our local police station closed down in finchley and nobody seemed to care. i have never been.ve never been. i just got nobody seemed to care. i have never been. ijust got letters through the post. it is to do with this it directly that some people get from knowing there is a police station. and they can pop in. do you think people think that anymore?” and they can pop in. do you think people think that anymore? i saw heavily armed police today and it did make me feel good. in the 1960s and 70s and 80s, that technology has moved on and if you want to contact the police, you bring them up, don't you? or the police, you bring them up, don't you ? or have the police, you bring them up, don't you? or have i missed something?” think 999 has been with us for a long time but there is this idea that people want to see bobbies on the beat. they do. people do like the beat. they do. people do like the idea of police stations. if you find a passport and the police station —— a passport on the pavement, you want to take it to a physical place and hand it into someone. physical place and ha

a london bound line is currently blocked. currently blocked. accident in east finchley, partly blockingtly dry day. but it will be rather windy. through the afternoon. for many of us it is a dry and bright start. particularly. they will tend to dry out in the afternoon. top temperatures of 21 or 22 celsius. those temperatures pared back slightly by the gusty wind. through this evening and overnight it should stay dry. the wind will ease down a touch for tomorrow morning. tomorrow is looking dry or mostly dry. we may see one or two light showers, and the winds will be lighter. higher temperatures, up to 23. maybe one or two showers around again on saturday afternoon. quite cool for this time of year. sunday is looking dry. that's it for now. take a look at our website. now though, it's back to steph and naga. bye for now. hello. this is breakfast with steph mcgovern and naga munchetty. despite being medically fit to leave. are facing delays of more than six months. i have been ready for a long time. good morning. it's thursday, 3 august. following the grenfell fire. we'll speak to the ma

those delays there are back to the east end road in east finchley.rhaps a touch more cloud. a little bit of cloud bubbling up into the afternoon. you can just see our next weather front pushing up. a little bit of cloud. that cloud, some outbreaks of rain, pushes in from the north—west. the cloud around, temperatures not falling too far. overnight not falling too far. lows of around 16 degrees. we start the day tomorrow with some cloud first thing. that will thin and break to allow some good spells of sunshine, just the odd isolated shower, particularly in the morning. highs of 21 degrees. as move into sunday, sunday looks like a largely dry day. there will be plenty of brightness around. temperatures reaching a maximum of 19. fairly settled through monday. not long before things turn a little wet and windy as we move into tuesday. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. let's bring you up to date. in the past half hour we've heard that an emergency meeting