13/02/2017 Inside Out London

Here's what's coming up on tonight's show.

With Airbnb's bookings booming, we ask, are they damaging

Always the young people out here looking

They are all going to the tourists, and we have nowhere to live.

We reveal how Tesco has been selling us

bargains that aren't bargains at all.

I'm sure these bargains were on special offer,

But according to my receipt, I paid full price.

And as Met police chief Sir Bernard Hogan

Howe steps down, he talks with us about his successes and failures.

When I joined, our work card said to serve without fear or favour.

So you've got to do what you think is

the right thing to do, whether it is pleasant,

whether it leaves you with a problem to resolve, you've got to do

The home sharing website Airbnb has become massively successful, and

London, well, London is one of the most popular places

Some critics, though, claimed that success has come at a

price, that short-term sublettings to tourists are driving up prices

available to those who want to rent long term.

Peter and Bullent are making sure all is perfect

for tourists to stay at each of their flats.

This is a flat I have in Notting Hill.

I can let the whole place out and got somebody

coming to stay who's here for the weekend

It's been one of the world's fastest-growing travel companies.

Transforming the way many book holidays.

To stay in people's homes, rather than a traditional hotel.

When I booked the trip, my friend said I was crazy.

Why would I stay in someone else's house?

It's a question three then students who

rented out space on their floor to pay their rent are pretty glad they

Now valued at a cool $30 billion, with London its second

Peter and Bullent are clear why they go for tourists, rather than a

When you are taking on a short-term tenant, you're

probably getting something like double the rental you would have

You return about 30% more as you'd put if

And Peter's guests have arrived now, to use the

I often do feel I get more for my money because with a

hotel, you're just paying for one room, but when you rent an apartment

or a home, you have the use of the kitchen, you have a living room

It's clear Airbnb has had a seismic effect, and brought huge

But some fear it may be putting pressure on

London's long-term rental housing market and possibly contributing to

Soaring rents, more chasing fewer affordable

Could short-term letting sites like Airbnb be reducing the

He's been trying to rent a property for more

than a year near Ladbroke Grove, to be near his work.

All the property has been overpriced, couldn't really

So at the moment I'm currently living with my mum and dad

Many feel the flood of short-term lets has removed

thousands of homes off the long-term rental market.

And pushed up prices for those like Daniel.

To get more of a picture, we asked Airbnb for a

precise breakdown of where and how many London homes are being

They refused, so we had to go elsewhere.

This independent website minds the Airbnb site for

data, to allow you to see where homes are being advertised.

In red for whole homes, green for rooms.

York housing activist Murray Cox is inaccurate.

But Murray has been contacted by a number of London

councils concerned about the spread of air Airbnb.

councils concerned about the spread of Airbnb.

I know London has affordability issues, and so people

are finding they can make more money by renting a home on Airbnb instead

of to a renter, and then that is problematic for our cities,

and we don't want our cities to become

New figures obtained by Inside Out from

Murray's website show the scale of the spread of Airbnb.

There are many rooms rented out, but what

you're seeing here is a snapshot of whole homes up for rent.

Smaller numbers in places like Havering , Harrow and

Moving closer in via Brent, Lewisham and Ealing to

And thousands in areas close to London's tourist

Like Hackney, Camden and Westminster.

Across the capital, more than 27,000 whole homes on just

It's a small percentage overall, but it affects some

Where Daniel is on the verge of giving up.

I'm pretty outraged about it because all

those young people out here looking for properties for the first time,

they're all just going to tourists and we have nowhere to live.

But Airbnb reject the view that they have a role

There's countless studies around as to what

Population rising, there's been more than 1

million people added in

London in the last ten years, and there's only been 20,000 houses

built, so we believe we are a negligible

to work on the controls of home sharing to mean it continues to be

In May 2015, Airbnb celebrated a change in

If you've seen a house floating down the Thames and

you're wondering why, it's from Airbnb.

We are celebrating home sharing and a recent change in legislation

which means Londoners are free to share their homes

Until then it was illegal to short let in London without planning

But the government changed the law to allow Londoners to

do so, but only up to a maximum of 90 days.

It's allowed Airbnb to rapidly expand, but the 90 day rule was

With some blocks in London turning into

What we wanted was for Airbnb to be proactive and to make

this enforcement and to make sure people weren't flouting the law.

Airbnb came under huge political pressure to act, and fast.

So London mayor Sadiq Khan stepped in to wave

And then Airbnb made a dramatic announcement.

From this spring, home lets that total more than 90 days in

Any landlord that tries will be blocked from

Why have regulation there in the first place?

Bulent has four homes he's been marketing commercially on

And says landlords will just move to competing sites.

There are many other options, many other

ways of marketing the property as well.

We asked competitors of Airbnb, like HomeAway, TripAdvisor,

Expedia, if they and others would follow

Airbnb in cracking down on

The answer seems to be no, it's still entirely down to the landlord.

And even on Airbnb, landlords are now threatening

One Airbnb host who didn't want to be identified with three homes on

It's pretty easy, we'll just go on as before.

When the 90 day rule come sup, I'll reregister

the homes I have now so

it looks like they're different homes in a slightly different

I know of many other landlords planning to do the

Airbnb says it will crack down on any landlords it

And says those rules will have an impact.

Other world cities have cracked down hard.

In New York it is illegal to even advertise lets of

And in Berlin, you can't rent out more than half

your home for a short period without a permit.

It's still too early to see what impact the new rules will

have in London, but the pressure is mounting to do more

in a city grappling with an acute housing shortage.

Now then, still to come on tonight's show.

He's a star, nothing is too much fuss.

How does he compare with politicians?

How often do you check the receipt when you shop at

We all take it for granted that the price you see

you pay at the till, but what if it's not?

Jonathan Gibson has been investigating the not so special

offers costing shoppers dear at Britain's biggest supermarket.

Most of us are, and Tesco knows it, too.

That's why the shelves at Britain's biggest

supermarket are full of

Money off this, buy two for that, you get the drift.

And we all take it for granted that the price

on the shelf is the price we'll pay at the till.

But what if things don't quite add up when you

I've just bought a few bits at Tesco.

And I'm sure these products were on special offer.

But according to my receipt, I paid full price.

I've paid 60% more than the deal on the shelf.

At another Tesco store, I spot two for ?2 for ice cream, but

at the till, it's the full price as well.

Martin works for Trading Standards and says the law of

They must put a price on goods so you know what you

And that price must be accurate so you don't get

charged more than you thought you were going to pay.

And with more than 3500 stores nationwide, Tesco should be

So I'm using my phone and some secret

cameras to see how many offers on the shelves

don't go through at the

The gingerbread, they are on offer two for ?3 but it hasn't

And the cat food, the deal was three for ?8.

Those time periods are just too long.

Multi-buy deals are being left on the shelves after the tills

Do you get that a lot where the prices on the

shelf are not matching the prices on the till?

The same thing is happening in Coventry.

And down the road at this Tesco Express, I had to ask

And in a store this small, that shouldn't take long.

I've started making a list of how many offers are

But is what's happening here in the West

Midlands also happening across the country?

Because if it is, it's not just a problem for Tesco, it's a

At this Tesco store at Liverpool, sauce marked ?1

on the shelf is almost double at the checkout.

And at another store nearby, I'm left completely confused by the

offers on the shelves and what I'm charged at the checkout.

If there are just too many offers changing

too frequently, so that store staff can't really be expected to

understand them, comply with all the changes,

then that is something Tesco head office needs to think

And there's plenty to think about at another store in Leeds.

Doing now what somebody should have done hours,

And as I head across the country, the same thing keeps happening.

It doesn't seem a terribly difficult or perhaps that longer job

just to walk round the store, assuming everybody knows what

To go around and tear off anything that has had its

And it's not just shoppers left confused,

as older, new promotions end up side by side.

The longer the offer has been wrong, the bigger the

failure of diligence and the more worried I am, frankly.

In that case, he's not going to like what's

At this store, the cashier checks the out of date

And when I returned the next day, neither does someone else.

So a week later I go back and it's still on

And when I return a month later, yes, still on the shelf.

The fourth worker finally removes it.

That is very bad, it's pretty basic that if one customer is shown

something wrong, then it is put right to stop other customers being

But at 33 of the 50 stores I went to, the till price was

If customer A has come back and complained and been

refunded, that doesn't mean there weren't 20 other

customers who didn't spot it and didn't complain.

There were obviously major problems with their control of

It's the special offers that bring customers in, make

people reach for more and perhaps spend a little bit more than they

meant to when they came into the store, so that is

The company wouldn't provide anyone to interview, but after reviewing

Following our investigation, Britain's biggest supermarket

double checking the accuracy of every price in every store.

That's more than 3500 stores across Britain.

Sir Bernard Hogan Howe is preparing to

step down from his role as head of the Met Police,

one of the highest profile jobs in the capital.

BBC's London's home affairs correspondent Nick Beake has been

granted unprecedented access to a man who,

years, has headed up one of the world's largest police forces.

And Sir Bernard talks candidly to him about

his ups and downs of his time in office,

how he likes to unwind and

This is how London's top cop likes to relax.

When you're out riding, you can't think about

anything else, the whole world goes away.

It's a welcome break from those grillings

The worst thing about his job, he says.

This is Oliver, his favourite horse in the Met.

He's a star, nothing is too much fuss.

How does he compare with politicians?

Being the commissioner is the most stressful and relentless job

So what does Sir Bernard do when he gets a day off?

And so as football fans streamed to the Chelsea-Arsenal

Volunteering on the front line in the mounted branch.

Can I just say, it's the first football

During the last five and half years, I've got round every football ground

Sir Bernard Hogan Howe rode to the rescue after the Met had lost

two commissioners in the space of only

Sir Bernard took over just six weeks later.

The police and some communities seemed as far

How frightening is that to see 26 boroughs have got

It's terrifying, because it meant order's

broke down and that thin veneer of civilisation has disappeared.

And that's got to be a worry for all of us

because the weak suffer in

So for me, one of the major things we've got to do

was to try and understand what happened, make sure it doesn't

And so one thing he did was to order a reduction in the

use of the controversial tactic stop and search.

Which often targeted young black men.

And he championed a new approach he called total

The criminals do not have bureaucratic meetings with minutes

to go out and rob a bank or to nick a car.

They just get on with it, so we've got to be as nimble, thorough

and at times ruthless as they have been.

In the last year, knife and gun offences have gone up.

But overall, on his watch, crime fell

nearly 20%, at a time when the Met had to save ?600 million.

Five aside football once a week has kept

He says he chose team players without egos to

And it was the ultimate team event which

The Olympic summer of 2012, the eyes of the

Of course we had the disruption of G4S,

So they weren't able to deliver their part of the

contract, the military had to come in so all the plans had to be

In the six months preceding the Olympics, people didn't notice,

Related to terrorism issues and charged, I

And the Games passed without any security

But two years later, in 2014, the terror threat level was raised

with the emergence of the so-called Islamic State.

It prompted these demonstrations of how the police

The Met says at least ten terror plots have been

And unlike other European capitals, there's been no big attack in

But there's been speculation counter terror powers could be

transferred from Scotland Yard to the National Crime Agency in the

If we'd had, as they had in France, in November 2015, 130 people

murdered, imagine that had happened in London.

We'd all be saying what the hell happened there?

Why didn't we know it was going to happen?

I suspect by now we would have changed

And I would argue that at the time of a serious

threat, and we are agreeing there is a serious threat, you don't start

Trying to build good relationships with

London's various communities has been a priority.

And the relationship with City Hall has been vital.

Every time Boris the mayor talked about you, we went

You've worked with two mayors, Boris, your first.

If you were to describe the man in three words?

I was only reflecting the other day that over the

years, I've had a lot of meetings with him.

And every meeting I have left him, I've felt better.

I don't think I've had a meeting where you felt, oh, crikey,

But the relationship with the press has been strained at best.

Some national newspapers turned their fire on him.

He believes it was an art revenge for journalists being arrested for

alleged phone hacking and payments to public officials. If there's a

headline saying this is the man he shames British policing, which you

will have known someone wrote, how does it feel? I know they've got an

agenda, don't accept it at all. They are entitled to serve you. They have

not had a good look at themselves. If they love themselves in the

mirror sometimes, we've been on the side of right and they haven't.

Another low was operation in Midland, the bungled investigation

into claims of a VIP paedophile ring that Westminster in the 70s and 80s.

It to say that one of the hardest moments was having to having to go

to a D-Day veteran to apologise, having to go to the widow of a

former Home Secretary say, we disrupted your lives, people who

were elderly, and I'm sorry, we got is wrong? Of course, nobody wants to

do it. This is the first time I've said sorry to families, it is always

demanding. It is not easy to accept your organisation ended up damaging

people. But I think it's the right thing to do, to say sorry and point

how you will stop it happening again. He could be staying on

longer, but the new mayor Sadiq Khan extended his contract by only a year

and could have been three. But submitted Hogan Knight denies there

was a wreck. Sadiq Khan, the new there? He's a different type of

person, he's another bright guy. He started off as a lawyer. He was a

human rights lawyer who took on the police. I find to make balanced

individual who listens clearly to the evidence. Sir Bernard Hogan Howe

retired at the end of the month, there will be more Tibor Hose Ryden,

holidays with his wife -- for horse riding. But after 40 years in

uniform, he will be handing over the reins to a new commissioner. He is

part of the London I love, there's so much happening, so people. What

better place could you work? What better placed to Belize? I am proud

I've had the opportunity, and it is a nice way to finish -- to police.

That's nearly all from tonight. There will be no Inside Out next

week, but we'll be back in two weeks' time with a special

investigation. Breaking the wall silence.

These women have been abused and abandoned by their British Asian

husbands. Abandonment is a way of dehumanising woman. It's a way of

strapping hair of her rights and reducing her to no more than a

commodity. Crossed Indian subcontinent and cover thousands of

brides have been deserted and shunned by their own communities.

She feels she has no value, and society makes it that she has no

value. Some are now speaking out against the injustices they face.

They marry is, they bring is over and treaters like a dirty rag. And

that's all from the street's Inside Out London. If you miss any of

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