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from the BBC News at 6. died going to an illegal rave, his

teacher described Rio Andrew as an A great people. The assemblies we have

had today with his fellow students, their affection and the estdem in

which they have clearly held him was all too clear and palpable. We will

hear from the police, who h`ve been heavily criticised for not doing

enough to stop the rave frol happening.

Also tonight, guilty of takhng a husband's death, a couple sdntenced

for a ?1 million insurance fraud. Escaping London's soaring property

prices, new evidence reveals the cheapest places commute frol.

Plus, the latest Olympic venue to open its doors to the public. Two

years after the games and ?30 million later, what was oncd known

as the wheelchair tennis venue is now reopened as the Lee Valley

hockey and tennis centre. Good evening and welcome to the

programme. Tributes have bedn paid to a 15`year`old boy who didd after

going to an illegal rave in Croydon. Rio Andrew was a pupil at Holland

Park school. Today his head teacher described him as an A great people

destined for success. Policd say there main focus is to find the drug

dealer who sold the drugs that killed him, but there is crhticism

that officers knew the rave was being planned but failed to

intervene. Alex Bushill has the story.

Rio Andrew, 15 years old, popular, diligent, talented, and killed, it

is thought, by a drug overdose at an illegal rave in Croydon. He was far

from home, and at his school and Holland Park teachers and ptpils

today were in mourning. The assemblies we have hailed today with

his fellow students, their `ffection and the esteem in which thex have

clearly held was all too cldar and palpable to us. Everyone who knew

him and admired him, he had so much potential, particularly on the

athletics track, and the self discipline to fulfil it. Always

willing to join in and help, someone who was very popular with athletes

and managers. He was England's schools champion, and he cotld

easily have gone on to be an international. He was one of about

1300 who descended on a distsed Royal Mail building in East

Croydon. Residents filmed the noise from the sound systems inside. At

one point, those inside through fire extinguishers at the police

outside. In all, 14 arrests were made. Speak to those who went, and a

picture emerges of a well organised event where ketamine and ecstasy

were readily available. This 16`year`old did not want to appear

on camera, his parents did not know he went to the rave, nor do many

others, it seems. He says these are events designed for and poptlar with

schoolchildren. They don't really mind about drugs, but they do care

if you are trying to rob people start a fight, cause havoc. It is

obvious people are either drunk or on drugs. Today it has emerged that

police knew this was going to be used for a party two weeks `go. As

stragglers left on Sunday, puestions were being at about police tactics.

Today they grew into a crescendo with the local MP leading the

charge. There are uncomfort`ble reminders of the riots, a vdry large

crowd gathering with not enough police officers present. If the

intelligence had been acted on, the building could have been secured and

they could have been enough officers to stop the event going ahe`d. The

Metropolitan Police has launched an inquiry into white intelligdnce was

not acted upon, but also defended their tactics on the night. We have

to make a difficult decision, either close the place and have 2000 people

roaming the streets, or contain them in a venue they had chosen to go to

where we could keep them safe, where they could cause minimal dalage It

was a brave decision by the commander on the night, and I think

it was the right decision. None the less, Rio Andrew is' death hs a

warning of the wrist that tdenagers run to attend the latest, most edgy

events. Looking ahead, preventing illegal

raves poses a huge challengd to police. This kind of event hs not

unusual or had to attend. You follow the promoter on a social media

site, and within a few hours of the party beginning, you are given a

number, you phone up to find out the exact location and time of the

event. I was able to find a similar event in July with a view mhnutes of

looking on the internet. If you go to these parties, you will find the

irony is that they are well organised with scores of security

guards, not to ensure they `re legal or drug`free, but to insure they are

violence free. ?10 and you `re in. Police struggle, because organisers

have a variety of locations are in mind, they can shift it at the last

minute, and then it is a race between police and a critic`l mass

of partygoers. If the partygoers get there in two large numbers, there is

very little the police can do to regain control. But as we s`w, it

resulted in the death of thhs much out of my head, much respected, much

loved young boy. Stay with us, lots more to come

tonight, including no more planes at playtime, the message from `

Heathrow school to the commhssion looking at airport expansion.

A man who faked his own death so his wife could claim more than ?1

million in insurance money has been jailed for two and a half ydars

Anju Kumar claimed that her husband died of brain fever in Indi`, but he

was alive and well. More on this now from Daniel Boettcher, who hs at the

Crown Court. Well, Sanjay Kumar pleaded guilty to

six counts of fraud by falsd representation in April, and his

wife pleaded guilty to two counts. Police say that Sanjay Kumar was

insignificant financial debt and faked his death to try to collect

more than ?1 million from insurance and investments. Anju Kumar,

according to police, told insurers her husband had died of brahn fever

on a trip to India and had been cremated in November 2011. But

insurers became suspicious, they said they found no record of him

being treated or admitted to hospital. Police say there was only

a bogus death certificate and no evidence that the crematoritm even

existed. City of London Polhce became involved, they found Anju

Kumar had wired money to her husband in India two days after she claimed

he had died. They later traced him as having returned to the UK from

India in 2012 under an assuled name. Today he was sentenced to two and a

half years in jail, his wifd was given five months, suspended for two

years, and City of London Police gave this reaction outside court.

They were unsuccessful due to the investigation by City of London

Police. This type of fraud hs becoming more prevalent,

unfortunately, and it puts lore money on two people's premitms,

affecting the general public, and the judge, in his sentencing,

described them as thieves, `nd that is what this case was. What else did

the judge have to say? Well, they had received only ?10,000, but judge

Peter Higgins told them that in the circumstances they had embarked on a

course of criminal wrongdoing that he said was sustained, relatively

sophisticated and very serious. He told Sanjay Kumar that his trip to

India was an elaborate deceht claiming an genuine insurance

policies. He said, we saw there was a way of discharging your ddbts and

a way of starting a new fin`ncially comfortable life in India. With the

latest, Daniel Boettcher, thank you. A group of MPs is calling on the

Government to rethink its ddcision to award the Thames Link rahl

service to two European countries. They claim that a French firm and a

German firm take over the btsy route, hundreds of jobs will be

lost, passengers will receive a worse service, and safety whll be

put at risk. The Department for Transport has accused them of

scaremongering. An inquest has been hearing how a

publishing executive from Hertfordshire was shot dead by

suspected Somali pirates whhle on holiday in Kenya with his whfe, and

his wife kidnapped and held hostage for six months. David Tebbutt from

Bishop Stortford was staying with his wife Judith at the Kiwaxu safari

park near the Somali border. The coroner recorded a verdict of

unlawful killing. Next, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver

helped change the way we thhnk about school dinners. Now, one decade on

from his campaign, ministers are going even further. From next year,

new guidelines for schools hn England come into force which will

mean less fried or battered food, and milk back on the agenda. Marc

Ashdown has visited one prilary school trying to lead the w`y with

healthier school meals. It is an offer the Government is

hoping will be too good to refuse, so from next year at other

nutritional standards will lean more fruit and veg and less fat `nd salt.

It means that the school me`ls they get are more healthy, are t`sty are

more enjoyable, and so they will not only get a lot out of that for the

health but also for their education as well. Here in south London, they

prepare everything freshly, but Government research suggests too

many schools are not meeting nutritional standards. This plan

aims to set clearer guidelines for example children must eat one or

more portions of fruit per day. Bridal battered food cannot be

served more than twice a wedk. `` fried or battered. It helps them get

through the school day, thehr concentration is better, and it

helps them learn about food. Chicken meatballs and a variety of

vegetables today, all either made or grown here at the school, and it

does seem to be hitting the spot. Healthy food is good for yotr brain,

because you can do much mord learning. The best bit is bdcause it

is made in the school. And xou helped me get!

All this has been a long tile coming, newly ten years since Jamie

Oliver's campaign to ban Turkey twizzle twizzlers, and this has been

dreamt up by Henry Dimbleby. The old standards work based on a computer

program that printed out all your nutrition, creating a restrhction on

chefs, and one of the reasons for the standards, we want parents to be

able to print them out, and the reason for a simple standard is to

allow the kooks the flexibility to be creative with their menus. All

schools will have to comply. Anyone who doesn't will fall foul of Ofsted

inspectors. A London scientist left serhously

brain damage after having to wait an hour and a half for an ambulance is

to receive more than ?5 million in compensation. Caren Paterson will

require specialist care for the rest of her life after a catalogte of

failures by London Ambulancd Service. Katherine Carpenter has

more on this and joins us from Islington.

Well, back in October 2007, Caren Paterson collapsed at her home in

Florence on Hargrave Road. Her boyfriend dialled 999, but for over

an hour and a half, the responding Amber Rudd sparked up and w`ited

just 100 metres away. `` ambulance parked up. For some unknown reason,

her flat was flagged up as ` high`risk address. That meant the

ambulance crew had to wait for a police escort, and there silply

wasn't one available. All this time, her condition was getting worse and

her brain had been starved of oxygen, and she was left br`in

damaged, as a lawyer explains. The opportunity was missed to treat

Caren quickly, because she had suffered a collapsed, her lhps were

turning blue, she was clearly in need of urgent medical attention,

and it was a deteriorating situation that needed some immediate

intervention. What it did not need was the delay which happened and the

catastrophic consequences that flowed from that. London and is

admitted it was at fault. Yds, in fact, it has admitted 11 brdaches of

duty, including failing to comply with trust policies, a failtre to

recognise there was no dangdr at the flat, and failing to recognhse that

her condition was life`thre`tening. Today London Ambulance Servhce told

us it has changed its poliches surrounding the high risk rdgisters

significantly. This is seven years ago. We have made significant

changes and improvements in the last seven years, so I accept at the time

there were some failings, and we have accepted that and apologised,

but I am content that we have made significant improvements and

changes. Well, at the time of the incident, Caren Paterson was a

genetics scientist at Kings College Hospital. Now she has been left

severely brain`damaged, and she will need round`the`clock care for the

rest of life. Today her mother said, it is so distressing that all of her

aspirations and ambitions h`ve been taken away from her, and shd said

she still find it shocking that as her daughter's condition got worse

and worse, there was an ambtlance waiting just around the corner.

Just how noisy Wood West London be at Heathrow build another rtnway?

That is one of the crucial puestion is being decided by the Airports

Commission which is looking at options for expanding capachty in

the south`east. Today the mdn and women of the commission went to take

a look and listen at the current situation in Hounslow for

themselves. Tom Edwards joined them. Even parts of the guided totr were

drowned out by planes from Heathrow. This is the Government's avhation

commission trying to make a recommendation on where to put a new

runway. Today they visited ` school next to Heathrow. Teachers here feel

this building isn't fit for purpose. We are in classrooms where we have

to shut the blinds, we have to stop speaking, the air quality is not

very good, and in some of the temperatures just saw. We c`nnot

open the windows because of the noise, so consequently we are like

in a greenhouse. Many here rely on jobs at the airport, and whhle

Heathrow does fund schemes to reduce noise, the council once mord. They

should have been a more forthcoming attitude, and we want the ahrport to

be a good neighbour, and at the moment it's not delivering on that

ethos. That noise will incrdase if Heathrow gets a third runwax.

Gatwick and perhaps an estu`ry airport of the other options. Noise,

though, would be part of thd assessment. We have got to get the

balance right between the economic interests of the many and the

environmental and nuisance costs to the few. And I think that is going

to be an increasingly important part of any infrastructure debatd in this

country. Will you go of any infrastructure debatd in this

country. Will you for a third runway? We are not at that point, we

have narrowed the options down from 58 to yield three and potentially

four, we have done a lot of work, but that is the state of pl`y. The

commission acknowledges thex have an extremely difficult task. Any

recommendation will be made after the next election. Is Still to come:

For a century it's offered Londoners the chance to have their sax.

Speakers corner gets a makeover And... What a difference a bit of

sunshine makes. The temperature four degrees higher today than ydsterday.

We won't see quite so much sunshine through the rest of the week,

though. More details later on. So, the cost of buying a hole in the

capital has risen nearly 20$ in the past 12 months. That's according to

figures published today. So`ring prices are making it more attractive

to move out of London for a larger property but with a longer commute

and as Chris Rodgers discovdred Ed, there is an increasing amount of

help for families planning that move out of the capital.

House prices in London have been rising by as much as ?4,500 a week,

it is no wonder increasing numbers of families are cashing thehr equity

and swapping their flat for a large house in the Home Counties but the

map of London's traditional commuter belt is chapging. Take this family,

for instance. In April they moved 80 miles out from Wandsworth to

Wiltshire. We found a school that we liked and then we found this house.

We wanted a bit more space, more garden, we wanted to have fhelds to

look out over. Technology is also playing its part. Working from home

part`time, takes the sting out of a long commute. I probably wotld have

struggled to do that five d`ys a week, just because it is probably

that bit further. And, I thhnk, by being able to do what I do `nd have

those couple of days at homd, actually I find that that I'm more

productive at home than in the office. For James it's an

hour`and`a`half's train journey to the capital. I'm not crammed in like

a sardine on the Northern Lhne. I get a seat. I can the sit b`ck, read

the paper. Life after London is offering online help to Londoners

researching the fabulous cotntry piles that their basic Hackney flat

could buy them The ideal for people is certainly what we call at home in

an hour. It is an hour on a mainline station but beyond that people will

go for two hours a four `hotr commute in a day. For lots of

people, work is changing, they might be doing that four days a wdek

rather than five. I think it is critical to people's sense of

well`being. This is a map of affordability, produced by `

transport analyst who has added the cost of a season ticket to dvery

station to the average monthly cost of a mortgage. The areas coloured

red are the most expensive. They are the more traditional commutdr belts

such as Cobham which costs `n average of ?4,556 a month and

Canterbury West which will set you back ?1,413. It is the cheaper

places in green thine ceasing numbers of Londoners are he`ding to.

Swindon, near James' home costs just over ?1,000 a month and so does

Folkestone. But the green areas on that map in the distant futtre could

become red as demand on housing and train journeys increases, so koted

prices. Dosh so could the prices.

It's the latest Olympic vente to open its doors to the public. The

new Lea Valley hockey and tdnnis centre will be a base for both elite

athletes and the local commtnity. Our reporter has been looking around

and joins us from somewhere in the distance there.

Hello Sara. I'm here, stood on one of two international standard hockey

pitches. Note the patriotic colour. This is now the home of England

Hockey where they will play most of their major games. There ard also

six outdoor tennis courts and four indoor but this site is tow`rds the

north of the Queen skas Elizabeth Olympic Park. During the Gales it

all looked very different. This is how most of us remelber the

London 2012 hockey venue. COMMENTATOR: Great Britain have won

the bronze medals. The Riverbank arena was temporary but hockey's

story in east London was fadr from over. Plans were already on the

site, used in the Paralympics, for the tennis, call Eton Manor. We

worked close which with the govern og bod yans local authoritids to see

what could be here in the long`term and to make sure we designed into

the venues, the ability to provide commute and elite provision here

years after the game. ?30 mhllion and two years later, the Le` Valley

hockey and tennis centre is open and England Hockey have their vdry own

Wembley. This is our show phece if you like. This is where we would

come, where we want our crowd to come, our supporters to comd and

cheer us on and we want this to be our home and a successful one.

England hockey have already won the right to host four internathonal

tournaments at the venue, whth the seating able to expand from 3,0 0 it

15,000. But the new facilithes aren't just for elite athletes. It

is also for the community. Here at Wapping Hockey Club t can't fit fast

enough. You can fit five gales on a Saturday. We need to host ehght or

nine. We are having to do that across three sites in different

locations from our clubhousd. The move to the National Stadiul is just

wonderful. At a time when all tennis eyes turn to Wimbledon, thehr

players are just as pleased with the new facilities These courts are

fantastic, it is a world cl`ss facility. To have one here hn London

is awesome. Another legacy venue open and East End's sporting

portfolio is almost completd. Well, the last piece of that Olympic

Park puzzle will be when thd stadium re`opens in 2016 as West Hal's new

ground. Until then, if you want to come along to this venue, ?4 to ?5

for a hockey session, anywhdre between ?5 to ?25 for tennis but if

you come along this Saturdax, it is free. Saturday it is then. Thank you

very much. It's long`been the place whdre on a

Sunday morning anyone can stand up and have their say on whatever

subject they choose. Speakers' corner in Hyde Park has hosted

famous figures such as Karl Marx and George Orwell. Now it is about to

reopen after a refurbishment. Graham Satchell has been having a

look. This part of London h`s been associated with free speech for

almost 1,000 years. It was the site of the first public executions and

massive crowds would gather to hear the condemned man's final words

Speakers corner has been thd site of mass demonstrations and big speeches

ever since. What we have trhed to do is make it as welcoming as possible.

The royal Parks Authority h`s now very vated the whole area. This new

`` has now renovated the whole area. This new entrance will be opening on

Thursday. We have designed those to look like mega phones so it

symbolises freedom of speech. Each one is a mega phone. Yes. It has

seen famous orators like Marx and George Orwell and this is Tony Benn

reading extracts from Spy skas catcher... Ancient democrathc

rights. Anyone can get up and speak. Anarchists, comedian, relighous

zealots. You can say nearly everything. Richard has been coming

here for more than 50 years. It is particularly important n 2004, when

most exchange of opinions t`ke place on the internet and Facebooks,

Speakers's Corner is still ` live exchange of opinions. If yot insult

somebody, somebody in the atdience might either shout you down or punch

you on the nose. Funny, challenging at times owedous. The most hmportant

thing about the speech here, it remains free.

Graham Satchell with that rdport. The weather has frightened tp even

more today. Let's get the forecast with Wendy who is here. Hello.

It has brightened up. A beattiful day. What a difference the sunshine

has made. We got to 22 todax and only 18 yesterday. Through the

middle part of this week thdre are going to be rather more clotdy skies

to look forward to. We will see the return of the sunshine by the

weekend. Certainly today, bdautiful blue skies. You can see that on the

satellite. This is the cloud sinking across us as we go through tonight

and it'll stick around throtgh the day top of it is associated with a

cold front which might introdues one or two spots of rain tomorrow

morning. Something to be aw`re of if you are commuting to work. That

clears through and should brighten up as we go through the aftdrnoon.

So, for this evening, enjoy the hazy sunshine while it lasts. Thdre will

be the cloud that pours in from the north as we go through the night.

Tale turn misty, muggy and lurky, I think, by the early hours of the

morning. With www. That higher humidity there is a chance the cloud

will produce one or two spots of rain. All of that meaning

temperatures won't fall much lower than maybe 12, 13, maybe 14. Through

tomorrow morning, bits and pieces of rain around. Grab that brolly before

you head out just in case. Before the end of the morning we whll bee

see that clear away with sunny spells breaking through as we go

through the afternoon. A slow improvement to the day. Temperatures

reaching 19 to 22. In those sunny spells, I should think it'll feel

pleasant enough. On the outlook we will have rather more cloud, as we

go through the week. Again on Thursday, some cloud will break up

at times to give us some sunny spells, more particularly in the

morning and feeling muggy and warm into the afternoon, we have a cold

front that is going to go through later on in the day which could

introduce one or two showers here and there. Once that has gone

through on Friday, it'll fedl a little fresher with temperatures

dipping to about 21 Celsius underneath the cloud but it will be

dry. Through the weekend, it looks like we'll have a return to the

rather more sunny skies and temperatures aren't looking too bad

at all. Thank you very much.

That's it for now. More, of course, on the day's stories on our website

and I will be back with our late news. From all of us on the team.

Thank you for watching and have a lovely evening. Goodbye.