20/02/2017 London News

On BBC London News this evening: The rising cost of social care.

One of those seriously injured tell us transport bosses

Yeah, I think I've been badly treated in those

It comes on the day an interim report reveals

Hertfordshire warns its care system could grind to halt

If it wasn't for carers, these people would be left to try to fend

Plus, we're inside the house changing lives in memory

And the community comes out to support Sutton,

as they host Premier League giants Arsenal in the FA Cup.

Welcome to the programme this Monday evening with me Riz Lateef.

It was the morning commute which turned into tragedy,

the Croydon tram crash which killed seven people and injured

Tonight survivors have told us they feel let down by transport

bosses and they need more financial support.

Many of the survivors have been unable to return to work

and one is facing eviction, because they can't pay their rent.

Today an interim report into the tragedy found that the tram

derailed while travelling at more than double the speed limit.

One passenger has been telling our Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards

about his financial struggle and the traumatic events of that day.

Then there was screaming, everyone screaming.

Patrick Freeman is recovering from an operation.

He fractured his shoulder in the Croydon tram crash.

He says at 62, he won't be able to work again laying

He's angry at a lack of support from TFL.

After one payment he has had to use his

Had to cancel my Christmas holiday and bits

With regards to the financial end, they gave me

So, I don't think it's very fair, by Transport

I don't know whether I'm the only one,

because I don't know anyone really that was on there, but if they've

done that everyone, it's totally wrong.

Do you think you've been badly treated in the aftermath?

Yes, I think I've been badly treated in

Patrick was one of 51 who were injured when

the tram derailed in a tight bend just before a Sandyland station.

In the aftermath, without financial support, many can struggle.

It's going to be stressful, if you're not able to

pay your bills on time and

are not able to pay your rent on time.

being threatened with eviction, because they're not able to work.

What we are trying to do is facilitate

Transport for London have replaced some of the signs on these very

Today in an interim report, real investigators said,

they thought the existing speed limit sign may have been obscured

due to heavy rain and because the driver braked so late,

they thought he may have lost awareness as he was

Four investigations are now looking at

Full settlements and compensation could take years.

People need to be able to pay their bills.

We don't want people to be ending up homeless as a result of

They are innocent victims here and they need to be supported.

Patrick says the whole thing has been a nightmare and it's being made

I'm bad at night, but I dream some nights, you know.

And it's a horrible feeling, you know.

TFL says it will look into Patrick's case and have so far paid over

They believe no payments are outstanding.

As for definitive answers about what happened, they could

And Tom's here now, what else did today's report say?

The renewal safety recommendations for the industry, which is what this

report is meant to be looking at. -- there were no safety

recommendations. We did get a lot more in black-and-white about issues

we have heard before, such as the driver. Investigators are looking at

the way in which the tram was being driven, influencing factors

including the signs. To do the rain have affected the visibility? Also

speeding in the report, it says they are aware of the allegations that

times have gone around the curve there at a higher speed than the 20

kilometres per hour limit on previous occasions. Should more have

been done to stop that, for example? Interestingly and a new development,

it is also looking at Windows. A lot of injuries came from broken glass,

people dying after being thrown through the windows. Investigators

are looking at understanding the behaviour of the tram windows and

the standards applicable to those windows. Could more have been done

there to make the windows more resilient, such as we get on trains

and not on buses, which the standards are based on four trams?

All of this is going to take many, many years. OK, for now, thanks very

Find out why Piers Morgan once to expel the owner of this book shop, I

will give you a clue, it's got something to do with Harry Potter.

A lorry driver has gone on trial accused of killing a cyclist

Moira Gemmill, a leading figure in the world of art and design,

died after she was struck by a tipper lorry

She was described as a visionary, a champion of architecture, Moira

Gemmill was hand-picked by the Queen to oversee renovations at Windsor

She had worked for many years as director of design at the

V Museum, but in April 2015, was killed while riding to work.

Opening the case here in court number three,

the prosecution showed CCTV footage from various different sources that

bus cameras, street cameras and a passing motorist.

From various angles, we see Moira Gemmill on her

bicycle on a bright, sunny morning, riding towards Lambeth Bridge.

As she crosses the bridge, she pulls up

on the inside of a tipper truck, which is waiting at the roundabout.

Now, as it pulls away, the jury saw the moment she's

dragged underneath the tipper truck and despite their

best efforts of paramedics and some passing

plain-clothed police officers to save her, she died at the scene.

The prosecution says he failed to use

his mirrors properly and paid insufficient attention to cyclists.

In short, the jury must decide if he was driving carelessly.

The spot where Moira Gemmill died has now

been identified as London's most dangerous junction for cyclists.

Recent figures show there were 53 accidents in six years.

The jury was today asked to set aside any

emotions due to the recent spate of cyclist deaths on London's

roads and to try the case on the simple facts.

James Kwatia, who is from Catford, denies causing death

Drivers on the night tube are to be balloted for strike action

in a dispute over pay and career progression.

who work on Friday and Saturday nights,

have been blocked from applying for full-time jobs and aren't

Transport for London says it's invited the RMT to meet for talks.

It might not surprise you to learn that London has been ranked the most

congested city in the UK, but what more worrying is that it

has also been revealed as the seventh worst congested city

That's according to researchers who looked at jams in more

The traffic company Inrix also found we spend on average 32 hours

a year stuck in hold-ups at a cost of just under ?1,000 per driver.

As we've been hearing, there are warnings that deep cuts

to services will be needed to plug the gap in social care funding -

Hertfordshire Council says the county is approaching a crisis

and warns that its care system could grind to halt -

unless the Government radically rethinks how we care for adults.

Here you are, Betty. Here is your lunch. Thank you. Betty is 90 years

old and immobile. To carers have to visit four times at home to make

sure she's washed, dressed and fed properly, and help protect vital

medication. They see to my knees. All my needs, so I am very

glad of that. If it wasn't for carers, these people would be left

to try to fend for themselves, which in Betty byes case, it is

impossible, but that she can't live without a hoist, without being

transferred. The fact of making more cuts, the part of it, it just scares

me. Everyday, more than 28,000 people in Hertfordshire like Betty

had to be helped with basic needs. The demand is growing, but funding

has been cut. There has been a 71% increase in adults asking for social

care in Hertfordshire in the last seven years. If we have more people

going into A E, that clogs up the hospital system and it could mean

the whole system grinding almost to a halt. Hertfordshire Valley's

clinical commissioning group had decided to cut a further ?8.5

million from social care. Tonight it decided to rethink that decision.

Welcome news for Betty and others, but even with the planned increase

in council tax, the funding of adult social care in Hertfordshire is

still in doubt. Amy Winehouse was just 27

when she died of alcohol poisoning. Five years on, and a recovery house

has been set up in her memory to support other women

struggling with addictions. It's the only one of its kind

in the UK, and the Amy Winehouse

Foundation says there's Jean MacKenzie has been

given exclusive access. So, I'm going to have duck

egg in the front room At 19, Grace is the

youngest woman here. She turned to alcohol

after a difficult upbringing. And so, at what point did you think,

"I'm an alcoholic?" It was only in November

2015, where I took 57 antidepressant is and a litre

of vodka and a litre of Disaronno. And they told me, "It's a waiting

game now, whether we see that your organs

are failing or not." So, it was four days of me sitting

in resus, hoping and This house is the only

one of its kind. It takes in young women from to two

years after they've been through rehab and helps them stay clean,

while they take their first steps Each morning, the women

must go to one of these check ins, so the house knows

they are safe and well. I'm tired and I kind

of just want to go out Age women get their own

flat within the house, which they pay for,

using their housing benefit, but it comes

with No drug and alcohol, no overnight

guests and they must agree If we suspect something going on,

we might do a few more. We met people in treatment

who were scared to death of what was going to happen when he

finished their treatment. For a lot of them, all

they could think about was, "I have to go back to

where I was before. You know, I'm just not

going to stand a chance." When your room is next

door to somebody that is selling drugs, you can never get

well in a sense, you know. You're always stuck in the conundrum

of, "Do I go next door and go So, since you've been in last

week, I finally I'm kind of nervous, but I'm also,

like, really, really excited for the first

time in a long while. There wasn't anything that

I was looking forward to and now, I have realised, I've got a really

long life ahead of me. And you can see more on Amy's Place

on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, which is available now

on the BBC iPlayer. Hipster beard and a man buns, I can

only be any barber in east London. This one is part of the festival

ringing art and Barbary together. And it felt more likely to move

inventory today, but will be mild weather last? I will have the full

forecast. So, it's a big night for a town

in South London as the part-time players of Sutton United attempt

to pull off one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history

here at the club's ground, when they take on Premier

League giants Arsenal. Chris Slegg is in the clubhouse

and what's the atmosphere like with kick-off just

over an hour away? Atmosphere is building up nicely.

Already plenty of early arrivals inside the ground that holds just

over 5000 people. We have the plastic pitch behind me, vastly

different from Arsenal's Emirates Stadium. Where 50,000 can attend.

Let's remind you of fruit of the differences between these two clubs.

Sutton are part-timers playing in the first round for the very first

time. Taking on Arsenal, the joint record 12 time winners of the FA

Cup. When it comes to the captains...

They want just have these are but the fans, they'll have the support

of all the community. CHEERING From the moment

Sutton caused a sharp against championship side

Leeds in round four, the FA Cup First came the draw,

then the lengthy queue to get At this clothes shop

on the high street, they have been selling scarves

on behalf of the club. We've got kids and families

coming in buying You know, everybody

is saying there going to they are hoping it won't

just be a happy hour, but a happy

90 minutes tonight, even if the smart money

is on a big win for Arsenal. I've always loved

non-league football, lower league football,

so I'm an So, I'm going to say

it's going to be close. Pearson is officially

recognised as the oldest It opened in 1860, 12

years before the first FA So, can their local team

makes history tonight? We've had regular people

walking past all day asking, you know,

what do you reckon? Yeah, it could go horribly wrong,

but it's a nice little fairy Only 5,000 fans can be

at the game tonight, but the whole of Sutton will be united

in support of their team. There is so much support for the

team. The chairman is with me now. You will remember 1989 when Sutton

stand, can you do it again? Of course, we can. It is good to be a

big ask. Arsenal are a massive fan, but we are hoping that things go for

us tonight and we are looking forward to welcoming a team such as

Arsenal to Sutton United. What do you say to the team? Attack early,

go for it, and remember it is 11 go for it, and remember it is 11

against 11. They know that, they applicable before, they know how the

numbers work. Get in early and treated like a normal game. I don't

think I is null are going to be pleased to be out of their comfort

zone here in a small ground, I just watched through the cord here. But

two I have had a peek inside the dressing doom, what do you think

Arsene Wenger will make of that? There is one PowerPoint, so they all

will have to queue up for it. Is will have to queue up for it. Is

that deliberate? That is the way it always is. What do you think Arsenal

will make of this picture? Didn't know a lot more about it than Tim,

but I think they will be fine with the pitch. They must train on it,

they will have trained on pictures like this before. This sort of pitch

will suit passing football and it is a true surface, so I think they will

be absolutely fine on the surface. It will probably work against us.

But admitted is reckoned you made around ?1 million from this cup run

already, what is the most important thing for you? As far as the money

is concerned? As far as the cup run. It is twofold, the Mono will come in

club Aaron level. -- the money will club Aaron level. -- the money will

come in handy. I think it is twofold, the support has been

incredible and both are equally important. You have drawn with

Lincoln in the quarterfinals, you could be on your way to the

quarterfinals? -- Wembley? One game at a time. This is a massive,

massive hurdle. Everyone will say it is all stacked in favour of Arsenal.

If it was just a case of that, we could do it in a car park. We have

got to play food bar. The tiny percentage that says we will win

will come true and it will be a football clip that people will watch

on the Internet for many years to come. 2-1. The atmosphere building

up nicely here. Love the way you said you just have to breath Arsenal

side. Thank you. If you're one of the nearly

ten million people who follow JK Rowling on Twitter, you may

have seen her recent Londoners, celebrities, even

politicians have waded into the row, but it is one small book shop owner

in North London who's Alice Salfield has been to the store

in Wood Green to find out why. The fact they have been trading

insults on the Internet for weeks. It began when Piers Morgan shared

this cup and said was a satisfying. -- tiki Rowling share the video.

Despite Harry Potter been the bestselling big series of all time,

Piers Morgan claimed in a tweet that he had never read a single word and

that is how this online feud between one of the world's most famous

authors and the TV reporter came to this big shop in Wood Green. How

could he not have read the book? I thought it was the perfect

opportunity to educate him perhaps. That is what the owner of the

bigshot decided to do, by tweeting the first Harry Potter bit at him

line by line. When you first we did him, you had number one of many

lanes. How did you work that out? I made it up. I was only going to do

for five, but then lots of people started going, although, no, the

bigshot is going to treat the Hall of Harry Potter to Piers Morgan and

I thought, OK. I had better do it. On Saturday after 865 tweets of

Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, Piers Morgan decided he had

had enough. He blocked me. He probably does get quite a lot of

abuse on Twitter and me to meeting him Harry Potter was probably a bit

of sunshine in his twitter feed. I hope he appreciated it. Piers Morgan

said they were absolutely the most boring to beat his ever been

subjected to. He may have found them dull, but this expert says in some

cases tweets like this can be seen as harassment. In this case, it is a

bit of fun. I doubt Mr Morgan feels distressed are intimidated by it,

indeed he might like the extra publicity. But story time isn't over

for Piers Morgan just yet, fellow Harry Potter fans are taking up the

mantle, continuing to tweet the rest of the book.

Whether you like a fade or a short back and sides,

you can always rely on London's barbers to be on trend.

Male grooming has a long history in the capital,

and not just because of stories of Sweeney Todd.

Now one artist is hoping to tap into that talent,

showcasing the craft through the centuries.

More men may be heading to the new breed of barbers shops popping up in

the capital, but long before the hipster beard started setting

trends, barbers have always been a part of committees. One artist

inspired by this is bringing the first ever art festival dedicated to

bringing just that to London. I had been touring my first ever

barbershop project and every I go to, someone would an

story about Burberry and the story about Burberry and the

experience of barbershops they had been to. People telling me about

artists who do work with cutting here and after about three years of

whole breadth of people doing whole breadth of people doing

We have international artists and We have international artists and

barbers coming together and they are barbers coming together and they are

going to show a whole breadth of artwork, photography, performances.

We have a whole day of talks. Barbering dates back centuries and

in the last ten years we have seen a real explosion any male grooming

industry. The festival highlights that. 30 years ago, Stephen Powell

was homeless and used barbering to turn his life around and change the

next generation of barbers at his academy in Shoreditch. The community

aspect of barbering is getting together, talking nonsense, swapping

ideas and skills. You get diversity now. It's not just the old

schoolboys. Anyone can be a barber now. The idea is, anyone can join in

and cut hair that is what fashion is about as well. Pick-up festival

kicks off ten days from this Friday in and around barbershops in London.

In a committed spirit, anyone or most leading a haircut can get one

for free. Time now for a check

on the weather with Elizabeth, It certainly was. It was 18 degrees.

18! That's what we would normally expect to see in late May, rather

than the end of February. Lots of blue skies and sunshine. I took this

photo earlier on at Sutton United. Exceptionally mild, lovely day. This

is a rig at the highest of today's temperatures, cure in Kew. 18.3

degrees to be is precise. This photo could have been taken in the summer.

It is all change as we had through the rest of this week. A nice mild

start Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Windy and cloudy at times, outbreaks

of rain and by the end of the week, turning colder. Temperatures back to

normal for the time of year. Earlier on today, lots of sunshine, now

quoting over for the all-important football match, it is cloudy, but

still mild. It should stay dry. The coverage on BBC radio one and on the

radio later on. Completely impartial of course. Over night, keeping the

thick layers of cloud. A bit of rain, particularly up to the

north-east. It could pep up free time. It am certain the day

tomorrow, but mild. You make me be cheating on tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow, lots of cloud around. A few outbreaks of drizzle at times,

but mostly dry and mild. Quite breezy, too. Top temperatures 12 or

13 degrees. Comparative lack of brightness compared to today.

Wednesday, similar. Breaking up is the cold front sinks surprise.

Thursday, wet and windy. Friday, have split imagers. Thanks,

Elizabeth. NHS trusts in England have reported

a deficit of ?886 million for the nine months

to December last year - despite the Government

injecting more than ?1.5 billion of extra funding

in to the service. The House of Lords has begun

debating the bill, which will pave The legislation passed

the Commons with no amendments, but the Government doesn't

have a majority in the Lords. And non-league Sutton are preparing

to take on Arsenal tonight If they win, they'll face another

non-league team, Lincoln City, Lots of Londoners keeping

an eye on that match. You can of course

join the conversation I'll be back with our late

news at 10:30pm tonight. From all the team here,

have a lovely evening. You're sponsored to swap

clothes? I don't get that. Maybe you wear your mother's

clothes? Cool. Yeah, finally. What? I don't get it, what does she wear?

No, no... Like, she wears someone else's.

Cool, yeah. No, she's... OK, that's too complicated.

Do another one. So, like, you get sponsored to let

people lick stuff off you for a day.