16/05/2014 BBC London News


16/05/2014

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Good evening. A cyclist who remains in hospital

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with serious injuries after being run over by a lorry has spoken from

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his hospital bed about the urgent need to take action to stop more

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accidents and deaths occurring on our roads. Bart Chan was hit earlier

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this week and he described the moment of impact to our Transport

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Correspondent, Tom Edwards. Helpless under those wheels. I felt

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like my body went limp, basically. I was expecting the worst. It was kind

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of like slow motion, almost. Excruciating pain then followed. I

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was amazed I was still conscious coming out the other side of it.

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Bart Chan knows he's extremely lucky to be alive. On Tuesday night, he

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says he was hit from behind by a lorry whilst cycling and run over. I

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have got a shattered left shoulder, ripped cartilage and muscles around

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there. I have got deep gashes in my elbow and knee. An experienced

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cyclist, he is speaking out as he wants quicker, urgent action to make

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the roads safer. Compulsory better design. You have got London buses

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that are well designed for the drivers. They can look around almost

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360 degrees. I can see them and they can see me. Why can't HGV's have

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that? Why can't we have segregation all over, especially in built`up

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areas where there are pedestrians as well? Why not ban HGVs in rush`hour

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as well, like they have done in Paris? The collision happened here

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on up the Thames Street. The same evening, another cyclist died at

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elephant and Castle. Again, it involved and HGV. This year so far,

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five cyclists have died. Two involved lorries. We have cycle

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superhighways and we have had people promise money. Infrastructure change

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takes time but there is no tangible change. If you speak to the

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cyclist's on the roads, nothing is changing. They are still dangerous.

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It is not happening fast enough because deaths and serious injuries

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are still going on. The Mayor talks about cycling revolution. I am

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Johnson. City Hall says it is lobbying to change the rules on

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lorry cabs and is tightening the safety equipment lorries have to use

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and it is spending millions on cycling infrastructure. But, it says

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there are no short cuts and it wants the improvements to be done

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properly. There is no doubt there is frustration from cyclists on the

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lack of visible progress and tomorrow, there will be a big

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demonstration from them. The last time we had one on such a scale, it

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was aimed at the mayoral candidates. Tomorrow, it will be aimed at the

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local council elections. Bart now faces a long period of

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rehabilitation but at the moment he doesn't know how much his injuries

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will change his life. He doesn't want anyone to go through the same

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thing. Fire crews in Kent are tackling a

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large blaze in Erith tonight. Local people have reported smoke visible

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from Dartford several miles away. It's believed the fire started in a

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factory. The mother of a baby who was filmed

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on a secret camera being mistreated by his nanny has said she'll never

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get over what's happened. The nanny, who can't be named for legal

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reasons, was found not guilty of cruelty towards the child. But his

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mother, who's from Clapham, says she's angry about the way the case

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has been handled by the Crown Prosecution Service. Sonja Jessup

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has this report. This is baby Ollie's bedtime, choked

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on a hidden camera, his nanny appears to handle him roughly.

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Later, she is seen throwing him on the mattress and smacking him

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several times. For his mother, watching the footage was horrifying.

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The most important thing in your life is your children and you know

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that. You just don't ever expect anything like that to happen. She

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says the nanny, who can't be named for legal reasons, came with glowing

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references. But she became concerned about her behaviour. After showing

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the footage, `` showing the footage to police, she was arrested and

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charged with mistreatment towards a person under 16 months old. The

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court said: she denied intending to hurt him and

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the court heard he did not appear injured. She was found not guilty.

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But on other's mum complained to the crown prosecution service. I have

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been let down by the system. I have not been given the chance to defend

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my son, that I was not given the chance as a mum to protect, to be

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the voice of my son. The CPS says it regrets the family fills it did not

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communicate clearly with them, saying: It is very, very hard for

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the whole family. There are times when the family are asleep upstairs

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and I come downstairs just to cry because I think about what happened

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to my son in that room. She says she still finds it very

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hard to watch the footage. He is now happy in a nursery that his mum says

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she will always be haunted by what happened.

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Shops in Westminster didn't have shoppers swarming around them today.

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Instead, it was bees. Around 5,000 of them sent pedestrians running for

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cover but it's not known where they came from. Beekeepers were quickly

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called in to take them to the roof of Westminster Cathedral.

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That's it from me for tonight, so I'll hand you

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maybe they all wanted to enjoy the weather from street level.

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It is a great night to be a weatherman and this is on the menu

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for the weekend ` Sunshine occasionally and the temperature is

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responding into the low 20s. A warm night to come. Variable cloud, some

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clear skies, maybe a bit of listing places, but temperatures holding

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into double figures. A warm start tomorrow. Do not expect clear blue

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sky tomorrow though. There will be patchy cloud with some occasional

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sunshine. It will not be wall`to`wall blue sunshine, but

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temperatures still widely up to the low 20s. Central London could see as

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high as 2425 degrees. Sunny `` Sunday will be the sunny day. A

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chance for showers next week but how far do

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chance for showers next week but how far do you have to go to get proper

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rain? Thomas has the answer. For days now, we have been

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advertising some warm weather for the weekend and the forecast remains

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unchanged. In fact, hot sunshine on the way for many of us and talking

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about that, I would like to warn you how strong the Sunnis this time of

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year. In spring, we tend to flock to the sun and burn very easily. It

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