:00:00. > :00:00.indecently assaulted one of his daughter's friends during a family
:00:00. > :00:09.holiday. On BBC One we join the BBC News teams where you are. Goodbye.
:00:10. > :00:15.Tonight on BBC London News: Facing suspension from the Lords over his
:00:16. > :00:23.allowances. The disgraced council leader already jailed for false
:00:24. > :00:26.accounting. The cardinal rule should be that lawbreakers cannot be
:00:27. > :00:29.lawmakers. They should be barred from the House of Lords for life.
:00:30. > :00:31.Criticism of Lord Hanningfield ordered to pay back thousands he'd
:00:32. > :00:35.wrongly claimed. Also tonight: Greater protection for
:00:36. > :00:40.postal workers ` the change in the law making prosecutions against
:00:41. > :00:43.owners of dangerous dogs easier. Plus we hear from David Cameron as
:00:44. > :00:46.the Conservative leader joins London's Mayor on the election
:00:47. > :00:59.trail. And: if you want to fight, I will
:01:00. > :01:03.give you a fight. You abandoned me! London is taken over by X`Men. We're
:01:04. > :01:12.live in Leicester Square with some of the stars of the latest film.
:01:13. > :01:18.Good evening. First tonight: The disgraced former leader of Essex
:01:19. > :01:21.County Council, Lord Hanningfield, is facing being suspended from the
:01:22. > :01:26.House of Lords until the end of the current parliament over his claims
:01:27. > :01:29.for expenses. The former Conservative Peer, who served a jail
:01:30. > :01:32.sentence for fraud in 201, has also been ordered to pay more than ?3,000
:01:33. > :01:45.he wrongly claimed in daily allowances. Alex Bushill reports.
:01:46. > :01:48.Lord Hanningfield was once leader of Essex county council, peer of the
:01:49. > :01:54.realm and leading light of local government. Then, in 2011 he was
:01:55. > :01:58.disgraced and discredited, jailed for fiddling his expenses. Now he is
:01:59. > :02:03.in trouble all over again for the same offence. A newspaper claimed
:02:04. > :02:08.that the one`time pig farmer and peer was travelling from the village
:02:09. > :02:11.in Essex which bears his name to Parliament and often going straight
:02:12. > :02:16.home again. This is their secretly filmed footage of Lord Hanningfield
:02:17. > :02:22.going to work. They say he went in and came out again within half an
:02:23. > :02:27.hour. This was his retort at the time. I have worked for nothing for
:02:28. > :02:31.40 years. I have saved the taxpayer money and I have nothing to say
:02:32. > :02:37.sorry. I think the taxpayer should say thank you for me `` thank you to
:02:38. > :02:48.me. Far from thanking him, a report has castigated him. Over a total of
:02:49. > :02:51.days he claimed ?3300 yet he was on the parliamentary estate for less
:02:52. > :02:57.than 40 minutes. He said he was preparing for a debate but the
:02:58. > :03:01.report said he did no work at all. Recommendations are that he should
:03:02. > :03:07.be suspended from Parliament. Others say tougher penalties are needed.
:03:08. > :03:13.The cardinal rule should be law makers cannot be `` lawbreakers
:03:14. > :03:19.cannot be lawmakers. He has served a term in jail. I think most people
:03:20. > :03:26.would think the time has come to say, expel him, don't come back. For
:03:27. > :03:32.his political peers it is a damaging fall from grace. He was a shadow
:03:33. > :03:36.minister in House of Lords, the leader of Essex county council, a
:03:37. > :03:40.leading member in the Association of local government, one of the most
:03:41. > :03:44.powerful politicians in the country at local government level, and he
:03:45. > :03:48.has brought not only dishonour and politics in general but particularly
:03:49. > :03:52.on to the Conservative Party. The house will vote tomorrow on whether
:03:53. > :03:56.to suspend Lord Hanningfield. They are likely to agree.
:03:57. > :03:59.Coming up later in the programme: Preserving the stories of the First
:04:00. > :04:12.World War for future generations, thanks to a new digital archive.
:04:13. > :04:18.The number of dangerous dogs seized by the Met fell last year, bucking
:04:19. > :04:21.the national trend. The figures were revealed ahead of a change to the
:04:22. > :04:25.law tomorrow, making it possible for the owners of dogs, which carry out
:04:26. > :04:28.attacks in their own homes to be prosecuted. And as Katherine
:04:29. > :04:37.Carpenter reports, postal workers are among those welcoming the new
:04:38. > :04:42.legislation. A postman in Essex for 20 years,
:04:43. > :04:48.dean battles had heard stories of colleagues getting attacked by dogs
:04:49. > :04:54.and then it happened to him, twice. I was going to put a flimsy card
:04:55. > :04:58.through a letterbox and the dog pushed my finger and before I knew
:04:59. > :05:03.what had happened, the dog had more or less taken the end of my finger
:05:04. > :05:07.off. That was not the first incident you faced? Yellow macro Renaud, six
:05:08. > :05:14.years ago I was attacked by a Rottweiler. Royal Mile say 96 of its
:05:15. > :05:26.postmen and women were attacked by dogs in London between April 2012
:05:27. > :05:30.and 2013 `` Royal Mail. It is currently an offence to allow your
:05:31. > :05:34.dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place. From tomorrow,
:05:35. > :05:38.the law will apply on private property as well, whether it is in
:05:39. > :05:42.your home or your garden. It will also be an offence for your dog to
:05:43. > :05:50.attack and assistance dog such as a guide dog or a hearing dog. Prison
:05:51. > :05:55.offences will be increased `` prison sentences will be increased for some
:05:56. > :05:59.offences. This legislation has been given a cautious welcome by animal
:06:00. > :06:04.charities. This is a wake`up call for owners to say, please review
:06:05. > :06:08.your dog's behaviour at your front door and make sure you can manage
:06:09. > :06:16.your dog's behaviour to keep any visitors say. Dean Bettles says he
:06:17. > :06:22.welcomes a change in the law and he hopes it will make dog owners more
:06:23. > :06:25.mindful. Police are investigating a robbery
:06:26. > :06:30.at a bank in Piccadilly this morning. They were called after
:06:31. > :06:34.reports of a man behaving aggressively at a branch of
:06:35. > :06:38.Barclays. He dropped some of the cash which has been marked with red
:06:39. > :06:43.dye before fleeing the scene. Next: In the run up to this month's
:06:44. > :06:47.local council elections we've been hearing from the leaders of the main
:06:48. > :06:50.political parties. Today it's the turn of David Cameron, who was out
:06:51. > :06:53.campaigning in north west London for the Conservatives, along with
:06:54. > :07:01.London's Mayor Boris Johnson. Our political correspondent Karl Mercer
:07:02. > :07:10.caught up with him in Harrow. What would you do with some cement,
:07:11. > :07:18.David? The two men are key rivals for the top job but for today they
:07:19. > :07:25.were on the same side. No, hang on, that is you. On the same team,
:07:26. > :07:30.perhaps, but still arguing about who plays where. Questions about whether
:07:31. > :07:37.the Mayor will be back in Parliament will not go away. It is obviously a
:07:38. > :07:42.matter for Boris but I hope he will look at coming back for the next
:07:43. > :07:47.election. I hope you will complete his term as the Mayor, he is
:07:48. > :07:51.enormously capable, but it is a matter for him. I want all of the
:07:52. > :07:59.strongest conservatives, as it were, on the pitch, for the next election.
:08:00. > :08:03.It is no coincidence the pair chose this building skills Centre for
:08:04. > :08:08.their photo opportunity. Housing is a key issue. The Mayor has been here
:08:09. > :08:13.for six years, he is building 20,000 homes, he said himself he needs to
:08:14. > :08:18.build 40,000, you're mayor is not doing the right job? We are seeing
:08:19. > :08:23.an increase in housing starts. It has been difficult with damaged
:08:24. > :08:27.banks and a difficult recession but housing starts are picking up. We
:08:28. > :08:31.have also changed some of the rules and making the planning system
:08:32. > :08:34.faster. Help to Buy is enormously helpful because the builders will
:08:35. > :08:40.not build and the banks will not lend unless actually people are able
:08:41. > :08:45.to get hold of a mortgage. Du accept we are not building enough homes?
:08:46. > :08:49.Correct. We need to build more homes but you need to have, as we have got
:08:50. > :08:52.an active mayor who wants to get Housing Bill, you need to have a
:08:53. > :08:57.streamlined planning system but crucially, you need to have building
:08:58. > :09:04.and developing companies who want to invest in property and building. I
:09:05. > :09:10.would not want to chisel my thumb, that would be bad. I feel that is
:09:11. > :09:15.going well. These two are on the same page when it comes to changing
:09:16. > :09:20.the law over Tube strikes. We have had this conversation many times. If
:09:21. > :09:25.you take the last Tube strike, it was less than 30% of the people
:09:26. > :09:29.working on the tube who voted to strike and yet look at the chaos
:09:30. > :09:38.caused too many Londoners' lives. I think it is right to have a
:09:39. > :09:45.threshold, save 50% to be balloted. This comes from a mayor for him less
:09:46. > :09:51.than 20% of Londoners voted. There is a difference between voting for a
:09:52. > :09:54.politician at constituency level or a mayor through all the way through
:09:55. > :09:56.their tenure, if you do not like what they are doing, you can write
:09:57. > :09:59.to them, you can protest, you can vote against get rid of them,
:10:00. > :10:05.there's a difference between that sort of vote and a vote for a strike
:10:06. > :10:11.which is causing mayhem to people's working lives. That battle lies
:10:12. > :10:17.ahead. For the record, the blue team won today. They played nicely
:10:18. > :10:20.together. Today turned out to be even more
:10:21. > :10:24.eventful for them because en route to Harrow, David Cameron and Boris
:10:25. > :10:28.Johnson came to the aid of a woman who collapsed in the street. The
:10:29. > :10:33.Prime Minister held the woman's had while they waited for an ambulance
:10:34. > :10:36.to arrive. London Ambulance Service woman was taken to hospital for
:10:37. > :10:39.treatment. Meanwhile, voters also go to the
:10:40. > :10:42.polls next Thursday to elect members of the European Parliament. The
:10:43. > :10:45.Christian People's Alliance are fielding a full list of candidates
:10:46. > :10:52.in the European elections in London. The party's leader says it's in
:10:53. > :10:56.favour of leaving the EU. We believe there should be a referendum over
:10:57. > :11:01.the European Union and if there was a referendum tomorrow, we would
:11:02. > :11:05.support leaving the European Union, because corruption, because of the
:11:06. > :11:09.failure to acknowledge the Christian heritage and we have a clear vision
:11:10. > :11:12.of what we want to see Britain looked like outside of the European
:11:13. > :11:15.Union. The head of the prison and probation
:11:16. > :11:19.service for England and Wales says there is a "significant risk" of
:11:20. > :11:21.Muslim inmates becoming radicalised. Michael Spurr told BBC Panorama that
:11:22. > :11:25.while the risk is small, radicalisation in prisons needs to
:11:26. > :11:28.be tackled. Raphael Rowe followed one convict from East London who was
:11:29. > :11:38.released from prison into the arms of Islamic extremists.
:11:39. > :11:43.Michael Coe went into prison a gangster. Jailed for eight years in
:11:44. > :11:49.2000 for threatening police officers with a shot gun while out on parole
:11:50. > :11:54.for a knife`point carjacking. He came out Mikhail Abraham, a convert
:11:55. > :12:02.to Islam. Here to meet him on his release our fellow Muslims who have
:12:03. > :12:06.driven up from London. Among the group are convicted extremists. The
:12:07. > :12:11.police are on a witchhunt. They will have the attitude of what are they
:12:12. > :12:16.up to. Forget about the fact he needs to get from Manchester to
:12:17. > :12:22.London somehow. I wanted to find out what attracted Mikhail Abraham who
:12:23. > :12:25.is from east London, to Islam. You start listening to people and
:12:26. > :12:31.believing people and in the end I decided this was the way forward. My
:12:32. > :12:34.life has been much better since. Inmates identified as a potential
:12:35. > :12:38.threat because of their extreme views, I usually met by police
:12:39. > :12:47.officers or probation when they are on licence. But because Mikaeel has
:12:48. > :12:52.served all of his sentence, he is free to be met by his friends. They
:12:53. > :12:58.took part in the protests in London against the cartoonists who were
:12:59. > :13:07.accused of belittling the Prophet Mohamed. The number of prisoners in
:13:08. > :13:15.England and Wales has doubled Huat Muslims. The vast majority are
:13:16. > :13:24.moderate. `` the number of Muslim prisoners has bubbled. Our dog is a
:13:25. > :13:36.`` our job is to minimise the risk that someone in prison will commit a
:13:37. > :13:39.terrorist offence. There is a programme to deal with
:13:40. > :13:46.radicalisation but it is voluntary. I am not an extremist. That is a big
:13:47. > :13:52.challenge for the prison service, reaching convicts like Mikaeel
:13:53. > :14:01.Ibrahim who do not believe they need to change their beliefs. Is
:14:02. > :14:05.spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said it is committed to
:14:06. > :14:12.tackling extremism. You can see Panorama tonight at 8:30pm on BBC
:14:13. > :14:15.One. Still to come: Chelsea's Frank Lampard makes the fab four, the
:14:16. > :14:20.London part of Roy Hodgson's World Cup England team.
:14:21. > :14:22.And we are on the blue carpeted Leicester Square for the London
:14:23. > :14:27.premiere of the latest film in the X`Men series, where fans have really
:14:28. > :14:38.come out in support and even orchestrated a world record attempt.
:14:39. > :14:42.The stories of millions of people who played a part in the First World
:14:43. > :14:45.War are to be preserved in a new digital archive. The Imperial War
:14:46. > :14:48.Museum is encouraging the public to upload photographs and memories of
:14:49. > :14:54.those who served on the front line or who contributed to the war
:14:55. > :14:59.effort. Alice Bhandhukravi reports. Lurching forward into battle, many
:15:00. > :15:04.to certain death. This is what many of us associate with the great War.
:15:05. > :15:09.About 1 million British and Commonwealth soldiers died between
:15:10. > :15:12.1914 and 1918. Some remembered on headstones in cemeteries across
:15:13. > :15:17.France and Belgium, some who were never found. But now 100 years on,
:15:18. > :15:21.an online project aims to remember them through their stories in a
:15:22. > :15:26.digital archive. We really need people to set their attics. You can
:15:27. > :15:31.upload pictures of your own precious family mementos. Tell those stories
:15:32. > :15:34.that have been passed through generations. Throughout the
:15:35. > :15:38.centenary we will be asking people to tell us about those that do not
:15:39. > :15:41.appear in the official records. If there is some evidence of their
:15:42. > :15:46.contribution, we will create a life story page for them, too. Judith has
:15:47. > :15:50.been searching the database for her great`grandfather. To delve into
:15:51. > :15:56.somebody's life and see what life was like for them and what they were
:15:57. > :16:00.doing is incredible. There is so much information to find out what a
:16:01. > :16:04.person was like. Historians are relying on us to fill in the missing
:16:05. > :16:08.pieces because over time so much has been lost. There is a lot that we
:16:09. > :16:12.don't know about people from London and elsewhere in the UK simply
:16:13. > :16:17.because in 1940 the Luftwaffe bombed the main repository. Probably around
:16:18. > :16:25.two thirds of the records were lost. And get a lot of that information is
:16:26. > :16:27.in people's attics and drawers. There are thousands of memorials all
:16:28. > :16:32.over London commemorating those who died in the First World War. It is
:16:33. > :16:37.hoped this project will help tell the stories of those behind the
:16:38. > :16:39.names, not only those that made the ultimate sacrifice but those that
:16:40. > :16:47.survived the First World War as well.
:16:48. > :16:51.And for more information on the Imperial War Museum's project and to
:16:52. > :16:59.hear more of the BBC's local stories from World War I at home, just go to
:17:00. > :17:02.the address on your screen. England's World Cup squad was named
:17:03. > :17:08.today and four players from London clubs will be travelling to Brazil.
:17:09. > :17:14.Mark joins us now. A very warm welcome. Tellers about the chosen
:17:15. > :17:21.four. The Arsenal couple, Alex Oxlade`Chamberlain and Jack
:17:22. > :17:24.Wilshere. 12 players are under the age of 25. Alex Oxlade`Chamberlain
:17:25. > :17:27.got a great goal in the friendly in Rio last year so we hope he can
:17:28. > :17:31.produce more of that. He is recovering from injury at the moment
:17:32. > :17:35.and is not expected to play in the FA Cup final for Arsenal but he
:17:36. > :17:39.should be OK to fly. That is Jack Wilshere and his career has been
:17:40. > :17:43.blighted by injury. We hope you can pull his act together on the
:17:44. > :17:48.greatest stage of all down in Brazil to produce what all the Arsenal fans
:17:49. > :17:51.know he can produce. Ten goals in 100 games for Arsenal does not
:17:52. > :17:57.suggest he is a legend but he is a huge talent. There is time. What
:17:58. > :18:03.about Chelsea? Third world Cup for Frank Lampard but reversed the Gary
:18:04. > :18:10.Cahill. Yes, 28 and playing in his first tournament. The best defence
:18:11. > :18:15.in the Premier League and alongside John Terry they have done very well.
:18:16. > :18:21.And Frank Lampard, he has had an amazing career. This is his swansong
:18:22. > :18:28.now. He played for England back in 1999. That is Ashley Cole. For
:18:29. > :18:35.everyone selected there will be somebody disappointed and that is
:18:36. > :18:38.him. He was only selected by Jose Mourinho at the end of this season.
:18:39. > :18:43.This is what Roy Hodgson said about him earlier. It was an unbelievably
:18:44. > :18:49.hard decision because Ashley is a player that I and the rest of my
:18:50. > :18:53.staff really appreciate. I think he is a magnificent player and what he
:18:54. > :19:00.has done for England is second to none. It was a hard job to call him
:19:01. > :19:04.and explain it to him. I can only be unbelievably grateful for the
:19:05. > :19:11.gracious way he accepted the decision. And finally away from the
:19:12. > :19:17.World Cup, a big night for QPR. The second leg of the play`offs. QPR at
:19:18. > :19:21.home to Wigan. The score is 0`0 and whoever wins will go to Wembley to
:19:22. > :19:25.play Derby County. A big night the QPR and a fancy to get behind the
:19:26. > :19:30.team to get them back into the Premier League. Their leading
:19:31. > :19:35.scorer, there he is, I think he will get the winning goal tonight. We
:19:36. > :19:41.might hold due to that! Very good to see you. Thank you.
:19:42. > :19:44.It has been a big night elsewhere in the capital because tonight some of
:19:45. > :19:50.the stars of X`Men are London for the premiere of the seventh film in
:19:51. > :19:56.the series which is based on the fictional characters from the Marvel
:19:57. > :19:58.Comics. This is the film. In the beginning, they were targeting
:19:59. > :20:04.newtons and then they began targeting everyone. They have come a
:20:05. > :20:10.long wait to guide us and bring us together. The X`Men. We need your
:20:11. > :20:16.help. Tell whoever it was that sent you that I am busy. The person that
:20:17. > :20:20.sent me was you. Our entertainment correspondent has joined the fans in
:20:21. > :20:27.Leicester Square. And she is with one of the stars of the film.
:20:28. > :20:30.I am indeed on the blue carpeted Leicester Square with Michael
:20:31. > :20:36.Fassbender. I must say, as premiers go, this has got to be one of the
:20:37. > :20:40.wildest for ages. How exciting has it been to have your home in London
:20:41. > :20:45.and have this exciting Premier here? Very exciting. It is my second
:20:46. > :20:49.blue carpet. The other was Prometheus. It was raining then as
:20:50. > :20:56.well so maybe the blue comes out in the rain. I have lived in London for
:20:57. > :20:59.17 years now. No, 18, I think. It is home to me. It is great to come back
:21:00. > :21:04.home and see all the fans here. They are the best. They have certainly
:21:05. > :21:10.shown their commitment. They orchestrated a world record here.
:21:11. > :21:19.For the largest group of characters dressed up from the film. I don't
:21:20. > :21:23.think they made it. Blue faces? It is like going to comic con when we
:21:24. > :21:28.did the first promotional trailer for this, and that was pretty
:21:29. > :21:32.overwhelming. There were 700,000 fans there. To have the whole cat
:21:33. > :21:40.sitting there, present and future, it was pretty special. `` cast. One
:21:41. > :21:45.girl had travelled all the way from Adelaide, Australia. They are
:21:46. > :21:48.worldwide. Speaking of past and present, there is an exciting
:21:49. > :21:54.storyline where the original characters join up with the new
:21:55. > :21:58.generation. Was that exciting? Yes, I think it was a big challenge to
:21:59. > :22:05.keep that storyline is working parallel to one another. There are
:22:06. > :22:09.so many characters, and they each have a journey and an emotional
:22:10. > :22:13.thread. Keeping the clarity was a big task to undertake and Simon did
:22:14. > :22:17.a great job penning it and Ryan really realised it fantastically
:22:18. > :22:23.well. The roll call of characters was unbelievable. Did you behave on
:22:24. > :22:30.set? Was it tremendous? Yes. Do have the original cast pave the way for
:22:31. > :22:37.us and then embrace us with open arms, it was like a big family. I
:22:38. > :22:42.could speak to you for hours but I have been told to wind`up to
:22:43. > :22:46.continue with the show. Have a great night and enjoy the rest of it.
:22:47. > :22:52.London writers is another thing we can boast about and the film comes
:22:53. > :22:57.out on the 23rd of May. Back to you in a dry studio. Thank you. It did
:22:58. > :23:01.not seem to faze Michael at all. On that note, it seems apt to get a
:23:02. > :23:09.check on the weather. Some rain. Looking better. I have great news,
:23:10. > :23:12.it will improve no end but we have nasty showers across London and the
:23:13. > :23:16.Home Counties at the moment. We managed to avoid them for the large
:23:17. > :23:20.majority of the day with some sunshine but this line set itself up
:23:21. > :23:25.through the middle of London in the latter part of the afternoon. We had
:23:26. > :23:29.some rain in the thunderstorms and that will continue this evening.
:23:30. > :23:34.Then we get to mid week and the showers disappear. Cold nights but
:23:35. > :23:39.warm by day. Temperatures 14 degrees for the Saturday just gone, with
:23:40. > :23:42.that cold westerly wind. As we get through to the later part of this
:23:43. > :23:48.week we could have high temperatures of 21, so very pleasant indeed.
:23:49. > :23:52.Showers will continue for some part of the evening now. Take an umbrella
:23:53. > :23:56.if you are going back out. Heavy and slow moving rain as a result.
:23:57. > :24:00.Overnight they will become less of a problem as we get to the early hours
:24:01. > :24:05.of the morning. Some breaks in the cloud and light winds and even
:24:06. > :24:10.missed patches. Where we have seen the rain in the afternoon
:24:11. > :24:14.especially. Temperatures dipping to six or seven at the lowest. Some
:24:15. > :24:18.breaks in the cloud tomorrow with decent sunny spells but it will not
:24:19. > :24:21.be long before they get going again. They will revive themselves into the
:24:22. > :24:26.afternoon with some heavy ones once again and rumbles of thunder knocked
:24:27. > :24:35.out of the question. Hardly a breath of wind behind them. Sunny spells in
:24:36. > :24:39.between. We will hang onto that all afternoon. The showers fizzle out
:24:40. > :24:43.into the evening. If you see a shower on Wednesday, you will be
:24:44. > :24:47.very unlucky. From Wednesday onwards there will be cold nights but by day
:24:48. > :24:51.beautiful blue skies thanks to high pressure and temperatures could be
:24:52. > :24:58.up to 21 by the end of the week. That is the sort of weather news
:24:59. > :25:05.that we like. Thank you. The main headlines: The violent
:25:06. > :25:08.Islamist group, Boko Haram, has released a new video showing what's
:25:09. > :25:11.believed to be some of the hundreds of girls abducted from their school
:25:12. > :25:14.in Nigeria four weeks ago. A court has been told that Rolf
:25:15. > :25:16.Harris indecently assaulted one of his daughter's friends during a
:25:17. > :25:21.family holiday. He denies all charges against him. You can see
:25:22. > :25:25.more on those stories on our website and I will be back with the latest
:25:26. > :25:29.for you during the Ten O'Clock News. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.