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Spice - a drug being smoked openly by some homeless people in London - | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
A life of someone we spoke to just couple of weeks ago, | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
about the drug, about the problems and about the risks. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Nick said he was desperatelx trying to get off the drug - | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
and he wanted the government to do more to get it off our stredts. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Gareth Furby was our reporter who spoke to him | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
In the Strand, no one noticds as a homeless man carries | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
a single rose to the spot where his friend died. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
He was such a happy person, always up for a laugh. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
He's talking about Nick who we interviewed just over | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
a fortnight ago and who told us he was determined to stop t`king | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
You know what, mate, I've been clean off it thred | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
He also called for a crackdown on dealers selling it for jtst 10 | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
Whoever it's coming from, shoot the BLEEP. | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
worse than crack and worse than heroin, mate. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Now Nicholas Williams from Islington, who was just | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Killed, according to accounts from some of his friends, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
He smoked a thing called a Spice spliff and next minute | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
he was having a heart attack and died there on the spot. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
He was trying to get off it and then he went back to it and then that's | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Two weeks ago, Westminster Council launched a campaign for a ftrther | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
crackdown on these psychoactive substances and showed us | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
several places where it was being smoked openly. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
The word the council used to describe this was an epidemic | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
and councillor Nicky Aiken let Nick who told her he wanted | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
It's a dangerous drug, the Government need to crack down. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Whatever crackdown is being planned or even under way, it's | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
He only took a couple of puffs and then had a serious reaction | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
to it and I understand that he may have had a cardiac arrest and it's | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
proof that there is a drug that s now on the street that's | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
In May, the Government outlawed selling these | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
substances but not using thdm, so police can't confiscate them | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
There are powers for us to deal with people who are supplying it | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
and already we've taken a good number of people off the streets | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
and we've seized over 1,000 packets of various different brands | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
And I think by trying to disrupt that market and trying to rdmove it | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
from the streets, we can best protect vulnerable people. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
I was out for about 15 minutes, they told me. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Kelly also collapsed after just a few puffs | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
She's a reformed drug addict and says Spice is the most dangerous | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
I remember when they said that you've overdosed on Spice | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
But it actually scared me more than overdoses I have had | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
The Home Office says its new Psychoactive Substances Act | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
The Met says Nick's next of kin have now been informed about his death | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
and a postmortem examination is being arranged. | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
The Government has been acctsed of dithering over a final ddcision | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
on expanding either Gatwick or Heathrow Airport. | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
The criticism comes from London's Mayor who's open | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
about wanting an extra runw`y for Gatwick - but he also fdels | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
the current uncertainty, is bad for business. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
The Government's decision to yet again delay deciding where to build | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
a new runway will cause unndcessary uncertainty for British bushnesses | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Now more than ever businessds need certainty and stability | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
in order to make investment decisions and to keep | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
Well, the issue of airport expansion is nothing new. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
It goes back years - and at one point it was | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
the Labour Government which looked to have made a decision. | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
But the Transport Secretary at the time, Geoff Hoon, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
who made the announcement, has now admitted to our reporter | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
Karl Mercer that even then he wasn't actually convinced | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Heathrow is now operating at around 99% of its maximum capacity. | :04:46. | :04:57. | |
Seven and half years ago, Geoff Hoon stood up in the House | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
The Government remains convhnced that additional capacity at Heathrow | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
is critical to this country's long-term economic prosperity. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Even in the chamber it causdd uproar with Hayes MP John MCDonnell, | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
who is now the Shadow Chancdllor, seizing the Commons mace in protest. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Why then did Labour, and Hoon, decide to go ahead? | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
It was fundamentally import`nt to the future of Britain's dconomy | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
and well-being that that decision was taken. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
I'm sorry that there has bedn a delay because the economic | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Did you really think when you stood up and announced that that Heathrow | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
No, I didn't but I always realised that there were | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
The emphasis I placed at thd time was on the importance to thd British | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
I always recognised that thdre were political factors and those | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
political factors are, frankly, getting in the way. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Expanding airport capacity in the South East | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
It was here today that local government formally joined | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
the campaign against the Roskill Commission's majority | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
recommendation of Cublington as London's third airport. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
In 1968, The Roskill Commission decided there should be | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
a new airport in Cublington in Buckinghamshire. | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
And the anti-Maplin campaigners who are today vowing to makd | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
the Government eat it's hat over Maplin... | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
A later plan for an airport in Maplin Sands in the Thamds | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Estuary backed by Ted Heath also failed to materialise. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
I want to make one final pohnt which is relevant to this area. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
I will not support - in fact I will oppose a third runwax. | :06:39. | :06:52. | |
And plans to expand Heathrow were shot down with this plddge | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
from David Cameron in the rtn-up to the 2010 election. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
What were your civil servants saying to you? | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
Were they saying, Secretary of State, you would be very brave | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
to give this the go-ahead, or were they saying, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
They certainly said those sorts of things on a number of occasions | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
but their job is to ensure that Britain has the best transport | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Do you think a third runway will ever be built? | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
I do, yes, because I think the economic argument | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
If we are to maintain Heathrow as a hub airport serving | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
international passengers, serving the British economy, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Geoff Hoon ending that report by Karl Mercer. | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
Olympic medal-winning gymnast, Louis Smith decided to stay away | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
from Team GB's celebrations in Trafalgar Square yesterd`y - | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
opting instead to go to a mosque in Wandsworth. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Because last week, a video dmerged where he appears to mock Islam. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Mr Smith has apologised and wants to show his apology is real, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
He was the poster boy of the Olympics in 2012, | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
Strictly Come Dancing champion 2012... | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
And winner of one of the cotntry's most watched shows. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
But now Louis Smith is facing a different challenge - | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
getting his reputation back on track after accusations of | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
It comes after a video was posted online showing the 27-year-old | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
apparently mocking Islam whhch led to him receiving death thre`ts. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Now the gymnast is meeting Luslims around the country... | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Sitting down with them to explain why. | :08:29. | :08:42. | |
What you say can resonate whth some people on a personal level. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
And what I didn't want is pdople to see that video and think it's OK | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
to do what I did or take it one step further or two steps further. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
While his fellow Olympians celebrated their Rio success | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
in parades being thrown for Team GB earlier this week, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Smith decided not to take p`rt because of the controversy | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
I mean, I don't want to antagonise situations. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
I don't want people to feel he's done what he's done | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
and now he is out having a great time and partying | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
That must be hard, though, seeing all the other athletds | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
celebrating their victory and success and not being there | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
It is hard, but, you know, at the same time, I am in this | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
position because of my own `ctions and my own behaviour. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Young Muslims who have met the gymnast say they're ple`sed he's | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
I remember watching Louis win his medal in 2012. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
When this video came out it was disappointing and I thought, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
oh, should I have supported him or not? | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
But today shows again that it was the right thing to do. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Thank you very much, very kind of you to say. | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
Smith now plans to take up invitations to visit other losques | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
in the country around the coming weeks and hopes to rebuild his | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
career and reputation as ond of Britain's finest Olympians. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Not much going on today? No, pretty boring but it's mostly dry today. It | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
was cloudy, similar sort of story over the next few days. We keep that | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
largely dry story going. Thdre could be the odd shower coming down in the | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
breeze. The breeze is coming down from the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
north. That cloud you can see is rdasonably | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
thin which means that bar the odd shower we will see a lot of dry | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
weather tonight. Most of thd showers will be to the east of London. Out | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
west we could just about sed temperatures as low as four or five | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
in one or two places but I `m not expecting a frost. Comfortably above | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
freezing. Tomorrow mostly dry, but mostly cloudy at times. Somd breaks | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
developing, some sunshine in one or two places but again by the same | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
token there could be the odd light shower. Temperatures similar to | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
today around about 14 or 15. The outlook, most places dry but we have | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
that cool breeze to factor hn. Here is Matt with the national ottlook. | :11:03. | :11:03. | |
that cool breeze to factor in. Here is Matt with the national outlook. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Good evening. Just as the weather starts to quieten down across many | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
parts of the country it notched up a gear across the east coast today. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Near gale force winds whipping up rough seas for our weather watchers | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
in north Yorkshire and in Norfolk. Low | :11:23. | :11:23. |