:00:00. > :00:00.chilly. That's all from the BBC News at six
:00:00. > :00:07.so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams
:00:08. > :00:11.where you are. The bid to expand, Heathrow and
:00:12. > :00:15.Gatwick go head`to`head with rival plans to build a new runway. We look
:00:16. > :00:20.at what it would mean if either one of the airports were allowed to
:00:21. > :00:24.grow. Also tonight: A life ban from teaching for a former head who spent
:00:25. > :00:33.thousands of pounds on school cash on herself and her family. Awarded a
:00:34. > :00:37.CBE and celebrated a as one of the country's top Heads, Jo Shuter has
:00:38. > :00:41.been told she will never be reinstated after bringing her
:00:42. > :00:44.profession into disrepute. Is and "not fit for purpose", a damning
:00:45. > :00:49.report into one of London's A departments. Plus, the green shoots
:00:50. > :01:04.of recovery. How gardening is helping to rehabilitate injured
:01:05. > :01:08.servicemen in Surrey. Good evening and a very warm welcome to you.
:01:09. > :01:12.London's two biggest airports have made their final bids to be allowed
:01:13. > :01:17.to build new runways to meet the soaring demand for air travel to and
:01:18. > :01:19.from the capital. Heathrow has increased its compensation package
:01:20. > :01:29.for those who will lose their home and say its proposal would create
:01:30. > :01:35.100,000 new jobs. Gatwick says its plan would keep fares low and create
:01:36. > :01:38.120,000 jobs. Their proposals have been submitted to the Airports
:01:39. > :01:44.Commission, which will recommend how best to expand UK air capacity after
:01:45. > :01:48.the next general election. Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, now locked`in
:01:49. > :01:52.a battle over who should get a new runway, with both claiming they will
:01:53. > :02:00.provide over 100,000 jobs, and big economic benefits. In its final
:02:01. > :02:06.submission to the Government's commission, a revised plan for a
:02:07. > :02:11.third runway at Heathrow. Part of the offer, more compensation to
:02:12. > :02:14.homeowners. It delivers ?100 billion of growth. It connects all of the UK
:02:15. > :02:17.to all of global growth. It has more support from the local community
:02:18. > :02:22.than opposition from the local community. It addresses a lot of the
:02:23. > :02:26.concerns people have voiced around emissions and around noise. It's a
:02:27. > :02:30.very good deliverable plan. It's a plan we can all back. Another option
:02:31. > :02:35.that has been shortlisted is to extend and split a runway at
:02:36. > :02:40.Heathrow. Many though dispute whether expansion is needed at all.
:02:41. > :02:44.They say an extra runway, where ever it is, would mean more noise and
:02:45. > :02:49.pollution. Initially, the plan was to put the runway right through
:02:50. > :02:54.here, this village, this the proposal it to put it further to the
:02:55. > :02:59.south. It means this 12th century church will be saved. Hundreds of
:03:00. > :03:04.homes, to the south, will still be demolished. Also the M25 will have
:03:05. > :03:10.to be put in a tunnel. Some believe it's the uncertainty that is the
:03:11. > :03:15.most damaging. The area would cease to be the community we know it
:03:16. > :03:20.today. The houses are blighted. You know, they are uncertain as to
:03:21. > :03:24.whether it would happen or not. They should tell my people and set them
:03:25. > :03:29.free and let them know whether it would happen or not. Says a
:03:30. > :03:34.recognised runway here would disrupt fewer people and delivered earlier
:03:35. > :03:39.than Heathrow's at no additional cost to the taxpayer. A two runway
:03:40. > :03:43.Gatwick will make sure the UK has the airport capacity it needs to
:03:44. > :03:46.deliver economic growth in the future. And make sure we have a
:03:47. > :03:52.truly competitive airport market, which will serve passengers, in
:03:53. > :03:57.terms of passenger choice and lower air fares. Is an estuary airport
:03:58. > :04:01.could be an option. Whilst most expect it to be dropped, the Mayor
:04:02. > :04:06.who backs it is still confident. Like I always say, having exhausted
:04:07. > :04:11.all the alternatives this country will eventually do the right thing
:04:12. > :04:15.for long`term prosperity and have an airport where we need it. The
:04:16. > :04:18.arguments aren't new, any recommendations from the Commission
:04:19. > :04:22.won't be until after the next election. The even then, there is no
:04:23. > :04:31.guarantee politicians will act on it. Many in the industry fear this
:04:32. > :04:35.is all an expensive delaying tactic. Plenty more to come tonight,
:04:36. > :04:38.including: Why some flood victims in Surrey are accusing Thames Water of
:04:39. > :04:50.failing to protect their properties. A top former head teacher has been
:04:51. > :04:55.banned from teaching for life after spending thousands of pounds of
:04:56. > :04:59.public money on personal expenses. Jo Shuter was found guilty of
:05:00. > :05:02.unacceptable professional conduct while working at Quintin Kynaston
:05:03. > :05:10.School in North London. Katharine Carpenter joins us from outside the
:05:11. > :05:14.school now with more details. Jo Shuter admitted that whilst she was
:05:15. > :05:18.the head here she used school funds for personal gain. Here are a few
:05:19. > :05:22.examples. The professional conduct panel heard she had been paid
:05:23. > :05:27.?28,000 for public speaking in school time. That she had pent
:05:28. > :05:34.around ?7,000 on her own 50th birthday party. That she had
:05:35. > :05:38.furniture for the school, worth around ?1500 send sent to her home
:05:39. > :05:43.address. There were queries raised around ?40,000 in the school's
:05:44. > :05:46.budget. This is made the more remarkable Jo Shuter was awarded a
:05:47. > :05:52.CBE and fated by politicians as one of the top heads in the country.
:05:53. > :06:01.What did the disciplinary panel have to say? I have the outcome here.
:06:02. > :06:05.It's damning, I have to say. It found that although Jo Shuter has
:06:06. > :06:11.been a force for good, it said in many respects, that she had done
:06:12. > :06:14.behaviour which amounted to unacceptable professional misconduct
:06:15. > :06:18.that may bring the profession of teaching into disrepute. It
:06:19. > :06:23.commented that she had shown a lack of insight into the severity and
:06:24. > :06:27.impact of her behaviours. Now, as a result of all of this, she has been
:06:28. > :06:31.given a prohibition order which bans her from teaching. She has been told
:06:32. > :06:35.she won't be able to ask to be reinstated at any point in the
:06:36. > :06:40.future. She can still appeal through the High Court. Now, Jo Shuter
:06:41. > :06:44.resigned from this school around a year ago, since then she has been
:06:45. > :06:50.made acting head of another school in Ilford. We have just discovered
:06:51. > :06:55.that tonight that school, King Sold man High School sent a letter to
:06:56. > :06:59.parents in which it said it had no alternative but to suspend her from
:07:00. > :07:05.post and that it was now looking for anotherle acting head. OK. Thank
:07:06. > :07:10.you. A cyclist has died after being involved in a collision with a lorry
:07:11. > :07:13.in Elephant Castle. The accident happened this afternoon and has led
:07:14. > :07:19.to road closures in the area. The man hasn't been identified yet. No
:07:20. > :07:22.arrests have been made. The former leader of Essex County Council has
:07:23. > :07:26.been suspended from the House of Lords for the rest of the current
:07:27. > :07:30.parliament over his claims for allowances. Lord Hanningfield has
:07:31. > :07:37.been ordered to pay back more than ?3,000 he wrongly claimed. A
:07:38. > :07:44.hospital in south`east London has been criticised today for failing
:07:45. > :07:52.its patients. There were concerns over the A department at the Queen
:07:53. > :07:58.Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Not fit for purpose, failing,
:07:59. > :08:03.inadequate. Queen Elizabeth A is not up the job according to the
:08:04. > :08:08.report today. We saw challenges with ambulance handovers. We saw some
:08:09. > :08:11.issues about hand hygiene. Issues about cramped and difficult
:08:12. > :08:14.conditions. Real challenges around the number of patients going
:08:15. > :08:18.through. We saw challenges around flow of patients, both through A
:08:19. > :08:22.and into the rest of the organisation. A long list. The
:08:23. > :08:27.concerns are shared by many patients. I was there 8.00pm in the
:08:28. > :08:33.evening I didn't get home until 2.00am. That is how long I had to
:08:34. > :08:38.wait. You think ` come on. They tend to people quickly. So far so good.
:08:39. > :08:44.Training has gone down. The attituded that I saw here and what I
:08:45. > :08:48.used to know is not the same. This hospital has been dogged for months
:08:49. > :08:55.by crippling debt and organisational change. It started in January last
:08:56. > :09:00.year when the Health Secretary propose downgrading the A The
:09:01. > :09:07.decision was deemed unlawful by the High Court. In OK Queen Elizabeth
:09:08. > :09:10.and Lewisham Hospitals merged. The same month Jeremy Hunt lost his
:09:11. > :09:16.appeal to the High Court. Finally in March this year, thanks to clause
:09:17. > :09:21.119, parliament voted him power in future to close hospitals if others
:09:22. > :09:24.nearby are failing financially. In the face of some opposition the
:09:25. > :09:28.Government said the powers would be used only as a last resort. For
:09:29. > :09:32.those in Lewisham, those changes are worrying. Now this law has gone
:09:33. > :09:36.through, the way it has gone through, Lewisham is part of the
:09:37. > :09:39.Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust they could come back at us at some
:09:40. > :09:44.point in the future. They would be foolish to do so, but they could do.
:09:45. > :09:49.No hospital in England or London is safe from this clause now. As for
:09:50. > :09:53.the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and today's CQC report, the new Trust
:09:54. > :09:56.was unavailable for comment. They released a statement saying an
:09:57. > :10:03.action plan is in place and progress is being made. Next, residents in
:10:04. > :10:06.Staines whose homes were flooded this winter claim it could have been
:10:07. > :10:11.avoided if Thames Water had maintained a sluice gate. The
:10:12. > :10:14.company disagrees. It says that the flooding had nothing to do with
:10:15. > :10:20.maintenance and say they did everything they could to protect
:10:21. > :10:24.homes. You walk on the carpet and they are spongy under your feet.
:10:25. > :10:28.Michael is 83 and has lived here for most of his life am he had never
:10:29. > :10:32.been flooded until February. He didn't have insurance. He is trying
:10:33. > :10:38.to do the repairs himself. Total cost will end up, I would say,
:10:39. > :10:46.?15,000. Yeah. The which is out of the question for me. I haven't got
:10:47. > :10:50.?18,000. The floods have been blamed on an xraerd amount of rainfall.
:10:51. > :10:55.People here say they were flooded because this gate didn't work. This
:10:56. > :10:59.carries water towards Staines. As you can see, it's controlled by a
:11:00. > :11:04.number of sluice gates. One of these failed and the water carried on
:11:05. > :11:07.flowing down to Staines. On 9th February the Environment Agency
:11:08. > :11:11.asked Thames Water to close this gate. It didn't happen until three
:11:12. > :11:14.days later when homes were already under water. This is a log from the
:11:15. > :11:19.Environment Agency of what happened during the flooding. It clearly
:11:20. > :11:23.says, sluice eight, not functional. It also says they had contacted
:11:24. > :11:28.Thames Water about what to do when a sluice is broken. Thames Water have
:11:29. > :11:32.told us it wasn't broken at all. That it wasn't closed immediately
:11:33. > :11:35.because closing it could risk flooding other areas. If they needed
:11:36. > :11:41.to take the time to consider what to do. The impact of the floods, even
:11:42. > :11:45.though it was a natural event, was actually exasperated by a degree of
:11:46. > :11:49.under investment. The local MP has raised the issue in the Commons. I
:11:50. > :11:54.don't want to happen what happened in 2003, lots of floods, then
:11:55. > :11:57.everyone forgets about it. Then 11 years later we are in the same
:11:58. > :12:01.place, without really having learnt proper lessons. Thames Water
:12:02. > :12:17.cancelled an interview with us. In a statement said:
:12:18. > :12:22.the Environment Agency has supported this opinion saying information
:12:23. > :12:29.logged on the ground can turn out to be wrong. Those affected by flooding
:12:30. > :12:35.say they are still waiting for answers. Stay with us. Still to come
:12:36. > :12:48.tonight: The injured soldiers and how a gardening scheme in Surrey is
:12:49. > :12:52.helping with their recovery. Next week's election will see not just
:12:53. > :12:56.thousands of councillors and euro MPs being voted in, but a clutch of
:12:57. > :13:00.directly elected Mayor's as well. One of those is in Watford where the
:13:01. > :13:05.Liberal Democrats are hoping to reverse the trend of what many polls
:13:06. > :13:10.suggest is falling Popp lart. The town has had a Lib Dem Mayor for the
:13:11. > :13:13.past 12 years and now Dorothy Thornhill is bidding for a fourth
:13:14. > :13:20.term. It can be tough trying to convince people you should be the
:13:21. > :13:27.new Mayor of Watford. No thank you. I'm standing for UKIP. We have been
:13:28. > :13:30.to a pro`Dorothy, it's on tape. This is the only town outside London
:13:31. > :13:34.where people can vote for a Mayor this year. What do they want a Mayor
:13:35. > :13:38.to do for them? Hold the town together and unite whatever
:13:39. > :13:42.communities there are in the town. Listen to the people and make sure
:13:43. > :13:48.that what the people want, he or she does it. I have no idea. This
:13:49. > :13:51.doesn't ` just doesn't bother me. The parliamentary seat here in
:13:52. > :13:57.Watford swings between Labour and the Conservatives. The last three
:13:58. > :13:59.elections have been won by the Liberal Democrats. With opinion
:14:00. > :14:04.polls suggesting a big drop in support for the party since the last
:14:05. > :14:08.election, the question now is, can the Lib Dems win the vote for Mayor
:14:09. > :14:13.here again for the fourth time? This is one woman who firmly believes she
:14:14. > :14:17.can buck the national trend, the current Lib Dem Mayor, checking the
:14:18. > :14:21.progress of town centre building works. One thing about being Mayor,
:14:22. > :14:24.you are very visible and very accountable. People know what you
:14:25. > :14:28.have been doing. They will either like it or hate it. There is no
:14:29. > :14:35.doubt who is actually doing it. I have to believe that my track record
:14:36. > :14:43.speaks for itself. The Lib Dems main pledges for Watford are: I will vote
:14:44. > :14:47.Conservative. Thank you very much. I have not had that said today at all.
:14:48. > :14:52.Four years ago, the Conservatives say 12 years is too long for the
:14:53. > :14:56.same person to be Mayor. There is no real democracy in the Town Hall.
:14:57. > :14:59.People now know this. The Town Hall is looking tired. There is no such
:15:00. > :15:03.thing as a successful politician when you stay too long. I think
:15:04. > :15:07.Dorothy's time is up. You need a fresh pair of eyes. Conservative
:15:08. > :15:12.priorities are improving local shops, cutting town hall costs and
:15:13. > :15:17.better facilities for motorists. We used to elect three items free of
:15:18. > :15:22.charge. Since the Lib Dems taken over they have started charging for
:15:23. > :15:31.collecting items. Labour's top pledges are:
:15:32. > :15:36.Proper funding for the hospital. There is an issue about the
:15:37. > :15:40.hospital, whether it will get built or not. No proper funding. There is
:15:41. > :15:44.no proper planning for the hospital. As you can see, this area is the
:15:45. > :15:50.most densely populated in the county. I'm from UKIP I'm standing
:15:51. > :15:57.for Mayor of Watford. Yes. You have my vote. It's UKIP's first vote in
:15:58. > :16:06.the Mayoral race here. Its candidate say he's riding high on the party's
:16:07. > :16:10.popularity. I'm hoping that they will think, I might as well vote
:16:11. > :16:15.UKIP for the Mayor as as well. Pledges are:
:16:16. > :16:22.For many, the Mayoral election here next Thursday will be a testing
:16:23. > :16:26.ground. Can the Lib Dems buck the national trend and how strong are
:16:27. > :16:34.their opponents? The results will be announced on Friday 23rd. In the
:16:35. > :16:38.European elections in London, the British National Party is fielding a
:16:39. > :16:41.full list of candidates, their leader, nick Griffin, says they are
:16:42. > :16:44.campaigning on Europe and immigration. I think there is really
:16:45. > :16:48.two issues people are voting about in this election. The first is
:16:49. > :16:51.getting out of Europe. We are saying if people go for a referendum it
:16:52. > :16:55.will be rigged like it was in 1975. We are just saying Britain should
:16:56. > :16:59.withdraw straightaway, no arguments, no referendum. Just get Britain out.
:17:00. > :17:01.Secondly, we are the only party which when we say stop immigration,
:17:02. > :17:16.we actually mean it. Football, and Tottenham have started
:17:17. > :17:19.the search for their third manager in two years after confirming the
:17:20. > :17:20.sacking of Tim Sherwood this afternoon.
:17:21. > :17:25.Our sports reporter Chris Slegg joins me. I suppose it was always a
:17:26. > :17:34.question of when rather than if? Yes, ever since Tim Sherwood was
:17:35. > :17:41.handed the contract he had the air of a temporary caretaker. He even
:17:42. > :17:45.said he felt like a supply teacher. He has always been honest, he
:17:46. > :17:51.labelled his players much of a muchness, had a pop at the owners,
:17:52. > :17:57.and today he was sacked. Is there any word on who the new man or woman
:17:58. > :18:04.might be? Not from the club, they have said they started their search
:18:05. > :18:09.but the favourites with most of the bookmakers is the Southampton head
:18:10. > :18:27.coach, taking an unfashionable club to eighth in the league. Also the
:18:28. > :18:35.head coach from Ajax. Also Rafa Benitez, and David Moyes who did a
:18:36. > :18:43.good job at Everton. Today we asked the former Tottenham defender who he
:18:44. > :18:48.would like to see given the job. I liked what Frank diverse said,
:18:49. > :18:53.here's coveted throughout Europe. He is a young manager who has proven
:18:54. > :18:56.himself in the Dutch league and done very well, but more than that I
:18:57. > :18:59.think he is a young manager who has proven himself in the Dutch league
:19:00. > :19:04.and done very well, but more than that I think here's someone who has
:19:05. > :19:12.what it takes building the club top to bottom. Gary Lineker stood up for
:19:13. > :19:16.Tim Sherwood and Twitter, saying he was refreshingly different. He said
:19:17. > :19:20.it always seems to be the person who runs the team and not the people who
:19:21. > :19:24.run the club who are to blame. Thanks very much.
:19:25. > :19:26.An innovative gardening therapy unit has been opened at Headley Court
:19:27. > :19:29.military rehabilitation centre in Epsom. It's designed to help injured
:19:30. > :19:33.servicemen recover their strength, mobility and co`ordination. And some
:19:34. > :19:36.of their plants are going to be on display at the Chelsea Flower Show.
:19:37. > :19:44.Our Defence Correspondent Caroline Wyatt has the story.
:19:45. > :19:54.The rows planted to mark a new beginning at the opening of a garden
:19:55. > :19:58.centre with a difference. These soldiers are both at the
:19:59. > :20:01.rehabilitation centre learning horticulture as part of their
:20:02. > :20:10.therapy. Hayden was injured in a car accident. It is a nice change from
:20:11. > :20:15.the clinical physio we do. It is nice and relaxing, not only mentally
:20:16. > :20:22.relaxing but it gets you up and about without realising it, which is
:20:23. > :20:26.good physio. Horticultural therapist Carol is also working with John
:20:27. > :20:31.Dawson who was shot in the head whilst serving in Helmand. The
:20:32. > :20:37.25`year`old has been a patient here since September 2012. I love doing
:20:38. > :20:42.it because you come down here, it is peaceful. You do what she asks, then
:20:43. > :20:47.you go back to the ward and just relax. It is very therapeutic,
:20:48. > :20:55.peaceful. There is no stress, no one having a go at you. In recent years,
:20:56. > :20:58.Headley Court has treated 500 of the most seriously injured personnel
:20:59. > :21:02.from the war in Afghanistan, at least 200 of them amputees, and
:21:03. > :21:07.before that the wounded from the war in Iraq. For most the process of
:21:08. > :21:12.rehabilitation is a long one that can go on for years, which means
:21:13. > :21:17.horticultural therapy is a chance to learn something new in new
:21:18. > :21:31.surroundings. Carroll and the soldiers have been growing the
:21:32. > :21:36.plants for a charity . There is a reason behind it, it is not just
:21:37. > :21:41.sitting on the gym equipment. They have to focus, you have to focus on
:21:42. > :21:45.what you are doing. For Headley Court the number of war wounded from
:21:46. > :21:52.Afghanistan is going down, although some soldiers are still being
:21:53. > :21:57.treated here years on. This can sow the seeds of recovery and the start
:21:58. > :22:04.of a return to normal life for them. It's that time of the evening for a
:22:05. > :22:09.check on the weather with Wendy. After today's thunder, visit the
:22:10. > :22:16.storm before the calm? I got it the right way round? That is exactly
:22:17. > :22:22.what it is, and some of the showers today were really heavy, and the
:22:23. > :22:26.thunder was bone shaking in places. This radar picture is strewn with
:22:27. > :22:30.pretty colours, you can see the extent of the showers we have had
:22:31. > :22:36.today and there are still more to feed into our part of the world as
:22:37. > :22:38.we go into this evening. After that, at the same time tomorrow high
:22:39. > :22:43.pressure will have firmly established itself over the UK so
:22:44. > :22:48.for the rest of the week we will have fine weather and temperatures
:22:49. > :22:53.will be picking up. It will become warmer day by day. At the moment we
:22:54. > :22:57.have the threat of those showers. Some of them are heavy, some maybe
:22:58. > :23:03.thundery as we go through the rest of the evening and they may be quite
:23:04. > :23:08.slow moving. After midnight there is less likelihood of us seeing them
:23:09. > :23:13.and there will be clear skies as pressure builds. There could be the
:23:14. > :23:21.odd shower and fog patch in the early stages of the morning. Even
:23:22. > :23:26.here in London right in the centre and out into the suburbs,
:23:27. > :23:31.temperatures could be as low as four or five Celsius. Brown spots across
:23:32. > :23:37.the countryside may be even colder than that, and a touch of frost is
:23:38. > :23:42.not out of the question. The first thing tomorrow, it is pretty nippy
:23:43. > :23:45.and that may turn hazy as we go through the afternoon. There is a
:23:46. > :23:49.very small chance of catching a shower tomorrow afternoon but you
:23:50. > :23:56.would be very unlucky to get one of those. Temperatures will be climbing
:23:57. > :24:00.all the time, maybe 20 degrees outside of London, feeling very
:24:01. > :24:07.pleasant indeed. By the time you get to Thursday the chances of seeing a
:24:08. > :24:13.shower are almost nil. It looks like it may start a breakdown on Saturday
:24:14. > :24:17.but we could get away with it. Very pleasant, thank you very much. Now
:24:18. > :24:20.the main headlines: The Chief Executive of AstraZeneca has warned
:24:21. > :24:24.that the development of new drugs could be delayed if the company were
:24:25. > :24:26.to be taken over by Pfizer. MPs are hearing evidence on the proposed
:24:27. > :24:28.takeover amid worries it could damage UK interests.
:24:29. > :24:32.A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a chef who disappeared
:24:33. > :24:35.from her home in York in 2009. No trace of Claudia Lawrence has ever
:24:36. > :24:37.been found. The parents and friends of the
:24:38. > :24:42.abducted Nigerian schoolgirls have begun to identify them from a video
:24:43. > :24:48.released by their captors. The girls were seized by Boko Haram militants
:24:49. > :24:50.a month ago. Both Heathrow and Gatwick Airport
:24:51. > :24:53.have submitted revised expansion plans for Government Approval.
:24:54. > :24:56.Heathrow has improved its offer of compensation to homeowners, while
:24:57. > :25:02.Gatwick says it plans create more than a hundred thousand jobs.
:25:03. > :25:05.And a former head has been banned for life from teaching after
:25:06. > :25:10.spending thousands of pounds of public money on personal expenses.
:25:11. > :25:12.Jo Shuter was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct
:25:13. > :25:18.while working at Quintin Kynaston School in north London.
:25:19. > :25:23.That's it for now. I'll be back later during the ten o'clock news.
:25:24. > :25:25.Until then from all of us on the team, thanks for watching and have a
:25:26. > :25:31.lovely evening.