here in an inhospitable they're full of contrasts before the boom willesden was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including border emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is motionless within its history of the past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence company settling down a large numbers of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift. without growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated. never cussed me. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by four. first came up here in the spring of two thousand ford saying i worked at a neighbor's they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it was going to cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was just going to stand a whole tale it was like one hundred dollars and i was in it ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week that's seven hundred do

has run out of options in his hometown and has decided to settle for willesden he knows he will not see his wife and two kids for several weeks. long hours behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting used to it but i still like a brother be home. craig says the way he's usually gone anywhere from about four weeks to this last time was eight weeks really. didn't see him for about eight weeks and then hokum home for about a week or so i think it's been hard for the kids because. they were told me that they feel like it's a broken home you know it's almost like we're divorced because we see so little of each other so it's just been really hard for them this is very similar to moving out a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come bac

there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs in the water of opportunity for business willesden seemed to have the best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there must have been at least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we looked a little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe you don't shop for so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and then go back home they don't think we're like that and i think that's one of the reasons with that since it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community they supported us they definitely did to help the south. we are current of it and we always contributed. to. be a good kid a. lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't hav

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suspension between earls court and kensington 0lympia, and the overground is part suspended between willesdendue to a broken—down engineering train. and there are delays and cancellations on great northern trains via peterborough. 0nto the roads, and northbound traffic on the blackwall tunnel southern approach is building from blackwall lane. in hackney, morning lane is closed between ponsford street and belsham street for police investigations. let's have a check on the weather now, with georgina burnett. good morning. if you've had your fill of rain over the past week or so, the good news is there is a great deal of dry weather in the forecast for the next couple of days but you will probably bit of a chill in the airthis but you will probably bit of a chill in the air this morning. that is enough sunshine to warm things up through the day. yes, it's a bit of a nippy start. some clout around first thing. it leaves us with largely blue skies, that there were leather clad bubbling up at the time is of course but in the sunshine as temperatures could reach 13 celsius. with much lighter winds t