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Office won't tell us or his solicitors or anybody else for that

matter, is when he was put on this list and why he's on the list in

the first place. A hospital where five women have

died in the maternity unit in the last 18 months is to be

investigated by the health watchdog. Most recently a woman and her

unborn child died at Queen's Hospital in Romford after the

mother's womb ruptured and staff tried to revive her with a

disconnected oxygen mask. And soon, the hospital will become a major

centre for thousands more patients, as our political correspondent Karl

Mercer reports. On the outside, it looks like the sort of hospital you

would want to go to but Queens in Romford isn't a picture of health

on the inside, criticised by health inspectors by poor care in its

maternity unit, care that left this man a widower last year. He lost

his wife Serena during complications during the birth. The

hospital has since apologised, admits mistakes were made. We were

very happy when we were going there. We were like, OK. We're going to

bring our baby back home, and I came all alone home. Today the Care

Quality Commission has announced it's sending in a team of

inspectors to check the A&E maternity units and others at

Queens, a last chance for the hospital to improve standards.

have been monitoring this Trust closely over the recent months. We

have been doing many unannounced inspections. We have been talking

to staff. We have been talking to patients, and we keep finding

things that are wrong. Under NHS plans, Queens is set to be the main

centre for maternity and A&E in outer London, a plan heavily

criticised by MPs from all sides. They welcome today's investigation.

Because they have had no money. They have cut services, and that's

put extra pressure on those existing services at a time when

the population is growing and demand is growing. This is the

woman who will have to sort out the problems at Queens. The Chief

Executive here is new and knows there are tough times ahead. Nobody

when they're ill and vulnerable want to be worried about going to

their local hospital, so I want this hospital to be a place that

the public feel confident, feel safe that they can use. The staff

are committed to delivering that, and I see the CQC report as a way

of demonstrating to the public that those early steps are in place.

inspection team move in on Monday. They report back in September.

The death of a crane driver at the Olympic Park was from natural

causes according to the police. The post-mortem examination results

found it was not a work-related death, so no further investigation

will be taken. The man believed to be in his 60s was found slumped in

the stairwell of his crane yesterday afternoon.

Two social workers sacked after the Baby P scandal will be able to

appeal against an employment tribunal ruling they were not

unfairly dismissed by Haringey Council. The former head of

Haringey Children's Service Sharon Shoesmith has defended Gillie

Christou and Maria Ward. She says the pair should never have lost

their jobs. Tottenham is refusing to give up in

its bid to move into the Olympic Stadium. The club is continuing its

legal challenge over the decision to award the 2012 venue to West Ham.

A judge rejected the bid for a judicial review last week, but

Spurs say they now intend to make their case in a hearing at the High

With millions of Olympic tickets already sold, people visiting the

capital for next summer's Games will be looking for somewhere to

stay. Whether you're thinking of letting out your own home or

hunting for somewhere to stay, the Met Police is warning people to be

on the look-out for fake websites. Our Olympic correspondent Adrian

Warner reports. This South London flat has been at

the heart of an accommodations scam. It was advertised on a website for

short-term rent, but the person offering the flat didn't actually

own it. He just borrowed pictures of it from another accommodation

website. Alison Stevenson, who lives in the United States, saw

them on this website and paid out a deposit of �600 before realising

she'd been conned. It looked official. We had photos of it. We

had the address. This Roger, as he calls himself, sent a very long e-

mail telling us details of what was around the area. It all seemed very

legitimate. With millions of visitors coming for the Olympics,

there is a danger of more and more scams like this. The flat is

actually managed by a genuine property rentals business in London

run by Julie Maddison. She says as well as one fraudster using her

photographs, now another site has just hijacked her company identity.

It's a new website, which I have up here, and if you go to the home

page, you'll see that there is a ridiculously low price on a three-

bedroom apartment which is on Green Street in Mayfair. Click on to the

main page, you'll see Holiday Rentals London are running it.

That's not true. UnderNeath is our address. The Metropolitan Police

has set up a dedicated unit to fight organised crime related to

the Olympics. They made their first arrest related to internet ticket

touting. If you're seeking to find a premises, there will be the

genuine, legitimate companies who are doing that, but at the same

time, you're going to get the fraudsters there who look to make a

quick buck. Unfortunately, we're not going to know until July, next

year, whether you have been a victim or not. A tip as well is,

don't ever pass cash. If someone is asking you to use a money transfer

agent to pay cash for a purchase or to rent a property, no. With

millions of tickets sold, the rush for accommodation has already

started, and London doesn't want to be remembered by the world as the

Olympic city where visitors got ripped off.

BBC London has learnt about half of London's schools are expected to

close tomorrow as teachers go on strike in a dispute over changes to

their pensions. Thousands of union members are to walk out as part of

a national day of action by public sector workers. Figures collated by

BBC London suggest about 1,000 primary, secondary and nursury

schools in London will be shut, although precise closure numbers

will not be available until Thursday. Alice Bhanhukravi has

more. Quite a few of the 1,000 pupils at this school in Croydon

were hoping for a day off tomorrow, but they won't get one because,

despite the teachers' strike, the archbishop Lanfrane School will be

open. The whole of year 11 has already finished lessons for the

year, meaning it will be business as usual. It means that the number

of lessons that'll need different arrangements for supervision is

comparatively small, so even though we've got something like 18 members

of staff joining the action, it's not sufficient to cause us to close.

But at the primary down the road, the reverse is true. 80% of

teachers will be on strike here. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And for the head teacher, the near united front means she's been

spared the tough choice about whether or not to open. Some heads

are taxed with one or two teachers out and then having to close

schools for just one or two classes, and I think that must be incredibly

difficult for families who have one sibling coming to school and

another not. Teachers feel really aggrieved about the proposals the

Government is putting forward, which they think is very bad for

the profession and which they think are completely unjustified, so 92%

of our union members voted for industrial action. The ATL, which

has never taken industrial action before, has also voted

overwhelmingly. Now even the head teachers' union, the National Union

of Teachers, has voted it's going to ballot for strike action as well,

so the Government really needs to understand it's lost the confidence

of the teaching profession almost completely. But in a letter to head

teachers in the capital, the Mayor of London reiterated the

Government's position. "I do not believe industrial action in our

schools, which will inevitably create considerable disruption to

the lives of children in the capital and working parents can be

justified". Some London councils followed suit, also urging schools

to stay open. The impact of such correspondence will be clear first

thing tomorrow morning. Football now, and Andres Villas

Boas has taken his first press conference since being installed as

Chelsea's new manager. The 33-year- old from Portugal admits he doesn't

expect to last long if he fails to bring trophies to Stamford Bridge.

Chris Slegg reports. This contains flash photography.

Chelsea's seventh manager in eight years may be the same nationality

as his predecessor, but Andres Villas-Boas says he's not another

"Special One." This is not a one- man show. Maybe I should be called

a group one. Want the group together to be successful. That's

my objective. As usual, the e-mail begins with a press conference, and

we know where it usually ends at Chelsea, the sack - regardless of

how many trophies you might manage to bring here, so what are Aunese

expectations of life in SW6? What you expect from this club is to be

successful straight away - to win, and Hope to be successful on a

weekly basis. There's no running away from that. I would be

surprised to be kept on the job if I don't win. It's as straightward

as that. He knows he won't get much time. The man chosen as his

assistant famously didn't need much as he scored this goal.

We had - the first thing that I told him when I called him was that

I had a feeling inside me that he was the right man for the job, not

only because of what he represents for the club, but also because of

the quality of West Brom and the quality of his work. When he's not

dealing with the players, he'll be dealing with the press, so what

first impressions did the 33-year- old in the Chelsea hot seat leave

on them? He breezed into a room of Fleet Street hacks and broadcasting

gurus, and he's charmed everybody. It's quite clear that Andres

Villas-Boas is intelligent, persuasive, cogent. He ticks all of

those boxes. Now the big question is whether he can actually do it,

whether he can deliver. questions the man known as "mini-

Mourinho" hopes to answer. Its exterior has been compared to a

large garden shed. But it's what's on the inside of the new Serpentine

Pavilion in Kensington Gardens that's getting the world of

architecture talking. Here's our arts correspondent Brenda Emmanus

reports. Its monastic frame hides a hidden

beauty that slowly reveals itself to its visitors. This is the latest

Serpentine Pavilion, for which its creator has placed a specific

purpose. To bring gardens back into architecture like they used to be

in architecture in ancient times in the east, in the medieval times, so

the garden in architecture has a little bit of a poor existence

around the house, but I think it should be the other way around, so

here you have the idea - the garden in the middle and the house around.

This annual commission allows the chosen architect to create their

ultimate summer hang-out to be enjoyed by the public. This is

Peter's first completed building in the UK, but he shares the glory

with Dutch designer Udof, who created his special garden so what

impact is our kairkristically unpredictable summer likely to have

on this project? The most beautiful impact, because, as we all know,

nature always looks beautiful also in bad weather.

The covered walkways and seating are to allow visitors the

opportunity to contemplate the beauty of this garden, which will

transform over time. The colours will change. It will grow

considerably. Some grasses start to die, so you'll also see the decay

of certain plants while others blossom. I think - I will - too bad

I don't live here. I would like to be here every week. The pavilion

There were a few showers around today, but fortunately, they

managed to avoid Wimbledon. It looks like a half decent day again

tomorrow for most of us. Tonight, ahead of that quite cool as skies

clear. Winds stay light. Temperatures dip away, but it means

after the recent heatwave another comfortable night for sleeping. The

odd shower to the south and east of town. Most of the cloud melting

away too, so we end up with pretty clear skies by the end of the night.

Temperatures dipping away eventually to 11-12C. Not

particularly chilly, but quite comfortable. Tomorrow morning, lots

of sunshine to start with, but as the morning goes on, temperatures

rise. We'll see cloud building up. Eventually we'll produce one or two

showers from lunch time onwards. They will be hit and miss. There is

a chance of interuptions at Wimbledon or the odd shower at

Henley. The weekend at the moment That's it for this evening. We're

Good evening. We have waved goodbye to the intense humidity and high

heat. But that's not to say there won't be pleasant summer sunshine.

It will be more comfortable. Cast your mind back to Sunday night

where temperatures were stuck in the mid teens. Tonight for quite a

few of us, it will drop down to single figures, a much fresher

night. The reason is we're behind this cold front. That was the run

that brought in the thunderstorms yesterday. We now have high

pressure settling things down, but we've still got a bit of a north-

westerly air flow bringing still a scattering of showers around at the

moment. There will still be a few to come tomorrow. They tend to die

out in many areas tonight. Under the clear skies, the it was fall

away nicely. Still some showers in the morning across the north-west.

They become more widespread tomorrow. There will be quite a bit

of sunshine around. It will be a fresh start with those temperatures

down at single figures first thing in the morning. The showers start

off in the north-west but become more widespread. We'll see intense

ones developing across north- eastern England by afternoon. Late

in the day the showers tend to ease in Wales and south-east England -

not too many across the Midlands. Sunshine here, but across

Lincolnshire all the way up across north-east England into Eastern

Scotland some heavy showers are likely with a risk of hail and

thunder. A sprinkling of showers across north-west Scotland. For

south-west Scotland, a few showers early on, but they should tend to

die out. The showers may well be dying out for the laifrpbt and

early evening for Northern Ireland. Good spells of sunshine here. It's

a similar story for Wales. A few showers around the middle part of

the day, but by the middle part of the day, most places dry and bright

with sunshine. 19, the high in Cardiff. The south-west by and

large having a fine end to the day. Sprinkling of showers, though,

further east. The chance there for a shower or two for Wimbledon and

ladies' semi-finals' day, but for the men's semi-finals, a fine day,

as is much of the UK. Another chilly stpwaut, then temperatures

up to 21-22C in the south-east, 18- 19C elsewhere. The vast majority

look like having a dry weekend, not wall-to-wall sunshine. Cloud

develops. Temperatures in the low teens, early 20s, much cooler than