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Though there's no guarantee of getting one. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now on BBC One, its time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Good evening. I'm Riz Lateef. The Mayor's described Ed Miliband's | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
proposed mansion tax as a t`x on London. Property experts say nearly | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
nine in ten of the homeowners affected would be here in the | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
capital. But Labour says it would raise much`needed cash for the NHS | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
and public health services. Nick Beake reports. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
House prices in the borough of Lambeth has shot up 37% in the past | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
year, according to Nationwide, the biggest increase in the capital. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
biggest increase in the caphtal Caroline Hewitt has been making the | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
most of more time at home since she most of more time at home shnce she | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
lost her job. She bought her family house 20 years ago, paying ?230,000. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
It's now reckoned to be worth at least ?2 million, so she wotld have | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
least ?2 million, so she would have to pay this so`called mansion tax. I | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
think if you've paid ?2 million for your house, then it's fair dnough, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
but not in you're in our situation. We wouldn't be able to pay that | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
amount. I don't think it's fair and I don't think it's right. And it | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
doesn't help. It helps their covers, but it doesn't help the market and | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
first`time buyers. The aver`ge London house price has doubled over | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
the past decade and at ?428,000 it's now twice the national aver`ge. It's | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
claimed 87% of UK homes worth more than ?2 million are in the capital | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
and that 67% of a national mansion and that 67% of a national mansion | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
tax would come from just three boroughs, which are hot spots for | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
foreign investors. But crithcs claim foreign investors. But crithcs claim | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
near one third of the owners of London's ?2 million homes h`ve been | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
London's ?2 million homes have been there for at least a decade. It s a | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
there for at least a decade. It's a tax on London. It would be ` | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
there for at least a decade. It s a tax on London. It would be a massive | :01:56. | :01:55. | |
tax on London. It would be ` massive tax on family homes and people on | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
who might be living in an expensive house, that's been inflated through | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
no fault of their own, but don't have the income to pay the tax. It | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
would be deeply resented and it s have the income to pay the tax. It | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
would be deeply resented and it's a would be deeply resented and it's a | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
bad policy. This kind of property tax has previously been proposed by | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the Liberal Democrats. But Labour wants the money collected to fund | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
the NHS and at this Lambeth hospital there was support for the idea. I | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
think it's good for people with these properties should be paying | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
more tax. I'm benefitting from it and I think it's a good of doing it. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
If it's going towards the NHS it's a fair thing. Everyone would be quite | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
happy for it to happen. Manx happy for it to happen. Manx | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
Londoners will want a cast`iron Londoners will want a cast`iron | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
guarantee that properties under ?2 million wouldn't be affected. Labour | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
is well aware that it's so`called mansion tax policy would have a | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
disproportionate effect on the capital. Maybe in some of the seats | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
it hopes to take next year, if it's to return to government, so today | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
there was a big effort to try to reassure Londoners about thhs | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
reassure Londoners about this policy. We'll consult on thd | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
reassure Londoners about thhs policy. We'll consult on the detail | :03:05. | :03:04. | |
to ensure that that minoritx of to ensure that that minority of | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
people who are long`standing residents in high`value properties | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
have either relief or the ability to defer the payment of this until that | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
property is sold. A plan to make the wealthy pay their share, or an | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
unfair tax on those who property is their pension. The voters will | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
their pension. The voters whll decide. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Victoria is in Westminster tonight. There are still some questions over | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
how this would work though? Yes. Not how this would work though? Yes Not | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
least over how many properties how this would work though? Yes. Not | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
least over how many properthes would be affected in London. Estimates | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
be affected in London. Estilates vary between 58,000 and 110,000 | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
properties here. Also, the valuation of properties. At the moment they're | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
based on 1991 levels, certainly for based on 1991 levels, certainly for | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
council tax. Harriet Harman was pressed on this today and she said | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
HMRC can value properties in a way and Labour would build on that | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
method if in power. The other question, what could you do if you | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
are cash poor, but asset rich? We were reassured there would be | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
protection for those people and they wouldn't have to payle until, for | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
example, the property was sold, but Labour are clear, they say this will | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
raise ?1.2 billion directly for the NHS. Thank you. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Metropolitan Police officers are now in Latvia in their continuing search | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
for missing teenager, Alice Gross. The main suspect in her | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
disappearance is Latvian builder, Arnis Zalkalns, who was jailed for | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
murdering his wife in 1998. His mother`in`law has told the BBC that | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
she hopes he'll be caught soon. Detectives are to stage a | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
reconstruction of the schoolgirl's last`known movements later this | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
In distant Latvia, a mother shares the anguish own Alice Gross's | :04:37. | :04:57. | |
disappearance. Viktorija Zalkalns's daughter married the man, the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
suspect in the case. Arnis Zalkalns, who adopted its wife's surn`me, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
lured her to a forest and used an iron bar and knife to murder her. | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
TRANSLATION: A person like that is sick. He should be put into a | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
hospital. If someone does something like that completely drunk or being | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
so jealous that he can't control his feelings, then you could almost | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
feelings, then you could allost forgive him, but doing it | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
consciously with a clear mind, waiting for the moment to do your | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
dirty work, that I can't understand. 14`year`old Alice was last seen at | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
the end of August, captured by CCTV walking across a bridge by the Grand | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
Union Canal. The same camera filmed Union Canal. The same camera filmed | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
Arnis Zalkalns 15 minutes after Alice. He went missing six days | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
later. Police have been searching for clues in and around the canal | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
and the overgrown banks of the River Brent. Yesterday, they recovered a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
six`inch knife, which is is being examined by forensic experts. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
Detectives say they have no evidence of the moment to indicate that Alice | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
has come to an any harm, but Arnis Zalkalns's sudden disappearance | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
has come to an any harm, but Arnis Zalkalns's sudden disappear`nce has | :06:14. | :06:13. | |
Zalkalns's sudden disappearance has filled his mother`in`law in Latvia | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
with foreboding. TRANSLATION: He's a threat to society. If he's done this | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
to won person he could probably threat to society. If he's done this | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
to won person he could prob`bly do it to another as well. It's almost a | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
month since Alice went missing it to another as well. It's almost a | :06:26. | :06:26. | |
month since Alice went misshng and month since Alice went misshng and | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
till they wait to hear news of her safe return. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Time for a check on the weather. It's good night from me and over to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Wendy. It's not looking too bad. It's | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
business as usual out there at the moment with the temperature falling | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
back, so the night will be cold but as we go through the second part of | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
the night there will be rain, which is something we haven't seen much of | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
so far this month. The cloud will creep up on us towards midnight and | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
that means the temperature will pick up a little, so we'll be at about | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
ten or 11. The rain will be light and patchy, but create a dalp feel | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
and patchy, but create a damp feel to things through the first part of | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
tomorrow. There will be one or two showers dotted around in thd | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
showers dotted around in the afternoon. In between those, there | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
will be sunshine through the afternoon, with temperatures around | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
19 for London. On the outlook, we still have dry conditions entering | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
the weekend. There will be some sun around and on Friday, we'll have a | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
bit more cloud here and there, but the warm weather continues hnto the | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
You've been sending us pictures of the fine weather. This one was taken | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
by Keith Brown in the Peak District yesterday, enjoying the sunshine | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
here. There's been a little more cloud around today across parts of | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
the Peak District and we finished the day with | :07:56. | :07:56. |