:00:00. > :00:00.overtake them with a large victory against Italy. That's all from me,
:00:00. > :00:14.stay with us on BBC One. It's time for the news where you are.
:00:15. > :00:19.Good afternoon. A 70`year`old cyclist has died nearly thrde weeks
:00:20. > :00:22.after he was hit by a car in central London. Michael Mason was rhding on
:00:23. > :00:26.Regent Street, just north of Oxford Circus, at the time of the `ccident
:00:27. > :00:29.late last month. The driver stopped at the scene and waited for police
:00:30. > :00:32.to arrive. He wasn't arrestdd, but officers are appealing for witnesses
:00:33. > :00:37.to contact them. Mr Mason is the second cyclist to die this xear
:00:38. > :00:40.Jewish and Muslim communitids in four neighbouring boroughs `re
:00:41. > :00:45.working together to try and change the way their local coroner works.
:00:46. > :00:48.They're angry at delays which are sometimes faced before a body is
:00:49. > :00:51.released for burial. Both rdligions require the funeral to take place as
:00:52. > :01:02.soon as possible. Jean Mackdnzie reports. I'm missing him at the
:01:03. > :01:08.moment. I still think he's going to walk through that door. Last month,
:01:09. > :01:12.Muhammad learned what it felt like to lose a parent. His father died
:01:13. > :01:19.suddenly after being taken to hospital with breathing problems. He
:01:20. > :01:23.was just full of joy. It took a week for his body to be released for
:01:24. > :01:32.burial. Mohammed said this `dded to his grief. I haven't got a word for
:01:33. > :01:39.it, but what can I say? I don't know why they took a week. OK, d`ys, it's
:01:40. > :01:43.acceptable. According to both the Jewish and Muslim religions, a body
:01:44. > :01:47.should be buried as soon as possible after death. In this corner of North
:01:48. > :01:51.East London, where both comlunities live side`by`side, there is anger
:01:52. > :01:57.that the process is taking so long. They say since a new chief coroner
:01:58. > :02:00.for in a north London was instated last summer, their weekend service
:02:01. > :02:04.has also been cut. As soon `s somebody passes away on Friday,
:02:05. > :02:07.immediately I will tell thel that nothing will be done until Londay
:02:08. > :02:13.morning at the earliest. How does that make you feel, having to tell
:02:14. > :02:17.them that? Awful. Because other parts of the country, corondrs are
:02:18. > :02:20.accessible out of hours. Both communities have started a petition
:02:21. > :02:26.to improve the hours they c`n access a coroner. Men met has almost 1 00
:02:27. > :02:30.signatures. He tells me the Jewish version has more than 4000. The
:02:31. > :02:33.chief coroner here at St Pancras coroners Court says she is `ware of
:02:34. > :02:37.the sense of needs of both these faiths, and she is looking to see
:02:38. > :02:41.which you can do. But she s`ys that to extend opening hours she will
:02:42. > :02:44.need more staff and so more money, and that's down to the local
:02:45. > :02:48.authorities. At Camden Council says it's not that simple. Corondrs have
:02:49. > :02:57.a great deal of autonomy and services are often based on informal
:02:58. > :02:59.agreements. People should not be living in postcode lotteries where
:03:00. > :03:01.one particular consortium provides a better service. The issue should be
:03:02. > :03:05.looked at at a national levdl. There needs to be national changes whether
:03:06. > :03:09.coroner services are consistent It says this way, communities wouldn't
:03:10. > :03:12.be at the mercy of their coroner's wishes or their coffers. A teenager
:03:13. > :03:15.has been charged by police, following a chemical alert hn
:03:16. > :03:18.Chelmsford last year. The incident, in October, led to six people being
:03:19. > :03:24.taken ill, and a large quantity of chemicals were discovered at a
:03:25. > :03:27.property. That was at New London Road. The 19`year`old has bden
:03:28. > :03:28.charged with producing a Cl`ss B drug and eight counts of possessing
:03:29. > :03:33.drugs. A look at today's weather, `nd it'll
:03:34. > :03:37.be dry, sunny and feeling vdry mild. We can expect a top temperature of
:03:38. > :03:40.17 Celsius. And it should stay dry as we head into tonight.
:03:41. > :03:45.That's it for now. I'll be back a little later than usual tonhght with
:03:46. > :03:49.our next news at 7.10pm on BBC One. Until then, you can keep across all
:03:50. > :03:50.the latest news and sport on our radio stations, BBC London 84.9
:03:51. > :04:12.Enjoy the rest of your day. Following on from what has been
:04:13. > :04:15.largely dry and settled week with high pressure in charge, the weekend
:04:16. > :04:19.weather continues on that theme too. Things are looking largely
:04:20. > :04:23.dry, not everywhere, but there will be some warm sunshine on offer,
:04:24. > :04:27.particularly through the afternoons. It will be feeling fairly breezy as
:04:28. > :04:31.well. The satellite image shows the cloud has been thinning and breaking
:04:32. > :04:36.this morning, across Northern Ireland, Wales and Northern
:04:37. > :04:42.Ireland. In terms of the Six Nations rugby matches today, it should stay
:04:43. > :04:45.dry for all the matches. Cloudy skies in Paris, but it should tend
:04:46. > :04:49.to brighten up as we head through the remainder of the afternoon. This
:04:50. > :04:50.afternoon, quite a