:00:17. > :00:20.Good evening. The disgraced former leader of Essex County Council, Lord
:00:21. > :00:23.Hanningfield, is facing suspension from the House of Lords until the
:00:24. > :00:27.end of the current parliament over his claims for allowances. The
:00:28. > :00:31.former Conservative Peer, who served a jail sentence for fraud in 2011,
:00:32. > :00:32.has also been ordered to pay more than ?3,000 he wrongly claimed. Alex
:00:33. > :00:43.Bushill reports. Lord Hanningfield was once leader of
:00:44. > :00:47.Essex county council, peer of the realm of the leading light of local
:00:48. > :00:50.governments, but in 2011 he was disgraced and discredited and also
:00:51. > :00:55.jailed for filling his expenses. Now he's in trouble all over again for
:00:56. > :00:59.the same offence `` fiddling. The newspaper claimed the one`time pig
:01:00. > :01:02.farmer and peer was travelling from this Essex home in the village that
:01:03. > :01:06.bears his name to Parliament and often going straight home again.
:01:07. > :01:09.This is their secretly filmed footage of Lord Hanningfield going
:01:10. > :01:14.to work. Watch the clock on the left`hand corner. They say he went
:01:15. > :01:20.in and came out again within half an hour. This was his retort at the
:01:21. > :01:25.time. I've worked for nothing for 40 years. I have saved the tax paying
:01:26. > :01:28.in Essex money. I have nothing to say sorry for. I think the taxpayer
:01:29. > :01:34.should say thank you to me. Far from thanking him, that report today
:01:35. > :01:38.castigated him. It found that over a period of 11 days, Lord Hanningfield
:01:39. > :01:43.claimed a total of ?3300 in attendance allowances and he was on
:01:44. > :01:46.the parliamentary estate are less than 40 minutes. He said he was
:01:47. > :01:49.preparing for a debate, but the report said there was no evidence he
:01:50. > :01:53.had done any work at all. So it recommends that he resuspended from
:01:54. > :01:59.the Lords for the rest of the parliament. Other argue that a
:02:00. > :02:02.tougher punishment is needed. The cardinal rule should be the
:02:03. > :02:07.lawbreakers cannot be Lord make `` lawmakers. He has already been in
:02:08. > :02:10.jail for one set of expenses fraud and is banned from the House of
:02:11. > :02:13.Lords for fraudulently claiming allowances on this occasion. I think
:02:14. > :02:19.most people would think that the time has come to say expel him, and
:02:20. > :02:24.don't come back. For his political peers, it's a damaging fall from
:02:25. > :02:28.grace. He was a shadow Tory minister in the House of Lords, the leader of
:02:29. > :02:31.Essex county council. It was a leading member of the Association of
:02:32. > :02:36.local government and one of the most powerful politicians in the country
:02:37. > :02:40.at local government level, and he has brought not only dishonour on
:02:41. > :02:45.politics in general, but particularly on to the Conservative
:02:46. > :02:47.party. The house will vote tomorrow whether to suspend Lord
:02:48. > :02:49.Hanningfield. They are likely to agree.
:02:50. > :02:56.The number of dangerous dogs seized by the Met fell last year, bucking
:02:57. > :02:59.the national trend. The figures were revealed ahead of a change to the
:03:00. > :03:03.law tomorrow, making it an offence for a dog to be dangerously out of
:03:04. > :03:05.control in any place, including all private property. And as Katherine
:03:06. > :03:07.Carpenter reports, postal workers are among those welcoming the new
:03:08. > :03:15.legislation. A postman in Essex for 20 years,
:03:16. > :03:21.Dean had heard stories of colleagues getting attacked by dogs. Then it
:03:22. > :03:27.happened to him. Twice. I was going to put a flimsy card through a
:03:28. > :03:31.letterbox. Basically, it was so flimsy I just had to push in my
:03:32. > :03:36.finger tiny bit, before I knew what had happened, the dog had more or
:03:37. > :03:43.less taken the of my finger. Not the first incident you had faced? Six
:03:44. > :03:47.years ago I was attacked by a Rottweiler after the dog owner told
:03:48. > :03:50.me it wouldn't hurt me. The Royal mail says 96 of its post`men or
:03:51. > :03:55.women were attacked by dogs in London between April 2012 and April
:03:56. > :03:59.2013. And the communication workers union says that 70% of its members
:04:00. > :04:03.who were attacked were on private property. It is currently an offence
:04:04. > :04:07.to allow your dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place,
:04:08. > :04:11.but from tomorrow, the law will apply on private property as well,
:04:12. > :04:15.whether it is your home or your garden. It will also be an offence
:04:16. > :04:19.for your dog to attack and assistance dog such as a guide dog
:04:20. > :04:26.or hearing dog, and prison sentences will be a priest `` increased for
:04:27. > :04:31.some offences. This has been given a cautious welcome my animal
:04:32. > :04:35.charities. The legislation is a wake`up call for all dog owners to
:04:36. > :04:39.say, please review the behaviour of your dog at the front door, in your
:04:40. > :04:43.garden, and make sure you can manage your dog's behaviour to keep
:04:44. > :04:46.unexpected visitors say. Deeney is more wary on his rounds these days.
:04:47. > :04:50.He says he welcomes the change to the law in the help `` and hope it
:04:51. > :04:54.will make owners more mindful. Well, Nick Beake joins me.
:04:55. > :05:02.Cautiously welcomed by some charities? Yes, on the one hand they
:05:03. > :05:06.are pleased that finally something that has so long has been synonymous
:05:07. > :05:10.with bad legislation has been updated, but also many charities
:05:11. > :05:13.seem to think that the ministers have got the wrong emphasis here.
:05:14. > :05:18.For example, there's not enough preventative measures being put in
:05:19. > :05:23.place here. For example, more education on what constitutes good
:05:24. > :05:26.dog ownership. Interestingly, the RSPCA said today that they did not
:05:27. > :05:31.think the number of dog bites would actually fall as a result of this.
:05:32. > :05:34.And that would be a clear barometer of how well the legislation is
:05:35. > :05:39.faring. The government, for their part, they say they have extensively
:05:40. > :05:42.consulted on this and provided something which is a much better
:05:43. > :05:44.framework and it will crucially protect people much better. Nick,
:05:45. > :05:50.thank you very much. The stories of millions of people
:05:51. > :05:54.who played a part in the First World War are to be preserved in a new
:05:55. > :05:56.digital archive. The Imperial War Museum is encouraging the public to
:05:57. > :06:00.upload photographs and memories of those who served on the front line
:06:01. > :06:05.or who contributed to the war effort.
:06:06. > :06:10.We really need people to search their attics. You can upload
:06:11. > :06:14.pictures of your own precious family mementos, tell those stories that
:06:15. > :06:18.have been passed down through the family and throughout the centenary
:06:19. > :06:21.we will be asking people to tell us about those who don't appear in the
:06:22. > :06:23.official records, and providing there is some evidence of their
:06:24. > :06:28.contribution, we will create a life story page for them as well. For
:06:29. > :06:31.more information on the Imperial War Museum's "Lives of the First World
:06:32. > :06:35.War", and to hear more of the BBC's local stories from World War One At
:06:36. > :06:39.Home, the address on your screen. That's it from me, so I'll wish you
:06:40. > :06:44.a very good night and hand you over to Wendy for the weather.
:06:45. > :06:49.Good evening. We will have some pretty decent weather on the way in
:06:50. > :06:53.the second part of the week. It will be warming up as well. At the moment
:06:54. > :06:56.we still have to shake off a few showers and we have seen some lively
:06:57. > :07:00.ones this afternoon. They will tail off as we go through the second part
:07:01. > :07:03.of the night and there are some breaks `` breaks in the cloud which
:07:04. > :07:07.might allow Mr to form and temperatures will fall to five or
:07:08. > :07:11.six degrees at the lowest end. We start the day tomorrow with hints of
:07:12. > :07:14.brightness, sunshine here and there and we will keep that into the
:07:15. > :07:18.afternoon our men but now and again we will have showers which are
:07:19. > :07:23.likely to be slow`moving, heavy, possibly thundery and some places
:07:24. > :07:26.did see some hail today and it is a possibility tomorrow. Temperatures
:07:27. > :07:30.will get to 17 degrees. On the outlook though, dry, sunny weather
:07:31. > :07:31.and as we head towards Friday temperatures will pick up towards
:07:32. > :07:33.and as we head towards Friday temperatures will pick up towards 21
:07:34. > :07:40.degrees. Good evening. Across the whole
:07:41. > :07:46.country today the showers have been losing intensity, but still a
:07:47. > :07:50.cluster across North Kent, stretching from Lincolnshire and
:07:51. > :07:53.also into western Scotland and we will keep a few showers as we go
:07:54. > :07:56.through the night which are moving their way into northern England.
:07:57. > :08:00.Another potential areas developing through Wales and the South West but
:08:01. > :08:03.in between there will be dry weather, clearer skies and the
:08:04. > :08:08.northern Scotland the clear skies could lead to a touch of Frost the
:08:09. > :08:13.temperatures dipping away. A chilly thing first thing on Tuesday morning
:08:14. > :08:17.and already we have a few showers are here and they will develop as
:08:18. > :08:22.the day goes on with the possibility of locally heavy downpours. Although
:08:23. > :08:25.some subtle change in the frequency of the showers, and really where we
:08:26. > :08:31.are most likely to see them is on balance, a bit more sunshine in
:08:32. > :08:36.Scotland than it should be fine and dry. A bit warmer through the low
:08:37. > :08:41.lands. The greatest risk in Northern Ireland is in the south-east, and we
:08:42. > :08:43.don't expect too many through the afternoon for parts of West Wales
:08:44. > :08:45.and south-west