09/12/2013 BBC London News

the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six.

The while, because you know it is inevitable, it is depressing. It

comes as the mayor reiterates his commitment to cycling safety and

sets out a plan for change. Also tonight, the investigation into the

death of Sean Rigg is to be reopened.

A dramatic twist in Hertfordshire as green belt land is saved from

development. Plus... Stripper grams on a weeknight? Harry Hill tells us

about his new film and the all star cast of comedians.

Good evening. First night, the view from surgeons on the front line

treating cycling casualties in the capital. Two Doctors have told BBC

London that more needs to be done to prevent fatalities, with one

describing one of the mayor's cycling superhighways as being unfit

for purpose. This on the day that Boris Johnson reiterated his

commitment to safety at a cycling event at City Hall. He said that

cycling deaths and serious injuries had heart in a decade. We begin with

this report. `` had halved. When it comes to critical care, this

is very much the front line, one of the operating theatres at the Royal

London Hospital in Whitechapel, one of four of London's major trauma

units. In November, Tom operated on two of the cyclists killed on the

super sine wave `` super highway that runs outside the hospital. It

can be seen from the operating theatre. Tonight, officers were

talking to cyclists, part of an ongoing campaign. There is a lot of

finger`pointing going on at the moment. Our hospital is based close

to the cycle scheme, and we have seen a lot of deaths. We have had

deaths of members of staff in this hospital, going to and from work. If

I am to put my injury prevention hat on, do not think that road is fit

for purpose. The figures bear out his concerns. In 2004, the trauma

team was seeing 24 seriously injured cyclists every year. That number

rose to 69 in 2009 and in November this year, the number had risen to

109, up nearly five times. But that against a doubling of the Humber of

daily cyclists, from 290,000 in 2001 to around 570,000 today. I cannot

bury my head in the sand and say it is nothing and it is not a problem.

It is incessant. On Monday morning, we had two patients in a

resuscitation room and we had another patient leading to death. As

a hospital, we have to up our game and provide consultants and

anaesthetists. We have to have the resources in the hospital and

sufficient capacity to look after these patients that are coming to

us. That has locations for how the hospital works. We cannot pretend it

is not happening. If this was an infectious disease outbreak and we

said nothing, people would ask us why we had not spoken up. How you?

`` how are you? Across town, Harriet is back for a checkup. A year ago,

she nearly lost a foot after being dragged under a lorry which turned

left as she was cycling. As it came over me, I thought it was going to

be the end. I thought there was no way you would get out. When I

realised that he did not know why was under there, I thought that was

the end. When he stopped, I thought, well, my head is OK and my back is

OK, I'm pretty lucky so far. Harriet was one of more than 50 cyclists

seen here last year. Her surgeon says that trauma centres are getting

better at seeking people, but he says that he has seen too many

people like Harriet. We see these injuries day after day. Actually,

after a while, because you know it is preventable, it is depressing. We

need to do something about this because these are young, fit,

healthy people, by definition, they are cycling to work! And they are

losing their lives or they are losing their quality of life in an

accident that could be prevented. In London, we made huge inroads into

looking after those that are injured as a result of road traffic

collisions. Pedestrian cyclists or drivers. And it goes on and on. And

it is a problem. Today, Vermeer Mack more action but it cannot come soon

enough for the trauma surgeons of London. `` today, the mere Mack

promised more action. The major said that in the next few months, the

author London will outline plans to make the capital safer. He also said

the would`be moves to reduce casualties involving lorries. We'll

London's lorries look like this in the future? The mayor once tougher

laws to make it easier to see cyclists. Lots of lorries already

have these sensors and they can be of some benefit to drivers, but what

Transport for London really once is more of these, open camps that can

improve the visibility. Campaigners still want segregated cycle lanes.

As well as this trial, there will be new standards for hauliers. Boris

Johnson's speech was meant to be about warning campaigners that they

were scaring cyclists off, but the tone is was conciliatory. We're

setting out a programme to make 33 junctions safer and we are

publishing the map of our new network of quiet ways across zone

one. Many of them following the lines of the tube map. We will

continue to expand and improve the cycle superhighways the KERS I

believe in them passionately. And, yes, where it is possible, and where

it is sensible, we will have segregation on the routes as we have

done at Stratford. `` cycle super white `` cycle superhighways. Six

deaths over 14 days has raised concerns. All the incidents involved

large vehicles. Critics also say that the number of dangerous

junctions being redesigned is now only 33, down from 100. Campaigners

are sceptical. The review has been going for over a year but the

results coming out are not impressive. We are not seeing major

changes at the danger spots. Until that changes, cycle and will not be

safe. Boris realises that attacking road safety campaigners was a

mistake and he has softened his tone. But at the same time, he is

not promising enough. He is not putting enough money into things

like dangerous junctions. He has to make the roads safer. City Hall says

dealing with fewer junctions means that they can focus the money on

those and get them right. But concerns still remain over the rate

of change, Capitals roads. `` rate of change on the capital's roads.

Coming up later, as the world of football is shaken by allegations of

match fixing, a manager reveals one of his players was offered a bribe.

An investigation into the death of Sean Rigg, who died in police

custody, is to be reopened. The 40 rolled, a schizophrenic, signed at

Buxton police station in August of 2008. Last year, and inquest found

that officers had used on suitable force. Now the police watchdog will

look again at his death after a review criticised the original

investigation. Joe Smith has this report. He seminaked in the

middle`of`the`road. 40`year`old Sean Rigg is known to local police

officers as someone with mental health issues. Not long after this,

use dead. He was restrained at Brixton police station. That was

more than five years ago and today, the police watchdog formally

reopened the investigation. Looking at whether the conduct of officers

was criminal. Sean Rigg's sister has fought hard to uncover evidence and

said that they welcomed the issue. The problem is that the length of

time it has taken, it is five years since the death, it just seems that

we are at square one. I've hope that this new investigation will be

robust and transparent, and properly effective. We will accept nothing

else. Sean Rigg died in August of 2008 and it took two years before

the IPCC concluded that the officers involved would face no disciplinary

action. Two years later, an inquest jury decided to the contrary. Their

verdict, that there had been on suitable force. And restraint had

contributed to Sean Rigg's death. An independent review in May found that

the IPCC had made a series of basic mistakes and that the watchdog

reconsidered the conduct of officers. Today, the IPCC announced

that it was reinvestigating. officers. Today, the IPCC announced

that it No family should ever have to tolerate or to be burdened with

the death of a loved one at the hands of the state. And then find

that the legal system has so many delays, year after year after year.

It is very taxing on the family. This year, two serving officers and

one retired policeman were arrested on suspicion of perverting the

course of justice over evidence given at the inquest. Sean Rigg, who

had a history of schizophrenia, died on August the 21st, 2008, in police

custody. His family has faced delay after delay in getting answers. The

initial investigation was clearly inadequate. Perhaps the reopening of

this case will restore some of the family's confidence in the system.

A murder investigation is underway after the body of a man was found in

a grave at a house in West London. He has been named as Zbigniew

Michniewicz, and he was found in the garden of the property on Greenford

Road last Thursday. Detectives believe the grave may have been

there for a couple of weeks. We want to know from anyone in the area who

would have either stayed at 251 Greenford road or visited it in the

last month. Had he stayed at that address or have you been there?

Contact the police. From the neighbours, what comings and goings

have you seen? Have you seen anything suspicious? Can you

identify anyone who has stayed at that address? The former Director of

Public Prosecution, Kier Starmer, believes the compensation offered to

businesses and residents affected by the high`speed rail link is

unlawful. He says that government proposals to not have a proper

procedure for deciding what level of compensation is fair. The government

says that it lands to conform with the European Convention on human

rights as well as the statutory compensation code. The Australian

protester who disrupted last year's Oxford and Cambridge boat race by

jumping in the river has won an appeal. Earlier this year, you was

denied a visa to stay in the country with his family, saying that dashing

was neither Visa to stay in the country, with a judge is saying

that... Councillors in Hertfordshire

surprised campaigners today by deciding not to go ahead with a

controversial proposal to sell 300 acres of green belt land. It follows

a battle to stop a rail freight depot being built near St Albans. In

another development, and main, the local MP, has called for an

investigation into a meeting between Theresa Villiers and a

representative from the developers. `` Anne Main.

Angry and determined to protect the green belt. Protesters outside

County Hall in Hartford today. My community is going to be blighted if

this goes ahead. We are going to have 3000 lorries every day

descending upon us. It is ludicrous. Nobody wants it or needs it. Take it

to Luton. Campaigners have been fighting the plans for nearly eight

years. Today, County Council is expected to decide to sell the site

to developers, Heelio`Sough. The company wants to develop an

interchange on 300 acres of green belt near St Albans. Eric Pickles

has already said that he is likely to approve it. In a surprise move at

County Hall, councillors decided not to sell the green belt land after

all, for the time being. Instead, they will urge the communities

secretary, Eric Pickles, to think again about why he says he is likely

to support the plan. St Albans MP, Anne Main, also wants Eric Pickles

to rethink apparent support for the scheme, calling for an investigation

into a meeting that Theresa Villiers had with a representative from the

real fleets developers, Anne Main. `` Railfreight developers. Why the

sudden shift from the protection given to a mind to approve? We do

not know what happened at the time of the enquiries. It happened after

lunches, after communications and documents were submitted that

apparently seems to make it a case that was irresistible. It was

certainly resistible before. Trees of all ears, no Secretary of State

for Northern Ireland, strongly denies any impropriety. A spokesman

said that she had met a rapid editor of the developers at added:

Protesters are delighted that the green belt has had a stay of

execution but the future of the site is still far from certain.

Still to come this evening. How many times, no stripper gram is on a

weeknight! How `` Harry Hill tells us about his latest venture is on

the big screen. And I will be talking to staff from

Lewisham Hospital, who are hoping this will be the next Christmas

number one. To sport now, and how the world of

foot or has been shaken by allegations of fixing in football

matches, `` the world of football. Six people were arrested over the

weekend and the manager of Staines Town and former Premier League

player, Marcus Gayle, has revealed how one of his players was offered

bribes to fix matches. Some shocking news. It is shocking. The incident

we are talking about actually happened a few weeks ago when an

approach was made to a player. We don't know the exact nature of the

approach and we can't give any more information am because there is an

official investigation underway. We must also stressed that Staines Town

have done nothing wrong. As soon as they found out about it, they

reported it to the Football Association straightaway. Staines

are non`league side so it is not related to the arrests we mentioned

earlier, but this was the reaction of Marcus Gayle. We have had a

recent incident. An approach towards our club for a player. We had to do

the right thing, we reported it less than 24 hours after we knew what was

going on, kept ourselves totally clear and doing the right things.

Bearing in mind there is now a possibility that a match your team

could have been involved in, whilst you have been manager, could have

been liable to match fixing, how does it make you feel? Angry,

disgusted. Just stunned, really. But it is non`league. People at this

level, the money isn't great for players. At Staines we are trying to

keep everything calm and focused on what we're to do. It is the

integrity of the club that we are looking at, and the sport in

general. You can tell how shocked he was but he went on to tell me how

proud he was of his team, and how they had reacted to this incident

overall. He hoped their reactions would prompt others to come forward

to stop this happening. Elsewhere, some exciting ties in the third

round of the FA Cup. It is a way is a bit more exciting because the

Premier League and Championship clubs get mixed into the pot with

everyone else. The Leyton Orient manager Russell

Slade will be returning to his old club. Nottingham Forest against West

Ham will bring back painful memories of the 1991 FA Cup semifinal for

West Ham. Some of the main headlines were made by a repeat of the north

London derby, they last met in the 2001 semifinal when Robert Pires

gave the gunners a win. There will be a meeting on ticket allocations.

Those ties will be played on the fourth and 5th of January.

The battle to be Christmas number one is underway. Among the

contenders, Robbie Williams, One Direction and a choir made up of

doctors and nurses from Lewisham, brought together by choirmaster

Gareth Malone. # Lights will guide you home.

Singing with the hospital choir is something of a release for this A

consultant. As I said earlier, I am happy with your investigations... He

has been on shifts into `` since a two got a. His patient is now

stable. `` since 8:00am. It is really great to be able to tie in my

job with something that is really were ordering for me. I have been

bonding with a lot of members of staff that I would not normally come

into contact with. He is one of the lead singers, along

with Doctor Zoe Davies. They learned their craft with Gareth Malone on

last year's Choir competition, where they were runners`up. Zoe is a

registrar on the diabetes ward and is glad that the single will benefit

local charities who tirelessly support both staff and patients. We

particularly wanted to do the single to raise money for Macmillan. In the

hospital we see a lot of Macmillan on a daily basis. We have Macmillan

nurses that work in the hospital, a lot of interaction with them, so it

was ready nice to be able to raise money for something which we can see

doing such amazing work. Rehearsals took place in the lunch hour outside

the hospital. It has been quite a year after fighting off casualty

closure plans. People who live locally are supporting them all the

way, especially the patients. Christmas time, it is aways nice to

get behind charity, everybody feels they need to give more. Anything

that can get a Simon Cowell record off the top of the charts would be

good with me. The single is a ready being downloaded from Lewisham

Hospital's website. `` already being.

He has long been a star of the small screen but now Harry Hill is to have

his very own feature film. Starring alongside his oversized collars and

a pet hamster are some of the biggest names in comedy, including

Julie Walters, Matt Lucas and Jim Broadbent.

Get ready for the story of two brothers, one raised by his Nan...

The other by wild animals... For his big`screen debut, Harry Hill has

delivered the distinctive brand of anarchic humour that has made him

one of the nation 's favourite comedians, and there is a somewhat

surreal storyline that he hopes will have audiences flocking to sin a

Mars for this adventure. `` flocking to sin a Mars.

It is about Harry Hill living with his Nan and we have a hamster, who

we believe is ill, starts throwing up, and we believe he has only got a

week to live. So we go to the vet and it starts a chain of events.

My agent said, do you like Harry Hill, I said yeah, why? He said, I

have got this script. The script is hilarious and I said, I will love to

do it. When they said to me, why don't we asked Julie Walters, I

said, forget it, there is no way she will say yes. Because Judi Dench had

said no... Helen Mirren! She was presented with a Richard Harris

award recognising her outstanding contribution to film at the

Independent film awards. It is lovely to get a prize, I never got

them at school, it is really lovely to be acknowledged in that way.

Especially because it is the Richard Harris award, I worked with him

years ago. Harry has another grand project causing a stir. He wrote the

stage play for I can't sing, based on the X Factor. Is it a celebration

or a mockery? It is both. At times it is really on the nose Mickey

take. It is the kind of TV burp thing of over praising it in a

tongue in cheek way. The former medical doctor who transformed

himself into the much loved high collared comedian has never looked

back. Having escaped TV for some big adventures on stage and the silver

screen, who knows what else he will do for laughs?

What else, indeed! Time for a look at the weather. Is it just me or is

it a mile before December? `` mild day. It is, well observed. It should

be six or seven degrees by day but today we got to 12 degrees at London

city airport. It will be settled and it will continue to be mild for the

most part. It broke up quite nicely today and we had decent spells of

sunshine. We have this clearer sky that will be with us through the

night, it will turn chilly in some cases. This is the cloud that will

come through tomorrow afternoon and will turn things a bit more grey.

24`hour temperatures are quite interesting. Last night Northolt

fell to three degrees but jumped up to 11 as we went through the day.

Tonight I think it might be a tiny bit lower. There may a touch of

frost forming temperatures have fallen very quickly this evening. As

we go through the night we will have clear skies, perhaps some mist and

fog, generally light winds and two bridges between two and four

Celsius. `` and temperatures between. As we go through the

morning we have bright weather to begin with, clouding over towards

the afternoon, maybe some rain in the thick bits of cloud but it will

largely be a dry day. Temperatures up to ten as we go through tomorrow

afternoon. After that cloudy afternoon on Tuesday, it looks like

the sunshine will return through the day on Wednesday. A bit fresher,

southeasterly wind, temperatures between six and nine Celsius. As we

go through the next few days we will see more cloud arriving, it is going

to stay feeling fairly mild over the next few days.

Now for the main headlines. Michael Adebolajo, one of the two men

accused of murdering Lee Rigby, has told the Old Bailey he is a soldier

of Allah and God commanded him to kill a British soldier. Both of the

accused deny murder. Some patients who are taken to NHS

hospitals by ambulance are being held in queues outside the hospital

for far longer than they should be. Data showed many patients in

England, Wales and Scotland are waiting longer than 15 minutes.

Final preparations are being made for tomorrow's official memorial

service for Nelson Mandela. Four British Prime ministers past and

will join tens of thousands honouring his life.

And two of the country's top trauma surgeons have told BBC London that a

large proportion of cycling deaths in the capital are preventable. Iris

Johnson has reiterated his commitment to making cycling safer

`` Boris Johnson has. I will be back with the latest during the Ten

O'Clock News, plenty more on our website. Until then, from all of us

on the team, have a lovely evening. Good buy.