06/08/2017 London News

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I'm Katharine Carpenter.

Commuters are being warned they could face significant delays

at Waterloo tomorrow.

Works, which began at the station this weekend, will see ten

of its 19 platforms closed for the next three weeks.

Tomorrow morning's rush hour will be the first real test

of how the station copes, as Tolu Adeoye reports.

They've been warning of the disruption for months,

and this weekend the work began to upgrade Waterloo station.

Platforms are being extended to allow for longer

trains and provide space for 30% more passengers.

Extra staff have been taken on to assist people during the work.

Really, really good to see so many staff out there

actively helping passengers.

On Monday we believe there will be even more staff,

and what is needed is that there is really strong management,

because passengers in the morning will be coming into platforms

that they are not used to.

Nearly half of all platforms here at London Waterloo have now

been closed for the work, and to help ease some

of the pressure, these old Eurostar platforms are being put back

into use for the first time since the service moved

to London St Pancras in 2007.

With significantly reduced services into Waterloo,

rail bosses have urged passengers to consider taking a holiday,

working from home, or travelling earlier or later than normal

while the project is under way.

I need to add an extra half an hour on my journey,

just to make sure I get to work on time.

In the rush hour, I would not like to be on the train,

that is for sure.

It is very crowded now, even coming on a Sunday, so it is not good.

Infrastructure always needs to be developed,

and it is tough to deal with it at the time.

The work will finish over the August bank holiday weekend,

not a moment too soon for passengers who are in for a difficult

few weeks of travel.

Tolu Adeoye, BBC London News.

People with footage of a fatal shooting in Chelmsford

yesterday are being urged not to post it online.

Essex Police says anyone with mobile or dash-cam recordings

of the incident on Baddow Road should hand them over to detectives.

The man shot outside the petrol station has been named

as 34-year-old John Pordage.

Artists working close to the Olympic Park say they're

being forced out of their studios to make way for a new bridge.

Others say they're being priced out of the area, but developers say it

will link thousands of new homes in Hackney Wick to a new school.

Sonja Jessup reports.

Hard at work in her Hackney Wick studio, but this painter does not

know how long she will be able to stay.

As developers have moved into the area, many artists feel

they are being pushed out.

We find that a lot of local artists are moving out of the country,

so we're losing not only skills, we're losing assets and we're losing

the future of London in terms of its creativity, really.

The group in charge of London's Olympic legacy

are planning to build a new bridge here, connecting thousands

of new homes and a new school around Fish Island.

This needs to be a place that people can move around,

whether they are here as artists, here working in a business,

they live here, they are going to school here.

Historically, this canal has been one of the barriers that

stopped the space working.

The LLDC says it does not want to drive the artists out,

but some are worried that is exactly what the new developments will do.

There's a great fear, which happens in a lot of parts of London,

that development will squeeze people out because the rents go up and up.

The lower end of the market, if you like, in terms of struggling

artists will be squeezed out.

Musician Nima Tehranchi is one of those who has already been

forced to move away.

He believes London is at risk of losing its creative identity.

This city has always been known as a cultural

leader in various ways, but now, if this is lost,

I do not think there will be somewhere so geographically relevant

that can take its place.

The artists here say they accept new housing is needed,

but argue there should also be room for their creative community

to continue to thrive.

Sonja Jessup, BBC London News.

Now here's the weather with Lucy Martin.

Hello, good evening.

A slightly cloudier day on the way tomorrow, with just the risk

of the odd isolated shower.

First of all, though, through tonight, we will see

varying amounts of cloud, some clear spells, with overnight

lows of 12 degrees Celsius.

A fairly bright start to the day tomorrow.

Cloud will tend to increase from the northwest as we

move through the day.

Just the chance of the odd isolated shower, with highs

of 21 degrees Celsius.

I will leave you with the outlook.

The risk of possibly a quite heavy, thundery shower midweek,

but turning drier again by Thursday.

We'll be back in Breakfast from 6, but that's all from the late team.

Goodnight.