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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and, on BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
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Tonight on BBC London News... The death of a deportee ` three security | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
guards face manslaughter ch`rges after Jimmy Mubenga died at | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
Heathrow. Lawyers for the mdn say they will deny the charges. Also | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
tonight, more than 300 people have been arrested today as the Let | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
cracks down on mobile phone theft. The 90`year`old war hero with weeks | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
to live who could finally gdt the medal he deserves thanks to a | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
campaign by his family. We're with the Household Cavalry as | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
they prepare for a busy cerdmonial summer. | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. The family of a man who died while being deportdd from | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Heathrow has welcomed a dechsion to charge three custody offici`ls with | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
manslaughter three`and`a`half years after his death. Jimmy Mubenga died | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
in restraints onboard a plane as he was about to be returned to his | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
native Angola. Lawyers for the former G4S workers said thex would | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
be vigorously denying the charges in court. Our special correspondent | :01:19. | :01:33. | |
Kurt Barling reports. Jimmy Mubenga died of cardiorespiratory collapse | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
whilst being restrained on board a return flight to his countrx of | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
origin, Angola, in October 2010 Three days after the tragedx, | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
members of Parliament called for an inquiry. By July 2012, the Crown | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Prosecution Service had dechded there was insufficient eviddnce to | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
prosecute the security guards who had restrained him. Yet almost a | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
year to the day later, in Jtly 013, an inquest jury found on thd | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
evidence that Jimmy Mubenga was unlawfully killed. Mr Mubenga was | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
being deported despite his family's right to stay in Britain. Stpported | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
by the local community in Ilford, east London, his wife and fhve | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
children fought for three ydars to get an explanation why. In light of | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
the inquest verdict, the Crown Prosecution Service we conshdered | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
the evidence, and today said... All three former G4S security guards | :02:29. | :02:46. | |
face a charge of manslaughtdr. They say they will vigorously defend | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
themselves. G4S the company will not face a corporate manslaughtdr | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
charge, after the CPS ruled there was insufficient evidence to bring a | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
cruel charge against the business. Mr Mubenga's widow said... | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
An inquest verdict does not apportion blame to individu`ls. The | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
three former employees of G4S will now go before a criminal trhal jury, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
who will consider the chargds of unlawful manslaughter and gross | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
negligence manslaughter as `n alternative. Coming up later in the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
programme... The drive to help secondary pupils | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
cope with the pressures of school life. | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
More than 380 suspected crilinals have been arrested in raids in the | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
capital today as the Metropolitan Police joined forces with nhne other | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
European countries to target mobile phone crime. Almost 45,000 phones | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
have been stolen in London over the past year. Our home affairs | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
correspondent, Guy Smith, joins from Oxford Street, which is a hotspot | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
for that kind of theft... Absolutely. The West End has more | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
than 200 million visitors a year, many of them coming here to Oxford | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Street. Crime is down, but `ccording to the police, there is still a | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
problem with professional pickpockets, who target shoppers for | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
mobile phones. That has been the focus today of a major crackdown | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
here in Brixton market this morning. Met officers were targeting | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
stallholders forced old and mobile phones. This trader was innocent of | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
any wrongdoing, but it was not long before the first arrest. Yot are | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
going to be arrested for thhs, because someone has tried to scratch | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
this number out. We have thdn gone and done further searches and | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
recovered many, many stolen phones. In some cases they have alrdady been | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
put in boxes ready to be shhpped abroad. Many of them are destined | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
for North Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Today, the Met was | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
working with forces from across England and Wales and with nine | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
European countries. It is a global phenomenon. One of the things which | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
was driving crime in New York, for example, was mobile phone theft | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
There are some real similarhties between these major global cities. I | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
do not think London is easy pickings, I think it is becoming | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
increasingly hostile. And this is what they are trying to stop, | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
organised gangs, many from Dastern Europe, targeting Londoners. They | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
have had some success. From an average last year of 280 phones | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
stolen each day in the capital, it is now down to eight. There does not | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
seem to be a day which goes by without some form of critichsm of | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the Met, whether that is corruption, racism or serious allegations | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
against undercover officers. But today seems to be good news. So far, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
more than 380 suspects have been arrested here in London. News of how | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
many have been made in Europe is still unknown. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
"Cash`strapped, fragmented `nd unravelling" ` that's how the NHS in | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
the capital has been described in a new report commissioned by the Unite | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
union. It makes a raft of recommendations which it cl`ims | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
could help "save London's NHS", including calling for a str`tegic | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
body to oversee London. But the Government says it has put doctors | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
in charge of key decisions. Our political correspondent, Karl | :06:32. | :06:31. | |
Mercer, reports. Just two days old, and Danidl is | :06:32. | :06:46. | |
getting to meet Daniel! The new and the Health Minister at Kingston | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Hospital this morning. Little Daniel, you would hope, unaware that | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
his new political friend is here to announce more money for matdrnity | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
services at this hospital, `nd unaware that the health services and | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
once again at the centre of a political spat in London. The union | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Unite has held a six`month hnquiry into health care in London. It says | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
the system is under pressurd and unravelling, and raises concerns | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
over maternity units. Women in London are often from an imligrant | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
background, or a poor back round, and they are presenting with | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
problems. They were concerndd about that and they also said thex were | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
concerned with the consultant out of hours cover. It is also worried that | :07:30. | :07:42. | |
London may see more of the hospital reorganisations which led to | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
protests in Lewisham. They say a new body is needed to oversee hdalth | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
care in the capital. I have worked in the Health Service in London for | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
25 years. It has always been having to change. But that is not what | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
these reconfigurations are `ll about. They are starting from the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
money side of things and working backwards, then trying to ghve a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
clinical justification to gloss over the issues. One Daniel was too young | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
to have a view. The other is quite clear on his. We need to take these | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
reports with a pinch of salt, particularly when it is the Unite | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
union which is backing the report. The Government has been putting | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
money into the NHS, not just through additional funding for maternity | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
units, but also in making stre that these doctors and nurses ard saying | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
that patient care is improvhng. The Government has promised the NHS is | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
safe in its hands. Today's report raises Familia challenges to that | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
claim. It is a fact that thd NHS will remain at the centre of | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
political debate. The funer`l of Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT union, | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
who died last week, is to t`ke place on Monday. There will be a | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
procession from his home in Woodford to the City of London cemetdry, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
where his family have asked for a private burial. There will `lso be a | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
minute's silence at the RMT. Mr Crow died of a suspected heart attack at | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the age of 52. The Government has been asked to step in and hdlp a | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
campaign to award a medal to a wartime hero who has been ghven just | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
weeks to live. The 19`year`old from Harrow carried out bomber mhssions | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
during the Second World War but has been denied a medal because he flew | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
from an Italian air base. Alice Bhandhukravi is in Green Park. What | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
more do we know about this case He flew bomber raids over Germ`ny, he | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
flew 33 missions, before behng shot down. Even then, he managed to evade | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
capture. He was based in It`ly, rather than in Britain, and as such, | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
did not qualify for the Bomber Command class, which recognhses the | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
great risk and sacrifice of these pilots during the Second World War. | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
Today, Mr Mansbridge's MP, Gareth Thomas, raised his case in the | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Commons, and the leader of the house agreed to lend his help. It is | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
something which I know in rdcent years I have appreciated, as have | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
many members, the recognition which has been given through the Bomber | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
Command medal, and indeed the Bomber Command Memorial in London. Well, | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
the family of Mr Mansbridge, who are campaigning on behalf of thdir | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
father, say this is about epual treatment for all those pilots who | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
flew these dangerous missions during the Second World War. The Mhnistry | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
of Defence is due to review their cases at the end of the year. But | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
obviously, for Mr Mansbridgd, his case is pressing because he has | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
terminal cancer. His family say they hope that all those involved will be | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
recognised sooner rather th`n later. The family of a woman who dhed after | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
being treated at a private hospital in Redbridge has been grantdd | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
permission from the Attornex`General to apply for a new inquest hnto her | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
death. Carmel Bloom died in 200 following treatment at the Roding | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Hospital. If they succeed it will be the third inquest, which cotld | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
include new evidence leading up to her death. Emma North has more. | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
It is almost 12 Years A Slave 's Carmel Bloom died. She went into | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
hospital in Guildford Four ` minor procedure, but she never cale home. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Her family say 100 pieces of information still have not been made | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
public about what went wrong that night at the Roding Hospital, once | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
run by Bupa. A third inquest could make that happen. I am somewhat | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
elated because perhaps we c`n see the finishing post, after ndarly 12 | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
years. On the other hand, I have got a situation whereby I have got to go | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
through all of this trauma `nd heartbreak again. This is some of | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
what the family want to be heard. It is a 999 call, where the night | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
sister is describing the seriousness of Carmel Bloom's condition to the | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
emergency services. She is coughing up a lot of blood, she is vdry | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
unstable, actually. They sax this offers important new evidence as to | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
what happened. There have already been two inquests and a GMC hearing. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
A third inquest would be a legal rarity. Usually, there would have to | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
be extremely unusual circumstances, or something very special, for the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Attorney`General to consider a third inquest being held. What is more, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
all the fresh evidence has been gathered by the family themselves. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
They have had to be medical, lawyer and detective. Daunting, absolutely | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
daunting, but we were left with no choice. We were not getting | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
anywhere, so we had to sit down and say, there is only one way to do | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
this, we will have to do it ourselves. The hospital is now run | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
by another firm. Today, thex said... The tragic circumstances were fully | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
investigated by the GMC. Following the most recent inspection by the | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Care Quality Commission, thd hospital was found to meet `ll key | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
standards of patient care. The fight has taken its toll with the couple, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
and there is no certainty a third inquest will even happen. Btt if it | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
does, they say they are ready. Still to come on the program... Wd are | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
with the Household Cavalry, as they prepare for a busy ceremoni`l | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
summer. And I am in Dorking, where it has been confirmed today that | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
24,000 amateur cyclists will be passing through here on closed roads | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
for the London cycling event in August. Some residents love it, | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
others have had enough. The headmaster of a leading | :13:52. | :14:01. | |
independent school says puphls are increasingly struggling to cope with | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
pressure and stress ` and is calling for lessons in how to deal with it. | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Andrew Halls has already introduced sessions to help students cope with | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
failure and body image at hhs own school, King's College in Whmbledon. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Today he hosted head teachers at a conference to discuss the issue | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
Jean Mackenzie has the detahls. Yes, school can be stressful but how | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
about going to one of the country's leading private schools, whdre there | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
is a premium on top grades `nd sporting prowess? The fear hs that | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
this pressure could be caushng damaging levels of stress. H think | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
it's very easy for girls to feel a lot of emotional pressure. For girls | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
to break down and cry, perh`ps. I know sometimes you see girls after | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
they get a bad test result, they get very upset. . In a team envhronment | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
you can feel a lot of presstre because you don't want to ldt your | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
peers down and also physical pressures in terms of being the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
right size, etc, working hard enough and physical fitness. So yot would | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
have the academical pressurds of getting a good grade and thdn | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
pressures of having to achidve on the sports field. Exactly. Ht can be | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
quite hard to manage both at the same time. Psychologists sax they're | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
seeing a number of unlikely teenagers developing mental health | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
issues. That could be severd anxiety, an eating disorder or | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
someone who harms themselves. Much of this, they say, is in thd quest | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
for perfection. When I have these beautiful young people, these young | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
women ` I'm seeing some this afternoon in my clinic... They are | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
cutting their arms are saying, if I can't get four A*s, I can't go to | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
school ` I've failed". It's utterly heartbreaking. Today the he`d of | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
this top London school brought teachers from 200 schools together | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
to address this. He says part of the problem is that young peopld are | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
lacking what John Wayne had so much of ` true grit, he calls it. He says | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
they're often not able to cope when things go wrong. We know, for | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
example, that girls from aspirational families are now the | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
fastest`growing group asking mental health services for help. Hd is | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
urging schools to stop shirking their duty of care. He wants them to | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
train people to become emothonally resilient. `` train pupils. I've | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
seen too many pupils in all sorts of schools who feel negligible, | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
worthless. Any culture that has made people feel they mean nothing or | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
they're invisible has got to work across every school, every family, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
to re`instil a sense of purpose Much has been made today of | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
teenagers' new friend the internet and how they now to do it for help. | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
`` now turn to it for help. So today was a warning for teachers ` yes, | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
your pupils may look OK but that doesn't mean they are OK. | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
Joining us now is 17`year`old Sophia Parvizi`Wayne, who suffered from | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
anorexia as a result of strdss at school. And Barbara McIntosh from | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
the Children's and Young People s Mental Coalition, who spoke at that | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
conference today. Welcome to you both. Sofia, help us | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
understand where you felt that that pressure was coming from. W`s it the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
school or parents? I think hn our generation we've been brought up | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
with a pressure to be perfect and I think especially independent schools | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
do try to bring out perfecthon. It's all about getting to Oxford and | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Cambridge and people start focusing so much on the grades that xou lose | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the person a bit, I think. @nd do you think that the school dhd | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
enough? It manifested itself with weight loss and anorexia with you. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Do you feel they spotted th`t and did enough? I think my school was | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
really good in handling the problem but I don't think any school ` this | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
is what our campaign is abott ` can spot the signs and did enough? I | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
think my school was really good in handling the problem but I don't | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
think any school ` this is what our campaign is about ` can spot the | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
signs are prevented. In terls of stopping it before it starts, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
there's not enough preventative measures in place and that's what my | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
campaign is about with my bdst friend Amber. Barbara, is this sort | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
of thing in increasing across`the`board, across all schools | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
in London? This pressure to achieve, as Sophia mentioned? I'm from the | :18:09. | :18:20. | |
Mental Health Foundation. Apologies. This Last Year We've Had A Six`day | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Present Increase In A Bid To The Hospital For Self Harm. We Know The | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Uk Population Has A Higher Incidence. Higher incidence of | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
depression than other countries Schools are particularly focusing on | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
people who are ambitious so it's a particular problem. We need to | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
recalibrate the message to xoung people. We heard the headmaster | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
saying the young generation was lacking what he called true grit. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
How much of it is schools and how much exacerbated by parents sending | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
them to these high`pressure environments that thrive on intense | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
competition? Should they be going to these classes, perhaps? I think it's | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
a combination of your familx's expectations and your school's. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
School achievement is just one element of who you are as a person | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
and we need to get that message across and that your kindness, | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
integrity are really import`nt characteristics, as well as a school | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
achievement. Sophia, if you were talking to young people who might be | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
feeling a similar pressure, what's your advice? People have to realise | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
a mental health problem is `n illness and isn't your fault. It's | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
like cancer ` you can't help that you've got it. Asking for hdlp | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
should be embarrassed in and should be something we can all talk about. | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
Thank you both. It's described as the London | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Marathon on wheels. Today organisers of Ride London announced thd new | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
100`mile route for this year's cycling race. In 2013 it attracted | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
16,000 cyclists, but the evdnt drew criticism from residents along the | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
route, who claimed they werd effectively trapped in their homes. | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
Sara Orchard is in Dorking tonight. What's the reaction been? | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
Well, as you can imagine, r`ys, it's been a mixed reaction. Some people | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
are delighted that the race is coming back but others are not happy | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
at all because the 2014 event will be growing. It was 16,000 alateur | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
cyclists last year when it started at the Queen Elizabeth Park. You may | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
remember even the mayor started out the race. But it's growing by 5 % | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
and there will be 24,000 cyclists in August. Some residents complained | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
they were tracked in their houses and could get out for the whole day. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
`` trapped. I've been out to speak to the main organiser of Ride | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
London. Hopefully it will jtst be a wonderful day out, a celebr`tion of | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
sport, of charity, of welfare and of what an amazing thing the Olympics | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
2012 was and not to forget that That's what this event is about | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
Well, following concerns from residents, they have slightly change | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
the route this year. Once again it will start out at the Queen | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Elizabeth Park and it will lake its way south towards talking and the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Surrey Hills. It will take hn oxygen at for the first time and won't be | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
going past Cobham. It will come back up through London to finish on the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
Mall. The blue lines on the map show a slight change for the professional | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
riders. Let's talk to two local councillors dealing with residents' | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
concerns. Margaret, you've been speaking with Ride London about the | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
problems and the changes to the route. Are you happy? Much happier | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
this year. They've really lhsten to the problems we had last ye`r and | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
worked really hard with organisations in the communhties and | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
things have improved a great deal. We know people are going to have to | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
stay in the sometime during the day but they've really made an dffort to | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
get times during the day whdn people will be able to move around the town | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
and it's going to be a real centre for excitement and it's going to be | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
a really exciting day. Hazel, you've been dealing with residents' | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
concerns in North Dorking and across the whole of the area. What are the | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
concerns? In North Dorking they will be landlocked and they have concerns | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
about how their lives will be disrupted and they won't be able to | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
do the normal things they do. Also business is being affected, not | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
having customers going in, `nd losing money. A big concern for | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
those communities, unlike most of the rest of the area. I did speak to | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
Ride London earlier and thex did say any residents with concerns should | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
go to their website for mord information about how they can get | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
access to their homes on thd day. They've been at the heart of some of | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
the biggest spectacles in rdcent years ` from the Royal Weddhng to | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. This morning, soldiers | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
and horses from the Household Cavalry were once again delhghting | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
passing Londoners. They werd in Hyde Park preparing for a busy cdremonial | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
season ahead, as Nick Beake reports. On a blustery morning in Hyde Park, | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
a piece of pageantry which has survived the winds of changd. For | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
350 years, soldiers from thdse regiments ` and their horses ` have | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
guarded the King or Queen. This morning, a final run`through before | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
another summer of ceremonial duties. A massive sense of pride. It's the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
only people in the world th`t do this sort of thing so it's ` massive | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
honour for me to be here. Today 160 horses from Household Cavalry were | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
on display. Their audience ` Londoners on their way to work, and | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
younger ones who have been brought along to see a slice of history It | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
says so much about London and I think it's part of our heritage so | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
it's lovely to come along and support it. And among the onlookers | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
from further afield, visitors from Egypt. It's something amazing. | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
Different than all of Afric`. The man on the white horse comm`nds all | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
soldiers in London so the M`jor General's inspection was solething | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
they've been working hard for. If he wasn't happy, we'd have gond round | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
and done it all again. It sdemed particularly good today, from the | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
last two rehearsals that we did this week and last week. So todax's | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
parade and inspection went pretty well. So a show of pageantrx in Hyde | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Park today. Final preparations before what is a very busy | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
ceremonial season. In June `lone, they'll have ten events in ten days. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Among them, trooping the colour on the Queen's official birthd`y and | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the State Opening of Parlialent Incredible to think that just a few | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
months ago, some of these soldiers had never ridden a horse. This | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
morning, with the inspection passed, they retired to the stables, knowing | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
once again they'll soon be trotting back into the public eye. | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
Probably a little early for attack on the summer weather but how about | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
the weekend? Last weekend felt like summdr but | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
it's not going to happen thhs weekend. We've got some rain moving | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
towards us at the moment and behind that it's going to feel chillier. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
It's been pressing towards ts through the day. Cloud incrdasing | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
and we've now got the rain with us. Clearing through quite quickly | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
through this evening and will be clear of us by the early hotrs. It | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
doesn't really give us any hssues and as it clears, it will t`ke the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
cloud, which means we're in for a chilly night in many spots. As low | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
as two out towards the suburbs and a touch of ground frost. Elsewhere | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
four or five but unbeatable start to Friday. Light winds to start the day | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
but as we go through the winter numbers pick up and it will become | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
more breezy. That. To push showers towards us, most likely north of the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Thames and the M4 but they'll come through. Temperatures are still on | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
the slide tomorrow compared to what we have seen. Tonight we do it all | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
again with another slap `` scrappy weather front coming through. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Further showers on Saturday morning and that's the story of the weekend. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
We've got weaker weather fronts around and breezy conditions. They | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
will move across us on Saturday and Sunday. A question of showers and | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
also a question of it feeling just that bit cooler, certainly when | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
competitor last weekend. Showers, gusty winds at times and sole sharp | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
frosts, particularly at the end of the weekend, as things turndd | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
colder. Some spots will strtggle up to double figures. In centr`l | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
London, a bit warmer than that. Watch out for showers in thd coming | :27:09. | :27:09. | |
days. The main headlines: Britain is | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
sending a ship to help in the international hunt for the lissing | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
Malaysian Airlines jet. 13 days after flight MH370 | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
disappeared, the Australians say they have satellite images of two | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
objects that could be wreck`ge from the plane. | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
More on the day's stories on our website ` and we'll be back later | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
during the ten o'clock news. From me and the team here, thanks for | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
watching and have a lovely dvening. | :27:41. | :27:45. |