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indecently assaulted one of his daughter's friends during a family

holiday. On BBC One we join the BBC News teams where you are. Goodbye.

Tonight on BBC London News: Facing suspension from the Lords over his

allowances. The disgraced council leader already jailed for false

accounting. The cardinal rule should be that lawbreakers cannot be

lawmakers. They should be barred from the House of Lords for life.

Criticism of Lord Hanningfield ordered to pay back thousands he'd

wrongly claimed. Also tonight: Greater protection for

postal workers ` the change in the law making prosecutions against

owners of dangerous dogs easier. Plus we hear from David Cameron as

the Conservative leader joins London's Mayor on the election

trail. And: if you want to fight, I will

give you a fight. You abandoned me! London is taken over by X`Men. We're

live in Leicester Square with some of the stars of the latest film.

Good evening. First tonight: The disgraced former leader of Essex

County Council, Lord Hanningfield, is facing being suspended from the

House of Lords until the end of the current parliament over his claims

for expenses. The former Conservative Peer, who served a jail

sentence for fraud in 201, has also been ordered to pay more than ?3,000

he wrongly claimed in daily allowances. Alex Bushill reports.

Lord Hanningfield was once leader of Essex county council, peer of the

realm and leading light of local government. Then, in 2011 he was

disgraced and discredited, jailed for fiddling his expenses. Now he is

in trouble all over again for the same offence. A newspaper claimed

that the one`time pig farmer and peer was travelling from the village

in Essex which bears his name to Parliament and often going straight

home again. This is their secretly filmed footage of Lord Hanningfield

going to work. They say he went in and came out again within half an

hour. This was his retort at the time. I have worked for nothing for

40 years. I have saved the taxpayer money and I have nothing to say

sorry. I think the taxpayer should say thank you for me `` thank you to

me. Far from thanking him, a report has castigated him. Over a total of

days he claimed ?3300 yet he was on the parliamentary estate for less

than 40 minutes. He said he was preparing for a debate but the

report said he did no work at all. Recommendations are that he should

be suspended from Parliament. Others say tougher penalties are needed.

The cardinal rule should be law makers cannot be `` lawbreakers

cannot be lawmakers. He has served a term in jail. I think most people

would think the time has come to say, expel him, don't come back. For

his political peers it is a damaging fall from grace. He was a shadow

minister in House of Lords, the leader of Essex county council, a

leading member in the Association of local government, one of the most

powerful politicians in the country at local government level, and he

has brought not only dishonour and politics in general but particularly

on to the Conservative Party. The house will vote tomorrow on whether

to suspend Lord Hanningfield. They are likely to agree.

Coming up later in the programme: Preserving the stories of the First

World War for future generations, thanks to a new digital archive.

The number of dangerous dogs seized by the Met fell last year, bucking

the national trend. The figures were revealed ahead of a change to the

law tomorrow, making it possible for the owners of dogs, which carry out

attacks in their own homes to be prosecuted. And as Katherine

Carpenter reports, postal workers are among those welcoming the new

legislation. A postman in Essex for 20 years,

dean battles had heard stories of colleagues getting attacked by dogs

and then it happened to him, twice. I was going to put a flimsy card

through a letterbox and the dog pushed my finger and before I knew

what had happened, the dog had more or less taken the end of my finger

off. That was not the first incident you faced? Yellow macro Renaud, six

years ago I was attacked by a Rottweiler. Royal Mile say 96 of its

postmen and women were attacked by dogs in London between April 2012

and 2013 `` Royal Mail. It is currently an offence to allow your

dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place. From tomorrow,

the law will apply on private property as well, whether it is in

your home or your garden. It will also be an offence for your dog to

attack and assistance dog such as a guide dog or a hearing dog. Prison

offences will be increased `` prison sentences will be increased for some

offences. This legislation has been given a cautious welcome by animal

charities. This is a wake`up call for owners to say, please review

your dog's behaviour at your front door and make sure you can manage

your dog's behaviour to keep any visitors say. Dean Bettles says he

welcomes a change in the law and he hopes it will make dog owners more

mindful. Police are investigating a robbery

at a bank in Piccadilly this morning. They were called after

reports of a man behaving aggressively at a branch of

Barclays. He dropped some of the cash which has been marked with red

dye before fleeing the scene. Next: In the run up to this month's

local council elections we've been hearing from the leaders of the main

political parties. Today it's the turn of David Cameron, who was out

campaigning in north west London for the Conservatives, along with

London's Mayor Boris Johnson. Our political correspondent Karl Mercer

caught up with him in Harrow. What would you do with some cement,

David? The two men are key rivals for the top job but for today they

were on the same side. No, hang on, that is you. On the same team,

perhaps, but still arguing about who plays where. Questions about whether

the Mayor will be back in Parliament will not go away. It is obviously a

matter for Boris but I hope he will look at coming back for the next

election. I hope you will complete his term as the Mayor, he is

enormously capable, but it is a matter for him. I want all of the

strongest conservatives, as it were, on the pitch, for the next election.

It is no coincidence the pair chose this building skills Centre for

their photo opportunity. Housing is a key issue. The Mayor has been here

for six years, he is building 20,000 homes, he said himself he needs to

build 40,000, you're mayor is not doing the right job? We are seeing

an increase in housing starts. It has been difficult with damaged

banks and a difficult recession but housing starts are picking up. We

have also changed some of the rules and making the planning system

faster. Help to Buy is enormously helpful because the builders will

not build and the banks will not lend unless actually people are able

to get hold of a mortgage. Du accept we are not building enough homes?

Correct. We need to build more homes but you need to have, as we have got

an active mayor who wants to get Housing Bill, you need to have a

streamlined planning system but crucially, you need to have building

and developing companies who want to invest in property and building. I

would not want to chisel my thumb, that would be bad. I feel that is

going well. These two are on the same page when it comes to changing

the law over Tube strikes. We have had this conversation many times. If

you take the last Tube strike, it was less than 30% of the people

working on the tube who voted to strike and yet look at the chaos

caused too many Londoners' lives. I think it is right to have a

threshold, save 50% to be balloted. This comes from a mayor for him less

than 20% of Londoners voted. There is a difference between voting for a

politician at constituency level or a mayor through all the way through

their tenure, if you do not like what they are doing, you can write

to them, you can protest, you can vote against get rid of them,

there's a difference between that sort of vote and a vote for a strike

which is causing mayhem to people's working lives. That battle lies

ahead. For the record, the blue team won today. They played nicely

together. Today turned out to be even more

eventful for them because en route to Harrow, David Cameron and Boris

Johnson came to the aid of a woman who collapsed in the street. The

Prime Minister held the woman's had while they waited for an ambulance

to arrive. London Ambulance Service woman was taken to hospital for

treatment. Meanwhile, voters also go to the

polls next Thursday to elect members of the European Parliament. The

Christian People's Alliance are fielding a full list of candidates

in the European elections in London. The party's leader says it's in

favour of leaving the EU. We believe there should be a referendum over

the European Union and if there was a referendum tomorrow, we would

support leaving the European Union, because corruption, because of the

failure to acknowledge the Christian heritage and we have a clear vision

of what we want to see Britain looked like outside of the European

Union. The head of the prison and probation

service for England and Wales says there is a "significant risk" of

Muslim inmates becoming radicalised. Michael Spurr told BBC Panorama that

while the risk is small, radicalisation in prisons needs to

be tackled. Raphael Rowe followed one convict from East London who was

released from prison into the arms of Islamic extremists.

Michael Coe went into prison a gangster. Jailed for eight years in

2000 for threatening police officers with a shot gun while out on parole

for a knife`point carjacking. He came out Mikhail Abraham, a convert

to Islam. Here to meet him on his release our fellow Muslims who have

driven up from London. Among the group are convicted extremists. The

police are on a witchhunt. They will have the attitude of what are they

up to. Forget about the fact he needs to get from Manchester to

London somehow. I wanted to find out what attracted Mikhail Abraham who

is from east London, to Islam. You start listening to people and

believing people and in the end I decided this was the way forward. My

life has been much better since. Inmates identified as a potential

threat because of their extreme views, I usually met by police

officers or probation when they are on licence. But because Mikaeel has

served all of his sentence, he is free to be met by his friends. They

took part in the protests in London against the cartoonists who were

accused of belittling the Prophet Mohamed. The number of prisoners in

England and Wales has doubled Huat Muslims. The vast majority are

moderate. `` the number of Muslim prisoners has bubbled. Our dog is a

`` our job is to minimise the risk that someone in prison will commit a

terrorist offence. There is a programme to deal with

radicalisation but it is voluntary. I am not an extremist. That is a big

challenge for the prison service, reaching convicts like Mikaeel

Ibrahim who do not believe they need to change their beliefs. Is

spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said it is committed to

tackling extremism. You can see Panorama tonight at 8:30pm on BBC

One. Still to come: Chelsea's Frank Lampard makes the fab four, the

London part of Roy Hodgson's World Cup England team.

And we are on the blue carpeted Leicester Square for the London

premiere of the latest film in the X`Men series, where fans have really

come out in support and even orchestrated a world record attempt.

The stories of millions of people who played a part in the First World

War are to be preserved in a new digital archive. The Imperial War

Museum is encouraging the public to upload photographs and memories of

those who served on the front line or who contributed to the war

effort. Alice Bhandhukravi reports. Lurching forward into battle, many

to certain death. This is what many of us associate with the great War.

About 1 million British and Commonwealth soldiers died between

1914 and 1918. Some remembered on headstones in cemeteries across

France and Belgium, some who were never found. But now 100 years on,

an online project aims to remember them through their stories in a

digital archive. We really need people to set their attics. You can

upload pictures of your own precious family mementos. Tell those stories

that have been passed through generations. Throughout the

centenary we will be asking people to tell us about those that do not

appear in the official records. If there is some evidence of their

contribution, we will create a life story page for them, too. Judith has

been searching the database for her great`grandfather. To delve into

somebody's life and see what life was like for them and what they were

doing is incredible. There is so much information to find out what a

person was like. Historians are relying on us to fill in the missing

pieces because over time so much has been lost. There is a lot that we

don't know about people from London and elsewhere in the UK simply

because in 1940 the Luftwaffe bombed the main repository. Probably around

two thirds of the records were lost. And get a lot of that information is

in people's attics and drawers. There are thousands of memorials all

over London commemorating those who died in the First World War. It is

hoped this project will help tell the stories of those behind the

names, not only those that made the ultimate sacrifice but those that

survived the First World War as well.

And for more information on the Imperial War Museum's project and to

hear more of the BBC's local stories from World War I at home, just go to

the address on your screen. England's World Cup squad was named

today and four players from London clubs will be travelling to Brazil.

Mark joins us now. A very warm welcome. Tellers about the chosen

four. The Arsenal couple, Alex Oxlade`Chamberlain and Jack

Wilshere. 12 players are under the age of 25. Alex Oxlade`Chamberlain

got a great goal in the friendly in Rio last year so we hope he can

produce more of that. He is recovering from injury at the moment

and is not expected to play in the FA Cup final for Arsenal but he

should be OK to fly. That is Jack Wilshere and his career has been

blighted by injury. We hope you can pull his act together on the

greatest stage of all down in Brazil to produce what all the Arsenal fans

know he can produce. Ten goals in 100 games for Arsenal does not

suggest he is a legend but he is a huge talent. There is time. What

about Chelsea? Third world Cup for Frank Lampard but reversed the Gary

Cahill. Yes, 28 and playing in his first tournament. The best defence

in the Premier League and alongside John Terry they have done very well.

And Frank Lampard, he has had an amazing career. This is his swansong

now. He played for England back in 1999. That is Ashley Cole. For

everyone selected there will be somebody disappointed and that is

him. He was only selected by Jose Mourinho at the end of this season.

This is what Roy Hodgson said about him earlier. It was an unbelievably

hard decision because Ashley is a player that I and the rest of my

staff really appreciate. I think he is a magnificent player and what he

has done for England is second to none. It was a hard job to call him

and explain it to him. I can only be unbelievably grateful for the

gracious way he accepted the decision. And finally away from the

World Cup, a big night for QPR. The second leg of the play`offs. QPR at

home to Wigan. The score is 0`0 and whoever wins will go to Wembley to

play Derby County. A big night the QPR and a fancy to get behind the

team to get them back into the Premier League. Their leading

scorer, there he is, I think he will get the winning goal tonight. We

might hold due to that! Very good to see you. Thank you.

It has been a big night elsewhere in the capital because tonight some of

the stars of X`Men are London for the premiere of the seventh film in

the series which is based on the fictional characters from the Marvel

Comics. This is the film. In the beginning, they were targeting

newtons and then they began targeting everyone. They have come a

long wait to guide us and bring us together. The X`Men. We need your

help. Tell whoever it was that sent you that I am busy. The person that

sent me was you. Our entertainment correspondent has joined the fans in

Leicester Square. And she is with one of the stars of the film.

I am indeed on the blue carpeted Leicester Square with Michael

Fassbender. I must say, as premiers go, this has got to be one of the

wildest for ages. How exciting has it been to have your home in London

and have this exciting Premier here? Very exciting. It is my second

blue carpet. The other was Prometheus. It was raining then as

well so maybe the blue comes out in the rain. I have lived in London for

17 years now. No, 18, I think. It is home to me. It is great to come back

home and see all the fans here. They are the best. They have certainly

shown their commitment. They orchestrated a world record here.

For the largest group of characters dressed up from the film. I don't

think they made it. Blue faces? It is like going to comic con when we

did the first promotional trailer for this, and that was pretty

overwhelming. There were 700,000 fans there. To have the whole cat

sitting there, present and future, it was pretty special. `` cast. One

girl had travelled all the way from Adelaide, Australia. They are

worldwide. Speaking of past and present, there is an exciting

storyline where the original characters join up with the new

generation. Was that exciting? Yes, I think it was a big challenge to

keep that storyline is working parallel to one another. There are

so many characters, and they each have a journey and an emotional

thread. Keeping the clarity was a big task to undertake and Simon did

a great job penning it and Ryan really realised it fantastically

well. The roll call of characters was unbelievable. Did you behave on

set? Was it tremendous? Yes. Do have the original cast pave the way for

us and then embrace us with open arms, it was like a big family. I

could speak to you for hours but I have been told to wind`up to

continue with the show. Have a great night and enjoy the rest of it.

London writers is another thing we can boast about and the film comes

out on the 23rd of May. Back to you in a dry studio. Thank you. It did

not seem to faze Michael at all. On that note, it seems apt to get a

check on the weather. Some rain. Looking better. I have great news,

it will improve no end but we have nasty showers across London and the

Home Counties at the moment. We managed to avoid them for the large

majority of the day with some sunshine but this line set itself up

through the middle of London in the latter part of the afternoon. We had

some rain in the thunderstorms and that will continue this evening.

Then we get to mid week and the showers disappear. Cold nights but

warm by day. Temperatures 14 degrees for the Saturday just gone, with

that cold westerly wind. As we get through to the later part of this

week we could have high temperatures of 21, so very pleasant indeed.

Showers will continue for some part of the evening now. Take an umbrella

if you are going back out. Heavy and slow moving rain as a result.

Overnight they will become less of a problem as we get to the early hours

of the morning. Some breaks in the cloud and light winds and even

missed patches. Where we have seen the rain in the afternoon

especially. Temperatures dipping to six or seven at the lowest. Some

breaks in the cloud tomorrow with decent sunny spells but it will not

be long before they get going again. They will revive themselves into the

afternoon with some heavy ones once again and rumbles of thunder knocked

out of the question. Hardly a breath of wind behind them. Sunny spells in

between. We will hang onto that all afternoon. The showers fizzle out

into the evening. If you see a shower on Wednesday, you will be

very unlucky. From Wednesday onwards there will be cold nights but by day

beautiful blue skies thanks to high pressure and temperatures could be

up to 21 by the end of the week. That is the sort of weather news

that we like. Thank you. The main headlines: The violent

Islamist group, Boko Haram, has released a new video showing what's

believed to be some of the hundreds of girls abducted from their school

in Nigeria four weeks ago. A court has been told that Rolf

Harris indecently assaulted one of his daughter's friends during a

family holiday. He denies all charges against him. You can see

more on those stories on our website and I will be back with the latest

for you during the Ten O'Clock News. Have a lovely evening. Goodbye.