trafalgar square has long been a place where voices come together. lions which have sat in the square since 1867 have heard them all. what if they could speak? as part of the london design festival, a fifth lion will appear in the square, powered by machine learning. the result is an interactive sculpture called please feed the lions, a collaboration between designer es devlin and the google arts and culture lab. members of the public will be able to feed the lions with words, which in turn will generate poetry created by an artificial neural network. it uses an algorithm known as long short—term memory recovery neural network. snappy. it has learnt how to write by reading millions of words of 19th—century poetry relevant to the time the lions were first installed in the square. machine learning becomes a way not to replace human poetry writing, but a way to allow people who wouldn't normally be able to write a poem, or wouldn't normally think of writing a poem, to enable them to gather their words together and form a collective stream of thought, to

good morning from trafalgar square in london.eautiful day with a beautiful sunrise, but the chilly start, foremost, showers with a chilly start in the north—west. more in15 chilly start in the north—west. more in 15 minutes. it's monday the 24th of september. our top story: after five and a half hours of discussions behind closed doors, labour officials have hammered out a brexit motion to be discussed at the party conference in liverpool. it states that, if there isn't a general election, labour should support all options including, campaigning for another referendum. our political correspondent alex forsyth is at the labour conference. morning to you. there is so much sensitivity about this statement, does it satisfy everyone? well, it seems to at this to a. the central question was this: should labour officially back that campaign on a vote on the brexit deal? had been growing pressure on the leadership from some parts of the party, who really do want another vote. there is another school of thought that was concerned it might

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desmond byrne was assaulted in trafalgar square lastjune.tockwell will appear at westminster magistrates court later today. london is bucking the trend when it comes to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning, data from a freedom of information request from the campaign group shout, which raises awareness of carbon dioxide, an oxide poisoning, says cases have risen by a quarter in the uk. but in london last year there were 79 cases, a decrease of 31%. misogyny could be treated as a hate crime under new laws banning of skirting that are due to be voted on by mps. the labour mp for walthamstow, stella creasy, is seeking an amendment which will make taking unsolicited pictures under someone's clothing a crime. a londoner launched an online petition to change the law after she was a victim at a festival last year. nubians are being installed in the capital which could put an end to littered streets by e—mailing collectors as they become full. these solar powered so—called smart bins are roughly the same size as normal bins but can hold up to ten time

trafalgar square has long been a place where voices have come together. a collaboration between designer es devlin and google arts and culture lab. members of the public will be able to feed the lions with words which, in turn, will generate poetry created by an artificial neural network. it uses an algorithm known as long short—term memory recurrent neural network. snappy! it has learnt how to write by reading millions of words of 19th—century poetry relevant to the time the lions were first installed in the square. machine learning becomes a way not to replace human poetry writing, but a way to allow people who wouldn‘t normally be able to write a poem, or wouldn‘t normally think of writing a poem, but to enable them to gather their words together and form a collective stream of thought, to add order to what could otherwise be a chaos of people‘s jammed—together thoughts. and you don‘t have to go to the square to take part in this. you can go onto the website and contribute online as well. so, it‘s notjust for londoners — that‘s very important to me. th

the pride of lions in trafalgar square have grown in number.words that are fed to it by members of the public and will stay in place until sunday as pa rt will stay in place until sunday as part of the london design festival. let's have a check on travel situation: let's get a check on the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. it's another mild start out there this morning but a very breezy one. got quite a cloud around. at first, it is drive the gusty wind, gusts of 35, maybe 40 mph is a pretty strong. this cloud is not going to last all day, will gradually move away system lovely sunny spells feeling warm and the sunshine but we still have the breeze don't forget, with more cloud moving in from the west, temperatures around 24 celsius. a lovely evening with some sunshine, a nice warm evening and overnight, clear spells at first, coming in from the west. staying dry, all in all, minimum temperature between 14 and 16 celsius, sole mild one, similarto and 16 celsius, sole mild one, similar to last night. it remains very gusty as we had throu

this is nelson's column in trafalgar square, and for over 150 years its base has been guarded by four

trafalgar square: aa cockspur street is partially blocked in both directions between trafalgar squarehine as we had yesterday, quite a bit more in the way of cloud, it's breezier, but we should stay mostly dry, small chance of one or two showers. this is how we are starting off this morning. there will be some good spells of brightness and sunshine around but quite a bit of cloud at times too. still some sunny spells into the afternoon but in northern home counties, in particular, the small chance of one or two isolated showers but mostly dry, and a noticeable south—westerly breeze this time too. top temperatures of 18, possibly 19 degrees celsius in central london. this evening and overnight, the threat of the showers will die away, really. lots of clear spells around, temperatures could dip back into single figures away from the towns, otherwise holding at around 10—11 degrees. on saturday, again, it's mostly dry, the small chance of a shower, temperatures will tend to go up as we head through the weekend, dragging in some warm and humid airfrom the near continent, maybe 27 degrees

actually i'd like a really massive bronze statue of nanny mcphee maybe in front of parliament or in trafalgar squaresomething really understated, maybe on the fourth -- i love her and she represents sort of wisdom to me. >> she could keep parliament in line. >> there you go. >> that would be -- that would be a start. don't start me. >> you bring up love. "love actually." how much do we love -- you and a joni mitchell song and the way you cry. how did you channel that? what were you thinking to get that emotion? >> i don't really know, actually. i can't remember. it was so long ago. but i clearly did channel something very universal because everybody has had their heart broken at some point or another. i'm looking around at everybody and they're going, yeah. yeah. everybody has had it happen after the film opened in london i used to get on the tube and just been traveling around and a go, you know. you know. i'd go, yes, yes i do and then i'd get off that tube and get on another one and it would happen again. it was really weird. >> just resonated with people. the whole film did. it's become a classi