21/10/2016 London News

London City Airport has re-opened this evening

after being evacuated because of a suspected

26 people were treated for breathing difficulties

The first flights have now taken off but delays are expected.

Queues of people trying to get into the terminal hoping to catch their

flights. But, as the planes began taking off from City Airport again

this evening, many passengers were still left stranded. We arrhved at

the airport, it had just bedn opened up, once we arrived, we found that

the flight had been cancelldd. We have now got to stay in London

tonight. We went to go back to the City of London with other pdople

from the Netherlands. They said you can go now and go in the qudue but I

don't know if my plane is ldaving. The disruption started just after

4pm when a fire alarm was sdt off. London Fire Brigade said it had been

called to reports of a chemhcal incident. It felt like we w`lked

straight into something. It was chemical. At first I thought

someone's sprayed deodorant but it got worse and you could really feel

it in your throat right down the back. Everyone started coughing A

hazardous response unit with specialist medics arrived at the

airport. 26 people were tre`ted for breathing difficulties with two

taken to hospital. A BBC reporter was caught up in the incident.

People don't know when their flights will be leaving. About 7. 30, the

airport re-opened and there are people in the airport desperate to

find out whether they will be able to get to where they want to go to

tonight. Police and firefighters scoured the building followhng the

alert. What's believed to bd a CS gas spray, better known as tear gas

was found. Officers are now investigating whether the spray had

been accidentally discharged. With at least 30 flights cancelldd today,

further disruption is expected and many will have to wait until

tomorrow to complete their journey. A man has been charged

with murder following the ddath Jamal Mahmoud was killed and two

others were critically injured in a stabbing

at the jail on Tuesday. Basana Kimbembi has been ch`rged

with murder and will appear from prison at court

at a later date. A BBC London undercover

investigation has exposed a major job scam which has potentially

robbed hundreds of vulnerable A fraudster who goes by the name

of John Phillips, offers applicants fake jobs for cash

before disappearing. Victims are left

in debt and jobless. All of these people have

one thing in common - they've all been scammed with a fake

job by one man. I got scammed really, reallx badly,

when I lost ?480 pounds. And this is the man who scalmed

them, John Phillips. We investigate after hearing

numerous reports and post a CV on job websites that we know

Phillips apparently targets. Soon we are contacted by a third,

Premiere Employment A firm, Premier Employment, and get

offer add job. But before we start he says we need

to come to a city office When we arrive, no sign of John

but this lady gets us ...And sells the perks

of working there. And then like all these people we're

asked for a fee to When we come out of the intdrview,

we spot John Phillips Lo and behold, the lady we've met

hands him the money. Later we discover she was bding

conned with a fake job In my eyes it is exploitation

of vulnerable jobseeker's. Nobody should be paying to start

a new job with a genuine employer. And we discover John Phillips is far

from a genuine employer. He set up more than ten bogts

companies, some with fake dhrectors and since 2012, potentially

hundreds of people have been I would say it is not exactly

depression but a state where I was completely stretched

financially, and how to copd Young people like me are just coming

to this country and going to them. You are just stealing

from the poorest. The way Phillips works

is after taking a fee, he gets those who think ethdy're

starting a new job for him, As he says goodbye, we seizd

the moment to ask him a few I wondered if you could tell me

all about the high levels of fraud you have been committing

against many people by lying I don't know what you

are talking about. You don't know what we're t`lking

about? Well, we've been recording xou over

the last few months, offering people jobs

with fictitious companies. I don't know what

you're talking about. And do you know how many

people I've spoken to, affected by your fraud who have lost

thousands and thousands of pounds? I don't know what you're talking

about. I have never seen a more pernicious

kind of fraud as that And Phillips has gone under

ground, leaving a trail Goodnight, over to Peter Gibbs

with the weather. A decent weekend it is for weather.

We are dry for most of the time with a bit of sunshine coming

through. It will help show off the autumn colours which are coling

along nicely now. This evenhng, a chill in the air. Areas of cloud

drifting through on the easterly breeze to stop temperatures falling

away too low. Could turn misty over the hills. Temperatures getting down

into single figures certainly, rural areas maybe down to four or five.

Any early cloud clearing quhckly and then a lot of sunshine to come

tomorrow. One or two showers drifting in from the north-dast

Temperatures in the sunshind similar to recent days, so something around

13, 14, possibly 15, not fedling too bad in the sunshine. As we look

ahead to Sunday, not a bad day, sunshine to be enjoyed. Louhse

sunshine to be enjoyed. Louise Lear has the national forecast now

though. Good evening. Heading off to bed

wondering what is in store for the