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That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye from me,

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and on BBC One, we now join

the BBC's news teams where you are.

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Tonight on BBC London News:

the BBC's news teams where you are.

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Claims that London needs 73

new schools to meet the growing

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demand for secondary places.

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We will be about 1900

students by 2019 and by that

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time we'll be full.

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Obviously, that means

increased numbers in our

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sixth formers as well.

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A new report says leisure centres

and cafes should be used

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to ease the pressure.

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Also tonight:

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Police reveal CCTV images

in connection to a hit and run

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in which a woman was hit

by four vehicles.

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It happened at this busy junction in

Tulse Hill. It's believed the

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29-year-old was hit by four

different vehicles and all of the

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drivers failed to stop.

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Plus, bringing the homeless

in from the cold.

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The mayor announces

plans for new shelters

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during freezing nights.

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And we're live at one

of the UK's biggest and most

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prestigious horse shows.

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Good evening.

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I'm Chris Rogers.

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First tonight, claims that London

is set to see a bigger increase

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in secondary school pupils

than anywhere else in the country.

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That's according to a new report

which says here in the capital,

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we'll need to find places for 76,000

extra students by 2020.

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That would mean building

73 new schools.

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Another option suggested to meet

the growing demand for places

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is to use leisure centres and cafes

to teach children.

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Here's Marc Ashdown.

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Just imagine schools

in leisure centres,

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disused council buildings,

high-rise blocks,

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or even off-the-peg

prefabricated classrooms...

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Just a few of the possibilities,

as London strains under

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a secondary population boom.

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TEACHER SPEAKING IN FRENCH.

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This report lays bare the challenge

facing every borough to provide

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enough school places.

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And Barking and Dagenham

is at the epicentre.

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In this borough alone

in the next two years,

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they are going to have nearly 6000

more secondary aged pupils,

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that's a 40% increase.

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In effect, they'll need

six brand-new schools.

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It requires some creative thinking.

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Brussels sprouts?

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Yes you do, why not?!

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Here, the headteacher doesn't

always serve dinner,

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but they have had to box clever

to cope with rising pupil numbers.

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A lot of it is about unstructured

time, break times and lunchtimes.

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You know, your playground

is your playground.

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If you add another 200,

300 students onto the playground,

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you face real difficulties.

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You can't cram all your Key Stage 3

kids into a single playground.

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So we've had to look

creatively about the space.

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Scape Group analyse the Government's

data to identify where

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school places are needed.

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They're experts in design

and recommend some radical ways

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of putting schools at the very heart

of future community planning.

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It's really key that we don't work

in silos and that education

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buildings can be delivered alongside

health and leisure, retail.

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At the same time, thinking about how

we can join up with the industry

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to deliver solutions.

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Off-site technology is at its best

value for money when we buy in bulk

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and we buy en masse,

so being able to procure things

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together, to design buildings

together, not only benefits

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the master planning,

but also delivers things

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faster and often cheaper.

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TEACHER SPEAKS IN FRENCH.

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That they also want the councils

and the Government speaking the same

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language, working together.

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Too often good ideas on both sides

are lost in translation.

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We need to work with all sorts

of schools and the DfE to make sure

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that we've got the schools

being built in the right places.

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I mean, some boroughs unfortunately

in the past have been forced to have

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new free schools where there hasn't

been the demand, which has

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undermined local existing schools

and that's a very bad thing.

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The Department for Education says

it's created 235,000 school places

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in London since 2011 and has

committed a further half a billion

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pounds to help create more,

but it's a huge challenge and every

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bit of space now counts.

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Mark Ashdown, BBC London News.

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The shortage of school places

is our top story this Friday night,

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but there's still lots more to come

before 7, including...

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I'm on the rooftops of London,

finding out if the solution

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to the London housing crisis

is selling thin air.

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Police investigating a fatal

hit-and-run in south London have

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released CCTV images of a lorry

and car they want to trace.

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A 29-year-old woman was struck

by four different vehicles

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on a pedestrian crossing

in Tulse Hill where officers say

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she was left to die.

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We can join our reporter

Victoria Hollins at the scene.

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This is the junction in Tulse Hill

where this happened on Monday

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morning, a very busy junction, not

just at this time but on Monday

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morning as well, around 6:45am when

it happened. You can see the flowers

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where the woman was hit. She was

crossing the road when the traffic

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lights for vehicles were running

green. As you said, police believe

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she was hit first by a lorry, then

by another lorry, and then two cars.

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They have contacted the drivers of

two vehicles that they are still

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trying to trace the drivers of two

other vehicles involved. They have

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issued CCTV images, the first of the

lorry. It is a white lorry, possibly

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a Mercedes that was seen in the area

at the time. The second vehicle is a

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black car, which would have been the

third vehicle to hit her. Police say

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there must be dash cam footage from

vehicles in the area between 6:30am

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and 7am. They say drivers may not

have been aware what they hit at the

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time but the appeal continues.

Have we learned anything more about

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the victim?

So far we know she was a

29-year-old Polish national, who was

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due to be in London for an extended

few months. She had not been here

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long. She had been staying in

Wandsworth. Her family have been

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informed. Her mother flew over today

and identified her daughter. The

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name has not yet been released

because they are yet to tell family

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and friends of the identity of the

woman. The police investigation

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continues. They are searching CCTV

of shops and other places in the

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area to find out what led to four

vehicles striking a woman and none

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of them stopping.

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Emergency shelters

for rough sleepers -

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are to open every day

the temperature drops below zero.

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Previously, such shelters were only

opened when three consecutive days

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of freezing temperatures

were forecast in the capital.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has also

announced a "rapid response" hub -

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to ensure first-time rough sleepers

never sleep on the pavement

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for a second night.

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Ayshea Buksh has the details.

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When temperatures fall,

sleeping on the streets

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in London gets harder.

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In the past, local authorities

would open up emergency

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shelters after three nights

of subzero temperatures.

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Hello, nice to meet you.

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Now, Mayor Sadiq Khan has said help

for the capital's 8000 or so rough

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sleepers should come quicker,

and he's got extra money

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from the Government to help all 33

boroughs take action.

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There are complex reasons

why people sleep rough.

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They could have mental health

issues, they could have problems

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with welfare benefits,

there could be family breakdown...

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The shortage of affordable housing

in London is one of the big causes.

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Often it could be

because their tenancy ends

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with a private landlord.

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I'm determined to tackle this issue.

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I was pleased last year,

for the first time in eight years,

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we didn't see an increase

in the numbers of people

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sleeping rough, that's good.

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We now need to reduce it.

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Jeremy started sleeping rough

after a family bereavement.

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He now lives at St Mungo's hostel

in Hackney, but was originally

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brought into an emergency shelter

during a cold snap two years ago.

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I remember I was sleeping

underneath the bridge,

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it was really cold,

it was about 10:30 at night

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and these two people from Thames

gave me an opportunity,

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and said, would you like to come

and take a second night out?

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Obviously, in hindsight,

I wasn't expecting anything

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too wonderful luxury,

that's ridiculous for people

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to think like that, but again,

it was just somewhere to be.

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It was warm and that

was all I wanted.

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But tackling rough sleeping

and homelessness in a city

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with a high cost of living

and a housing crisis is something

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charities will be doing well

beyond the Christmas period.

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I get quite frustrated when there's

a focus only in the cold months.

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As far as I'm concerned,

it's an urgent issue all the time.

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The average age at death for someone

who is sleeping rough,

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for a man it's 47 -

that's my age.

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And I do work with people and have

worked with people that have

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unfortunately died on the streets.

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While homeless charities such

as St Mungo's work all year round,

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Jeremy says he is now more positive

about his future.

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My hope for the future would be

to get a home, a nice,

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warm home to stay in,

to go to university,

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to study accountancy and finance,

and even further along,

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I would actually like to work

within this sector in the future.

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This emergency response

could be activated soon,

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but tackling rough sleeping

is a more long-term issue.

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Ayshea Buksh, BBC London News.

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A child murderer from south London

is appealing a decision to deny him

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legal aid at the inquest

into his victim's death.

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Ben Butler was jailed for life last

year for battering and killing

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six-year-old Ellie in 2013.

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His partner, Jennie Gray,

was also convicted for helping him

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cover up the crime.

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They both now face the prospect

of having to represent themselves

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at the hearing in March.

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A London council is urging

the government to abandon any plans

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for Donald Trump to make a state

visit to London.

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The President is expected to visit

the UK in the new year.

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Greenwich has passed a motion,

calling for any such

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visit to be cancelled.

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They say if the trip does go ahead,

Mr Trump will not be

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welcome in the borough.

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Councillors say they're alarmed

by Mr Trump's decision to retweet

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Islamaphobic videos.

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The BBC understands no police were

stationed inside this year's V

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Festival in Essex because of a

dispute over money. An agreement on

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the level of policing and money

could not be reached. It is thought

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the organisers spent £138,000 on

policing the previous year. Around

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50,000 people attend the festival.

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The capital's 24-hour train

service will launch tonight

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on its east London line.

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Round the clock on weekends,

passengers will be connected

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both sides of the river

between Dalston Junction

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to New Cross Gate.

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The launch is the latest addition

to the existing Night Tube services

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and it's hoped the night time

economy will benefit.

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Here's our Transport

Correspondent, Tom Edwards.

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The party season is in full swing,

and from tonight there's another

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option for getting home.

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The overground will be 24 hours

on Fridays and Saturdays

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from New Cross Gate to Dalston

Junction.

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I think it will promote a lot

of activity in London,

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I think it will promote

a lot of investment.

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Because we spend so much money

on Ubers, from Dalston especially,

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so we can go straight home now.

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It's good for me because it means

I can be able to get home if I'm

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around here seeing my friends.

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So I'm happy about that.

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Night services are already

run on five Tube lines.

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Since it launched, there have

been 9 million journeys.

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Jordan Desira works in Shoreditch.

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He says a night overground

will make his life much easier.

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Catching the overground every day

to work, it's definitely accessible

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for me and if it's going to be 24

hours, I mean I can come to the city

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whenever I want now,

I don't have to worry about trains

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closing at any specific time.

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So, definitely, having options

will definitely be helpful.

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Transport for London says the night

services so far have contributed

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more than £170 million

to London's economy.

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As yet, though, they're

not breaking even.

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I think with all new transport

services, you want to develop

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the service over time.

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Breaking even is something

we will see about in the future.

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We're looking to develop it and run

it, four trains per hour

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at the moment in the areas

where we think there is most demand.

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It's important that we don't have

that last dash rush to the Tube,

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because that encourages,

you know, some

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anti-social behaviour.

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People just sort of concentrating

in one particular area,

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when we can take it at a much more

leisurely pace, and that's

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really important.

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Night fares are off-peak,

and the night overground will be

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extended to Highbury

and Islington in March.

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In the future, other

Tube lines could follow.

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Tom Edwards, BBC London News.

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You may not be aware of this,

but if you are homeowner,

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you may also own the space

immediately above your property,

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and it could be yours to sell.

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Is this the answer to

London's housing crisis,

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building on the roofs

of existing buildings.

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Critics, though, argue that

would spoil the city skyline.

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Here's Caroline Davis.

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We've built out, we've built down,

and you'd think from looking

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at London's ever-changing, ever

growing skyline, that we'd already

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built up, but not like this.

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Now we're building on.

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So is this a creative solution

to the housing crisis,

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or a blight on your view?

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Jovan and his neighbours were fed

up of living in flats

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they couldn't afford to do up.

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We had also bad electrical wiring

system, and we decided

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to find out a solution.

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And this is it...

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The tenants bought the freehold

to their block, sold the airspace

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above it and used the money to do

up their flats.

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It's a large two bedroom

penthouse that we're doing...

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Now their roof is £1 million

property and the developers say

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it's just the start.

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A lot of buildings in London

are very sustainable.

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They can certainly sort of take

an additional floor on them.

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London's housing crisis won't be

resolved looking for large sites.

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This is the ideal solution.

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It's not only developers

who are looking upwards.

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According to property agent

Knight Frank, London's

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rooftops could provide up

to 41,000 new homes.

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They've been working out

which buildings could be next

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and want a slice of the action.

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This is an area that will be

profitable, both for the developers

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who are acting on the sites,

and agencies who are

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advising clients.

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So can you make money

out of thin air?

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Well, often if you own the freehold

to your property, you own the rights

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to the air above it.

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Of course, not all buildings

are suitable for an extra floor

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and you need planning permission,

and then, of course,

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there's the neighbours.

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The big problem always will be

even if I make some money out

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of doing it above my house,

my next-door neighbour might well

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have a problem with that,

may think it impinges

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on his or her privacy,

or if it destroys local character.

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The trouble is there will always be

reasons why people can find to stop

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new development taking place.

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But in cases where it works

structurally and it doesn't ruin

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the local character completely,

I think it's worth looking at.

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So it might not be for everyone,

but Jovan is happy to put up

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with the building work

and a new neighbour.

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We are very happy, all the people

in the building, because we have now

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much better living conditions.

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It's much better to save green

belt than chimneys.

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Will building up take off?

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Watch this space.

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Caroline joins me now.

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So should homeowners be

rushing to sell the space

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above their properties?

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It's not always as simple as that,

and even if you own the property and

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the airspace, you still need

planning permission to do the sort

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of development we just saw. That was

a pretty expensive penthouse but not

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-- what if it is not just plush

apartments? According to the

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developers, they say they are

speaking to a housing association

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interested in building on top of

their properties. The benefit for

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the housing association is that they

already own the land and they also

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know that they might be able to get

more social housing out of it if

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they get a good deal with the bad --

with the developer. Is it all good

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news? Not necessarily, because

building on homes means tested

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option to those who live in the

properties. It might change the

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skyline, and realistically how many

will get through planning

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permission? The Mayor of London once

more houses in the city. This could

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be a creative solution.

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Still to come...

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Its south-east London's time

to shine, as Eltham Palace

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is lit up for Christmas.

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And after a cold, wintry week

of weather, the question

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is how long will it last?

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Well I can tell you,

by Sunday it will all be over.

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More, coming up.

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The world's best dressage and show

jumping riders are in London

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competing at the 2017 Olympia Horse

Show.

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Taking place until Monday,

the event is celebrating it's 110th

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year and Sara Orchard

is there for us now.

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Thank you. Welcome to what many

describe as the world's greatest

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Equestrian party and it has

attracted the top riders from across

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the globe, to come here and compete.

Normally at this time of year, when

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the Olympia horse show comes to

town, we talk about Charlotte

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Dujardin and her dancing horse, but

the horse retired last year. That

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didn't stop Charlotte coming to

compete and she did an exhibition

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event with her brand-new horse mount

St John free stuff. So who is

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stealing all of the headlines for

Great Britain's riders? That has

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gone to the Olympic champion Ben

Mayer and Laura Renwick. With all of

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the details so far, here is James

Burridge.

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One giant leap into the unknown

for Laura Renwick and Top Dollar.

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Go on.

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Oh yes, she's done it!

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Extraordinary!

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A spectacular and daring jump

of seven foot three to win

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the Puissance in front

of a jubilant home crowd.

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So Laura, how do you and Top Dollar

jump something as high as this?

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Looking at it from here,

I actually have no idea,

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but the horse himself has got

incredible scope and I wasn't sure

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how high he could go,

but I think he proved last night

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he can jump this.

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It was some feeling.

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Your heart must be in your mouth,

isn't it, when you approach

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something like this?

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Yeah, it's like that split second,

as you're coming to it,

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that split-second where you just

think, are they going to go,

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aren't they going to go?

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I mean it's so daunting,

I can't explain to you.

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Some people say they it, I don't.

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But on a horse like him,

it made it a hell of a lot easier

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and the elation and just the crowd,

they went wild and it was such

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an amazing feeling.

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Navigating this Olympia Arena

is tough, it is tight,

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there is very little room

to manoeuvre, and then there's

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the crowd, who are right on top

of the riders and the horses.

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They in turn get affected by it

every anguished cry,

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every exclamation of joy,

and that is why on Sunday

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the World Cup event is just

so difficult to win.

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Control is very important.

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Obviously you need a horse that is

capable of jumping the jumps.

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Good balance around the ring,

everything comes very,

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very fast and you have

to think very quick.

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Ben Maher knows what it

takes to win here.

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A former world number one

and Olympic champion,

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adept at handling the pressure

and sense of occasion.

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It's really about producing

the horse for the right time,

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and in the end, you need a little

bit of luck on the day.

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It's very..there's no margin

for error in our sport.

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You can't have a fence down

and come back from it.

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It's a little bit although nothing.

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A final walk-through

for the main event on Sunday.

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Valuable World Cup points

at stake and a check

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of £32,000 to the winner.

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The jumps this time, at least,

a little lower for Laura.

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James Burridge there with that

report. Of course, we are building

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up to that big showjumping event on

Sunday. You are probably wondering

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what is going on behind the moment.

It is a special event at Olympia,

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where the named AP McCoy and Frankie

Dettori... You might be thinking,

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they are jockeys, but they have

entered two showjumping team is here

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at Olympia this. It is all about

them raising money for the injured

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jockeys fund. I am here with greater

Britain's professional showjumper

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William Whitaker. Thank you for

joining us. We're watching them warm

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up, what the jockeys are doing here

is not quite the same as what you

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do?

We jump a little bit bigger than

they are tonight, but to be honest,

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I wouldn't want to do what they do,

so they are doing pretty well.

I

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understand their technique is to go

very fast, is that always the best

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way to go?

Unfortunately there is a

bit more to showjumping, a bit more

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accuracy and control of the horse

but that isn't taking away from what

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they are doing because what they are

doing is truly amazing.

Let's talk

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about what you are doing on Sunday.

This is the only UK event for World

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Cup qualifying, which will be in

April in Paris, how is the Great

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Britain team looking?

Yeah... The

riders here are the top ten of the

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British guys in the world rankings.

It shows you the quality that is

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here. If you look over the years,

British riders have always if not

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won, always given a great fight on

Sunday. I think this year will be

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the same. I wouldn't be surprised to

see a British rider winning.

Quickly

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tell me, there are so many events

here at Olympia, what is your

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favourite events, and have a sneak

look at?

There are too many! Now I

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have two little children, I know

they enjoy the dogs on Shetland

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ponies. There is something for

everyone, it's a great occasion.

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Thank you so much be time, William.

Good luck on Sunday. If you want to

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follow the showjumping on Sunday it

is live on BBC Two on Sunday.

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Thank you, we are looking forward to

that!

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The tradition to decorate

the outside of your house

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with Christmas lights dates back

hundreds of years.

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We are seeing a lot of this.

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It was candles in those days but now

dazzling electric bulbs

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and even lasers are used

for Christmas illuminations.

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And for the first time in its

history, Eltham Palace has embraced

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the trend with a medieval-themed

light show.

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Wendy Hurrell has

been to take a look.

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I met Eltham Palace in Greenwich

this evening. It is a little spot

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that Henry VIII spent a lot of his

childhood at it would have stood

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1000 acres of deer Park back then.

It fell into some disrepair but was

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bought by rich family in the 1930s

and that is one of the reasons it's

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one of the finest examples of art

Deco architecture and design in the

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country. Now it has been bathed in

light, as you can see behind me.

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Take a look.

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So, it's south-east London's turn to

shine.

Yes, absolutely. Eltham

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Palace is part of a new series of

chartered events at six Heritage

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sites across the country and it is

wonderful to bring it here to

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south-east London and light up this

unique area of London.

And is a

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medieval theme?

Absolutely.

Illumination events are increasingly

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popular at the moment, particularly

at this time of year. English

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Heritage has some unique sites that

we can put a historical twist on. At

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Eltham, we are literally lighting up

the medieval and Tudor side of

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history, telling the stories of

Henry VIII.

It's nice to have some

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light in the dark months.

Absolutely. A bit of cheer at a

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really dark and cold time of year!

Exactly.

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Looks great, doesn't it? Let's look

at the weather, I don't know if that

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is great...

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at the weather, I don't know if that

is great...

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Today, lots of sunshine. This from

Kew Gardens earlier this afternoon.

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And it is all set to change.

Tomorrow is the last day of the cold

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weather but largely dry. Rain is on

its way, make the most of it. This

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is the story today. We have seen

some sunshine but the clouds have

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been spilling in. These nuisance

showers have been drifting in off

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the North Sea in the last few hours.

Though showers are set to continue

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for another few hours. Not great

news if you're out and about

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celebrating some Christmas parties.

As the showers either way we get

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into the early hours of the morning,

clear skies and a frost is likely to

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form. It will be a cold start on

Saturday. Just like yesterday, it

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looks like Hertfordshire and

Bedfordshire Ceballos values, minus

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four. Yes, we will wake up to views

like this is perhaps first thing, a

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frost is around that on Saturday

that will be the best of the dry and

0:25:420:25:45

cold weather, if that is the story

you like. My older and wetter

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weather set to arrive on Sunday. We

start on Saturday frosty but there

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will be some lovely spells of

sunshine. It won't be too bad at

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all. A light north-westerly breeze.

Hopefully the sunshine will

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compensate a little. The

temperatures will struggle to climb

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very high. In fact, as we get into

the afternoon, we could see the

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threat of a few isolated showers.

3-6 degrees. If you watched me last

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night, Sunday has changed a little.

It is worth bearing in mind. It

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looks as though some they will be

wetter earlier on, so if you are up

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and out early, any time after do on,

that rain pushes in from the west.

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Fairly fragmented, one factual move

through and then another batch

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commentary. If your Christmas

shopping, be prepared for some mild

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but wetter weather weather to come.

That looks likely to be the theme as

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we move into the early half of next

week. It stays quite mild, in

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comparison to what we have seen this

week, but rather cloudy. However, on

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Sunday's rain is out of the way,

some dry weather in the story. If

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you're out and about the kids as

they break up for the Christmas

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holidays, too bad.

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they break up for the Christmas

holidays, too bad.

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Thank you.

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Now the main headlines:

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Relatives of four children who died

in a house fire in Manchester have

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described the moment they arrived

at the burning house

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as a scene of horror.

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Three people charged

with their murders

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have appeared in court.

0:27:140:27:15

EU leaders have agreed to move

Brexit talks on to the second phase

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but called for "further clarity"

from the UK about the future

0:27:180:27:21

relationship it wants.

0:27:210:27:22

Kensington Palace has announced

Prince Harry will marry

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Meghan Markle on Saturday 19th May

next year at St George's

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Chapel in Windsor.

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Put the date in your diary.

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I'll be back later during

the Ten O'Clock News,

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but for now from everyone

on the team have

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a very good evening.

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Goodbye.

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