0:00:00 > 0:00:00news teams where you are.
0:00:00 > 0:00:20Have a good afternoon.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21Welcome to BBC London News.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26I'm Victoria Hollins.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29It was a fire that changed firefighting
0:00:29 > 0:00:30and safety on the Underground.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Tomorrow marks 30 years since the Kings Cross fire.
0:00:34 > 0:00:3631 people, including a firefighter, died when a smoker
0:00:36 > 0:00:39dropped a match into the steps of a wooden escalator that led from
0:00:39 > 0:00:42the Piccadilly Line to the ticket hall of the Underground Station.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Here's our Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Thousands use this escalator every day, and many don't know this
0:00:49 > 0:00:52is where the worst fire in the history of the Tube started.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56This is escalator four at King's Cross.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00A lit match ignited grease, eventually creating a huge fireball.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Stuart Button is now retired, but nearly 30 years ago he was one
0:01:03 > 0:01:05of the first firefighters to arrive.
0:01:05 > 0:01:13It was travelling faster than they could walk.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15So what we did was, we were hurrying up ourselves
0:01:15 > 0:01:20to get out of the station, we were hoovering up people, really,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22really, saying to people, "Get out."
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Just two minutes after they arrived, the fire had flashed over
0:01:25 > 0:01:33and engulfed the ticket hall.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36It was then that we heard, or started hearing all the screams.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39I thought, there must be loads and loads of people down there,
0:01:39 > 0:01:40just scream after scream.
0:01:40 > 0:01:4330 years on and this official report still makes terrifying reading.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47It describes how this station full of commuters turned into a furnace.
0:01:47 > 0:01:53It also outlines how the response from the emergency services
0:01:53 > 0:01:55was hampered due to a breakdown in communication, and there
0:01:55 > 0:02:05was a lack of knowledge of the station layout.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11The following inquiry led to huge changes to the Tube and the Fire
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Service's safety regimes.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Among the many recommendations, wooden escalators should be removed,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16smoking should be banned, and heat detectors and sprinklers
0:02:16 > 0:02:17should be installed.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20And, crucially, the emergency services should be able
0:02:20 > 0:02:25to communicate with each other underground.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30Most of the recommendations have since been implemented.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34These type of exercises are now part of training.
0:02:34 > 0:02:40And legislation ensures minimum staffing levels
0:02:40 > 0:02:41on deep-line stations.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Although a new radio system was only introduced
0:02:43 > 0:02:48after the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51There isn't a month goes by in my job that we don't reference
0:02:51 > 0:02:52the King's Cross fire.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55It had such a phenomenal and beneficial effect
0:02:55 > 0:02:57on the organisation, so out of a desperate tragedy,
0:02:57 > 0:03:06good things have actually come.
0:03:06 > 0:03:13With cuts due on the Tube, the unions say they'll resist
0:03:13 > 0:03:15anything that they think could compromise safety,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19and these changes only happened after the deaths of 31 Londoners.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21It's emerged that universities in London are raking in millions
0:03:21 > 0:03:23of pounds in student library fines.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Figures obtained by the BBC show that 21 universities
0:03:26 > 0:03:29in the capital made more than £3 million over the past
0:03:29 > 0:03:30three academic years.
0:03:30 > 0:03:38King's College London tops the list.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40It's finally here - tonight, Children In Need takes place.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Every year thousands of young people here in London
0:03:42 > 0:03:44are helped by the money raised through your generosity
0:03:44 > 0:03:48and by fundraisers.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51One of those charities is Rewind, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54It's helped dozens of young people at risk of exclusion from school
0:03:54 > 0:03:55through theatre and drama skills.
0:03:55 > 0:04:02Here's how the money has helped them.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Yeah, and then we've got a first contestant, and then a run-in.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Rewind is a 10-week project working specifically with young
0:04:07 > 0:04:11people between 11 and 16, mainly focused on those
0:04:11 > 0:04:14who are having difficulty in school, who might be at risk of exclusion
0:04:14 > 0:04:24or having difficulties with attendance and things like that.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26They would work with a director or a practitioner on a script,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29or they might devise a piece of theatre on their own,
0:04:29 > 0:04:32then over the next two or three weeks shape that
0:04:32 > 0:04:33into what would then become a performance.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34We're going to smash it.
0:04:34 > 0:04:40Going to smash it.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43My name is Ahmed, I'm 13, I've been coming to the Rewind
0:04:43 > 0:04:45project for seven weeks.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I enjoy this a lot.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50To be fair, it feels better when I have a school week
0:04:50 > 0:04:53and then go here on Friday, it's the best day of the week,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55then on Monday come back to school refreshed.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57OK, this is our theatre, come and take a seat.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The money from Children In Need allows us to create interventions
0:05:00 > 0:05:04into their lives that help them get back into school,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07help them with attendance, and really change a path that they
0:05:07 > 0:05:10might have been going down.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15So today we are going to talk about power...
0:05:15 > 0:05:22It's an amazing experience to look at a particular young person
0:05:22 > 0:05:25that starts with us, is scared of coming into the theatre,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27or just doesn't know what's going to happen, and watch them
0:05:27 > 0:05:31change and grow over ten weeks to become these confident,
0:05:31 > 0:05:37brave, incredibly artistic young people, and for them to be
0:05:37 > 0:05:41so proud of the work that they make, too.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44That work, for me, is the little bit of gold dust.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46We know, fundamentally, that we're changing lives,
0:05:46 > 0:05:56and it's an incredible thing to be a part of.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Well, we've just found out Pudsey has arrived at our special
0:05:59 > 0:06:02location for tonight's broadcasts - we'll be live from Warner Brother's
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Tours in Hertfordshire, where Pudsey will be joined
0:06:04 > 0:06:06by some special guests.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Arsenal and Tottenham meet in the North London
0:06:08 > 0:06:09derby tomorrow lunch-time.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12One man who knows what life is like on either side of the divide
0:06:12 > 0:06:21is George Graham, who was manager at both clubs.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24It is 100 years since English football produced an occasion like
0:06:24 > 0:06:29this...Such was the drama of Arsenal's 1989 win over Liverpool it
0:06:29 > 0:06:33has been turned into a documentary. They picked their opponents in the
0:06:33 > 0:06:37last seconds of the season.George Graham was their manager. What it
0:06:37 > 0:06:44has, to beat Liverpool at Anfield by two clear goals. Liverpool dominated
0:06:44 > 0:06:47English football at that time, and rightly so, they were the best team
0:06:47 > 0:06:52with the best players. But I had to do my job and sell the idea of going
0:06:52 > 0:06:57up there to beat them 2-0, I had to sell it to the players.Arsenal are
0:06:57 > 0:07:01no longer quite the force they were under Graham or in the early Arsene
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Wenger years, so what is missing?I would say they have just dipped from
0:07:05 > 0:07:09the standards they set themselves. I would say they have just edged
0:07:09 > 0:07:16slowly away. With the ball, they are fantastic.Without the ball, not so
0:07:16 > 0:07:19great. Tottenham finally finished above Arsenal for the first time
0:07:19 > 0:07:24last season since 1995, do you think the power in north London has
0:07:24 > 0:07:28finally shifted?I don't think so, not yet, but I think it is on its
0:07:28 > 0:07:31way unless Arsenal up their game plan, and I think there is every
0:07:31 > 0:07:38chance now that Tottenham could do it, could do it. They've got an
0:07:38 > 0:07:43outstanding manager, one of the best, but the next hurdle really for
0:07:43 > 0:07:48them is to win some silverware. Tomorrow's north London derby is
0:07:48 > 0:07:56eagerly awaited, even though it can't quite top 89 for attention.
0:07:56 > 0:08:02It felt pretty cold this morning, let's check on the weather.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05It felt pretty cold this morning, let's check on the weather.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Yesterday we saw 15 degrees but today we are in too much colder air.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Rulli below freezing, lots of sunshine around, we will continue to
0:08:13 > 0:08:17see that sunshine and blue skies for the rest of the day, possibly more
0:08:17 > 0:08:21hike out coming and going at times. The wind is light, it will be dry
0:08:21 > 0:08:25and temperatures will be between seven and as high as maybe 10
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Celsius in central London. Through this evening and overnight
0:08:28 > 0:08:31temperatures will drop readily at first and then we will see more in
0:08:31 > 0:08:42the way of
0:08:58 > 0:09:00cloud spread in from the west at times, so temperatures possibly not
0:09:00 > 0:09:02quite as low, looking at starting the day tomorrow with Apache frost,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05three or four Celsius for many of the towns. Tomorrow, a cloudy day
0:09:05 > 0:09:07but still feeling quite chilly. We will see plenty more cloud spreading
0:09:07 > 0:09:10from the West, still feeling cold, outbreaks of light, patchy rain and
0:09:10 > 0:09:12drizzle through the afternoon, possibly the odd heavy burst at
0:09:12 > 0:09:14times but mostly very light, many places staying dry. Temperatures not
0:09:14 > 0:09:17quite making it a double figures. A nice day on Sunday, more in the way
0:09:17 > 0:09:19of sunshine, some rain on Sunday night introduces milder air in time
0:09:19 > 0:09:22for next week, when there will be outbreaks operate at times.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23That's about it from me.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Asad Ahmad will be here with our 6.30pm evening programme.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30But for now, from us all, a very good afternoon.