:00:00. > :00:00.the evening session still to come. There is more
:00:00. > :00:00.you will need the umbrella. Here and now first of I on
:00:00. > :00:23.Good evening. Residents of a tower block in South London are angry that
:00:24. > :00:26.they've been forced to live in a tower shrouded in netting and
:00:27. > :00:29.scaffolding for more than two years. They say there's been a huge rise in
:00:30. > :00:34.anti`social behaviour while the council renovates their flats, as
:00:35. > :00:40.Anjana Gadgil reports. Trapped in a net. That is how the
:00:41. > :00:43.residents of this house have felt since January 2012, when scaffolding
:00:44. > :00:48.and netting first went up. Renovations were due to take a year
:00:49. > :00:51.but after a series of problems with Southwark Council's chosen
:00:52. > :00:57.contractor, it has been two years, with no end in sight. It is like
:00:58. > :01:02.living in a cage, to be honest. The date from the regeneration works
:01:03. > :01:08.stays on our balconies encased in the scaffolding and netting. We have
:01:09. > :01:14.had rough sleepers here as well. `` the dirt. In November, the contract
:01:15. > :01:18.was dismissed after a gas leak left a resident in hospital. In February
:01:19. > :01:22.2013, the council admitted the work was poor and it may be new contract
:01:23. > :01:27.was appointed. The flats were left with plywood for Windows through
:01:28. > :01:31.winter 2012. Holes have created moulding bedrooms and building
:01:32. > :01:37.materials were left in corridors. And at what cost? At least ?5
:01:38. > :01:44.million from the council and ?35,000 for each leaseholder. I think the
:01:45. > :01:49.scaffolding costs ?6,000 a week. There was no return on the
:01:50. > :01:53.investment, basically. You know, you can't really see evidence of this
:01:54. > :01:56.refurbishment. Southwark Council told us they have apologised to
:01:57. > :01:59.residents for the distress and frustration the work has caused and
:02:00. > :02:03.that the scaffolding will be coming down shortly. They also do the work
:02:04. > :02:07.inside and outside the building will be finished in the next few months
:02:08. > :02:11.and are starting an investigation to try to work out how things could
:02:12. > :02:15.have been done better for the residents here. Elephant and Castle
:02:16. > :02:21.is being regenerated, leaving these residents wondering why new blocks
:02:22. > :02:23.of flats can be built in less time than it takes to bring down a
:02:24. > :02:27.scaffold. Police say two men whose bodies were
:02:28. > :02:30.found in a car in East London yesterday were stabbed to death. It
:02:31. > :02:32.happened on Montague Road in Leytonstone. Postmortem examinations
:02:33. > :02:36.showed that one man suffered injuries to his neck and the other
:02:37. > :02:39.had been stabbed in the chest. Both men were in their 20s.
:02:40. > :02:43.Four times as many Londoners are said to be using food banks than
:02:44. > :02:45.there were two years ago. The Trussell Trust, which runs the
:02:46. > :02:47.country's largest network of food banks, says hundreds of people,
:02:48. > :02:59.including children, otherwise risk going hungry in the capital every
:03:00. > :03:03.day, as Helen Drew reports. This is Kingston food bank, staffed
:03:04. > :03:08.by volunteers. A growing number of people are turning to food banks for
:03:09. > :03:12.help. This former soldier, Greg, is one of them. Without question the
:03:13. > :03:17.food bank has been a life`saver for me. I'm left with ?10 a week to buy
:03:18. > :03:23.food each week. Because of the help, it took a lot of pressure off me,
:03:24. > :03:30.and it was like, yes! Most food banks are run by the Trust. Their
:03:31. > :03:34.Lee 13,000 visits to its food banks in London in 2011`12 but so far this
:03:35. > :03:44.financial year, those visits have already passed 63,000. `` there have
:03:45. > :03:48.been 13,000 visits. For food banks like this one you cannot just turn
:03:49. > :03:52.up and be given food. You need to be referred by professionals like
:03:53. > :03:59.social workers. You are then given three days worth of food and you can
:04:00. > :04:03.return three or four times. We have seen increased usage right across
:04:04. > :04:07.the board and we have more than 40 food bank project in London. But of
:04:08. > :04:10.course in areas like Hackney or Tower Hamlets, where the rate of
:04:11. > :04:18.child poverty is the highest in the UK, the need for help is really
:04:19. > :04:23.substantial. Some say the economy has exacerbated the issue. I am
:04:24. > :04:27.encouraged that people are being involved in recognising this is a
:04:28. > :04:32.real issue and the problem of poverty has existed in London for
:04:33. > :04:37.many years but it has become more acute since the recession. Oxfam
:04:38. > :04:41.says it is important that long`term solutions are investigated. I think
:04:42. > :04:44.it is shocking that in one of the world's still richest countries
:04:45. > :04:48.people are reliant on the kindness of others for very basic things like
:04:49. > :04:52.food. We space to have a social safety net in this country that
:04:53. > :04:57.allows people to get wide and not to live hand to mouth. `` we are
:04:58. > :05:01.supposed to have. Many feel it does not seem right that in one of the
:05:02. > :05:05.world's wealthiest cities there are residents like great coup cannot buy
:05:06. > :05:08.the food they need to survive. `` like Greg.
:05:09. > :05:10.Time now for the weather forecast for tonight and the start of the
:05:11. > :05:19.week, with Georgina. A fair amount of rain to come
:05:20. > :05:23.tonight and those gusty winds as well but temperatures down to two or
:05:24. > :05:29.three degrees. The Met Office have a yellow warning in place of rain from
:05:30. > :05:33.2am until 6pm and it is all about these showers we have. They will be
:05:34. > :05:36.fairly heavy with hail and thunder mixed in and slow`moving. We have
:05:37. > :05:41.temperatures reaching eight or nine degrees. So we do need to be aware
:05:42. > :05:44.there is the potential for disruption and flooding. Things
:05:45. > :05:49.looking up a bit and we have a fair amount of frost and for this week
:05:50. > :05:52.but it will become much milder from Wednesday onwards. Take a look at
:05:53. > :05:58.those temperatures for the end of the week.
:05:59. > :06:08.Eye will be back at 10:15pm. Have a very good evening. Goodbye. `` I
:06:09. > :06:12.will be back. Good evening. The chances are, you
:06:13. > :06:17.are enjoying your evening on a nice warm sofa while it rains outside.
:06:18. > :06:21.Pretty heavy rain in parts of the country and for tomorrow morning,
:06:22. > :06:25.wrap up warmly, it will be a cheap upstart right across the country.
:06:26. > :06:27.This is where the rain is right now from Portsmouth to London across to
:06:28. > :06:32.the north-east and the east of the country and it will push out into
:06:33. > :06:40.the North Sea. Not all of the rain will clear away but it will be cold
:06:41. > :06:42.enough for some icy stretches across parts of Northern Ireland, the
:06:43. > :06:47.Northwest of England, too, but everywhere will have a chilly start.
:06:48. > :06:52.Not exclusively snow to higher ground, maybe to some lower land,
:06:53. > :06:56.too, but in the south-east, rain showers and pretty grey and
:06:57. > :07:00.unpleasant, but other parts will be enjoying some sunshine, but Swales,
:07:01. > :07:06.parts of Yorkshire. North-east Scotland looks like staying grey,
:07:07. > :07:07.wet and cold. Not so bad on Tuesday for the bulk of country but