Updates on Friday 5 April
This morning there will be some bright spells at first but also a few showers.
This afternoon will be cloudier with spells of showery rain spreading from the west.
Moderate south-easterly winds.
Maximum temperature: 7C to 10C (45F to 50F).
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Freezing weather overnight has left icy conditions on one of Southeastern's rail lines, which is making it difficult for trains to draw power. Services across the network may be delayed, cancelled or revised throughout the morning.
You can use your ticket on all Southeastern high speed routes as well as on the Underground between London stations served by the Southeastern.
A broken down train between Redhill and Tonbridge is causing delays of up to 40 minutes on Southern trains. The disruption is expected to clear within the next hour.
On the Tube, signal failure at Tower Hill has caused severe delays on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines. Tickets are being accepted on local buses.
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Tonight, clear spells and increasingly well-scattered showers. Some lengthier clear periods possible later in the night but there will still be a chance of an isolated shower.
Minimum temperature: 0 to 3°C (32 to 37°F).
Image source, ReutersThe Elizabeth Line had been due to open in December
Sadiq Khan must be held accountable for the delayed Crossrail project just as much as the government, a transport committee has said.
Chair of the London Assembly transport committee, Caroline Pidgeon, said in response to the report: “Many of the questions the Public Accounts Committee directs to the Department for Transport should also be directed to Transport for London, including its chair - the Mayor of London."
“There are two equal sponsors of this massive infrastructure project and both need to be fully held to account for the incredible delay and soaring costs," she added.
“All parties have questions to answer and we’ll be raising them when we publish our report later this month."
Image source, Ordnance SurveyTottenham Hotspur are hours from their first Premier League match in their new £1bn stadium.
It's got a capacity of 62,062, state-of-the-art acoustics to boost atmosphere, and even its own microbrewery.
The old White Hart Lane stadium was demolished to make way for the huge new ground, so a surveyor from the UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, has been visiting the site regularly over the last year to record its precise location.
Read more about the new stadium - and the locals who live in its shadow - here.
Image source, Ordnance Survey
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A leaked document showing plans to make it much harder for residents in Kingston to influence decision-making at public meetings has been called an “attack on democracy”.
The Liberal Democrat administration won power in 2018 following a campaign for a “democratic, transparent and listening council”.
But now a document leaked from inside the authority details plans to limit time for public speaking, make it 10 times as difficult to bring a decision to the scrutiny panel, and other measures critics say will silence residents.
New Malden resident and campaigner James Giles said: “I am appalled and aghast at these proposals, which are an attack on our local democracy.
“The Liberal Democrats were elected on a manifesto promising to reintroduce the scrutiny panel, and promised to be a ‘listening and transparent’ council.
“Yet now they are making it virtually impossible to bring anything to scrutiny.”
Currently, it takes a petition with just 100 signatures to call a decision in, but the document suggests this will rise to 1,000 – and petitions must either be in hard copy or through the council’s own website, which requires signatories to register an account.
The plans would also mean residents can no longer speak at full council meetings – the only time all 48 councillors are together in the same room.
The proposals came about after a Local Government Association (LGA) report suggested a small group of campaigners is greatly overrepresented at meetings.
A Kingston Council spokesman pointed to the LGA review.
He said: “Their report highlights that our constitutional processes are outdated and confusing, and present a risk that a vocal minority of local residents who may or may not represent the views of the wider community could have a disproportionate influence on decision making.
“Our proposals are designed to directly address these concerns and improve decision making and the way in which we engage with people so that we are fully informed of the issues of concern to our local communities.
“No final decisions have yet been taken.” The plans will be discussed with councillors and then at upcoming committees, and are expected to be in place from September.
Police arrest three men after the death of Zahir Visiter, who was attacked in central London.
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