week while investigations continue into cracks in the chassis of hitachi 800 trains. 0ne company — gwradvising against travel on its long—distance routes. katy austin has the story tannoy: this train will not be calling at llanelli. .. _ 183 of these high—speed trains were held back for safety checks after small cracks were found in some. great western railway has been hardest hit. 0nly10% of its long—distance service has been running today. i was meant to travel yesterday and that got cancelled twice, so i ended up going today. i got to paddington, not really picking up on the news last night. and then i found out that most of the trains had been cancelled. but it's added about an hour. passengers are being told not to travel on monday, either. we've got 93 of these trains in our fleet and we need around of service that we would normally do during the week. yesterday, we had 12 of those running, so that gives you an idea. certainly, this is going to impact the early part of next week. and we need to understand more before we know what that will mean for the remainder of it at the mome

the advice has been clear that lner along with gwr out of paddington all the way to swansea, bristolnd penzance are saying if you don't have to travel, please don't. we heard earlierfrom robert nisbet from the rail delivery group speaking on behalf of all of the train operators, in this case that 183 trains were taken out of service yesterday. these are the hitachi 800 trains with the cracks in the metal underneath. they say safety is the top priority, they are working as quickly as they can to get the hitachi 800 trains back and operational, many of those returning to service today. but the rail delivery group say timetables may have a knock—on effect as we move forward. the advice from the government, which the rail companies appear to be listening to, is to make sure there's plenty of staff to help those who absolutely need to travel. in many ways it's fortunate it is a weekend, many people are used to remote working with covid—19, but they say if you do not need to travel, please try not to. sean dilley reporting there. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello

one company — gwr — is advising against travel on its long—distance routes.stin has the story tannoy: this train will not be calling at llanelli. .. _ 183 of these high—speed trains were held back for safety checks after small cracks were found in some. great western railway has been hardest hit. only 10% of its long—distance service has been running today. i was meant to travel yesterday and that got cancelled twice, so i ended up going today. i got to paddington, not really picking up on the news last night. and then i found out that most of the trains had been cancelled. but it's added about an hour. passengers are being told not to travel on monday, either. we've got 93 of these trains in our fleet and we need around 60 or 70 to run the kind of levels of service that we would normally do during the week. yesterday, we had 12 of those running, so that gives you an idea. certainly, this is going to impact the early part of next week. and we need to understand more before we know what that will mean for the remainder of it at the moment. there will also be s

one company, gwr, is advising against travel on its long—distance routes tomorrow.ry. tannoy: this train will not be calling at llanelli... 183 of these high—speed trains were held back for safety checks after small cracks were found in some. great western railway has been hardest hit. only 10% of its long—distance service has been running today. i was meant to travel yesterday and that got cancelled twice, so i ended up going today. i got to paddington, not really picking up on the news last night. and then i found out that most of the trains had been cancelled. but it's added about an hour. passengers are being told not to travel on monday, either. we've got 93 of these trains in our fleet and we need around 60 or 70 to run the kind of levels of service that we would normally do during the week. yesterday, we had 12 of those running, so that gives you an idea. certainly, this is going to impact the early part of next week. and we need to understand more before we know what that will mean for the remainder of it at the moment. there will also be some cancellations

the advice has been clear that lner along with gwr out of paddington on the way to swansea, bristolandpenzance are saying if you don't have to travel, please don't. we heard earlierfrom robert nisbet from the rail delivery group speaking on behalf of all of the train operators, in this case 183 trains were taken out of service yesterday. these are the hitachi trains with the cracks in the metal underneath. they say safety is the top priority, they are working as quickly as they can to get the hitachi 800 trains back and operational, many of those returning to service today. but the rail delivery group say timetables may have a knock—on effect as we move forward. advice from the government, which the rail companies appear to be listening to, is to make sure there's plenty of staff to help those who absolutely need to travel. in many ways it's fortunate it is a weekend, many people are used to remote working with covid—19, but they say if you do not need to travel, please try not to. sean dilley reporting there. the headlines on bbc news: nicola sturgeon warns the westminster government

on the travel news now and on the trains gwr passengers are being advised not to travel after cracksline, a signal failure — on the jubilee line, a signal failure on _ on the jubilee line, a signal failure on westminster- on the jubilee line, a signal failure on westminster is i on the jubilee line, a signal- failure on westminster is causing some _ failure on westminster is causing some problems. _ failure on westminster is causing some problems, though. - on the roads, putney bridge road is closed by police between the high street and wandsworth park. in enfield, hertford road is closed between edmonton and ponders end because of an unsafe building near tramway avenue. finally, kew bridge road is partly blocked between the chiswick roundabout and kew bridge for water works. now the weather with kate. good morning. it is a mild start this morning. yesterday, temperatures across london gotjust shy of 21 celsius. low pressure is still in charge of our weather today. we should still see some sunshine. you can see the isobars still fairly close together, so it is still going to be quite

on the trains, severe disruption continues on gwr high speed trains.r between as we head through the afternoon. now, it's still fairly breezy, the wind perhaps not quite as strong as yesterday. temperatures getting up to 16 celsius. overnight tonight, it's dry and it's largely clear, a bit of patchy cloud. the risk of a spot of rain, but like i say, it's largely dry. the minimum temperature again staying above zero at around six or seven celsius. the conditions remain pretty similar as we head further through this week, low pressure, as i said, still in charge tomorrow. those showers could be a little bit heavier and for thursday, some more prolonged spells of rain. so it's going to stay unsettled through much of this week, breezy but the wind gradually starting to fall a little lighter, and temperatures remain similar. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. the "biggest single step" in relaxing coronavirus restrictions in england, will go ahead as planned next

safety checks and repairs continue on a number of high speed trains, with no gwr high speed servicese roads: traffic on the a13 is building westbound from dagenham into barking. now the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it's a rather showery picture out there as we head through the next few days and that's because low pressure is dominating, so do expect plenty of wet weather in the forecast. already showers out there this morning and it is a frost free start of the morning and plenty of cloud too. we see showers on and off throughout the course of the day and the cloud will tend to break up at times so there will be some brighter spells and a bit of a messy picture so difficult to pinpoint exactly when. some of the showers threaten to be heavy at times and the top temperatures peaked between 13 and 15 celsius and the showers are likely to be rather slow—moving because the winds are light. as we head through the evening and overnight, a lot of those showers will tend to fade away but still some wet weather around, plenty of cloud, but it should be a drier picture b

and gwr long distance services to and from paddington are disrupted due to a level crossing problem tomorning than we saw this time yesterday. another day of sunny spells and some showers on the cards. now, lots of dry weather around this morning. there is some cloud, but it will thin and break and we'll see some spells of brightness and sunshine come through. it won't be too long before those showers also start to develop through the late morning — especially into the afternoon — and some of those showers could be heavy, they could be thundery, some hail and some lightning possibly involved, too. but there will be some brighter spells in between and in the best of that brightness, temperatures will get as high as 15 or 16 degrees celsius — still on the low side of average for this time of year. at least the winds are fairly light. now, as we head through this evening and overnight, again, the showers likely to fade away and we'll see a mostly dry night to follow, temperatures down to around six to eight degrees celsius generally. on wednesday, still some showers developing — perhaps f

gwr found these cracks during a routine investigation into maintenance.hile walking her dog in kent 12 days ago. our reporter simon jones is in aylsham. simon, the police are still appealing for information, aren't they? yes, this is day 13 of the murder investigation. we know that a man in his 20s from canterbury area was arrested on friday evening at around 930. as far as we are aware he is still being questioned by police this morning though we have yet to have an update from officers. we do know that a property about a mile from here has been searched by police. yesterday we saw forensic teams coming and going for that they removed some items from the house and police have not said who this property belongs to. but they have confirmed it is connected to this murder investigation. and also this morning, i saw a footpath close to where i am now which has been cordoned off. there are police officers standing guard so this is very much an ongoing investigation. julia james was killed on tuesday last week. she had been working from home that day and took h