:00:00. > :00:15.Good evening and welcome to BBC London News with me, Louisa Preston.
:00:16. > :00:18.First tonight - it's the row over ticket office closures which saw
:00:19. > :00:21.this week's tube strike affect millions of commuters trying
:00:22. > :00:27.London's Labour Mayor condemned the walk-out.
:00:28. > :00:33.In fact, Jeremy Corbyn told this programme Sadiq Khan should reopen
:00:34. > :00:44.The unions threatened to take more action if the tube dispute is
:00:45. > :00:51.resolved. -- isn't resolved. Here's our political
:00:52. > :00:53.editor, Tim Donovan. He has long been a supporter
:00:54. > :00:56.of their causes, they backed his bid to become leader,
:00:57. > :00:58.so where is he on Well, earlier this week he said
:00:59. > :01:02.he would be happy to join a picket As regards the current tube dispute,
:01:03. > :01:06.he has not gone that far, but today he was clear
:01:07. > :01:09.he sympathises with the union concerns about the closure
:01:10. > :01:11.of ticket offices. Sadiq Khan has refused to reopen
:01:12. > :01:13.them, vowing instead That doesn't go far enough,
:01:14. > :01:18.the Labour leader told me today. The Mayor of London has
:01:19. > :01:21.put 200 more staff back In some places it has helped
:01:22. > :01:28.but in some places it is not enough, and I think there's a need
:01:29. > :01:32.for a ticket offers particularly in big interchange stations,
:01:33. > :01:37.like Heathrow, for example. That is surely is something that can
:01:38. > :01:41.be discussed and negotiated. You are saying the Mayor of London
:01:42. > :01:44.should improve his offer to workers? I am saying there has
:01:45. > :01:50.to be an agreement. We have put a lot of money into
:01:51. > :01:54.the Tube system and that is good. Sadiq has managed to bring
:01:55. > :01:56.forward the 24-hour We're going to have a better
:01:57. > :02:02.Tube service in London, but I do think there is a point -
:02:03. > :02:05.and the public are telling me this, as a London MP -
:02:06. > :02:08.that they would like to On Monday the Mayor
:02:09. > :02:12.condemned the Tube strike. I think today's strikers
:02:13. > :02:15.is completely unnecessary. I think today's strike is causing
:02:16. > :02:18.misery to millions of commuters. The Labour leader
:02:19. > :02:20.is not so forthright. Today the RMT threatened
:02:21. > :02:23.further strikes. I would urge them to get around
:02:24. > :02:30.the table as quickly as possible, and TFL, because we need a good Tube
:02:31. > :02:34.system in London. Will you tell the union
:02:35. > :02:37.not to strike? The issue is the two sides are not
:02:38. > :02:42.in agreement over the closure That is an issue that many of us
:02:43. > :02:47.campaigned on before this round of disputes took place,
:02:48. > :02:51.so it is not a question It is a question of asking both
:02:52. > :02:59.sides to come together. The new US president comes
:03:00. > :03:05.on a visit with him to London. Well, when President Trump arrives
:03:06. > :03:08.I am sure we are going I am appalled by his comments
:03:09. > :03:14.about women, about minorities within the United States,
:03:15. > :03:18.on Muslims and his proposal to build Surely in the 21st century we can do
:03:19. > :03:24.a little better than that. Of course and I am sure we will have
:03:25. > :03:29.an interesting discussion. I have invited him to visit a mosque
:03:30. > :03:34.with me, Finsbury Park mosque are happy to receive him and discuss
:03:35. > :03:38.Islam with him. Westminster Council has confirmed
:03:39. > :03:52.it's to move all of its homeless people out of the borough-
:03:53. > :03:55.the first London council to publicly Westminster Council says long
:03:56. > :03:58.waiting lists meant difficult From next month, residents
:03:59. > :04:03.in temporary accommodation will be relocated to permanent homes
:04:04. > :04:06.outside the borough. Chelsea Football Club's plans
:04:07. > :04:08.for a new ground have The council has approved proposals
:04:09. > :04:12.for Stamford Bridge to be demolished to make way for the new 60,000
:04:13. > :04:15.seater stadium - which would take The final say though will be down
:04:16. > :04:20.to the Mayor of London. Guards on Southern Railway
:04:21. > :04:24.are to stage another strike in their long-running
:04:25. > :04:26.dispute over staffing. Members of the RMT union
:04:27. > :04:28.will walk out for 24 hours on the 23rd of January,
:04:29. > :04:30.the day before drivers go on strike again in protest
:04:31. > :04:37.at driver-only trains. 500 rooms with shared
:04:38. > :04:39.areas for socialising. Sounds like a student
:04:40. > :04:41.halls of residence. But with an acute shortage
:04:42. > :04:44.of housing in the capital, the place you're about to see
:04:45. > :04:47.in north west London was set up as affordable homes
:04:48. > :04:49.for young professionals. It only opened last summer and now
:04:50. > :04:57.there is a waiting list. In some ways it is like a well
:04:58. > :05:03.designed student hall, So we have 546 rooms
:05:04. > :05:08.throughout the building. Ed Thomas, who runs things here,
:05:09. > :05:11.claims it is the world's biggest co-living space,
:05:12. > :05:13.and offers a lot more This is the bar, over
:05:14. > :05:20.here you have the restaurant. In fact if you look over
:05:21. > :05:26.here you have the sauna. And every night there
:05:27. > :05:32.is something to do. We have a absolutely
:05:33. > :05:34.jam-packed events schedule. Every Friday we do
:05:35. > :05:36.a big community drinks. We are trying to change
:05:37. > :05:38.the way that young It is a natural graduation
:05:39. > :05:42.from university, I suppose. So we met when I
:05:43. > :05:44.walked into my room. Meet Ruth and Tobiana,
:05:45. > :05:49.and their shared space They each have a private room
:05:50. > :05:55.with a shower, toilet and bed. It costs Ruth ?950 a month
:05:56. > :06:00.and she prefers it to a flat share. London can be a very longly
:06:01. > :06:03.place, it is just nice It's a developed version,
:06:04. > :06:07.it is like the older version of student living,
:06:08. > :06:14.if you like. Rehearsing downstairs, a band,
:06:15. > :06:16.and the drummer who pays ?1,200 a month for his shared room,
:06:17. > :06:19.says he has never You have all these residential
:06:20. > :06:25.spaces in the building, where you can work from,
:06:26. > :06:27.where you can build up But as you'd expect,
:06:28. > :06:35.with an average age of 28 Yes, listen, when you start a big
:06:36. > :06:43.venture like this and put 546 people in one big building,
:06:44. > :06:47.it is inevitable. If things get loud, we will come
:06:48. > :06:51.and tell people to be quiet, The people behind this
:06:52. > :07:03.development say they are now going to build two more -
:07:04. > :07:05.in Canary Wharf and Stratford. But of course it
:07:06. > :07:07.is not for everyone. The bar manager, for example,
:07:08. > :07:10.prefers his own house share. I have been a student before,
:07:11. > :07:14.done student accommodation But the hundreds here do seem
:07:15. > :07:18.to like it, and of course it is potentially lucrative
:07:19. > :07:20.for the owner. This building could now generate
:07:21. > :07:37.?6 million a year in rent. Seven years of digging beneath the
:07:38. > :07:40.capital was bound to unearth some revelations about London's past.
:07:41. > :07:47.During the construction of Crossrail, archaeologists collected
:07:48. > :07:50.objects. Many giving an insight into Victorian life. Here at Tottenham
:07:51. > :07:55.Court Road we fitting at the station. Crossrail is now than two
:07:56. > :08:00.years away and things are quickly taking shape. It's in with the new,
:08:01. > :08:03.but when you spend seven years did digging 42 kilometres of rail
:08:04. > :08:07.tunnels beneath the streets of London, you are bound to unearth
:08:08. > :08:11.some very old, interesting objects. We had to demolish buildings in
:08:12. > :08:14.central London and open up huge excavations and this created a
:08:15. > :08:18.unique opportunity for the archaeologists to come on board and
:08:19. > :08:22.dig in these central London sites. As part of that they found thousands
:08:23. > :08:26.of artefacts. Everything from plague victims to prehistoric stone tools.
:08:27. > :08:33.Today, above ground, you can see the scale of the site where the new
:08:34. > :08:37.Elizabeth line station will be. Between 1830 and 1921 there was a
:08:38. > :08:42.food factory here, which leads us on to one of the most remarkable
:08:43. > :08:45.discoveries. The food factory belonged to the company Crosse and
:08:46. > :08:50.Blackwell. Thousands of Victorian jam jars and pickle pots were found
:08:51. > :08:55.underground during Crossrail digging. We have the most famous
:08:56. > :09:00.product they launched in 1838, pick a lily. The discovery has helped
:09:01. > :09:04.archaeologists learn more about the tastes of Victorians. We found
:09:05. > :09:08.bottles and jars to do with Crosse and Blackwell's manufacturing of
:09:09. > :09:12.jams and marmalades. We found how important the manufacturing was of
:09:13. > :09:18.Indian pickles and chutneys to Ross and Blackwell as well. It showed
:09:19. > :09:24.they were manufacturing madras curry powders and pastes. All findings are
:09:25. > :09:26.now in a book, one of ten detailed to -- detailing Crossrail
:09:27. > :09:28.discoveries, giving us an insight into the past as we dug for the
:09:29. > :09:33.future. The snow and strong winds have
:09:34. > :09:36.arrived in London and are already causing disruption across parts
:09:37. > :09:38.of the region. Flights have been cancelled
:09:39. > :09:40.at Heathrow Airport, and there's been disruption
:09:41. > :09:42.on the roads. As you can see from this
:09:43. > :09:44.footage in Bexley, driving We'll have all the latest
:09:45. > :09:49.details on the weather and transport situation
:09:50. > :09:52.in our bulletins tomorrow morning. But the question is -
:09:53. > :09:55.what sort of weather are we likely So I'll say good night and leave
:09:56. > :10:07.Phil Avery to give you the details. Hello. I'm very grateful to somebody
:10:08. > :10:11.who kept their garden furniture out to give me a sense of the depth in
:10:12. > :10:16.Surrey. Several centimetres falling. For the most part, tomorrow morning
:10:17. > :10:19.is all about ice. If you are on the move first thing, the roads will
:10:20. > :10:23.have been whetted and with that to bridge a profile you will end up
:10:24. > :10:27.with a significant problem if your streak hasn't been gritted with ice.
:10:28. > :10:30.That's not quite the end of the snow story. There's a feature running
:10:31. > :10:34.down in raw north-westerly wind, which will wrap up the snow
:10:35. > :10:39.particularly east of the capital. It's essentially a decent sort of
:10:40. > :10:43.day. There will be some sunshine. It will do nothing at all for the
:10:44. > :10:46.temperatures, never better than about five. Because of the strength
:10:47. > :10:52.of the wind it will feel cooler than that. Once the sun is down, having
:10:53. > :10:54.got the lofty heights of five if you are lucky, we will end up with
:10:55. > :10:59.another frosty night. The weekend is going to start on a pretty chilly
:11:00. > :11:00.note. If that's not your sort of thing, Sunday will be cloudier and
:11:01. > :11:01.milder. thing, Sunday will be cloudier and
:11:02. > :11:11.milder. Good evening. It was such a mild
:11:12. > :11:17.December, wasn't it, but winter has arrived. Tomorrow morning, again,
:11:18. > :11:22.could be prising the wipers off the frozen windscreen. Yes, it's going
:11:23. > :11:25.to be cold tonight, whether it is liquid,/ or snow, it will freeze
:11:26. > :11:29.solid late at night with temperatures close to or below zero
:11:30. > :11:32.in many places. This was the early snow which pushed across the
:11:33. > :11:36.south-east, a few centimetres over the high ground. Now we concentrate
:11:37. > :11:37.on the showers, which feed in over the north