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Welcome to BBC London News. I'm Claudia-Liza Armah. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Thousands of Londoners face weeks of severe disruption, as major | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
engineering work begins at one of the UK's busiest stations. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
From tonight, 10 platforms at Waterloo will close for nearly | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
a month, causing a huge reduction in trains. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
South West Trains and Network Rail admit it will cause | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Paul Clifton explains what's about to happen, and why. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
You don't close half of Britain's busiest station | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
These platforms, one to four, are shorter than Waterloo's other | :00:41. | :00:57. | |
platforms across there. So these ones will be dug up, the tracks | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
removed and the platforms extended. As ten of the 19 platforms close, | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
five others will open. The former Eurostar platforms will | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
briefly be brought back into use. So we are just advising passengers | :01:06. | :01:17. | |
to plan ahead, consider travelling at quieter times of the day and to | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
prepare FRIC use at stations. -- for Hughes. | :01:25. | :01:25. | |
Out of sight of passengers, this is a monumental challenge | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
for the train planners in the control centre at Basingstoke. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
What happens between tonight and the 28th of August has | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
There is contingency in terms of what we can provide for passengers, | :01:34. | :01:45. | |
whether that is extra staff at stations, water, ice creams, spare | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
trains on the route which we can bring in at short notice. But it is | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
a very challenging project. When it's finished, | :01:53. | :01:53. | |
there will be longer platforms for new, longer trains, | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
carrying 45,000 more But in the meantime, | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
hardly anyone is seriously expecting Today is the deadline for people | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
to have their say over the public The consultation on what should be | :02:01. | :02:14. | |
looked into closes tonight, but there's already been anger | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
and distrust about the inquiry The BBC's Michael Cowan has been | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
hearing from one survivor about her own difficult journey | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
over the past 7 weeks. We first met you the day after the | :02:26. | :02:40. | |
fire. We then met you a week after the fire. How far do you think you | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
have moved on from that? I'm still not in a good place. I wouldn't call | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
it a good place. I'm on medication. I've gotten help through | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
counselling. So that is good. One thing you have told me that has been | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
worrying you is the abuse that Grenfell survivors are getting from | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
certain members of the public. What sort of abuse are we talking about? | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
It is Internet abuse, very nasty comments, some of them I wouldn't | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
repeat. Very nasty comments. People thinking we are having a free ride. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
We are not having a free ride. We didn't want to be in the fire. We | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
didn't burn the tower by ourselves. No. It is something that happened. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
We didn't ask for it. We are now living in hotels. Nobody wants to | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
live in a hotel for a month or more than a month. It would happen to you | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
tomorrow and I would be the one trying to hold you up. Lift you up | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
out of your tragedy. So please, stop, whoever they are, stop. Just | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
stop. That was Lillian, one of the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire talking to our reporter. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
The family of a black man who died in East London | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
after being restrained by police are calling for "openness | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
It comes after it was confirmed that the object removed | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
from Rashan Charles' throat was a mixture of paracetamol | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
The 20-year-old's death sparked protests on the streets. | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
A leading children's charity is calling on London councils to do | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
more to support young people when they leave the care system, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
to stop them becoming unemployed or even homeless. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Five London councils have now made care leavers exempt from paying | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
But the Children's Society says more needs to be done. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
They are quite vulnerable, so there are facing things like teenage | :04:52. | :05:05. | |
pregnancy. At just eight years old, the local council begin this man's | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
parents. When he was old enough to leave care, the council moved into | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
his own flat. After five years in my own place, I had to move. I have | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
never been as trusting since. Just a few months later, bailiffs weren't | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
knocking at his door. They said police when they knocked on the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
door. That was scary in itself. I wondered what I had done. When they | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
said it was for council tax and the amount, I was dismayed. Many young | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
people struggle leaving home to live in the wrong. But for young people | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
leaving social care it is harder. For those living in London, one of | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
the UK's most expensive cities, it is even worse. That is why Fife | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
councils have scrap council tax for De Jong care leavers under the age | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
of 25. Tower Hamlets houses around 300 young care leavers. They are one | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
of the councils exempting them from council tax. It is not a massive | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
amount out of the council budget and it will make a massive difference to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
those young people until the age of 25. We showed a leading charity some | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
of the experiences of the young care leavers who spoke to us. 50% of | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
cancers are providing financial education. -- councils. If you are | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
managing a household budget at 18, responsible for council tax, you | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
need more support to make that happen. He hopes care leavers across | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
the capital will benefit in the same way that he has. Be little hope that | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
you do for them, it will really benefit them and put a smile on | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
those young faces. Women at risk of breast | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
cancer returning could be identified in the future, | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
following new tests The Institute of Cancer Research | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
says women with large numbers of immune cells in and around | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
tumours, are 25% more likely to relapse than women with more | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
evenly dispersed cells. Charities hope that it could be | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
added to existing prognosis tests. Now, after months of preparation, | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
the World Athletics Championship kicks off right here | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
in London tonight. Of course, most eyes | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
are on Usain Bolt's But among those who could find | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
themselves lining up against him is 21-year-old Reece Prescod | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
from Waltham Forest, who qualified thanks | :07:25. | :07:25. | |
to his surprise win at the British I'm not going in under pressure to | :07:26. | :07:38. | |
win or might get to the final. I don't like to put that pressure on | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
myself. As long as I can do the best I can do and I am happy, that is all | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
I can do. Good luck. Well, we might be in | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
August but the weather Good afternoon. It feels a lot more | :07:47. | :07:58. | |
like August today. Lovely sunny start. We have seen more cloud | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
developer. But still some brightness and sunny spells around. Through the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
rest of the afternoon, the chance of some showers. Most of us will stay | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
dry Mac. The winds lighter. Top temperatures 23 or 24. There will be | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
more sunny spells around this evening. Some late brightness. And | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
overnight tonight, we will see clear spells. For the most part, staying | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
dry. Early risers should start of the day with some sunshine. It will | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
feel cooler over the course of the weekend. Through the late morning | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
into the afternoon, the risk of heavy thundery downpours, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
particularly north of the M4 corridor towards the Home Counties. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
They could be anywhere. Expect heavy showers. Sunny spells in between. 21 | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Celsius. A nice evening on Saturday. It will feel quite cool. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Temperatures could dip back into single figures. A chilly start for | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
this time of the year to Sunday morning. Sunday dry, spells of | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
sunshine. Top temperatures of 23. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
That's about it from the lunch time team. | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
Louisa Preston will be here with our evening | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
But for now, from all of us, have a very good afternoon. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Experience the power of the BBC Proms. | :09:22. | :09:46. | |
# Oh, lullaby of Birdland, that's what I... # | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
to jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie, | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
in the centenary year of their births. | :09:57. | :10:00. |