312000 we're also talking about divorce rates this morning I'm trying to find out how your divorce is going if it's going along nicely or if you're thinking about divorcing at the moment or maybe you've gone through a painful divorce or maybe it's quite a simple divorce is ever simple 080-731-2000 I'm talking about it because plunging divorce rates mean British couples are on the way to enjoying the most stable marriages in Europe was such as a found that nearly a 3rd of u.k. Couples who married in 1992 had divorced within 15 years the headline in the mail this morning Britain has the fastest falling divorce rates in Europe over 807312000 talk to me about divorce How's your one going are you thinking about it tell us 87312000 why do you think couples in Britain the same together more than other couples in the rest of Europe how long have you been in your relationship or marriage and how have you stayed together for so long it's the age old question isn't it that people who want a decent relationship ask if certainly to me when I say I've been with some for 17 years ago how on earth have you managed to stay together as long and I never really could a 10731 see thousands the phone number and with the story about the 1500000 pounds that's been spent to make Tower Bridge replica more Chinese in a Chinese city of I have someone in the studio actually he probably would be able to pronounce it much better than me says who Ross do you know that city in China because your conference trying to make that qualifies me to be able to either name of that city since who am I saying that correctly Zissou were in the article I mean it sounds good I'll let me thinking he could say yeah that's I think I may have 56 replica bridges from all over the world in that city sounds a bit like a theme park to me like Vegas Yeah it's like and they have the canals they call it the Venice of the East is a. In China they have a double the size replica of Tower Bridge but they want to make it look a bit more Chinese apparently so they're changing and they're spending 1500000 pounds of it irrelevant because what I want to know from you is what iconic buildings from around the world would you like to see a replica of here in London and we've had some great suggestions already this morning let's check out the familia in Barcelona they want we want to stick in the oval we decided not to Dom in Paris we want to stick that passes the power station instead of the power station. And the Sydney Opera House that was a good suggestion earlier we want to replace the o 2 with the Sydney Opera House any more suggestions 080-731-2000 the phone number text 81 triple 3 start the message with London you can email as well Ross a b.b.c. Documentary iconic buildings from around the world you right there Ross would you like a replica of in London would you like an empire state building product in the city maybe a Great Wall of China or a smaller version of it along the River Thames 080-731-2000 the phone number will or will get your suggestions on as soon as possible but Ross is here for a reason he's not just popped in he is here to work and going to talk about work in coffee yes we were talking about moving to Gatwick and the reason I was talking about moving to get weight because it's the most affordable town apparently commute to town is because of this because millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2.7 percent more for rail tickets from today the rise was announced in November it is lower than the 3 point one percent increase at the start of last year many commuters face an increase of more than a 100 pounds for on your passes with the latest survey by the watchdog transport focus suggests fewer than half of passengers feel they're getting value for money said Ross Wright is here with more details Ross overseeing Yes So yet again for rail fares going up 2.7 percent this year it is less. Than the level of lymph inflation which is the r.p.i. Level inflation which was 2.8 percent last year it is 2.7 percent not point one percent lower than inflation and the rise according to the delivery group who announced in November is lower than the 3 point one percent increase at the start of last year I should say before we get into the ins and outs of what people are saying about this row increases the this level of inflation the measure of inflation is actually quite a contentious one because it is general. Higher than the Consumer Prices Index which is generally considered to be the the kind of biggest measure of inflation and passenger groups have repeatedly called for that system be to be changed since the r.p.i. Inflation was abandoned by the National Audit Office as a national statistic in 2013 so that statistic in itself is a contentious one but let's move on to what it actually means for commuters in terms of kind of how much it will cost you per year more it's about $100.00 pounds more sometimes more than that so reading to London will cost you $130.00 pounds $132.00 pounds more than it did it's 4736 pounds for sounds huge Doesn't it it's massive isn't it maybe for us because we don't live that yeah I suppose if you live in Redding you factor in how much you're going to pay off and ran the house prices this is what we've been discussing that go with that sort of thing but nevertheless it's going up even more and when these fares do go up people start to ask are we getting value for money from our railways we've had strikes in the last few years timetable changes. And and delays of course in the last few years and I think we've just come off a long strike from southwestern railway a month long strike they just finished that one and of course many people say it doesn't represent value for money independent marshal transport focus says most row uses that 53 percent just over half don't feel train ticket prices offer value for money there Director David Sidebottom said after a year of pretty Force service performance in some areas passengers just want a consistent day today service that they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat and he encourages passengers to claim compensation for eligible delays in order to offset the cost of rail fares but let's be honest who really does that mean I've done it once or twice but it's a bit of a fast anyway protests will be held of course today as they always are oh yeah outside King's Cross giant. Normally Exactly yeah big banners as well and the rallies come as the trade unions Congress the t.c. Released research suggesting that fares have risen by twice as much as wages in the last 10 years and they say that they're using an example of someone earning an average salary in the u.k. Would have to spend 16 percent of their wages for a season ticket from Chelmsford to London that's $511.00 pounds a month but similar commutes cost 2 percent of the average salary in France and 4 percent of the average salary in Germany and Belgium so we are we do pay more than than our European neighbors. And of course this isn't a political always the political parties kind of weigh in when roll fares go up Labor's track shadow transport secretary and it Donald says the rise shows passengers once again paying more for less under the Tories and we've heard from the mayor of the Greater Manchester we've not heard from our own may yet who of course has frozen c.f.l. Fares over the last few years so you can probably guess what he would have to say about it but we have heard from the mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and he says the fares are justified I would say the government should suspend that increase the cost of the public to carry on paying more and more for a failing rail service but there is a growing political agreement that we need more devolved control over the rail system in our big cities so that we can integrate it with other modes of transport and we can have the public interest controlling what happens and of course he was any out the other day saying the mantra is to really needs what we have in London and integrate to transport system and because it was an investment in the north in terms of railways has been talked about over the last few weeks hasn't it and I think by and large we can safely say they have a bit worse than we do down in the south but nonetheless they're affected by these rail fare increases as well of course the government have responded and they say that the these fare increases are justified and they cite an. New fund for trials for flexible fares as an example of how the government is committed to putting passengers 1st so they're trying these new fares they say to reflect modern working and travelling patterns and that's part of a 2020 year of action towards improving the railways that's what the government says how it would work is basically commuters on something like go via Thameslink row way would be able to buy tickets providing better value for part time and flexible workers and on some line of routes which is the new East Coast Main Line they've taken it from from Virgin you could get much cheaper off peak single leg tickets because currently most long distance singles cost virtually the same price as a return fare Robert Nisbet who's the director of nations and regions for the rail delivery group said rail companies were investing in improving journeys while holding fare increases below inflation no $1.00 wants to pay more for their ticket we understand that but what you've got to do is look at what that ticket price does and in effect when you buy your rail ticket that pretty much covers the day to day running of the railway which frees up millions more to spend on investment so he said there in 2020 will see a 1000 extra weekly services and a 1000 more carriages added to Britain's rail fleet so that those are the kind of things we need to weigh up when deciding we for getting value for money what I will leave you with is that there is a full review into how the rail system operates which was commissioned by Chris Grayling when he was the transport secretary. In the wake of the kind of timetable chaos in 2018 it's what I call the name failing Grayling Well I don't know if you had that before but that contributed to any one of the ways that I don't know whether you up so you know that those findings are going to be published shortly and the former British Airways boss Keith Williams is chairing that and he says fares will be one of the key areas for reform so let's. Marvelous Ross thank you very much you've got a little break now and we'll be back also be back a little bit later on I'm sure on the right for so here at b.b.c. Radio number pitchy Hoskin He'll be with us from Seth and now back to our subjects . Coincides with what Ross has been talking about the moving to get we considering moving just out of London because what they say is if you move to get like it's the most affordable place for a London commuters live you don't be spending $830.00 pounds a month on your house and also your travel costs to come into London every single day that's not bad $830.00 quid depending on what kind of job that you've got much better than anywhere else in fact it's just more affordable so it obviously isn't too bad 080-731-2000 how far out of London would you go how about living around Gatwick if you don't know what it's like. Can you imagine what it's like that 17312000 is the phone number let's go to Steve who is inherit this morning good morning Steve good morning Jason. Yes I'm finished now that's it she's I have a word she might still be listening she might be I doubt it she may sleep on the. Stage if. The 5 over in I mean yeah she might as well or whatever. And you were like Yeah you would you even begin even harder which is quite far actually isn't it Harry's quite. Turn it is pretty Harrow isn't London it's great in London it's Middlesex the county that doesn't exist anymore yes it's no because it doesn't exist in 64 Greater London and yet you're in the London bar of how you'll still within your rights a London therefore you're in London therefore housing prices so my commute from lone full on the Metropolitan not an end to end his own one is around until it says increases in full zones wanted for travel costs for the week is a round $51.00 pound Ok so you're not going to get a fair increase in London services because City Cars frozen ice Faddis every year since he's been that what they see is the rail fence people wanting to good things . Well not a lot of people would say it isn't because the investment into Transport for London has been caught because of that said things like upgrades on the northern line of the bacon haven't been done because of the lack of investment from the fast freeze so it might be good for travelling public can feel in their pocket. But for the services it's not so good because the investment has been paid in because the money's not going to $16.00 of one half a dozen of the thousands that is going to lead somewhere along the line with you like you don't know if you've been old if you pick the problem with Fell long transport a lot is to many many many years of under-investment and by the time those in charge realize that in so much under investment Yeah it costs the heck of a lot more to play catch up yeah I was thinking about the semi talk about the 80000 and the massive change in London is theme change in creating the Greater London Authority and the mare of London which put that huge investment in and they realized a strong faulty especially in a strong body is a long a strong pos and who can a unilateral authority necessarily strong but you know why didn't you make it because the strength is in the is in the one position which is the match he makes you think ahead since then the investment has gone in Hasn't it. And the Burnham a fellow I didn't particularly like is a politician he's good he's got a good shout when he says man just school to do the same is London because when I went to mine just when I went to Manchester about 16 years ago I went I went out for a concert did turn from all $400.00 round trip for concerts. But that's another story I discovered from my system Victoria rail station to where I was going if you got one boss it was like a pound and it was like a 2 pound fat and on a. On another bus it was. Just not integrated is it so private companies doing the right bus services like is around the rest of the country and that's why he wants to have all systems we have in London which is Brit even though we complain about a law. System is fantastic really when you think. The Brit us pretty good to complain in the 1st thing we complain about is the weather yeah she said national we wallow in our own misery I was looking at newspapers this thinking thing and I was sent to Congress some miserable this nice papers the same Mr Rankin there's some some more major. Some Oh measurable than others of course but yeah exactly Steve what like the iconic landmark around the world would you like a replica of in London I know you've got one some of those Stadium in London a horrible I would go with mutual American friend Angel and he used to not say let's get them used in their own the Houston area I'm Ok I get it you're a place one of London's less a football stadium like stadia you've got a cheese. Stop are going to pass when you want is about to be redeveloped Craven Cottage your question paw all the want to Millwall is that the den the den so there's no bad time and we've built an illusionary turn let's say that that will allow you can get rid of the cafe the dead the mill one failed and because the Cafe is one of the best and on that I love it it's a London landmark it's a level above all that well the need 10 was going to raise that to the ground in effect and the fish business next door but I think it's been saying no no no no no no you get no no. The story. Is the Addicks and the same. Rice Yes the addicts will Millwall is a little I mean male actually just outside the ground on the ground there's a cafe and a fish basin. Business and then I was going to get rid of but anyway we can on 3 things let's go from a slight turns you know before we get back to it because I'm told it was the best stadium in London the moment until the next new one is going to be built paid a benefit of the more and have better than 1st thought. I had a low when the document. C.p.o. For one of the businesses you know Nash said oh yeah along so I know yeah yeah and there is for everything and the same thing's going on in Wimbledon at the moment round my neck and don't with the track that that's being turned into f.c. Wooden stadium anyway staved can't thank you very much for the 107312000 David is in South No what good morning to you David good morning happy New Year. You've got a lot Mark as well haven't you that you want a replica of in London what is it David Well it's ironic because I was always running through your pitches. You read the text from John and where the same page Sydney Opera House incident. What's so wrong with the i j we were talking about this the other day because the millennium time was all full at the time of the why elephant that it was not. To secure a I disagree. And him time was fantastic Did you go yes I did I really enjoyed going to the millennium experience so did I should est we just waited and on New Year's Eve We talked about that for the the whole show in people's experiences of it but it has it was a white elephant a lot of money was spent and no money was made back from that from that 1st year and then. For a couple of years but now is the who is it's one of the most successful concert. Venues in the world. Have you ever been to Sydney Opera House No but I tell you really have an atmosphere does it that's the trouble with it not exactly the walk up to the staff. It's on the bridge saw it as your intimate or main order Tori and it's something breathtaking What is it about it what do you see when you 1st saw it that for you in front of your eyes in Paris and you're like whoa what was the feeling like being that I wasn't prepared I'd seen many just as you have and everybody has but until you walk in there and see the architecture and you kind of marvel at that and then you hear the Tuesday then you realize what a phenomenal building it is. Don't know what it's like inside I could I know exactly which of the out side I never even thought of I haven't ever seen it. Well it's a it's magnificent I can't think of too many adjectives to to describe it. But the best is round the back and there's sort of like the little so the sales is a cinema. Hearing and watch movies. But I know it is the setting is it me under the bridge but it's still a fantastic building. And I thought I was going to build 'd instead you know 2 I would double the size of it I suppose another place where I could go was on the south bank with all the other prices and Simon would be Ok that. Because it made you need to see all of a nested beauty of it where it is you can move all around it yes it needs the series for itself you need to see it because it is you know they just don't do it justice Bernie and David Well Happy New Year thank you very much for telling us about your time in Sydney and looking at the Sydney Opera House already want to go now Sydney Opera House then replacement for the o 2 Arena a lot of people suggesting this one is quite nice a day was never 807313000 we're going to play Cyrano minute cheap thrills for you cheap thrills are on the way here on b.b.c. Radio London a moment but 1st I want to bring you this text for meaning it's an about the divorce rates we've been talking about divorce rates apparently they are falling in Britain Britain has the fastest falling divorce rate in Europe experts say that it's a relaxation of a social pressure to marry but I've been asking for how long you've been in a relationship how long you've been in a marriage and ho