:00:00. > :00:00.all of the stories today on the BBC News Channel. That is it from me.
:00:00. > :00:11.Stay with us on BBC One for the news where you are. Good night.
:00:12. > :00:16.Good evening. The number of billionaires living in Britain has
:00:17. > :00:19.risen to more than 100 according to the Sunday Times super rich list,
:00:20. > :00:27.with nearly two`thirds of them in London. The paper says there are now
:00:28. > :00:33.more billionaires here per head of population than any other city in
:00:34. > :00:38.the world. Here's Sarah Harris. London, according to the latest Rich
:00:39. > :00:46.list, is home to more billionaires than any other city in the world.
:00:47. > :00:56.These are now Britain's richest man, together worth ?11.9 billion.
:00:57. > :01:05.The owner of Arsenal has been knocked off the top spot but he
:01:06. > :01:10.still has ?10 billion. Roman Abramovich now has a mere ?8.5
:01:11. > :01:16.billion. The man whose life work has been studying the super`rich says
:01:17. > :01:23.London has become the place to live. The culture, rule of law,
:01:24. > :01:27.property rights are protected, they will not be chucked in prison and
:01:28. > :01:32.have their fortune ceased. Good schools that they like to try to get
:01:33. > :01:38.their kids into, like Eton. Two the top five on the list live on the
:01:39. > :01:48.street in Kensington where the average price of a house is ?40
:01:49. > :01:54.million. 72 residents are thought to have a fortune of more than ?1
:01:55. > :02:01.billion, compared to 48 in Moscow. But record price tags for property
:02:02. > :02:05.are easily affordable for the super`rich. The rich list will be
:02:06. > :02:08.published next week. As well as council elections this
:02:09. > :02:11.month, four London boroughs will also elect a local Mayor. One of
:02:12. > :02:13.them is Tower Hamlets, which has been facing serious questions about
:02:14. > :02:16.their current mayor's spending. Lutfur Rahman denies any wrongdoing,
:02:17. > :02:24.but this particular contest is being closely watched. Here's our
:02:25. > :02:28.Political Editor, Tim Donovan. Left Rahman was elected the
:02:29. > :02:35.independent Mayor of Tower Hamlets after the national Labour Party
:02:36. > :02:38.rejected him as its candidate. `` Lutfur Rahman. This was due to
:02:39. > :02:43.support from the Bangladeshi community, his slightly outnumber
:02:44. > :02:48.white people in the borough. This is now about a civil war. This is a
:02:49. > :02:51.splinter group of the Labour Party and they called the Labour MPs in
:02:52. > :02:56.the House of Commons their colleagues and brothers and sisters.
:02:57. > :02:59.Clearly that is what is happening. Maybe there are characteristics
:03:00. > :03:04.within the local Labour Party that somehow put people's backs up. The
:03:05. > :03:08.Labour candidate is John Biggs, currently a London Assembly member,
:03:09. > :03:12.who was joined by the party leader this week. He says there are clear
:03:13. > :03:15.differences between him and Lutfur Rahman. He will tell you he lives by
:03:16. > :03:20.Labour values but the evidence that he is too much of a separatist and
:03:21. > :03:25.not part of the mainstream anymore. We offer a very real choice which is
:03:26. > :03:29.about a leadership broadly based in the borough which respects all
:03:30. > :03:33.communities and is going to take our borough forward at a time of
:03:34. > :03:37.enormous change and pressure. The Conservatives say that the two front
:03:38. > :03:41.runners don't provide a clear choice. Ideally it would be myself
:03:42. > :03:44.but I think Tower Hamlets needs a Mayor that is open to all the
:03:45. > :03:48.community and has that commitment and energy. According to the current
:03:49. > :03:52.Mayor, the differences between him and his old party are about policy
:03:53. > :03:57.and portraying him as being governed by and for Bangladeshi people has
:03:58. > :04:07.been racist. Free home care for the only group of people that we have
:04:08. > :04:11.continued to provide for. We don't charge for care for vulnerable
:04:12. > :04:14.residents in the community and I am the only person continuing that. It
:04:15. > :04:20.is certainly an outcome hard to predict. A full list of candidates
:04:21. > :04:23.standing for election in Tower Hamlets can be found at the address
:04:24. > :04:31.on your screen. Now let's look at the weather forecast. Good evening.
:04:32. > :04:36.Still a chance of the odd shower overnight but that Bruce is starting
:04:37. > :04:42.to ease. Tomorrow another mixed bag. `` breeze is starting to ease.
:04:43. > :04:45.Sunshine and showers but the wind is lighter. High pressure builds in on
:04:46. > :04:49.Wednesday and it gets slowly warmer towards the end of the week.
:04:50. > :04:53.That is it from the BBC London weekend team. We will be back
:04:54. > :04:55.tomorrow morning the latest news, travel and weather from 6:30am. For
:04:56. > :05:11.now we wish you a very good night. Good evening. If you are after some
:05:12. > :05:16.guaranteed dry weather and warmth, you need to hang in there for a
:05:17. > :05:22.couple more days. In the short term, we are sticking with a mixture of
:05:23. > :05:25.sunshine at times and heavy showers. Showers keep going tonight but the
:05:26. > :05:29.cloud breaks up to give clearer spells across northern Scotland
:05:30. > :05:33.particularly, so here there will be a touch of frost. The breeze eases
:05:34. > :05:37.down further South and most places will begin at eight or nine
:05:38. > :05:38.degrees. We start Monday