02/03/2014 BBC London News

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Good evening. Residents of a tower block in South London are angry that

they've been forced to live in a tower shrouded in netting and

scaffolding for more than two years. They say there's been a huge rise in

anti`social behaviour while the council renovates their flats, as

Anjana Gadgil reports. Trapped in a net. That is how the

residents of this house have felt since January 2012, when scaffolding

and netting first went up. Renovations were due to take a year

but after a series of problems with Southwark Council's chosen

contractor, it has been two years, with no end in sight. It is like

living in a cage, to be honest. The date from the regeneration works

stays on our balconies encased in the scaffolding and netting. We have

had rough sleepers here as well. `` the dirt. In November, the contract

was dismissed after a gas leak left a resident in hospital. In February

2013, the council admitted the work was poor and it may be new contract

was appointed. The flats were left with plywood for Windows through

winter 2012. Holes have created moulding bedrooms and building

materials were left in corridors. And at what cost? At least ?5

million from the council and ?35,000 for each leaseholder. I think the

scaffolding costs ?6,000 a week. There was no return on the

investment, basically. You know, you can't really see evidence of this

refurbishment. Southwark Council told us they have apologised to

residents for the distress and frustration the work has caused and

that the scaffolding will be coming down shortly. They also do the work

inside and outside the building will be finished in the next few months

and are starting an investigation to try to work out how things could

have been done better for the residents here. Elephant and Castle

is being regenerated, leaving these residents wondering why new blocks

of flats can be built in less time than it takes to bring down a

scaffold. Police say two men whose bodies were

found in a car in East London yesterday were stabbed to death. It

happened on Montague Road in Leytonstone. Postmortem examinations

showed that one man suffered injuries to his neck and the other

had been stabbed in the chest. Both men were in their 20s.

Four times as many Londoners are said to be using food banks than

there were two years ago. The Trussell Trust, which runs the

country's largest network of food banks, says hundreds of people,

including children, otherwise risk going hungry in the capital every

day, as Helen Drew reports. This is Kingston food bank, staffed

by volunteers. A growing number of people are turning to food banks for

help. This former soldier, Greg, is one of them. Without question the

food bank has been a life`saver for me. I'm left with ?10 a week to buy

food each week. Because of the help, it took a lot of pressure off me,

and it was like, yes! Most food banks are run by the Trust. Their

Lee 13,000 visits to its food banks in London in 2011`12 but so far this

financial year, those visits have already passed 63,000. `` there have

been 13,000 visits. For food banks like this one you cannot just turn

up and be given food. You need to be referred by professionals like

social workers. You are then given three days worth of food and you can

return three or four times. We have seen increased usage right across

the board and we have more than 40 food bank project in London. But of

course in areas like Hackney or Tower Hamlets, where the rate of

child poverty is the highest in the UK, the need for help is really

substantial. Some say the economy has exacerbated the issue. I am

encouraged that people are being involved in recognising this is a

real issue and the problem of poverty has existed in London for

many years but it has become more acute since the recession. Oxfam

says it is important that long`term solutions are investigated. I think

it is shocking that in one of the world's still richest countries

people are reliant on the kindness of others for very basic things like

food. We space to have a social safety net in this country that

allows people to get wide and not to live hand to mouth. `` we are

supposed to have. Many feel it does not seem right that in one of the

world's wealthiest cities there are residents like great coup cannot buy

the food they need to survive. `` like Greg.

Time now for the weather forecast for tonight and the start of the

week, with Georgina. A fair amount of rain to come

tonight and those gusty winds as well but temperatures down to two or

three degrees. The Met Office have a yellow warning in place of rain from

2am until 6pm and it is all about these showers we have. They will be

fairly heavy with hail and thunder mixed in and slow`moving. We have

temperatures reaching eight or nine degrees. So we do need to be aware

there is the potential for disruption and flooding. Things

looking up a bit and we have a fair amount of frost and for this week

but it will become much milder from Wednesday onwards. Take a look at

those temperatures for the end of the week.

Eye will be back at 10:15pm. Have a very good evening. Goodbye. `` I

will be back. Good evening. The chances are, you

are enjoying your evening on a nice warm sofa while it rains outside.

Pretty heavy rain in parts of the country and for tomorrow morning,

wrap up warmly, it will be a cheap upstart right across the country.

This is where the rain is right now from Portsmouth to London across to

the north-east and the east of the country and it will push out into

the North Sea. Not all of the rain will clear away but it will be cold

enough for some icy stretches across parts of Northern Ireland, the

Northwest of England, too, but everywhere will have a chilly start.

Not exclusively snow to higher ground, maybe to some lower land,

too, but in the south-east, rain showers and pretty grey and

unpleasant, but other parts will be enjoying some sunshine, but Swales,

parts of Yorkshire. North-east Scotland looks like staying grey,

wet and cold. Not so bad on Tuesday for the bulk of country but