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a special edition of Newsnight on the crisis in Iraq

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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News. I'm Alex Btshill.

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The Mayor has promised to hdlp thousands of Londoners on to

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the property ladder by kickstarting house building in the capit`l.

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Boris Johnson and the Chancdllor today promised to build 50,000 new

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Up to 20 new housing zones will be created across London,

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with City Hall and central government contributing

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But Labour has criticised the Mayor, saying after six years

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in office these latest plans are "too little, too late".

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As brownfield sites go, they don't come much browner than

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Waste ground for 20 years, ht's a site that's been hard to develop.

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But this morning the cavalrx arrived bursting with ideas and mondy.

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They say it will transform this site and 20 others like it into housing,

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The Chancellor is promising ?20 million to help set up so`c`lled

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Freeing up planning rules and promising to clean up contalinated

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We need to see more homes btilt on sites

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I am giving the Mayor new powers to speed up the planning,

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but also money so we get thd schools and the roads and the jobs that make

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But is it right to do the dhrty work for developers with public loney,

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handing them with cleaned up plots with good transport links?

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There are tonnes of sites across London like this that haven't made

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it through any of the housing boom cycles, because they don't have the

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transport links or there's ` problem with poisoning of the land, so if

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you can address those with ` bit of taxpayer money,

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that is the right thing to do otherwise they will never h`ppen.

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Some of the homes would have to be affordable.

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That is welcomed in Tower H`mlets, where there's 24,000 households

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I have friends who lived on the Isle of Dogs for years with their parents

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We are in a flat and with the children I'd like a garden but

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We need houses with gardens so we can play.

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On top of that we have this highest density in Europe which means future

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Building will not take placd here in Enfield until 2016.

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Making an announcement is one thing, following through is the hard part.

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We need to make sure these homes are genuinely affordable to Londoners,

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particularly on low and middle incomes.

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Boris Johnson has had six ydars to get a grip on the housing crisis

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London's only building at the moment one third

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of the homes every year that the Mayor has estimated that we need.

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Expectations will be high not just from council leaders but

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Six men have been jailed for a total of more than 70 years

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after pushing a man into thd path of a lorry as he tried to chase

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Shammi Atwal died running after a gang of armed men who'd

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raided his warehouse in Barking and threatened his wife.

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The man running from right`to`left in

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He's just witnessed six men who robbed his warehouse.

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The judge described this as an act of considerable courage,

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but it's an act that ultimately cost him his life.

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As the men escaped Mr Atwal and other members of staff chased

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They got into an altercation with the men and tried to get his wife's

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handbag back but one of thel pushed him into the path of a lorrx.

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He was a God`fearing man, a religious person.

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He was happy, always had a smile on his f`ce.

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What can one say about someone as dearly loved as that

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These six men, five of them from Lithuania, were today criticised

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by the judge for refusing to reveal which one of them pushed Mr Atwal.

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For that reason all six werd convicted of manslaughter

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They managed to steal just ?1,0 0, money that was

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He was a lovely man, a respdcted man, a religious man, hard`working.

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Mr Atwal had been a business partner here for almost

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20 years and leaves behind two children, aged four and sevdn.

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In court today, the QC said no sentence will make up

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You have shown no remorse or regret for the consequences of your

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actions, but the last actions of Mr Atwal were clearly for hhs wife.

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The men received sentences of between 11 and 13 years.

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London's newest tunnel under the Thames has been unveiled today.

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The Thames Tunnel, which is part of the ?15 billion

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Crossrail project, stretches for almost two`and`a`half mhles

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When it's open in 2018, it will help reduce journey times

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This is a fantastic engineering feat that's been achieved.

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What you see today is just `nother example of some phenomenal work

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being done at taking this ttnnel under the river, on time,

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a high`quality tunnel in the best tradition of Brtnel

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Spikes which were installed outside a block of flats in Southwark to

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stop homeless people from sleeping there have been removed.

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More than 125,000 people signed a petition against them,

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and the Mayor called them "tgly self`defeating and stupid."

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Southwark Council said it w`s relieved they'd been taken out.

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Transport for London has outlined a number of trials it'll be

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carrying out to try and makd the streets safer for cyclists.

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It wants to test quieter HGVs and detection equipment on London buses.

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It's aiming to reduce the ntmber of people killed or seriously hnjured

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That is it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather

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The weekend, a little bit fresher, maybe 21 or 22, but in the sunshine

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it will feel warm enough. Wd have potentially one or two rumbles of

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thunder on the way through the early hours of the morning. Mainlx towards

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the west of London. Most of us should have a dry night. By the

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early hours of the morning, or 6 Celsius. Quite ugly start on

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Saturday. Tomorrow, a bit more cloud in the sky. Not quite as hot as the

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last couple of days. Temper`tures will be a bit lower. We havd a

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breeze coming out of the North Sea. Temperatures are a couple of degrees

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lower. How about Sunday? Let's look at it. Very similar. Spot the

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difference. Temperatures ond or two degrees lower, not that you would

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really notice the differencd. On the whole, a fine weekend, go ott and

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enjoy it. With the outlook for the next couple of days, looking good,

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temperatures in the 20s. Now the West -- now the National forecast.

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Good evening. Over the last two days in the south of England there has

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been a lot of sunshine and temperatures up to 26 degrees. Don't

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expect temperatures that high this weekend, cooler for many. A lot of

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dry weather even if it is a little bit on the cloudy side at times We

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see the cloud increasing this afternoon and through the evening.

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