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On BBC London News tonight - so it's goodbye from me

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two weeks on from the Grenfell Tower disaster -

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a traumatic account from one survivor.

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Got my daughter on my back, like, choking.

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My missus is dropping on the floor, and trying to pick

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Her up. I'm in North Kensington looking at how people are coping and

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the questions they want answered. We'll have the latest

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on the investigations. 1,200 jobs to go at Tesco's

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head office in Hertfordshire - And driverless vehicles

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move up a gear - could they really help

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deliver your weekly shop? Welcome to the programme

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with me Riz Lateef. Two weeks on

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from the Grenfell Tower disaster - one survivor has told us

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that he is more traumatised now Olu Talabi who lived on the 14th

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floor says he's not sure how he got but he escaped

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with his four-year-old daughter Now he hardly sleeps, has nightmares

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and his voice is still damaged He feels devastated

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about the people left behind. He's been speaking to our

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reporter Tarah Welsh. When I saw the other side

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of the building was kind of burning. I didn't want my girlfriend

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or my daughter to When Olu woke to find his

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building on fire, from his 14th floor flat,

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he only saw one way out. That's when I started tying

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all the bed sheets together. I already opened the door

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and I saw the smoke. There was no way I was going

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to through that smoke. I was dangling from

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the window and I tried... I told my Mrs to

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pass me my daughter. She was thinking,

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what are you doing, like? And I didn't want to

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look down because I His neighbours pulled

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him back inside. The firefighters had brought five

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people into his flat that night He inhaled a lot of smoke

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and lay down on Olu's bed. Basically, he just told us to run.

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Everything was dark. As I went through that

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smoke, I was thinking, There's no way I'm going to make

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a downstairs through the smoke. I don't know if I would have made it

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through the stairway. I'm not going to lie

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to you, I gave up already. Inside of me, I couldn't

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see what was there. I gave up already.

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I got my daughter on my back. I could feel myself

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taking my last breath. My Mrs was dropping on the floor

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I was trying to pick her up. I don't know what

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she was tripping on. I didn't think

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I was going to make it. I don't what damage

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this has done to me. I don't know if,

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in a year's time, I don't know what this

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has done to me. Since that night, he's learnt that

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only one person and his family And, as the days

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go on, he learns of more friends and neighbours

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that are missing. The one that has affected me

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the most is the little boy. Because I can still

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picture him on my bed. And Tarah is in

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North Kensington this evening where some of the residents met

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with the Housing Minister? What you've got to remember is

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people have this emotional, physical distress to deal with but they are

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also homeless at the same time. Olu is sharing a hotel room with his

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daughter and partner and he just wants a permanent home. The Housing

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minister was here this morning and you might have seen Olu confront him

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with the issue. The housing minister had a private meeting with the

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residents. Olu says he feels that his voice has been heard but we will

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have to wait and see. So many people have questions. I walk is -- a whole

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wall is dedicated to them. Things like, where is the money going? And

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how many victims are there? Let's pick up on the wider picture

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with our political editor Clearly so many unresolved

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political questions here. At Prime Minister's Questions, the

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first one of the new session, all six questions used by Jeremy Corbyn

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on this subject. When will there be an enquiry? When there will be a

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judge in place? What influence will the people involved have an

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influencing the enquiry? Is the government running out on a pledge

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to rehouse people by next Wednesday. The housing minister said that he

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would do that. Some people are saying they are well behind on that.

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Not just the police investigation but all the questions that have been

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raised. Design of buildings, safety, risk assessments which go well

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beyond Grenfell Tower. Where are we on safety across the capital? We

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know about ten councils are involved. The national pictures 120

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blocks have been tested and have all come back as failing these tests for

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this cladding issue. The Prime Minister said today, don't wait for

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the tests to come back. You can make an assumption that you need to get

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urgent safety checks done by the Fire Service of these blocks that

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are likely to fail these tests. Continuing problems in Camden, we

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have heard that Lewisham have two blocks. Yesterday, we were reporting

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that this goes well beyond cladding. All kinds of issues. Yesterday, we

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were reporting about the Shepherd's Bush fire where there were issues

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around the window panes. The panels around the windows. 33 London

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boroughs having letters sent indicating they should look whether

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these designs were evident there. Hammersmith have said they will be

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removing these panels. The issue continuing to distress the community

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in North Kensington, around the numbers of dead and missing. Housing

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minister faced a number of people today and there is this sense that

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people feel that nobody is being frank and open about the numbers of

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what's happened. Reconciling the numbers of missing with the number

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dead and the number that could potentially have been living in this

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blog. A briefing from the police indicates today that 106 people have

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been contacted out of hundred and 29 properties. There are 23 people that

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haven't been contacted. It is getting closer to clarity.

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Meanwhile, there are also residents, not from the tower block itself,

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but in the immediate area who are struggling.

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As Alpa Patel reports, many don't want to go

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back to their homes, but some are continuing

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to live without basics like gas and hot water.

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This tower sits in the shadow of grateful. Lives have changed here

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since that awful night two weeks ago. Inside we meet a family who

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haven't had gas or hot water for a fortnight. That's because the boiler

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that serves their building and several others was underneath

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Grenfell and was completely destroyed. It's been very hard. Hot

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water is the main thing we need for washing. Especially when you have a

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little child. Have people come here and spoken to you about what is

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going on with gas and water? Except the community, no. No one from the

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authority. Across the way, we meet Thomasina. She is in a hotel with

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her three-year-old son. Even when hot water and gas is turned on, she

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says she won't return back to Barrington Walker. Her view, more

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than just a reminder. I get anxious. I don't like it. I feel really

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uncomfortable. Just the memories starting to sink in. Every time I

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put my head out, people screaming, "Help! We have baby!" Joe Delaney

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filmed at this the night of the fire. He is currently living in a

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hotel and went return home until his safety concerns are answered.

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Officers and fire crews are this far from the tower as I am and they are

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wearing hard hats. No one on the block has been issued with hard

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hats. They do this thing where you hear three whistles every now and

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again and you see their staff moving back from the tower. The body has

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told us what that is for and why they are doing it. We had to ask.

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They say there are risks of things falling. All pretty much any others

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are doing are coping. The Grenfell Tower action group say a temporary

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boiler has been installed and hopes to have it working by Thursday.

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Public Health England say... We also asked about the stability of

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the tower. The police did not specifically answer our questions.

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Two weeks, day-to-day life continues to be a struggle for those living

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here. And later we'll have

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an update on the relief effort and what's happening

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in terms of donations. and construction began today

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on the new business district Nearly two billion pounds is being

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invested by Chinese developers. There was concern

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that it might be in doubt Counting cranes is an odd hobby

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but if you do you have a sense It's not 100% accurate but then

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nor are the economists. This so-called crane count suggests

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investment is still coming into London and new buildings

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are going up. Nowhere more so than here beside

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City Airport and the Royal Albert Dock with a good and the great mark

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the first day of construction. A ?1.7 billion Chinese investment

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in London providing 30,000 jobs, something which could easily become

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the third commercial hub of London. The plans are bold,

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the model is shining and the signs are encouraging,

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it will be well connected, but I was here four years ago

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when this was first announced Then it was all about an Asian

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gateway into the EU here in London which is a bit awkward now

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we are leaving. I put that point to its

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Chinese backers today TRANSLATION: Compared

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to the situation four years ago I think we are at a more

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advantageous stage. Although there is Brexit, Britain

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is more independent and mature and it also shows more confidence

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in the British economy so there will be more cooperation

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between China and the UK What of recent fears

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by the Bank of England no less that our commercial property

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is too pricey? Are we also in danger of building

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too many offices They are trying to attract

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companies from Asia, so what they are trying to do

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is create something additional. But given where we are,

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the price and anything else, this is a fantastic place to come,

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I am not worried here. I think other people should be

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worried about the competition He also assured me no golden

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handshakes were offered. A gilt-edged investment

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or a risky bet? Supermarket giant Tesco

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says it's cutting 1,200 jobs - or a quarter of the staff -

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at its head office in Hertfordshire. We can find out more

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from Caroline Davies I imagine that many people leaving

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Tesco HQ here tonight will have the announcement on their minds. It was

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announced that 1200 jobs here and at Hatfield would be lost, quarter of

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all jobs. There have been more than 10,000 job losses at Tesco since

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2014. It's because the company is in the middle of a massive turnaround

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operation, trying to save 1.5 alien pounds in costs. We heard from Tesco

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that they thought it would simplify the business. What sort of

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challenges our supermarkets facing at the moment? The minimum wage has

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gone up. Supermarkets are paying more to their staff, an additional

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cost. If you are trying to bring in goods from outside the UK, it's a

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lot more expensive. Spanish strawberries cost a lot more than

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they used to because of the strength of the pound. This is unlikely to be

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the last of job losses here. Caroline, thank you for that update.

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A school in South London that was praised by numerous

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government ministers has had its funding cut

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Durand Academy in Stockwell has had a controversial

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history with investigations into its spending

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Today the government wrote to them to confirm the money

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Karl Mercer's here with more details.

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This is a school with a chequered past?

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Cast your mind back seven years, in 2010 it was flavour of the month.

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When Michael Gove wanted to trump up the academy programme. He went here

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to announce plans. So Greg Martin, the headteacher was very well paid

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but the school also ran a trust, a leisure centre on the side, he was

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taking home something like ?400,000. Some of these arrangements didn't go

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well with the education authorities and the National Audit Office. They

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said that they needed to break arrangements with so Greg Martin who

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went upstairs and became chairman of the trust. The school themselves

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said they didn't want to do it. It has come to the crunch. The

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government said they didn't take the situation lightly but it has

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followed multiple breaches by the trust, they said. Any response from

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the school? Not yet. In 2060 when the government said they were first

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minded to do this. -- 2016. They said that the campaign had been

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misrepresented and they were going to fight it. This means that the

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academy trust and built on the school any more and the government

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will have to find somebody opts to do it.

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They've been tested on the streets of Greenwich already -

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but are driverless vehicles about to move up a gear

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and help deliver your weekly shopping?

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One supermarket says it could be greener and more efficient.

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Here's our transport correspondent Tom Edwards.

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Is this how supermarkets will deliver in the future?

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This is called a cargo pod

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It uses sensors to detect and avoid other vehicles

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and pedestrians and, today, photographers.

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These pods have safety stewards on board and they

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are being tried out on this new development in Woolwich.

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As cities become more congested, those behind

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the scheme think these could be the answer.

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The movement of goods via automated vehicles in the cities is

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Creating cleaner, safer, and more efficient mobility in the city

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What the technology gives us is a greater diversity of

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We will still have white vans carrying the

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decorating materials, whatever else, but they will be different types of

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Greenwich is trialling autonomous vehicle technology.

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These self driving pods have been carrying

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It's being funded by the government and industry.

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And Woolwich, in particular is a huge growth area

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with the development of Crossrail and for us, in terms of those

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increased numbers of people, we need to find better ways to use our

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space, giving priority to pedestrians

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and cyclists and other people.

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And I think this technology really is enabling us to think about

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how we are moving people and goods in the urban environment.

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So, why are supermarkets interested in further

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Isn't this really about cutting jobs and costs?

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Customers can get their orders, potentially, at times when

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we can't currently provide them to them.

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As a company, we've always been using technology and automation

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to do what we do and we've always been finding the next thing to

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automate and, yet, over our history, our workforce has just continued to

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grow and grow because we are always expanding.

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So, it's not the end of the white van man?

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I very much doubt that for the foreseeable future.

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That's going to depend on lots of things far beyond the

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That's going to depend on how the whole autonomy landscape

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This services some years away but Greenwich is now at the

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forefront of self driving technology and discovering what it could offer.

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For more than a century this has been

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the main entrance to the Victoria and Albert museum, but now there's

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another - and with it some extra gallery space.

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It's all thanks to a new 55-million pound redevelopment.

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It's the largest building project undertaken in

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the Victoria Albert Museum in over 100 years, allowing visitors

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to enter the grounds from a new entrance on Exhibition

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Road, which is home to some of the most important tourist

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I think that when they walk in will see a lot of jaws drop

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We get a much more informal entrance to the visitor.

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You have, over on Cromwell Road, quite a traditional,

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almost cathedral like entrance to the museum, which can be quite

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We will be able to contrast that with this, which will be much more

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The new entrance and gallery have been created by carefully weaving

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modern architecture with ancient features, much of which

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haven't been visible to the public for many years.

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In Victorian times when the museum was set up, this was where

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There were really tall brick chimneys where the shop is now.

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I remembered this moment halfway through the project

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where we took the scaffolds down and it was like we were in

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The work we've done here is so diverse.

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The work detailing scheduling every single stone so it can be

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These beautiful manufactured porcelain tiles.

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All of those things are exactly what is our mission here.

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It's a museum of art and design and manufacture and that is exactly

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And the changes don't stop above ground.

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A brand-new gallery has been constructed underneath the courtyard

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which will host some of the museum's biggest exhibitions.

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Something that just has been purpose-built and designed to house

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A free week-long festival will mark the opening of the new entrance

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Bringing its creators say the city into the museum and taking the V

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Let's return to our top story now - it's two weeks on from

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the Grenfell Tower Fire - and back to Tarah who's

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This is the centre that many people came to for help on that first day.

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Many people slept here. It's still the place that people come to for

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donations, food, and money and to have a conversation with friends and

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neighbours. The Red Cross have been overwhelmed by people's generosity.

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100 lorry loads of donations. Things that haven't been given out are in

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their shops and the money from their selling will go to the Grenfell

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residents. They tell me there is still plenty of work to do here.

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This is the first part of the journey. The Red Cross will be here

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as long as needed. We will be supporting people as long as they

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are needed in the community. We are currently on outreach advising

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people what is available here and providing some support in the

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community as well. Two weeks on, still such a sense of shock and

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sadness here. I imagine that will go on for many weeks, months, some

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people's kohl lives. People have lost whole families. One gentleman I

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was speaking to sobbed while he read the memorials. He said his children

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had lost school friends and how can he tell them why? Indeed. Thank you.

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Time for a check on the weather with Darren Bett.

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It was a better day today but yesterday was abysmal. The rain

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eased off a little by the time I left work. This was what we had

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yesterday. Pretty grey skies. At least it was much drier. Over the

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next few days, we should see a glimpse of sunshine at least. Making

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it feel a bit warmer. For the most part, a couple of days of dry

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weather. Today was much drier, as we said. The wettest weather further

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north. Some showery bursts coming along the south coasts could wander

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northwards. On the whole, tonight should be dry. A lot of cloud

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around. We've yet to break up the cloud to any great extent.

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Temperatures aren't going to fall a great deal from the miserable high

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temperatures of today. 12-13 minimum temperatures towards the end of the

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night. Tomorrow may not look quite as gloomy. Skies brightening from

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time to time. Not much. As it turns warmer, maybe a fuchsia was through

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the afternoon. They could be on the sharp side. Temperatures are bit

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higher than today. It looks brighter still on Friday. A bit more sunshine

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around. Winds are quite liked as well. We will see a few showers as

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we head into the afternoon. More especially into the evening. Some of

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these could be heavy with the odd rumble or two of thunder.

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Temperatures climbing. Nearer the mark for the time of year. It's been

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so wet across here and western Europe because of low pressure in

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charge. A lot of thunderstorms in Europe. The rain will be creeping

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away and we're going to find our weather coming in from the Atlantic

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as we head into the weekend so it will be drier, brighter and it will

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feel warm when the sunshine comes out. We may start with a bit of rain

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first thing on Saturday morning but it will clear away and there will be

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some fine weather through the weekend and highs of 23 or 24

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sausages. That sounds nice. Darren, thank you very much. A reminder of

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the day's six men are to be prosecuted in

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connection with the Telstra disaster -- Hillsborough disaster. People

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believe that 80 people died in the Grenfell Tower disaster. The real

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figure may not be discovered until the end of the year. The intense

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heat means that some of the dead may not be identified. Labour have

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welcomed a cap on public executive pay. Tesco is to axe 1200 jobs. A

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quarter of the staff at its head office in Hertfordshire. Part of a

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major is cutting dry. And the creator of Paddington Bear author

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Michael Bond has died at the age of 91. He published his first

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Paddington book in 1958 while working as a BBC cameraman. That's

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it from BBC London for now. Plenty more on the website. We'll be back

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with the late news. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.

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Across the country, 11 million people

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But how would their landlords manage living as tenants?

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It's helped me appreciate that decisions we make

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