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A haul of lethal weapons, as volunteers team up with police | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
There was probably about 15 or 20 inches. In terms of the dimensions. | :00:08. | :00:23. | |
It was a fairly large knife. Arm's-length at least. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The Met Commissioner says she wants the scheme to be rolled | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The mobile phone footage from inside the Hertfordshire prison | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
showing riot trained officers going in to restore order. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Plus, Legoland - the row over the tourist attraction's plans | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
And inside the secret of tropical notary at Kew Gardens, and how you | :00:41. | :00:52. | |
can get a rare glimpse inside. A very warm welcome to | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
the programme, with me, Riz Lateef. First tonight: A clamp-down on knife | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
crime has seen members of the public team up with police to search | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
for weapons hidden by gang Their haul includes two-foot long, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
serrated 'zombie knives' and a machete, found just | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
yards from a busy high The scheme is said to be a UK first, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
and tonight the Met commissioner has told BBC London that she wants | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
to see it rolled out They may not looked half but this is | :01:24. | :01:36. | |
the latest front end London's ongoing fight against knife crime. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
These volunteers are helping police searched their local area for | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
knives, bats, machetes and other weaponry stashed here for easy | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
access by gangs who don't want to get caught carrying them. The | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
searchers are yielding extraordinary if terrifying results. If you are in | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
a group and you're having a gang fight, you are wielding something | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
like this, if you're welding this, there is danger to it. You could | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
easily cause injury to someone stepping into the path of this being | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
swung around. It is everyone's problem. We work together the | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
results will be better. The searches will be more thorough locally. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Piling gangs in Tower Hamlets and noticed some of their weapons in | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
green spaces around the borough. This 15 inch machete was found by a | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
member of the public who has been enlisted by the police to help them | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
cover these huge areas that takes some of these weapons off the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
streets. The very first Bush be tackled we came across the main | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
foundation wall, lifted the blue shark, and there it was. Just lying | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
at the edge of the wall. To my surprise it was actually a knife. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
This pilot scheme has been organised in Tower Hamlets by local police and | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
faith groups. It is quite well known that there is a problem with knives | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
and other implements. Other ways of hurting and damaging people and | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
threatening people, frightening people, which is just as bad, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
really. The. The last year CNET knife crime in the capital surged by | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
a quarter. Injuries are buying better, with more than 2000 young | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
people wounded, 27 of them fatally. Tonight a sign from the Met | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
commissioner that we could see this scheme expand. This is people who | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
are saying, we know that some people are starting nice and we be they may | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
be near to my home. My community. I don't want them to be able to go and | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
pick one up and attack somebody I love. I am going to go out there in | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
a coordinated way and find them. Normally police asked us for our | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
eyes and ears in the fight against crime, now they are asking for that | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
little bit more. We saw the commissioner welcoming | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
what has been happening, she also had more to zap up my crime. Our | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
political editor Tim Donovan is here. You were listening to our | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
words. She was talking about knife crime but the wider challenges and | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
police environment, a very difficult time. She spoke about the continuing | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
confidence, she said the police were engendering an people in London. She | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
said there is a confidence gap with some sections of society, | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
particularly young people about black people, not a huge gap she | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
said, but bigger than she wants. Clearly that is one of her budget | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
priorities. Not least because in just over a month we have had the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
deaths of two young black men who have had contact with police, both | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
of those deaths now subject to independent enquiries. She wanted to | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
in her interview, she wanted to make a link between the sense of | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
perceptions are black people being disproportionally responsible, or | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
having contact with police, to a disproportionate degree, they are | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
also disproportionally the victims of crime, and police at every level | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
were concerned about that. We have a problem with the Bali climate knife | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
crime. That's usually disproportionally affects people | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
from minority ethnic communities. It usually affects young black men, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
they are utterly disproportionally the victims. That makes me angry. It | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
means my office is angry. They want to stop knife crime. Every week I | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
hear a story of one of my office is saving the life of a young black | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
man. After some of the tenses in east London following those two | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
deaths, she was asked about Notting Hill Carnival, did you have concerns | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
was back no, it was always a great considerable challenge. It will | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
continue to be. Extra resources needed this weekend and next week | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
for the world athletics Championships. One at issue, | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
inevitably having to address that, not something she was prepared to | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
protest down Whitehall, but said very clearly educate cutting the | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
budget you have a smaller Met which will make our job more difficult. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
They supplied Y2K news and queens for more than three centuries. We | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
take a look inside Britain's build this wine merchants. -- oldest wine | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
merchants. Some residents in Essex have told | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
the BBC they're concerned about their safety, | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
after a decision not to remove cladding found to be flammable | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
from their tower blocks. The two buildings, which contain | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
around 200 flats, failed The Housing Association which owns | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
them say it's waiting for Government On Friday afternoon, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
the news broke on BBC Essex. Cladding on two blocks | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
of flats has failed the The company which | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
manages these courts says the cladding | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
will not be taken down. The testing revealed that it | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
consists of an aluminium Aluminium panels were also | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
on the side of the Grenfell Tower. As you can see, the cladding does | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
not cover the entire building. They are several stories | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
high and relatively new, But residents living | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
here are still concerned. He received a letter | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
from Genesis Housing last week, explaining that despite failing | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
safety checks, the cladding will The fact that I could be in the same | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
position as those people that lived Obviously this is a new building, | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
but that does not really affect you at all, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
doesn't make you feel Following the Grenfell Tower | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
tragedy, across the country local authorities and housing associations | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
have been removing similar panels But the spokesman from | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Genesis Housing said their We have looked at what the cladding | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
does and the advice we have been given from the Fire Service is to | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
keep those in place until such time as we have further information | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
and further advice from the local government and from | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
the Fire Service themselves. Genesis say 24 hour fire monitors | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
will be patrolling the site The cladding on Cleves Court runs | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
down either side of Scott's flat. He says if it is not removed, | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
there is a possibility he will find A minute's silence will be held | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
at this year's Notting Hill Carniva, to remember the victims | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
of the Grenfell fire. The route passes close to the site | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
of the tragedy which has Organisers say they'll stop | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the music at three o'clock on Bank Holiday Monday, | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
to show respect for grieving Mobile phone footage taken | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
from inside The Mount prison in Hertfordshire shows riot officers | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
marching into a wing before Police were called to jail yesterday | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
for the second day running running. Whilst order has been restored - | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
today there's been criticism of how the Government is managing | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
the prison service. Inside this prison in Hertfordshire | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
this week, prison officers are drafted in to restore order | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
as prisoners take control. Flash bang grenades | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
are used, fortunately no one is injured, and in Wandsworth, | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
drones have been used to supply According to the leader | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
of the organisation which represents prison governors, a crisis is now | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
building in prisons, caused by a toxic mix | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
of population pressures and Until we get sufficient | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
staff in our prisons, the situation we are facing | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
will continue, so we will continue to try and control | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
the situation, but we will not be delivering a significant number of, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
prisons and good-quality We will literally be | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
holding and controlling the people in our care, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
and this is unacceptable. In an open letter that | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
sharply is critical of the Government's handling of prisons, | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Andrea Albutt says her officers had seen nothing tangible from ministers | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
to ease the burden on staff. She said a Government decision | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
to separate the running of prisons from policy-making was perverse | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
and not cost-effective. She claims there was a gaping | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
hole in the operational knowledge in the | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Ministry of Justice. Some question why prison governors | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
are only speaking out now. We would like to think | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
they are our allies, but where have they been | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
for the past five years? It is not their members | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
getting used as punchbag. The Ministry of Justice says | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
it is aware of these ongoing problems in prisons, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
that is why it is taking immediate action to increase prison officer | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
numbers as well as creating the prison and | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
probation service, which will ensure that both policy and operational | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
work closely together to deliver And following a report | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
earlier this year that found Pentonville prison | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
was overcrowded and violent, it is clear these reforms | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
are needed, and needed quickly. A woman from East London, | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
whose family was fundraising to pay her medical bills | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
after she suffered a suspected heart attack while on holiday | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
in Turkey, has died. 62-year-old Heather Pyke, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
had been on life support. Her family began a crowdfunding | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
campaign to fly her home - because of confusion | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
over her travel insurance. The stepfather of Baby P, | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
who was jailed over the boy's death in 2007, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
has been refused parole. Peter Connelly was just 17 months | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
old when he died in Haringey in north London, following a | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
campaign of abuse by Steven Barker, the child's mother Tracey Connelly, | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
and their lodger. Barker was given a life sentence | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
for raping a two-year-old girl, alongside a 12-year term | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
for his role in Peter's death. One of the most popular tourist | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
attractions in the country But local residents aren't happy | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
about Legoland's expansion plans, not least because it means building | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
on the green belt. One business group argues it'll | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
boost the local economy. Charlotte Franks | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
reports from Windsor. It is the adventure theme park where | :12:27. | :12:41. | |
Lego is brought to life. Since it was built in 1996, the Legoland | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
aside in Windsor has been steadily growing. But now there are plans for | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
its biggest ever expansion. Legoland want to come and expand right the | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
way over here. Philip and his family had been living on the road near | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Legoland for 22 years. He has a number of concerns. Then noise, we | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
can hear Legoland, and I frequently have two phone the Legoland noise | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
line to tell them to be quiet. We get the traffic and I won't be able | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
to go and walk in the countryside any longer from my house. So it is | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
pretty bad. He has been trying to fight to the development along with | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
other local residents because the application would involve building | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
on green belt land. We have green fields out there and public | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
footpath, which we can walk through. Legoland intend to concrete over | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
approximately 100 acres of farmland. It is here on this green belt land | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
to the west of the park when Legoland plan to expand. They want | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
to build 450 residential chalets as well as new car parks. But despite | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
many locals campaigning against it, some nearby businesses are welcoming | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
the possible expansion. Could be positive. A lot of people on the way | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
out of Legoland will actually stop at the restaurant. We have a good | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
name for trip advisor. We get a lot of people stopping before they go | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
home. Is a sentiment echoed by the trade body pop Edinburgh is in | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Windsor who believe it will bring more business to the area. In a | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
statement, Legoland said... But there are still has | :14:22. | :14:44. | |
reservations. He is worried that if this it expansion gets the go-ahead, | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
it will pave the way for more development in the future. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Stay with us because still to come before 7pm: | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Join me here in the tropical nurseries at Kew Gardens, which are | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
usually close to the public but are open for special tours this weekend. | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
And if you had picked a day for outdoor plans, you may well have | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
been disappointed. There is something drier and brighter on the | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
way. Still a future hours, more details coming up. -- a view | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
showers. Next: Is it better to be | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
a millennial or a baby boomer New research suggests that | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
if you were born after 1980 you'll face much bigger financial | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
challenges than those born Caroline Davies has been looking | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
into whether one generation has had The fashions have changed, but what | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
else is different on being a young He is a bar manager | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
in east London and has I do try and save when I can, | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
but it just tends to disappear. A lot of my money seems | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
to go on going out. It is sort of out of reach, | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
I think, for young people now, to get on the property market | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
and get that first step, so they Now in his early 60s, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
it was very different I was never highly paid, | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
but we were able to buy a house. Do you think that your | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
generation had it easy? You would always find that people, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
baby boomers, would say that we had New research says that | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
over half of late millennials, that is people | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
aged between 25 and 34, do not think they can make it | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
for more than three But is it really the case that | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
millennials are not saving because they are spending their money on | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
going out and having nice coffees? Well, not according to the research | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
that we have seen today. The main reason that | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
people cannot save is a 40% of people who do not | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
save anything save the 32% say credit card | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
bills are the problem. We don't think they are | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
being irresponsible, and official data shows that the big | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
spending on going out and foreign holidays and so on is amongst | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
the boomers, they have the money to spend, you only have to look | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
at any newspaper to see If young people are going out | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
and enjoying themselves, it is probably because they realised | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
that the house or any of those things are beyond their reach, | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
so they might as well drown Of course, millennials are not | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
the only ones who could be affected by changes to the economy, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
but the fear from this research is that if things do go | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
wrong, they will find it Britain's oldest wine | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
merchant opened its doors But when you've been the supplier | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
of wine to the monarch since the reign of King | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
GeorgeIII, how do you adapt Sarah Harris has been to St James's | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
in London to find out. For hundreds of years, this was the | :17:59. | :18:13. | |
place in London to come to buy your favourite tipple. Berry Brothers and | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
rot is the oldest wine merchants in the country. Kings, admirals and | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
archers have passed through its timber doors in St James 's. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Centuries ago some believed it to be the place to come to get in shape. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
One of the quirks of coming to buy your wine from your London merchant | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
back in a 19th century was that customers would weigh themselves at | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
the same time. One of the famous clients was Lord Byron, the poet, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
and he was concerned about his weight. He went on that not so | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
famous diet of white wine and dry biscuits, but you would be surprised | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
learn a bit actually work. He started out at 13 stone, almost 14. | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Five years later he is just over nine stone. Good wine in moderation | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
is still known for its health benefits, even if weight loss is not | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
one of them. I was lucky to be born into a family with a legacy of wine. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
George 's family have kept the best vintages for generations, he says | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
most customers now are looking to know where their wine comes from and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
would rather have quality not quantity. When people come in, if | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
they are buying a bottle, invariably they are buying better. Possibly | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
less by better. That wine is something that is important to them | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
and want to be involved in the story. Online sales put many | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
retailers out of business. But a new shop here is making tasting and | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
buying wine is a leisure activity. They don't just come for buying a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
bottle of wine. They are looking for an experienced. To explore regions, | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
new wines, tasting wines... For many Londoners it seems that coming to | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
sample your own wine in person is not so much of a chore but a retail | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
experience. If you are expected to lose weight like Lord Byron, you | :20:08. | :20:08. | |
might be disappointed. Now, it houses some of the rarest | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
and strangest plants in the world, from the smallest water lilly | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
to the smelliest flower. The secretive Tropical Nursery | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
at Kew Gardens is normally But not this weekend, | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
when visitors can get the chance to see some of the 10,000 | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
species grown there. We can join Alice Bhandhukravi | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
there, who's casting her eye This is not what it seems. It looks | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
like a tree but it is a leave of the... A tree from Indonesia, any | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
tropical nursery at Kew Gardens. It is not actual gardens as we know it, | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
these are the nurseries, the places where the plants are nurtured and | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
grown. And a small part of south-west London, there is a | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
tropical paradise. It is home to some of the world's smallest, rarest | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
and most endangered plants. Plants which might save your life and | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
plants which might take it. If you are an insect. This is... This is | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
the Madagascan periwinkle. I get asked a lot, what is the point of | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
conservation? Why should we save plants? This is a great example. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
This plant treats childhood leukaemia. They have taken compounds | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
are planned and used it within the treatment. This is a really exciting | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
plaid and is what Kew Gardens is all about. This was thought to be | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
extinct in the wild 40 years ago, and amazingly someone filed a bit of | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
it and that was sent here and we were able to grow that planned on. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
How long did it take to get from the sample to actually being able to get | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
the Cedar Grove? 30-40 years. That is an amazing success story. We are | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
still discovering new species on the time. If you don't discover them and | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
name them, we could just lose those. We could lose those plants. They | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
have to be named to be saved. Then we can serve them and they can | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
potentially bank them into the millennium seed bank so they are | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
banked for life. There are more than 70 plans here that are extinct in | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
the wild. Horticultural risk a great pains to preserve them and give them | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
optimal conditions. The Public gardens at Kew Gardens show you the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
finished product. It is behind the scenes when a pioneering work takes | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
place. The size best this weekend will open the doors to small groups, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
so you can share in the discovery, too. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Here to tell us more about the size Festival is Doctor Tim Partridge, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
head of identification at Kew Gardens. Great job title. In my | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
department, we get all the new plants from around the world. We | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
give them names way there are new and unknown to science. Here any | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
carnivorous room, with these lethal looking plants. These are members of | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
the genus McKenzies, and a picture plans, insect eaters, so flies get | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
attracted Angolan side. This is a new species that we only described | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
last year from... A hell new species? Yes, it has been growing in | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Indonesia for many years. We thought it was one of these big ones, but | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
when we got it, we drew it up in our amazing nursery and it only stayed | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
small. It is not the same. These are some of the things that people can | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
discover this weekend. What else can they do? Tours in a nursery, see | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
behind the scenes, 7 million specimens, cyclist coming out of the | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
lab, pressing PNA and cloning cauliflowers, and have a whole range | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
of things for kids and adults. Goodes page of talking to us. Not | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
very much time, three days to get all that in. It opens on Friday | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
until Sunday. A botanical treasure trove. | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
There will be some showers and sunshine, I suppose the plans will | :24:10. | :24:21. | |
get a watering today. But those ones are inside. And try to put some | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
positive spin on this, does I think in many ways it is the sort of day | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
when we want to forget. Particularly if you are on holiday at the moment. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
This is the theme in some people's Gardens. A better big can stay | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
indoors. Here was how it looked in central London. Grey and miserable | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
for sure. The radar picture just confirms that. This big lump of rain | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
pushing its way from the south, really quite heavy burst my heaviest | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
rain was found to the south of London. As they go through this | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
evening and at night, there is some more wet weather on the way. Spots | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
to the south and east of London, part of Surrey and Kent and Essex | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
will probably see the brunt of the heavy rain. Even here, by tomorrow, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
most of that will ease away. It will be a blustery night in parameters | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
around 14 all 15 Celsius. Tomorrow, dryer, not completely dry, could be | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
some showers but with the south-westerly winds, the showers | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
should blow through fairly quickly and you should return to sunny | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
spells. Not a bad looking day, but when we compare it to today. Tebbit | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
is around 21-22dC. It will feel relatively warm. If you are about | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
tomorrow evening, not too bad, showers should fade and we will see | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
some sunshine to enter the day. Low-pressure has been responsible | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
for this unsettled weather. The locomotive doctor the north-east and | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
B star to look up to the Atlantic and this bulge of high-pressure | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
which is going to start have more of an impact on our weather. Friday, | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
more in a way of dry weather, fewer showers and more sunshine, the wind | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
will be lighter as well. Not a bad day. Maximum temperatures up to 22 | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
Celsius. The all-important weekend, sunny spells is the main headline. A | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
view showers, might be worth taking a brolly. Saturday is largely dry | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
the spells of sunshine, the odd shower, lighter winds and | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
temperatures around 21-22dC. Sunday, most of us should be dry. A view | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
spells of sunshine with light when feeling very pleasant. No heat wave | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
but Tebbit is up into the low 20s. To summarise, some showers over the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
next few days, but generally it will be dryer, certainly dryer than it | :26:46. | :26:46. | |
was today. I appreciate your optimism, Ben. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Thank you. Scientists have, for the first time, | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
successfully repaired faulty They used a process known as gene | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
editing to correct a gene that Four members of a terrorist cell | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
from the West Midlands have been convicted of plotting an attack | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
similar to the one carried out Three of the men had previous | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
convictions for terrorism offences. New research suggests that more | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
than 1 million women in their early 60s are worse off financially, | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
as a result of the increase It's been suggested that those | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
affected were losing more That's it for now, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
thanks for joining us. Feel free to join the conversation | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
on Facebook, and Asad will be back From me and the team, | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
have a lovely evening. Experience the power | :27:37. | :27:55. | |
of the BBC Proms. # Oh, lullaby of Birdland, | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
that's what I... # to jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
and Dizzy Gillespie, in the centenary year | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
of their births. | :28:09. | :28:11. |