25/05/2014 BBC London News

finish one ahead of Shane Lowry of Ireland. And that is all the sport.

There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We are back

with the late news at 10:30pm. Now on BBC One it's time for the news

where you are. Goodbye. Good evening. Welcome to BBC London

News. Labour claim their local election

gains in London show them on track to win back key parliamentary seats

next year. But the Conservatives say they will not prove that

significant, as the agenda returns to issues like the economy and

leadership. As we've heard, the results of the European elections

will be known this evening. This from our political editor, Tim

Donovan. Having lost councils like Croydon

and Hammersmith and Fulham, the Conservatives are stressing in the

one that really counts next year, voters will have different

priorities. What we have is a position whereby the Liberal

Democrat vote went away in large parts of London. Then it was a

straight vote between us and the Labour Party and the choice we are

going to put is simple, do you want Ed Miliband in Number Ten, or do you

want David Cameron? With five Labour gains, the capital's Town Hall map

may have changed significantly. But Labour was drawing further

encouragement from polling on what this would mean in marginal seats

next year. In the marginal constituencies which are currently

held by the Tories or the Lib Dems that we want to win, our sense is,

we are making progress there and we are getting more councillors. There

was little consolation anywhere for the Liberal Democrats, who lost more

than half their 330 councillors. Could it be a make or break year

ahead? The two big issues which people in London feel angry about

the widening gap between the very rich and the rest and the fact that

most people on normal incomes cannot afford housing in London. And if we

could address those issues better as a government over the next year

we'll do much better. UKIP had hoped to start following that script for

smaller parties previously written by the Lib Dems, get a foothold in

local government, build from there. That happened just outside London.

But no platform to speak of materialised inside. In 2010 we put

up less than 100 candidates. We put up more than 450 this time. If you

look at the results, in the key areas we were targeting we often

come as the runner`up. These elections have made London once

again a predominantly straight to party fight, but as the re`election

of an independent mayor in Tower Hamlets showed, there is always

scope for more. West London football club, Queens

Park Rangers have been celebrating their return to the Premier League

at their Loftus Road ground today. They beat Derby County 1`0 in the

Championship play`off final yesterday to return to football's

top flight just one season after they were relegated. Emma North has

more. They don't call this the most lucrative game for nothing. Bobby

Zamora's last chance, last`minute goal against Derby County mean next

season, QPR will be ?80 million better off in the Premier league.

This morning, sore heads were forgotten as fans of all sizes and

breeds came to celebrate. Premier League. It means everything because

that is where you want to be playing the best teams in the world in the

Premier league. It is going to be buzzing again. All the kids, the

schools do well out of it. It is the best thing in the world. But did QPR

need the cash? They were saddled with losses of ?64.5 million last

season and their wage bill was higher than last night's Champions'

League finalists, Atletico Madrid. They know how close they came to

being in real trouble and know what they have got to do. It has been

tough and a lot of lessons have been learned. At the guys will use the

last couple of years of experience. Today is about celebration but

Loftus Road is in a part of London with problems. How will this

promotion help the local community? Working with the community, we give

tickets to people who cannot afford to come to games. Now they will come

to see Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie here in Shepherd's Bush. It

is amazing. The Premier League has been called the land of milk, honey

and millions. And in the sunshine today it felt as if some of it had

spilled over into Shepherd's Bush. Meanwhile it was hard right for

Leyton orient this afternoon. They missed the decisive penalty meaning

rather go up to the championship. Now let's get the weather.

Good evening. I hope you have been enjoying the sunshine. But at

midnight things change. We have clad building and rain pushing from the

south. Probably similar temperatures to last night going down to ten or

11 Celsius. Tomorrow is a cloudy start. Showers for any of us at any

time. In the afternoon they turn heavy and thundery. In between

Wimbledon will see the best of any sunshine. Heavy showers for the

afternoon and temperatures perhaps making it into the low 20s. And that

will only be if you are innocent shine in the afternoon. On Tuesday,

things go downhill dramatically. Looking at a wet week and there will

be a chilly breeze. That's it from me and the team by

now. We are back at 10:50pm. Until then, do enjoy the rest of your

evening. Good evening. Some of us had a

pretty good soaking. It downpours around with thunder and lightning.

It wasn't so bad everywhere. The satellite picture across the

Midlands, East Anglia and the south coast, the Isle of Wight. A

beautiful end to the day. You can see further west and north and that

is where the storm clouds will