:00:14. > :00:22.Good afternoon and Merry Christmas from BBC London News.
:00:23. > :00:24.In the last year, a record 40% of Londoners
:00:25. > :00:26.buying their first home have ended up leaving the capital.
:00:27. > :00:28.According to the estate agents Hamptons International,
:00:29. > :00:31.it's part of a bigger trend of people moving out of London
:00:32. > :00:38.For Nicola Latham, moving out of London means a bigger kitchen,
:00:39. > :00:47.which means more mince pies and more space for her guests to eat them.
:00:48. > :00:49.It also means she and her husband can finally buy a house.
:00:50. > :00:52.We have a three-bed semidetached house with a garden and lovely,
:00:53. > :01:00.In London we probably wouldn't even afford a one-bedroom flat.
:01:01. > :01:09.The compromise came with a longer and pricey commute from Stansted,
:01:10. > :01:13.This year 40% of first-time buyers in London ended up buying
:01:14. > :01:18.They bought 74,000 homes outside London.
:01:19. > :01:22.So how far does London's commuter belt stretch?
:01:23. > :01:24.One in five Londoners who bought headed to
:01:25. > :01:32.Some say a tougher climate calls for more drastic action.
:01:33. > :01:34.Within the M25 alone, there are 100,000 hectares
:01:35. > :01:41.A hectare is about the size of Trafalgar Square.
:01:42. > :01:44.Choosing 5% of that to be built on could supply 200,000 homes
:01:45. > :01:46.which would be enough for London for three or four years
:01:47. > :01:51.Earlier this year it emerged that half of London's firefighters,
:01:52. > :01:53.ambulance workers and frontline police officers could no longer
:01:54. > :01:58.WE are being told the exodus should slow next year
:01:59. > :02:03.But until then, the whole of England has the potential to become
:02:04. > :02:08.Next: He's being called "Builderotti",
:02:09. > :02:11.a singing builder who wants to following in the footsteps
:02:12. > :02:18.Gani Shabi from Swiss Cottage has been making a noise on building
:02:19. > :02:20.sites around London, and he's even impressed
:02:21. > :02:25.Walk past a building site in south-west London
:02:26. > :02:30.and you might just hear something rather unusual.
:02:31. > :02:43.Gani is a builder who likes to sing while he works.
:02:44. > :02:47.It is not where you would expect to hear opera, but his voice
:02:48. > :02:51.is so powerful, it can cut through pretty much any noise.
:02:52. > :03:00.And he is starting to attract attention.
:03:01. > :03:02.Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has filmed his singing close
:03:03. > :03:16.I worked opposite her house and she heard me singing
:03:17. > :03:27.Gani's dream is to perform professional opera, following
:03:28. > :03:30.the greats like Pavarotti, but he is self taught
:03:31. > :03:38.and with his current staging he is being called "Builder-otti".
:03:39. > :03:40.Builderotti is good because it is connected to Pavarotti.
:03:41. > :03:48.He is now singing out while he works on a building site in Barnes
:03:49. > :03:51.and during breaks he sometimes takes to nearby streets.
:03:52. > :04:08.Of course there are times when the work comes first,
:04:09. > :04:17.but this is a builder with big dreams and a voice to match.
:04:18. > :04:24.And now here's Kate with the weather.
:04:25. > :04:33.Good afternoon. A beautiful afternoon for a Boxing Day walk.
:04:34. > :04:37.Cold, crisp and sunny. It is much chillier than it was yesterday.
:04:38. > :04:43.Looking at a maximum of nine Celsius in central London. Once the sun has
:04:44. > :04:47.set, the temperature will fall away very quickly. A widespread frost by
:04:48. > :04:55.dawn tomorrow morning, leading to another bright day on Tuesday. Cold,
:04:56. > :04:59.crisp and sunny. I will be back at just after 6:20pm with your evening
:05:00. > :05:11.bulletin. Until then, enjoy your Boxing Day.
:05:12. > :05:20.Good afternoon, some decent weather, not a bad day to get out and walk of
:05:21. > :05:25.some of the Christmas access perhaps! As we can see from the
:05:26. > :05:29.radar picture, a lot of showers piling in in the Scottish Highlands,
:05:30. > :05:34.mostly but not exclusively over high ground, but most showers have been
:05:35. > :05:40.falling as snow. Still a Met Office amber warning across the northern
:05:41. > :05:41.isles, wind close to 95 mph in Shetland earlier