Stem the flow of people coming into southwark park around five miles away from westminster. this is the start of the queue, or the end of the queue, in a sense, this is where people arejoining it the queue, in a sense, this is where people are joining it from. after they have come here and collected their wristbands which will have a certain number on they then cross the road and head down the thames path towards bermondsey and snake their way up again past the houses and warehouses there towards tower bridge, edging closer to westminster. i ve been down here since around five o clock this morning and it has got steadily busier. there was that warning overnight, advice urging people not to travel to london because the queue time was so long. the advice has been adapted in the last few hours and now the government is saying that if this park reaches capacity like it did yesterday then the queue will be paused. but at the minute anyone entering the queue now faces around a 16 hour wait u
London from all over the country. but it is a changing situation with the queue. lauren, i don t know if you are still able to hear me but do we know what happens if people get to southwark park and at that point the entrance to the queue is closed? where do they go then? we had talked yesterday of a queue for the queue. again something which sounds very british as well! there was a queue for the queue, and another queue at the back waiting to get into that queue. that is not the official advice. what is the situation is here is a balancing act, they are very much aware of people travelling quite a long wait to come here and try to pay their respects and they don t want people to be stuck in the queue and not be able to get into westminster hall before 6:30am on monday morning, when the queen will be lying in state until then before the funeral takes place around 10:30am,11am on monday. while
Our art per that queue. about 2000 people and ourart per hourare that queue. about 2000 people and our art per hour arejoining the queue, that is the latest information. the current waiting time to view and take part in the lying in state is we are told 16 hours. if you are wanting to queue, if you are able to get to the capital to do that, the weather is very important to your decision, perhaps, as to whether to take part. the weather is important wherever you are in the country, let s get the round up. hello. it has been a chilly start to the day. cold enough even for a few patches of frost, but otherwise lots of morning sunshine. that s how we started the day in newcastle. however, in twickenham, one of our early morning weather watchers photographed this steam fog. that is where the warm, moist air from the lake mixes with surrounding cooler air to create this layer of fog just on the water s surface. now, for most of you, it will be dry
Around a 16 hour wait. i m in southwark park, and you can t get the scale of how big it is but it is divided into four zones and when all of those zones are full to capacity we are told the queueing might be paused, so everyone is very much watching to see whether that will happen. when i got my wristband this morning, when ijoined the line, when i came in, i ve now been speaking to other people and looked at their wristbands, there are around 20,000 30,000 people, looking at rudimentary maths, who have passed through since i got here earlier today. have passed through since i got here earliertoday. i ve have passed through since i got here earlier today. i ve been chatting to some of those in the queue, the of families and people travelling from far and wide, from yorkshire, coventry, i spoke to a man who had come from belgium. lots of families. and although people were feeling sombre and wanting to pay their respects to the queen in westminster hall lying in state, there is also a