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Welcome to BBC London News with me Alice Bhandhukravi. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
With the go-ahead given tonight for Theresa May to start | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
negotiations on Britain's departure from the EU, there's some | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
uncertainty over how Brexit could affect the capital's workforce | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
With many workers coming from abroad, there are fears major | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
infrastructure projects could be affected. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Does Brexit mean boom or bust for our builders? | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Well, the forecast was gloomy but today, new figures from one | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Well, the forecast was gloomy but today new figures from one | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
respected source say things are looking up. | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
The construction sector in the capital is holding up really well. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
It's underpinned by big infrastructure projects, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
things like High Speed 2, the Thames Tideway tunnels and also | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
housing projects, like this, which are going forward. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Even though there are some areas which are a bit more | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
vulnerable to Brexit, like the commercial sector, | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
office building, overall, we're looking at strong growth over | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
In fact, the sector is expected to grow at an annual average rate | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
of 2.4% over the next five years, well above the UK average of 1.7%. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
What that means in terms of jobs is over the same period 19,000 | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
The outlook may be rather optimistic now in terms | :01:23. | :01:37. | |
of London's construction sector but there are still risks to do with | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
If you speak to the foreman here, he will tell you it's all about how | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
he keeps and retains his workforce, like Marko here from Albania. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
On this site, two thirds of the workers come from Europe. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Across the sector in London, around 40% of builders come from abroad. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
That's why, with Brexit and the threat of strict migration | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
controls, this developer is investing much more in training, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
training local London graduates like Conor. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
There's a lot of uncertainties and it's all about being pro-active. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
I mean, you can wait and see what tomorrow brings or you can act | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
If others follow and invest more and more in training, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
it'll represent a significant change to an industry that has enjoyed | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
a constant stream of cheap, skilled labour from abroad. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
It will also represent a significant cost. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
For us, it is about investing in the future | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
We've talked a lot and heard a lot about the skilled labour shortage | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
and how the uncertainty of Brexit is going to affect us. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
For us, this is the right thing to do. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
We need to invest in the future of the construction industry. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
So for now, there is plenty of work about and as they get their heads | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
down with the job at hand, it'll be for others to answer | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Which big projects will replace the current ones once | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
How much of a skills shortfall will Brexit cause? | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
And will more training plug the gap and by when? | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
An investigation is under way after several people were injured | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
as they fled a rush hour train in Dalston. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
Passengers were forced to jump on the tracks | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
after smoke filled a carriage - it was caused by an overheating | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Here's our transport correspondent Tom Edwards. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
You can still hear the anxiety and panic from commuters, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
who just moments earlier, after seeing smoke, used | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
an emergency lever to open the doors, fled the carriages | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
and ran down the platform, with some going on to the nearby tracks. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Right, we just need to get people moving. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
It all happened at just after 7am at Dalston Kingsland Overground | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Robert was on the train and took the footage. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
He witnessed the sheer confusion and the stampede. | :03:54. | :04:06. | |
The only way to run to were the train tracks. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
I'm thinking, what if another train is coming? | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
You know, we had no choice, we just had to run onto the tracks. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
I thought that someone is attacking us. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
I thought that there someone, possibly with a gun or something | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
like that because, I mean, the whole train was running. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
In the rush to get from the train, a number of passengers were injured. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
A battery from a drill overheated and started smoking. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Three off-duty police officers helped to find it. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
Transport for London says all the trains in the area had been | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
People wanted to get away from the event | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
They did so safely and we were happy that the outcome worked well for us. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Four of those injured were taken to hospital. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
The police say this incident was not suspicious. | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
But transport bosses will review what happened and how | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
so many passengers ended up on potentially dangerous tracks. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
A housing estate in Rainham, which cost ?31 million of public | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
money, has been beset by problems with the build and maintenance. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Now residents at Orchard Village - which was only finished three years | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Ever since Colin Nicholas moved into his new home | :05:19. | :05:31. | |
a year and a half ago, he's had no end of problems. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
It has been particularly stressful because he has two young children. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
In the end, she contracted a bacterial infection, | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
which made her very ill and she was admitted to hospital. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
It is one of a long list of problems in his shared ownership home, | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
This is his neighbour's property, where there is widespread mould. | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Across the site, there are poorly fitted pipes, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
unsecured doors and gates, faulty smoke alarms. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
All this at a site which is less than five years old. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
It cost ?80 million to build and out of that, more than ?30 million | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
Colin and other residents blame Clarion Housing Group who are now | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
responsible for the site, but only since last | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
November when they merged with Circle Housing, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
But Clarion Housing blame the builders. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
We want to find out exactly what's wrong with the whole estate | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
so we can go in and do the job properly and put it right. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
And we'll also be looking at putting the bill at Willmott Dixon as well | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
because to be honest we think that they are | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
These are substantial problems and it is so unfair for people | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
to be living like this, including the elderly and children. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
What will you be doing to rectify those problems? | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
I think they have had a truly awful time. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
So we've already done some of the repairs that | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
are needed but actually, we want to capture them | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
all and go back and do all the repairs that are needed. | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
The builder, Willmott Dixon, told us tonight that they take | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
their responsibilities very seriously and gave an absolute | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
commitment to put things right and said they never walked away | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
But they went on to say, before they could complete the repairs, | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
the housing association took over responsibility for the work. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Havering Council, who signed off the build, said | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
during their numerous inspections, they did not find any issues that | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
breached building regulations during construction. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Colin says unlike other residents, he does not want to see | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
the development torn down and rebuilt. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
But he does want a decent home to raise his family | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
It's all change for Great Britain's Fed Cup tennis team | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
as Anne Keothavong takes over from Judy Murray. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
On day one of the tournament, Heather Watson won in straight sets | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
against Portuguese opponent Ines Murta in Estonia. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Our sports reporter Emma Jones met the new captain before | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Game, set and match, Miss Keothavong. | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
Anne Keothavong was once in the world's top 50. | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Now she's back as captain of Great Britain's Fed Cup team. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
She's taking over from Judy Murray, someone | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
Because, let's face it, I think she's been the most | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
successful tennis coach in this country. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
She's produced two world number ones in Jamie and Andy, so she knows | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
She is so passionate about the game and that rubs off | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Anne is part of her own tennis dynasty. | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
Her brother, James, recently umpired the men's final | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
And, having recently added to the family, she says, | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
like so many working mums, it can be tough to find a balance. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
When I was in Australia earlier this year, I must admit for the first | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
week I cried every day, because I missed her so much. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
But I take comfort in the fact that I'm not the only woman | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
who is working and not the only woman out there who has | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
to occasionally spend time away from their kids. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
British women's tennis seems to be on the up, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
with Johanna Konta currently ranked tenth in the world. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
You always want to leave the sport in a better place | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
I think that's the aim of every athlete, whatever | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
The short-term goal, with Konta playing and Keothavong as captain, | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
is to get further in the Fed Cup than the team has in decades. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
That's it from me. Time for me to wish you good night and I will leave | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
you with Louise who has the weather. Good evening. Expect a winter | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
flavour on the menu as we go through the remainder of the week. Tomorrow | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
will be a cloudy and cold day. To the north of London we will see | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
temperatures around minus two first thing. A scattering of showers | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
running in off the Thames Estuary and down to the south of the Thames | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
as we go through the day. These containing a few flakes of snow from | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
time to time. It will be a cold afternoon too. Those showers are | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
likely to continue overnight, again we could see a light dusting of snow | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
perhaps across the higher ground, nothing particularly special. But | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
with temperatures falling there could be icy stretches first thing | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
in the morning. Again a cold start on Friday and perhaps a frost, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
particularly to the north of London. Friday is likely to see fewer | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
showers but still a cold day with that brisk breeze. Let's look ahead | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
to the weekend. It stays cold and cloudy and Ben Rich will take you | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
through the bigger cloudy and Ben Rich will take you | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
through the bigger picture. Good evening. Over the next few days | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
I suspect it's going to feel like we have been plunged into the deep | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
freeze. Cold weather on the way and not necessarily crisp cold weather, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
with blue skies. A lot of cloud, there was some sunshine today across | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
parts of west Wales, for instance. That lifted temperatures up to 11. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
But further east as you can see from the picture, there was a lot of | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
cloud feeding in and that pegged temperatures down into single | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
figures, because there is increasingly cold air heading in | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
this direction on a cold and fairly strong wind. Tonight that wind will | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
continue to deliver wintry showers, particularly close to the east | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
coast, a mixture of rain and sleet along the | :11:52. | :11:52. |