:00:00. > :00:00.usual time of 6:40 this evening Stay with us on BBC One, it's time
:00:00. > :00:18.for the news where you are. Good afternoon. Obesity levdls in
:00:19. > :00:22.London are rising with some doctors calling the problem an epiddmic
:00:23. > :00:24.More than 2,500 people here were admitted to hospitals last xear for
:00:25. > :00:31.obesity related problems, and there's a warning the probldm could
:00:32. > :00:36.get worse. Jim Wheble reports. Linda is about to have a balloon
:00:37. > :00:38.removed from her stomach. Inserted several weeks ago, it's the latest
:00:39. > :00:42.(rocedure in suppressing appetite and tackling obesity. Consultant
:00:43. > :00:48.Jude Oben is the first to use the technique. He's under no illusion
:00:49. > :00:52.about the scale of obesity problem. We are already in the midst of an
:00:53. > :00:56.obesity epidemic. We simply cannot afford it. We have to be proactive,
:00:57. > :01:02.we have to do something differently to what we're doing at the loment.
:01:03. > :01:07.In Lewisham, they're focusing on exercise, nutrition and children.
:01:08. > :01:13.Funded by the council, the Ly Time active group runs healthy lhving
:01:14. > :01:15.programmes. It is an easy w`y to remember what a portion of fruit and
:01:16. > :01:18.vegetables is... A game of nutritional Deal Or No
:01:19. > :01:21.Deal, teaching the basics, `nd it seems to work. It's like re`lly
:01:22. > :01:24.changed my lifestyle, and I want to carry on doing these exercises and
:01:25. > :01:33.eating vegetables and fruit for the rest of my life.
:01:34. > :01:40.But Lewisham has one of the biggest obesity problems in the caphtal
:01:41. > :01:44.They're doing what they can but fear it won't be enough. We'll p`ck some
:01:45. > :01:49.pretty big snowballs togethdr and make a pretty big dent in those
:01:50. > :01:55.population figures. But we won't really turn the curve on obdsity. A
:01:56. > :02:00.harsh reality echoed by manx in Parliament. Unless we take dramatic
:02:01. > :02:03.action, we're going to be effectively seeing people ptt their
:02:04. > :02:07.own quality of life at risk, and of course there's the fiscal threat to
:02:08. > :02:10.the NHS. Who's going to do that That will need to be done bx a
:02:11. > :02:16.Cabinet minister appointed `t a Cabinet level. That was filled with
:02:17. > :02:18.about half a litre of salind. Provides Linda's procedure hs
:02:19. > :02:21.finished and the balloon helped her lose two stone.
:02:22. > :02:24.But without some kind of innovative approach to changing attitudes,
:02:25. > :02:30.obesity levels aren't going to go down any time soon.
:02:31. > :02:35.A teenage student from Enfidld has been told she'll be deported back to
:02:36. > :02:39.her native Mauritius this wdekend without her family. 19`year`old
:02:40. > :02:45.Yashika Bageerathi, has been told to leave alone by the Home Offhce or
:02:46. > :02:48.she'll be forcibly removed. The teenager came to London with her
:02:49. > :02:51.mother and siblings three ydars ago to escape an abusive relative.
:02:52. > :02:54.Fellow students at the Oasis Hadley Academy in north London are holding
:02:55. > :02:58.a protest this afternoon in Parliament Square.
:02:59. > :03:01.While the debate in London continues about which airports should be
:03:02. > :03:05.allowed to expand, the oldest airport of them all could bdcome a
:03:06. > :03:08.UNESCO World Heritage Site. Campaigners are calling for Croydon
:03:09. > :03:12.Airport, which dates back ndarly 100 years, to be awarded the sale status
:03:13. > :03:16.as places like the Taj Mahal and the Tower of London. The airport was
:03:17. > :03:21.where air`traffic control and radio navigation were developed.
:03:22. > :03:28.Let's get the weather forec`st now from Georgina.
:03:29. > :03:32.Good afternoon, a treat for the weekend as we continue with this
:03:33. > :03:39.rather hazy sunshine, a ple`sant afternoon, temperatures reaching 18
:03:40. > :03:43.or 19 Celsius. Tonight, largely clear, perhaps some mist by dawn
:03:44. > :03:49.with temperatures down to ehght or nine Celsius, another sunny and warm
:03:50. > :03:51.day. Don't forget the clocks go forward.
:03:52. > :03:54.That's it for now. I'll be back at 6:50 on BBC One. Until then, have a
:03:55. > :04:14.very good afternoon. Good afternoon. The clocks go
:04:15. > :04:18.forward by one hour tonight, British Summer Time begins. Hard to believe
:04:19. > :04:21.that this was the scene exactly one year ago in North Wales when we were
:04:22. > :04:24.in the grip of one of the coldest springs for many a decade. A
:04:25. > :04:29.different story this weekend, of course, with warm air wafting up
:04:30. > :04:33.from the near continent, and under clear skies the temperatures
:04:34. > :04:38.soaring. It is not clear everywhere, we have a lot of cloud further north
:04:39. > :04:41.and west, and with a damp start across some areas, that cloud is
:04:42. > :04:42.thinning and