28/03/2014 BBC London News

Welcome to BBC London News. More than three quarters of a million

households living in high rise blocks in London have said they

wouldn't know what to do if a fire broke out. This was a warning for

landlords Andres dents about how to survive in a similar situation. But

five years on in the block's shadow, lessons still must be learned. Since

the fire here, do people have a better idea of what to do if there

were a fire in their own home? I'm not sure. I think that they may have

been made aware of what has happened and what could happen. But I don't

know if people are looking to themselves, to know what to do.

Do you talk amongst yourselves, your neighbours and the community, with

regards to a little more of what you should do? No, it is everyone for

themselves. So it is perhaps no surprise that so few Londoners have

a plan to escape. More than half of the capital's high risers say that

they don't. Half said that they would get out of their flat even if

the fire was somewhere else in the block. Something that the Fire

Service said was a dangerous thing to do. You want people to stay in

their flats, why is that? Yes. If the fire is elsewhere in the

building, it is important to stay put.

But this is where the confusion arises. When the fire engulfed

Lacknall House, people did as they were told. They stayed put and it

cost their their lives. So even if the instructions are followed, there

is no guarantee. I cannot give a 100% commitment that

they are safe from all sorts of fires. There are particular

circumstances in all individual cases. But the general advice that

we support is that people should remain in their homes until they are

told otherwise. Southwark has spent ?60 million on

safety and signs. But two things can never be controlled, people's

attention and of course the fire. The publicist, Max Clifford, has

told a jury that accusations of indecent assault against him have

been made by "fantasists" trying to get compensation. Mr Clifford, who's

70, was being cross`examined by the prosecution on his third day in the

witness box. He denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting seven girls

and women. The Director of Public Prosecutions, has admitted an

administrative error prevented a convicted mafia boss from being

extradited from his home in London. Domenico Rancadore who's lived in

Uxbridge for 25 years, was arrested last August after evading Italian

authorities but prosecutors failed to serve his lawyers with papers in

time. Scientists in Hertfordshire have sought to re`create part of

Mars in the run up to Europe's next space mission to the red planet. The

facility is being used to design and test a Martian rover which will be

sent to Mars in four years to search for life. Our Science Correspondent,

Pallab Ghosh, has been to Stevenage to see it. It is Mars but not as we

know it. It looks like a film set but it is actually a laboratory, to

test out technologies for Europe's next mission to Mars.

This is an exact replica of the Martian surface. Everything from the

sand, to the size of the rocks, to the rough terrain, is exactly the

same as it is on Mars. It is going to be used to design the next

generation of Martian rover. The prototype creeps across the

surface to avoid damaging itself. But by speeding up the footage,

engineers can study the weaknesses in the wheels and the suspension.

This terrain is complex to simulate in a computer. You cannot build up a

simulated environment of it. So we need the physical interactions with

the rover with the real environment. NASA's Curiosity rover is on Mars.

The European rover will be able to see better than Curiosity.

What we are going to do is to have it at about the height of human

above the surface, like this... The camera is being built in suraway. It

will have small coloured filters to be used to find out what the rocks

are made of. Curiosity can see a very small

region, something like this, with the new camera we can see a larger

region showed outlined in the red. And we can zoom in and see the

details in great detail. So with that we can then look for where to

drill for to look for signs of life. The European mission is purpose

built to look for signs for life. I think that the probability of

detecting ancient life on Mars is very good. We know that Mars and

earth were similar in their early history, so we would expect to find

life on Mars. Four billion years ago Mars looked like this, similar to

earth, with a thick atmosphere and running water. So there is a real

possibility that there was once life on the Red Planet. If there was,

there is a good chance that Europe's rover will find evidence of it in a

few years' time. The Gherkin has been chosen as Londoners' favourite

tall building. The skyscraper which was designed by Foster Partners,

beat 13 others to the top spot in a poll by the think`tank, New London

Architecture. The going is in the public domain. If it is like liked

and somebody votes in favour of it, in the end, that is the greatest

award of all. That's it from me for tonight.

Here's Elizabeth Rizzini with the weekend weather. It will be fine and

dry and feeling warm. We have the milder air. Tonight will be milder

than it was last night. The temperatures dropping to between

five and seven Celsius, so frost`free tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow it is dry and bright. The sunshine hazy. There will be cloud

around. But it will be medium`level cloud. Nice and bright and

temperatures warm. The mild air feeding in on the south`easterly

breeze. 19 Celsius, 66 in Fahrenheit and could be even hotter on Sunday

when we could get up to 20 Celsius. If we get to 21 Celsius, it could be

the warmest day of the year so far. Showers into the week but still

feeling mild. Here is a summary for the weekend. The clocks do go

forward on Saturday night. Now forward on Saturday night. Now here

is Nick Miller with the national forecast.

Hello. The clocks go forward this weekend, marking the beginning of

British summertime, BST. It has nothing to do with the weather. As

the clocks changed