08/11/2013 BBC London News

Typhoon as it heads towards Vietnam this weekend. That's all, know

Tonight on BBC London News: GPs say no to the proposed closure of two

A units in south west London. They say the changes wouldn't improve

patient care. Our responsibility is to our local patients. We have asked

our GPs what is the best way to do that. We need to admit people to a

local hospital. We look at the challenges facing NHS bosses. Also

tonight: An arrest warrant for the terror suspect who escaped wearing a

burka ` he was facing 20 charges for breaching terrorism prevention

orders. Three private investigators admit to

spying during the bidding process to take over the Olympic stadium. Plus,

bringing back a lost London ` the animation which recreates Tudor

streets burnt down by the Great Fire.

Welcome to the programme. First tonight, more signs of how difficult

it is to change hospital services in the capital. GPs in Surrey have

voted against plans which would have seen the A and Maternity units at

St Helier and Epsom hospitals close. NHS bosses had said the proposals

would improve patient care in the area. It could now mean a return to

the drawing board for a process which has already taken more than

two years. Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer.

Another arrival at Epsom's A department this morning. One of a

thousand patients they will see this week. Under plans drawn up by the

health department, this department was facing the axe. How can people

go from here to St Helier or St George's. You would be dead before

you get there. They need to keep it open. We have used it many times

with my son. St Helier is too far. If you got ill it would be murder.

You would go to St George's in tooting which is a murder place to

get to. Today, those plans might have changed. Last year, the A

here at Epsom sources De thousand patients. Under plans they would

have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital.

have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital

That said local GPs is not good enough for their patients. Claire

Fuller is one of those GPs. They voted on whether they thought

closing the A was a good idea. 75% said no. The best way to treat that

group of patients is for the GPs and community therapists to work really

closely with the colleagues in the hospital and social care. We need to

be able to admit them to a local hospital. That would not have

happened in the proposals on the table. It affects five different

hospitals. St Helier and Epsom were due to lose their A and maternity

units. Those plans are now in doubt. Sorry's GPs have thrown a spanner in

the works. We still have safety concerns. We still have quality

concerns and we still have to provide a service which we can

provide enough finances for. The challenges remain and we have to see

how we go forward. The energy in the system to tackle the problems

remains clinically. Energy is what those pushing for change need.

Change tends to happen only very slowly in the NHS.

Karl's here now. This once again highlights the challenges of making

changes,where does this leave health care in the capital? I think it

leaves it in a bit of a mess. Change happens very slowly in the NHS in

London, and that at a time when NHS managers are telling us changed

needs to happen really quickly to keep patients say. I will give you

an advantage of what has been happening. I have sat in three

different court cases. There was the case in north`west London where they

wanted to downgrade four A 's That is going ahead. The case in

Lewisham. They won their campaign to keep the A open and that Chase

Farm there is a court case. All of those reconfigurations have taken

years. Look North, east, South or west, you have got the same issues.

It is taking a long time, far too long say NHS bosses. Thank you.

Coming up later in the programme: Thames Water is blocked from

introducing an 8% price hike ` but customers still face bigger bills.

An arrest warrant has been issued for the terrorism suspect who

disguised himself in a burka and went on the run a week ago. It's

emerged Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed was facing 20 charges for breaching

different terrorism prevention orders before he disappeared in

Acton. That's where we can join Secunder Kermani who's been

following the story. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed disappeared

last Friday after attending this mosque behind me here. I should

stress there is no implication that the mosque is involved in any

wrongdoing. Before of that, Mohamed had already been due in court

accused of breaching Terrorism Act `` terrorism prevention measures. He

has made allegations that he was tortured abroad. But there is still

no sound of the man himself. Mohamed Ahmed Mohammed went on the run last

week. A manhunt for him is still going on. Today, a judge issued an

arrest warrant for him after he failed to appear in court. It said

he thought alongside the militant Islamist group Al`Shabab in Somalia

although he has never been convicted. He was arrested to Macri

years ago in a semi`autonomous province of Somaliland. His lawyer

claims he was tortured with British complicity. We have the most serious

concern in relation to a young man who is hideously tortured in

Somaliland for two months, was forcibly and illegally deported to

this country and where the question has been repeatedly raised of the

complicity of the British authorities, the security services,

in that unlawful removal. Once back in the UK, Mohamed's movements were

restricted and he had to report to police stations. His failure to

comply with those requirements is why he was meant to be in court

today. His lawyers told the BBC that if he had been in court today he

would have said the reason he breached those requirements was

because he was suffering from the after`effects of torture. That forms

part of a separate court case and today, government lawyers said they

were going to try to get that court case stopped because of his

disappearance. Meanwhile, the search for Mohamed by the police and

security services continues. Thank you.

A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a schoolboy on a bus in

North London in April this year. North London in April this year

Derek Boateng from Hackney died in hospital on his 16th birthday after

being stabbed. The court was told there had been a previous dispute

between him and his attacker ` also aged 16.

A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering a pensioner

during an attempted burglary. Imran Douglas was 17 when he killed the

88`year`old woman while she was in bed at her care home in Shadwell.

Marjorie Gilby was strangled and stabbed in the attack in May.

South Kensington Tube Station was closed this afternoon because of

smoke coming from a faulty train. Firefighers were called and

passengers evacuated from the train just after 2.30. There were no

injuries. The closure of the station has caused disruption on the

District and Circle lines. Three men have admitted illegally

obtaining data from members of West Ham Football Club during the bidding

process to take over the Olympic Stadium. The allegations relate to a

company hiring private investigators to get information on the Premier

League Club and the Olympic Park Legacy Company. Let's get more on

this from our sports news correspondent Adrian Warner.

It was a bitter battle between Tottenham and West Ham. There were

loads of allegations about underhand activity in November 2010, dirty

tricks. What happened in February 2011, West Ham were awarded the

stadium by the Olympic Park Legacy Corporation. We then had a lot of

legal battles. Eventually, in October 2011 the whole thing fell

apart. What then happened was interesting. The head of the Olympic

Park Legacy Corporation stood up and accused Tottenham of putting her

whole board under surveillance. Tottenham have always denied this.

What followed was a police investigation which ended today with

three Macri men in a Crown Court pleading guilty for obtaining data,

things like phone records and bank records from the Olympic Park Legacy

Company. It is important to stress that although Tottenham did ask the

company, for which one of the men worked, to look into and investigate

the whole eating process, Tottenham have always denied any illegal

action. House at the can to think this is in terms of West Ham moving

into the stadium? It will not affect that. There was another process and

they won that. They will go in in 2016. It shows that in the world of

hacking trials and everything else, people at this level were prepared

to think about doing these kind of things. Thank you.

Thames Water has been blocked from imposing an eight per cent price

increase on customers. The company said the extra money was needed to

help fund the construction of a 'super sewer' under London. But the

water regulator, Ofwat, says there's no justification for customers to be

charged an extra ?29 from next year. Emma North reports.

We need it, our city is built around it, but how much should we pay for

our water. Londoners have little choice about who supplies them. It

is Thames Water. Next year we are expected to pay ?15 more for what

comes out of our tap. Thames Water asked for more, an extra ?29 on top,

raising ?291 million. Thames Water said they needed the money for two

things, first to pay for the shortfall from customers who had not

paid their water bills, and secondly to buy land which would allow them

to build the super sewer from here in full down the length of the

Thames. Ofwat said No. Water customers can choose who their

supplier is. Thames Water provided us with lots of evidence. We

examined it carefully and we do not think their cost measures justify an

increase in bills for customers. increase in bills for customers

Critics have accused Thames Water of not budgeting properly. While you

are taking the p of Londoners down your sewers, you are taking the p

out of their bills. That is a nice sound bite. Customers, when we talk

to them, they say we do not want bills to be any higher than they

need to be. Everybody would say that! Do they agree with you? Could

I finish my answer? Were Thames Water being greedy? I do not think

it is question of greed. We recognise that these costs have been

incurred. What we are arguing is simply the balance between the

shareholder and the customer needs to be addressed and these costs

should not be passed on to the customer. Thames Water said it is

reviewing Ofwat's decision. In the meantime, it has defined the

shortfall. As more pressure is piled on utility companies, it is a small

victory for the consumer. Still to come this evening: if you had just

won this amount of money, would you get up at 6am the next morning to go

back to work? I will be talking to the care worker

from Sutton who did just that. And London wins the bid to host the

2018 hockey World Cup. Take a look at these images of 17th

century London. They've been created by a group of university students

who've been studying detailed maps of the capital before the Great

Fire. And now, they've brought them to life in an animation which has

just won an award at Europe's biggest video game festival. Wendy

Hurrell has been finding out more. This is what London might have

looked like in the 1600th. A timber framed wattle and daub world of

narrow, cobbled streets. Starting at pudding Lane, and spinning down to

the wide River Thames, across which spans London Bridge with its shops,

homes and gatehouse. It is a street pattern upon which modern`day London

was built. It was from the 17th century maps that the British

library has, that this animation was designed by these students at a

Leicester University. We got as many historical references as we could,

most notable, Samuel Pepys diary. It is quite good watching it while

being in modern`day London. You get a real sense of the place, small,

medieval streets. I asked historian Elisabeth Norton for her opinion. I

tend to use the maps they use. They are great for big buildings,

palaces, you get a real sense of what was going on. But not ordinary

houses. The houses were almost touching, it was a maze, dirty,

noisy. Those unsanitary times still fascinate us, and this detailed as

nation `` animation goes some way to bringing back in north London. Those

streets went up in flames in the Great Fire of 1666. The Queen 's

house at the Tower of London is one of the few that survived. The rest

has to be imagined in 3D virtual world.

Incredible images. Time now for a round`up of the

sports news, with Sara Orchard. Thanks, Riz.

We start with London winning the right to host yet another

international sporting event. The 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup will

be coming to the capital, meaning the sport will host four years of

global events at the new Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. I spent

the morning with a very happy England hockey team at their

headquarters at Bisham Abbey in Marlow.

The sport of hockey knew it needed a result at the 2012 Olympics. The

England women delivered. COMMENTATOR: Great Britain have won

the bronze medal. Of the back of this success, England

hockey momentum continues to build with London hosting the 2018 women's

World Cup. It is absolutely amazing news. The

girls are elated. It is a fantastic opportunity for England hockey. The

culmination of 14 months of work, and no denying that the Olympic

Games helped to win the vote. Hockey was the third biggest sport

in terms of ticket sales in London. The best Olympic Games for hockey

ever. It has had an impact on the decision. Behind me is the England

under 21 men's team in training. Although it is the World Cup for the

women, the men will also benefit because England hockey are now

likely to host major events for four years consecutively, starting in

2015 Women's European Championships. 2016, then the men in 2017.

Phenomenal news for the sport. All the major events will take place at

the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, still under construction,

the venue has seating for 3000 with space to increase up to 15,000. We

can only expect more international hockey.

They are already thinking about the 2022 men's World Cup. It won't be

long before we have an eye on the next. At 28, Alex doesn't know if

she will be playing in 2018 but nothing will stop her being at the

World Cup. One thing I can tell you for sure is I will be there. I may

be waving a flag on the side. I cannot wait to be a part of it.

Football, and it's an all`British clash in the Women's Champions

League last`16, as Arsenal Ladies host Glasgow tomorrow in the first

leg. Arsenal are hoping to have an advantage, with a strong Scottish

presence within the squad which includes Scotland midfielders Kim

Little and Caroline Weir, as well as forward Emma Mitchell. The Gunners'

manager Shelley Kerr also made over 50 appearances for the national

team. I think, when you play against a

team like Glasgow, you can't really have the favourites tag, you have to

prove yourself and work hard. Which we do in any game. To try to score

goals. Staying with football, and it's the

first round of the FA Cup this weekend, and several of the

capital's non`League teams will be hoping to cause a shock. Among them,

Staines Town who are taking some local League One opposition

Brentford. The Swans are eagerly anticipating the clash but, as Chris

Slegg reports, it's a particularly special