29/08/2014 BBC London News


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Gompertz has the story. That's all from us tonight. Don t

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forget Newsnight's starting over on BBC 2 in a moment,

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with a special programme on Syria, but now on BBC1, it's time

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for the news where you are. Good evening and welcome, I'm Alice

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Bhandhukravi. down on the increasing numbdr

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of rough sleepers and beggars Responding to complaints

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from local residents, officdrs were joined by Home Office offichals and

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Romanian authorities this morning. Emilia Papadopoulos went

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along with them. It's 4am in this underpass near Park

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Lane and these rough sleepers, mostly Roma gypsies, are about to be

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woken up. Understand ably they aren't too pleased, but for many,

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this is nothing new. It's h`ppened last year, the year before `nd the

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year before that. TRANSLATION: I'll have nothhng in

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Romania. Why should I go back there. At least we have pounds and food.

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This operation is the latest effort by the Metropolitan Police. , the

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Romanian authorities and thd Home Office to tackle homelessness,

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begging and other antisocial behaviour in the capital Each

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morning four or five officers are here collecting intelligencd,

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speaking to these people, to check on their welfare, to see if they're

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offending and collect the intelligence which supports the

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bigger days of action which you re seeing here Many local todax.

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Residents welcome the action and say it's time to stop this recurring

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prob Lenle `` problem. It drags down an area that should be a showpiece

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for London. It affects all those who have businesses there, who work

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there, who live there and even the visitors to the area. This lorning,

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the Met identified around 80 rough sleepers around Marble Arch and Park

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Lane, they were mostly Roma gypsies from Romania. They've been brought

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to this administration point, where they'll be assessed by police and

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passed on to immigration officials who will check to see if thdy have a

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criminal record and determine how long they've been in the cotntry. If

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any of them have been here for over three months and can't provd that

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they're employed or activelx looking for a job, they could be sent back

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home. Further more, new regulations

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introduced in January mean they could be banned from re`entdring the

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UK for 12 months, unless thdy provide a valid reason for being

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here. For some, it's not enough The City of Westminster Council told us:

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Everyone here this morning was offered a free trip back to Romania.

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Liliana is the only one who volunteered to take it.

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TRANSLATION: I came to find my daughter. I sold everything from my

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house to get here to find hdr. She's also diabetic and sleeping on the

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streets is taking its toll. TRANSLATION: It's been extrdmely

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hard. I thought I might die sleeping on the pavements. As for thd other

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migrants, they also moved on, but just 200 metres down the ro`d. It's

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not hard to see why they're so reluctant to leave. No runnhng water

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and no electricity. This footage filmed by BBC London in Rom`nia last

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year shows the kind of condhtions many would have to return to. These

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raids are clearly not a long`term solution. We are trying to break

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centuries of distrust, systdmatic persecution and scrim nation and so,

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this is going to take time. It needs help for the Roma community to come

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together to voice their needs. Sleeping in doorways and packing up

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their lives every few days hs a small price to pay for living in the

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capital. For most, it beats the bleak prospect of returning back

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home. A 20`year`old man's been arrested

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on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving,

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after a 16`year`old boy was killed Fazan Ahmed died after the collision

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in Jupiter Drive last Fridax. Police say they're still qudstioning

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the suspect from Berkhampstdad. Heathrow's chief executive has

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written an open letter to Boris Johnson urging him

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to back expansion at the airport should his plan for a so`called

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"Boris Island" not go ahead. John Holland`Kaye said expansion

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at Heathrow would be "the only option left in thd race"

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if the estuary plan is scrapped Our Political Correspondent,

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Karl Mercer, reports. Heathrow this afternoon, thd

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country's biggest airport, the country's busiest airport and quite

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possibly, today at least, the country's cheekiest airport. It s no

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secret they want a third runway and no secret that the mayor wants a new

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airport in the Thames Estuary. If he got it, he said Heathrow cotld shut,

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replaced by a new neighbourhood for London. Next week, this man Sir

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Howard Davis, is expected to rule on whether the mayor's plan should go

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forward to a final short list for airport expansion. Today, a dear

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Boris letter from Heathrow's boss: "If your proposal for a new airport

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is not short listed by the `irport's commission, then Heathrow whll be

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the only option left in the race." It was a letter helpfully m`de

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public. We are reminding Boris today of the many things he's said over

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the last year or two about what the right answer is for UK

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competitiveness. That is a hub airport. I suppose we're just

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joining the dots up today and saying look, if Thames Estuary doesn't get

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short listed, you believe a hub is the right answer and therefore,

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logically, we would hope th`t you would back Heathrow. So you're just

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being helpful? Absolutely. Some helpful advice from Heathrow for the

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mayor today. No interview from City Hall, but they told us that they

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thought the estuary airport remained the most credible option. In the

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past, Boris Johnson has gond on record as saying if he doesn't get

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his estuary airport, he'd lhke to see expansion at Gatwick and not

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here at Heathrow, which may explain Gatwick's own response todax, no

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reminding the mayor or offering helpful advice just this in their

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own statement: "If the option is taken off the table, we will write

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privately to the mayor, givhng him the respect he deserves." The public

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relations game is very much afoot. The decision itself is expected

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early next week. Well it's good night from md. I

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leave you now with the forecast Good weather actually. It's warmer

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as the weekend wears on. Dalp weather before that. Tonight we see

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rain pushing in from the west. The second part of the night looks like

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being the wettest part of the night. Nowhere will be cold. Temperatures

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in double figures for most. Into Saturday, mainly dry for most of us

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with good spells of sunshind. A damp start with outbreaks of rain, soon

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clearing through the morning and then it turns brighter. Spldnty of

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sunshine around, maybe just a passing shower across the northern

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of the region. Most places dry. Top temperature of 21 degrees. Hnto

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Sunday we see this area of high pressure to the south continuing to

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exert its force across the TK as it moves up from the south. It looks

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like staying fine across much of our region for Sunday, maybe a bit

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warmer, 22, possibly 23 degrees Now as we head into the start of the

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next week, it's cloudy and damp to begin with. Then it turns stnnier

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and warmer through the week. and warmer through the week.

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Good evening. The sun sets on August this weekend, I'm sure some of you

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will be pleased. After a promising start to the summer, August is the

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month where it took a turn for the cooler. It's the first month since

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last November where we will have seen below-average temperatures Bit

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time the numbers are crunched, potentially this could be the

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coolest August in over 20 years What went wrong? It was hurricane

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bertha which broke the patterns Another ex-hurricane this cloud

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