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a special edition of Newsnight on the crisis in Iraq | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC London News. I'm Alex Btshill. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
The Mayor has promised to hdlp thousands of Londoners on to | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the property ladder by kickstarting house building in the capit`l. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Boris Johnson and the Chancdllor today promised to build 50,000 new | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Up to 20 new housing zones will be created across London, | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
with City Hall and central government contributing | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
But Labour has criticised the Mayor, saying after six years | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
in office these latest plans are "too little, too late". | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
As brownfield sites go, they don't come much browner than | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Waste ground for 20 years, ht's a site that's been hard to develop. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
But this morning the cavalrx arrived bursting with ideas and mondy. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
They say it will transform this site and 20 others like it into housing, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
The Chancellor is promising ?20 million to help set up so`c`lled | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
Freeing up planning rules and promising to clean up contalinated | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
We need to see more homes btilt on sites | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
I am giving the Mayor new powers to speed up the planning, | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
but also money so we get thd schools and the roads and the jobs that make | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
But is it right to do the dhrty work for developers with public loney, | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
handing them with cleaned up plots with good transport links? | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
There are tonnes of sites across London like this that haven't made | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
it through any of the housing boom cycles, because they don't have the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
transport links or there's ` problem with poisoning of the land, so if | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
you can address those with ` bit of taxpayer money, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
that is the right thing to do otherwise they will never h`ppen. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Some of the homes would have to be affordable. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
That is welcomed in Tower H`mlets, where there's 24,000 households | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
I have friends who lived on the Isle of Dogs for years with their parents | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
We are in a flat and with the children I'd like a garden but | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
We need houses with gardens so we can play. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
On top of that we have this highest density in Europe which means future | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Building will not take placd here in Enfield until 2016. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Making an announcement is one thing, following through is the hard part. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
We need to make sure these homes are genuinely affordable to Londoners, | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
particularly on low and middle incomes. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Boris Johnson has had six ydars to get a grip on the housing crisis | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
London's only building at the moment one third | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
of the homes every year that the Mayor has estimated that we need. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Expectations will be high not just from council leaders but | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Six men have been jailed for a total of more than 70 years | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
after pushing a man into thd path of a lorry as he tried to chase | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Shammi Atwal died running after a gang of armed men who'd | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
raided his warehouse in Barking and threatened his wife. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
The man running from right`to`left in | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
He's just witnessed six men who robbed his warehouse. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
The judge described this as an act of considerable courage, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
but it's an act that ultimately cost him his life. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
As the men escaped Mr Atwal and other members of staff chased | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
They got into an altercation with the men and tried to get his wife's | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
handbag back but one of thel pushed him into the path of a lorrx. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
He was a God`fearing man, a religious person. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
He was happy, always had a smile on his f`ce. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
What can one say about someone as dearly loved as that | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
These six men, five of them from Lithuania, were today criticised | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
by the judge for refusing to reveal which one of them pushed Mr Atwal. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
For that reason all six werd convicted of manslaughter | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
They managed to steal just ?1,0 0, money that was | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
He was a lovely man, a respdcted man, a religious man, hard`working. | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
Mr Atwal had been a business partner here for almost | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
20 years and leaves behind two children, aged four and sevdn. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
In court today, the QC said no sentence will make up | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
You have shown no remorse or regret for the consequences of your | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
actions, but the last actions of Mr Atwal were clearly for hhs wife. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
The men received sentences of between 11 and 13 years. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
London's newest tunnel under the Thames has been unveiled today. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
The Thames Tunnel, which is part of the ?15 billion | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Crossrail project, stretches for almost two`and`a`half mhles | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
When it's open in 2018, it will help reduce journey times | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
This is a fantastic engineering feat that's been achieved. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
What you see today is just `nother example of some phenomenal work | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
being done at taking this ttnnel under the river, on time, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
a high`quality tunnel in the best tradition of Brtnel | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
Spikes which were installed outside a block of flats in Southwark to | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
stop homeless people from sleeping there have been removed. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
More than 125,000 people signed a petition against them, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
and the Mayor called them "tgly self`defeating and stupid." | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Southwark Council said it w`s relieved they'd been taken out. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Transport for London has outlined a number of trials it'll be | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
carrying out to try and makd the streets safer for cyclists. | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
It wants to test quieter HGVs and detection equipment on London buses. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
It's aiming to reduce the ntmber of people killed or seriously hnjured | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
That is it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
The weekend, a little bit fresher, maybe 21 or 22, but in the sunshine | :06:20. | :06:42. | |
it will feel warm enough. Wd have potentially one or two rumbles of | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
thunder on the way through the early hours of the morning. Mainlx towards | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
the west of London. Most of us should have a dry night. By the | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
early hours of the morning, or 6 Celsius. Quite ugly start on | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Saturday. Tomorrow, a bit more cloud in the sky. Not quite as hot as the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
last couple of days. Temper`tures will be a bit lower. We havd a | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
breeze coming out of the North Sea. Temperatures are a couple of degrees | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
lower. How about Sunday? Let's look at it. Very similar. Spot the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
difference. Temperatures ond or two degrees lower, not that you would | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
really notice the differencd. On the whole, a fine weekend, go ott and | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
enjoy it. With the outlook for the next couple of days, looking good, | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
temperatures in the 20s. Now the West -- now the National forecast. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Good evening. Over the last two days in the south of England there has | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
been a lot of sunshine and temperatures up to 26 degrees. Don't | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
expect temperatures that high this weekend, cooler for many. A lot of | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
dry weather even if it is a little bit on the cloudy side at times We | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
see the cloud increasing this afternoon and through the evening. | :07:57. | :07:58. |