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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, I'm Alex Bushill. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:18 | |
Southern rail passengers have been warned that services will be | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
"severely disrupted" over the next few days because of a fresh strike | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
by guards and an ongoing overtime ban by drivers. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
Members of the RMT union will walk out on New Year's | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
Eve for three days. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:35 | |
Our political correspondent, Karl Mercer, reports. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
Not strike one, not strike two, not even strike three, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
but strike day 28. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
For months, customers on Southern Trains have suffered. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
Even on days when there haven't been strikes, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
the service has been well below par, now they face going into | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
the new year with more of the same. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
Over the next three days, the RMT union will be on strike. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
A week later, they'll be joined by drivers from the Aslef union | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
in the long-running row over changes that would see drivers | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
being responsible for shutting the train doors instead of guards. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
I'm not looking to take any credit or to get a victory, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
I'm just looking for common sense to help the travelling public | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
to maintain a safe and secure railway and provide the train | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
company with the benefits of enhanced customer | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
service that they require. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
So on the eve of the new year, I make this challenge to them - | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
sit down with us, let's work our way through it. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
Let's forget about the dogma and let's do this for the public. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
The company insists it will continue with its plans | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
for driver-only operated trains. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
It too says it's willing to talk but, once again, | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
the strike will go-ahead. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Well, it has been a very, very frustrating number of months | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
now and I'd like to apologise for the service we've been offering | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
which of course has not been anything like good enough. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
We've continued with our plans. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:51 | |
We are continuing to roll out our plans and we do intend to do that. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
We feel that our plans are very reasonable. | 0:01:54 | 0:02:04 | |
They are all about the better service for our custumer | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
and they're all about improved | 0:02:10 | 0:02:11 | |
punctuality and more opportunity for our people to work | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
with our customers on trains. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
So we think it's an entirely good thing that we're doing. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
We think the response of the trade unions has been unreasonable | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
and disproportionate. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:21 | |
The company is warning it will only run around half of services over | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
the next three days. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:25 | |
The following week it won't run any, if the drivers strike goes ahead. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
A new year perhaps, but the same old problems on Southern. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
Karl Mercer, BBC London News. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:32 | |
Christmas may be over, but Londoners are being urged | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
to do more to recycle. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
The capital currently only recycles around 30% of its rubbish - | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
well below the national average. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:39 | |
Sarah Harris reports from Ealing. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
After the festivities the clean-up begins across London, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
many councils will collect overflowing rubbish for the next | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
three weeks, but with the less than sparkling record on recycling, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
households in the capital are being asked to make it | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
a new year's resolution to do better. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
It's vital that we up the amount of recycling that we do. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
We're below the national average in London, 31%-33% around there, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
we need to up it significantly and it's in order to look | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
after our planet, basically. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
The borough of Surrey Heath recycles more than double the average amount | 0:03:06 | 0:03:13 | |
in London and with so much more waste created during the holidays, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
it's a chance to reduce the load on south-east landfill sites. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
But in Ealing, big improvements have been made just by making the system | 0:03:23 | 0:03:29 | |
simpler with Londoners doing their bit to make | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
the capital greener. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
Sarah Harris, BBC London News. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:39 | |
Students at a school in north London have come up with an idea that | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
could raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
And all from - children's lunch money. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
The group, from Skinners Academy, in Stamford Hill, won a competition | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
for young entrepreneurs. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:52 | |
Now, their idea is being put into practice, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
as Caroline Davies discovered. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
Henrique was born with cystic hygroma and he needed a tracheostomy | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
when he was two-and-a-half months. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
Henrique's parents didn't know if he would ever talk. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
Oh, that's so nice. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
But last month, after only a few hours of music therapy classes, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
he said his first word. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
He got so chuffed when he first realised that sound | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
was coming out of his mouth. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
It was really emotional. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
He said, "water", "grandma" and "hello.. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:31 | |
So, we're very, very proud of him. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:33 | |
Without fundrising, the charity that helps pay for these | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
classes couldn't survive. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:36 | |
And these students in Hackney have come up with a new way of raising | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
more money for them. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:41 | |
iRoundup is a system where pupils can round up every payment | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
for their school lunch, so a small part can be | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
donated towards a charity. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
We thought it would be easy to implement into the real world. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
Their idea won a competition for young entrepreneurs, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
run by a charity called Mosaic. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
Now, the company that runs school lunch payments, ParentPay, | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
has taken on their idea. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
It's very rare that you hear a genuine new idea | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
for the first time. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
We've already raised nearly ?10,000, just during this trial period. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
We've a full launch in 2017, we're expecting to raise | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
between ?150,000-?200,000 in the first year. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
So, what do the students think about their idea of raising money | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
for children like Henrique? | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
We didn't think anything like that. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
Close to tears. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
Can you play the chimes? | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Oh, the big drum. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
Thanks to the students, small change can make a big difference. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
Caroline Davies, BBC London News. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
It's been another cold and foggy day, so let's have a check | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
on the weather with Louise Lear. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
Good evening. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Well, it's been a cold, dismal day, that fog not shifting. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
It's with us through the night, so much so we've got | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
a yellow weather warning. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:56 | |
Be aware, there could be some disruption. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
As we move into tomorrow, a cold start with temperatures | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
hovering close to freezing but, hopefully, for our New Year's Eve | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
day, as we go on through the day, a breeze will pick up and that | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
will lift the fog into low, grey cloud, but it stays dry. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Top temperatures of eight or nine degrees. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
So looking quiet for your New Year's Eve celebrations. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:17 | |
That's it from me. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:18 | |
We'll be back tomorrow morning on BBC One. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
Have a very good night. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:26 |