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I'm Susie Fowler`Watt. the London Mayor, Boris Johnson | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
First tonight, 24 hours of misery for rail commuters. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Thousands of passengers werd stranded at Liverpool Street last | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
night following a fault with overhead power cables. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
The police were brought in to keep the peace. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Then this morning, a signal problem on the samd line. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Nikki Fox sent this from Witham station. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
A points failure here this dvening meant that there were | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
of some minor delays but thhngs were not anywhere near as bad | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
as last night or earlier thhs morning. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
One man told me he had missdd a promotion because he was late | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
two days in a row and it has been similarly stressful for manx people, | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Thousands of passengers cralmed on the station concourse last night. | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
The police were trying to maintain law and order. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
It was carnage and there were no trains. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
I tried to leave the station but they had locked it | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Thousands of people were thdre and I got a taxi, costing ?220, | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Some commuters never made it home and others were delayed | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The cause was damaged overhdad power lines near Chelmsford | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Both lines had to be closed for several hours | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Passengers say there was no information. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
One thing that we are totally committed to, | :01:34. | :01:46. | |
with our colleagues at Network Rail, is to have a thorough review | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
of last night's problems, including the communication problems. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
But if you tell them the problem then | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
We should be passing inform`tion onto the customers as quickly | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
as it comes to us so that they know exactly what the situation hs. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Cancellations and delays dud to a signalling problem. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
There are screens up inside the station apologishng to | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
commuters but many tell me they are fed up with hearing the word sorry. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
They either want an improved service or a reduced | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
They are just hoping the delays do not continue tomorrow. | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
Earlier, I asked Richard Schofield from Network Rail why | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
He apologised to passengers but insisted the number of overhead line | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
We have renewed almost all of the overhead line from | :02:43. | :02:54. | |
It is getting better but I `gree it does not feel like that somdtimes. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
What about the communication problems? | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
They did not tell passengers what was going on. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
That has made people more cross than anything. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
One of the problems we had last night was that because of the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
complexity of the failure and the difficulty in removing the train, we | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
did not know how long it was going to take and therefore were not able | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
To some extent, we failed to pass therefore any information at all on. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
Let's be honest, it was shalbolic last night and also quite scary | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
One person said that it was a very dangerous overcrowding situ`tion. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
Another asked why the crowds were not better lanaged. | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
We worked very hard with the emergency services to m`ke sure | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
that the station was kept s`fe at all times. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
At the point where it becomds very crowded we do close off | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
We encourage people to find alternative means of transport | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
and make sure the station is safe but it is very crowded. | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
Can you understand why commtters on this line have had enough? | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
From our Twitter exchange on its own you can see that. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
I am a commuter myself and it is very frustrating | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
when your journey to or frol work is disrupted. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Even more so when it is by several hours. | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
We run a good service and it works 91% of the timd. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
But also on the bits that it does not work it is unacceptable | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
On the days that it runs well then we have to minimise the disruption | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Police have been granted more time to question a 52`year`old m`n | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
about the murder of a student in Colchester. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
The woman, in her 30s, was a Saudi Arabian national. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
It's just three months sincd James Attfield was found de`d less | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
than two miles away, with more than 100 knife wotnds | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Forensic examinations are still being carried out this evenhng, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
The woman's body was found yesterday morning | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
on a path which skirts one of Colchester's estates. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
She was attacked by someone with a knife and had suffered severe | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
She sustained a number of stab wounds | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
and also head and facial injuries. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
And there will be a postmortem this afternoon so we | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
will get a more detailed account of the nature of her injurids. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Police think the dead woman had been making her way from her homd, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
The trail where she was found is popular with students from | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
I was worried about my child because we always go there. | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
There are lots of little chhldren around and a playpark as well. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
about what you can and cannot do now. | :05:58. | :06:13. | |
The murder scene is about two miles from Colchester's Lower Castle Park, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
where the body of 33`year`old James Attfield was found in March. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Yesterday's victim was wearhng traditional Muslim dress, | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
including a long blue robe and a headscarf known as a hijab. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Officers say they cannot rule out it being a racially`motivated killing. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
A man who was jailed for thd murder of his former girlfriend | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
has lost an appeal to have key forensic items retdsted. | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
Kevin Nunn, who lived at Woolpit in Suffolk, has always denidd | :06:43. | :06:43. | |
But the Supreme Court has rejected his case. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
We leave you with the weathdr forecast. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
It is a fairly settled outlook for our weather over the next fdw days. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
There will be clear spells around and mist patches but | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
for most places, temperaturds should stay in double figurds. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
We start tomorrow with a northerly wind, meaning cloud | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
The chance of some drizzle but it will brighten up | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
and we may start to see sunshine and therefore temperatures will climb. | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
For the afternoon, a better prospect of seeing some | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Settled with lots of dry and bright weather | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
remain dry. Top temperatures of 25 Celsius. The outlook for the weekend | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
is looking pretty good. If you have outdoor plans, plenty of | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
fine weather, warm nest the south. Is today, warm nest the north. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Normally Perth Australia is renowned for its heat, but today Perth in | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Scotland, 27 degrees. Tomorrow not as warm, but still pleasant enough. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
High teens, low 20s. That cooler fresher air behind a cold front | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Fresh breeze from the north-west. That the will push the front | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
southwards. A band of cloud and the odd spot of rain into parts of | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
north-east England later. Otherwise most places dry. Not desperately | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
cold. Temperatures holding in double figures. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Tomorrow the front will move south. The odd shower in parts of the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Midlands, eastern England and the south-east later. Plenty of fine | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
weather with increasing amounts of sunshine. The best of that around | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
coastal areas. The fresher breeze means its won't be as warm in | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
northern and central areas, but it will feel pleasant. Some of the | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
highest temperatures will be further south. | :08:45. | :08:46. |