15/06/2014 BBC London News

That it from us. We are back at 10:05.

Good evening and welcome to BBC London News. I'm Louisa Preston

A police investigation is under way after more than 1,000 people

attended an illegal rave at a former Royal Mail delivery

Nine people have been arrested and four people were taken to hospital.

Missiles, including furniture and fire extinguishers, were thrown at

police when they arrived to shut the rave down, as Gareth Furby reports.

The damage left behind in central Croydon by an unlicensed

More than 1,000 people are thought to have turned up and it

You can see people inside and hear the noise of the sound systems.

Neighbour Hash Patel feared it might be the start of a riot.

Hundreds and hundreds of people running around the street.

I was a bit concerned they might start

Then I can hear a lot of helicopters.

Police said officers entered the building at around 8,30 this

morning and several hours later people are still leaving.

But this pair didn't want to talk to us about the event.

This teenager claimed he'd been inside.

The disruption shut down a section of Croydon's tram system

and the local MP wants to know why the police didn't move in sooner.

I think there are going to be some real questions to be asked

Firstly about intelligence, did we know this was going to take place?

And then about whether the police did everything

they could to get enough resources here as quickly as possible.

Police say further arrests are likely in the coming days

as a result of serious disorder in this area.

A number of people in the crowd became violent.

Objects were thrown at police, and the window of

Six people were also taken to hospital.

Greenwich Council say they are working with the family of

Fusilier Lee Rigby and the Army to commemorate him in Woolwich.

The 25-year-old was killed in December last year

Two British Muslim converts were jailed for life in February

It comes after thousands of people signed

an online petition calling for the soldier to be given a permanent

City Hall has put forward proposals for record levels of investment

in flood protection schemes against surface water flooding.

The proposals, to be considered by the

Environment Agency over the Summer, include a range of projects in high

Jim Wheble has been looking at one example already under

The cars are absolutely submerged after God knows how much water

Surface water flooding around Brixton and Herne Hill in 2004.

It shows how dangerous sudden downpours can be

To prevent this happening again a few miles away in Dulwich Park, a

With more extreme weather events predicted, it's an issue

Surface water flooding schemes have been overlooked for many years.

But in recent years, there's been a lot more incidence of surface

water flooding and people are starting to realise that we actually

So you can see where the water is gathering now in what is

The problem is that our Victorian drains can't cope with very intense

But add to that another man-made issue, and you have a recipe

As London has become more densely populated, and more urbanised,

we've lost lots of porous surfaces all over London.

And there's less opportunity for the water to escape

so what the water is doing now is it works its way through those porous

They actually become saturated and the water just runs

Using underground storage tanks and other unobtrusive defences

thanks to this project Herne Hill soon able to cope with a one

City Hall has now proposed to the environment agency a number of

With many experts predicting if the biggest flooding threat that

Further into the long-term plan we're looking

into how we could reinforce those programs and have more saleable

urban drainage schemes brought through across the capital to manage

This project in Dulwich Park is due to finish next year.

These types of scenes in this area should be a thing of the past.

The hope is money can be fine so other places will be just

It will be a mostly dry and bright day with some sunny spells.

It will feel warm with a maximum temperature of 20 degrees Celsius.

Warm sunny spells are expected to continue for the rest of the week,

but it will be rather cloudy at times and there's a chance

That's it for now but I'll be back just after 10.20pm tonight

The weather won't be far of what we experience of this weekend. Dry

weather here and there and fearing amount of sunshine. The best of

sunshine is in the West. Temperatures getting into the low

20s. Disappointingly cloudy further east. In between, a few showers

North-west Scotland and Wales, the odd sharp shower disappearing

through the night. We could see one or two light showers across East

Anglia and