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Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the

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crisis continue. Tonight on BBC London News: The free

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suggested the limit Ton Tonight on BBC London News: The free

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schools struggling to find suitable sites. This head's been told to open

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on an industrial estate. This small area would have to be the car park,

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playground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside

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space. We've learnt that many more are having problems trying to open

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for the next academic year. Also on the programme: Anger towards the

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police over a man with learning difficulties who was allegedly

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assaulted by officers. Train companies accused of

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prehistoric practices for dumping human waste on tracks at busy

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stations. Also tonight, a musical treat like

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no other. We check out the world's only underwater concert.

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Good evening and welcome to the programme. BBC London has learnt

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that around a quarter of the free schools hoping to set up in London

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in September are having problems finding sites. Free schools are at

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the heart of the Government's plans to transform education, but many are

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finding the process of opening very frustrating. One proposed school is

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Harperbury in Radlett in Hertfordshire. Parents there say

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they're angry that they've been told to open their free school on an

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industrial estate, a location, they say, is totally unsuitable. Sarah

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Harris reports. Time for school. It is the final

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year of primary school for William. He was expecting to start his

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secondary education at a new school, Harperbury School, in

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September. That has fallen through leaving him with an option that is

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not ideal for his family. William has to get on a bus at 7:30am

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costing ?1000 a year for us. It is also a Church of England school, our

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third choice. It is a religious school and we are not religious

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people. It would not have been a choice for us at all. We are finding

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ourselves in a position we did not anticipate at all. This is the

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sticking point for the new free school according to the head teacher

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who has already been appointed and is being paid. This suggested

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building on an industrial estate, he says, is not fit for purpose. There

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is virtually no outside space. This would have to be the car park, they

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ground and turning space for cars. Not nearly enough outside space. It

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is sandwiched between the railway track and the main road. Getting

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into the site itself would be a health and safety nightmare. The

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Department for Education said that the project has their full support.

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We are still considering a number of possible options. They said they

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would work to secure the most appropriate site for the best price.

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The head met with some of the parents today to give them the

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latest news on the free school. Free schools are not controlled by local

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education authorities but are funded by the government and usually set up

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by parents. 200 children here alone who were expected to go to a free

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school in September are now preparing for a much longer journey

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to school. Let's talk to our Political Editor, Tim Donovan, who's

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at Westminster. Tim, is it just this group having problems finding a

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site? No. It has never been a particularly easy part of this

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process, ever since the policy began. But there is a sense in which

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it is getting harder, not least because there is not an

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inexhaustible supply of vacant buildings and the best options have

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already been snaffled up, perhaps. We are not getting anything

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officially from the Department for Education on this. There are about

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40 to 50 free schools approved for London come this September. We know

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of ten weather is either a delay, the school has been put back for

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more than a year or it is going into temporary accommodation. There are a

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number that clearly have not got a permanent site. There are clearly

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tensions, competing interests, when you have a department like the

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Department of Health wanting to do something with a premises like this.

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I know of an example in south`east London where a council similarly had

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planned for a former health building to be turned into housing but the

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Department for Education have snapped in for a free school ``

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stepped in. Was it not the original hope that free schools would be

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appearing in vacant buildings? It has not quite emerged like that.

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There is potentially an issue of managing expectations. If you are

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encouraging parents to set up schools but you cannot provide the

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bricks and mortar, there is a problem. There was talk about police

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and fire stations. But a number of those are being sold. The maximum

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value is being achieved on most of those because the money is money

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that needs to be pumped back into services. The mayor says he would

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make available ten sites that most of the land he has is in east

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London. It is proving more problematic than most people thought

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at the beginning. Thank you. Coming up later in the programme: The Met

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commissioner admits the capital's police service needs to do a better

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job of solving crime. He says this is the year of detection.

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The family of Faruk Ali who has severe austism has claimed that he

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was assaulted by two police officers while he was helping binmen outside

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his Luton home. A public meeting was held to discuss the allegations

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where people demanded that the officers involved be taken off duty.

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Bedfordshire Police is already under investigation over the death last

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year of a man in police custody. Sally Chidzoy reports.

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Who thinks they should be suspended immediately? Anger ran deep

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throughout this public meeting. Do not touch me. The room was packed

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and not everyone was allowed in. At the centre of the case, Faruk Ali, a

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man who was severely autistic. It is alleged he was built beaten up in an

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unprovoked attack by police officers as he was putting out his

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neighbour's bin for collection. We are so upset. It is difficult to

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care with `` for someone with autism and severe learning disabilities. It

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changes from day to day and this has put such psychological pressure on

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him. Pictures of his injuries allegedly linked to the incident

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have been handed to police. These exclusive images provided by

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witnesses show the police car used by the officers on the day of the

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reported attack. It was parked near Faruk Ali's house. The family's

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lawyer points out he does not just want suspensions at this stage. We

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want a declaration that there is something that has gone wrong and

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further to that we require a recommendation for change. Change to

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be implicated by the police to make sure nothing like this happens

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again. Do you think we trust you? The assistant chief constable and

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the police and crime commission looked a little cowed by events. The

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incident was reported later in the morning. It will be part of the

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investigation and as I said in the meeting, the officers will have to

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account for all of their actions and decisions in the course of the

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interaction. The decision on this occasion has aimed to restrict the

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officers are not suspend. That decision will be reviewed as the

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investigation progresses. It is the job of the police and crime

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commission to hold the chief constable to account. Police admit

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this incident and the recent death in custody of another man has

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undermined trust and confidence in policing here.

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London's train companies are being accused of putting passengers'

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health at risk because they're dumping human waste on the tracks at

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some of the capital's busiest stations. Transport unions have

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called it prehistoric and the shame of our railways. The Government says

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it accepts it's unpleasant and is investing in new rolling stock

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fitted with sewage tanks. Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards

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reports. King's Cross is a new, clean ?500

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million station, but old practices are still going on here. Look away

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now if you are squeamish. This is work toilet waste is dumped straight

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onto the tracks. I think it is pretty gross. Quite disgusting. I

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think it is awful. Unhygienic. I am German. We do it differently in

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Germany. It is also happening at Liverpool Street station and

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Paddington. Old rolling stock still discharges sewage onto the track.

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East Coast trains says it's cleaner than passengers are told not to

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flush in stations. `` it's cleaner 's and passengers. It his

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prehistoric what they are doing. We think for a members it is completely

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unhealthy and also for the travelling public. It is not right

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raw sewage should the thrown onto the railway track. They are paying

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high enough fares. They should have a decent respectable railway and

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sewage should be contained properly. Who was responsible? The Gottman has

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called this practice disgusting and told the train companies to stop.

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The company that does it here is run by the government. The train

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companies say the number of trains without effluent tanks is decreasing

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and newer models are introduced. The government says new trains in and

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out of King's Cross and Paddington are due to be introduced in 2017 so

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this will not be a problem. They are looking at ways to help upgrade the

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fleet out of Liverpool Street. Why are you still doing it? This stems

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from trains built before the mid`90s. Billions more pounds are

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being spent over the next few years on new trains and improving

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stations. You think it will be resolved in the long`term? It is

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impossible to put a date on it but Williams powers are being spent on

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new trains. Until then, commuters and workers will have to put up with

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what the unions call the scandal that shames Britain's railways. The

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BBC has learned that Legoland Windsor has decided to close its

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hotel this weekend because of fears over safety after threats were

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received from extreme far`right groups. A spokeswoman for Legoland

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says it's the first time any part of the park has had to close for

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reasons of safety since it opened in 1996. The Metropolitan Commissioner

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has admitted that the capital's police force must improve the way it

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solves crime. Talking to the London Assembly, Sir

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Bernard Hogan`Howe called for a year of detection. We can find out more

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from our home affairs correspondent Guy Smith who's outside Scotland

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Yard now. What did he say? This morning the

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commissioner accepted the Met Police were doing a pretty poor job of

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catching criminals. He qualified it by saying that this year there had

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been a slight improvement but admitted it was not good enough. He

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identified one of the main problem is being that London had a transient

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population, 29% of all those they arrest were foreign nationals. He

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said it made it a lot harder to detect suspects. For example, by the

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time officers had checked out fingerprints, all too often,

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offenders had skipped the country. He talked about possible solutions,

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namely CCTV. We are told London has more cameras than any other city in

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the world. He said that CCTV could be a possible solution. In

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particular around facial recognition. Overall, he said the

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Met Police could do a lot better. The Chinese have the year of various

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animals. For me, this is the year of detection. It is something we have

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got to get better at. The tendency to record the crime rather than

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detecting it. I think sadly we have come a little administrative. We

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record it. Doing something about it is really important to me. Take us

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through the detection rates. Through the most serious crime, murder, the

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Met Police are doing a pretty good job. Over the last financial year,

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81% of homicides were cleared up. But then most murder victims know

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their attacker. Rape, they are not doing so well. There were more than

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3300 reported attacks over the past ten months. A suspect was detected

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less than one in five times. Only 19% were identified, charged,

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summoned to court or convicted. If you look at high`volume crime, there

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is a lot more work to be done. Only 14% of robberies were detected. 12%

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of burglaries. If you have your car stolen, you can forget it. There is

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very little chance of getting justice. Only 6% of offences were

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detected. The commission recognises this is an important area, a lot

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more work needs to be done and that is why he is calling this the year

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of detection. Still to come tonight: We're on

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London Eye to mark a high for tourism in the capital.

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And making a musical splash underwater ` why you'll need to take

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your goggles to enjoy this concert. The number of super rich buying

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property in London is increasing according to data from a leading

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estate agents. It says the capital is home to more than 4000 people

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with assets of at least ?20 million. The number is expected to rise to

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nearly 5000 bike 2023. A death rays on sale in the heart of Mayfair.

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Seven floors of interior designed luxury living, complete with double

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height dining space, a cinema and a gym. And if you are paying ?25

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million, which is what this houses on the market for, you are going to

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want a pool. With a price tag like that, this property is destined for

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the super rich or the ultrahigh net worth individuals, as they are

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called. London has more of those than any other city in the world.

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Estate agents Knight Frank keep a keen eye on this particular type of

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client, partial as they are to investing in property. And they say

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it is not only good for their business, it's good for all of us.

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Ultra`wealthy people don't just moved here in isolation. They bring

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their businesses here and are creating jobs and opportunities. The

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overseas investment we have seen just in the property market has

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meant there has been development going on in London which we may not

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have seen, because the banking crisis here meant funding was not

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available for a lot of developments. Because it came from overseas, that

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was able to happen. So if the super rich buying in a completely

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different league and create wealth for the rest of us in the process by

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way of a trickle`down effect, what's the problem? The answer is the

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ripple effect. NEETs the impact of high net worth individuals tends to

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be via of what happens to people who are displaced. People displaced from

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the central London areas from Clapham to Wandsworth, the people

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from Clapham and one is whether now moving further out as well. It's an

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analysis that seemed to resonate. First`time buyers won't be able to

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buy in London, it will have to be out of London. Are you taking

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business out of London because all the workers will have to move out.

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Often they have the property but they don't live there. The

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properties are often empty. They go to very expensive shops, the people

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who work there get paid, it might be good. There are always going to be

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winners and losers. It's safe to say estate agents targeting the

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extremely wealthy are likely to be quids in. Meanwhile, residents in

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one part of South London are protesting over what they claim is

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gentrification of the area. They say they're being forced out of their

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council`owned homes. Lambeth says it wants to sell the properties in

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order to build more social housing. As Tarah Welsh reports, the cause

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has got some high profile support. Her clothes worn by the rich and

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famous and her name is known around the world, and today Vivienne

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Westwood is putting it to a campaign in Clapham. Selling houses for money

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and breaking down a community, it is absolutely disgusting. They are

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angry because the council is selling houses that some of these people

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have lived in for 35 years. It is against people, it is pro`business,

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pro`rich, pro`banks, and that's what the squeeze is all about. It's a

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labour of love. I've enjoyed doing all sorts to it, including putting

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central heating in. Many of these homes were derelict in the 70s and

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the council said people could live in them temporarily, as long as they

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did their own repairs. They only have to pay a few pounds a week. Now

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the council wants them back. Have a look online. Today the protest is

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came face`to`face with prospective buyers. The council has already made

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?45 million by selling these houses. I buy a development, it puts food on

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my table and that's what I have to do to go forward in life. Let's hope

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they are rehoused and financially sound but, you know, it's the way

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things are at the moment. This house will be auctioned on Tuesday and the

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guide price is ?605,000, but the developers here tell me they think

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it will go for more than that. The council says that money will be used

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to refurbish and build homes for homeless families. With that

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?685,000, I can build three council houses. On that basis we will be

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getting more social housing as opposed to rich persons housing.

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They also say residents got first refusal to buy their homes or be

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rehoused. Many have already left, some are challenging the Acton in

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court, but all here agree that communities like this shouldn't be

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broken. Next, to one of the most unusual concerts you may ever see.

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Forget dressing up for the occasion, for this gig you just need your

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swimwear and an ear for the unusual. As Sonja Jessup reports from

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Islington. Diving deep beneath the water, suddenly shapes and sounds

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seem strange, unfamiliar. This is an underwater consulate. And just

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listen... You can see people swimming above

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you and images distorting. There are speakers both above and beneath the

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water. Harmonies can turn haunting. Sound travels around four times

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faster through water than it does through air. The idea here is the

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swimmers aren't just hearing it differently but they are feeling the

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music, too, as they swim and float through the vibrations. It vibrates

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your bones. Even if your head was under water and you put your hands

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in your ears, you are still going to hear it. Joel, from Hackney, came up

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with the idea while swimming. He is taking his underwater consulate on

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tour across Europe. It's always continuous trying stuff out to find

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out what kind of music, some use it just doesn't work underwater. Here,

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submerged in sound, the audience get to be in control. You float, you

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dive, you can pop out between the two worlds. Now touring again, the

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concert could return to London later this year, still searching for more

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sounds that work better in the wet than the dry. From the most unusual

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to the most popular. Tourism in London is booming. Last summer's

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good weather is partly the reason, and it helped outdoor attractions

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like Kew Gardens and London Zoo see record rises in visitor numbers.

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Emma North is on the London Eye now. What better place to talk about one

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of the world 's most visited cities than from a place that arguably

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offers one of the best views? About two minutes ago we hit the top, all

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135 metres high of the London eye. That, like the rest of London's

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tourism figures, have been rising. London has enjoyed a record rise in

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the number of people going to its attractions. 12% more people visited

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the city's attractions in 2013. It was the big hitters that got the top

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ten. The most visited, the British Museum, that had a record number of

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20% more people going last year, about 6.7 million. The second was

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the National Gallery, that was up 14%, 6 million people went there.

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Third, the Natural History Museum, 5.3 million people went there.

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Joining me to talk about London's amazing tourism boom is Simon

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Calder, the travel writer, and branding expert. This is a very

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popular city, how do we cram in? That is a good problem to have, but

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it is most definitely a problem. Right now, London looks like the

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most alluring place on the planet, but it's creaking at the seams. If

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you are at the Natural History Museum, as I was a couple of weeks

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ago, you could barely move. Every minute of every hour of every day

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that that museum is open, 30 people are cramming into it. This is going

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to open the argument about whether we should be charging for museums.

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Personally, I'd much rather see the opening hours extended long into the

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evening, give everybody a chance, including Londoners, to see the

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cultural treasures. How do Londoners enjoy the city? Quite. People will

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be saying, let's charge everyone else who isn't from a London

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postcode, that is politically difficult. We have to keep

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reinventing, bring back more attractions to keep people coming

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back. We've had a double bounce, 2012, a fantastic summer last year.

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What happens if we get a sport free wash`out in 2014? I don't think it

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will solve Simon's problem. London has the infrastructure to attract

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people in their millions. It's the diversity of London's cultural and

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tourism offerings, from the largest institutions and to the smallest

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galleries which push culture down the line. That is enough of us

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talking, let's leave you with a view of the thing that makes everybody

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come. Here's London! That view does come to us courtesy

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of some very nice whether this evening.

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In the middle part of the day we had the mackerel skies. This is how it

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looked over Regents Park throughout the day. That is usually the

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precursor to something of a weather front but the weather fronts we are

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getting over the next couple of days are only introducing cloud, not very

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much rain. Over the next ten days, there is generally settled weather

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and dry weather. That is because we've got high pressure, the word I

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is going to be used highly over the next few days. A little tenuous at

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the moment, some weather fronts from this low pressure system crossing

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through. We go through the weekend and into Monday, the high pressure

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is right over the top of us. Not always wall`to`wall sunshine. At the

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moment, we still have a little bit of clear sky but we will see some

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cloud drifting from time to time through the night. We will have the

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breeze picking up from a south`westerly direction. That means

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it will not be quite as chilly as the previous two nights. There

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shouldn't be too much of a frost first thing tomorrow morning, apart

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from maybe a couple of sheltered areas. It would be quite as chilly

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tomorrow morning either. Throughout tomorrow it will stay dry. There

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will at times be some sunny breaks. The breeze is picking up a little

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bit. Temperature is doing quite nicely, up to around 11 or 12. For

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Friday, the cloud will be a little bit more stubborn. The weekend

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looking glorious. We could hit 16 or 17 degrees.

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A reminder of today's news. The US Secretary of State and European

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foreign ministers including William Hague have urged Russia to hold

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direct talks with Ukraine, after key talks in Paris aimed at easing

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tensions between the two countries. Parents in Hertfordshire say they're

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outraged after being told they should open a free school in a

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warehouse on an industrial estate. The original site for Harperbury

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School in Radlett fell through. That's it for now. From all of us on

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the team, thanks for watching and have a lovely evening.

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