14:13.A ?20,000 reward is on offer for information leading
:14:14. > :14:16.to the arrest of Mubarick Duat who police say has many aliases.
:14:17. > :14:24.In February, lea Adri Soejoko's body was found in a shed
:14:25. > :14:28.New rented homes designed to make it easier for Londoners
:14:29. > :14:31.to save for a place of their own have been unveiled
:14:32. > :14:36.The so called 'living rent' properties in Beckenham are intended
:14:37. > :14:38.to provide rented accommodation at a cheaper level
:14:39. > :14:50.The price is capped, based on average earnings for an area.
:14:51. > :14:53.Police have launched a fresh appeal to catch the killer of a seven year
:14:54. > :14:55.old girl from Reading who was murdered twenty years ago.
:14:56. > :14:58.Emily Salvini died when her home was set on fire in 1997.
:14:59. > :15:01.Her mother and brother were also in the house and were badly hurt.
:15:02. > :15:05.This is Emily Salvini welcoming home her newborn brother.
:15:06. > :15:09.Three years after this was filmed, she was dead.
:15:10. > :15:12.Emily did nothing to anyone, she was just a little girl.
:15:13. > :15:17.Living a little girl's life with Barbie dolls and Spice Girls.
:15:18. > :15:20.Phone lines were cut at the family's home in Caversham to prevent them
:15:21. > :15:27.Petrol was then poured through the letterbox and set alight.
:15:28. > :15:29.Despite a number of arrests, no-one's ever been
:15:30. > :15:36.Emily's mother says that wait for justice has taken its toll.
:15:37. > :15:41.It's just about keeping sane a day at a time,
:15:42. > :15:45.and for the last 20 years, I've just tried to be sane
:15:46. > :15:57.Emily's brother Zack was three years old at the time and says the fire
:15:58. > :16:05.She spent weeks in hospital being treated with serious burns. He came
:16:06. > :16:10.back crying instructing my forehead. From which point I just ended up
:16:11. > :16:11.screaming. They knocked me unconscious and that's the last I
:16:12. > :16:15.remember for four weeks. Emily's brother Zack was three years
:16:16. > :16:18.old at the time and says the fire I saw my mum frantically grab
:16:19. > :16:24.the door and when she swung the door open, there was like a wall
:16:25. > :16:28.of something hit her, a wall of white, and I remember Mum
:16:29. > :16:39.screaming Emily over and over again. Police are using the 20th
:16:40. > :16:42.anniversary of the attack to appeal for new information and say
:16:43. > :16:44.advances in forensics As part of the reinvestigation,
:16:45. > :16:50.we're resubmitting items We're hopeful, but we can't
:16:51. > :16:59.rely on those results. Detectives believe there's still
:17:00. > :17:20.someone protecting the identity I'm on a rooftop in Peckham, stay
:17:21. > :17:22.watching to find out why and give you a clue, it involves popcorn and
:17:23. > :17:31.extra terrestrial. Two words to describe our weather
:17:32. > :17:36.today, a cloudy and cool. What hope of something warmer? Or greater?
:17:37. > :17:37.Over the next few days. Find out, see the full forecast later in the
:17:38. > :17:39.programme. The head of world athletics
:17:40. > :17:41.governing body Lord Coe says he's confident the sport's
:17:42. > :17:44.anti-doping measures are stronger than ever
:17:45. > :17:47.as London prepares to host His comments come amid controversial
:17:48. > :17:53.plans to rip up all world records set before 2005 when drug testing
:17:54. > :17:57.was not so advanced. Children at this school
:17:58. > :18:02.in west London run outside At the end of May, Lord Coe
:18:03. > :18:10.will join some of them at the Westminster Mile,
:18:11. > :18:12.which has been run every It seems these youngsters have
:18:13. > :18:18.really caught the running bug. Taking athletics to a younger
:18:19. > :18:25.audience was one of Lord Coe's office as IAAF president
:18:26. > :18:30.in the summer of 2015. Much of that hard work has
:18:31. > :18:32.gone under the radar, as the sport lurches from one doping
:18:33. > :18:35.crisis to another. A successful and clean
:18:36. > :18:37.World Chamionships in London this summer is essential
:18:38. > :18:40.if athletics is to maintain some of its credibility
:18:41. > :18:44.with young and old alike. How can we be sure that
:18:45. > :18:47.what we see at London 2017 Because we've had 29
:18:48. > :18:50.medallists stripped What we are doing is we're putting
:18:51. > :18:57.measures and we're putting technology to use that wasn't
:18:58. > :19:00.there ten years ago. We can now go back ten years into
:19:01. > :19:03.samples and redistribute medals. Drug testing was not
:19:04. > :19:08.so stringent before 2005, so one controversial
:19:09. > :19:12.plan Coe and the IAAF are considering is erasing all world
:19:13. > :19:16.records set before then. That's not gone down well
:19:17. > :19:19.with clean athletes, like Jonathan Edwards,
:19:20. > :19:21.Paula Radcliffe and Colin Jackson, who would all see their records
:19:22. > :19:24.disappear. Eradicating records from the past
:19:25. > :19:28.surely is not going to make any difference to the future
:19:29. > :19:31.in that particular way. They've really got to make
:19:32. > :19:33.sure that the doping I do think we have to start
:19:34. > :19:40.somewhere and this is a debate the athletes have actually been
:19:41. > :19:44.prompting the administrators to have for far too long,
:19:45. > :19:47.and I welcome that debate. For the avoidance of any doubt,
:19:48. > :19:50.you do have those counter arguments to listen to, but right
:19:51. > :19:54.now you think it's a good idea, What I'm saying is those counter
:19:55. > :19:58.arguments need to be heard. It's a debate which clearly has
:19:59. > :20:05.some way left to run. Now, it started as the brainchild
:20:06. > :20:08.of a former trapeze artist who swapped the circus
:20:09. > :20:10.for the cinema. This Peckham rooftop has once
:20:11. > :20:13.more opened its doors Sometimes it feels as if the weather
:20:14. > :20:19.has inkling for these things. Let's join Alice
:20:20. > :20:30.Bhandhukravi who's there. You know what I mean, Alice? I
:20:31. > :20:34.certainly know what you mean. You join me at the box office where we
:20:35. > :20:39.have some freshly made popcorn, Fognini this way through to the
:20:40. > :20:44.screening room. I say screening room, but actually it is a rooftop
:20:45. > :20:49.here in the middle of Peckham and you can see this way, the beautiful
:20:50. > :20:55.views of the City of London and the shard in the distance. We are here
:20:56. > :20:59.for a special screening of ET, which unbelievably is 35 years old. Some
:21:00. > :21:06.of us remember the original time ET was Sean. Jerry, this is all your
:21:07. > :21:12.idea? Yes it is, indeed. You have opened up this roof, it is not ideal
:21:13. > :21:16.weather. Very British weather, but the show must go on. Some optimists
:21:17. > :21:21.here waiting for the film this evening. Why did you decide to
:21:22. > :21:24.choose this idea of rooftops for the screening? We started in 2011 and it
:21:25. > :21:28.was just about doing something different. A great location with a
:21:29. > :21:35.great film equals a great experience and that's always always try to do
:21:36. > :21:37.rooftop film club, something completely different. When you have
:21:38. > :21:42.screening at altitudes, it is much better. Come and sit in the sun or
:21:43. > :21:46.the barmy British weather. Even in this light rain and cold! You
:21:47. > :21:51.actually left the circus to join the cinema. I am an ex-client, the only
:21:52. > :21:56.man to run away from the circus! I came to one of the great issues,
:21:57. > :21:59.here in London. I worked in events and made my dream come true and
:22:00. > :22:06.started this film experience. What other films can we look forward to?
:22:07. > :22:11.Lots, all the Oscar Classics, Lala land and moonlight. We are going to
:22:12. > :22:16.be the first outdoor cinema here in the UK to shoot 3-D, we're going to
:22:17. > :22:21.show Gravity on the big screen there. Thank you. We have to leave
:22:22. > :22:24.it there. If you can't make it to Peckham, there are other rooftop
:22:25. > :22:28.screenings in Shoreditch, Stratford and in Kensington. The man who ran
:22:29. > :22:30.away from the circus, I love it! Alice, thanks very much.
:22:31. > :22:32.Imagine being serenaded by one of the biggest
:22:33. > :22:35.Well, last night, that's exactly what happened
:22:36. > :22:39.She thought she'd never be able to go to one
:22:40. > :22:41.of his concerts because she lives with painful,
:22:42. > :22:46.So the superstar arranged a special one-to-one performance.
:22:47. > :23:03.She's got the signed guitar and an Ed Sheeran doll, like lots of
:23:04. > :23:08.ten-year-olds, Melody has a bit of a crash on the pop star. What's more,
:23:09. > :23:13.his music seems to ease her suffering. It's amazing to see
:23:14. > :23:16.someone that goes through so much pain and she can't walk and she
:23:17. > :23:22.can't talk and she's basically not got much of a life, to then have Ed
:23:23. > :23:27.Sheeran enter it and he's given her a whole new meaning of life. He
:23:28. > :23:32.keeps fighting, he keeps her happy. Through the power of social media,
:23:33. > :23:38.Ed Sheeran heard about this and last November turned up unannounced at
:23:39. > :23:42.her hospital bedside. It led to this, a one-to-one gig at the O2
:23:43. > :23:52.last night. # I told you I love to
:23:53. > :23:55.#. Melody can't go to a public concert because of the risk of
:23:56. > :24:01.infection, but to be stymied sure she didn't miss out. He did the
:24:02. > :24:06.staging, the lighting, the big screens behind her. He made sure
:24:07. > :24:12.that her it felt like a proper concept. He went all out for her.
:24:13. > :24:19.She got treated like she was the star, rather than him. When they met
:24:20. > :24:23.backstage, Ed Sheeran said it wouldn't be the last time. Until
:24:24. > :24:28.then, Melody will have to make do with his regular video messages. Hi,
:24:29. > :24:31.Melody, I hear you got a big operation this weekend, but I'm just
:24:32. > :24:35.telling you to be brave and step through it and please listen to my
:24:36. > :24:41.songs that helps. I will be thinking of you. Sending lots of love. Surely
:24:42. > :24:43.enough to make any super fan very happy indeed.
:24:44. > :24:45.Let's get a check on the weather, shall we?
:24:46. > :24:54.Ben Rich is here. It felt distinctly colder today.
:24:55. > :25:02.Alice has done so well there, as she? She misjudged that one. It has
:25:03. > :25:05.not been so great to date. In a word, cloudy. I've got some pictures
:25:06. > :25:11.of close to show you from our weather watchers. This one comes
:25:12. > :25:18.from Stevenage, cloudy skies here as well and one more. Yes, it was
:25:19. > :25:22.cloudy here as well. Underneath that cloud, a little bit of rain and it's
:25:23. > :25:26.been feeling chilly. Temperature is no higher than 12 degrees in the
:25:27. > :25:32.centre of town, down to the south of London, those spots higher than 12
:25:33. > :25:36.degrees. With that cloud, outbreaks of showery rain, not raining all the
:25:37. > :25:38.time, lots of dry weather, but you can see showers coming through at
:25:39. > :25:43.the moment and some of these will continue for a time if you are out
:25:44. > :25:47.and about this evening. Overnight, those showers will tend to fade away
:25:48. > :25:49.but we will keep the cloud. Underneath the cloud not a
:25:50. > :25:53.particularly cold night, temperatures not dropping far from
:25:54. > :25:57.where they were during the day. Tomorrow, getting utterly cloudy
:25:58. > :26:01.start, the cloud still capable of producing light and patchy rain at
:26:02. > :26:06.times. We might see some glimmers of brightness coming through, but don't
:26:07. > :26:10.expect sunny skies. It will still be largely cloudy. Not quite as chilly
:26:11. > :26:13.as it was today, temperatures getting up to 15 degrees. This is
:26:14. > :26:20.Friday's forecast, a largely cloudy story for the most part. Odd
:26:21. > :26:24.outbreak of rain and odd limbs. Temperatures around 15. In the
:26:25. > :26:28.weekend, often cloudy, not all the time, some brighter spells as well.
:26:29. > :26:32.It will be a little less chilly. You have early spotted the fly in the
:26:33. > :26:36.ointment, this area of low pressure and the weather front trying to work
:26:37. > :26:38.its way in from the south during Saturday. At this stage, it doesn't
:26:39. > :26:43.look like it will make much progress, some of us should stay
:26:44. > :26:47.dry, but this rain is not far away. If the rain does get close, it
:26:48. > :26:50.should clear away again by Sunday to leave largely dry weather. Still a
:26:51. > :26:55.fair might have played but it should brighten up from time to time to
:26:56. > :26:58.lift damages to 17 degrees. The outlook does look unrelentingly
:26:59. > :27:01.cloudy, but it won't be as bad as all that. There is the chance of
:27:02. > :27:02.some brighter spells and it should feel quite as chilly as it did
:27:03. > :27:06.today. A little bit better. The Prime Minister has made
:27:07. > :27:09.an unparalleled attack on European politicians and officials,
:27:10. > :27:11.accusing them of trying to influence Just minutes after parliament was
:27:12. > :27:15.officially dissolved, Theresa May said the EU's position
:27:16. > :27:17.on a Brexit had hardened. Labour says it would suspend
:27:18. > :27:20.the planned closures of hospital services across England if it wins
:27:21. > :27:28.the general election. That's it.
:27:29. > :27:30.We'll be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now
:27:31. > :27:33.from everyone on the team have a lovely evening.
:27:34. > :27:54.Goodbye. Three reasons we love Eurovision -
:27:55. > :27:57.the costumes. Ah, yes!
:27:58. > :28:00.Who could forget the milkmaids? The passion.
:28:01. > :28:15.We are unstoppable. I've got some good news.
:28:16. > :28:18.Did you hear?