he beat the evening's other two finalists, the actor danny mac and the singer louise redknapp, thanksown the lane...# an american smooth... # with a happy refrain...# ..a show dance... # this is what i say...# ..and ajive. the latter two routines were given perfect scores by the judges. 0re might be this year's winner, but for many, a close runner—up was ed balls. the former shadow chancellor's lack of dance skills may have resulted in consistently low scores from the show‘sjudges, but he was kept in the contest a week after week by routines, which included a gangnam style dance, until he finally left the competition last month. # gangnam style...# the evening's final was also len goodman's last appearance in the series, and he was given a standing ovation in the studio. len goodman has led the judging panel since the programme began 12 years ago. good afternoon. nothing very much sparkling about the weather. we are talking about fog last thing tonight and first thing tomorrow. particularly in central and southern england and wales. it could be a touch of ground frost. things graduall

really daunting being danny mac for once. i always had behind a character.est lesson for me, what i could achieve. people often talk about the chemistry between the contestants and the professionals. what is it about that environment that does, i know you are thrown into something together where you are reliant on each other, but tell us what it is like being caught up in that? you spend every minute of the day with each other. brea kfast, minute of the day with each other. breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a focus on it all together. that is the most helpful thing. but you get on as friends, you know? you help yourselves out through tough times. it is a strange thing to do, ta ke times. it is a strange thing to do, take a step out of your comfort zone. you rely on that person. you need their help. they are your safety net. had he taken her away from me in that process i think i would have crumbled. you mean so much to each other. they look after you so much. they see you —— they see you develop and grow. you are a product of their ability. it is an achi

home the glitterball trophy in last night's strictly come dancing final, beating fellow competitors danny mactly professional dancer karen hardy, who won the series back in 2006, about the talent in this year's final. look at the final that we had stopped for me, it was the best combination. you had front runners there, but you also had the slow burners, which is what makes a true strictly final. we often talk about the journey. we saw the journey with 0re. an absolute novice dancer but he kept up. it was equally hard for the likes of danny and louise, because technically, they were more in front at the beginning, so it was harder to show a growth to the public. but they made it to that final. how much of an allowance to thejudges make final. how much of an allowance to the judges make the fact that someone like 0re, who dance before, whereas others have maybe appeared onstage dancing? when you perform, they are best—mac there are four parts of the cake. it is notjust technical, you performance, choreography, good music. the final asa choreography, good music. the final as a whole different g

still to come this morning: in a strictly double, hollyoaks star danny mac will also be here to tellh the summer again a little bit. let's get news and travel now from wherever you are watching this morning. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessop. thousands of the capital's commuters are again facing difficultjourneys to work today with a fresh strike by conductors on southern rail services. members of the rmt union are walking out today and tomorrow. there's a reduced timetable in place but some routes have no trains at all. so we've got no southern trains between clapham junction and milton keynes central. there's a revised service on all other routes, including into victoria and london bridge. it's also affecting the gatwick express — which has a reduced service this morning too. on the tube, we've got severe delays westbound on the piccadilly line. now we've been told that's due to engineering work finishing late. this is how it looks at the blackwall tunnel — four slow southbound. and in brixton — the a204 effra road is closed southbound from brixton road to st matt