12/01/2017 London News

Good evening and welcome to BBC London News with me, Louisa Preston.

First tonight - it's the row over ticket office closures which saw

this week's tube strike affect millions of commuters trying

London's Labour Mayor condemned the walk-out.

In fact, Jeremy Corbyn told this programme Sadiq Khan should reopen

The unions threatened to take more action if the tube dispute is

resolved. -- isn't resolved. Here's our political

editor, Tim Donovan. He has long been a supporter

of their causes, they backed his bid to become leader,

so where is he on Well, earlier this week he said

he would be happy to join a picket As regards the current tube dispute,

he has not gone that far, but today he was clear

he sympathises with the union concerns about the closure

of ticket offices. Sadiq Khan has refused to reopen

them, vowing instead That doesn't go far enough,

the Labour leader told me today. The Mayor of London has

put 200 more staff back In some places it has helped

but in some places it is not enough, and I think there's a need

for a ticket offers particularly in big interchange stations,

like Heathrow, for example. That is surely is something that can

be discussed and negotiated. You are saying the Mayor of London

should improve his offer to workers? I am saying there has

to be an agreement. We have put a lot of money into

the Tube system and that is good. Sadiq has managed to bring

forward the 24-hour We're going to have a better

Tube service in London, but I do think there is a point -

and the public are telling me this, as a London MP -

that they would like to On Monday the Mayor

condemned the Tube strike. I think today's strikers

is completely unnecessary. I think today's strike is causing

misery to millions of commuters. The Labour leader

is not so forthright. Today the RMT threatened

further strikes. I would urge them to get around

the table as quickly as possible, and TFL, because we need a good Tube

system in London. Will you tell the union

not to strike? The issue is the two sides are not

in agreement over the closure That is an issue that many of us

campaigned on before this round of disputes took place,

so it is not a question It is a question of asking both

sides to come together. The new US president comes

on a visit with him to London. Well, when President Trump arrives

I am sure we are going I am appalled by his comments

about women, about minorities within the United States,

on Muslims and his proposal to build Surely in the 21st century we can do

a little better than that. Of course and I am sure we will have

an interesting discussion. I have invited him to visit a mosque

with me, Finsbury Park mosque are happy to receive him and discuss

Islam with him. Westminster Council has confirmed

it's to move all of its homeless people out of the borough-

the first London council to publicly Westminster Council says long

waiting lists meant difficult From next month, residents

in temporary accommodation will be relocated to permanent homes

outside the borough. Chelsea Football Club's plans

for a new ground have The council has approved proposals

for Stamford Bridge to be demolished to make way for the new 60,000

seater stadium - which would take The final say though will be down

to the Mayor of London. Guards on Southern Railway

are to stage another strike in their long-running

dispute over staffing. Members of the RMT union

will walk out for 24 hours on the 23rd of January,

the day before drivers go on strike again in protest

at driver-only trains. 500 rooms with shared

areas for socialising. Sounds like a student

halls of residence. But with an acute shortage

of housing in the capital, the place you're about to see

in north west London was set up as affordable homes

for young professionals. It only opened last summer and now

there is a waiting list. In some ways it is like a well

designed student hall, So we have 546 rooms

throughout the building. Ed Thomas, who runs things here,

claims it is the world's biggest co-living space,

and offers a lot more This is the bar, over

here you have the restaurant. In fact if you look over

here you have the sauna. And every night there

is something to do. We have a absolutely

jam-packed events schedule. Every Friday we do

a big community drinks. We are trying to change

the way that young It is a natural graduation

from university, I suppose. So we met when I

walked into my room. Meet Ruth and Tobiana,

and their shared space They each have a private room

with a shower, toilet and bed. It costs Ruth ?950 a month

and she prefers it to a flat share. London can be a very longly

place, it is just nice It's a developed version,

it is like the older version of student living,

if you like. Rehearsing downstairs, a band,

and the drummer who pays ?1,200 a month for his shared room,

says he has never You have all these residential

spaces in the building, where you can work from,

where you can build up But as you'd expect,

with an average age of 28 Yes, listen, when you start a big

venture like this and put 546 people in one big building,

it is inevitable. If things get loud, we will come

and tell people to be quiet, The people behind this

development say they are now going to build two more -

in Canary Wharf and Stratford. But of course it

is not for everyone. The bar manager, for example,

prefers his own house share. I have been a student before,

done student accommodation But the hundreds here do seem

to like it, and of course it is potentially lucrative

for the owner. This building could now generate

?6 million a year in rent. Seven years of digging beneath the

capital was bound to unearth some revelations about London's past.

During the construction of Crossrail, archaeologists collected

objects. Many giving an insight into Victorian life. Here at Tottenham

Court Road we fitting at the station. Crossrail is now than two

years away and things are quickly taking shape. It's in with the new,

but when you spend seven years did digging 42 kilometres of rail

tunnels beneath the streets of London, you are bound to unearth

some very old, interesting objects. We had to demolish buildings in

central London and open up huge excavations and this created a

unique opportunity for the archaeologists to come on board and

dig in these central London sites. As part of that they found thousands

of artefacts. Everything from plague victims to prehistoric stone tools.

Today, above ground, you can see the scale of the site where the new

Elizabeth line station will be. Between 1830 and 1921 there was a

food factory here, which leads us on to one of the most remarkable

discoveries. The food factory belonged to the company Crosse and

Blackwell. Thousands of Victorian jam jars and pickle pots were found

underground during Crossrail digging. We have the most famous

product they launched in 1838, pick a lily. The discovery has helped

archaeologists learn more about the tastes of Victorians. We found

bottles and jars to do with Crosse and Blackwell's manufacturing of

jams and marmalades. We found how important the manufacturing was of

Indian pickles and chutneys to Ross and Blackwell as well. It showed

they were manufacturing madras curry powders and pastes. All findings are

now in a book, one of ten detailed to -- detailing Crossrail

discoveries, giving us an insight into the past as we dug for the

future. The snow and strong winds have

arrived in London and are already causing disruption across parts

of the region. Flights have been cancelled

at Heathrow Airport, and there's been disruption

on the roads. As you can see from this

footage in Bexley, driving We'll have all the latest

details on the weather and transport situation

in our bulletins tomorrow morning. But the question is -

what sort of weather are we likely So I'll say good night and leave

Phil Avery to give you the details. Hello. I'm very grateful to somebody

who kept their garden furniture out to give me a sense of the depth in

Surrey. Several centimetres falling. For the most part, tomorrow morning

is all about ice. If you are on the move first thing, the roads will

have been whetted and with that to bridge a profile you will end up

with a significant problem if your streak hasn't been gritted with ice.

That's not quite the end of the snow story. There's a feature running

down in raw north-westerly wind, which will wrap up the snow

particularly east of the capital. It's essentially a decent sort of

day. There will be some sunshine. It will do nothing at all for the

temperatures, never better than about five. Because of the strength

of the wind it will feel cooler than that. Once the sun is down, having

got the lofty heights of five if you are lucky, we will end up with

another frosty night. The weekend is going to start on a pretty chilly

note. If that's not your sort of thing, Sunday will be cloudier and

milder. thing, Sunday will be cloudier and

milder. Good evening. It was such a mild

December, wasn't it, but winter has arrived. Tomorrow morning, again,

could be prising the wipers off the frozen windscreen. Yes, it's going

to be cold tonight, whether it is liquid,/ or snow, it will freeze

solid late at night with temperatures close to or below zero

in many places. This was the early snow which pushed across the

south-east, a few centimetres over the high ground. Now we concentrate

on the showers, which feed in over the north