04/03/2017 London News

against Spain's Fernando Verdasco, but recovered to win

There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,

we are back with the late news at Ten o'clock- now on BBC1 its time

Fly-tipping is on the rise across England - costing

councils millions of pounds, but there's nowhere worse

The five areas where fly-tipping occurs most, are all here -

with the Borough of Enfield comfortably topping the list.

Sarah Harris has been to the area to find out why.

Unwanted and dumped - piles of rubbish left close

It's on the doorstop of Miryam and her young family.

She can't understand why people don't take it to the tip

and is worried about the effect on her daughter's health.

They want to jump in there and they want to go there

to check what is going on because they are little kids.

They don't know if it is mess or not so.

According to the latest Government figures on tipping,

Enfield had the worst record in the country with 70,930 incidents

followed by Haringey with 34,975, and Newham 32,718.

In the verges of the green parts of Enfield Borough, residents say

It is mainly the white vans that come over and they chuck out

concrete and plastic sheeting and some brickwork and stuff.

Down here we see mattresses and the same thing as well

There is mattresses and furniture down there and it is really

Enfield Council said in a statement that they'd issued 900 fixed penalty

notices last year alone to people who were either fly-tipping

They said their aim is to have it moved within four hours of people

The council is determined - tippers won't get away with it,

with some fines running into thousands of pounds.

A man from London has died in a crash on the M20 motorway,

in which a vehicle is believed to have been travelling

the wrong way. It happened in the early

hours of this morning, with the driver of the vehicle

There's anger in west London towards a Trust which was set up

to safeguard the interests of local people - but is now accused

The argument centres around a Sports Centre -

and the 'Westway Trust' weren't happy when Chris Slegg

Changes made to the Westway Trust Sports Centre in west London have

Young tennis players are training outdoors since their indoor court

Squash courts are being turned into a hot yoga studio.

The public authorities have given management control over to a private

operator that clearly has a profit motive, has no local ties

to the community and isn't really incentivised to meet the aggregate

When the Westway opened in 1970, the Westway Trust,

which owns the Sports Centre, was set up to safeguard the

Some say they are failing to do that.

They were put here to administer 23 acres of land for the benefit

of the local community as compensation for

this six-lane motorway that is riven through the area.

When the Westway Trust became aware that we were wanting to talk

to people down here, they came and locked these outdoor

They have now agreed to open one of the courts.

They've told us not to film on it and they've said

they are not prepared to be interviewed on camera.

It is a local row but it points to nationwide concerns.

A YouGov survey last week shows 73% of Brits would prioritise investment

in grassroots sport over Olympic medals.

After filming, the Westway Trust told us their priority is creating

a wide variety of opportunities for local people on lower incomes.

A look at tomorrow's weather. It'll be wet in the morning.

Drier and brighter in the afternoon, but possibly still some

Finally, here's something I promise you'll like.

If you were out and about in Barnet last night -

and a little worse for wear.... You may have thought you were seeing

Three horses walking down St Albans Road in the early hours -

The horses escaped from a field, but fortunately, one

of the officers knew a thing or two about the animals, and was able

No horse or human was injured during the rescue.

Hello. I could have put almost anything in this sphere today such

was the variety. Some of you saw showers but the cloud is sitting

lower in the atmosphere. It was nice enough this morning across the

Midlands, not just here in Birmingham, but in that slot, it

filled in disappointingly, the showers were always there in Wales

and the South West and they crept further into the yeast, and further

into the North. All of that is driven by this low pressure, we have

had wind rain and snow in Scotland which becomes confined to the

Shetland Islands overnight making room for another band of weather in

the South West and in between, a touch of frost and perhaps a bit of

fog. This is how we start the day on Sunday, the rain and wind confined

to the Shetland Islands, elsewhere the good news story in Scotland,

Northern Ireland and the north of England is that you will get to see

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