08/06/2014 BBC London News

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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, with me Asad Ahmad.

Two years ago - campaigning for re-election

Boris Johnson claimed his rival Ken Livingstone had spent more time

But since winning a second Mayoral term, the BBC has learned that

the Mayor has spent more time in Doha than he has in Dagenham

Critics say he's in danger of becoming a 'Zone One Mayor'

which is exactly the same accusation HE made about his predecessor.

Our Political Correspondent, Karl Mercer's report,

Overseas trips are nothing new for London's Mayors. Ken Livingstone

went round-the-world to promote the capital taking in India and Cuba on

his travels. Boris Johnson has done the same. That hasn't stopped

London's current Mayor publicly criticising his predesessor.

He went to Havana more often than he went to Havering.

It was a line repeated in Boris Johnson's 2012 election manifesto.

Analysis of his own diary for 2013 shows he spent more time at The

borough and more time in Doha last year than in Dagenham.

He visited a lot in his first term when he was relying on outer London

he hoped to vote him back in and he's rather turned his back on it.

It is interesting about the foreign visits. I defend the right of a

Mayor to go abroad and campaign for London. I represent Shoreditch which

is about to have a big development. I hope he is going to come and talk

as much to Londoners about their issues

In fact, the Mayor's passport was well-used last year. There was a

big trip to China and there had been plenty of others. So has he

turned his back on the outer London boroughs he once courted in favour

The Mayor made it clear that outer London is a priority. He went there

100 times in the course of his four years. That's 100 official

engagements, not just political visits or anything else.

And that was twice or three times what Ken Livingstone had done.

The Mayor's team, like the man himself, remain bullish, he hasn't

forgotten his roots, but expect to see more of him overseas, too.

Bus passengers now have the chance to take 'one more

journey' - even if they don't have enough credit on their Oyster Card.

It's ahead of London's buses going completely

cashless in exactly four weeks, as Emilia Papadopoulos explains.

Cash was once King and the only way to pay your fare. But all that's

changing and in a month's time the bus network will go completely

cashless. To prepare for the move, today Transport for London launched

the One More Journey initiative. The scheme means that if you don't have

enough credit, as long as you have a positive balance on your Oyster

Card, you can still use the bus. positive balance on your Oyster

Card, you can still use the bus But if you have a negative balance, you

won't be able to travel. So what about Londoners in more remote areas

where there are fewer places to top up? We have done some reviews of the

areas where we need more ticket shops where you can top up your

Oyster Card. The majority of passengers use Oyster Cards to pay

for their travel. 1% pay for their journey with cash. TfL say they will

save ?130 million over nine years. Not all commuters are keen on the

idea. If I can't get to a place where they sell an Oyster Card, you

can only do it at a station or shops, if the shop is not open, and

the station is not open, you have to get on the bus using cash. But bus

bosses insist going cashless is the best way forward for London.

Police are hunting for thieves who stole medals from a 92-year-old war

veteran. The victim who served with the Grenadier Guards was at home in

Barnet when a man posing as a worker from a water company carried out the

burglary. The Queen's Baton visited the

Olympic Park in Stratford today as part of the build-up to the

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. And former Olympic rower

Sir Matthew Pincent was given the task of abseiling

into the park with the baton. A look at the weather,

and after a mainly dry night, the temperature will rise quickly,

making it even warmer than today. But there will be a chance

of some rain in places, too. I'll be back with our next news

at 10.45 tonight on BBC One. Until then, I hope you have

a very good evening. Good evening. We got to 25 Celsius

this afternoon. There were some heavy showers elsewhere. Low

pressure to the west of the United Kingdom, anticlockwise winds around

that, dragging in some warm air from the near continent. The showers will

tend to fade away from Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight. Further

showers drifting up. 8.00am, in the South West, it is largely fine and

dry. Fairly warm, though. Could be 17 or 18 at 8.00am. So quite a warm

start to the day. Maybe one or two showers in the south. A much higher