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That's all from the BBC News at Six
- so it's goodbye from me - | 0:00:00 | 0:00:02 | |
Tonight on BBC London News.
- so it's goodbye from me - | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
Frustration as taps run dry in parts
of the capital leaving some people | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
without water for more than 24
hours. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:15 | |
I have got five kids and literally
we have been without water since six | 0:00:15 | 0:00:20 | |
o'clock yesterday morning. It is
terrible. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
We'll question Thames Water. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:23 | |
Also ahead. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:24 | |
Challenging the Met over its gangs
database which says 80% | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
of gang members are black. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:28 | |
Plus we meet the former
city worker on a mission | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
to clean up our waterways. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:38 | |
And that Oscar win. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
And the South East Londoners
celebrating Gary Oldman's Oscar win | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
like it were their own... | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
It made me feel delighted -
cause it's so close - | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
he's not family but it
feels like that! | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
Welcome to the programme
this Monday evening. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
First tonight - schools closed, care
homes and nurseries without water, | 0:01:03 | 0:01:11 | |
residents struggling to go
about their daily lives, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
all because large parts of London
have been without water | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
for nearly two days. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:16 | |
Thames Water says the pipes burst
as a result of the bad weather last | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
week but said this afternoon
the problem had been fixed. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
Despite that, many people have
told us they still don't | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
have water this evening. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
We'll speak to the water
company in a moment - | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
first here's Marc Ashdown. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
First in line for water this
morning, mum of three, Zara, she has | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
had to walk a mile to collect
bottles. At the moment everyday life | 0:01:40 | 0:01:46 | |
is virtually impossible. The washing
up, the sewage, and literally | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
cooking as well, I cannot cope
without water. I have three kids, it | 0:01:50 | 0:01:56 | |
is quite hard. As you can see.
Nothing is coming out. Dozens of | 0:01:56 | 0:02:02 | |
schools and nurseries have been
forced to close, leaving parents | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
with the childcare headache, but
without water, it is not faced -- | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
safe to have 70 children here. All
the meals are done on site, we have | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
babies ranging from nine months and
children up to five years old, you | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
can imagine the children going to
the toilet, learning how to toilet | 0:02:20 | 0:02:26 | |
train, we need water for food,
washing plates, the dishwasher, in | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
every aspect of the nursery, we need
water. This care home has | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
transported water from 40 miles
away, two days without it and | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
growing anger at the lack of
information or support from Thames | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
Water. Very frustrating. I was. Very
disappointed. Care homes, hospitals, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:49 | |
they should have some form of plan
for those areas. We cannot afford to | 0:02:49 | 0:02:58 | |
function without water. These were
allowed for some movement. Thames | 0:02:58 | 0:03:05 | |
Water has apologised and blamed the
extreme cold which God so quickly | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
lead to cracks in older pipes. It is
estimated around 12,000 people have | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
been affected, from Streatham and
Ahern held to Cricklewood and | 0:03:13 | 0:03:19 | |
Hampstead. A car park in Balham,
water distribution centres set up | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
around London. Thames Water say they
have given out 200,000 litres of | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
bottled water and by the end of
today, it is expected to be more | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
like 600,000. They have started
rationing it here, giving one pack | 0:03:33 | 0:03:38 | |
of six bottles per household. At the
moment, they are struggling to keep | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
up with demand. Some are muddling
through, this bakery serving up a | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
cake, tea and said that they two
frustrated regulars. We feel like we | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
cannot wash up anything, are kitchen
is close the copy machine is dead, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
we cannot do coffee. That is
devastating for people. We are still | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
open. They are hoping that the taps
are back on soon. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:08 | |
We can talk now to Jerry White,
Senior operations | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
manager at Thames Water. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
Thank you for coming in. If you were
a resident or business without | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
water, would you be satisfied with
how your company is handling it? No, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
I cannot say I would be. Clearly
what we have done so far in some | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
areas is not good enough and we have
been trying very hard in quite | 0:04:24 | 0:04:29 | |
difficult circumstances, but we are
now getting on top of things and | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
this applies in those areas are
returning. You can control | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
convenient access to water, because
how our arms with prams, elderly, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
the disabled expected to carry
bottles of water? You could be | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
better at that and at
communications. That is true. What | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
you see on some of the video around
those stations, that is not all that | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
is happening. For vulnerable
customers who cannot come to us, we | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
are running water out to them and we
are blemish in stocks throughout the | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
day. Communicating, we could be
better, it has been difficult to get | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
the right message to a broad
coverage of area but we are trying | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
hard to get better. We have been
here before. It could happen again, | 0:05:10 | 0:05:16 | |
because temperatures can fall | 0:05:16 | 0:05:26 | |
below zero again. Is this a case of
a cumulative lack of investment in | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
the pipe network. You're basically
putting short term profits before | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
long-term resilience. That is the
accusation. That is not really the | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
case. We have been investing £1
billion a year in infrastructure. We | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
have an old infrastructure. It dates
from the Victorian legacy. We are | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
working hard, every day to try and
find and fix leaks and keep the | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
water flowing and we will continue
to invest record sums for the next | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
period as well to try and get on top
of leakage. You have no problem | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
rewarding shareholders millions or
paying chief executives hundreds of | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
thousands, you cannot really blame
customers were being so angry and | 0:05:58 | 0:06:04 | |
having little confidence in new? Of
course. Given some of the | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
shareholder dividends that have been
put on hold recently and the extra | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
investment by shareholders, that is
proved that we are trying to go | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
above and beyond to turn the
situation around. In the year that | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
you were fined just over 8 million
for leakages, you paid investors 100 | 0:06:18 | 0:06:24 | |
million in dividends. Does that
sound like a cast that I go a | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
company putting customers first? We
have now invested more than that | 0:06:28 | 0:06:33 | |
number to trying get back on top of
the situation and we will continue | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
to do so until we get back contract
with our targets. Does that sound a | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
little bit feeble to people in North
and South Londoner who have not had | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
water for nearly two days? I can
understand how customers feel. We | 0:06:45 | 0:06:51 | |
sincerely apologise for the impact
and we will continue to work to get | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
those customers back in as soon as
we can. The situation is improving | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
and hopefully keep all other
customers back in supply. With | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
respect, we hear these apologies
every time there is a leak, but have | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
been warned that you need to be
better at planning, to deal with | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
these situations, you have had
record fines last year and you have | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
been criticised by the regulator.
Are you just not learning or do you | 0:07:15 | 0:07:21 | |
just not care? No, we are learning
and we are an organisation that | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
continues to learn all the time and
continues to try and give better. We | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
were planning for this and we
planned several weeks ahead, but the | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
severe situation over the weekend
but we got a sudden thaw, we were | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
not prepared for that level of
impact and whilst many customers | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
across our region are still in
supply, a couple of isolated | 0:07:40 | 0:07:46 | |
incidents has caused us problems on
Saturday. For those people watching | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
tonight, who still do not have water
this evening, when can you guarantee | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
that they will do? What I know today
is that tonight the pressure is | 0:07:54 | 0:08:01 | |
returning to those areas, just
before I came in, there were | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
encouraging signs and as we go
through the evening, I believe that | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
all customers will be back in supply
by the end of this evening. I do | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
hope we do not have to have this
conversation again the next time we | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
have this bad weather. Thank you for
coming in. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
You re watching BBC London News. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
Coming up later in the programme... | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
It is in your blood. It is in your
bones. The businesswoman pledging to | 0:08:24 | 0:08:33 | |
protect the tradition of pie and
mash. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
Scotland Yard has defended
the intelligence database it uses | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
to map criminal gangs -
describing it as "a vital tool | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
in the fight against violent crime". | 0:08:45 | 0:08:45 | |
A Freedom of Information request has
revealed that 80% of those | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
on the Gangs Matrix are black
but the Met says that includes | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
victims as well as perpetrators. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:52 | |
Alex Bushill reports. | 0:08:52 | 0:09:02 | |
To understand knife crime, just as
the children who have to live with | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
the threat of it every day. This is
the Brookfield club in Peckham, what | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
of the kids here was stabbed to
death last year. These teenagers | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
knew him well. Our friends can be
arrested and our friends can be | 0:09:23 | 0:09:30 | |
killed. This makes me feel sad,
because they are... Sometimes it | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
makes me feel scared. Such is life,
really. Such is life. It is | 0:09:35 | 0:09:42 | |
certainly true that there has been a
recent spike in stabbings which is | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
where the Gangs Matrix comes in, it
was set up after the London riots of | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
2011 to better understand London's
gangs. The Gangs Matrix is based on | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
police intelligence and maps violent
gangs. It says there are just over | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
3500 gang members in London and The
Met believes there are 194 different | 0:10:00 | 0:10:06 | |
active gangs here as well. What is
controversial is who appears in this | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
Gangs Matrix by ethnicity. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:22 | |
The smallest groups, Middle Eastern, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
whites and Europeans. Asian gangs
account for 5%, white northern | 0:10:26 | 0:10:27 | |
European, 9%. Far outstripping any
other community according to the | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
matrix is the black community with
80% of gang members listed as | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
Afro-Caribbean. Which is why these
figures have now sparked allegations | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
of racism. How do they get onto it
in the first place? It could be that | 0:10:34 | 0:10:40 | |
the cousin is there and they go to
the football with them. Do they live | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
next door to someone on the Gangs
Matrix. You're automatically in a | 0:10:43 | 0:10:50 | |
gang, because the definition is so
loose and problematic. It is like | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
racial profiling around a problem.
They will be in a gang because they | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
happen to be black. The Met says two
separate pieces of intelligence are | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
needed to put you on the Gangs
Matrix and it cannot be racist as it | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
identifies gang members who are also
victims. If you are a young black | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
man in London, you can be the
subject of violence, as a victim, | 0:11:10 | 0:11:15 | |
and be in a gang and you | 0:11:15 | 0:11:26 | |
will be on the Gangs Matrix and we
will look to divert individuals away | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
from a life of crime, that are on
the Gangs Matrix. Looking at your | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
custody record, you're 21 and you
are unemployed, is that right? | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
Others were programmes like this
coming, informed by the Gangs | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Matrix, The Met seek to divert young
criminals at the point of arrest | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
while in custody away from a life of
gang violence. We have people | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
brought in for possession of
firearms, we have people who are | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
high harm offenders and we got them
at the right moment. We got them | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
where they have said, enough is
enough. It does not answer why it | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
features so many young black men.
David Lambie worries what other | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
implications there are. This has
become a real stamp of shame. It is | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
not just use by The Met, it is used
by a whole raft of professionals. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
You can be turfed out of your house,
you can be excluded from a school. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
You can find yourself not been able
to access certain benefits and other | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
things if you are on the Gangs
Matrix. This is significant. The Met | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
says robust systems are in place as
to what information is shared and | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
that they need to share information
to keep the public safe. Either way | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
the Mayor of London is carrying out
a review which should address these | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
issues of race and racism, that
still surround the Gangs Matrix. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:43 | |
"We understand why passengers
were frustrated but they should've | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
stayed on the train" That's
what Southeastern has | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
told this programme. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Hundreds of commuters
who were stranded on Friday night | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
forced open doors and left
the carriages - but the rail company | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
says they could have been
killed on live tracks. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
It's apologised and says it
will offer compensation. | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
Here's our Transport
Correspondent Tom Edwards. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:09 | |
Stranded and frustrated, commuters
on Friday night forcing open the | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
doors on nine trains and walking
down the tracks. Some had been | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
stranded for hours. Just outside
near Lewisham station. It is | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
obviously a little bit snowy,
looking forward to getting home and | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
having a nice cup of tea. You can
see everyone is waiting on the train | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
for a bit of instruction, we have
had the go-ahead from the police, it | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
looks like there is a train in front
of us. We have been there for a very | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
long period of time. Today's South
East and said it had to cut the | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
power or passengers could have been
electrocuted. You can understand | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
their frustration. I absolutely do
understand the frustrations. They | 0:13:48 | 0:13:55 | |
were stuck on trains in difficult
conditions, however the safest place | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
for people to be is on the train. We
wanted to try and get trains moving | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
as quickly as we could and the
safest way to do that was to get | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
everyone on board and reenergise the
network and get moving. We are not | 0:14:06 | 0:14:11 | |
able to do that because for a period
of three hours we had people on the | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
tracks. Some passengers say a lack
of information just confuse the | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
situation. In these conditions, I
would ask passengers to stay on the | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
train, that is the safest option of
getting you moving, get a new home, | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
is to stay on the train and there
are with us. Calling them at | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
trespassers as soon as they got out?
They were not happy about that. I | 0:14:32 | 0:14:37 | |
understand again that some of the
communications, we need to take a | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
look at, but it is important for us,
particularly in the middle of those | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
emergency situations, that we put
out a strong message to keep people | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
on the train. Today the rail company
apologised, offering compensation. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
Do you regret running trains? We
were conscious that we had hundreds | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
of thousands of people in London who
we brought in and we needed to try | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
and find the best way we could to
get them home. There will now be | 0:15:01 | 0:15:09 | |
investigations into what happened.
This was an extremely serious | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
incident that could have been much
worse. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:19 | |
The recent BBC Blue Planet series
seems to have got everyone talking, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
including the Queen -
about how we can reduce | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
our plastic waste. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:25 | |
Tonight we meet one man on a mission
to keep our Thames clean. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
Because According to the Port
of London Authority around 300 | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
tonnes of plastic is cleared
from the river every year. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
Sean Fletcher has the story. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
In 2015, I raced a 70-foot yacht
from London to Rio de Janeiro | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
and in the middle of nowhere
we found these two turtles caught | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
in a maze of fishing
nets and water bottles. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:47 | |
It has got yellow and orange
around its front right fin. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
Well done. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
In the middle of nowhere in this
amazing ocean like it is blue water | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
everywhere and then you have
all this plastic. | 0:15:54 | 0:16:01 | |
In London 66,000 tonnes of plastic
were sent for recycling last year | 0:16:01 | 0:16:07 | |
alone but nobody knows how much
was simply discarded elsewhere | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
and while the government has pledged
to ban all avoidable plastic waste | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
by 2042, some Londoners
are taking action now. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:28 | |
After cycling 150 miles
on the Thames, ex-city worker | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
Dhruv Boruah is collecting plastic
from canals on board his | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
floating bamboo bicycle. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:38 | |
In just one hour in the canal
I collected this full load | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
of plastic rubbish from balls
to Styrofoam packets, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
to water bottles, to energy drinks,
to single use packaging. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
I can't collect everything
because if I collect | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
everything I will sink. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:54 | |
The plastic that is being dumped
in our waterways is having a huge | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
impact on marine life. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
A recent study by the Royal Holloway
University found up to 75% of fish | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
living at the bottom of the Thames
have plastic in their guts. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
It is really disgraceful. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
We are harming the life
even right here. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
Obviously we are harming us
in the end because we are going | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
to eat the fish as well. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:16 | |
Cheers. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:26 | |
Cleaning up the river, for me
personally, I do not believe it is | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
the solution and my whole goal, to
go and learn about it and talk about | 0:17:41 | 0:17:48 | |
it. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:49 | |
Ultimately we have to go and educate
the young people and make them more | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
aware of how damaging this
is and how we are destroying | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
their world, their planet. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
We are making it worse for them. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
And you can see more on that story
later this evening on Inside Out - | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
that's at 7.30pm here on BBC One. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
Still to come.... | 0:18:10 | 0:18:20 | |
Born and bred in south east
London, but honoured | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
in Hollywood last night. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:24 | |
We're with the community
in Deptford, who still think of him | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
as one of their own. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
Before that - pie and mash
is the quintessential East End meal. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
Though there may be fewer
of them around, families | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
often pass the business
from generation to generation. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
June Robins tells us her story,
and about her determination to keep | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
the tradition alive. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
And when I was a little girl, my
sister and myself used to sit in the | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
window while my mum served the pie
and mash in green Street, so I would | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
get some pie and mash. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
So I never had any money. I said,
have you got £500? It seemed a lot | 0:19:07 | 0:19:14 | |
of money in those days, 60 odd years
ago, he said just about, saving it | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
up. I said can I borrow it, please? | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
ago, he said just about, saving it
up. I said can I borrow it, please? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:30 | |
Years ago it would have been in East
Hampton are there would be two | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
takeaway businesses, one was fish
and chips and one was pie and mash. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
Then gradually they became pizza,
and tachycardia fried chicken, | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
Chinese, Indian. People in the area
did not know what green liquor was. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:55 | |
I want to do this tribute to Tom,
because he was always, it can be sad | 0:19:55 | 0:20:03 | |
sometimes, but he used to say to me,
go on, June, have a go. And I did. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:08 | |
And he had faith in me. You know,
you want to be on and you want to | 0:20:08 | 0:20:18 | |
have pride in your life and you want
to do something for your children | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
and grandchildren to do, then you
start, don't you? Because if you are | 0:20:21 | 0:20:27 | |
providing something that is
necessary, it will never go out, it | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
is like shoes. People will always
need shoes, won't they? Pie and mash | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
is in your blood, it is in your
bones, you see. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:40 | |
June Robins speaking there. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:47 | |
And you can find that story
on our Facebook page, | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
where your views are very welcome. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:51 | |
He's been in charge at Arsenal
for more than two decades. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
But despite the success
he's seen in the past, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
are the calls for Arsene Wenger
to step down as manager | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
getting louder? | 0:20:59 | 0:21:00 | |
After another defeat yesterday,
more fans appear to be | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
calling for him to go,
as Emma Jones reports. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
COMMENTATOR: Given away horribly by
Arsenal. This is Arsenal heading | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
towards yet another defeat. Murray
is in the middle, he will reach that | 0:21:10 | 0:21:16 | |
come it is 2-0! That is an absolute
gift from Arsenal expect it is a | 0:21:16 | 0:21:22 | |
league loss that leaves them 14
points behind Tottenham. With Arsene | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
Wenger and his captain conceding
confidence is worryingly low. We are | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
going through a tough, tough time.
Of course it is difficult at the | 0:21:30 | 0:21:36 | |
moment. As tough as you can
remember, do you think, this week? | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
Three defeats back-to-back. It never
happened to me in my life, but we | 0:21:41 | 0:21:48 | |
were hit deeply maybe on the
continent side, and you could see | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
that the team struggles in the
league. It is a bad period for the | 0:21:52 | 0:21:57 | |
club at all the players, staff and
fans we are all together. We won and | 0:21:57 | 0:22:04 | |
we lose together. So it is important
to have everyone behind us. Wenger | 0:22:04 | 0:22:11 | |
only signed a new contract at the
Emirates last summer, but how do the | 0:22:11 | 0:22:16 | |
fans feel about him now? I want
Arsene Wenger out, because it has | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
been 22 years, we are not do
anything you as a club and we need | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
fresh blood. I wanted him to go out
on a good legacy and not finish on a | 0:22:25 | 0:22:31 | |
bad note. He has had his time and he
is no good any more, he needs to go. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:37 | |
All hopes will now hang on winning
the Europa League, but with a match | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
against AC Milan away on Thursday,
the tough test for this stuttering | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
side keep coming. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:51 | |
Turning now to the Oscars,
and Gary Oldman, who crowned his | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
successful career with a Best Actor
award at last night's | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
Academy awards. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
He may now be based in Hollywood,
but his story started | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
in South East London,
where he was born and bred. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
And, as Sarah Harris reports,
the Deptford community is determined | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
to celebrate with him. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
Gary Oldman! It was for his
portrayal of blue blooded Winston | 0:23:10 | 0:23:18 | |
Churchill that Gary Oldman finally
won his Oscar, but his background in | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
south-east London could not have
been more different. Jamie Byrne | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
went to the same primary school in
Deptford, and is celebrating while | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
doing the day job. I saw it and I
thought, wow, it made me feel | 0:23:29 | 0:23:35 | |
delighted because it is so close. He
is not a family member but it is so | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
close it makes you feel like that.
No blue plaque as yet outside the | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
house where Gary Oldman was born
here in south London, although that | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
might change now he has won the
Oscar. This was about as working | 0:23:46 | 0:23:51 | |
class and upbringing as you could
get. These houses were typical two | 0:23:51 | 0:23:56 | |
up, two down in the 1950s and 60s.
Gary's dad was a welder, and after | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
he failed to get into rather, his
first job was at a sports shop in | 0:24:01 | 0:24:08 | |
Peckham. Nil by mouth was written
and erected by Gary Oldman, inspired | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
by his early London life. Part of
the film was shot in the pub where | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
his dad was a regular. Dickens had a
room here as well, which was | 0:24:15 | 0:24:21 | |
inhabited while one of his
mistresses, so I've heard. So the | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
pub has a long kind of artistic,
literary heritage. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:32 | |
Many of the young team members at
Millwall Football Club in the 50s | 0:24:34 | 0:24:40 | |
lived in the Oldman's small Cottage.
His mum took them in as Borders in | 0:24:40 | 0:24:45 | |
one of the most successful periods
of the club's history, but it did | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
not turn a young Gary's head away
from acting. People are still doing | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
that job for us, looking after the
young scholars. After the war, | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
taking the kids in and giving them
the chance to become a footballer. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
Obviously didn't work for Gary come
he has become an actor instead. And | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
that seems to have gone quite well.
Sarah Harris, BBC London news. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
Congratulations to him. Let's
checked on the weather with Chris | 0:25:10 | 0:25:17 | |
Fawkes. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
Is not as cold as it has been for
sure compared with the weather last | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
week but today we have seen a lot of
cloud in the sky. Let's take a look | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
at the forecast. This was how things
looked in Twickenham. A pew breaks | 0:25:28 | 0:25:34 | |
in the cloud and a massive fly as
well probably on the lens. The next | 0:25:34 | 0:25:41 | |
24 hours, this weather system moves
up from the south-west. Most should | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
stay aware from us but just a few
showers skirting in across the likes | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 | |
of Surrey, Hampshire, and they will
probably just flirt in the western | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
parts of London for a time. However,
this rain will be clearing | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
northwards. If you are unlucky
enough to catch a shower over the | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
next hour or two, it will clear
through, and then essentially the | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
rest of the night sees the cloud
breaking up and we will see clearer | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
skies coming in. Underneath the
clear skies later in the night it | 0:26:06 | 0:26:12 | |
will turn out to be quite a chilly
night, temperatures in High Wycombe | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
getting down to about three degrees.
I wouldn't mind betting there would | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
be a few colder places perhaps | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
towards Surrey and Hampshire where
we could see Temer just getting | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
close to freezing. A fine start to
the day for most of us have a fair | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
amount of sunshine. The cloud will
tend to bubble up as we go through | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
the day. For most of us it stays
dry, just an outside chance of a | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
passing shower but foremost a dry
day, temperatures reaching a high of | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
12. The cold weather firmly behind
us. Looking | 0:26:35 | 0:26:47 | |
at the weather front will skirt in
towards our area. We might find | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
Wednesday morning starts off on a
wet note with the rain rather more | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
extensive across eastern parts of
the region in particular. But it | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
should clear through and then we
will see those clouds brightening | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
up. Temperature-wise, highs of 9
degrees, so turning just a little | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
bit cooler or so, but for most of
the rest of this week, even into the | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
weekend, it will stay on the mild
side. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
weekend, it will stay on the mild
side. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
An update on the main story, Thames
Water has a follower jazzed after | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
thousands of Londoners still do not
have water following burst water | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
pipes following the bad weather last
week. A company spokesman told us | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
that supplies should return by the
end of this evening. You can get | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
more on the day's stories on London
on our website, Facebook page and | 0:27:33 | 0:27:38 | |
Twitter. Victoria Hollins will be
back with the late news, so from me | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
and all the team, thank you for
watching and have a lovely evening, | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
goodbye. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 |