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the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson has 8 | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on BBC London News. A crackdown on one of the UK's most | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
violent gangs ` 29 suspected members are arrested in Brixton. We have | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
actually targeted would we consider to be senior, high`ranking members | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
of the gang. The senior members, we believe, have significant impact on | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
the crime committed in London. We get the view from a former gang | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
leader. Also tonight: The speedboat tragedy which killed a father and | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
daughter ` investigators say the accident could have been prevented. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Growing underground ` we visit London's first subterranean farm in | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
former World War Two air raid shelters. | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
Plus the reunion one man has waited six years for ` to meet the | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
passer`by who stopped him jumping off Waterloo Bridge. It's kind of | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
just a dream, that I would ever be able to find him and thinking, I | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
can't believe reunited with him and I would be able to look in his eyes | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
and say thank you. Good evening. One of London's most | :01:12. | :01:26. | |
notorious gangs has been targeted in a series of early morning raids. The | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
so`called GAS gang is believed to be responsible for up to three quarters | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
of all violent crime in some parts of south London. Today almost 30 | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
people were arrested in several parts of the country ` for crimes | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
including supplying drugs and money laundering. The Met Police said the | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
operation was aimed at 'senior, high ranking members'. Marc Ashdown | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
reports. She became the innocent face of | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
London's struggle with violent gang crime. One moment, she was dancing | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
in her uncle 's shop, the next, sprawled on the floor, shot in the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
chest in a botched shooting. A member of South London's notorious | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
GAS gang pulled the trigger. Today the police swooped on their senior | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
ranks. The so`called untouchables of this gang received an unexpected | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
early morning visit. At 5:30am, 700 police officers descended on | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
addresses around the UK. They raided homes in Scotland, Bedfordshire, | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Essex, the Thames Valley, but the heart of this game operated out of | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
South London. Nine properties were raided in Brixton. 29 people were | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
arrested. The gang is suspected of drug dealing, money`laundering, | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
immigration offences and serious violence. This gang in particular | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
have members serving sentences for murder, shooting, attempted murder | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
and serious violent and acquisitive crime. We have seen significant | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
reductions in all of those offences in London but this gang and other | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
gangs in London continued to cause harm in London. The tale we have | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
taken out today are what we consider to be senior members. This is aimed | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
at answering criticism that The Met only targets foot soldiers of gangs | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
and convince and often sceptical community to share evidence. It is a | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
major issue of trust and confidence in the police. In the past | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
individuals have complained about gang`related individuals being | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
arrested and the next day they are on the streets, so it's very | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
important that the right individuals are arrested, they put bars. That's | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
what happened to these three men, serving life sentences. Members of | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
the gang have been convicted of a series of murders, including | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Nicholas Payton. The Met says Operation Trident, | :03:57. | :04:10. | |
relaunched as an anti`gang initiative, is working, but admits | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
there is more to do. Joining me now is Tracey Miller ` a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
former gang leader in south London who now focuses on helping young | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
ex`offenders. Thank you for coming in. First, can I ask you, how long | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
were you in again? About eight years. From what you saw today, a | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
step forward, but how far do you think it goes, taking senior members | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
out, how far does it go in terms of closing down again? It's a start. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Things need to be eradicated, but I don't think this behaviour will | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
eradicate all gangs, I think there will be younger ones who will want | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
to step into the footsteps of the older ones. So if gangs continue to | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
thrive in this way, from what you have seen, and people you talk to, | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
is the problem getting worse or are we just more aware of its? A bit of | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
both. It is going to get worse because you get youngsters who are | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
not being raised properly by their parents, they are more aggressive | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
and more hungry, so they will commit crime, taking out their opposition | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
gang members. So it will get worse. What would have stopped you from | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
joining a gang or taking the path you chose? For me at the time, I was | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
one of those kids that had a lot of heart, what my background wasn't | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
good, I didn't understand the way I was brought up. I'm grateful to an | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
extent. The adrenaline rush I got from being on the streets suited me | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
fine said nothing could have stopped me then. But I just urge gang | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
members or kids that are wayward to take responsibility for their | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
actions and find peace within. You have taken responsibility for your | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
actions if you were talking to the younger you? I was so caught up in | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
it, I did and understand. But I had nobly telling me, do this or don't | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
do that, now there are some in a role models, these youngsters have | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
no excuses. But at the same time, I don't condone gang violence but I | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
understand where they are coming from, they have no other means of | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
making money, they are so used to doing it that way. With a criminal | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
record, you can't find work. It is what it is. Aside from the sort of | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
police effort, there is always head scratching about what more can be | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
done to tackle gang violence. What would you suggest? Zero tolerance, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
from police, from parents and youngsters, find peace within. We | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
will leave it there. Thank you. Lots more to come including: I am on | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
the boundary of Richmond and Hounslow where a row is brewing over | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
where the postcode boundary should be. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Investigators have found that a TV executive and his daughter from | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Wandsworth were killed in a speedboat after he took control of | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
the steering wheel from his wife. A report says the accident in Cornwall | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
last May could have been avoided if his wife had been wearing a safety | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
device which would have cut the engine. Duncan Kennedy reports. This | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
was the moment that the Milliken family but was left spinning out of | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
control. It was at Padstow in Cornwall, where they had been | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
enjoying a day by the sea. All six tremors of the family were thrown | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
into the water. Nick Milligan and his daughter Emily were killed. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Tributes were left here at the family home in Wandsworth, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
south`west London. Nick Milligan worked as an executive for sky TV in | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
West London. Today the official report said they were tipped out | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
after Mr Milligan had lent over his wife to take control, he wanted to | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
steer it away from the beach but made the boat take a sharp turn | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
instead. Unfortunately the cord which should have stopped the engine | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
was not being Ward... One. Kill cords are designed to be simple and | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
quick. This is the kind of ribbed the family were in at the time of | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
the accident, it is capable of doing more than 40 knots. It's time to go | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
out, they should have a skipper attached to one of those killed | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
cords so he or she is put out of action and this would happen. The | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
engine cuts. Some say that kill cords should become law. This man's | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
son died 13 years ago after being hit by a boat that wasn't using one. | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
It's like wearing a seat belt. If you are wearing one, you are much | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
safer. But you are also making it safer for others. Today the Milligan | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
family released a statement saying, we are still coming to terms with | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
this tragedy. The message from today's report was | :09:16. | :09:32. | |
that this was an accident and kill cords are life`savers that should | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
become second nature on all powerboats. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Lorries without safety equipment to protect cyclists and pedestrians | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
will be banned from London by the end of the year. The Mayor's | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
proposals will ensure every HGV is fitted with sideguards to protect | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
cyclists from being dragged under the wheels ` and special mirrors | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
which give the driver a better view of cyclists and pedestrians. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
Hertfordshire Police say two people have died after what they're calling | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
a "serious incident" on the M1 motorway near Watford. Police were | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
called to the northbound carriageway between junctions five and six this | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
morning, after a man was struck by a car. A second man died nearby. The | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
motorway was closed for four hours and police are appealing for | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
witnesses. A man accused of stealing from the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
bins of a supermarket has defended his actions and says he'll continue | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
to get food in this way. He was one of three men due to stand trial | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
after being caught taking discarded tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese from | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
skips in Kentish Town. But yesterday the case was dropped ` as Victoria | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
Graham reports. It's a story the media are making a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
real meal out of, and in all honesty, it is all Paul May wanted | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
to do. He regularly forages for food, searching for discarded | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
produce that supermarkets can no longer sell. If I was to live | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
entirely on what I earn from bits of work that I do, tax credits can | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
identify with each very much. There are others in London, and to be | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
honest, there are much better skips than in Iceland. It is called urban | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
scavenging and people do it for a variety of reasons. Whether it is | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
reducing unnecessary food waste or just finding a decent meal. Last | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
October, Paul and two other friends were caught in the act, rifling | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
through a skip at the back of the Kentish Town branch of Iceland and | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
was subsequently arrested. Police officers didn't have far to come to | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
make the arrests since the station is next to the store in question, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
but Iceland said its staff didn't call the police, who came on their | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
own initiative. Until yesterday the CPS were standing by the | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
prostitution but suddenly dropped it. As recently as two ago weeks, | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
they said there was a significant public interest in prosecuting and | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
suddenly, we have this U`turn as a result of media and public pressure. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
The heart of all the offences is, today acted dishonestly? The | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
difference these three were going to run is that they weren't at ten | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
dishonestly, this was food that was thrown away by, they say, a | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
profligate supermarket. Iceland so they weren't aware of any | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
prosecution until Tuesday. They asked for it to be stopped but said | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
they didn't condone people rifling through their prince, the say it | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
isn't hygienic or safe. That won't stop Paul, though. | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
Does your postcode really matter? Well, a group of residents in West | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
London are bidding to have theirs changed. People in Whitton say most | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
of their neighbours have been given a Richmond postcode whilst they have | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
a Hounslow one ` so what's their complaint? Alice Bhandhukravi joins | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
us from Hounslow, or is it Richmond? Well, I am joining you from Argyle | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Avenue, which is a long road separated by a barrier. On the side | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
of the barrier, people pay their council tax to Richmond Council. If | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
we walk to the other side of the barrier, people here pay their | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
council tax to Hounslow. It is all part of TW three, which is | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
officially Hounslow. So people on the other side of the barrier want | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
to have a Richmond postcode. I spoke to one of them earlier about the | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
practical problems they are facing full V last year we applied to a | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
school for our eldest daughter and we applied to Richmond Council. | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
Because we had the Hounslow postcode, we fell out of the | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
catchment area. And you're paying more? Yes, we are paying ?200 extra | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
a year. That is one of the residents who believe they ought to be part of | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Richmond. Not all the residents agree. One of the people who has to | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
deal with this regularly is an estate agent. Do you face the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
problem when you are speaking to people buying houses around here? A | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
lot of people enquire for specific roads and postcodes. They are | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
looking to be in the catchment area for certain schools. Other issues as | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
well. It is primarily the schooling. We have heard already there is an | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
approximate premium of ?200 to be in Richmond in terms of council tax but | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
there is a difference also in house prices. What is the difference | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
between Richmond and Hounslow? If you were on the Richmond side and | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
marketed as TW2, you are probably looking at ?30,000 more on your | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
house price than if you were on the other side. Thank you for talking to | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
us. We have had a statement from the Royal Mail and they say postcodes | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
are there to ensure an accurate delivery but they do not normally | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
change postcodes. The debate goes on. Thank you. | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
Staying with housing now because residents of a Buckinghamshire town | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
say they will fight any move to build on their green space. It comes | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
as part of a secret proposal to build a so`called garden city near | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Gerard 's cross. The government has denied it would impose such a | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
developing `` Gerrard's Cross. Imagine it was being planned near | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
your town. I would be very surprised. It is a | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
rumour which has swept through Gerrard's Cross. Enough is enough. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
It began with a newspaper report of secret government plans for a garden | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
city near here. I do not know anyone who thinks it is a good idea. We | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
were shocked. Where on earth are they going to put it? The parish | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
council was straight on to the local MP who also happens to be in the | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Cabinet. He says I have made enquiries and I am satisfied no such | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
proposal exists. The problem appears to have gone away. I still think we | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
have to be aware of it. I do not think it is serious but we have got | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
to give it credence and make sure we are in a position to react if it | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
does happen. It is often an insight to the likely reaction anywhere the | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
green belt is threatened. Letchworth in Hertfordshire was the original | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
garden city. Started in 1903, now with 30,000 homes. The vision was to | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
create places people wanted to live and work in, to create places which | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
were enjoyable towns and combine the rest of town and country `` the best | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
of town and country. The Lib Dems are worried about support in their | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
heart lands. We ask the housing minister whether he would ever | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
impose a garden city plan? Absolutely not. This is about local | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
community is about local communities being confident about them shaping | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
their areas. We trust local government, local businesses to make | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
those choices. It is not about top`down secret documents which have | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
been talked about. It is about having confidence and trust in local | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
people. But this businessman and Conservative peer says garden cities | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
are needed and he is offering a quarter of ?1 million for the best | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
design. This prize is about getting people to build inspirational cities | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
people want to live in and how they can be financed and built with the | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
consent of the local population whose lives they will disrupt. It is | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
that fear of disruption and polite, often turned into fierce protest | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
which will remain the biggest obstacle. | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
Still to come this evening: It is the last surviving tea clipper and | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
one of the world's most famous ships. Now the Cutty Sark becomes | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
the newest studio Theatre. It's got to be one of the most | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
unusual places to grow herbs and vegetables. But that's what's | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
happening in tunnels beneath the Northern line once used as World War | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
II air raid shelters. The produce will then be sold across the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
capital. It's even got the backing of one of London's top chefs. Tarah | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
Welsh has the story. Unless you knew it was here, you | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
would never know that deep beneath Clapham, down 179 steps, are the | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
beginnings of an underground farm. It has got a kick at the back. The | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
idea is to keep food local and it has got the approval of a master | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
chef. We will be growing vegetables which can be delivered to the | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
restaurants or supermarkets within 24 hours. Super, super fresh. That | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
will save money and mean it is also less wasteful and very flavourful. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
It is ticking all the boxes. Getting the environment right has taken two | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
years but the entrepreneurs behind the idea say this type of farming | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
will complement, rather than replace traditional methods. For us, it is | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
absolutely perfect, we are not affected by adverse weather which | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
you can see a lot at the moment. We are 33 metres under the ground. The | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Northern Line runs above us. These used to be a bomb shelter but now | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
just the end of the tunnel is being used to grow produce but it is | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
thought eventually eight tunnels will be full of veg two is applied | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
to London. You can create a farm in your area. In Brooklyn, nearly every | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
roof garden is sustainable. They have their own vegetables and | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
beehives. I think it is only starting now but I think it will go | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
crazy. There is a long way to go yet but the farm needs ?1 million of | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
investment. This mission and starred chef thinks this business has the | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
potential to grow. `` Mission Lynn starred chef. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Performances are taking place in London's newest theatre ,which also | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
happens to be a 145`year`old ship. The Cutty Sark in Greenwich is | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
hosting cabaret, comedy and drama below deck. Our entertainment | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
correspondent, Brenda Emmanus, has been onboard to see what's going on. | :20:44. | :20:55. | |
From neighbours to invited guests, local musicians perform at the | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
launch of the new studio theatre aboard the Cutty Sark. The | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
entertainment space follows the million pound restoration of the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
famous tea clipper. Cutty Sark has always been a business machine. What | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
we have been looking to do is not only to present it as a visitor | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
attraction, but to think of ways we can give it a saleable future. We | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
have always had this notion that we can unpack in the lower hold, the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
idea of a studio theatre. What we did not really know was whether we | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
would be able to attract the quality of artists that would be eight | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
performing on this very stage. By day, the dry dock ship will continue | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
as a museum attracting visitors keen to take on board the history of this | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
famous ship. By night, audiences will occupy this 85 seat space, once | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
packed with people will look. Is the whole idea to bring new audiences to | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
the venue? Yes, it is not a data standing alone which has to have a | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
show every night to make money, `` Theatre standing alone. It is a | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
presentation of the Cutty Sark to the world in the hope it will bring | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
more audiences and further enhance the profile of the Cutty Sark. | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
Comedian Alan Davies is one of several performers and personalities | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
set to draw audiences to this new venue. Ross Noble and renowned | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
yachtsman Robin Knox Johnston are also won the opening programme. It | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
is conjured up in the evening out of nothing so it does not compromise | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
the liberty or the value or the dignity of the ship in anyway. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
It's a reunion that Jonny Benjamin has waited six years for. To thank | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
the passer`by who saved his life after talking him out of jumping off | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Waterloo Bridge. After a social media campaign to find the complete | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
stranger went viral, his good Samaritan, Neil Laybourne, came | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
forward, thanks to his fiancee who saw the appeal. Ayshea Buksh caught | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
up with them both. His hunt began on a place which | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
helped some tough memories. Johnny Benjamin wanted to trace the man who | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
talked him out of jumping off Waterloo Bridge six years ago. I | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
wanted to thank them and show them my gratitude for what they did that | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
day. With the help of a mental health charity, his appeal went | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
worldwide and that stranger was found. We had a few people getting | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
in touch and saying they thought that would be time. This was very | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
emotional for Jonny. We asked a lot of questions and talked to Jonny | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
about what he could remember. By the time we narrowed it down to Neil we | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
were pretty sure we had got the right person. When they met he | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
remembered him. The good Samaritan was a personal trainer from Surbiton | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
who was on his way to work. Nobody else stopped. They walked past him. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
I guess it was luck that I was the right person who could say the right | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
thing. After Jonny came off the bridge, the police took him away and | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Neil never saw him again. Every year I would think about it. I always | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
wondered what happened to him. After Neil's intervention, Jonny who had | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
been diagnosed with a skit `` a disorder sought mental health help. | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
Everything came back to me. I saw myself on the bridge that day and it | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
was very distressing. But then we began chatting and felt we had come | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
full circle and I could close that chapter of my life. We were saying | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
how nice it was to be reunited and see each other smiling. Jonny says | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
he will continue campaigning on mental health issues and they will | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
stay in touch. How great is that? | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Time for a look at the weather with Elizabeth Rizzini. | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
There is more rain on the way. We have had it confirmed today what we | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
already knew, that January has been a very wet month indeed. Across | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
London and the south`east, we have had more than twice the average | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
monthly rainfall for January. If you are a numbers person, that is about | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
175.2 millimetres. There is more rain to come particularly into | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
tomorrow evening. We have had a dull day. The showers will continue | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
towards southern and eastern areas of the capital through the overnight | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
period. I think towards southern and western areas, that is where we are | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
likely to see some mist and fog, patches of it into tomorrow morning. | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
We will see some cloud breaks. It will feel chilly. As we head into | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
tomorrow morning, there will be a few showers around rather dull, | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
dull, cloudy, bleak start. We will gradually see the wins pick`up. `` | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
the wins pick up. That will hit us tomorrow evening in the rush hour | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
when it will be a wet and windy ride home. For the weekend, it is not | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
looking too bad but if you are heading towards the south coast, | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
watch out, there will be some heavy showers here and some big waves | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
expected. For us, it will be a breezy weekend but it will be mostly | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
dry. Some good spells of sunshine. We might catch a few showers at | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
times and temperatures will slowly be coming up. Thank you. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
The main headlines now: Parts of Britain have had their wettest | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
January since records began, more than a century ago. The Met Office | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
says some parts of England, including Kent and Devon, have | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
already seen twice the average rainfall for this month. | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
One of the most violent gangs in the UK has been targeted in a series of | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
early morning raids. Nearly 60 members have been arrested. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
That's it for now, more news at ten o'clock, of course. Plenty more on | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
our website. From all of us on the team, thanks for watching and have a | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
lovely evening. | :27:41. | :27:46. |