:00:26. > :00:29.Welcome to BBC London News. More than three quarters of a million
:00:30. > :00:32.households living in high rise blocks in London have said they
:00:33. > :00:40.wouldn't know what to do if a fire broke out. This was a warning for
:00:41. > :00:47.landlords Andres dents about how to survive in a similar situation. But
:00:48. > :00:50.five years on in the block's shadow, lessons still must be learned. Since
:00:51. > :00:59.the fire here, do people have a better idea of what to do if there
:01:00. > :01:04.were a fire in their own home? I'm not sure. I think that they may have
:01:05. > :01:08.been made aware of what has happened and what could happen. But I don't
:01:09. > :01:14.know if people are looking to themselves, to know what to do.
:01:15. > :01:17.Do you talk amongst yourselves, your neighbours and the community, with
:01:18. > :01:22.regards to a little more of what you should do? No, it is everyone for
:01:23. > :01:28.themselves. So it is perhaps no surprise that so few Londoners have
:01:29. > :01:33.a plan to escape. More than half of the capital's high risers say that
:01:34. > :01:37.they don't. Half said that they would get out of their flat even if
:01:38. > :01:42.the fire was somewhere else in the block. Something that the Fire
:01:43. > :01:46.Service said was a dangerous thing to do. You want people to stay in
:01:47. > :01:49.their flats, why is that? Yes. If the fire is elsewhere in the
:01:50. > :01:52.building, it is important to stay put.
:01:53. > :01:57.But this is where the confusion arises. When the fire engulfed
:01:58. > :02:02.Lacknall House, people did as they were told. They stayed put and it
:02:03. > :02:06.cost their their lives. So even if the instructions are followed, there
:02:07. > :02:11.is no guarantee. I cannot give a 100% commitment that
:02:12. > :02:14.they are safe from all sorts of fires. There are particular
:02:15. > :02:18.circumstances in all individual cases. But the general advice that
:02:19. > :02:24.we support is that people should remain in their homes until they are
:02:25. > :02:31.told otherwise. Southwark has spent ?60 million on
:02:32. > :02:38.safety and signs. But two things can never be controlled, people's
:02:39. > :02:40.attention and of course the fire. The publicist, Max Clifford, has
:02:41. > :02:43.told a jury that accusations of indecent assault against him have
:02:44. > :02:46.been made by "fantasists" trying to get compensation. Mr Clifford, who's
:02:47. > :02:49.70, was being cross`examined by the prosecution on his third day in the
:02:50. > :02:55.witness box. He denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting seven girls
:02:56. > :02:57.and women. The Director of Public Prosecutions, has admitted an
:02:58. > :03:00.administrative error prevented a convicted mafia boss from being
:03:01. > :03:03.extradited from his home in London. Domenico Rancadore who's lived in
:03:04. > :03:05.Uxbridge for 25 years, was arrested last August after evading Italian
:03:06. > :03:08.authorities but prosecutors failed to serve his lawyers with papers in
:03:09. > :03:12.time. Scientists in Hertfordshire have sought to re`create part of
:03:13. > :03:26.Mars in the run up to Europe's next space mission to the red planet. The
:03:27. > :03:30.facility is being used to design and test a Martian rover which will be
:03:31. > :03:33.sent to Mars in four years to search for life. Our Science Correspondent,
:03:34. > :03:45.Pallab Ghosh, has been to Stevenage to see it. It is Mars but not as we
:03:46. > :03:50.know it. It looks like a film set but it is actually a laboratory, to
:03:51. > :03:56.test out technologies for Europe's next mission to Mars.
:03:57. > :04:00.This is an exact replica of the Martian surface. Everything from the
:04:01. > :04:04.sand, to the size of the rocks, to the rough terrain, is exactly the
:04:05. > :04:10.same as it is on Mars. It is going to be used to design the next
:04:11. > :04:15.generation of Martian rover. The prototype creeps across the
:04:16. > :04:19.surface to avoid damaging itself. But by speeding up the footage,
:04:20. > :04:25.engineers can study the weaknesses in the wheels and the suspension.
:04:26. > :04:31.This terrain is complex to simulate in a computer. You cannot build up a
:04:32. > :04:36.simulated environment of it. So we need the physical interactions with
:04:37. > :04:40.the rover with the real environment. NASA's Curiosity rover is on Mars.
:04:41. > :04:44.The European rover will be able to see better than Curiosity.
:04:45. > :04:49.What we are going to do is to have it at about the height of human
:04:50. > :04:54.above the surface, like this... The camera is being built in suraway. It
:04:55. > :04:58.will have small coloured filters to be used to find out what the rocks
:04:59. > :05:03.are made of. Curiosity can see a very small
:05:04. > :05:10.region, something like this, with the new camera we can see a larger
:05:11. > :05:15.region showed outlined in the red. And we can zoom in and see the
:05:16. > :05:22.details in great detail. So with that we can then look for where to
:05:23. > :05:29.drill for to look for signs of life. The European mission is purpose
:05:30. > :05:34.built to look for signs for life. I think that the probability of
:05:35. > :05:40.detecting ancient life on Mars is very good. We know that Mars and
:05:41. > :05:47.earth were similar in their early history, so we would expect to find
:05:48. > :05:50.life on Mars. Four billion years ago Mars looked like this, similar to
:05:51. > :05:54.earth, with a thick atmosphere and running water. So there is a real
:05:55. > :05:59.possibility that there was once life on the Red Planet. If there was,
:06:00. > :06:04.there is a good chance that Europe's rover will find evidence of it in a
:06:05. > :06:09.few years' time. The Gherkin has been chosen as Londoners' favourite
:06:10. > :06:12.tall building. The skyscraper which was designed by Foster Partners,
:06:13. > :06:19.beat 13 others to the top spot in a poll by the think`tank, New London
:06:20. > :06:26.Architecture. The going is in the public domain. If it is like liked
:06:27. > :06:31.and somebody votes in favour of it, in the end, that is the greatest
:06:32. > :06:36.award of all. That's it from me for tonight.
:06:37. > :06:43.Here's Elizabeth Rizzini with the weekend weather. It will be fine and
:06:44. > :06:47.dry and feeling warm. We have the milder air. Tonight will be milder
:06:48. > :06:52.than it was last night. The temperatures dropping to between
:06:53. > :06:55.five and seven Celsius, so frost`free tomorrow morning.
:06:56. > :07:02.Tomorrow it is dry and bright. The sunshine hazy. There will be cloud
:07:03. > :07:07.around. But it will be medium`level cloud. Nice and bright and
:07:08. > :07:13.temperatures warm. The mild air feeding in on the south`easterly
:07:14. > :07:18.breeze. 19 Celsius, 66 in Fahrenheit and could be even hotter on Sunday
:07:19. > :07:23.when we could get up to 20 Celsius. If we get to 21 Celsius, it could be
:07:24. > :07:27.the warmest day of the year so far. Showers into the week but still
:07:28. > :07:29.feeling mild. Here is a summary for the weekend. The clocks do go
:07:30. > :07:34.forward on Saturday night. Now forward on Saturday night. Now here
:07:35. > :07:41.is Nick Miller with the national forecast.
:07:42. > :07:46.Hello. The clocks go forward this weekend, marking the beginning of
:07:47. > :07:48.British summertime, BST. It has nothing to do with the weather. As
:07:49. > :07:50.the clocks changed