23/09/2014 BBC London News


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Though there's no guarantee of getting one.

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Now on BBC One, its time for the news where you are.

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Good evening. I'm Riz Lateef. The Mayor's described Ed Miliband's

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proposed mansion tax as a t`x on London. Property experts say nearly

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nine in ten of the homeowners affected would be here in the

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capital. But Labour says it would raise much`needed cash for the NHS

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and public health services. Nick Beake reports.

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House prices in the borough of Lambeth has shot up 37% in the past

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year, according to Nationwide, the biggest increase in the capital.

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biggest increase in the caphtal Caroline Hewitt has been making the

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most of more time at home since she most of more time at home shnce she

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lost her job. She bought her family house 20 years ago, paying ?230,000.

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It's now reckoned to be worth at least ?2 million, so she wotld have

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least ?2 million, so she would have to pay this so`called mansion tax. I

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think if you've paid ?2 million for your house, then it's fair dnough,

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but not in you're in our situation. We wouldn't be able to pay that

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amount. I don't think it's fair and I don't think it's right. And it

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doesn't help. It helps their covers, but it doesn't help the market and

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first`time buyers. The aver`ge London house price has doubled over

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the past decade and at ?428,000 it's now twice the national aver`ge. It's

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claimed 87% of UK homes worth more than ?2 million are in the capital

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and that 67% of a national mansion and that 67% of a national mansion

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tax would come from just three boroughs, which are hot spots for

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foreign investors. But crithcs claim foreign investors. But crithcs claim

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near one third of the owners of London's ?2 million homes h`ve been

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London's ?2 million homes have been there for at least a decade. It s a

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there for at least a decade. It's a tax on London. It would be `

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there for at least a decade. It s a tax on London. It would be a massive

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tax on London. It would be ` massive tax on family homes and people on

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who might be living in an expensive house, that's been inflated through

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no fault of their own, but don't have the income to pay the tax. It

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would be deeply resented and it s have the income to pay the tax. It

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would be deeply resented and it's a would be deeply resented and it's a

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bad policy. This kind of property tax has previously been proposed by

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the Liberal Democrats. But Labour wants the money collected to fund

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the NHS and at this Lambeth hospital there was support for the idea. I

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think it's good for people with these properties should be paying

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more tax. I'm benefitting from it and I think it's a good of doing it.

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If it's going towards the NHS it's a fair thing. Everyone would be quite

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happy for it to happen. Manx happy for it to happen. Manx

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Londoners will want a cast`iron Londoners will want a cast`iron

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guarantee that properties under ?2 million wouldn't be affected. Labour

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is well aware that it's so`called mansion tax policy would have a

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disproportionate effect on the capital. Maybe in some of the seats

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it hopes to take next year, if it's to return to government, so today

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there was a big effort to try to reassure Londoners about thhs

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reassure Londoners about this policy. We'll consult on thd

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reassure Londoners about thhs policy. We'll consult on the detail

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to ensure that that minoritx of to ensure that that minority of

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people who are long`standing residents in high`value properties

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have either relief or the ability to defer the payment of this until that

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property is sold. A plan to make the wealthy pay their share, or an

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unfair tax on those who property is their pension. The voters will

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their pension. The voters whll decide.

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Victoria is in Westminster tonight. There are still some questions over

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how this would work though? Yes. Not how this would work though? Yes Not

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least over how many properties how this would work though? Yes. Not

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least over how many properthes would be affected in London. Estimates

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be affected in London. Estilates vary between 58,000 and 110,000

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properties here. Also, the valuation of properties. At the moment they're

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based on 1991 levels, certainly for based on 1991 levels, certainly for

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council tax. Harriet Harman was pressed on this today and she said

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HMRC can value properties in a way and Labour would build on that

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method if in power. The other question, what could you do if you

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are cash poor, but asset rich? We were reassured there would be

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protection for those people and they wouldn't have to payle until, for

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example, the property was sold, but Labour are clear, they say this will

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raise ?1.2 billion directly for the NHS. Thank you.

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Metropolitan Police officers are now in Latvia in their continuing search

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for missing teenager, Alice Gross. The main suspect in her

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disappearance is Latvian builder, Arnis Zalkalns, who was jailed for

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murdering his wife in 1998. His mother`in`law has told the BBC that

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she hopes he'll be caught soon. Detectives are to stage a

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reconstruction of the schoolgirl's last`known movements later this

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In distant Latvia, a mother shares the anguish own Alice Gross's

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disappearance. Viktorija Zalkalns's daughter married the man, the

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suspect in the case. Arnis Zalkalns, who adopted its wife's surn`me,

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lured her to a forest and used an iron bar and knife to murder her.

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TRANSLATION: A person like that is sick. He should be put into a

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hospital. If someone does something like that completely drunk or being

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so jealous that he can't control his feelings, then you could almost

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feelings, then you could allost forgive him, but doing it

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consciously with a clear mind, waiting for the moment to do your

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dirty work, that I can't understand. 14`year`old Alice was last seen at

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the end of August, captured by CCTV walking across a bridge by the Grand

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Union Canal. The same camera filmed Union Canal. The same camera filmed

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Arnis Zalkalns 15 minutes after Alice. He went missing six days

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later. Police have been searching for clues in and around the canal

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and the overgrown banks of the River Brent. Yesterday, they recovered a

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six`inch knife, which is is being examined by forensic experts.

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Detectives say they have no evidence of the moment to indicate that Alice

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has come to an any harm, but Arnis Zalkalns's sudden disappearance

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has come to an any harm, but Arnis Zalkalns's sudden disappear`nce has

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Zalkalns's sudden disappearance has filled his mother`in`law in Latvia

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with foreboding. TRANSLATION: He's a threat to society. If he's done this

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to won person he could probably threat to society. If he's done this

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to won person he could prob`bly do it to another as well. It's almost a

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month since Alice went missing it to another as well. It's almost a

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month since Alice went misshng and month since Alice went misshng and

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till they wait to hear news of her safe return.

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Time for a check on the weather. It's good night from me and over to

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Wendy. It's not looking too bad. It's

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business as usual out there at the moment with the temperature falling

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back, so the night will be cold but as we go through the second part of

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the night there will be rain, which is something we haven't seen much of

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so far this month. The cloud will creep up on us towards midnight and

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that means the temperature will pick up a little, so we'll be at about

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ten or 11. The rain will be light and patchy, but create a dalp feel

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and patchy, but create a damp feel to things through the first part of

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tomorrow. There will be one or two showers dotted around in thd

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showers dotted around in the afternoon. In between those, there

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will be sunshine through the afternoon, with temperatures around

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19 for London. On the outlook, we still have dry conditions entering

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the weekend. There will be some sun around and on Friday, we'll have a

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bit more cloud here and there, but the warm weather continues hnto the

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You've been sending us pictures of the fine weather. This one was taken

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by Keith Brown in the Peak District yesterday, enjoying the sunshine

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here. There's been a little more cloud around today across parts of

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the Peak District and we finished the day with

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