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net migration drops by almost a

third. And that's all from the BBC

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Coming up on tonight's programme...

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The hunt for a man police believe

is linked to 25 sexual assaults

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in south east London.

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The suspect attacks victims by

grabbing their intimate parts. A

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number of victims have been

traumatised as a result of this

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offence.

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One victim was just eight years old.

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Also ahead tonight...

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Rodents on the rise.

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Is London facing a rat epidemic?

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Councils receive more

than a hundred complaints a day.

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Plus, bringing cricket

to a younger audience.

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A former England batsman says you're

never too young to play.

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I remember when I started on the

beach, I did not hit very many but

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we started and that is a huge thing.

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And a family affair -

we meet the mother and son

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graduating together,

the same degree from

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the same university.

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Welcome to BBC London News

with me, Riz Lateef.

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First tonight, the hunt for a man

who's carried out a series of sex

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attacks in south east London.

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In one case the victim

was just eight years old.

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CCTV footage shows the suspect,

who police believe has carried out

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around 25 sexual assaults

on women and children.

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They were mostly attacked

in daylight, usually during morning

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and evening rush hours.

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Ayshea Buksh reports.

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He appears to target young women

on their way to work or school.

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In the last year it is thought

the same man has carried out 25

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attacks in south-east London,

sometimes within

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hours of each other.

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And this is where the latest

incident happened at 8:30am

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on the 22nd of November

here on Sandbourne Road,

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a residential street in Brockley.

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Just the week before,

the same man, it's thought,

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carried out another assault,

that time on an

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eight-year-old child.

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The majority of attacks have

happened in the Borough of Lewisham

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but there have been similar assaults

in Greenwich, Bromley,

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Southwark and Bexley.

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Police say they are looking

for a white man in his 40s

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with fair hair and blue eyes.

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The suspect attacks victims

by grabbing their intimate parts.

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And this is a very, very serious

offence and we are treating it

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with the utmost seriousness.

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A number of victims have been

traumatised as a result of this

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offence which is why it's very

important for us for the public

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to try to help us by looking

at the CCTV and perhaps providing us

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with some names of the people

they think is on that CCTV.

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The police say there could be other

victims who are yet to come forward

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and they are working with local

schools and community

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groups to raise awareness.

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The victims are all traumatised

as a result of the offences that

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have been committed against them

and what I would say, the reason

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we have linked the offences

is because the description

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of the suspect is often very similar

and the actual nature

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of the offence is very similar.

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But our age ranges differ.

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Around a third of our victims

are adults, our oldest

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victim is 35 years of age.

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Our youngest victim is eight

and we do see a number

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of offences committed

against early teenage

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schoolchildren.

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Anyone with any information should

call Lewisham police

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station on 0208 284 8346.

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These assaults have increased

since the summer and police hope

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this man will be caught before

he commits any more.

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Ayshea Buksh, BBC London News.

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Plenty more ahead this

evening including...

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Rumours are rife in bricks and about

who might be buying the indoor

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markets, an area that has seen a lot

of changes and there are some fears

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about further gentrification -- in

Brixton.

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London's facing a rat epidemic,

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with councils in the capital

receiving more than 100 rodent

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related complaints every day.

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That's according to a report

produced by the Tories

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on the London Assembly.

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And they claim the problem

is getting even worse.

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Our political editor,

Tim Donovan, joined one pest

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controller on a visit in north

London this morning.

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Nice to meet you.

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Pest control, not exactly a welcome

visitor to a house-warming.

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But when Jess bought this place last

month she found it wasn't

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quite vacant possession.

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They were coming in

through a hole in here.

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We blocked it off.

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They got in through the sewer,

so Jess stuff the pipe with wire.

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We are not living

here at the moment.

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That shifted the problem

upstairs to the bathroom.

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This is what tends to happen.

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It is made of plastic.

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They come up and chew

through it and before

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you know if you have rats.

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There is a fresh dropping here.

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Sorry!

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That is very fresh, within three

days easily.

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Hoping to highlight

the problem was this street

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in Harrow over the summer.

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Since when the woman who filmed it

says things have improved.

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The Tories say it has become a big

political issue.

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Rats bother a lot

of people in London.

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They want the streets to be cleaner.

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We need to look at bin collections

again.

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More rubbish on the streets.

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None of us like that.

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Sadiq Khan is in charge of London.

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He needs to do an awareness campaign

and he needs maybe to have a word

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with some of the places

where rats are worst.

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The poison is being laid.

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I'll just put down

some tracking dust.

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That identified the movement of the

rats.

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That is the dust that

reveals important stuff

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under ultraviolet lights.

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It shines up nice and bright.

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You will see footprints.

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You don't think you will be coming

into a house and dealing

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with a rat problem.

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It's not very nice to deal with.

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How would you describe

London's rat problem?

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Chaotic.

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It is, yes.

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For me, it is fantastic.

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For my business. I feel for my

clients.

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Jess is hoping to move

in before Christmas.

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Next this evening, we return

to the temporary accommodation

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for struggling families in south

London where conditions

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were so bad it was even raised

in Parliament a few weeks ago.

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However, at the time,

councils insisted it met

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all the regulations.

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Well, tonight we can reveal plans

to move families out

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into better housing.

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Chris Rogers has the story.

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Welcome to Connect House, emergency

housing for homeless families.

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This small room is home for Victoria

and her ten-year-old daughter.

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When I got here, I said to them,

I'm disabled, I have pain condition,

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I really can't share a bed

with my daughter.

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It's going to cause me a lot of pain

and a lot of trouble.

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And they said, that's it,

take it or leave it.

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They were evicted when their

landlord decided to sell up.

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So you're on housing benefits.

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I'm on housing benefits.

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So you need to find a landlord

that is willing to take

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on someone who is relying

on the state, basically.

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And none of them will.

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So she ended up here.

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How are you coping mentally

in a small room with

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a ten-year-old daughter?

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I'm not.

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Take it hour by hour.

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It's very hard.

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How they can charge £210

a week for this room,

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I think it's disgusting.

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Connect House is on an industrial

estate in converted

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offices in Mitcham.

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It's used by four councils.

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Although temporary, many

struggling families have been

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here for more than a year.

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Victoria's daughter is one

of 200 children here.

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Honestly, I feel

depressed, I feel sad.

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This place isn't a place to live in.

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There's no playground round here.

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Some people, they will come out

and shout if we're too loud.

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This isn't the first

time we've been here.

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When we first exposed these poor,

cramped conditions,

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councils insisted everything

was within regulations.

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Now they are offering

residents like Samantha,

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her partner and two children

a deposit to secure private rent.

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They came round to visit

everyone in the building.

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They offered people private rent

either in the borough

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or out of the borough.

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But there's a problem.

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Those who have been offered

privately rented accommodation fear

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that eventually money may run out

or that the landlord

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will kick them out.

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And then they end up back

somewhere like this.

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And of 20 local estate

agents we contacted,

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13 said the landlords would not

accept tenants on benefits.

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Five said it was unlikely.

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Two refused to comment.

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Could these modular flats be

a cheaper and more humane

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alternative for councils struggling

with the housing crisis?

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Local MP Siobhain McDonagh

is campaigning for this YMCA project

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to be adopted across London.

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These are made in a factory, put up

within days and are very cheap.

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They are very well insulated,

it costs very little to run them

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and if the council or the landowner

wants their land back,

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they simply can be picked up and put

on the back of a lorry.

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For now there are few alternatives

for people like Victoria who have

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fallen on hard times.

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It's a very hard thing

to ask someone to take

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you in and I can't do it.

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And I don't have anyone to ask.

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Tonight, all four councils have

confirmed, if they haven't already,

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they are now determined to move

all families out and end

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and end their use of Connect House.

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Chris Rogers, BBC London News.

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A woman from Wandsworth who lost

a leg in a speedboat accident that

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killed her husband and daughter has

had prosthetic limbs worth

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about £30,000 stolen.

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Victoria Milligan is

a personal trainer and unable

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to work without her running blade.

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It was taken from her car along

with two other limbs by thieves

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on mopeds in west London on Sunday.

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A London hospital has been told

it can continue to provide

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complex heart surgery.

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The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS

Foundation Trust had been told it

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might have to stop offering some

services for people born

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with heart problems.

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This was because the unit that

provides the services wasn't meeting

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newly set standards.

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But after a public consultation,

NHS England bosses said they had

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changed their minds provided

the hospital achieves

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"full compliance with

the standards" in the future.

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It's home to more than

a hundred businesses.

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Brixton's famous covered markets

were put on sale last month

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for £30 million and rumours are rife

about who'll snap it up.

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A reported front-runner is the owner

of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley,

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because there's a strong association

between him and a company

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who bought land nearby.

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It's led to a real concern among

tenants that the area

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will be further gentrified.

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Let's get more on this

from Tolu Adayoye who's there.

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I am outside Brixton Village, wanted

to make market areas up for sale and

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inside is a mix of independent

retailers, market traders,

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restaurants and bars, a popular area

for outsiders as well as people who

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live in the area. The rumours that

Sports Direct are going to take over

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has led to concern because this is

an area where people have said there

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has been too much gentrification.

This is a flavour of what people

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feel about the future of the market.

At the moment it is not the culture

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of black people at the moment it is

a different culture and it is

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changing entirely and I'm worried.

I

hope it is roughly the same rather

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than changing it.

Already a massive

change, the bigger chains coming in

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and that a shame, I think it will

lose a lot of edge that it has had

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for so many years.

It's interesting.

Brixton has changed a lot, there are

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good things and bad thing about it

like everywhere else.

I'm joined now

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by John Gordon from the market

traders Federation. Why does it

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matter who owns the market?

It is

crucial because it decides whether

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the market will develop to serve the

local community who come here at

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least once a week, two or three

times a week, to do their weekly

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shopping and meet friends and people

they have known, or whether it is

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developed as a tourist attraction

for people to come in because it is

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trendy, to drink and eat in the

restaurants and visit once a month,

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once a year or maybe just visit and

never return.

And what kind of

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changes that have happened had

concerned you?

What has been

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happening is the shops supplying the

local community are being squeezed

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out and instead we have restaurants

and bars that are serving what we

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call retail tourists. They visit

once in a blue moon. There is no

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community developing, and the local

community feels...

Pushed out?

Yes,

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excluded for that we call it ethnic

and social cleansing.

Who do you

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think should own the market?

It

should be owned by the traders and

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the local community so it is their

for the benefit and to serve the

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local community.

Thank you, John

also the Sports Direct rumours are

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just that, no comment from then so

we will have to watch this space.

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Indeed. Thank you.

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We know about A-Levels,

but how about T-Levels?

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That's the name the government

is giving to plans to improve

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vocational training.

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The Education Secretary,

Justine Greening,

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has been meeting some

of London's young apprentices,

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who had a chance to see

what their skills

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could help them achieve

at a giant hole in the ground

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beneath Battersea.

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Adina Campbell reports.

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A tour of one of the UK's biggest

building projects. As well as taking

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a closer look at what will soon

become London's super sewer, the

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Education Secretary is setting out

government plans for a new

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generation of skilled workers.

What

is in it for EMB but are great

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opportunities and Skilling

themselves up and what is in it for

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business is the skills they need and

for far too long they have not been

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able to find -- for young people.

This summit is calling on business

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and industry experts to improve

their training programmes. With the

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introduction of new technical

qualifications called T-Levels, a

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way of supplying vocational

training. There is still an ongoing

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skill shortage right across the UK

but on the site training at big

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project like this is the valuable

experience that really matters. But

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there has been a big fall in the

number of people starting

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apprenticeships in England since the

government introduced a levy earlier

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this year. And ministers are keen to

get more young people on board.

You

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can't teach people particular skills

at school, it doesn't equate, you

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have to do it on the site.

I have

always wanted to be in construction

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and I thought, why don't I work and

study at the same time?

The

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government target for

apprenticeships is 3 million by 2020

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which it says will help create a

skills revolution.

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Still to come this

Thursday evening...

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There were times when I wondered who

was the parent around here, he was

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the parent and I was the child!

A

mother's experience of studying the

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same degree at the same university

as her son as they graduate

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together. And coming up in a few

minutes, I will have the latest

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chapter in our Winter 's tale of

weather.

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It's a first for a principal dancer

- exploring depression

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through underwater ballet.

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And it's hoped the film 'sink

or swim' will raise awareness

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in a compelling new way.

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It's a collaboration

between the Royal Ballet

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and a mental health charity.

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Tarah Welsh went to find out more.

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I'm actually not a very good swimmer

at all and I'm also allergic to

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chlorine. All these things, it was a

challenge from start to finish.

She

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might make it look effortless, but

this wasn't the easiest role for

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this rising star.

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It's quite different being

underwater dancing. Everything takes

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a lot longer because of the water.

Also your less in control of it

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because the water can turn you away

you don't want to be turning. Out of

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water I can control that.

Good girl.

Don't be sorry.

Francesca Haywood

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has been dancing since she was

three. From next week, she will be

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starring as the sugar Plum fairy in

the Nutcracker put it this short

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film to raise awareness of mental

health that she is proud to watch.

I

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don't like watching myself dance on

camera, I find it really hard, but

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the clips underwater are the only

time I've enjoyed watching myself.

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The dancers met with people who

experienced depression before

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filming.

They were able to inform

how to portray the performance so

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the fact it is underwater piece

brought to life how it can feel when

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you had depression and it can feel

like you are fighting against the

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tide or trying to struggle to get

your head over water and power

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overwhelming the feelings of

depression can be.

It's hoped social

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media will help get it through to an

audience that might not normally

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engage with the ballet.

We wanted to

target people in secondary schools.

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We feel like this is a time that is

a vulnerable age and has a lot of

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pressures.

As audiences arrived to

see this festive favourite next

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week, this production will also be

released, aiming to touch viewers in

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a different way.

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As Tara says, she does make it look

effortless, doesn't she?

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Turning to cricket now,

and ahead of the second Ashes test

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which starts on Saturday,

former England and Middlesex batsman

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Mike Gatting has been speaking

to BBC London about the team's

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performance, role models and why

you're never too young to play.

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Here's our sports

reporter Chris Slegg.

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The maturity levels of some England

players has been questioned of late

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but this morning cricket

really was child's play.

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This is a mini Lord's stadium,

opened by Middlesex County

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Cricket club at Kidzania

in Shepherd's Bush Westfield.

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You know, getting a bat

and a ball in a kids's

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hand, the earlier start the better.

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What about sport you want to play...

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Whatever sport you want to play...

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I remember when I started

when I was about three

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or four on the beach.

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I didn't hit very

many but we started

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and that is a huge thing.

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Cricket's efforts to

attract a younger fan

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base perhaps have not

been helped by negative

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headlines surrounding the Ashes.

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Ben Stokes left out of the squad

after his arrest on suspicion

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of causing actual bodily harm.

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And the team now under an ECB curfew

following accusations that Jonny

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Bairstow head-butted Australia's

Cameron Bancroft in a bar.

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The kids here, you do

need role models and

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hopefully, and in general,

you have the likes of Joe Root

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and others within the team

who are very much at

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the forefront and are role

models as we all are

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but as I say, sadly sometimes

we make a mistake or two.

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Also coaching the

youngsters morning was

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Toby Roland-Jones, who missed out

on Ashes selection through injury.

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Realistically, how would you rate

England's chances of turning this

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series around and actually

winning the Ashes?

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I do think they have got a good

chance, I think the sides are

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evenly matched and they have

certainly showed elements of

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promise I suppose in the first game.

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I think the day-night will be

a really good spectacle,

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it should be a great atmosphere

and I think the

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guys have to go out and enjoy

themselves and fingers crossed that

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is the start of the turnaround.

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I think James Vince,

Dawid Malan, Mark

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Stoneman, they will all be very

happy with the way that the first

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Test match started for them,

not with the result

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obviously I hope, but

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they feel they must learn quickly

from some of the errors they made

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when they got into good positions.

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An Ashes comeback would certainly

help inspire a new generation.

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England have it all to do.

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It's one of the biggest days

of a student's life

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usually shared with their family.

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But in the case of this mother

and son, they both graduated

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in politics on the same day

at the same university.

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Samiya and Edwin Lerew

from Barnet credit each other

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with providing invaluable support

even if there were a few

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odd moments on campus.

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Our education reporter

Marc Ashdown went to meet them.

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Mother and son, but also

fellow graduates.

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We have had siblings,

we have brothers

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and sisters here before.

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We have not had mother and son.

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This is quite rare.

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They have never seen a mother

and son being friends and

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students at the same time.

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Born in Somalia, Samiya moved

to London in her twenties,

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but had to abandon plans to study

to look after her mother.

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40 years later, when Edwin got

into university, she had an idea.

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I thought maybe if I went

it wouldn't be too bad.

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I think the word was

around that we were

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studying with each other.

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I could keep half an eye

on him and he could

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look after me.

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Absolutely.

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Was it hard not to be

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Was it hard not

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Did you tell him

to tuck his shirt in?

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Was I ever that kind of parent?

No.

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Mum is there.

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Basically.

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So are there certain

advantages - like not having

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to send bags of washing home.

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It certainly made

things, I don't know...

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Does mum do your washing?

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I don't think she does.

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There were times when I wondered

who is the parent?

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He was the parent, I was the child!

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And how about sharing classes?

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she would be at the front and I

would be at the back, that wouldn't

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be by accident.

Did I embarrass you?

I strategically dodged the rest of

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the classes she might have been in.

Always shooting off my mouth with my

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views, tutors got to know me

eventually.

If there were other gaps

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in my knowledge, she was able to

fill them because she lived through

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history as it was unfolding.

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What advice then for other parents

thinking of a life on campus?

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Don't be so condescending or bossy

to your child, daughter.

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Be their friend.

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Be there for them.

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Yes.

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One final question.

It might be awkward.

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Who did better?

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Academically he did

better than I did.

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Yes.

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It was hard.

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I couldn't have done it without her.

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Congratulations to them both. Let's

get a check on the weather now.

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Philip Avery has joined us. Social

media was awash with the S word.

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People get out and about more than I

do so they might have seen it. We've

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established you are not a fan of the

cold, are you? I didn't think you

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were. I don't mind it, it's almost

as though we could be married!

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were. I don't mind it, it's almost

as though we could be married! She

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dumps off-camera! More of the same

over the next couple of days. It's

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not all doom and gloom by any means.

Some sort of glorious start of the

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day with relatively clear skies,

particularly to the western side of

0:25:030:25:07

our parched. There were showers

aplenty. You have probably seen the

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pictures if it isn't like that

outside your door. My real concern

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is not the fact you may see

wintriness about some of these

0:25:170:25:22

showers, particularly in northern

and eastern parts, it's what it will

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do to your commute first thing

because given the temperature

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profile with the moisture overnight,

ice could be an issue first thing.

0:25:280:25:33

There will be further showers as we

get on through the day but I don't

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think that will be a massive issue,

simply because most of these will be

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watery rather than wintry. We may

just find a degree or two on the

0:25:410:25:50

temperatures by comparison to today

and I think that process continues

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apace. If you are stepping out

tomorrow night, predominantly dry

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but you are going to need some

layers because I'm not promising a

0:25:550:26:02

heatwave here. Just for many of us

above frost limits. As we get into

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the weekend I think we will see this

plume of relatively mild air. This

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ain't no heat wave coming in here

but in comparison to what we have

0:26:120:26:15

been through over the last few days,

it isn't just a sparkly. There is

0:26:150:26:21

dry weather around but we will bring

weakening weather fronts down from

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the north and that will have the

effect of bringing successively mild

0:26:250:26:29

days over the next couple of days,

and by Monday back up to double

0:26:290:26:33

figures so hang on in there.

I'm sure I heard you say heatwave!

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Thank you. Re-capping the day's

headlines...

0:26:390:26:46

Theresa May has said President Trump

was wrong to retweet videos posted

0:26:460:26:49

by the far-right group Britain

First.

0:26:490:26:51

Labour says the government needs

to take a tougher line.

0:26:510:26:54

There's been a big drop

in the number of EU citizens

0:26:540:26:56

coming to this country

since the Brexit referendum.

0:26:560:26:59

New figures show net migration fell

by a third, to 230,000.

0:26:590:27:07

NHS leaders are warning

that the health service in England

0:27:070:27:10

will struggle to meet its targets

for waiting times next year.

0:27:100:27:12

It's despite a funding increase

of 2.8 billion pounds announced

0:27:120:27:15

in the budget earlier this month.

0:27:150:27:18

CCTV footage has been released

of a man police believe may have

0:27:180:27:21

carried out 25 sexual assaults

on women and children

0:27:210:27:23

in south east London.

0:27:230:27:24

The youngest victim

was eight years old.

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And there's been a big increase

in the number of complaints made

0:27:270:27:30

to councils about rats and mice.

0:27:300:27:33

A reports says counils are receiving

more than 100 complaints a day.

0:27:330:27:38

You can see more on those stories on

our website and you are welcome to

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get in touch on our Facebook page. I

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