01/09/2014 BBC London News


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Andy Swiss, has the latest. That's all from us.

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Don't forget, Newsnight's starting over on BBC 2 in a moment.

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But now on BBC1, it's time for the news where you are.

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Good evening from BBC London. I m Riz Lateef.

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So it appears the Mayor's bhg idea of an airport in the Thames Estuary

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has been rejected. City Hall says it believes

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the proposal won't be on the shortlist of options being

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announced by the Government's airports commission tomorrow.

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It comes as a leading busindss group warned that the UK economy will

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suffer unless there is a single hub airport for the capital.

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Here's our Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards.

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From early on, Boris Johnson has campaigned for an airport in the

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estuary, tonight it is dead. City Hall suspect the plan will not be

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short listed by the Governmdnt's aviation commission. Anti`expansion

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campaigners say it is not a big surprise. There were two big

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problems, one is that there didn't seem to be money behind it.

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Secondly, it was almost certainly would have required the closing down

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of Heathrow and I'm not surd any government would risk putting 7 ,000

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people out of work. Tonight City Hall called the decision sadly

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short`sighted and said the commission has taken us back to the

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same old failed choice. The Mayor believes it would have moved

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pollution away from the caphtal but the south`east has one of the

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biggest air spaces in the world `` busiest. This is a tricky issue but

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it is also really important and just because something is diffictlt, you

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cannot avoid it, so we need clear recommendation from Howard Davies

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and we want politicians getting on with it, and ultimately we want

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spades in the ground by 2020. Without this, left on the short list

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are new runway for Heathrow, are another option would be to dxtend

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the existing runway to allow take`offs and landings at the same

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time, and another option now is for another runway at Gatwick. The

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debate over if and how London's airports should be expanded has been

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going on for decades, as was the case in 1971 in Buckinghamshire

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expansion would be fiercely opposed by local groups. Both Heathrow and

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Gatwick airports believe thdy are the best option for expansion but

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the huge price tag for the dstuary was always a big hurdle. We have

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said the months if not years now that this option is prohibitively

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expensive and has a whole r`ft of issues with it. We think thd only

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deliverable option is expanding Gatwick. An announcement is expected

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tomorrow. The Mayor has said previously he will continue to fight

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for that option. A final recommendation from the comlission

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will be made next summer. Tom is here with reaction from Citx Hall.

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The gloves have come off in City Hall, they are not happy at all

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there are even questions about the role of the commission itself but I

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don't think they were that surprised. The cost was the biggest

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hurdle, and it also felt Boris Johnson was always on his own when

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it came to making the case politically for the estuary airport.

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The Tories on the London Assembly are absolutely fuming, they think

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the Davies commission should be scrapped. It is the first thme I

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have heard that. In a statelent they said with a budget of 20

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million it is heading down ` blind alley whilst wasting cash and the

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Government should pull the plug On the other hand, opposition

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politicians will say the Maxor has wasted ?5 million of money promoting

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what they call a folly. We will get a lot more of this tomorrow.

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Correspondent Tom Edwards. The Metropolitan Police has released

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new CCTV footage of the so`called Plebgate incident in Downing Street

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which led to the resignation of Andrew Mitchell as chief whip.

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The officer in charge of the investigation said it was

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the first time the material could be published, because of crhminal

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and disciplinary proceedings. Chris Rogers has more

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and joins us from Whitehall. The claims over what happendd here

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cost four police officers their jobs following disciplinary action over

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their obligations and leaks to the press. One of those officers were

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sent to prison for lying about being here that night and what he

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witnessed. The controversy has led to the step of The Met Police

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producing a lengthy report, and with it some unseen CCTV footage showing

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Andrew Mitchell with his bike making his way to the main gate. Dtring an

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exchange with police officers, we can only assume he has been told he

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has got to use the side exit. As he makes his way to that gate, Mr

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Mitchell admitted he swore `t the officers but denies calling them

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plebs. The CCTV did not havd sound, but it was accepted the footage

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backs up claims, and some mdmbers of the public crossing at the time were

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visibly shocked by what thex heard. Friends of Mr Mitchell says the

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report backs up their belief, that the police officers went out of

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their way to mislead the investigation to reinforce their

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views of what happened that night. This report will help win b`ck

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public trust but there is only one concrete conclusion to this, and

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that is that there were no winners in what became known as the Plebgate

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incident. Time for me to wish you a good night and hand you over to

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Wendy for a look at the weather forecast. We got off to a grey and

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damp start to September but the rest of this week is not looking bad It

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will be largely dry and there will be some sunshine around as well

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There are some showers lingdring across Kent, but that moves away

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leaving a clear sky. Elsewhdre, we will see some low cloud and possibly

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fog drifting in. It is a possibility it will cause some problems to

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travel tomorrow so keep up`to`date on the radio station with any

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further developments of that. Through the day tomorrow we will see

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that low cloud lifting up and we will see Sunny spells through the

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afternoon coming and going. It will also feel warmer with temperatures

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reaching 23 degrees in central London. On Wednesday and Thtrsday it

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will also feel fairly warm, and the cloud will make a difference to the

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temperature as Matt Taylor explains. Good evening. If you have left it

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late for your summer break this year, the weather will probably be

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kind to you. Most places will be dry and it will be fairly warm as well.

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Most places will see temperatures in the high teens, but they could reach

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the mid-20s. The problem is judging those cloud breaks from day-to-day.

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The high pressure is settling things down, but also dragging in some

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cloud and we have this weather front trapped, which at the

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