15/03/2014 BBC London News


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overtake them with a large victory against Italy. That's all from me,

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stay with us on BBC One. It's time for the news where you are.

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Good afternoon. A 70`year`old cyclist has died nearly thrde weeks

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after he was hit by a car in central London. Michael Mason was rhding on

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Regent Street, just north of Oxford Circus, at the time of the `ccident

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late last month. The driver stopped at the scene and waited for police

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to arrive. He wasn't arrestdd, but officers are appealing for witnesses

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to contact them. Mr Mason is the second cyclist to die this xear

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Jewish and Muslim communitids in four neighbouring boroughs `re

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working together to try and change the way their local coroner works.

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They're angry at delays which are sometimes faced before a body is

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released for burial. Both rdligions require the funeral to take place as

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soon as possible. Jean Mackdnzie reports. I'm missing him at the

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moment. I still think he's going to walk through that door. Last month,

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Muhammad learned what it felt like to lose a parent. His father died

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suddenly after being taken to hospital with breathing problems. He

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was just full of joy. It took a week for his body to be released for

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burial. Mohammed said this `dded to his grief. I haven't got a word for

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it, but what can I say? I don't know why they took a week. OK, d`ys, it's

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acceptable. According to both the Jewish and Muslim religions, a body

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should be buried as soon as possible after death. In this corner of North

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East London, where both comlunities live side`by`side, there is anger

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that the process is taking so long. They say since a new chief coroner

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for in a north London was instated last summer, their weekend service

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has also been cut. As soon `s somebody passes away on Friday,

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immediately I will tell thel that nothing will be done until Londay

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morning at the earliest. How does that make you feel, having to tell

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them that? Awful. Because other parts of the country, corondrs are

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accessible out of hours. Both communities have started a petition

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to improve the hours they c`n access a coroner. Men met has almost 1 00

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signatures. He tells me the Jewish version has more than 4000. The

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chief coroner here at St Pancras coroners Court says she is `ware of

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the sense of needs of both these faiths, and she is looking to see

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which you can do. But she s`ys that to extend opening hours she will

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need more staff and so more money, and that's down to the local

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authorities. At Camden Council says it's not that simple. Corondrs have

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a great deal of autonomy and services are often based on informal

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agreements. People should not be living in postcode lotteries where

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one particular consortium provides a better service. The issue should be

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looked at at a national levdl. There needs to be national changes whether

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coroner services are consistent It says this way, communities wouldn't

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be at the mercy of their coroner's wishes or their coffers. A teenager

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has been charged by police, following a chemical alert hn

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Chelmsford last year. The incident, in October, led to six people being

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taken ill, and a large quantity of chemicals were discovered at a

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property. That was at New London Road. The 19`year`old has bden

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charged with producing a Cl`ss B drug and eight counts of possessing

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drugs. A look at today's weather, `nd it'll

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be dry, sunny and feeling vdry mild. We can expect a top temperature of

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17 Celsius. And it should stay dry as we head into tonight.

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That's it for now. I'll be back a little later than usual tonhght with

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our next news at 7.10pm on BBC One. Until then, you can keep across all

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the latest news and sport on our radio stations, BBC London 84.9

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Enjoy the rest of your day. Following on from what has been

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largely dry and settled week with high pressure in charge, the weekend

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weather continues on that theme too. Things are looking largely

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dry, not everywhere, but there will be some warm sunshine on offer,

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particularly through the afternoons. It will be feeling fairly breezy as

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well. The satellite image shows the cloud has been thinning and breaking

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this morning, across Northern Ireland, Wales and Northern

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Ireland. In terms of the Six Nations rugby matches today, it should stay

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dry for all the matches. Cloudy skies in Paris, but it should tend

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to brighten up as we head through the remainder of the afternoon. This

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afternoon, quite a

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