has run out of options in his hometown and has decided to set up 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 one was eight weeks really. didn't see him for about eight weeks and then home come 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 living on a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come b

we're in an inhospitable land 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 florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is most in this within its history and past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers to call of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and a real without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never cost me. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by for. the first came up here in the spring of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was going to stand a whole tail it was like one hundred dollars and i was an ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week seven hundred dollars

there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs you know one 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 little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe if you don't shop with. so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and go back home they don't think we're like and i think that's one of the reasons for 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 to death we do to help the south. we are current of it and will always contribute and . be a good day today. a lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't have a donut sh

service on the tubes this morning, but london 0verground is suspended between clapham junction and willesdenday morning. we do have a little bit of mist out there, but once it lifts we should see some bright and sunny spells. we've got a variable amount of cloud, further west there will be a little more, but everywhere should see some sunshine. temperatures today getting up to around 16 or 17 celsius. most places dry, there is a small chance this afternoon of maybe a light shower, but most places managing to avoid it. 0vernight tonight, bonfire night, if you are out celebrating, great viewing for fireworks. a little more cloud west but clear elsewhere, a mild night too, tmeperatures10—11 celsius. the breeze starts to strengthen, a southerly south—east breeze and that continues into tuesday. for tomorrow morning, a bright start again, variable amount of cloud, a small chance of an isolated shower through the course of the afternoon but temperatures mild, looking at a maximum of 16 celsius. a touch cooler for wednesday and thursday with the risk of one or two showers. i'm back with the latest