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We are back at 10.00pm tonight. Time for the news now where you are.

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Good evening. The number of billionaires living in Britain has

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risen to more than 100, according to the Sunday Times Super`Rich List,

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with nearly two`thirds of them in London. The paper says there are now

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more billionaires here ` per head of population ` than any other city in

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the world. Here's Sarah Harris. London, according to the latest rich

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list, is home to more billionaires than any other city in the world.

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Businessmen Goprichand and Srichand Hinduja are now Britain's richest

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men, together worth ?11.9 billion. Russian tycoon, Alisher Usmanov, who

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owns one`third of Arsenal Football Club, has been knocked off the top

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spot but still has more than ?10 billion. Roman Abramovich, whose

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Chelsea team missed out on the league title this year, has slipped

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to ninth and now has a mere ?8.5 billion fortune. The man whose

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life's work has been studying the super rich says London has become

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the place to live for those at the top of the premier league of wealth.

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They love the culture here. The fact that there is rule of law, property

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rights are protected. They won't be chucked in prison or have their

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fortune seized. Two out of the top five on the list live here on this

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street in Kensington, known as Billionaires Row, where the average

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price of a house is around ?40 million. 72 London residents are

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said to have a fortune worth more than ?1 billion, compared to 48 in

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Moscow and 43 in New York. Those behind a new London Data Website say

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the injection of superwealth doesn't affect house prices everywhere in

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the capital. In Westminster, an increase of ?150,000 over the last

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year but in somewhere like Barking and Dagenham, the increase has been

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?6,000. So much less. But for the dozens of billionaires in London,

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record price tags like the ?140 million paid for a flat here, are

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easily affordable. The full rich list is published next week.

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A 44`year`old man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was

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found dead at her home in north London on Friday morning. Tamara

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Holboll, believed to be aged in her 60s, was found with stab wounds at

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her flat in Kentish Town, which had been set on fire. Peter Holboll is

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due before magistrates tomorrow. An investigation is under way after

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two new tube trains collided when the tracks moved. It happened on the

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District Line between East Putney and Southfields earlier this month,

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causing minor damage to the carriages. The RMT Union says it

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highlights the impact of cuts to track inspections. London

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Underground says they're working to ensure it doesn't happen again. As

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well as council elections this month, four London boroughs will

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also elect a local mayor. One of them is Tower Hamlets, which has

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been facing serious questions about their current mayor's spending.

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Lutfur Rahman denies any wrongdoing, but this particular contest is being

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closely watched. Here's our Political Editor, Tim Donovan.

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Lutfar Rahman was elected the independent Mayor of Tower Hamlet

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after the national Labour Party rejected him as its candidate. His

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victory owed much to strong support from Tower Hamlets' Bangladeshies,

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who slightly outnumber white British people in the borough. Four years

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on, according to the Lib Dems, this is still about a Labour civil war.

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Tower Hamlets splinter group of the Labour Party call the Labour MPs in

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the House of Commons, their colleagues and brothers and sisters.

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So, clearly, that's what is happening. Maybe there are

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characteristics within the local Labour Party that somehow put

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people's backs up. The Labour candidate is John Biggs, currently a

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London Assembly Member, who was joined by the party leader this

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week. He insists there are clear differences between him and Mr

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Rahman. Luftar Rahman will tell you he lives by Labour values but the

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evidence is that he is too much of a separatist, not part of the

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mainstream any more and we offer a very real choice ` which is about a

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leadership which is broadly based in the borough and which respects all

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communities and which is going to take our borough forwards at a time

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of enormous change and pressure. The Conservatives say the two

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frontrunners don't provide a clear choice. Tower Hamlets needs a mayor

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open to all of the community, open to engaging and has that commitment

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and energy. But according to the current mayor, the differences

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between him and his old party are about policy and portraying him as

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being governed by and governing for Bangladeshies is racist. Free home

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care, we are the only group of people, under my administration, and

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myself, that we have continued to deliver free home care. We don't

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charge for the care we give to vulnerable elderly residents in the

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community. I'm the only group that will continue free home care. It is

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certainly an outcome hard to predict. And the address on your

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screen is where you can see a full list of candidates standing for

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election in Tower Hamlets. Let's get a check on the weather now with

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Kate. An unsettled weekend. The good news

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is the wind is starting to ease. It doesn't disappear completely. A

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similar day tomorrow, temperatures similar, still feeling fresh but

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heavy showers in the afternoon, slower`moving because the wind is

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lighter. Through Tuesday, a similar day but by Wednesday, high pressure

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starts to build. We should see more in the way of sunshine and the

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temperature gradually starting to climb. That's all for now. I will be

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back at 10.15pm. Until then, good evening.

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Good evening. We have still got some very heavy showers out there. For

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ors we are finishing the day on a more positive note. Clearer skies to

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the south indicating sunshine but the cloud still streaming in further

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north. Tomorrow's forecast brings a similar mixture, sunshine and

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showers although the winds will start to be lighter. That process

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begins through the night tonight. A shattering of showers still

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possible. Clearer skies across northern Scotland probably our

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lowest temperatures here. For many temperatures will begin Monday

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morning at around 8 or 9 degrees already with a few showers around. I

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think be drier spells in between, as with the nature of showers, they are

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not everywhere all of the time. Cloudy with brighter spells mixed in

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across parts of northern England and southern Scotland already with the

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potential of one or two to be heavy. On northern Scotland on balance

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through the day on Monday while there could be a few showers, a

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slight

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