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Typhoon as it heads towards Vietnam this weekend. That's all, know | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight on BBC London News: GPs say no to the proposed closure of two | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
A units in south west London. They say the changes wouldn't improve | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
patient care. Our responsibility is to our local patients. We have asked | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
our GPs what is the best way to do that. We need to admit people to a | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
local hospital. We look at the challenges facing NHS bosses. Also | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
tonight: An arrest warrant for the terror suspect who escaped wearing a | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
burka ` he was facing 20 charges for breaching terrorism prevention | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
orders. Three private investigators admit to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
spying during the bidding process to take over the Olympic stadium. Plus, | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
bringing back a lost London ` the animation which recreates Tudor | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
streets burnt down by the Great Fire. | :00:51. | :01:07. | |
Welcome to the programme. First tonight, more signs of how difficult | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
it is to change hospital services in the capital. GPs in Surrey have | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
voted against plans which would have seen the A and Maternity units at | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
St Helier and Epsom hospitals close. NHS bosses had said the proposals | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
would improve patient care in the area. It could now mean a return to | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
the drawing board for a process which has already taken more than | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
two years. Here's our political correspondent, Karl Mercer. | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
Another arrival at Epsom's A department this morning. One of a | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
thousand patients they will see this week. Under plans drawn up by the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
health department, this department was facing the axe. How can people | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
go from here to St Helier or St George's. You would be dead before | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
you get there. They need to keep it open. We have used it many times | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
with my son. St Helier is too far. If you got ill it would be murder. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
You would go to St George's in tooting which is a murder place to | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
get to. Today, those plans might have changed. Last year, the A | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
here at Epsom sources De thousand patients. Under plans they would | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
have to go to Croydon, St George's in tooting or Kingston Hospital | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
That said local GPs is not good enough for their patients. Claire | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Fuller is one of those GPs. They voted on whether they thought | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
closing the A was a good idea. 75% said no. The best way to treat that | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
group of patients is for the GPs and community therapists to work really | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
closely with the colleagues in the hospital and social care. We need to | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
be able to admit them to a local hospital. That would not have | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
happened in the proposals on the table. It affects five different | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
hospitals. St Helier and Epsom were due to lose their A and maternity | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
units. Those plans are now in doubt. Sorry's GPs have thrown a spanner in | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the works. We still have safety concerns. We still have quality | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
concerns and we still have to provide a service which we can | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
provide enough finances for. The challenges remain and we have to see | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
how we go forward. The energy in the system to tackle the problems | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
remains clinically. Energy is what those pushing for change need. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Change tends to happen only very slowly in the NHS. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Karl's here now. This once again highlights the challenges of making | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
changes,where does this leave health care in the capital? I think it | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
leaves it in a bit of a mess. Change happens very slowly in the NHS in | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
London, and that at a time when NHS managers are telling us changed | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
needs to happen really quickly to keep patients say. I will give you | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
an advantage of what has been happening. I have sat in three | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
different court cases. There was the case in north`west London where they | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
wanted to downgrade four A 's That is going ahead. The case in | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Lewisham. They won their campaign to keep the A open and that Chase | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
Farm there is a court case. All of those reconfigurations have taken | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
years. Look North, east, South or west, you have got the same issues. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
It is taking a long time, far too long say NHS bosses. Thank you. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Coming up later in the programme: Thames Water is blocked from | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
introducing an 8% price hike ` but customers still face bigger bills. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
An arrest warrant has been issued for the terrorism suspect who | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
disguised himself in a burka and went on the run a week ago. It's | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
emerged Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed was facing 20 charges for breaching | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
different terrorism prevention orders before he disappeared in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Acton. That's where we can join Secunder Kermani who's been | :05:29. | :05:29. | |
following the story. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed disappeared | :05:30. | :05:42. | |
last Friday after attending this mosque behind me here. I should | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
stress there is no implication that the mosque is involved in any | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
wrongdoing. Before of that, Mohamed had already been due in court | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
accused of breaching Terrorism Act `` terrorism prevention measures. He | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
has made allegations that he was tortured abroad. But there is still | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
no sound of the man himself. Mohamed Ahmed Mohammed went on the run last | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
week. A manhunt for him is still going on. Today, a judge issued an | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
arrest warrant for him after he failed to appear in court. It said | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
he thought alongside the militant Islamist group Al`Shabab in Somalia | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
although he has never been convicted. He was arrested to Macri | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
years ago in a semi`autonomous province of Somaliland. His lawyer | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
claims he was tortured with British complicity. We have the most serious | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
concern in relation to a young man who is hideously tortured in | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Somaliland for two months, was forcibly and illegally deported to | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
this country and where the question has been repeatedly raised of the | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
complicity of the British authorities, the security services, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
in that unlawful removal. Once back in the UK, Mohamed's movements were | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
restricted and he had to report to police stations. His failure to | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
comply with those requirements is why he was meant to be in court | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
today. His lawyers told the BBC that if he had been in court today he | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
would have said the reason he breached those requirements was | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
because he was suffering from the after`effects of torture. That forms | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
part of a separate court case and today, government lawyers said they | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
were going to try to get that court case stopped because of his | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
disappearance. Meanwhile, the search for Mohamed by the police and | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
security services continues. Thank you. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a schoolboy on a bus in | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
North London in April this year. North London in April this year | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Derek Boateng from Hackney died in hospital on his 16th birthday after | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
being stabbed. The court was told there had been a previous dispute | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
between him and his attacker ` also aged 16. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering a pensioner | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
during an attempted burglary. Imran Douglas was 17 when he killed the | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
88`year`old woman while she was in bed at her care home in Shadwell. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Marjorie Gilby was strangled and stabbed in the attack in May. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
South Kensington Tube Station was closed this afternoon because of | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
smoke coming from a faulty train. Firefighers were called and | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
passengers evacuated from the train just after 2.30. There were no | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
injuries. The closure of the station has caused disruption on the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
District and Circle lines. Three men have admitted illegally | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
obtaining data from members of West Ham Football Club during the bidding | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
process to take over the Olympic Stadium. The allegations relate to a | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
company hiring private investigators to get information on the Premier | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
League Club and the Olympic Park Legacy Company. Let's get more on | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
this from our sports news correspondent Adrian Warner. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
It was a bitter battle between Tottenham and West Ham. There were | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
loads of allegations about underhand activity in November 2010, dirty | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
tricks. What happened in February 2011, West Ham were awarded the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
stadium by the Olympic Park Legacy Corporation. We then had a lot of | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
legal battles. Eventually, in October 2011 the whole thing fell | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
apart. What then happened was interesting. The head of the Olympic | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Park Legacy Corporation stood up and accused Tottenham of putting her | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
whole board under surveillance. Tottenham have always denied this. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
What followed was a police investigation which ended today with | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
three Macri men in a Crown Court pleading guilty for obtaining data, | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
things like phone records and bank records from the Olympic Park Legacy | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
Company. It is important to stress that although Tottenham did ask the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
company, for which one of the men worked, to look into and investigate | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
the whole eating process, Tottenham have always denied any illegal | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
action. House at the can to think this is in terms of West Ham moving | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
into the stadium? It will not affect that. There was another process and | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
they won that. They will go in in 2016. It shows that in the world of | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
hacking trials and everything else, people at this level were prepared | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
to think about doing these kind of things. Thank you. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Thames Water has been blocked from imposing an eight per cent price | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
increase on customers. The company said the extra money was needed to | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
help fund the construction of a 'super sewer' under London. But the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
water regulator, Ofwat, says there's no justification for customers to be | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
charged an extra ?29 from next year. Emma North reports. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
We need it, our city is built around it, but how much should we pay for | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
our water. Londoners have little choice about who supplies them. It | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
is Thames Water. Next year we are expected to pay ?15 more for what | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
comes out of our tap. Thames Water asked for more, an extra ?29 on top, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
raising ?291 million. Thames Water said they needed the money for two | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
things, first to pay for the shortfall from customers who had not | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
paid their water bills, and secondly to buy land which would allow them | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
to build the super sewer from here in full down the length of the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Thames. Ofwat said No. Water customers can choose who their | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
supplier is. Thames Water provided us with lots of evidence. We | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
examined it carefully and we do not think their cost measures justify an | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
increase in bills for customers. increase in bills for customers | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Critics have accused Thames Water of not budgeting properly. While you | :12:13. | :12:27. | |
are taking the p of Londoners down your sewers, you are taking the p | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
out of their bills. That is a nice sound bite. Customers, when we talk | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
to them, they say we do not want bills to be any higher than they | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
need to be. Everybody would say that! Do they agree with you? Could | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
I finish my answer? Were Thames Water being greedy? I do not think | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
it is question of greed. We recognise that these costs have been | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
incurred. What we are arguing is simply the balance between the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
shareholder and the customer needs to be addressed and these costs | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
should not be passed on to the customer. Thames Water said it is | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
reviewing Ofwat's decision. In the meantime, it has defined the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
shortfall. As more pressure is piled on utility companies, it is a small | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
victory for the consumer. Still to come this evening: if you had just | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
won this amount of money, would you get up at 6am the next morning to go | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
back to work? I will be talking to the care worker | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
from Sutton who did just that. And London wins the bid to host the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
2018 hockey World Cup. Take a look at these images of 17th | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
century London. They've been created by a group of university students | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
who've been studying detailed maps of the capital before the Great | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Fire. And now, they've brought them to life in an animation which has | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
just won an award at Europe's biggest video game festival. Wendy | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Hurrell has been finding out more. This is what London might have | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
looked like in the 1600th. A timber framed wattle and daub world of | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
narrow, cobbled streets. Starting at pudding Lane, and spinning down to | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
the wide River Thames, across which spans London Bridge with its shops, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
homes and gatehouse. It is a street pattern upon which modern`day London | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
was built. It was from the 17th century maps that the British | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
library has, that this animation was designed by these students at a | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
Leicester University. We got as many historical references as we could, | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
most notable, Samuel Pepys diary. It is quite good watching it while | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
being in modern`day London. You get a real sense of the place, small, | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
medieval streets. I asked historian Elisabeth Norton for her opinion. I | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
tend to use the maps they use. They are great for big buildings, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
palaces, you get a real sense of what was going on. But not ordinary | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
houses. The houses were almost touching, it was a maze, dirty, | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
noisy. Those unsanitary times still fascinate us, and this detailed as | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
nation `` animation goes some way to bringing back in north London. Those | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
streets went up in flames in the Great Fire of 1666. The Queen 's | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
house at the Tower of London is one of the few that survived. The rest | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
has to be imagined in 3D virtual world. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Incredible images. Time now for a round`up of the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
sports news, with Sara Orchard. Thanks, Riz. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
We start with London winning the right to host yet another | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
international sporting event. The 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup will | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
be coming to the capital, meaning the sport will host four years of | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
global events at the new Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre. I spent | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
the morning with a very happy England hockey team at their | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
headquarters at Bisham Abbey in Marlow. | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
The sport of hockey knew it needed a result at the 2012 Olympics. The | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
England women delivered. COMMENTATOR: Great Britain have won | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
the bronze medal. Of the back of this success, England | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
hockey momentum continues to build with London hosting the 2018 women's | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
World Cup. It is absolutely amazing news. The | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
girls are elated. It is a fantastic opportunity for England hockey. The | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
culmination of 14 months of work, and no denying that the Olympic | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Games helped to win the vote. Hockey was the third biggest sport | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
in terms of ticket sales in London. The best Olympic Games for hockey | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
ever. It has had an impact on the decision. Behind me is the England | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
under 21 men's team in training. Although it is the World Cup for the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
women, the men will also benefit because England hockey are now | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
likely to host major events for four years consecutively, starting in | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
2015 Women's European Championships. 2016, then the men in 2017. | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
Phenomenal news for the sport. All the major events will take place at | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, still under construction, | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
the venue has seating for 3000 with space to increase up to 15,000. We | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
can only expect more international hockey. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
They are already thinking about the 2022 men's World Cup. It won't be | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
long before we have an eye on the next. At 28, Alex doesn't know if | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
she will be playing in 2018 but nothing will stop her being at the | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
World Cup. One thing I can tell you for sure is I will be there. I may | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
be waving a flag on the side. I cannot wait to be a part of it. | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
Football, and it's an all`British clash in the Women's Champions | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
League last`16, as Arsenal Ladies host Glasgow tomorrow in the first | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
leg. Arsenal are hoping to have an advantage, with a strong Scottish | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
presence within the squad which includes Scotland midfielders Kim | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Little and Caroline Weir, as well as forward Emma Mitchell. The Gunners' | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
manager Shelley Kerr also made over 50 appearances for the national | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
team. I think, when you play against a | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
team like Glasgow, you can't really have the favourites tag, you have to | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
prove yourself and work hard. Which we do in any game. To try to score | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
goals. Staying with football, and it's the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
first round of the FA Cup this weekend, and several of the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
capital's non`League teams will be hoping to cause a shock. Among them, | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
Staines Town who are taking some local League One opposition | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
Brentford. The Swans are eagerly anticipating the clash but, as Chris | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Slegg reports, it's a particularly special | :19:22. | :57:03. |