12/05/2014 BBC London News

Good evening. The disgraced former leader of Essex County Council, Lord

Hanningfield, is facing suspension from the House of Lords until the

end of the current parliament over his claims for allowances. The

former Conservative Peer, who served a jail sentence for fraud in 2011,

has also been ordered to pay more than ?3,000 he wrongly claimed. Alex

Bushill reports. Lord Hanningfield was once leader of

Essex county council, peer of the realm of the leading light of local

governments, but in 2011 he was disgraced and discredited and also

jailed for filling his expenses. Now he's in trouble all over again for

the same offence `` fiddling. The newspaper claimed the one`time pig

farmer and peer was travelling from this Essex home in the village that

bears his name to Parliament and often going straight home again.

This is their secretly filmed footage of Lord Hanningfield going

to work. Watch the clock on the left`hand corner. They say he went

in and came out again within half an hour. This was his retort at the

time. I've worked for nothing for 40 years. I have saved the tax paying

in Essex money. I have nothing to say sorry for. I think the taxpayer

should say thank you to me. Far from thanking him, that report today

castigated him. It found that over a period of 11 days, Lord Hanningfield

claimed a total of ?3300 in attendance allowances and he was on

the parliamentary estate are less than 40 minutes. He said he was

preparing for a debate, but the report said there was no evidence he

had done any work at all. So it recommends that he resuspended from

the Lords for the rest of the parliament. Other argue that a

tougher punishment is needed. The cardinal rule should be the

lawbreakers cannot be Lord make `` lawmakers. He has already been in

jail for one set of expenses fraud and is banned from the House of

Lords for fraudulently claiming allowances on this occasion. I think

most people would think that the time has come to say expel him, and

don't come back. For his political peers, it's a damaging fall from

grace. He was a shadow Tory minister in the House of Lords, the leader of

Essex county council. It was a leading member of the Association of

local government and one of the most powerful politicians in the country

at local government level, and he has brought not only dishonour on

politics in general, but particularly on to the Conservative

party. The house will vote tomorrow whether to suspend Lord

Hanningfield. They are likely to agree.

The number of dangerous dogs seized by the Met fell last year, bucking

the national trend. The figures were revealed ahead of a change to the

law tomorrow, making it an offence for a dog to be dangerously out of

control in any place, including all private property. And as Katherine

Carpenter reports, postal workers are among those welcoming the new

legislation. A postman in Essex for 20 years,

Dean had heard stories of colleagues getting attacked by dogs. Then it

happened to him. Twice. I was going to put a flimsy card through a

letterbox. Basically, it was so flimsy I just had to push in my

finger tiny bit, before I knew what had happened, the dog had more or

less taken the of my finger. Not the first incident you had faced? Six

years ago I was attacked by a Rottweiler after the dog owner told

me it wouldn't hurt me. The Royal mail says 96 of its post`men or

women were attacked by dogs in London between April 2012 and April

2013. And the communication workers union says that 70% of its members

who were attacked were on private property. It is currently an offence

to allow your dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place,

but from tomorrow, the law will apply on private property as well,

whether it is your home or your garden. It will also be an offence

for your dog to attack and assistance dog such as a guide dog

or hearing dog, and prison sentences will be a priest `` increased for

some offences. This has been given a cautious welcome my animal

charities. The legislation is a wake`up call for all dog owners to

say, please review the behaviour of your dog at the front door, in your

garden, and make sure you can manage your dog's behaviour to keep

unexpected visitors say. Deeney is more wary on his rounds these days.

He says he welcomes the change to the law in the help `` and hope it

will make owners more mindful. Well, Nick Beake joins me.

Cautiously welcomed by some charities? Yes, on the one hand they

are pleased that finally something that has so long has been synonymous

with bad legislation has been updated, but also many charities

seem to think that the ministers have got the wrong emphasis here.

For example, there's not enough preventative measures being put in

place here. For example, more education on what constitutes good

dog ownership. Interestingly, the RSPCA said today that they did not

think the number of dog bites would actually fall as a result of this.

And that would be a clear barometer of how well the legislation is

faring. The government, for their part, they say they have extensively

consulted on this and provided something which is a much better

framework and it will crucially protect people much better. Nick,

thank you very much. The stories of millions of people

who played a part in the First World War are to be preserved in a new

digital archive. The Imperial War Museum is encouraging the public to

upload photographs and memories of those who served on the front line

or who contributed to the war effort.

We really need people to search their attics. You can upload

pictures of your own precious family mementos, tell those stories that

have been passed down through the family and throughout the centenary

we will be asking people to tell us about those who don't appear in the

official records, and providing there is some evidence of their

contribution, we will create a life story page for them as well. For

more information on the Imperial War Museum's "Lives of the First World

War", and to hear more of the BBC's local stories from World War One At

Home, the address on your screen. That's it from me, so I'll wish you

a very good night and hand you over to Wendy for the weather.

Good evening. We will have some pretty decent weather on the way in

the second part of the week. It will be warming up as well. At the moment

we still have to shake off a few showers and we have seen some lively

ones this afternoon. They will tail off as we go through the second part

of the night and there are some breaks `` breaks in the cloud which

might allow Mr to form and temperatures will fall to five or

six degrees at the lowest end. We start the day tomorrow with hints of

brightness, sunshine here and there and we will keep that into the

afternoon our men but now and again we will have showers which are

likely to be slow`moving, heavy, possibly thundery and some places

did see some hail today and it is a possibility tomorrow. Temperatures

will get to 17 degrees. On the outlook though, dry, sunny weather

and as we head towards Friday temperatures will pick up towards

and as we head towards Friday temperatures will pick up towards 21

degrees. Good evening. Across the whole

country today the showers have been losing intensity, but still a

cluster across North Kent, stretching from Lincolnshire and

also into western Scotland and we will keep a few showers as we go

through the night which are moving their way into northern England.

Another potential areas developing through Wales and the South West but

in between there will be dry weather, clearer skies and the

northern Scotland the clear skies could lead to a touch of Frost the

temperatures dipping away. A chilly thing first thing on Tuesday morning

and already we have a few showers are here and they will develop as

the day goes on with the possibility of locally heavy downpours. Although

some subtle change in the frequency of the showers, and really where we

are most likely to see them is on balance, a bit more sunshine in

Scotland than it should be fine and dry. A bit warmer through the low

lands. The greatest risk in Northern Ireland is in the south-east, and we

don't expect too many through the afternoon for parts of West Wales

and south-west