:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me -
:00:00. > :00:09.Flammable cladding is being removed from this estate in Camden.
:00:10. > :00:11.We've learnt there'll be 24 hour fire safety
:00:12. > :00:17.How long is it going to take, we don't know, but the council
:00:18. > :00:20.is working as fast it can, you can't just snap your
:00:21. > :00:24.We're out with another London authority now carrying out
:00:25. > :00:38.All board the new Crossrail trains - as passengers get a first chance
:00:39. > :00:44.Are you a big train fan? Yes.
:00:45. > :00:50.It's just nice to see the kind of trains will be able to
:00:51. > :00:57.And shimmering in the summer sun - this year's Serpentine pavillion
:00:58. > :01:11.brings a touch of Africa to the capital.
:01:12. > :01:14.Good evening, welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef.
:01:15. > :01:19.First tonight: 24 hour patrols will be set up at the Camden housing
:01:20. > :01:23.development which is now known to have used flammable cladding
:01:24. > :01:30.Council Officials in the borough have confirmed that they are to
:01:31. > :01:32.remove cladding from five blocks on the Chalcots Estate.
:01:33. > :01:34.Until that's done fire wardens will work around
:01:35. > :01:36.the clock to ensure that residents are safe.
:01:37. > :01:39.Katharine Carpenter has spent the day there and joins us now.
:01:40. > :01:54.Yes, I am outside Swiss Cottage library. It has just opened its
:01:55. > :01:58.doors between camping counsel and fire safety experts and local
:01:59. > :02:03.residents, a hasty arrangement after it was confirmed today that the very
:02:04. > :02:06.similar cladding used to grant full tower was used here on the estate,
:02:07. > :02:11.and unsurprisingly it has caused anxiety here, and a certain amount
:02:12. > :02:15.of anger, too, many frustrated that what they suspected was the case has
:02:16. > :02:19.only been just confirmed now, a number of worried faces coming and
:02:20. > :02:24.going. It has been busy here today because we have had inspectors on
:02:25. > :02:28.site, some checking white goods, we know there is 24-hour security
:02:29. > :02:32.patrols bringing in, the area has become a hive of activity and a
:02:33. > :02:37.point of focus both by the media and the country at large.
:02:38. > :02:43.So far just a few panels on the Chalcot estate in Camden have
:02:44. > :02:50.The results have prompted the council to get rid of them all.
:02:51. > :02:51.This estate was refurbished a decade ago.
:02:52. > :02:54.It's now emerged that the cladding contains similar chemicals to those
:02:55. > :03:03.A lot of residents are a bit worried about it. Sprinklers and fire alarms
:03:04. > :03:10.and opening hours, we only have one staircase to go down. No fire
:03:11. > :03:11.alarms, no sprinklers. People are striving for fire extinguishers as
:03:12. > :03:12.well. Locals were sent a letter
:03:13. > :03:20.this morning explaining One thing we were always asking
:03:21. > :03:24.about as fire safety. Fire safety on fire safety, and fire safety. We
:03:25. > :03:29.asked for fire safety, fire alarms, sprinklers, all those things do
:03:30. > :03:33.actually have really active fire safety systems. We ended up with
:03:34. > :03:36.nothing, we ended up with a building that was clad that was supposed to
:03:37. > :03:40.be more safe than what we had before and we were sold that it was more
:03:41. > :03:44.safe. There are key differences with the installation.
:03:45. > :03:47.The council leader has been before the cameras today,
:03:48. > :03:51.Her teams now checkingh corridors and stairwells
:03:52. > :03:54.And checking electrical goods in all the blocks.
:03:55. > :03:57.She says the council is also seeking legal advice...
:03:58. > :03:59.Saying the cladding was not what it ordered ...
:04:00. > :04:04.Why would you expect does not have picked up if it was not based
:04:05. > :04:09.litigation you asked for? I don't think we would have any reason to
:04:10. > :04:12.need to take these panels down to an independent test centre and see if
:04:13. > :04:16.they'd burn. We thought we were working with reputable companies and
:04:17. > :04:20.thought that what we had was specified, and we feel let down it
:04:21. > :04:26.not the case. Bat it is not the case. We need to examine every part
:04:27. > :04:28.of this. We need to ask many question to the Council, the
:04:29. > :04:32.situation where you are spelling lots of money on re-cladding the
:04:33. > :04:33.building. And we need to investigate every part of this process and white
:04:34. > :04:35.out what happened. The mayor today urged other councils
:04:36. > :04:45.to step up their checks on tower We are speaking to other councils
:04:46. > :04:50.across London and and the government has encouraged the acceleration of
:04:51. > :04:53.these jacks, the London Fire Brigade is doing these checks, we have to
:04:54. > :04:56.make sure every single tower block is safe. If it is the place that
:04:57. > :04:58.cladding has been use we make them safe.
:04:59. > :05:01.More money has been promised by government to remove any
:05:02. > :05:04.Camden is holding meetings with its local residents to reassure
:05:05. > :05:20.Well, as I said that meeting is about to get under way, to resident
:05:21. > :05:25.asking questions are Nigel Rumble. What are you hoping to get out of
:05:26. > :05:31.the meeting tonight? We are all hoping to get, and what I am hoping
:05:32. > :05:45.to find out in the meeting is exactly how Camden promises to
:05:46. > :05:49.deliver. Chatting your. As you can see there's a lot of anger here at
:05:50. > :05:53.the moment and that is to be expected. What I hope to get out of
:05:54. > :05:59.the meeting and I'm sure everybody else does is see how Camden can
:06:00. > :06:02.deliver the solutions they are proposing to replace all be cladding
:06:03. > :06:07.in a timely fashion, weeks not months or years, and is to get fire
:06:08. > :06:12.safety improved straightaway. And assurances that this sort of thing
:06:13. > :06:16.can never happen again on other, future types of building
:06:17. > :06:19.constructions. Romcom if I can bring you in, you have a young son living
:06:20. > :06:23.with you in your property. How concerned are you for him at the
:06:24. > :06:27.moment until this is altered out? I am busy concern from some blackboard
:06:28. > :06:30.of you but the important thing is it's on the ground floor, not the
:06:31. > :06:36.top floor where specially I couldn't get out. So yes, I am still worried
:06:37. > :06:40.but when you have no fire alarm you don't know what's happening, you're
:06:41. > :06:43.only could be woken up if there is a commotion and fire, and that is one
:06:44. > :06:47.of the things that you think I am not going to wake up, you know what
:06:48. > :06:51.I mean? Are you reassured by the measures the Council are bringing in
:06:52. > :06:58.today? I think they are doing what they can, trying to do what they can
:06:59. > :07:02.but to me rushing things and not giving us the information, the most
:07:03. > :07:07.important thing is you have two inform the people within the block
:07:08. > :07:11.what your measures are, none of that has happened as we speak. Just
:07:12. > :07:14.finally, I know you are a leaseholder and you are concerned
:07:15. > :07:18.about having paid at money for the refurb which now might have to take
:07:19. > :07:24.down? The figure was 42,000 for what I paid, plus service charges each
:07:25. > :07:29.year for different parts of the building that we have to maintain.
:07:30. > :07:34.I'm concerned they have no legal standing to charge me again because
:07:35. > :07:39.they have charge me already. That would be liable for their own
:07:40. > :07:43.measures to put this right themselves because they haven't
:07:44. > :07:47.signed off on the documentation on their cladding. Obviously many of
:07:48. > :07:50.those things are still to be investigated and one of the
:07:51. > :07:53.questions probably to be raised in the meeting tonight. Back to you.
:07:54. > :07:56.But what about reassuring the thousands of tenants living
:07:57. > :08:00.Our political editor Tim Donovan joined one council housing
:08:01. > :08:18.Help make sure you're right. On a mission of reassurance. We are also
:08:19. > :08:25.telling people how to be fire safety in your own homes, have you got a
:08:26. > :08:30.smoke alarm? You have two? Why is neither one thing above all on
:08:31. > :08:35.people but minds. When we walk around, as they are talking about
:08:36. > :08:41.cladding. Is this new cladding is so inert you could put it on a bonfire
:08:42. > :08:47.and it wouldn't burn. But it the plastic in between it. The good news
:08:48. > :08:53.in Tower Hamlets is we have been putting cladding on the rocks in the
:08:54. > :08:56.last years without that sort of material. And that includes the
:08:57. > :08:59.block itself, in the middle of having cladding put on it, the
:09:00. > :09:04.council is relieved the right material has been used. It is
:09:05. > :09:10.reassuring. That is hardly the only issue troubling tenants. Are lot of
:09:11. > :09:15.people are talking about the staying put policy. Should you stay where
:09:16. > :09:19.you are? After what has happened in that building. As long as everybody
:09:20. > :09:29.tells me it stay put, I'm going out! And let's just examine that. Nobody
:09:30. > :09:33.got save the last time. I don't detect any of my residents to
:09:34. > :09:38.blindly follow advice like that. What is the right thing to do, then?
:09:39. > :09:41.Here are protocols are clearly needed. I am still worried, looking
:09:42. > :09:46.after my children can I do know how I would go down ten stairs if God
:09:47. > :09:50.forbid what happened in that building. Over the last year the
:09:51. > :09:54.council had been reviewing and upgrading its fire assessment across
:09:55. > :09:58.the borough. We need to make sure really that those are put back,
:09:59. > :10:03.then. Aid never found to have removed the fire door from their
:10:04. > :10:07.kitchen. The kitchen itself needs to hold the fire back at base the rest
:10:08. > :10:12.of the property is a safe haven. Marcella moved here in November and
:10:13. > :10:17.now has deepened the door back. Did you have any idea it was important
:10:18. > :10:21.to have a door round your kitchen? No, no, when we had an inspection,
:10:22. > :10:27.they kind of said yes, you have removed that will stop buying. 'S
:10:28. > :10:33.feelings are high on the 16th floor. You have to be responsible now. You
:10:34. > :10:38.have to keep an eye on electricity, when you leave the house, you have
:10:39. > :10:41.to be so mindful but it is another 300 families who needs to be
:10:42. > :10:46.mindful. We are in the same building. Refurbishment here is
:10:47. > :10:51.nearly complete. If the council fully content? Following Grenfell we
:10:52. > :10:54.are looking again, and honestly that has debuted as public enquiry but we
:10:55. > :10:59.are being asked by a lot of residents about sprinkler systems in
:11:00. > :11:02.tall buildings. What are you saying to them, then? We haven't got them
:11:03. > :11:16.but we have them in bits of the building, so the bin store which is
:11:17. > :11:19.vulnerable place, that has a springer system. Are you thinking
:11:20. > :11:22.about billing and elsewhere? I think it is a sound idea. So much could
:11:23. > :11:24.come under review now that's tenants in high-rise blocks here as across
:11:25. > :11:24.the capital are waiting eagerly for answers.
:11:25. > :11:27.Joining me now is Arnold Tarling, who's a fire safety expert.
:11:28. > :11:34.People right across London, rightly concerned they want assurances that
:11:35. > :11:36.the homes are safe. Does what the government's
:11:37. > :11:46.announcement today, No, I don't. Basically all they are
:11:47. > :11:51.looking at is the housing side. But it is not just a product that is
:11:52. > :11:54.placed in houses. What about your school, your hospital, leisure
:11:55. > :12:00.centre, the place where you work? That is clad will stop do you know
:12:01. > :12:03.if that is the same material? How do you know? The problems with fire
:12:04. > :12:09.safety are much deeper than that. This is the tip of the iceberg. Why
:12:10. > :12:13.is it allowed this kind of cladding material, why was it allowed to be
:12:14. > :12:17.used here when it is banned in some other countries? For that you have
:12:18. > :12:22.to ask the advisers to government, the people who advise the ministers.
:12:23. > :12:25.You have ministers there, they don't know anything about building the mad
:12:26. > :12:29.they don't know anything about building regulations. They rely upon
:12:30. > :12:33.their advisers. They are the people to ask. Would you have hoped to have
:12:34. > :12:37.banned this? I would have thought they would have banned it long ago.
:12:38. > :12:42.In fact it was banned in London under the old 1935 building act,
:12:43. > :12:49.these materials would never have been allowed, we learned from the
:12:50. > :12:53.great Fire of London, which stopped the incendiaries in the Second World
:12:54. > :12:57.War turning the whole of the London into a huge fireball. Let us pick up
:12:58. > :13:01.on the concerns of the residents that we had in both of those reports
:13:02. > :13:05.at the top of our programme. Should residents in those buildings be
:13:06. > :13:10.demanding to be moved out until their safety can be guaranteed, do
:13:11. > :13:14.you think? Of course they should. They should be decanting these
:13:15. > :13:18.properties straight straightaway, getting large families with children
:13:19. > :13:21.out of the property, getting the people who are disabled out of the
:13:22. > :13:27.properties, and if you look at the rate at which that fire spread, and
:13:28. > :13:32.you think that fire wardens will get everybody out and wake them up? The
:13:33. > :13:36.fire wardens may well end up dying in a property that goes up in the
:13:37. > :13:41.same way. We actually have pictures where you were testing the material.
:13:42. > :13:45.I think you were with one of our reporters last week and you were
:13:46. > :13:48.testing the material so you would not feel comfortable living in a
:13:49. > :13:52.building that had this kind of cladding? Well, the material I was
:13:53. > :13:56.testing was slightly different but it is commonly used in insulation
:13:57. > :14:00.and it is put in around every single replacement windows scheme I know,
:14:01. > :14:07.it is called polyurethanes. What we have in this building is
:14:08. > :14:14.polyethylene, a thermoplastic moulting at a. Both are bad, both
:14:15. > :14:16.give off toxic fumes, and both spread fire rapidly, and these have
:14:17. > :14:20.been built into buildings and these products would never have been
:14:21. > :14:25.allowed to have the London building act not been removed. Are you
:14:26. > :14:28.suggesting what is needed is a complete overhaul of current
:14:29. > :14:31.building regulations, because what we have been hearing over the past
:14:32. > :14:36.week is that how buildings are maintained, refurbished, there is a
:14:37. > :14:39.lot of third-party contractors involved, it is subcontracted...
:14:40. > :14:43.Where does that sort of responsibility and those checks come
:14:44. > :14:48.in and like? The response abilities and checks have been done away with,
:14:49. > :14:52.architects used to be on site, clerk of works on site, people who knew
:14:53. > :14:56.what they were doing. We used to have the building inspector who was
:14:57. > :15:00.got rid of Wendy GLC went. The checks and balances that were built
:15:01. > :15:03.up by the Victorians, and the people who followed them have all been
:15:04. > :15:09.stripped away. They have all gone, and we need to basics. Things that
:15:10. > :15:15.we knew in the past and now ignore. OK, Arnold, so much to talk about
:15:16. > :15:17.but for now we will leave it there. Thank you indeed for your time.
:15:18. > :15:22.Well, we approached the government for an intrview on this important
:15:23. > :15:23.issue for Londoners living in towerblocks...
:15:24. > :15:25.But neither the Secretary of State for Communities
:15:26. > :15:28.and Local Government Sajid Javid, or the Housing Minister Alok Sharma
:15:29. > :15:41.You're watching BBC London News, still to come tonight:
:15:42. > :15:48.Brixton honours the African and Caribbean troops who fought during
:15:49. > :15:56.the first and second world Wars. And a slice of Africa arrives in Hyde
:15:57. > :15:58.Park, is summer's Serpentine Pavilion.
:15:59. > :16:00.A Surrey NHS Trust has been fined for safety failings
:16:01. > :16:03.in relation to the death of a mentally ill patient.
:16:04. > :16:05.20-year-old Adam Withers died after falling from a chimney
:16:06. > :16:07.in the grounds of Epsom hospital in 2014.
:16:08. > :16:09.Michael Buchanan has the details and joins us
:16:10. > :16:28.Yes, indeed. Adam Withers had no previous history of mental health
:16:29. > :16:33.problems but in the spring of 2014 he became seriously ill and was
:16:34. > :16:36.taken to the Langley unit run by the Surrey and Borders partnership
:16:37. > :16:40.mental health trust in the grounds of absent General Hospital. One
:16:41. > :16:45.evening in May of 2014 Adam went into courtyard, climbed up onto the
:16:46. > :16:49.roof of a low-level building nearby which then gave him access to a
:16:50. > :16:55.maintenance ladder that had been propped against a 130 foot
:16:56. > :17:01.industrial chimney on the grounds of the hospital. He then climb to the
:17:02. > :17:05.top of the chimney and in a distressed state of mind felled to
:17:06. > :17:08.his death. Some of the horror was actually watched by his mother and
:17:09. > :17:12.his twin sister who were visiting and the hospital at the time. The
:17:13. > :17:16.Health and Safety Executive prosecuted the Surrey and Borders
:17:17. > :17:20.partnership over safety failings because the trust had been warned
:17:21. > :17:25.going back as far as 2012 that this route that Adam had taken to get to
:17:26. > :17:30.the chimney was well-known, getting onto the roof of this building had
:17:31. > :17:34.been repeatedly warned that this was a way that patients could abscond.
:17:35. > :17:41.The trust pleaded guilty, today, and win the past hour I been fined
:17:42. > :17:44.?300,000. They haven't responded to that fine but the Langley unit that
:17:45. > :17:52.Adam was at has since been closed. They've been hailed
:17:53. > :17:57.as the future of rail travel - and today, passengers got a first
:17:58. > :18:00.glimpse of the new trains on Crossrail - or the
:18:01. > :18:02.Elizabeth Line as it The first of the 66-train
:18:03. > :18:05.fleet went into service between Liverpool Street
:18:06. > :18:06.and Shenfield - which is just one area hoping
:18:07. > :18:09.to benefit from faster more reliable The first Elizabeth
:18:10. > :18:14.line train draws in, After a few final checks,
:18:15. > :18:17.and fan photos, it's ready
:18:18. > :18:22.to go into service. Capable of carrying
:18:23. > :18:27.1,500 passengers, and with better efficiency,
:18:28. > :18:30.journeys will be quicker, too. Going to make your life
:18:31. > :18:35.easier, hopefully? Absolutely.
:18:36. > :18:38.I hope so. I've been travelling
:18:39. > :18:39.on these trains for years and they're always just really
:18:40. > :18:44.run down and old and... Well, air conditioning makes
:18:45. > :18:51.a difference, today. Sheila's son will be driving one
:18:52. > :18:54.of the 66 new trains in the fleet.
:18:55. > :18:56.I'm happy for him. Are you proud of him?
:18:57. > :19:00.Yes, of course I am. A new train has brought the spotters
:19:01. > :19:03.out two, of all ages. Yes, I have been for
:19:04. > :19:08.quite a while, now. So, I live in Romford,
:19:09. > :19:11.so right in the heart of the line, really, and
:19:12. > :19:12.over the last couple trains being tested and all
:19:13. > :19:16.the improvement works kind Been disrupted for so long
:19:17. > :19:20.in London is just nice to see what kind of trains we'll be able
:19:21. > :19:23.to get into once it opens. And this is what they
:19:24. > :19:25.are trying to improve, just one commuter service
:19:26. > :19:27.elsewhere in London today. Well, as you're experiencing,
:19:28. > :19:31.you've got your jacket on, so have I, it's a warm day
:19:32. > :19:37.in London, another warm day. This is air cooled,
:19:38. > :19:39.there is proper passenger Visual displays as well as public
:19:40. > :19:43.address announcements. Great, clean seats and
:19:44. > :19:44.configurations, through carriages that give that sense
:19:45. > :19:47.of space as well so this is going to Of course, this is also good
:19:48. > :19:51.news for Shenfield, it The journey time will be quicker
:19:52. > :19:56.so it should be good for business. I do think it will be
:19:57. > :19:58.good, bringing more people in, hopefully
:19:59. > :20:00.it will be all right. Put you on the map?
:20:01. > :20:04.Yes, it will do. There's too much congestion,
:20:05. > :20:06.for a little village, if This area sort of normally
:20:07. > :20:15.would have been sort of stockbrokers which were going into the city,
:20:16. > :20:18.but the Crossrail is obviously opening up over to the west London
:20:19. > :20:20.side of things so we've had more buyers
:20:21. > :20:23.from sort of Islington, following. The full route
:20:24. > :20:24.through central London should be operating
:20:25. > :20:27.from December next year. Next: honouring of the some
:20:28. > :20:30.two million black soldiers who fought for Britain in the First
:20:31. > :20:35.and Second World Wars. The UK's first memorial to African
:20:36. > :20:38.and Caribbean heroes of the conflicts has been
:20:39. > :20:51.unveiled in Brixton. Hundreds of people turned up in
:20:52. > :20:54.Windrush Square to honour the African and Caribbean men and women
:20:55. > :21:02.who served in the two world wars and see the memorial unveiled. APPLAUSE
:21:03. > :21:05.92-year-old Alan Wilmot was in the royal Navy during World War II and
:21:06. > :21:10.was glad to have made it to the ceremony will stop today is a
:21:11. > :21:14.special day in my life because I didn't dream that I would be around
:21:15. > :21:23.to see things like this happening. You know, because years ago nothing
:21:24. > :21:31.was done to more or less make it known the contribution that was made
:21:32. > :21:35.by the African west Indian and Indian servicemen. Many came to
:21:36. > :21:39.honour and remember their loved ones and were just believe they were
:21:40. > :21:43.being recognised at last. One of the reasons it has taken 100 years to
:21:44. > :21:46.remember this is because in 1919 when there was a victory margin
:21:47. > :21:49.London, African and Caribbean 's went invited and so they were
:21:50. > :21:54.written out of the history of the First World War. A great day for
:21:55. > :22:00.black people all over England. To see this happening because a lot of
:22:01. > :22:04.us did not know that black people fought in the war, especially from
:22:05. > :22:08.way back, the First World War. Victor Ponta like uncle served in
:22:09. > :22:11.the Royal air Force in the Second World War and the 82-year-old made a
:22:12. > :22:15.special journey to be in Brixton today. I have flown from Jamaica to
:22:16. > :22:20.be here today. To get this opportunity to let people know that
:22:21. > :22:27.the parts of the Jamaicans have played in the Second World War. The
:22:28. > :22:31.ceremony included an African inspired parade with Carnival
:22:32. > :22:34.puppets and stilt-walkers. Before dignitaries laid wreaths for the
:22:35. > :22:40.fallen. This is overdue, recognition of a huge part that African and
:22:41. > :22:44.Caribbean soldiers and labourers played in both world wars, we should
:22:45. > :22:48.have done this years ago. It is hoped the memorial will ensure the
:22:49. > :22:51.young African and Caribbean people never forget the contributions that
:22:52. > :22:59.forefathers had in the two world wars.
:23:00. > :23:02.It's inspired by the artist's African heritage and based on a tree
:23:03. > :23:04.used as a meeting place in his native village.
:23:05. > :23:07.Francis K r has brought a piece of Burkina Faso to London for this
:23:08. > :23:10.It opens on Friday and Emilia Papodopoulos has
:23:11. > :23:28.A dazzling African canopy in the heart of central London. This year's
:23:29. > :23:31.Serpentine Pavilion motors blends art and space. Francis K r was
:23:32. > :23:35.inspired by trees in his native Burkina Faso, arriving from the
:23:36. > :23:40.shade, and the blue paint is symbolic. The blue paint was on the
:23:41. > :23:49.best clothes that you have and in Mike colchicum NVQ blue is that
:23:50. > :23:55.colour. Yes, I wanted to show myself with a best horror and this is this.
:23:56. > :24:05.The past two years have seen an eclectic mix of the gallery's front
:24:06. > :24:11.transformed. It was earned their woven bats overwhelming filming of
:24:12. > :24:15.honour. I am nervous, it is London, it is Kensington Park committed the
:24:16. > :24:20.Serpentine. It is unbelievable but I succeeded, I was able to do it! Yes!
:24:21. > :24:24.There are many different elements to destructor, the main is the central
:24:25. > :24:28.courtyard, almost like it was designed for the British summer in
:24:29. > :24:32.mind because when it rains, which it can do quite often, the rain will
:24:33. > :24:37.funnel through this central part here, to create a waterfall. I want
:24:38. > :24:44.the visitor to arrive and then feel the elements. Be protected by them,
:24:45. > :24:50.but be exposed to them, to have a very intense feeling. It is for
:24:51. > :24:54.everyone, it is somehow, it is very open, people can find out the way
:24:55. > :24:57.they use it, it isn't prescriptive soap children will find a different
:24:58. > :25:03.use from adults. It opens from tomorrow until October and no matter
:25:04. > :25:04.what great British weather has in store, its design means it is always
:25:05. > :25:13.ready to welcome visitors. Spectacular! It has cooled down a
:25:14. > :25:18.little bit, relatively, I should say. Let's check on the weather with
:25:19. > :25:21.Ben Rich. What a difference a Day makes. Yesterday we were in extreme
:25:22. > :25:25.heat with some very high temperatures, in
:25:26. > :25:29.fact the hottest June date since 1976. Today in Hounslow, dawn was
:25:30. > :25:33.like this with speckled clouds, the first sign of what was to come
:25:34. > :25:38.coming thickening clouds, and then for some of us not all,
:25:39. > :25:41.thunderstorms will stop this line of storms worked from west to east,
:25:42. > :25:45.quite a lot of lightning but some places avoiding it and staying
:25:46. > :25:49.completely dry. Once the line of storm had passed through, things
:25:50. > :25:51.cleared up again, more cloud, some sunshine, but the big difference
:25:52. > :26:00.what the temperature dropped. Yesterday at Heathrow, 35, down to
:26:01. > :26:07.24 today. That story was repeated across the area, one degree warmer
:26:08. > :26:14.air however was the Essex coast, the shelter provided with the coast.
:26:15. > :26:18.Tonight, cooler, comfortable for sleeping, 14 or 15 degrees, a mild
:26:19. > :26:21.or warm night but it will feel quite different to the ones we have
:26:22. > :26:25.recently had. Tamara actually not a bad day, again a fair amount of
:26:26. > :26:30.cloud but I am expecting that to break up at times to give some
:26:31. > :26:34.spells, of sunshine, once again that cooler feel, 22-24 . A bit of a
:26:35. > :26:43.breeze as well which I should imagine will be refreshing. Friday,
:26:44. > :26:46.a quiet night, but they change into Saturday morning, a weather front is
:26:47. > :26:50.approaching from the north-west, and rather than clearing cleanly through
:26:51. > :26:52.this is actually going to hang around for a while on Saturday
:26:53. > :26:57.morning so Saturday could well start off cloudy with splashes of rain at
:26:58. > :27:02.time, the rain probably liked and patchy but clearing up and
:27:03. > :27:04.brightening up into the afternoon on Saturday, temperatures still
:27:05. > :27:08.sticking that cooler fresher feel, as we go on into Sunday. Lots of dry
:27:09. > :27:11.weather around, temperatures again back down into the 20s.
:27:12. > :27:15.Still warm! Then, thank you very much.
:27:16. > :27:19.The Prime Minister has said around 600 high rises across England
:27:20. > :27:21.are using similar cladding to Grenfell Tower.
:27:22. > :27:24.Urgent tests have so far confirmed that seven tower blocks are covered
:27:25. > :27:27.in combustible cladding in four local authorities.
:27:28. > :27:30.Theresa May has travelled to Brussels for a European summit
:27:31. > :27:32.to discuss Brexit and ways to protect the rights of EU
:27:33. > :27:40.citizens living away from their home countries.
:27:41. > :27:44.Asad will be back later though during the ten o'clock news.
:27:45. > :27:46.From all the team here, thanks for watching and do
:27:47. > :27:51.Across the country, 11 million people
:27:52. > :28:00.But how would their landlords manage living as tenants?
:28:01. > :28:03.It's helped me appreciate that decisions we make
:28:04. > :28:24.The Week The Landlords Moved In starts:
:28:25. > :28:30.Well, I'm not nice. And I see you, mate.
:28:31. > :28:36.# Karma's gonna get you Rewinding the picture... #