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That's all from the BBC News at One,
so it's goodbye from me. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:13 | |
Welcome to BBC London News.
so it's goodbye from me. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
I'm Victoria Hollins.
so it's goodbye from me. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
The majority of hundreds
of squatters living in a central | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
London building have moved out
after a judge ruled they had | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
no right to be there. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
The four-storey building
in Great Portland Street | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
was taken over by the group
during the cold weather. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
But last week a judge
ruled that they should | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
leave by 12pm today. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
Helen Drew reports. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:39 | |
Midday was the deadline given for
the homeless people who have been | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
sleeping here to leave. It came and
no bailiffs arrived to evict them. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
They have been here since the
beginning of the month, about 150 | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
people sleeping here. Activists took
over the four-storey building on | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
Great Portland Street in order to
provide shelter. Last week the | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
landlords of the building went to
court to get evicted and the judge | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
gave them that eviction notice. But
nobody came evict them. First thing | 0:01:05 | 0:01:10 | |
this morning there were about 150
people here. At the time of the | 0:01:10 | 0:01:15 | |
deadline noticed there was still
about 100 people here but since that | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
time has passed, despite the fact no
bailiffs have arrived, they have | 0:01:19 | 0:01:24 | |
volunteered to go, almost everybody
has left and most of the people you | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
can see over my shoulder our
volunteers. We don't know why the | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
bailiffs have not arrived. We have
spoken to the Mayor of London, his | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
office said that outreach workers
have attended this location at least | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
twice last week, the people here say
they don't feel they have had | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
support from the Mayor's office.
They also said at the bears of is | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
that there was an issue with workers
trying to access those staying here | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
but perhaps Westminster council can
give us more information. We spoke | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
to them and they said that this was
a matter for the property owner. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
They also say they are aware of the
situation and have been offering | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
support to those with a genuine
housing need. They say their teams | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
are on stand-by to provide
additional help if an eviction takes | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
place but we have not seen any
evidence of that. The bailiffs are | 0:02:18 | 0:02:23 | |
not here, almost everybody has gone,
most people you can see our | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
volunteers. A couple of people are
left but I expect through the | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
afternoon they will be gone. What we
don't know is where everybody is | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
going. I have been speaking to
people all Monica but most don't | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
have a plan, some are hoping
charities can help them, others say | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
they expect to be out on the street
again tonight. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Police are looking for a man
who burgled an elderly | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
woman as she lay in bed. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
The 90-year-old was in her home
in Blackbrook Lane in Bromley | 0:02:50 | 0:03:00 | |
when a man forced
open the window, climbed | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
inside and took her jewellery. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
Her family had installed
CCTV in her home as she | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
suffers from Alzheimer's. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:07 | |
Anyone who recognises the man
is asked to contact the police. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
Residents in Croydon were evacuated
from their homes overnight | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
after a car drove into an energy
plant and caused a gas leak. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
Police were called to Whitestone Way
just before 8:30pm last night. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Cordons were put in place and much
of the disruption continued | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
throughout this morning. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
The A23 has now reopened,
but many residents are not | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
being allowed to return home. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
Box trees are a common feature
in the capital's gardens and they're | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
regularly cut into shapes. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:33 | |
Well, they're under threat
from the box tree caterpillar. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
Now the RHS Wisley in Surrey says
it is trying to find the best | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
way to tackle the pest. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
Here's our Environment
Correspondent, Tom Edwards. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
The box tree caterpillar arrived
from China around 2011 and, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
since then, it has been destroying
the capital's box trees, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
leaving them looking like this. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
Last summer this was eaten
completely by caterpillars | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
of the box tree moth. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
And in particular it seems to be
a problem in gardens | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
in south-west London. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
They can completely strip the plant
of leaves and they don't | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
look very attractive. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:12 | |
They cover them in webbing
and insect frass, that's insect poo. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
It doesn't look or smell
very nice at all. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
At the Royal Horticultural Society
in Wisley in Surrey they are now | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
breeding the caterpillars
as they want to test | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
the best way to tackle them. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
That will include when and how
to apply insecticides or natural | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
control methods such as nematodes. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
We'll probably start off quite
simple and basic with how well do | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
these nematode biological controls
work on the box trees caterpillar, | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
perhaps how well do some
pesticides work on them, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
are there different ways
we can apply them to make | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
them more effective,
and eventually we would piece | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
together all of those separate
research projects into the advice | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
we can give to gardeners. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:57 | |
The other alternative, though,
for gardeners is to use | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
other types of hedges
that the caterpillars don't eat. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
What with the disease
and the caterpillar, | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
they do make a mess,
they do eat the leaves and leave | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
bare sticks behind so lots of people
are beginning to make decisions | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
to other plants, to grow other
plants because they can | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
actually do that job,
they can have that low hedge | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
outside their front door. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
Experts, though, believe these pests
will be difficult to get rid | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
of and we will see changes
to the capital's | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
gardens permanently. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Tom Edwards, BBC London News. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
Whenever there's a new film out,
its stars hit the red carpet | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
or give interviews in posh
London hotel rooms. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
That's what John Boyega is doing
at the moment for his new film. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
As part of the BBC's School Report,
we sent two students | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
from Prendergast Ladywell School
in Lewisham to do the job. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
And Wendy Hurrell went
along to help them out. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
Welcome to the weird world of the
movie junket, into which we have | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
brought our intrepid School
reporters. I am Azra, I'm missing | 0:05:59 | 0:06:05 | |
arts. I am Azra and I'm missing
English. We are here to interview | 0:06:05 | 0:06:11 | |
John Boyega about his new film. In
which he plays Jake, fighting off | 0:06:11 | 0:06:17 | |
sea monsters in Pacific Rim
uprising. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
We are in a small room at a posh
hotel filled with production staff | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
and a startling array of light,
sound and camera equipment. I'm | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
really nervous! It's an intimidating
situation even for a seasoned | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
journalist so in a holding room a
pep talk from me. They will be | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
people hiding in the corner and you
can ignore them. In they go, the | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
movie stars have sat there all day
answering pretty much the same | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
questions over and over, it is not
the done thing to go to off script | 0:06:49 | 0:06:54 | |
but taking presents always goes down
well. We heard it was your birthday. | 0:06:54 | 0:07:01 | |
Yes! Other people keep on reminding
me and I have totally forgotten! | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
Thank you! Thank you so much. You
are known as a Peckham Lloyd, is the | 0:07:06 | 0:07:13 | |
way you were put a help or graduate
down to help people build your | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
acting dreams -- Peckham boys. I was
very blessed, I had a good time at | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
Theatre School and friends aiming
for the same thing I was, and I was | 0:07:23 | 0:07:28 | |
surrounded by a lot of motivation
and I was still in Peckham when I | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
got the biggest role of my life. We
are Azra and Hari. School report, | 0:07:31 | 0:07:38 | |
BBC London News. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
Now the weather with Sara Thornton. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
It has been dragging us down through
the weekend! This shows how confused | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
we all are, spring on one side,
winter at the bottom and all of us | 0:07:49 | 0:07:58 | |
have a bit of snow around and some
ice was a concern, especially | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
because we have the sunshine at the
moment and we have that for the rest | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
of the afternoon which means there
is a bit of a thaw and then a | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
refreeze and that can equal eyes.
The clearing skies in the south, but | 0:08:11 | 0:08:18 | |
pulling away nicely, the cloud. The
temperatures have not been | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
brilliant, still below par for the
time of year, but not quite as raw | 0:08:21 | 0:08:27 | |
at the weekend. When the sun sets we
will have a refreeze after the day | 0:08:27 | 0:08:32 | |
so watch out. The cloud comes in
overnight, maybe a couple of showers | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
and that will combine with the
temperatures below freezing to give | 0:08:37 | 0:08:42 | |
us a risk of ice first thing in the
morning and there is a weather | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
warning for the morning commute.
Watch out for ice first thing and | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
there will be some cloud around,
maybe a stray shower but the | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
emphasis tomorrow is feeling vastly
different to the past few days, even | 0:08:53 | 0:08:59 | |
with the cloud coming in at the end
of the afternoon, the temperatures | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
do look an awful lot better. Not
quite where we should beat still but | 0:09:02 | 0:09:07 | |
7-9dC. This is the air mass, yellow
is milder and that is pushing | 0:09:07 | 0:09:14 | |
towards us for the middle of the
week. Temperatures on the way up, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
spring starts tomorrow! | 0:09:18 | 0:09:19 | |
Finally! | 0:09:22 | 0:09:22 | |
That's about it from me. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
Louisa Preston will be here
with our 6:30pm evening programme. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
But for now, from us all,
a very good afternoon. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 |