20/07/2017 London News


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Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London News.

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I'm Sonja Jessup.

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The BBC has learned the number of sexual offences reported

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on the Tube has more than trebled in the last five years.

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More than 700 cases were recorded last year.

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Transport for London says it's because many victims are now more

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confident to come forward for help.

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Tolu Adeoye has this report.

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I was stood behind loads of people and this guy was behind me

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and he sort of started rubbing himself up against me,

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and I thought, maybe I've got the wrong impression here,

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but then I realised as it became more pronounced

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that he was actually, you know, feeling me up, groping me.

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Imogen Groome was assaulted while travelling on the Central line

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on her way to work back in April.

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She says the experience has changed the way she now

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gets around the capital.

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I will usually try and plan around and take the bus where I can,

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just because there's more space and you're not going

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to get crammed in.

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It shouldn't happen, that's the bottom line.

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People shouldn't just take advantage because they can.

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It's not acceptable.

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The number of reported incidents is rising.

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Statistics show, in the year to March this year, there were more

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than 700 reported offences on the Tube.

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That's gone up threefold from 225 five years ago.

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They account for around half the attacks reported

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on the train network.

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He definitely had blue eyes.

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You know, he shouldn't get away with it.

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Police say campaigns like this one mean more victims have

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been coming forward.

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Can we catch them after one report?

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Sometimes, sometimes not.

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But certainly it will help us build that picture and we can establish

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when people come on the system, when people come off the system,

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what trains they are on.

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That can open up lines of enquiry to help catch these people.

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Research on the London Underground shows that most offences

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were reported during rush-hour, dispelling the myth that this has

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anything to do with late-night drinking culture.

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It's often sober men travelling to and from work

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on packed Tube carriages.

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And campaigners say everyone using public transport

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has to take responsibility for keeping women safe.

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There's lots of bystanders lots of the time just turn the other

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eye, because they don't want to intervene, but I think it's

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really important that we all say, this is not on, it's not

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what we want for ourselves, it's not what we want for our children.

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We want to create a society where children are free to walk

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around and be in public safe without fear of attack.

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Imogen didn't report the assault, something she now regrets.

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I'd like to report being sexually harassed on the Tube.

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She's urging other women to speak up.

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A new crackdown's been launched to tackle the sale of illegal

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tobacco across the capital.

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Trading Standards are using specially trained sniffer dogs

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to target businesses suspecting of selling it.

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Drivers have been warned they face long delays after a lorry believed

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to be laden with chocolate bars went up in flames on a major

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road in Kent.

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Three out of the four lanes on the London-bound A2,

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near Bluewater shopping centre, were closed to allow

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the blaze to be tackled.

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Highways England said the lorry's load had melted

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onto the carriageway.

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Ten years ago, a woman from Hertfordshire made medical

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history by becoming the first person in the UK to donate a kidney

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to a complete stranger.

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Grandmother Kay Mason from Welwyn Garden City had to fight

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for the right to do so.

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She says was considered "mad" by some at the time.

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She's been speaking to our reporter, Yvonne Hall.

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We are in the home in Welwyn Garden City of Kay Mason,

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who fought for years to get the law changed to allow people to donate

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kidneys to people they didn't know.

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Ten years ago, Kay was successful and became the first person

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in the UK to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger.

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Kay, why did you want to do this?

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I wanted to do it once I realised it was possible to do it

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because I felt I had led a very privileged life.

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I'd been well and had successful grown-up children,

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so I had no dependents.

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And I felt I was able to do it.

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How has your recipient fared since the donation?

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My understanding is that she is well.

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Has this had any impact on your health at all?

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No, I'm hale and hearty.

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And what would your advice be to someone who's thinking

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of donating a kidney?

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They've taken the first step in thinking about it,

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and it's worth consulting family, because having support

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is very useful.

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And then they can get information from the Give A Kidney website,

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and then approach their local transplant unit.

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Thank you very much, Kay.

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It's hoped the tenth anniversary of Kay's donation will inspire

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others to follow suit.

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There are currently about 5000 people in the UK waiting

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for a kidney donation.

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The incidence of kidney disease is rising and, every year,

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about 250 people die whilst waiting for a suitable donor.

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Next, we've heard how some areas in the capital have

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introduced their own currency - like the Brixton pound,

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for example - to help support local businesses.

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Well, east London has taken it a step further -

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it's now got its own digital currency, via an app.

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So, a gimmick?

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Or a savvy way of helping the local economy?

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Ayshea Buksh has been finding out.

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It's a Hackney cafe where using money is sometimes discouraged.

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This customer has paid for her superfood smoothie

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with a mobile phone, topped up with East London pounds.

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You're using the app and the local currency and you're using local

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businesses and whatnot, and it's staying within

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the community and recirculating.

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Customers upload money using an app on their mobile phone,

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and they are given small financial incentive for spending

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their digital currency locally.

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It's a start-up company that began in Israel and is now being used

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in Liverpool and 70 businesses in Hackney and Shoreditch.

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We're really educating customers to shop locally,

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live locally and support independent businesses, rather than going

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to shop at a big chain.

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They might take their money somewhere else

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other than east London.

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Do you think maybe it's just a gimmick?

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No.

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I wouldn't think it's a gimmick because I can see how customers

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are happy to use it.

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It's not the first time we've seen local currencies.

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Back in 2009, the Brixton pound was launched and, more recently,

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there have been similar schemes in Bristol and Lewes in East Sussex.

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But, elsewhere in Hackney, not everyone was so positive.

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I'm kind of old-fashioned.

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I like to see hard money.

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I know what I'm spending, rather than using an app,

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so I don't think I'd be using something like that.

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What about the poor people that can't do things like that?

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Everything's gone all digital and then there's poor people that

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can't understand it.

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I'm not really on my phone, to be honest.

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And all that technology, I don't really understand.

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Just keep it to the minimum.

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Digital currencies might not be everybody's cup of tea,

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but tech-savvy east Londoners can now boost the local

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economy even further.

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Now, do you have a head for heights?

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Then this could be the restaurant for you.

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London in the Sky is serving food 100 foot in the air

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by Chelsea Embankment.

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The table's suspended from a crane, with chefs and guests strapped in.

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But you do have to hold on to your plate.

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You can see more on that story on our Facebook page.

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Now the weather with Georgina Burnett.

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Good afternoon.

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We are going to see quite a change in the weather over the next

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few hours in contrast with this morning.

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This was the scene captured by one of our weather

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watchers a few hours ago.

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Thank you very much for that.

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Quite a lot of cloud around.

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But we are seeing that push off into the north-east,

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and the rain with it as well.

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So we are left with a drier, brighter end to the day,

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with some decent sunshine.

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Temperature-wise, getting up to about 21, 20 two Celsius today,

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but those temperatures actually dropping off over the next few

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hours with that cooler air coming in behind.

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Overnight, mainly clear skies.

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We'll see a bit of cloud building in the early hours of the morning.

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Temperatures getting down to about 13 or 14 degrees Celsius.

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There was a bit of cloud around tomorrow morning,

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but still quite a bright start with some sunshine.

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We'll see cloud building as we head through the day, mainly dry,

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but there may be one or two outbreaks of rain ahead

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of this band that's pushing through in the evening.

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Quite a blustery band of rain, it is.

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Tomorrow, temperatures getting up to 22 Celsius,

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that wind bringing in some warmer air again.

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So that band clears through the night, but Saturday,

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we are still seeing a fair few showers, some of which will be

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quite heavy, with longer spells of rain as well.

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Quite a cloudy day on Saturday, not much brightness around.

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But Sunday there will still be some showers around,

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but they should be mainly light.

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Just one or two heavy ones.

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Also some sunny intervals in between.

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Temperature-wise, with that warmer air coming in,

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we could get up to 23 Celsius tomorrow, but otherwise

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we are sticking in the low 20s for the next few days.

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That's it from us - do join us again at 6:30pm.

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Riz Lateef will be here with our evening programme.

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Have a great afternoon.

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Bye-bye.

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