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west, largely dry the further south and east you | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
I think we have a good story to tell about our record in North | :00:11. | :00:23. | |
Kensington, but clearly some relationships have been shattered | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
and there are some questions about what happened in the refurbishment | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
of the tower but it was not a question of neglect. We were trying | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
to refurbish and improve the quality of housing in a Grenfell Tower. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Tonight, a council meeting is being held to discuss the fire, but there | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
is anger at decisions to hold it behind closed doors. We have seen | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
e-mails showing residents in a Camden tower blocks like that safety | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
concerns ten years ago. Also tonight: Left with | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
'life-changing' injuries - one of the victims of an acid attack | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
talks to us about his ordeal. I have looked in the mirror once | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
since this happened. That was yesterday because they had to change | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
all my dressings and I just sat there and cried. I couldn't even | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
look at myself. and compassion during the recent | :01:08. | :01:08. | |
terror attacks - the health watchdog assesses | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the London Ambulance Service. And why the first opera house to be | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
built in the UK this century - is in the grounds of | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
a Surrey Stately home belonging Welcome to BBC London News | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
with me, Riz Lateef. The leader of Kensington Chelsea | :01:21. | :01:37. | |
has tonight told this programme that the council's response | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
to the Grenfell Fire was as good as it could have been, | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
although he recognises more could have been done | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
to help those affected. Nicholas Pagget-Brown denied | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
failings in leadership in his handling of the tragedy | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
and believes he still has the confidence of | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
the local community. Speaking to our political Editor Tim | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Donovan, he didn't rule out standing down from his job, | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
but said that now wasn't the time. A fortnight on, a leader under | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
pressure wants to remind people of the sheer scale of what faced him. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
The events of Grenfell Tower two weeks ago, I think is probably the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
biggest tragedy to hit London since the end of the Second World War and | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the fact that it is in our borough and part of the community that we | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
know well means that this is really one of the most difficult periods in | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
the history of the Council. The key thing has been to try to ensure that | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
everybody gets some form of accommodation immediately and some | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
financial support and that has happened. We are now in the process | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
where it has been promised that people won't be in their temporary | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Hotel or hostel for more than three weeks. That's target is due to be | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
met by the early part of next week. At which point we hope that | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
everybody will be in some form of temporary accommodation which they | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
can call home while a longer term settlement allocation is made that | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
their particular family needs. He has met traumatised survivors who | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
are understandably angry. Have you apologised in the survivors | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
personally? Well, I think apology is .Mac I need to apologise if the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
response on the ground to the tragedy has not been quick enough or | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
appropriate enough or on the scale that it is needed. So have you | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
apologise? Not in person, but I do apologise here to you if anybody | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
feels that Kensington and Chelsea Council should have been doing more. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
And they did, of course. Where was that council help visible on the | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
ground in the difficult early stages? Ye admits it was just | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
overwhelming. The Prime Minister acknowledges that right across | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
national and local level the response was not good enough and we | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
acknowledge that and we need to see what could have been done quicker | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
and better and we will learn from this and I think the public enquiry | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
will throw up issues about communication, how quickly other | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
borrowers can come to our aid, and whether we should have done more at | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
an earlier stage, but as I say, this was an unprecedented scale of | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
emergency and our own plans would not be able to envisage all types of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
different support that we would need. Early on, it was hard to | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
contain the anger. The town hall was stormed. It is not demonstrate a | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
community that had long felt neglected? I think we will need to | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
look at this over the longer term. I think there are many people in the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
community of North Kensington who do recognise that the council has | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
played an important part in community life and supporting the | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
voluntary sector. So you do not accept this is showing that you | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
failed the community? I'm trying to avoid getting into a political | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
dogfight. I think that is inappropriate at the present time. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Is it political or is it just about a community that have wanted a lot | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
more attention and have not got that and this ultimately at the most | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
extreme is what happens? I understand then here that allegation | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
but it is not one I'm going to respond to at the moment. I think we | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
have a good story to tell about a record in North Kensington, but | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
clearly some relationships have been fractured, there are concerns about | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
what happened in the refurbishment of this tower, but it wasn't a | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
question of neglect. We were trying to refurbish and improve the quality | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
of housing in a Grenfell Tower. The most senior paid official at the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Council, the chief executive, has resigned. Is that where the buck | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
stops? Should it have been the unelected head of this council | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
rather than the leader who reside? Shouldn't you have resigned? That is | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
not a matter for today. That is something we will look at in due | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
course but my job at the moment is to make sure that the council has a | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
head that can be recognised. I am the public face of the Council and I | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
need to be seen to be making sure that the proper response to people | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
having devastated lives by this tragedy is in place. Would you | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
expect to be the leader in six months' time? That is not a matter I | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
am able to discuss now. It is not really a matter for me. You may have | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
lost the right to be heard. Whether or not that is fair. The answer is I | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
do not think I have lost the right to be heard. But there is a time and | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
a place and I think at the moment people do not want to particularly | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
hear from me. They want to feel that as leader of the council I am | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
putting in place a range of services that will support them and their | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
vulnerable neighbours as best we possibly can. That is what I am | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
doing. That is my priority and that is why I am not getting drawn into | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
lots of political noises on and off. He says he wants answers to. I want | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
to know why as well. But I think my immediate responsibility as leader | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
is to make sure that there is a proper range of services for some | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
very vulnerable people in the aftermath of a huge tragedy and I | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
think longer term we need to make sure that we do have good | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
relationships in North Kensington with every community, with all of | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
the communities there. We are proud of our record over many years of | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
investing in a poor part of London and I think we have managed to make | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
a difference. Clearly, the accident and the tragedy in the tower is | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
something that we will have to learn lessons from and I hope the enquiry | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
will help us do that. That was the leader of Kensington and Chelsea | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
Council. BBC London has seen emails showing | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
how residents in Camden flagged up serious concerns over fire safety | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
in their tower block in 2007 - and were assured by the council | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
and contractors that work Ten years on and last week the fire | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
brigade declared the building unsafe and evacuated the entire | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Chalcots estate. Homeless, desperate, still they | :07:41. | :07:55. | |
come, but could, should all that have been avoided? In 2007, the | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Chalcots estate underwent a massive ?152 million refurbishment. The main | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
contractor also worked on Grenfell Tower. As well as adding cladding, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Windows were upgraded, along with internal works. The gas and | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
electrics were overhauled. These pictures were sent around of a show | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
flat, highlighting what they could expect. But this is what they say | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
they were faced with. These pictures were taken by various residents | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
after work was carried out, showing a raft of problems, the worst of | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
which exposed gas pipes not boxed in or probably sealed through | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
firewalls. They saw that are fit, that work? Yes, absolutely. That is | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
how they were doing the work. It was not temporary work. It was literally | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
copper pipe water and gas literally just being bashed about the plywood | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
above the doors. It is important to understand that the wood above the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
door was just one thin piece of plywood. Flammable, plywood. We've | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
seen enough to Camden in which tennis described the work is highly | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
dangerous, which clearly shows the potential for disaster. There is | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
considerable unease with residents on grounds of health and safety, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
they write, adding families have had their children's lives but at the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
risk risk of serious injury. In September 2007, they got a reply | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
from a Camden official. The gas supply and pipework will be removed | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
and replaced by pipework that will be in compliance with the building | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
regulations. A month later, a senior manager added, please be assured | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
that we are currently addressing any compromises to health and safety. We | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
are conducting an internal review of our management procedures to | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
establish how and why this situation occurred. Work was then carried out | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
to fix things, and as far as residents knew, it was all signed | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
off as safe, until last week. After Grenfell Tower, the Fire Brigade was | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
cold in and declared these buildings were unsafe to live in. Ten years | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
after the refurbishment was carried out. Are Dicks is a fire safety | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
expert. NOSPACE -- Arnold is a fire safety expert. It is a surprise to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
me that these problems were identified ten years and that | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
nothing was done. I have looked at other buildings over the last week | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
or so and each building that I have been in has got some standard | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
subcontractor work. I have lost a lot of sleep. When the works were | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
signed off, we all thought it was safe in the work was done. If things | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
were not done safely, in so many areas, then we do not know what | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
would have happened. If there had been a big fire. I think we were | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
living on borrowed time. The company said they were not responsible for | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
gas rises or wiring in Chalcots, so complaints would have been passed | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
onto those responsible. They maintain all of their work met | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
building regulations. Camden holders the UK needs a whole new safety | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
regime. Years of cutting so-called red tape and discrediting of health | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
and safety have taken their toll, change is needed. But questions | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
remain. How could work now declared unsafe lie undetected for a decade | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
and why did it take such a tragic loss of life to uncover it? Let's | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
return to the issue of Grenfell Tower for a moment. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
Well, tonight the council leader and his cabinet are meeting behind | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
closed doors to discuss the response to the fire. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Tolu Adeoye is outside Kensington Chelsea Town Hall now. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
There has been a development in the last half-hour. Yes, in the last | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
half an hour, the judge overruled the Council decision to ban the | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
press from entering the meeting, but the public still can't go in and | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
that has led to some anger here. There is a bit of commotion around | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the other side of the building as people try to enter too good into | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
that meeting and the press is being allowed in. The council ban people | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
from going in because of the fear of destruction and disorder. In a | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
notice on its website, it said the meeting will be held entirely in | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Private because of security and public safety concerns. That follows | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
a protest on the 16th of June, it two days after a fire where a group | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
of protesters tried to storm the building. You can probably see the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
boarded-up door behind me from the damage caused there. The council | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
said it had received recent real threats of assault on council staff | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
and damage to council buildings and that is why it has taken that | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
decision. But people are not happy with that decision. The Grenfell | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Tower action group is part of the radical housing network which fights | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
for housing Justice and they have called the decision flimsy. In fact, | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
they say the council has contempt for the residents they are supposed | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
to be representing. The council says there will be another meeting in | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
July which will be open to the public and it says the minutes of | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
this meeting will be published in full in due course. OK, thanks very | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
much for that update. Outside Kensington town Hall. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Coming up later in the programme: By day he runs Dunkin Donuts - | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
we meet the man who's brought Leyton Orient football club | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Join me at this brand-new Opera house, built in just 11 months on | :13:03. | :13:15. | |
the grounds of a stately home in Surrey. We will take a look behind | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
the scenes. A man who's been left | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
with life-changing injuries after an acid attack on him | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
and his cousin has spoken to BBC They had stopped at traffic lights | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
in Beckton when a man sprayed corrosive substance on them | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
through the car window. He has severe burns and will have | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
to undergo months of surgery. You may find some of the images | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
in Ayshea Buksh's report upsetting. They were two cousins who had met at | :13:41. | :13:52. | |
to celebrate a 21st birthday. Just hours after this photo was taken, | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
the men became the victims of a violent acid attack. NOSPACE -- the | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
pair. This man had been diving was this cousin in Becton when they | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
stopped at the traffic light and a man walked up to the car. He had | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
some sort of liquid bottle and it looked like water, it looked clear. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
He'd started squeezing it in our faces and all over me, basically and | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
a lot of it went on her. Within seconds, my cousin started | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
screaming. Her eyes had blistered and her face started melting. My | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
face started melting. My clothes started to burn. My shorts started | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
sticking to me. There was smoke coming out of the seats. His cousin | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
is now awaiting surgery. His burns were so severe he was put in an | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
induced coma. I can't hear from this year. This arm is a mess. This part | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
of my wrist and my front chest and belly and back and legs. I think the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
only place I have not got burnt is on this lake and this foot. I looked | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
in the mirror once since this happened and that was yesterday. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
Because they had to change all my dressings. And I just sat there and | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
cried. I couldn't even look at myself. Police want to speak to this | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
man in connection with the attack, 24-year-old John Tomlin from Canning | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
town. They warned the public not to approach him. The Met also say at | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
the moment there is no indication this was a racially motivated crime, | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
but this man thinks otherwise. I am in a really bad way. I will be | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
scarred for life. I can't walk properly. I can't hear properly. I | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
can't sleep. I keep thinking this guy is going to come for me. I am | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
having nightmares. I am screaming, I am sweating. The police say this | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
wasn't racially motivated, but you think differently. Why? There is no | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
reason why this wouldn't be racially motivated. I don't know this guy. I | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
have never seen this guy in my life I don't have any problems with | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
anybody. He hopes that whoever did this is caught quickly saw that | :16:13. | :16:13. | |
other people are not bit in danger. The Treasury has confirmed | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
that the London Bridge attacks It comes after reports this week | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
that some businesses in the area had not been paid by their insurance | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
companies because, at the time, it still hadn't been officially | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
declared a terror attack. The system the Government uses is | :16:31. | :16:42. | |
completely updated NOSPACE -- outdated. It is too slow because of | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
how quickly people need to access compensation and funds to keep their | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
businesses open. The health watchdog has praised the | :16:52. | :17:07. | |
services which dealt with the terror attacks. They say they have made | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
significant process NOSPACE -- progress. It is the biggest | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Ambulance Service in the country and its busiest. It was also the first | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
to be put into special measures. Tragic injuries and severe injuries. | :17:20. | :18:21. | |
Charges For now, It's hoped the service | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
A boost for staff, who have been tested as never before | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
in the past few months. The health watchdog has praised the | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
services which dealt with the terror attacks. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
They say they have made significant process | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
It is the biggest Ambulance Service in the country and | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
It was also the first to be put into special measures. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
it is a journey of everybody working together continuously, improving | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
what we do. We are seeing very definite signs of improvement in the | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
London Ambulance Service, in contrast with our inspection in 2015 | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
it is marked and they have moved up in all the aspects that we look at. | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
It is hoped the service will be out of special measures by the end of | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
the year. A boost for Apple are being tested as never before in the | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
past few months. Incredibly proud and to be honest completely | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
overwhelming to be part of a team of such incredible people and to think | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
that I am one of them makes me extremely proud. The paramedic Gemma | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Taylor ending that report. Next: The future looked | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
bleak for one of London's oldest football clubs - | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
until the surprise news last week that a businessman had | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
bought Leyton Orient - By day he runs Dunkin Donuts - | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
but his love of football led the US based millionaire back | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
to his east end roots. What do doughnuts and Leyton Orient | :19:35. | :19:47. | |
have in common? The answer, this man. Nigel Travis, chief executive | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
of Dunkin doughnuts and the new chairman of Leyton Orient. It sounds | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
like a lot of fun making money from doughnuts. Do you think the football | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
industry will be a bit tougher? It is fun, but football should be fun. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
We aim to make money here and to make Leyton Orient a commercial | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
success. Orient were anything but a commercial success under the former | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
owner. There were on page protests as staff and players went on paid | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
and the club was almost forced out of business. Even when the debts | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
were settled at the High Court earlier this month, few believed | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
they could survive with him in charge. The club has nine junior | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
professionals, no senior professionals. It currently does not | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
have access to a training ground. It has no shirts or training equipment | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
and pre-season starts next week. Those troubles should now be | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
resolved under Travis, a lifelong fan of the club. What are your | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
memories of growing up and watching games here at Brisbane Road? They | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
are fantastic memories. I remember in 1962 we got promoted up to the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
then top league, division one. At home, we won. They scored no goals | :20:57. | :21:08. | |
in many games last season, making doughnuts a appropriate food for the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
team that where relegated from the Premier League. How quickly do you | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
think you could get them back? I think three to four years. I think | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to give people a hope that we could do it in a year is just crazy. Any | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
successful business person who comes into football would say they do it | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
to make money for themselves? Is that your real motivation? No, I | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
decided when I first thought about this that this was probably money I | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
would lose. The more commercially viable we are the more we can invest | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
back on the football side. That is the way to look at it. A team for so | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
long starved of glory. How they could do with a little bit of | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
success. Talking of unusual partnerships. | :21:51. | :21:51. | |
Few people could ever imagine building an opera house | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
in just 11 months - let alone creating it | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
The garden is actually the grounds of a Surrey stately home. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
It belongs to University Challenge's former quiz master Bamber Gascoigne. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
And all because an opera company found themselves homeless. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
A tale of last, betrayal and tragedy, and behind the scenes, a | :22:08. | :22:29. | |
real-life drama. The story of how Grange Park Opera found itself a | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
home here in Surrey. West Percy Place, recently inherited by a | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
former TV quiz master. University challenge tournament. Bamber | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
Gascoigne has told the opera company found themselves homeless. They | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
pitched in an extraordinary idea. It is not everyday that someone that we | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
would like an opera house in the garden and we watch this thing grows | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
like a mushroom, at the speed of a mushroom. Day by day it was | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
different. And suddenly it is now absolutely beautiful with wonderful | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
acoustics. Incredibly, it took just 11 months to build. Five tiers, 700 | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
seats, it has cost ?10 million. One guy said this was an amazing stunt | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
that you have bowled off because everyone was watching and thinking | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
it might not quite get there and we got there. It is amazing and I have | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
amazed myself. There is still plenty of work to do, although special | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
finishing touches to add. Oak floors are going to go in, designers are | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
going to be working their magic, and there are plans for an ornate, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
painted ceiling. And with the garden is open for preperformance picnics, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
it is hoped new audiences could be tempted to give Opera a go. I have | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
not been to a professional opera before so this will be our first | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
experience. I am a musician anyway so this is a really wonderful | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
opportunity for me to on my doorstep. The acoustics in the | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
future are really good. It is not often you get a chance to dress up. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
But what would West hoarsely faced's former owner, Bamber Gascoigne's | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
great and, the Duchess of Roxburgh, have made of it? Her ashes have just | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
been buried here. She was a great fan of ballet and a patron of the | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
royal she would adore the idea of a theatre in the orchard. Just | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
imagine, she will now be surrounded by music. She has a lot of Wagner | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
coming next. I said it was no ordinary story. | :24:43. | :24:43. | |
Let's see how the weather's shaping up, shall we? | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
You are smiling. Things are getting better if you want sunshine and | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
warmth. Today, I saw about a minute of blue sky. That was about it. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Whilst we have had some colourful flowers here at Regent's Park, the | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
skies have been rather great for most of the day and quite flat cloud | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
as well but things are looking up. This was the general picture across | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
the UK today. We have not really seen the rain this time. We have | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
seen a of cloud. There has been some breaks to the south of London, where | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
we will have some clearer skies for once. A lot of cloud tonight. Not | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
much wind. You can see, there is a bit of rain trying to come in from | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
the West. It may miss ours. Quite a one night, actually. 13-14dC. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Heading into tomorrow, probably more sunshine. Not a huge amount but a | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
bit more. The error is that the warmer but we could trigger some | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
slow-moving heavy showers and those more likely to the south where we | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
will break the cloud. 18 Celsius today. Could be 23 Celsius tomorrow. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
That is a bit more like it for this time of the year. Heading into the | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
weekend, some rain on Friday night for the early hours of the morning. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
That will soon clear away on Saturday morning and then Saturday | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
should be a fine day. It will be dry with a north-westerly breeze, but it | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
will feel pleasant. Sunny spells. Temperatures of 22-23dC. Wet weather | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
pulling away into the near continent and weather coming in from the | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Atlantic which will bring some rain overnight but it should not last too | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
long. It looks generally fine and dry for the outlook and it will feel | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
warmer than it has done this week. OK, thanks very much. | :26:38. | :26:38. | |
The retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
will lead the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaste. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
He has expressed doubt that it'll be broad enough to satisfy | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
It's after he met relatives of victims today. | :26:47. | :27:00. | |
The leader of Kensington and Chelsea has said more could have been done | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
to help the victims of Grenfell Tower fire, but denies the council | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
neglected the community. I think we have a good story to tell about our | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
record in North Kensington but clearly some relationships have been | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
fractured. There are concerns about what happened in the refurbishment | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
of this tower but it was not a question of neglect. We were trying | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
to refurbish and improve the quality of housing in Grenfell Tower. We | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
have just heard that Kensington and Chelsea Council has in the last few | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
minutes adjourned that Cabinet meeting to discuss the Grenfell | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Tower tragedy after press were allowed to attend, claiming it would | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
prejudice the forthcoming public enquiry. | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
Will be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
from everyone on the team have a lovely evening. | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
but how has it changed the way we see | :27:43. | :28:18. | |
I don't think we know the scale of the television revolution, | :28:19. | :28:27. |