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net migration drops by almost a
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Coming up on tonight's programme... | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
The hunt for a man police believe
is linked to 25 sexual assaults | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
in south east London. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:16 | |
The suspect attacks victims by
grabbing their intimate parts. A | 0:00:16 | 0:00:21 | |
number of victims have been
traumatised as a result of this | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
offence. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
One victim was just eight years old. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
Also ahead tonight... | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
Rodents on the rise. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:30 | |
Is London facing a rat epidemic? | 0:00:30 | 0:00:31 | |
Councils receive more
than a hundred complaints a day. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
Plus, bringing cricket
to a younger audience. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
A former England batsman says you're
never too young to play. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:41 | |
I remember when I started on the
beach, I did not hit very many but | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
we started and that is a huge thing. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
And a family affair -
we meet the mother and son | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
graduating together,
the same degree from | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
the same university. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Welcome to BBC London News
with me, Riz Lateef. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:12 | |
First tonight, the hunt for a man
who's carried out a series of sex | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
attacks in south east London. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:17 | |
In one case the victim
was just eight years old. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
CCTV footage shows the suspect,
who police believe has carried out | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
around 25 sexual assaults
on women and children. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
They were mostly attacked
in daylight, usually during morning | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
and evening rush hours. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
Ayshea Buksh reports. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
He appears to target young women
on their way to work or school. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
In the last year it is thought
the same man has carried out 25 | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
attacks in south-east London,
sometimes within | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
hours of each other. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
And this is where the latest
incident happened at 8:30am | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
on the 22nd of November
here on Sandbourne Road, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
a residential street in Brockley. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
Just the week before,
the same man, it's thought, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
carried out another assault,
that time on an | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
eight-year-old child. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
The majority of attacks have
happened in the Borough of Lewisham | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
but there have been similar assaults
in Greenwich, Bromley, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
Southwark and Bexley. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
Police say they are looking
for a white man in his 40s | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
with fair hair and blue eyes. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
The suspect attacks victims
by grabbing their intimate parts. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
And this is a very, very serious
offence and we are treating it | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
with the utmost seriousness. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
A number of victims have been
traumatised as a result of this | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
offence which is why it's very
important for us for the public | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
to try to help us by looking
at the CCTV and perhaps providing us | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
with some names of the people
they think is on that CCTV. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
The police say there could be other
victims who are yet to come forward | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
and they are working with local
schools and community | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
groups to raise awareness. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
The victims are all traumatised
as a result of the offences that | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
have been committed against them
and what I would say, the reason | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
we have linked the offences
is because the description | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
of the suspect is often very similar
and the actual nature | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
of the offence is very similar. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
But our age ranges differ. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
Around a third of our victims
are adults, our oldest | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
victim is 35 years of age. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
Our youngest victim is eight
and we do see a number | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
of offences committed
against early teenage | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
schoolchildren. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Anyone with any information should
call Lewisham police | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
station on 0208 284 8346. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
These assaults have increased
since the summer and police hope | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
this man will be caught before
he commits any more. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Ayshea Buksh, BBC London News. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
Plenty more ahead this
evening including... | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
Rumours are rife in bricks and about
who might be buying the indoor | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
markets, an area that has seen a lot
of changes and there are some fears | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
about further gentrification -- in
Brixton. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
London's facing a rat epidemic, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
with councils in the capital
receiving more than 100 rodent | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
related complaints every day. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
That's according to a report
produced by the Tories | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
on the London Assembly. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
And they claim the problem
is getting even worse. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
Our political editor,
Tim Donovan, joined one pest | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
controller on a visit in north
London this morning. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:17 | |
Nice to meet you. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
Pest control, not exactly a welcome
visitor to a house-warming. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
But when Jess bought this place last
month she found it wasn't | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
quite vacant possession. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
They were coming in
through a hole in here. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
We blocked it off. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:39 | |
They got in through the sewer,
so Jess stuff the pipe with wire. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
We are not living
here at the moment. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
That shifted the problem
upstairs to the bathroom. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
This is what tends to happen. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
It is made of plastic. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
They come up and chew
through it and before | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
you know if you have rats. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
There is a fresh dropping here. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
Sorry! | 0:05:00 | 0:05:07 | |
That is very fresh, within three
days easily. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
Hoping to highlight
the problem was this street | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
in Harrow over the summer. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
Since when the woman who filmed it
says things have improved. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:23 | |
The Tories say it has become a big
political issue. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
Rats bother a lot
of people in London. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
They want the streets to be cleaner. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
We need to look at bin collections
again. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
More rubbish on the streets. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:35 | |
None of us like that. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
Sadiq Khan is in charge of London. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
He needs to do an awareness campaign
and he needs maybe to have a word | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
with some of the places
where rats are worst. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
The poison is being laid. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:48 | |
I'll just put down
some tracking dust. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:55 | |
That identified the movement of the
rats. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
That is the dust that
reveals important stuff | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
under ultraviolet lights. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:00 | |
It shines up nice and bright. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
You will see footprints. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
You don't think you will be coming
into a house and dealing | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
with a rat problem. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
It's not very nice to deal with. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
How would you describe
London's rat problem? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
Chaotic. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
It is, yes. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
For me, it is fantastic. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
For my business. I feel for my
clients. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Jess is hoping to move
in before Christmas. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:34 | |
Next this evening, we return
to the temporary accommodation | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
for struggling families in south
London where conditions | 0:06:37 | 0:06:38 | |
were so bad it was even raised
in Parliament a few weeks ago. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
However, at the time,
councils insisted it met | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
all the regulations. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Well, tonight we can reveal plans
to move families out | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
into better housing. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
Chris Rogers has the story. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
Welcome to Connect House, emergency
housing for homeless families. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:58 | |
This small room is home for Victoria
and her ten-year-old daughter. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
When I got here, I said to them,
I'm disabled, I have pain condition, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
I really can't share a bed
with my daughter. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
It's going to cause me a lot of pain
and a lot of trouble. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
And they said, that's it,
take it or leave it. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
They were evicted when their
landlord decided to sell up. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
So you're on housing benefits. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:22 | |
I'm on housing benefits. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
So you need to find a landlord
that is willing to take | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
on someone who is relying
on the state, basically. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
And none of them will. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
So she ended up here. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
How are you coping mentally
in a small room with | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
a ten-year-old daughter? | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
I'm not. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
Take it hour by hour. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
It's very hard. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
How they can charge £210
a week for this room, | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
I think it's disgusting. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
Connect House is on an industrial
estate in converted | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
offices in Mitcham. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
It's used by four councils. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
Although temporary, many
struggling families have been | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
here for more than a year. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
Victoria's daughter is one
of 200 children here. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:10 | |
Honestly, I feel
depressed, I feel sad. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
This place isn't a place to live in. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
There's no playground round here. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
Some people, they will come out
and shout if we're too loud. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:23 | |
This isn't the first
time we've been here. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
When we first exposed these poor,
cramped conditions, | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
councils insisted everything
was within regulations. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:35 | |
Now they are offering
residents like Samantha, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
her partner and two children
a deposit to secure private rent. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
They came round to visit
everyone in the building. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
They offered people private rent
either in the borough | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
or out of the borough. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:48 | |
But there's a problem. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:53 | |
Those who have been offered
privately rented accommodation fear | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
that eventually money may run out
or that the landlord | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
will kick them out. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
And then they end up back
somewhere like this. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
And of 20 local estate
agents we contacted, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
13 said the landlords would not
accept tenants on benefits. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
Five said it was unlikely. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:12 | |
Two refused to comment. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
Could these modular flats be
a cheaper and more humane | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
alternative for councils struggling
with the housing crisis? | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
Local MP Siobhain McDonagh
is campaigning for this YMCA project | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
to be adopted across London. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
These are made in a factory, put up
within days and are very cheap. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
They are very well insulated,
it costs very little to run them | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
and if the council or the landowner
wants their land back, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
they simply can be picked up and put
on the back of a lorry. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
For now there are few alternatives
for people like Victoria who have | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
fallen on hard times. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
It's a very hard thing
to ask someone to take | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
you in and I can't do it. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
And I don't have anyone to ask. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
Tonight, all four councils have
confirmed, if they haven't already, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
they are now determined to move
all families out and end | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
and end their use of Connect House. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
Chris Rogers, BBC London News. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:16 | |
A woman from Wandsworth who lost
a leg in a speedboat accident that | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
killed her husband and daughter has
had prosthetic limbs worth | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
about £30,000 stolen. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:23 | |
Victoria Milligan is
a personal trainer and unable | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
to work without her running blade. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
It was taken from her car along
with two other limbs by thieves | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
on mopeds in west London on Sunday. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
A London hospital has been told
it can continue to provide | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
complex heart surgery. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS
Foundation Trust had been told it | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
might have to stop offering some
services for people born | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
with heart problems. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:49 | |
This was because the unit that
provides the services wasn't meeting | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
newly set standards. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
But after a public consultation,
NHS England bosses said they had | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
changed their minds provided
the hospital achieves | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
"full compliance with
the standards" in the future. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:07 | |
It's home to more than
a hundred businesses. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
Brixton's famous covered markets
were put on sale last month | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
for £30 million and rumours are rife
about who'll snap it up. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
A reported front-runner is the owner
of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
because there's a strong association
between him and a company | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
who bought land nearby. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
It's led to a real concern among
tenants that the area | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
will be further gentrified. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:30 | |
Let's get more on this
from Tolu Adayoye who's there. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:37 | |
I am outside Brixton Village, wanted
to make market areas up for sale and | 0:11:37 | 0:11:44 | |
inside is a mix of independent
retailers, market traders, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
restaurants and bars, a popular area
for outsiders as well as people who | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
live in the area. The rumours that
Sports Direct are going to take over | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
has led to concern because this is
an area where people have said there | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
has been too much gentrification.
This is a flavour of what people | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
feel about the future of the market.
At the moment it is not the culture | 0:12:04 | 0:12:12 | |
of black people at the moment it is
a different culture and it is | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
changing entirely and I'm worried. I
hope it is roughly the same rather | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
than changing it. Already a massive
change, the bigger chains coming in | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
and that a shame, I think it will
lose a lot of edge that it has had | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
for so many years. It's interesting.
Brixton has changed a lot, there are | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
good things and bad thing about it
like everywhere else. I'm joined now | 0:12:35 | 0:12:42 | |
by John Gordon from the market
traders Federation. Why does it | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
matter who owns the market? It is
crucial because it decides whether | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
the market will develop to serve the
local community who come here at | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
least once a week, two or three
times a week, to do their weekly | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
shopping and meet friends and people
they have known, or whether it is | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
developed as a tourist attraction
for people to come in because it is | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
trendy, to drink and eat in the
restaurants and visit once a month, | 0:13:09 | 0:13:15 | |
once a year or maybe just visit and
never return. And what kind of | 0:13:15 | 0:13:20 | |
changes that have happened had
concerned you? What has been | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
happening is the shops supplying the
local community are being squeezed | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
out and instead we have restaurants
and bars that are serving what we | 0:13:27 | 0:13:36 | |
call retail tourists. They visit
once in a blue moon. There is no | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
community developing, and the local
community feels... Pushed out? Yes, | 0:13:40 | 0:13:52 | |
excluded for that we call it ethnic
and social cleansing. Who do you | 0:13:52 | 0:13:58 | |
think should own the market? It
should be owned by the traders and | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
the local community so it is their
for the benefit and to serve the | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
local community. Thank you, John
also the Sports Direct rumours are | 0:14:07 | 0:14:12 | |
just that, no comment from then so
we will have to watch this space. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
Indeed. Thank you. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
We know about A-Levels,
but how about T-Levels? | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
That's the name the government
is giving to plans to improve | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
vocational training. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:27 | |
The Education Secretary,
Justine Greening, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:28 | |
has been meeting some
of London's young apprentices, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
who had a chance to see
what their skills | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
could help them achieve
at a giant hole in the ground | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
beneath Battersea. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
Adina Campbell reports. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
A tour of one of the UK's biggest
building projects. As well as taking | 0:14:42 | 0:14:47 | |
a closer look at what will soon
become London's super sewer, the | 0:14:47 | 0:14:53 | |
Education Secretary is setting out
government plans for a new | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
generation of skilled workers. What
is in it for EMB but are great | 0:14:56 | 0:15:02 | |
opportunities and Skilling
themselves up and what is in it for | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
business is the skills they need and
for far too long they have not been | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
able to find -- for young people.
This summit is calling on business | 0:15:08 | 0:15:13 | |
and industry experts to improve
their training programmes. With the | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
introduction of new technical
qualifications called T-Levels, a | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
way of supplying vocational
training. There is still an ongoing | 0:15:21 | 0:15:27 | |
skill shortage right across the UK
but on the site training at big | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
project like this is the valuable
experience that really matters. But | 0:15:31 | 0:15:38 | |
there has been a big fall in the
number of people starting | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
apprenticeships in England since the
government introduced a levy earlier | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
this year. And ministers are keen to
get more young people on board. You | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
can't teach people particular skills
at school, it doesn't equate, you | 0:15:50 | 0:15:57 | |
have to do it on the site. I have
always wanted to be in construction | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
and I thought, why don't I work and
study at the same time? The | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
government target for
apprenticeships is 3 million by 2020 | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
which it says will help create a
skills revolution. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
Still to come this
Thursday evening... | 0:16:13 | 0:16:19 | |
There were times when I wondered who
was the parent around here, he was | 0:16:19 | 0:16:24 | |
the parent and I was the child! A
mother's experience of studying the | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
same degree at the same university
as her son as they graduate | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
together. And coming up in a few
minutes, I will have the latest | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
chapter in our Winter 's tale of
weather. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
It's a first for a principal dancer
- exploring depression | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
through underwater ballet. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
And it's hoped the film 'sink
or swim' will raise awareness | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
in a compelling new way. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
It's a collaboration
between the Royal Ballet | 0:16:58 | 0:16:59 | |
and a mental health charity. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
Tarah Welsh went to find out more. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:11 | |
I'm actually not a very good swimmer
at all and I'm also allergic to | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
chlorine. All these things, it was a
challenge from start to finish. She | 0:17:15 | 0:17:24 | |
might make it look effortless, but
this wasn't the easiest role for | 0:17:24 | 0:17:28 | |
this rising star. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:33 | |
It's quite different being
underwater dancing. Everything takes | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
a lot longer because of the water.
Also your less in control of it | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
because the water can turn you away
you don't want to be turning. Out of | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
water I can control that. Good girl.
Don't be sorry. Francesca Haywood | 0:17:49 | 0:17:59 | |
has been dancing since she was
three. From next week, she will be | 0:17:59 | 0:18:05 | |
starring as the sugar Plum fairy in
the Nutcracker put it this short | 0:18:05 | 0:18:11 | |
film to raise awareness of mental
health that she is proud to watch. I | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
don't like watching myself dance on
camera, I find it really hard, but | 0:18:15 | 0:18:20 | |
the clips underwater are the only
time I've enjoyed watching myself. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
The dancers met with people who
experienced depression before | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
filming. They were able to inform
how to portray the performance so | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
the fact it is underwater piece
brought to life how it can feel when | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
you had depression and it can feel
like you are fighting against the | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
tide or trying to struggle to get
your head over water and power | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
overwhelming the feelings of
depression can be. It's hoped social | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
media will help get it through to an
audience that might not normally | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
engage with the ballet. We wanted to
target people in secondary schools. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:58 | |
We feel like this is a time that is
a vulnerable age and has a lot of | 0:18:58 | 0:19:05 | |
pressures. As audiences arrived to
see this festive favourite next | 0:19:05 | 0:19:12 | |
week, this production will also be
released, aiming to touch viewers in | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
a different way. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
As Tara says, she does make it look
effortless, doesn't she? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
Turning to cricket now,
and ahead of the second Ashes test | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
which starts on Saturday,
former England and Middlesex batsman | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
Mike Gatting has been speaking
to BBC London about the team's | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
performance, role models and why
you're never too young to play. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
Here's our sports
reporter Chris Slegg. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
The maturity levels of some England
players has been questioned of late | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
but this morning cricket
really was child's play. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
This is a mini Lord's stadium,
opened by Middlesex County | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
Cricket club at Kidzania
in Shepherd's Bush Westfield. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
You know, getting a bat
and a ball in a kids's | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
hand, the earlier start the better. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
What about sport you want to play... | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
Whatever sport you want to play... | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
I remember when I started
when I was about three | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
or four on the beach. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
I didn't hit very
many but we started | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
and that is a huge thing. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
Cricket's efforts to
attract a younger fan | 0:20:09 | 0:20:10 | |
base perhaps have not
been helped by negative | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
headlines surrounding the Ashes. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
Ben Stokes left out of the squad
after his arrest on suspicion | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
of causing actual bodily harm. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:18 | |
And the team now under an ECB curfew
following accusations that Jonny | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
Bairstow head-butted Australia's
Cameron Bancroft in a bar. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:26 | |
The kids here, you do
need role models and | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
hopefully, and in general,
you have the likes of Joe Root | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
and others within the team
who are very much at | 0:20:31 | 0:20:41 | |
the forefront and are role
models as we all are | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
but as I say, sadly sometimes
we make a mistake or two. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
Also coaching the
youngsters morning was | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
Toby Roland-Jones, who missed out
on Ashes selection through injury. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
Realistically, how would you rate
England's chances of turning this | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
series around and actually
winning the Ashes? | 0:20:54 | 0:20:55 | |
I do think they have got a good
chance, I think the sides are | 0:20:55 | 0:21:05 | |
evenly matched and they have
certainly showed elements of | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
promise I suppose in the first game. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
I think the day-night will be
a really good spectacle, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
it should be a great atmosphere
and I think the | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
guys have to go out and enjoy
themselves and fingers crossed that | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
is the start of the turnaround. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
I think James Vince,
Dawid Malan, Mark | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
Stoneman, they will all be very
happy with the way that the first | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
Test match started for them,
not with the result | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
obviously I hope, but | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
they feel they must learn quickly
from some of the errors they made | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
when they got into good positions. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:33 | |
An Ashes comeback would certainly
help inspire a new generation. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
England have it all to do. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
It's one of the biggest days
of a student's life | 0:21:40 | 0:21:46 | |
usually shared with their family. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
But in the case of this mother
and son, they both graduated | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
in politics on the same day
at the same university. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
Samiya and Edwin Lerew
from Barnet credit each other | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
with providing invaluable support
even if there were a few | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
odd moments on campus. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
Our education reporter
Marc Ashdown went to meet them. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
Mother and son, but also
fellow graduates. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:13 | |
We have had siblings,
we have brothers | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
and sisters here before. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
We have not had mother and son. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:17 | |
This is quite rare. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:18 | |
They have never seen a mother
and son being friends and | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
students at the same time. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
Born in Somalia, Samiya moved
to London in her twenties, | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
but had to abandon plans to study
to look after her mother. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:28 | |
40 years later, when Edwin got
into university, she had an idea. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:34 | |
I thought maybe if I went
it wouldn't be too bad. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
I think the word was
around that we were | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
studying with each other. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
I could keep half an eye
on him and he could | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
look after me. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
Absolutely. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:50 | |
Was it hard not to be | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
Was it hard not | 0:22:54 | 0:23:01 | |
Did you tell him
to tuck his shirt in? | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
Was I ever that kind of parent? No. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
Mum is there. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
Basically. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:08 | |
So are there certain
advantages - like not having | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
to send bags of washing home. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
It certainly made
things, I don't know... | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
Does mum do your washing? | 0:23:13 | 0:23:14 | |
I don't think she does. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
There were times when I wondered
who is the parent? | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
He was the parent, I was the child! | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
And how about sharing classes? | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
she would be at the front and I
would be at the back, that wouldn't | 0:23:25 | 0:23:31 | |
be by accident. Did I embarrass you?
I strategically dodged the rest of | 0:23:31 | 0:23:38 | |
the classes she might have been in.
Always shooting off my mouth with my | 0:23:38 | 0:23:43 | |
views, tutors got to know me
eventually. If there were other gaps | 0:23:43 | 0:23:51 | |
in my knowledge, she was able to
fill them because she lived through | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
history as it was unfolding. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
What advice then for other parents
thinking of a life on campus? | 0:23:56 | 0:24:03 | |
Don't be so condescending or bossy
to your child, daughter. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
Be their friend. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:06 | |
Be there for them. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:07 | |
Yes. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:08 | |
One final question.
It might be awkward. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
Who did better? | 0:24:10 | 0:24:11 | |
Academically he did
better than I did. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
Yes. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:14 | |
It was hard. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
I couldn't have done it without her. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:23 | |
Congratulations to them both. Let's
get a check on the weather now. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:28 | |
Philip Avery has joined us. Social
media was awash with the S word. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:36 | |
People get out and about more than I
do so they might have seen it. We've | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
established you are not a fan of the
cold, are you? I didn't think you | 0:24:40 | 0:24:45 | |
were. I don't mind it, it's almost
as though we could be married! | 0:24:45 | 0:24:52 | |
were. I don't mind it, it's almost
as though we could be married! She | 0:24:52 | 0:24:53 | |
dumps off-camera! More of the same
over the next couple of days. It's | 0:24:53 | 0:24:58 | |
not all doom and gloom by any means.
Some sort of glorious start of the | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
day with relatively clear skies,
particularly to the western side of | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
our parched. There were showers
aplenty. You have probably seen the | 0:25:07 | 0:25:13 | |
pictures if it isn't like that
outside your door. My real concern | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
is not the fact you may see
wintriness about some of these | 0:25:17 | 0:25:22 | |
showers, particularly in northern
and eastern parts, it's what it will | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
do to your commute first thing
because given the temperature | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
profile with the moisture overnight,
ice could be an issue first thing. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
There will be further showers as we
get on through the day but I don't | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
think that will be a massive issue,
simply because most of these will be | 0:25:36 | 0:25:41 | |
watery rather than wintry. We may
just find a degree or two on the | 0:25:41 | 0:25:50 | |
temperatures by comparison to today
and I think that process continues | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
apace. If you are stepping out
tomorrow night, predominantly dry | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
but you are going to need some
layers because I'm not promising a | 0:25:55 | 0:26:02 | |
heatwave here. Just for many of us
above frost limits. As we get into | 0:26:02 | 0:26:07 | |
the weekend I think we will see this
plume of relatively mild air. This | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
ain't no heat wave coming in here
but in comparison to what we have | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
been through over the last few days,
it isn't just a sparkly. There is | 0:26:15 | 0:26:21 | |
dry weather around but we will bring
weakening weather fronts down from | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
the north and that will have the
effect of bringing successively mild | 0:26:25 | 0:26:29 | |
days over the next couple of days,
and by Monday back up to double | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
figures so hang on in there.
I'm sure I heard you say heatwave! | 0:26:33 | 0:26:39 | |
Thank you. Re-capping the day's
headlines... | 0:26:39 | 0:26:46 | |
Theresa May has said President Trump
was wrong to retweet videos posted | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
by the far-right group Britain
First. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
Labour says the government needs
to take a tougher line. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
There's been a big drop
in the number of EU citizens | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
coming to this country
since the Brexit referendum. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
New figures show net migration fell
by a third, to 230,000. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:07 | |
NHS leaders are warning
that the health service in England | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
will struggle to meet its targets
for waiting times next year. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
It's despite a funding increase
of 2.8 billion pounds announced | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
in the budget earlier this month. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
CCTV footage has been released
of a man police believe may have | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
carried out 25 sexual assaults
on women and children | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
in south east London. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:24 | |
The youngest victim
was eight years old. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
And there's been a big increase
in the number of complaints made | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
to councils about rats and mice. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
A reports says counils are receiving
more than 100 complaints a day. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:38 | |
You can see more on those stories on
our website and you are welcome to | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
get in touch on our Facebook page. I
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