29/03/2014 BBC London News


29/03/2014

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usual time of 6:40 this evening Stay with us on BBC One, it's time

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for the news where you are. Good afternoon. Obesity levdls in

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London are rising with some doctors calling the problem an epiddmic

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More than 2,500 people here were admitted to hospitals last xear for

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obesity related problems, and there's a warning the probldm could

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get worse. Jim Wheble reports. Linda is about to have a balloon

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removed from her stomach. Inserted several weeks ago, it's the latest

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(rocedure in suppressing appetite and tackling obesity. Consultant

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Jude Oben is the first to use the technique. He's under no illusion

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about the scale of obesity problem. We are already in the midst of an

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obesity epidemic. We simply cannot afford it. We have to be proactive,

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we have to do something differently to what we're doing at the loment.

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In Lewisham, they're focusing on exercise, nutrition and children.

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Funded by the council, the Ly Time active group runs healthy lhving

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programmes. It is an easy w`y to remember what a portion of fruit and

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vegetables is... A game of nutritional Deal Or No

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Deal, teaching the basics, `nd it seems to work. It's like re`lly

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changed my lifestyle, and I want to carry on doing these exercises and

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eating vegetables and fruit for the rest of my life.

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But Lewisham has one of the biggest obesity problems in the caphtal

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They're doing what they can but fear it won't be enough. We'll p`ck some

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pretty big snowballs togethdr and make a pretty big dent in those

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population figures. But we won't really turn the curve on obdsity. A

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harsh reality echoed by manx in Parliament. Unless we take dramatic

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action, we're going to be effectively seeing people ptt their

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own quality of life at risk, and of course there's the fiscal threat to

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the NHS. Who's going to do that That will need to be done bx a

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Cabinet minister appointed `t a Cabinet level. That was filled with

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about half a litre of salind. Provides Linda's procedure hs

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finished and the balloon helped her lose two stone.

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But without some kind of innovative approach to changing attitudes,

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obesity levels aren't going to go down any time soon.

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A teenage student from Enfidld has been told she'll be deported back to

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her native Mauritius this wdekend without her family. 19`year`old

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Yashika Bageerathi, has been told to leave alone by the Home Offhce or

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she'll be forcibly removed. The teenager came to London with her

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mother and siblings three ydars ago to escape an abusive relative.

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Fellow students at the Oasis Hadley Academy in north London are holding

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a protest this afternoon in Parliament Square.

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While the debate in London continues about which airports should be

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allowed to expand, the oldest airport of them all could bdcome a

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UNESCO World Heritage Site. Campaigners are calling for Croydon

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Airport, which dates back ndarly 100 years, to be awarded the sale status

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as places like the Taj Mahal and the Tower of London. The airport was

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where air`traffic control and radio navigation were developed.

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Let's get the weather forec`st now from Georgina.

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Good afternoon, a treat for the weekend as we continue with this

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rather hazy sunshine, a ple`sant afternoon, temperatures reaching 18

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or 19 Celsius. Tonight, largely clear, perhaps some mist by dawn

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with temperatures down to ehght or nine Celsius, another sunny and warm

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day. Don't forget the clocks go forward.

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That's it for now. I'll be back at 6:50 on BBC One. Until then, have a

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very good afternoon. Good afternoon. The clocks go

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forward by one hour tonight, British Summer Time begins. Hard to believe

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that this was the scene exactly one year ago in North Wales when we were

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in the grip of one of the coldest springs for many a decade. A

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different story this weekend, of course, with warm air wafting up

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from the near continent, and under clear skies the temperatures

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soaring. It is not clear everywhere, we have a lot of cloud further north

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and west, and with a damp start across some areas, that cloud is

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thinning and

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