0:00:00 > 0:00:01That's all from the BBC News at Six , so it's goodbye from me -
0:00:04 > 0:00:05Tonight on BBC London News:
0:00:05 > 0:00:08The Mayor calls for a special Brexit deal for the capital
0:00:08 > 0:00:15to safeguard thousands of jobs.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19If it's good enough in Northern Ireland, bearing in mind this will
0:00:19 > 0:00:24protect tens of thousands of jobs in London, bearing in mind London is
0:00:24 > 0:00:29crucial to the government's well-being, economically and
0:00:29 > 0:00:34otherwise, the Prime Minister should give London the same deal as well.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36He made the comments during a trade visit to India.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37We report from Mumbai.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40We hear from the London Ambulance Service as the emergency services
0:00:40 > 0:00:45are recognised for their bravery after this year's terror attacks.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The London Ambulance Service, the police services, the members of the
0:00:48 > 0:00:52public, all the Londoners who helped us on that evening, was
0:00:52 > 0:00:54unbelievable.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Social media giant Facebook opens its biggest engineering
0:00:56 > 0:00:58hub outside the US - here in London creating
0:00:58 > 0:00:59hundreds of jobs.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01And the bear that's delighted us for decades.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05With a little help we take a look round the new Winnie the Pooh
0:01:05 > 0:01:12exhibition at the V&A.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17A very good evening to you.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Welcome to the programme.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22First tonight: should the capital be given a special Brexit deal?
0:01:22 > 0:01:25The Mayor Sadiq Khan thinks so.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Earlier during a visit to India he said that London should be given
0:01:28 > 0:01:31similar status to that being proposed by the Prime Minister
0:01:31 > 0:01:33for Northern Ireland.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Allowing the city to remain in the single market and customs
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Union after the UK leaves the EU.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41But could it work?
0:01:41 > 0:01:44And what would the implications of such a deal be for London?
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Our Brexit reporter, Katharine Carpenter,
0:01:45 > 0:01:51has been finding out.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56It was the Romans who first built the great Wall around the city to
0:01:56 > 0:02:02protect its prosperity and trade. Today, London's Mayor hinted at
0:02:02 > 0:02:05partitioning off the capital once more, with a special Brexit deal,
0:02:05 > 0:02:11similar to the one being thrashed out for Northern Ireland.The
0:02:11 > 0:02:16government has accepted a principal today that part of the country
0:02:16 > 0:02:20should have part of the single market.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21If it's good enough for Northern Ireland,
0:02:21 > 0:02:25bearing in mind this will protect tens of thousands of jobs in London,
0:02:25 > 0:02:27bearing in mind London is crucial to the government's well-being
0:02:27 > 0:02:29economically and otherwise, the government should give us
0:02:29 > 0:02:30the same deal as well.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35His comments were welcomed by some at this garage on Seven Sisters Rd.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40Being in the single market means goods, services and people can move
0:02:40 > 0:02:45around freely. The owner here says leaving means costs will go up.I
0:02:45 > 0:02:51believe it will be hard for us, it Bobby Hassell. As a business runner,
0:02:51 > 0:02:57we will be affected quite a lot if we leave the single market. If we
0:02:57 > 0:03:02stayed, it will be better.But his friend around the corner was one of
0:03:02 > 0:03:05the 40% of Londoners who voted leave. He says he will feel cheated
0:03:05 > 0:03:12if the mayor has his way.I don't see how it will work. How can you
0:03:12 > 0:03:18segregate London from the rest of the country?It's a view shared by
0:03:18 > 0:03:23other pro-Brexit supporters, who question the practicalities as well.
0:03:23 > 0:03:31We decided in 2016, in a referendum with a huge vote, to leave the
0:03:31 > 0:03:34European Union. Secondly, it's fraught with practical difficulties.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39Where is the boundary going to be? Who will be in, who will be out?
0:03:39 > 0:03:44It's not workable.This is an opportunity for the mayor, who have
0:03:44 > 0:03:48called many times form all devolved powers to support London through
0:03:48 > 0:03:54Brexit.If it can be done for Northern Ireland, which is part of
0:03:54 > 0:03:57the United Kingdom, it makes it more difficult for the government to say
0:03:57 > 0:04:07it can be done for one part of the United Kingdom, and not another,
0:04:07 > 0:04:09remembering that London, Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to stay
0:04:09 > 0:04:14in the EU, while the UK as a whole voted to leave.The Prime Minister
0:04:14 > 0:04:19has a lot more on her mind than London, but the city has a lot on
0:04:19 > 0:04:23its mind regarding the future, and frustration is growing.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Well, the Mayor made his comments during the start of his week-long
0:04:26 > 0:04:28trade visit to India and Pakistan.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Also on the agenda, the issue of student visas.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Speaking in Mumbai earlier, Sadiq Khan blamed the Prime Minister
0:04:32 > 0:04:35for making it difficult for Indian nationals to come to
0:04:35 > 0:04:36London to work and study.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41Our Political Correspondent, Karl Mercer, sent this report.
0:04:41 > 0:04:48Of course the mayor wasn't staying at this hotel, nor eating at this
0:04:48 > 0:04:52restaurant, but tucked off a main road into Mumbai, these two pay
0:04:52 > 0:04:57testament to a city that thrives on trade, deals and making money,
0:04:57 > 0:05:02something that the mayor is keen to tap into. So there is a mantra from
0:05:02 > 0:05:07Sadiq Khan on this trip. Everywhere he's been, he has said that London
0:05:07 > 0:05:16is open, but apparently not as open as he wants it to be.London is open
0:05:16 > 0:05:20for business.His contradictions may need a bit more practice.The Mayor
0:05:20 > 0:05:31of London, Sadiq Khan.What will not is the message she came to deliver
0:05:31 > 0:05:36on student visas.The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, got it badly
0:05:36 > 0:05:43wrong with her decision to close this route a few years ago.A rule
0:05:43 > 0:05:53change five years ago meant that these two students, who wanted to go
0:05:53 > 0:05:59to London universities, had to stay in Mumbai.We wanted to come to
0:05:59 > 0:06:03London and works of the economy and see how it was. But they stopped it
0:06:03 > 0:06:08because of the immigration issues, or whatever, and we were not allowed
0:06:08 > 0:06:15visas.You can have the talent, work there, not get benefits, but if
0:06:15 > 0:06:20somebody from a developed country gets the opportunity to do well, and
0:06:20 > 0:06:27then come back to their own country. It could be a win win for both.I
0:06:27 > 0:06:32think we need to be very careful we are not doing stuff that actively
0:06:32 > 0:06:36deters foreign students. At the moment, as you said, the policy
0:06:36 > 0:06:42seems to be putting some people off. Five years ago, on his trip to India
0:06:42 > 0:06:47as mayor, Boris Johnson tried to stop those changes as well. If
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Theresa May wouldn't listen to Boris Johnson then, why would she listen
0:06:50 > 0:06:58to what you are saying now?The reason why she should listen to us
0:06:58 > 0:07:02now is that the fear is that we have have been realised, it's not simply
0:07:02 > 0:07:06that scaremongering that changes around student visas will lead to
0:07:06 > 0:07:11fewer students coming. That has happened. If Theresa May wants to
0:07:11 > 0:07:17make Brexit a success, if she wants to make sure businesses continued to
0:07:17 > 0:07:21flourish and strive, we need to have access to talented people from
0:07:21 > 0:07:26around the world, including India. It's in her interests to change the
0:07:26 > 0:07:31rules.He wants students like these to be able to stay after their
0:07:31 > 0:07:38studies and work air. The numbers of Indian students coming to the
0:07:38 > 0:07:41capital has fallen 40% in the last four years.Historically and
0:07:41 > 0:07:45culturally, we are connected to the UK and especially London, which is
0:07:45 > 0:07:52why I chose London to study.London is a great city with a variety of
0:07:52 > 0:08:00cultures. I wanted to be exposed to different things.The general
0:08:00 > 0:08:07impression is, for employability, the UK are the best. And I don't
0:08:07 > 0:08:12want to say this, but Brexit has possibly something to do with it as
0:08:12 > 0:08:26well.The biggest factor in the recent decreasing trend of students
0:08:26 > 0:08:36coming to the UK less is the removal of the student Visa.In more sombre
0:08:36 > 0:08:40mood, Sadiq Khan paid his respects at a memorial to those who were
0:08:40 > 0:08:44murdered here by terrorists nine years ago, when they attacked the
0:08:44 > 0:08:48luxury hotel where the mayor spent his night.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50In a statement, the government says:
0:08:50 > 0:08:51"any post-study provisions must strike a careful balance
0:08:51 > 0:08:53between providing competitive options for the brightest students
0:08:53 > 0:08:55to remain in the UK to work.
0:08:55 > 0:09:05Whilst maintaining safeguards against widespread abuse".
0:09:08 > 0:09:11A double murder investigation has been launched after the bodies of
0:09:11 > 0:09:17the Father and daughter were found in Deptford. Their bodies were found
0:09:17 > 0:09:25inside a house at new but lame. Police were called following reports
0:09:25 > 0:09:29of concerns for their well-being.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31A pedestrian has died after being struck by a marked
0:09:31 > 0:09:33police car that was responding to an emergency call,
0:09:33 > 0:09:34the Metropolitan Police said.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37The incident happened at around 6.45pm on December three
0:09:37 > 0:09:39on Seven Sisters Road close to the junction with
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Elizabeth Road in Haringey, north London, the force said.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45I think the council have to put one zebra crossing here because every
0:09:45 > 0:09:48second minute, people are passing here and it is very dangerous
0:09:48 > 0:09:49for them.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53There's a bus stop and when people come
0:09:53 > 0:09:57out from the bus stop, they are quickly passing
0:09:57 > 0:10:00and the road is very busy and the cars is very fast
0:10:00 > 0:10:09all the time.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12In a year which has seen four terrorist attacks on the capital -
0:10:12 > 0:10:15there's been widespread praise for the work of the
0:10:15 > 0:10:16emergency services.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18And today some were recognised for their 'exceptional bravery',
0:10:18 > 0:10:20along with Londoners who also provided vital first aid
0:10:20 > 0:10:21and much needed support.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Among them, a paramedic from London Ambulance Service
0:10:23 > 0:10:26who was one of the first on the scene at the
0:10:26 > 0:10:27London Bridge attack.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Chris Rogers has been speaking to him.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33June the 3rd, and what is now a familiar sight in London,
0:10:33 > 0:10:39a massive police response, confusion and fear.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Get down, everyone, now!
0:10:40 > 0:10:42It's just after 10pm.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44A white van has driven into pedestrians on London Bridge,
0:10:44 > 0:10:47leaving bodies in its path.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Three terrorists emerge.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52They stab anyone in their sight.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Eight people are killed.
0:10:55 > 0:10:5848 others are left injured.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00I got the call to London Bridge.
0:11:00 > 0:11:06It was given as a road traffic collision at the time.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I arrived and then got told it was a major incident.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Andy Beasley and his team are in a race against time to
0:11:11 > 0:11:12save lives.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15I took the handover from an advanced paramedic on scene very
0:11:16 > 0:11:19quickly.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22And we then heard gunfire.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25The terrorists are shot by specialist armed police.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29I then took cover, as soon as the gunfire had
0:11:29 > 0:11:33finished, I come back out and my training just kicked in.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35I was very, very nervous.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39There's no way I'm going to deny that.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42But the training does kick in and it was, to me, I
0:11:42 > 0:11:48need to get as many patients out of this
0:11:48 > 0:11:51area, into hospital, soon as I possibly could.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53In the midst of the horror, something wonderful happened.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56I don't feel a hero at all, I'll be quite honest with you.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58I feel like I was just doing my job.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01There's a lot of people behind us.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03You know, it is a big, big team, the London Ambulance Service,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05the police services, and the members of the
0:12:05 > 0:12:08public, all the Londoners that helped us on that evening was
0:12:08 > 0:12:09unbelievable.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11You know, without any of them, this wouldn't have
0:12:12 > 0:12:13happened.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15The control room staff, the people on the road, everybody,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18everyone just mucked in, one big team and we just made it.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Four terror attacks in London this year
0:12:21 > 0:12:23took 14 lives and dozens were injured.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Among the 200 people honoured by the Met Police for their
0:12:27 > 0:12:30bravery are medics like Andy and police officers but also a butcher
0:12:30 > 0:12:37and his wife, a bouncer and an imam.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39It's been a terrible year.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41There's no other way to describe it and so
0:12:41 > 0:12:45many people have lost their lives and other people have had their
0:12:45 > 0:12:48lives turned upside down.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50As we are commending police colleagues and
0:12:50 > 0:12:53members of the public this afternoon, we will be thinking about
0:12:53 > 0:12:56them but I think we will also be very proud and we will be
0:12:56 > 0:13:01recognising that actually, London came together right
0:13:01 > 0:13:04at the time of those attacks and ordinary Londoners
0:13:04 > 0:13:09showed extraordinary courage.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10London carries on, facing the daily threat
0:13:10 > 0:13:12of terror.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14United in grief and fear but also bravery and vigilance.
0:13:14 > 0:13:24Chris Rogers, BBC London News.
0:13:25 > 0:13:32Also at that ceremony, commended for his bravery during the London Bridge
0:13:32 > 0:13:36attack, was this PC from the London transport police. Take us back to
0:13:36 > 0:13:40that Saturday evening in June. You were on duty as normal, and then
0:13:40 > 0:13:46what?I was just about to finish my shift, but I had the call, so I
0:13:46 > 0:13:51attended with my colleague from East London. When we got to the scene, it
0:13:51 > 0:13:56was carnage. Lots of injured people. Our job was just to help as many
0:13:56 > 0:14:02people as we could.What was going on around you? Did you have time to
0:14:02 > 0:14:07even think?You just switched off, moved from one person to do next.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11There was just lots of people who needed help, so we tried to get to
0:14:11 > 0:14:16as many as we could.We know that people in your position often say,
0:14:16 > 0:14:21look, this is part of the job, what you train for. But can anything
0:14:21 > 0:14:26prepare you for what you saw that day?No. It was quite an extreme
0:14:26 > 0:14:33day. But it is part of the job to deal with people who are injured
0:14:33 > 0:14:37regularly, it was just a lot of people at once.At the time, you
0:14:37 > 0:14:42were not aware of the scale of the attack?Not at all.So what was
0:14:42 > 0:14:47going through your mind?We didn't really understand until we got
0:14:47 > 0:14:52there. When we got there, we realised, but then, you almost turn
0:14:52 > 0:14:56off your emotions and go straight into helping people, trying to save
0:14:56 > 0:15:04people's lives, and do the best you can with the resources you have.Can
0:15:04 > 0:15:09I ask if you ever fear for your own life?My wife probably does. I'm
0:15:09 > 0:15:15quite good at just turning off from it and getting on with the job. When
0:15:15 > 0:15:20you get home, you just think about things afterwards.Obviously, that
0:15:20 > 0:15:26day, you were just doing your job, as you say. When you look back, in
0:15:26 > 0:15:30those quiet, reflective moments, what do you think then?You think
0:15:30 > 0:15:34about the families who have lost relatives, and you think about the
0:15:34 > 0:15:39people you've managed to help. You are happy you did the best you could
0:15:39 > 0:15:44on the day. Today, we all got awarded, so it was quite nice.How
0:15:44 > 0:15:54did it feel being there today? You are amongst other people who are
0:15:54 > 0:15:56some of the few people who have experienced what you experienced?It
0:15:56 > 0:16:00was nice to be together. There were other forces there, the Metropolitan
0:16:00 > 0:16:05Police and the City of London, and people from the fire service and
0:16:05 > 0:16:08ambulance service as well, and members of the public. It was good
0:16:08 > 0:16:14to get together with people you don't see. It was lovely.Four
0:16:14 > 0:16:18terror attacks already this year in London. Does it make you look at
0:16:18 > 0:16:23your job differently at all?No, it makes me want to do it more, to make
0:16:23 > 0:16:29sure I can be there when people need me.Thank you. A wonderful note to
0:16:29 > 0:16:34end on. Thank you so much. Extraordinary bravery in the midst
0:16:34 > 0:16:43of such horror. Stay with us.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Bumping down the stairs with Christopher Robin. How you can walk
0:16:47 > 0:16:52into the world of Winnie the Pooh. We start the week on a cloudy and
0:16:52 > 0:16:56increasingly mild note, but enjoy it while it lasts, because it will turn
0:16:56 > 0:17:00colder by the end of the week.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Google, Bloomberg and Apple have all announced plans
0:17:01 > 0:17:04to grow their business bases here in the capital.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Now, the tech giant, Facebook, has opened it's biggest engineering
0:17:06 > 0:17:08hub outside the US - in London - creating
0:17:08 > 0:17:10hundreds of new jobs.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13So what does it mean for the capital as we look ahead
0:17:13 > 0:17:14to a post-Brexit world?
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Here's Tarah Welsh.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20It's one of the fastest-growing companies in the world and has
0:17:20 > 0:17:2339 million users in the UK.
0:17:23 > 0:17:31That means more than half of us have a Facebook account.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34No wonder it's got something to sing about at its new offices in central
0:17:34 > 0:17:36London, entertainers, dancers and even the Chancellor
0:17:36 > 0:17:42came along to celebrate, reassured that even in uncertain
0:17:42 > 0:17:44times, such a big company wants to expand here.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Really excited about the fact we are going to be looking for more
0:17:47 > 0:17:49people to be coming here.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52We hope a lot of those people will be UK grown people
0:17:52 > 0:17:57because London in particular is a fantastic tech hub.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00The company is hiring another 800 people in London
0:18:00 > 0:18:03so by the end of next year, there will be 2300 people working
0:18:03 > 0:18:09here, making this their biggest engineering base outside the US.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12It's also opening a centre to help start-ups but some say this
0:18:12 > 0:18:15expansion has knock-on effects for the industry.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16The innovation to London's ecosystem isn't necessarily served
0:18:16 > 0:18:19by massive companies.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24In fact, what actually happens is that very large companies
0:18:24 > 0:18:30like Facebook and Google tend more often to have an effect on start-ups
0:18:30 > 0:18:33because they can no longer afford to pay the vast salaries that these
0:18:33 > 0:18:35large, large companies can afford.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37The perks of working here can be found around every corner.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41Free meals, treats and sugar by the bus-load comes with the job.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45But this is a company that has been here for ten years
0:18:45 > 0:18:50and up until recently, routed UK sale through Ireland,
0:18:50 > 0:18:53meaning in 2014, it paid just over £4,000 in tax.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Many people were outraged about the tax setup of Facebook.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00What would you say to them now?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Yeah, well, we make sure that we comply with all of the tax
0:19:03 > 0:19:06laws within all of the areas that we operate.
0:19:06 > 0:19:14You might have seen that last year, we moved our revenues
0:19:14 > 0:19:18that we receive from our large scale clients in the UK into our UK office
0:19:18 > 0:19:21and that is now recognised and taxed at the right level
0:19:21 > 0:19:22of corporations for profitability.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Our focus here is about making sure we continue to grow
0:19:24 > 0:19:25and continue to invest.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28While so many of us use it, it is likely to grow,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31this giant that no one had ever heard of just 15 years ago.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Tarah Welsh, BBC London News.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Now - despite lying in the relegation zone,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Crystal Palace have today announced ambitious plans to redevelop
0:19:41 > 0:19:44their stadium in a project that will cost up to £100 million.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Sara Orchard has been at Selhurst Park all day.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49So, good news for fans in what's been
0:19:49 > 0:19:53a difficult season so far?
0:19:56 > 0:20:01Yes, some respite for the Eagles fans after that difficult start to
0:20:01 > 0:20:06the season and also, the crowd trouble that marred their match away
0:20:06 > 0:20:09at Brighton last week. Confirmation they won't be leaving the site which
0:20:09 > 0:20:13had been mooted for a few years. They will be redeveloping Selhurst
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Park, particularly the main stand behind me, which will be increased
0:20:17 > 0:20:20to a five story structure, increasing the hospitality and
0:20:20 > 0:20:24corporate areas. They will also be looking to increase the size of the
0:20:24 > 0:20:27pitch to bring it up to international standards. That means
0:20:27 > 0:20:33should England ever hosted European Championship for a World Cup in the
0:20:33 > 0:20:36future, they will be able to put their name on the table as a
0:20:36 > 0:20:39possible host venue. Crucially, all of this will go ahead while the club
0:20:39 > 0:20:44continues to play Lear. Today, the Palace chairman concerned he wanted
0:20:44 > 0:20:47to welcome all local resident in the Selhurst Park area to come to the
0:20:47 > 0:20:52club and look and discuss the plans.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Residents can come any time and look at what is going on but we will have
0:20:56 > 0:20:59a series of open days for them to come and have a look at the plans
0:20:59 > 0:21:03and understand what it will look like from the outside, the transport
0:21:03 > 0:21:05study and impact statements we have done, all the things to make sure we
0:21:05 > 0:21:09can make them as comfortable as possible with what is going. I think
0:21:09 > 0:21:12it's sensible. You can get ahead of yourself and bite off more than you
0:21:12 > 0:21:16can chew but we want this to build optimism. If we get relegated this
0:21:16 > 0:21:21year or next, we still to do it. It is very important to the future of
0:21:21 > 0:21:24the football club.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Have Crystal Palace said how quickly they would like the building to
0:21:26 > 0:21:33start? Of course, nothing can happen unless
0:21:33 > 0:21:36they get planning approval. Today the club said they would be
0:21:36 > 0:21:39submitting a planning application to Croydon Council at the end of
0:21:39 > 0:21:43January 2018 and the council released a statement today, saying
0:21:43 > 0:21:47it was supportive of Palace's ambitions for Selhurst Park and
0:21:47 > 0:21:50discussions with the club remain at an early stage and they look forward
0:21:50 > 0:21:53to receiving more detailed information about the proposals. If
0:21:53 > 0:21:57everything was given the green light, the earliest they would
0:21:57 > 0:22:01expect building to start would be the end of 2018 and the build is
0:22:01 > 0:22:05expected to take about two years. Back to the studio.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13They are the stories of a bear that have endured for nearly a century.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Now the words and drawings have leapt from the page of the Winnie
0:22:16 > 0:22:19the Pooh books into a new exhibition at the V&A.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23And young children are very welcome - as Wendy Hurrell
0:22:23 > 0:22:24has been finding out.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26The screech owl...
0:22:26 > 0:22:28When Winnie went Disney in the 60s, he became
0:22:28 > 0:22:31probably the most famous bear in the world.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33But it was from humble pencil-sketched
0:22:34 > 0:22:35beginnings that he came.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38There's a lot of Pooh memorabilia out there.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41In fact, the exhibition begins with a whole load of, you
0:22:41 > 0:22:42know, masses of different kind of versions.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Winnie the Pooh in Russian.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47There's some extraordinary dates on it.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49And then what we wanted to do was almost cleanse the palate
0:22:49 > 0:22:53and take everyone back to the books, back to the original drawings and
0:22:53 > 0:22:54the words.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Well, the words were AA Milne's with a bit of help from mum.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00The Milne family lived in Chelsea and for Christopher Robin's
0:23:00 > 0:23:03first birthday, his mother, Daphne, went to Harrods and bought him a
0:23:03 > 0:23:05teddy bear.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08It was she that brought that bear to life with her stories.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12And they are still being read more than 90 years on, tales passed down
0:23:12 > 0:23:16through the generations.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head!
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Behind Christopher Robin.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24This is the first V&A exhibition aimed at
0:23:24 > 0:23:25younger families.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28It is as much for the ones who haven't grown up...
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Do you want to bump down the stairs with me like this?
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Ready?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Bump, bump, bump!
0:23:34 > 0:23:43..as for the little ones.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47After you've been through this space you then look at the original
0:23:47 > 0:23:49drawings and the books and see them with a new light.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Having walked inside the books, maybe you will see them
0:23:52 > 0:23:55in a slightly different way.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56The illustrations were by another Londoner, EH Shepard.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59He was a friend of Milne's and spent time
0:23:59 > 0:24:02with the family in Ashdown Forest, 30 miles from London in Sussex.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04There were some sketches taken of trees that
0:24:04 > 0:24:07inspired the homes of Piglet and Owl.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09These are actual trees?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11They were actual trees and one of them was
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Christopher's favourite tree.
0:24:14 > 0:24:20He could actually walk up the branch.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23From the branches come twigs and fir cones because no one brought up
0:24:23 > 0:24:26on Winnie can resist a quick game of pooh-sticks on a
0:24:26 > 0:24:28bridge over a stream.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33Though this one must have seen the one where Roo goes swimming.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Pooh's house will be open from Saturday.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38And the media won't be there to spoil your fun.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Come on, you go through the door.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45Wendy Hurrell, BBC London News.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Let's see what the weather's up to and Lucy Martin
0:24:53 > 0:24:53Let's see what the weather's up to and Lucy Martin
0:24:53 > 0:24:56is here to tell us.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59December already! Yes but we will see slightly milder
0:24:59 > 0:25:03temperatures in the first few days of the week then it will feel a lot
0:25:03 > 0:25:06more like December towards the end of the week, a fair amount of cloud
0:25:06 > 0:25:09around today, this photo sent in earlier from South Kensington and we
0:25:09 > 0:25:13start off on a fairly cloudy note with temperatures rising above
0:25:13 > 0:25:17average by the time we get to Thursday, we could see 14 degrees
0:25:17 > 0:25:20before temperatures come back down, turning colder and brighter towards
0:25:20 > 0:25:24the end of the week, back down into single figures. We have got high
0:25:24 > 0:25:27pressure in charge to start the week which will keep things fairly
0:25:27 > 0:25:31settled before this area of low pressure suite in from the west,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34bringing a spell of wet and windy weather and when that passes
0:25:34 > 0:25:38through, we will see the turn to colder conditions. It has been
0:25:38 > 0:25:41mostly cloudy day. Loud edging eastwards. The best of any
0:25:41 > 0:25:46brightness the further east you are. As we go through the evening and
0:25:46 > 0:25:50overnight, it will stay fairly cloudy and where we see breaks in
0:25:50 > 0:25:54the cloud, temperatures will drop away and perhaps a few patches of
0:25:54 > 0:25:59and fog with overnight lows of around five or 6 degrees. Tomorrow
0:25:59 > 0:26:02starts off fairly cloudy. We will see any patches of mist and fog
0:26:02 > 0:26:05lifting fairly quickly through the morning and it will be similar to
0:26:05 > 0:26:08today but perhaps a bit more brightness than we have seen today,
0:26:08 > 0:26:13temperatures a maximum of 11. As we move into Wednesday, we see the wind
0:26:13 > 0:26:17spinning around two or south-westerly direction. It will be
0:26:17 > 0:26:20largely cloudy and it could be thick enough to produce a few spots of
0:26:20 > 0:26:23light rain and drizzle, temperatures again fairly mild, the average for
0:26:23 > 0:26:30the time of year is nine but we could see 12 on Wednesday. Later on
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Wednesday we start to see the cold front pushing eastwards. It will
0:26:33 > 0:26:36bring a spell of wet and windy weather so we start the day on
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Thursday with outbreaks of rain and temperatures will be quite mild,
0:26:40 > 0:26:45this is where we could see 14 before it clears Southeast, brighter
0:26:45 > 0:26:48conditions into the afternoon but turning colder and that is how we
0:26:48 > 0:26:52will stay as we move into Friday, temperatures back into single
0:26:52 > 0:26:55figures but more brightness and the chance of one or two wintry showers.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59I suppose it had to.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00The headlines.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02The headlines.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Britain and the European Union have failed to now to reach agreement to
0:27:05 > 0:27:08move on to the second phase of negotiations on Brexit. The Irish
0:27:08 > 0:27:12border remains one of the main difficulties. There's been a big
0:27:12 > 0:27:15increase in the last four years in the number of children and
0:27:15 > 0:27:17pensioners living in poverty according to the Joseph Rowntree
0:27:17 > 0:27:24Foundation. And members of the emergency services and Londoners who
0:27:24 > 0:27:27showed exceptional bravery during this year's terror attacks have been
0:27:27 > 0:27:31honoured at a ceremony at the Guildhall.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34More on the day's stories on our website - and of course it's
0:27:34 > 0:27:36that time of the year for Christmas lights,
0:27:36 > 0:27:38so head to our Facebook page to share your pictures.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I'll be back later with our late news.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Have a lovely evening.