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Boris Johnson calls for other politicians to john

his fight to revive plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary.

Everybody has heard from me about how wonderful it would be btt we

have not heard from other politicians about what they think

the right answer should be. We'll speak to the Mayor's `dvisor

live, now that it's Gatwick of A Met firearms officer is awarded

nearly ?40,000 for racial and Found guilty of sending offdnsive

messages on Twitter ` the m`n who Plus the story of the unlikdly

alliance between London gay activists and striking miners during

the 80s now turned into a fhlm. Welcome to BBC London News with me,

Riz Lateef. The Mayor, Boris Johnson,

is insisting his vision of a new airport in the

Thames Estuary is not dead `nd he's The Airports Commission has decided

the multi`billion pound project is too expensive,

with many environmental challenges. The Labour group

at City Hall has accused thd Mayor of wasting more than ?5 million of

taxpayer money on a vanity project. Karl Mercer has been speaking to

Mr Johnson. The talking goes on, the Excel for

the airport scheme similarlx considered to history. Game over for

the Thames Estuary? On a day of interviews, we took

our turn to quiz the Mayor, who s blaming civil servants in Whitehall

for the demise of the Estuary scheme, saying they've alwaxs

supported expansion at Heathrow They were very disappointed when

Labour did that U`turn and decided not to go ahead with the thhrd

runway and the transport Department and the Treasury think that is the

right way forward. You say politicians have nothing to do with

this? Politicians are out of step, I would agree with you. There is a

complete abdication of responsibility. We in City Hall are

trying to produce and have produced a valid, bold, original long`term

solution that really deals with most of the issues and it delivers jobs

and regeneration, it is within. It delivers nothing. Well, it would

deliver those things. What we have heard from anybody passionately

advocating another option... Why am I... The Prime Minister, for

example? What we need to he`r is what the other solution shotld be. I

do not think it is reasonable to keep going with a process that

consigns this vital decision to senior civil servants, no m`tter how

distinguished. The Murphy 's is more criticism from City Hall opponents.

Pushing his plan has cost London's taxpayers more than ?5 millhon.

Boris Johnson did not look `t any research before spending so much

public money pushing the S Toure airport puzzle, it was never going

to work. It's also reported that the Lib Dems

will tomorrow rule out airport We have argued against expanding

airport capacity in the south`east, we need to restrain airport growth

and travel growth for climate change reasons.

Boris Johnson was in Swindon this afternoon, campaigning

He may soon be one himself, of course, in Uxbridge,

For now, though, his cable car across the river in

east London , known as the Dmirates airline, may be as close as he gets

So what happens now there are three options on the table, and how will

the people living near the `irports earmarked for expansion react?

Let's find out from our Transport Correspondent,

The third runway could come right through here, placards like this one

have appeared this afternoon opposing that and while there has

not been much surprise that the Thames Estuary has been ruldd out,

it has increased the anxietx a little bit. In the villages around

Heathrow, the death of the Thames Estuary airport beans they were the

focus of expansion. Some colmunities feel threatened and there are mixed

feelings about the airport expanding. We have lived with this

fear of not knowing what is going on and they wish somebody would make a

decision and let us get on with our lives. I would 100% disagred, it

aside news for the residents. When people are looking for jobs these

days, I think it will bring more jobs. It means that loads of people

will have to move out of thd area. Those feelings or in contrast to

what business leaders meeting in London want. We want politicians to

make a decision as soon as possible. They want runways nine and say lack

of capacity is restricting trade. They want runways nine and say lack

of capacity is We need extr` capacity now, tomorrow would not be

too soon. I am pleased that Davis is focusing on what is deliver`ble in a

realistic time frame. My colpetitors in Holland and Germany have better

access to some aspects of the Chinese market than I have. And it

is getting worse. At the molent we're talking about one runway, I

think capacity as for two of them by 2013. And that is really wh`t the

economy needs. A government commission will recommend the

location of one runway next summer. On the short list, a new runway at

Heathrow to the north`west that could extend over the M25, or

another option is to extend the existing runway to allow take`offs

and landings at the same tile. The third option is for another runway

at Gatwick. We have a fight on our hands. The conservation campaign has

existed for 40 years and we have defeated three previous attdmpts and

we can defeat this one also. By the Mayor has called the commission

making the recommendation are relevant, business groups still have

faith in the process. I think it is ridiculous, just because ond

politician has not got their project through that suddenly the commission

is doing something wrong. All the parties have backed this colmission,

they are going through a tortuous process of going through evhdence

and they absolutely have to respect that. The death of the estu`ry

airport has focused the minds of those who live next to London's

airports. This is another ttrn in a long politically problematic

aviation debate. I have read this report and it is very dismissive of

the Tech three airport and one could still out. It says it well the

recogniser need for a hub ahrport IQ through, we believe there should be

part of an effective system of competing airports. To meet the

needs of a widely spread and diverse market like London. Reading between

the lines, perhaps they mean a stronger Gatwick. Tom, thank you.

We can talk to the Mayor's aviation advisor, Daniel

Tom alluded to that, expanshon is at Heathrow or Gatwick but you are

flying the flag for the Thales Estuary. It doesn't have business

environment backing and there is no money for it but you are positive?

Yes, because it is right answer and I think it is because Howard Davies

is asking himself the questhon which is set for self, not by the

government, which is, where can you get three kilometres of tarlac in

the hope that nobody notices? What Boris is looking at is a city

growing from 8.3 two 10 million people with the need for holes and

jobs and larger mass of devdlopment and housing in the east and

insufficient employment and the opportunities that arise from

relocating the airport, you solve the aviation problems and even

Howard Davies admitted that and the opportunities you get from

relocating that and the way it can allow the city to grow is hhs job.

And he will carry on backing that. But this commission, which had

cross`party backing, has spdnt nine months looking at it and it has come

back and says it is not a vhable option. Why not put that to bed Is

this not just sour grapes? No, this is the right option and are a series

of challenges, Howard Davies did not identify any challenge as bding a

show stopper, he just said hn a rather pathetic and bureaucratic way

that it is too complicated. So his answer is wrong? It is not the

answer you wanted? He has got himself into this rabbit hole of

representing or offering to present two different options, one of which

politically undeliverable, we have seen that at Heathrow, and Gatwick

would mean that unlike any other country, we had deliberatelx turned

our back and having a hub ahrport, probably for the rest of thhs

century. Howard Davies is wrong wrong not caused Oris disagrees He

is asking the wrong questions and coming up this in an excesshvely

aquatic way. How do you respond to a business group where ironist

Valentine says just because one balance `` one politician h`s not

get his way means the commission is doing something wrong. Are xou

criticising the commission because you did not get the answer xou

wanted? No, I would agree, ht is not because the Boris disagrees with the

commission, it is because they have asked the wrong question. This will

ultimately be a political ddcision and it is a decision to be lade by

government. And I am confiddnt that are Howard Davies says, he will be

relevant if he comes up with an answer like Heathrow expanshon,

which is politically undeliverable. So today the idea has been rejected,

not on the short list, what are you and the Mayor going to do about

this? We will carry on camp`igning. It is right solution for London and

it addresses the and challenges that London faces. It is easy to see

other politicians, Val Short cross and others, on television and none

of them have any solution. Stephen Knight from the Lib Dems has a

solution... Would you consider any legal challenge? Nobody has ruled

out any option but that is not the first focus. You are not ruling that

I'd? Nobody rules out any option. We must leave it there. Thank xou for

your time. New Scotland Yard goes

on the market. In this Bloomsbury book shop was the

central hub for a significant part of British social history. The

United Welsh miners and gay activists in the 1980s. The story is

now predicted `` depicted in a new film.

A man has been found guilty of sending abusive messages to

Peter Nunn branded Stella Creasy a witch and re`tweeted

He claimed he was trying to provoke debate on the social networking site

Katharine Carpenter was in court and joins us now with more details

This began last summer just after a successful campaign to get ` famous

woman featured on a Baghdad. The Walthamstow MP Stella Creasx and the

campaigner Caroline prayers where two of those people behind the

campaign but it left them exposed to a series of abusive tweets on the

social networking site, Twitter Among those sending messages was

33`year`old Peter Nunn, a f`ther from Bristol and a prolific blogger.

What did he say in these messages? Much of the contact is too graphic

to describe here. He called Stella Creasy a wedge and described how you

might rape `` hug you might rape a witch and he reach tweeted `

specific rape threat aimed `t Stella Creasy. He said that he also had

been the victim of abuse on Twitter and said that radical feminhsts had

been abusing him, trying to close his account. He said he did not

realise that he had offended anyone. The prosecution were not buxing

that, they said that this w`s a game about just how far you could take

things. The judge was very dismissive of his evidence `nd she

said it was bizarre and self`deluded and she found him guilty. Today

Peter Nunn told me he was vdry disappointed with Patrick. H think

it is a dark day for free speech. I will use a time to consider my

actions. I will contemplate what I have done and I will come to terms

with that and examine my actions. As try to understand how I can avoid

the arrested in future. Do xou regret sending those twits? I do

regret sending them because I will probably go to jail. But, yds, I

want to put this behind me, really. And move on. Throughout this trial,

Peter Nunn said he was just satirising the feminist deb`te, he

said these were just jokes `nd banter. Today, we have not heard

anything from Stella Creasy and she says she will respond when Peter

Nunn has been sentenced and we expect that at the end of this

month. Thank you. The Metropolitan Police has been

told it should review all discrimination cases mounted

against them since 2009. It comes after an employment

tribunal awarded a firearms officer nearly ?40,000 for racial and sexual

discrimination by a senior officer. PC Carroll Howard, firearms officer

in the dramatic protection group and post a goal for The Met Polhce

gigolo books. Earlier this xear she brought a claim of discrimination

against the force. She clailed she had been victimised cause of gender

and race. In July, and deployment tribunal agreed, finding th`t she

had been singled out and targeted for almost one year by Acting

Inspector David Kelly, whosd management style was over Erin,

intrusive and unreasonable `nd who discredited and belittled hdr.

Today, she was awarded without ?37,000 in compensation with judges

heavily criticising the way that The Met Police handled her grievances.

It is so disappointing that we are still discovering that the

Metropolitan Police are not taking these issues seriously. Thex have

not apologised or accepted what the tribunal has found. They trhed to

explain this away by saying it was just one officer who was dohng this

but in fact there was a cle`r policy in place to prevent findings of disk

rumination being made. The tribunal found that The Met Police and

practice of deleting references to discrimination during internal

investigations and recommended an independent review into its

purposes. It all comes as no surprise to those who monitor the

conduct of the force towards employees. This is not the first

time that the Mets have been found wanting around issues of diversity

so for me, the recommendations given by the tribunal don't go far enough.

The Met has a recent statemdnt this afternoon saying that as part of the

independent review into its policy, it will look at devious casds of

disk rumination within the force. it will look at devious casds of

disk That means that it could face more legal action from officers who

have been discredited against in the past.

inquiry in the search of missing teenager Alice Gross. They want to

talk to people who were at ` songwriting workshop she attended in

August. The 14`year`old was last seen on Thursday when she ldft her

home in Hanwell. Police are concerned as Alice hasn't bden in

good health. More than 5,000 people have joined the "find Alice Gross"

Facebook page. The Uber car service `

which has angered many of London's black cab drivers `

has been banned across Germ`ny. A court in Frankfurt has ruled that

the company lacks the necessary legal permits to

operate under German law. But Uber says it will continue to

operate in the country Earlier this year London's transport

authorities decided not to pursue One of London's most famous

buildings has gone on the property At least a quarter

of a billion pounds. The Met is looking for buyers

for New Scotland Yard and is hoping to strike a ddal

by the end of the year. Here's our home affairs

correspondent, Guy Smith. The selloff was announced two years

ago. The With views like thhs, they are hoping to attract offers over

and well above ?250 million. They aim to secure a buyer by thd end of

the year. Police officers and staff will actually move from the '60s

building by early 2016 and hnto their new home on Victoria

Embankment. You can see workmen trying to get it ready. This is the

marketing video to potential Byers around the world. Almost two acres

in the heart of Westminster. If planning permission is agredd, a new

development could include flats some hopefully affordable, with

office space, shops and even restaurants. This is a '60s building

it will require ?50 billion of investment to bring it up to speed

and modern standards. We don't think it merits that. As part of the work

we have been doing to balance our budget over the three to five years

of this Comprehensive Spendhng Review we have looked at our estate

footprint. We think we can take a third of theest state out of London.

That has meant last year selling off 30 properties, including

controversially police stathons This year, another 20 will be

disposed of. The Mayor's office for policing and crime believes this is

a good time to cash in on sky high London property prices. Polhcing

does face a big budget challenge. How we approach that has bedn set

out for some time. We consulted over this. The public wanted mord police

officers in neighbourhoods `nd to put bobbies before buildings this is

part of the strategy to enstre we can do that. If we don't release

these buildings, if we don't do that, we have to reduce polhce

officer numbers. Scotland Y`rd building is being marketed `s Ten

Broadway to the world. Therd will be complex negotiations ahead. Any

buyer having to jump through hoops to meet the strict criteria of

purchasing a public building, especially one so famous.

Hackney Marshes is best known as the home of grassroots football,

but could it become just as famous for cricket too?

Plans have been submitted for a new ?3.5 million pavilion

Every weekend Hackney Marshds is packed with sports teams. Whilst

football has given the Marshes it's notoriety, it's used by rugby and

cricket. Of the North Marsh is the home to the highest concentration of

cricket pitches in inner London The council has submitted plans for a

new pavilion because its currents changing facilities, well it speaks

for itself. It's falling ap`rt. Even if there were only men who played

football, it is wouldn't be appropriate much we want to widen

how many people are playing sport. We want people with disabilhties,

women and girls. We want chhldren to be able to play at the same time as

adults. For that you need a different set of facilities. Anyone

who plays sports at the weekend will be used to this kind of settp. As

you can tell from this showdr area, with the open access, it's not

exactly conducive to uni sex sport. The ?3.6 million is going to provide

the new pa building. There will be new cricket nets and a new car park.

Cricket is very important hdre. There is increasing amounts of rugby

too. This will very much be the home of grass`roots cricket in this part

of London. The Epping be land and Wales cricket board along whth the

Football Foundation are contributing to the project. There aren't too

many facilities around that area. `` England. It's nice they are calling

it a pavilion it relates to cricket. When they talk about Hacknex Marshes

in the future they will talk about the football and cricket pl`yed

there. A campaign group launched a petition to launch a review of the

plans. Residents have until the 29th September so comment on the planning

application. 'Pride' stars a host of big names

including actor Bill Nighy. Our Entertainment Correspondent

Brenda Emmanus, Pride tells the true story of how a

group young gay activists of London formed an alliance with a slall

mining community in south W`les whilst raising funds for thd miners.

Mike Jackson was the co`founder of LGSM. We had common cause whth the

miners. The any prejudices disappeared they realised wd were

just the same as them. Pridd features a host of British `cting

talent. It's very rare to rdad scripts that you make you

laugh`out`loud, all the timd. It's one of the funniest scripts I have

read. One of the best scripts I ve ever read in my life. Thrilled and

Des per to be in it. We are off to Swansea now. Do you feel a sense of

responsibility about telling this story? Yeah. I did. I felt ` big

responsibility. It's such a big story. It is important. Bec`use it

was Secretary of State misrepresented at the time. You do,

you feel ` also, you are pl`ying somebody who actually existdd. My

xhashg is no longer alive. Lost of the people playing characters who

are still alive, the responsibility is therefore greater, I suppose

What do you most remember about those times in here? How quhckly it

became a very small bookshop. Our numbers, people just kept coming,

more and more people came to join the group and get involved with it.

People were sitting on the floor. Sitting on book shelves and so

forth. Just been amazing thhs journey. Especially the last few

closing weeks before it goes on general release. All kind of stuff,

documents, photographs, people who we had lost, are turning up and

that's been just amazing to see that happening. This story of solidarity

comes out on the 12th Septelber One of the best scripts Bill Nighy

has ever read. That sells it. Now a check on the weather. It's

brightening up, just like you said? A nice day today. More to come in

the next few days. Not a bad start to September so far. For thd next

few there will be further w`rm spells and dry for the most part. We

will chase a bit of cloud around. That is what we had today. Xou can

see it here lying across parts of Surrey and Sussex. How it mdlted

away through the morning. Through the afternoon we have seen decent

spells of sunshine. The stuff over East Anglia here is what will push

in as we go through the night tonight. There could be vishbility

problems later on tonight. Dnjoy the sunshine. The sunsets in an hour's

time. It will be dry as we go through the night the cloud creeping

in from the east on the east south`easterly breeze. Wherd that

settles on higher ground yot might just have visibility problels for a

time. Temperatures will be `round 15 degrees in London. No lower than 13

degrees across the Home Counties. As we start the day tomorrow, there

will be a little bit of low cloud around, as I mentioned. I think any

problems that causes will bd isolated and will be fairly

short`lived. As we go through the morning we will see sunshind

breaking through once again. Still a bit of a breeze from the east. I

expect Dartford to be around 19`20 degrees. The warmest part around

Twickenham, 23. London might get to 25, beautiful sunshine by the end of

the day. Similar picture through the day on Thursday as well. Thd outlook

is for something more cloudx to end the week. And to start the weekend.

We can't complain. Thank yot very much.

The White House is investig`ting reports

of a video showing the behe`ding of the US hostage, Steven Sotloff.

It has apparently been rele`sed by the group known as Islamic State.

The parents of five`year`old Asher King, who has a brain tumour,

look set to be freed from prison in Spain after the case

against them was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.

The Mayor says his plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary

A commission looking into the UK's airport needs rejected

Boris Johnson's proposal on cost and environmental grounds.

I'll be back later during the 10.00pm news.

From all of us on the team here thanks for watching