:00:00. > :00:00.Typhoon as it heads towards Vietnam this weekend. That's all, know
:00:00. > :00:11.Tonight on BBC London News: GPs say no to the proposed closure of two
:00:12. > :00:20.A units in south west London. They say the changes wouldn't improve
:00:21. > :00:26.patient care. Our responsibility is to our local patients. We have asked
:00:27. > :00:30.our GPs what is the best way to do that. We need to admit people to a
:00:31. > :00:34.local hospital. We look at the challenges facing NHS bosses. Also
:00:35. > :00:38.tonight: An arrest warrant for the terror suspect who escaped wearing a
:00:39. > :00:39.burka ` he was facing 20 charges for breaching terrorism prevention
:00:40. > :00:43.orders. Three private investigators admit to
:00:44. > :00:47.spying during the bidding process to take over the Olympic stadium. Plus,
:00:48. > :00:50.bringing back a lost London ` the animation which recreates Tudor
:00:51. > :01:07.streets burnt down by the Great Fire.
:01:08. > :01:13.Welcome to the programme. First tonight, more signs of how difficult
:01:14. > :01:18.it is to change hospital services in the capital. GPs in Surrey have
:01:19. > :01:23.voted against plans which would have seen the A and Maternity units at
:01:24. > :01:26.St Helier and Epsom hospitals close. NHS bosses had said the proposals
:01:27. > :01:31.would improve patient care in the area. It could now mean a return to
:01:32. > :01:35.the drawing board for a process which has already taken more than
:01:36. > :01:44.two years. Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer.
:01:45. > :01:49.Another arrival at Epsom's A department this morning. One of a
:01:50. > :01:54.thousand patients they will see this week. Under plans drawn up by the
:01:55. > :01:59.health department, this department was facing the axe. How can people
:02:00. > :02:04.go from here to St Helier or St George's. You would be dead before
:02:05. > :02:11.you get there. They need to keep it open. We have used it many times
:02:12. > :02:15.with my son. St Helier is too far. If you got ill it would be murder.
:02:16. > :02:20.You would go to St George's in tooting which is a murder place to
:02:21. > :02:25.get to. Today, those plans might have changed. Last year, the A
:02:26. > :02:31.here at Epsom sources De thousand patients. Under plans they would
:02:32. > :02:34.have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital.
:02:35. > :02:37.have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital
:02:38. > :02:41.That said local GPs is not good enough for their patients. Claire
:02:42. > :02:47.Fuller is one of those GPs. They voted on whether they thought
:02:48. > :02:55.closing the A was a good idea. 75% said no. The best way to treat that
:02:56. > :02:59.group of patients is for the GPs and community therapists to work really
:03:00. > :03:05.closely with the colleagues in the hospital and social care. We need to
:03:06. > :03:08.be able to admit them to a local hospital. That would not have
:03:09. > :03:19.happened in the proposals on the table. It affects five different
:03:20. > :03:25.hospitals. St Helier and Epsom were due to lose their A and maternity
:03:26. > :03:31.units. Those plans are now in doubt. Sorry's GPs have thrown a spanner in
:03:32. > :03:34.the works. We still have safety concerns. We still have quality
:03:35. > :03:40.concerns and we still have to provide a service which we can
:03:41. > :03:45.provide enough finances for. The challenges remain and we have to see
:03:46. > :03:50.how we go forward. The energy in the system to tackle the problems
:03:51. > :03:55.remains clinically. Energy is what those pushing for change need.
:03:56. > :03:59.Change tends to happen only very slowly in the NHS.
:04:00. > :04:02.Karl's here now. This once again highlights the challenges of making
:04:03. > :04:11.changes,where does this leave health care in the capital? I think it
:04:12. > :04:16.leaves it in a bit of a mess. Change happens very slowly in the NHS in
:04:17. > :04:19.London, and that at a time when NHS managers are telling us changed
:04:20. > :04:23.needs to happen really quickly to keep patients say. I will give you
:04:24. > :04:28.an advantage of what has been happening. I have sat in three
:04:29. > :04:31.different court cases. There was the case in north`west London where they
:04:32. > :04:37.wanted to downgrade four A 's That is going ahead. The case in
:04:38. > :04:44.Lewisham. They won their campaign to keep the A open and that Chase
:04:45. > :04:49.Farm there is a court case. All of those reconfigurations have taken
:04:50. > :04:55.years. Look North, east, South or west, you have got the same issues.
:04:56. > :05:00.It is taking a long time, far too long say NHS bosses. Thank you.
:05:01. > :05:04.Coming up later in the programme: Thames Water is blocked from
:05:05. > :05:11.introducing an 8% price hike ` but customers still face bigger bills.
:05:12. > :05:16.An arrest warrant has been issued for the terrorism suspect who
:05:17. > :05:21.disguised himself in a burka and went on the run a week ago. It's
:05:22. > :05:23.emerged Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed was facing 20 charges for breaching
:05:24. > :05:28.different terrorism prevention orders before he disappeared in
:05:29. > :05:29.Acton. That's where we can join Secunder Kermani who's been
:05:30. > :05:42.following the story. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed disappeared
:05:43. > :05:47.last Friday after attending this mosque behind me here. I should
:05:48. > :05:51.stress there is no implication that the mosque is involved in any
:05:52. > :06:02.wrongdoing. Before of that, Mohamed had already been due in court
:06:03. > :06:08.accused of breaching Terrorism Act `` terrorism prevention measures. He
:06:09. > :06:15.has made allegations that he was tortured abroad. But there is still
:06:16. > :06:19.no sound of the man himself. Mohamed Ahmed Mohammed went on the run last
:06:20. > :06:25.week. A manhunt for him is still going on. Today, a judge issued an
:06:26. > :06:30.arrest warrant for him after he failed to appear in court. It said
:06:31. > :06:33.he thought alongside the militant Islamist group Al`Shabab in Somalia
:06:34. > :06:40.although he has never been convicted. He was arrested to Macri
:06:41. > :06:44.years ago in a semi`autonomous province of Somaliland. His lawyer
:06:45. > :06:54.claims he was tortured with British complicity. We have the most serious
:06:55. > :06:58.concern in relation to a young man who is hideously tortured in
:06:59. > :07:04.Somaliland for two months, was forcibly and illegally deported to
:07:05. > :07:10.this country and where the question has been repeatedly raised of the
:07:11. > :07:15.complicity of the British authorities, the security services,
:07:16. > :07:22.in that unlawful removal. Once back in the UK, Mohamed's movements were
:07:23. > :07:26.restricted and he had to report to police stations. His failure to
:07:27. > :07:31.comply with those requirements is why he was meant to be in court
:07:32. > :07:35.today. His lawyers told the BBC that if he had been in court today he
:07:36. > :07:39.would have said the reason he breached those requirements was
:07:40. > :07:44.because he was suffering from the after`effects of torture. That forms
:07:45. > :07:48.part of a separate court case and today, government lawyers said they
:07:49. > :07:53.were going to try to get that court case stopped because of his
:07:54. > :07:55.disappearance. Meanwhile, the search for Mohamed by the police and
:07:56. > :07:58.security services continues. Thank you.
:07:59. > :08:00.A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a schoolboy on a bus in
:08:01. > :08:07.North London in April this year. North London in April this year
:08:08. > :08:11.Derek Boateng from Hackney died in hospital on his 16th birthday after
:08:12. > :08:14.being stabbed. The court was told there had been a previous dispute
:08:15. > :08:17.between him and his attacker ` also aged 16.
:08:18. > :08:21.A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering a pensioner
:08:22. > :08:24.during an attempted burglary. Imran Douglas was 17 when he killed the
:08:25. > :08:28.88`year`old woman while she was in bed at her care home in Shadwell.
:08:29. > :08:33.Marjorie Gilby was strangled and stabbed in the attack in May.
:08:34. > :08:38.South Kensington Tube Station was closed this afternoon because of
:08:39. > :08:40.smoke coming from a faulty train. Firefighers were called and
:08:41. > :08:46.passengers evacuated from the train just after 2.30. There were no
:08:47. > :08:50.injuries. The closure of the station has caused disruption on the
:08:51. > :08:53.District and Circle lines. Three men have admitted illegally
:08:54. > :08:57.obtaining data from members of West Ham Football Club during the bidding
:08:58. > :09:01.process to take over the Olympic Stadium. The allegations relate to a
:09:02. > :09:04.company hiring private investigators to get information on the Premier
:09:05. > :09:11.League Club and the Olympic Park Legacy Company. Let's get more on
:09:12. > :09:18.this from our sports news correspondent Adrian Warner.
:09:19. > :09:23.It was a bitter battle between Tottenham and West Ham. There were
:09:24. > :09:29.loads of allegations about underhand activity in November 2010, dirty
:09:30. > :09:34.tricks. What happened in February 2011, West Ham were awarded the
:09:35. > :09:39.stadium by the Olympic Park Legacy Corporation. We then had a lot of
:09:40. > :09:43.legal battles. Eventually, in October 2011 the whole thing fell
:09:44. > :09:51.apart. What then happened was interesting. The head of the Olympic
:09:52. > :09:55.Park Legacy Corporation stood up and accused Tottenham of putting her
:09:56. > :09:59.whole board under surveillance. Tottenham have always denied this.
:10:00. > :10:03.What followed was a police investigation which ended today with
:10:04. > :10:10.three Macri men in a Crown Court pleading guilty for obtaining data,
:10:11. > :10:17.things like phone records and bank records from the Olympic Park Legacy
:10:18. > :10:21.Company. It is important to stress that although Tottenham did ask the
:10:22. > :10:24.company, for which one of the men worked, to look into and investigate
:10:25. > :10:31.the whole eating process, Tottenham have always denied any illegal
:10:32. > :10:36.action. House at the can to think this is in terms of West Ham moving
:10:37. > :10:41.into the stadium? It will not affect that. There was another process and
:10:42. > :10:47.they won that. They will go in in 2016. It shows that in the world of
:10:48. > :10:50.hacking trials and everything else, people at this level were prepared
:10:51. > :10:54.to think about doing these kind of things. Thank you.
:10:55. > :10:58.Thames Water has been blocked from imposing an eight per cent price
:10:59. > :11:01.increase on customers. The company said the extra money was needed to
:11:02. > :11:05.help fund the construction of a 'super sewer' under London. But the
:11:06. > :11:09.water regulator, Ofwat, says there's no justification for customers to be
:11:10. > :11:16.charged an extra ?29 from next year. Emma North reports.
:11:17. > :11:21.We need it, our city is built around it, but how much should we pay for
:11:22. > :11:26.our water. Londoners have little choice about who supplies them. It
:11:27. > :11:34.is Thames Water. Next year we are expected to pay ?15 more for what
:11:35. > :11:40.comes out of our tap. Thames Water asked for more, an extra ?29 on top,
:11:41. > :11:44.raising ?291 million. Thames Water said they needed the money for two
:11:45. > :11:48.things, first to pay for the shortfall from customers who had not
:11:49. > :11:52.paid their water bills, and secondly to buy land which would allow them
:11:53. > :11:58.to build the super sewer from here in full down the length of the
:11:59. > :12:02.Thames. Ofwat said No. Water customers can choose who their
:12:03. > :12:06.supplier is. Thames Water provided us with lots of evidence. We
:12:07. > :12:09.examined it carefully and we do not think their cost measures justify an
:12:10. > :12:12.increase in bills for customers. increase in bills for customers
:12:13. > :12:27.Critics have accused Thames Water of not budgeting properly. While you
:12:28. > :12:33.are taking the p of Londoners down your sewers, you are taking the p
:12:34. > :12:37.out of their bills. That is a nice sound bite. Customers, when we talk
:12:38. > :12:41.to them, they say we do not want bills to be any higher than they
:12:42. > :12:51.need to be. Everybody would say that! Do they agree with you? Could
:12:52. > :13:00.I finish my answer? Were Thames Water being greedy? I do not think
:13:01. > :13:04.it is question of greed. We recognise that these costs have been
:13:05. > :13:07.incurred. What we are arguing is simply the balance between the
:13:08. > :13:10.shareholder and the customer needs to be addressed and these costs
:13:11. > :13:18.should not be passed on to the customer. Thames Water said it is
:13:19. > :13:23.reviewing Ofwat's decision. In the meantime, it has defined the
:13:24. > :13:28.shortfall. As more pressure is piled on utility companies, it is a small
:13:29. > :13:35.victory for the consumer. Still to come this evening: if you had just
:13:36. > :13:38.won this amount of money, would you get up at 6am the next morning to go
:13:39. > :13:44.back to work? I will be talking to the care worker
:13:45. > :13:48.from Sutton who did just that. And London wins the bid to host the
:13:49. > :13:58.2018 hockey World Cup. Take a look at these images of 17th
:13:59. > :14:01.century London. They've been created by a group of university students
:14:02. > :14:04.who've been studying detailed maps of the capital before the Great
:14:05. > :14:07.Fire. And now, they've brought them to life in an animation which has
:14:08. > :14:14.just won an award at Europe's biggest video game festival. Wendy
:14:15. > :14:20.Hurrell has been finding out more. This is what London might have
:14:21. > :14:25.looked like in the 1600th. A timber framed wattle and daub world of
:14:26. > :14:30.narrow, cobbled streets. Starting at pudding Lane, and spinning down to
:14:31. > :14:36.the wide River Thames, across which spans London Bridge with its shops,
:14:37. > :14:41.homes and gatehouse. It is a street pattern upon which modern`day London
:14:42. > :14:45.was built. It was from the 17th century maps that the British
:14:46. > :14:54.library has, that this animation was designed by these students at a
:14:55. > :15:00.Leicester University. We got as many historical references as we could,
:15:01. > :15:04.most notable, Samuel Pepys diary. It is quite good watching it while
:15:05. > :15:10.being in modern`day London. You get a real sense of the place, small,
:15:11. > :15:16.medieval streets. I asked historian Elisabeth Norton for her opinion. I
:15:17. > :15:20.tend to use the maps they use. They are great for big buildings,
:15:21. > :15:25.palaces, you get a real sense of what was going on. But not ordinary
:15:26. > :15:33.houses. The houses were almost touching, it was a maze, dirty,
:15:34. > :15:39.noisy. Those unsanitary times still fascinate us, and this detailed as
:15:40. > :15:45.nation `` animation goes some way to bringing back in north London. Those
:15:46. > :15:49.streets went up in flames in the Great Fire of 1666. The Queen 's
:15:50. > :15:53.house at the Tower of London is one of the few that survived. The rest
:15:54. > :15:59.has to be imagined in 3D virtual world.
:16:00. > :16:03.Incredible images. Time now for a round`up of the
:16:04. > :16:10.sports news, with Sara Orchard. Thanks, Riz.
:16:11. > :16:12.We start with London winning the right to host yet another
:16:13. > :16:16.international sporting event. The 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup will
:16:17. > :16:19.be coming to the capital, meaning the sport will host four years of
:16:20. > :16:23.global events at the new Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. I spent
:16:24. > :16:25.the morning with a very happy England hockey team at their
:16:26. > :16:30.headquarters at Bisham Abbey in Marlow.
:16:31. > :16:35.The sport of hockey knew it needed a result at the 2012 Olympics. The
:16:36. > :16:38.England women delivered. COMMENTATOR: Great Britain have won
:16:39. > :16:44.the bronze medal. Of the back of this success, England
:16:45. > :16:50.hockey momentum continues to build with London hosting the 2018 women's
:16:51. > :16:56.World Cup. It is absolutely amazing news. The
:16:57. > :17:01.girls are elated. It is a fantastic opportunity for England hockey. The
:17:02. > :17:05.culmination of 14 months of work, and no denying that the Olympic
:17:06. > :17:10.Games helped to win the vote. Hockey was the third biggest sport
:17:11. > :17:16.in terms of ticket sales in London. The best Olympic Games for hockey
:17:17. > :17:22.ever. It has had an impact on the decision. Behind me is the England
:17:23. > :17:27.under 21 men's team in training. Although it is the World Cup for the
:17:28. > :17:32.women, the men will also benefit because England hockey are now
:17:33. > :17:37.likely to host major events for four years consecutively, starting in
:17:38. > :17:44.2015 Women's European Championships. 2016, then the men in 2017.
:17:45. > :17:49.Phenomenal news for the sport. All the major events will take place at
:17:50. > :17:55.the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, still under construction,
:17:56. > :18:00.the venue has seating for 3000 with space to increase up to 15,000. We
:18:01. > :18:05.can only expect more international hockey.
:18:06. > :18:11.They are already thinking about the 2022 men's World Cup. It won't be
:18:12. > :18:16.long before we have an eye on the next. At 28, Alex doesn't know if
:18:17. > :18:20.she will be playing in 2018 but nothing will stop her being at the
:18:21. > :18:25.World Cup. One thing I can tell you for sure is I will be there. I may
:18:26. > :18:36.be waving a flag on the side. I cannot wait to be a part of it.
:18:37. > :18:39.Football, and it's an all`British clash in the Women's Champions
:18:40. > :18:42.League last`16, as Arsenal Ladies host Glasgow tomorrow in the first
:18:43. > :18:45.leg. Arsenal are hoping to have an advantage, with a strong Scottish
:18:46. > :18:48.presence within the squad which includes Scotland midfielders Kim
:18:49. > :18:51.Little and Caroline Weir, as well as forward Emma Mitchell. The Gunners'
:18:52. > :18:53.manager Shelley Kerr also made over 50 appearances for the national
:18:54. > :18:57.team. I think, when you play against a
:18:58. > :19:01.team like Glasgow, you can't really have the favourites tag, you have to
:19:02. > :19:05.prove yourself and work hard. Which we do in any game. To try to score
:19:06. > :19:09.goals. Staying with football, and it's the
:19:10. > :19:12.first round of the FA Cup this weekend, and several of the
:19:13. > :19:15.capital's non`League teams will be hoping to cause a shock. Among them,
:19:16. > :19:18.Staines Town who are taking some local League One opposition
:19:19. > :19:21.Brentford. The Swans are eagerly anticipating the clash but, as Chris
:19:22. > :57:03.Slegg reports, it's a particularly special