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European election results. That's all from the BBC News at Six - so | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
where you are. Tonight on BBC London News. The Electoral Commission sends | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
in observers to Tower Hamlets after allegations of mismanagement and | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
intimidation during the local elections. The account was | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
mismanaged. Miscounted. Went on far too long. 36`hour count is totally | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
unacceptable. The council's returning officer denies the | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
allegations. Also tonight: The former teacher jailed for sexually | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
assaulting children. We hear from one of his victims. Police say | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
they'll issue more fines to drivers and cyclists to make the streets | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
safer for those on two wheels. We are live as a second traffic | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
enforcement campaign hits the capital. Is plus, how Met and Essex | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
police officers are raising money for child cancer patients to be | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
treated in America. Good evening and welcome to the | :00:56. | :01:08. | |
programme. More than five days after the polls opened for the local | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
elections, they're still counting the votes in Tower Hamlets in East | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
London. Critics be have described the delay as shambolic and badly | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
organised. There are also claims that some voters were intimidated at | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
the polling Boots. Tonight, the Electoral Commission has confirmed | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
it's sending in observerses to oversee the recount, which has just | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
resumed this evening, with one ward still to declare. The council's | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
returning officer has denied claims of mismanagement and says there was | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
no evidence of "large scale intimidation." Gareth Furby joins us | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
tonight's from Tower Hamlets. I was at the start of this count back on | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Friday. Yet, it's hard to believe, here we are, it's continuing in the | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
building you can see behind me. Now, one critic is quite outspoken on | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
this. He says it's, to quote him "an omnishambles, an embarrassment to | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Tower Hamlets." The council had to do this, had this many recounts | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
because it wants to get it right. This was how the count started on | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
Friday. Still, on Tuesday evening it continues. The results for 18 wards | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
have been declared. But one is still outstanding. The council says it | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
prefers an accurate and transparent count to a fast one. The leader of | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
the Tory Group says it has been a shambles. It was inefficiently | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
organised. The accuracy was not there. In my own ward, I was told if | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
I ` we were given figures, we called an immediate recount. There was a | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
21% variation on the figures between the first count and the recount. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
That appears one in five votes had gone wrong or been miss placed. | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
After the reelection of Tower Hamlets Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, there | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
were enuse thanksic scenes outside the count at 2.00am. It's alleged by | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
some there may have been a few too many people outside some polling | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
stations on election day. We saw groups of campaigners or activists | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
from various parties grouping together at the entrances to polling | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
stations. That is in contravention of the rules, that you are not | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
allowed to put leaflets in the hands of voters as they go in. Tower | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Hamlets politics are a livelier affair than anywhere else in the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
country. We had a pretty wild time. Lots of people hanging around | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
polling stations. Some people find that intimidating. The returning | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
officer says the election has been carried out correctly and the delays | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
are unavoidable. On the day we had a police officer at every polling | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
station. We had Electoral Commission observers touring the borough, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
visiting many of the polling stations through the day. They | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
didn't report any large scale intimidation. You think it has been | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
a free and fair and proper election, not a shambles? I do think it has | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
been free and fair election. I don't think it has been a shambles. If | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
there is evidence of any intimidation, even at this stage, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
that people are aware of, we want to hear about that. The police will | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
investigate any specific allegations where there is evidence that someone | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
was intimidated or not able to cast their vote in the way that they | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
wanted to. So, to confirm, we are being told by the Electoral | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Commission that there were significant problems during this | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
election. So it is sending observers to tonight's count. So where will | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
this lead? The council is telling us it will investigate if it receives | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
an allegation, a specific allegation of electoral fraud. It says, at the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
moment, it has not received any allegation. For now, thank you. | :04:55. | :05:03. | |
Coming up later in the programme. A new scheme to get teenagers into | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
jobs is launched in the capital, but will it help reduce youth | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
unemployment? A former primary school teacher has | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
been jailed for four years for sexual assaults against children | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
under the age of 13. Paul Cannon, from south London, admitted to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
assaulting a number of children over a 10`year period. The judge | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
described him as "every parents nightmare." One of his victims spoke | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
to our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith. As I went to gshgs he | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
grabbed my elbow and kicked the back of my leg to kick me to the floor. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Pulled all my bottom half down and was pinning me down from my chest | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
and holding my legs down. I was screaming he was telling me, "don't | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
worry it will be OK." She was nine years old when he attacked her. He | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
went to pull my trousers down. My dog came, he heard me screaming. He | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
ran off. She is 22 and finds it hard to cope with what happened. I was | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
worried, nervous, unhappy. I would have good days, where I would | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
completely forget about it. Then I would have bad days. Paul Cannon is | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
a former primary school children. The court heard he abused one of his | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
pupils, but at least another 40 children, some as young as six, were | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
choosen at random. The sexual offences we know of started in 1999 | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
and spanned a decade. He targeted both young girls and young boys in | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
south`West London. In Sutton, in Carshalton and in Merton. The | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
attacks usually taking place in parks during the day. Often near | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
this local river, mostly at weekends or the school holidays when many | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
children played outside alone. He carefully planned the assaults | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
getting to and from the scene on mountain bike. 13 years after the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
the first attack, the police investigation had a breakthrough. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
One of the victims came forward following huge publicity surround | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Jimmy Savile and sexual abuse. That sent a clear message out to the | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
public as a whole, what position they are in society, these offences | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
will not be tolerated and such people will be investigated and | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
brought to justice. Detectives found 4,000 indecent images stored on Paul | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Cannon's behaviour. The judge saying his behaviour was "every parents | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
nightmare" in sentencing he took into account that Cannon pleaded | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
guilty to more than 50 offences and jailed him for four years. I think | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
it's about time in our society that we ero zero`tolerance for these type | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
of crimes. Four years may seem like a substantial jail term, that man is | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
probably always going to be a danger to children. The police hope the | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
bravery shown by people like Shannon will encourage others to come | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
forward, detectives believing there could be more victims of this former | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
teacher. Two brothers from East London have pleaded guilty to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
conspiracy to travel to a terrorist training camp in Syria. Last year, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
24 people from Britain were arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
in the country. Hamza Nawaz and Mohommod Nawaz from Stratford were | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
detained when ammunition was found in their carat Dover. They also | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
pleaded guilty to having rifle ammunition without a firearms | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
certificate. They will be sentenced in June. A man who strangled his | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
pregnant partner has been sentenced to 17 years for her murder. With | :08:56. | :09:16. | |
youth unemployment a big issue in London could a new Government pilot | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
scheme help? The trial gives 16 to 17`year`olds access to specially | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
trained work coaches to help them with things like CV writing and | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
interview techniques. It's been tried in Lewisham we have been | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
finding out what teenagers think of the idea. I want to go somewhere and | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
do something with my life. It's hard. I have nothing. Serena is 16. | :09:39. | :09:52. | |
She doesn't have qualifications and struggling to find a job. I feel | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
like this is the day where I can move on and do something with myself | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
and, I don't know, get somewhere. I don't feel so useless. If rolled out | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
nationally it's hoped it will help 42,000 people. At a cost of about | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
2,500 per person the Department of Work and Pensions says it is worth | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
it. If someone is unemployed for a lifetime, that will cost the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
taxpayer about ?100,000. The Minister for Employment was here | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
today to lay out the plans which target harder to reach young people. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
It was her Government that was heavily criticised for scrapping the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
education maintenance allowance, introduced by Labour, to encourage | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
youngsters from the most deprived backgrounds to stay in education. We | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
have targeted the support at the people you are talking about in | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
council estates. They will still have premium, pupil premium, they | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
will still have that support so the right people are getting it. The | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Government says youth unemployment is falling. Labour says not quickly | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
enough. Luke, Justin and Danny are looking for full`time work. I want | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
to do painting or something. I don't even mind much I will do cleaning. I | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
will do anything I can just to keep busy and active. I want to help | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
little kids develop football. I have to come to the jobseeker I'm not | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
working enough hours to earn enough money to substantially earn my rent. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Do you think having support at 16 might have changed things for you? | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
Yeah. They are over 18. This new scheme will be completely | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
voluntarily. If you didn't have to come here and sign on and get | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
benefit, would you come here voluntarily? No. No. I would not | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
come here voluntarily. The staff say this is a new way of working. They | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
will leave the building and find those young people that need their | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
help the most. Dangerous drivers and cyclists are once again being | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
targeted by police at London's busiest junctions in a bid to | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
improve road safety. Five cyclists have died so far this year. We can | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
join Emma North in central London. This is the second time for an | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
operation of this kind? It is. Last year we had Operation Safeway, when | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
clusters of police officers sprung up at the buzzer junctions at the | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
capital to stop the drivers and the cyclists who they believed weren't | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
following the rules of the road. The Met police believe it was a success. | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
The Mayor's office believes it directly contributed to a big drop | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
in the number of cyclists being seriously injured on the capital's | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
roads. So today a second wave was introduced. It is called Son of | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
Safeway. Instead of a steady presence there will be two`days a | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
month when officers appear at junctions. The Metropolitan Police | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
say it has a carrot`and`stick effect on motorists and cyclists. We get a | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
mixed reaction. Some people are... They are unhappy about being given a | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
fixed penalty notice. A natural reaction. It's a behavioural | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
pattern. If you get a notice this had mo, will you think about your | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
conduct tomorrow morning. What are cycling safety campaigners saying? | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
They are some of the most loud voices in the capital. One | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
commentator today said that cyclists will only be happen Iy when London | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
is effectively transformed into Amsterdam. Campaigners have given a | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
warmer reception to the second wave of operations. They say it's too | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
obvious and too temporary. You can't always measure the long`term effects | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
of campaigns like this simply by looking at the casualty figures. We | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
know the numbers fluctuates from year`to`year. They go up one year by | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
25% and down another year by 25%. The biggest reason last year is the | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
cold weather. Fewer people were cycling. They have to improve the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
behaviour of people on the roads. It has to improve the infrastructure, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
which the Mayor's office today conceded is not quite there yet. It | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
has a long way to go. Thirdly, it has to improve the perception of | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Londoners about how safe these roads really are. Thank you very much. The | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
owners of a designer handbag shop in Knightsbridge, which was targeted by | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
thieves, have criticise the police response as "lacklustre." Masked men | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
broke in stealing more than ?150,000 worth of goods. Scotland Yard denies | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the allegation and also says officers regularly patrol the area. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
A customer at the counter tries to snatch back her own bag, but that is | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
stolen too. Her young son pulls her away. Staff bundle them both into a | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
back room for safety. The robbers load more than ?150,000 worth of | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
goods into holdalls. A security smoke cloud finally sends them | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
running. Staff were left shocked and frightened. I'm really angry they | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
were put through this. They shouldn't feel threatened during | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
their normal working day. It's high end handbags and will be a target | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
for thieves. It's nice to know that they feel that there is a police | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
presence outside that will give them comfort during their normal working | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
hours. Have been several attempted raids here recently. Security has | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
been stepped up with bulletproof windows and steel shutters. Since | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Saturday's raid the main door is unlocked when staff checked who is | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
on the other side. The owner says several designer stores in | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
Knightsbridge have been raided by gangs over the past year. He | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
believes the police should increase patrols to deter thieves and should | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
investigate burglaries more thoroughly. I was a bit disappointed | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
when I met the police on site. They looked ` they looked a little | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
lacklustre to say the least. Resigned to the fact it was another | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
situation that they were like would be unlikely to be able to do | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
anything about. The Metropolitan Police strongly denies his | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
allegation that it isn't properly investigating the raid on its shop. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
It says officers arrived here within six minutes of the emergency call. | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Within two hours there was a full forensic investigation underway. It | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
denies the claim that the whole Knightsbridge area isn't policed | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
proper pressurely. It said officers patrol these streets and target | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
businesses where they have a tip`off there may be a raid. Stone owners `` | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
store owners are meeting police next week to discuss how security can be | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
improved. The designer Exchange is thinking of mroem Iing his own | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
guards. This man's mask slips and his identity is partly revealed. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Still to come: The family who lost their son to cancer now fundraising | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
in the hope of finding a cure for other children. | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
On Saturday night a record crowd is expected to pack into Wembley | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Stadium ` not for football but for boxing. Nottingham fighter Karl | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Froch will defend his two super`middleweight world titles | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
against Hammersmith boxer George Groves. Their last fight ended in | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
controversial circumstances. Sara Orchard's report contains some flash | :17:31. | :17:42. | |
photography. A crowd of 60,000 packed Wembley Stadium or the return | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
fight of Jack Petersen... Opting at Wembley is special. You only take a | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
fight there if you can guarantee a big crowd. Karl Froch against George | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Groves is an 80,000 sell`out. It is one of those fights that people will | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
remember and say they were there. No tickets required for today's public | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
work`out at this shopping centre, but this fight is part two of the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
saga. Their first encounter last November 's foal re`floor Karl Froch | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
in round one. The fight continued and George Groves was ahead on all | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
three scorecards. George Groves claimed the fight was stopped too | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
soon and implored Karl Froch for a rematch. I think he stopped to | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
early. I think he. Him in the first few rounds. He was ahead on points, | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
he was winning the fight, beating him from pillar to post so did not | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
deserve to be stopped early. I am the sort of fighter who has improved | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
fight on fight. The 26`year`old played to the crowd as he celebrated | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
his head `` hair colour. While today was fun, expect fireworks as the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
fight closes in. What is your relationship with Karl Froch | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
question Matt and loveless marriage! Hopefully, this time... To football | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
` and Tottenham's search for a new head coach is over. Within the last | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
hour the north London club has announced Mauricio Pochettino has | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
been appointed. Our sports reporter, Chris Slegg, joins us. This was | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
widely expected, wasn't it? It was, since Tim Sherwood was sacked a | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
fortnight ago. Last night, we learned he was in advanced talks | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
with Tottenham Hotspur. Just before 6pm, they confirmed that he is the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
new head coach and joins them from Southampton. A five`year contract | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
has been signed. What convinced Spurs that this man is the one? The | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Tottenham chairman has said: In Mauricio Pochettino we have a coach | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
who will embrace the style of play we associate with our style. He has | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
a limited CV, years 44 years old. He moved to Southampton in January last | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
year and finished in eighth position. Very impressive at a club | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
with limited resources. That experience has convinced Tottenham | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
to give him the job. You talked about a limited CV, how will he be | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
received? A mixed reaction from fans on social media. Some wanted a | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
bigger name and some say he has a lot to offer. We have some opinions | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
here. He looks to be an educated person. He has done a good job with | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
Southampton. From what I know and what I have seen with the team, he | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
will be good for Tottenham. I do not want to see Mauricio Pochettino | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
walking into the job and saying, it will take one or two years. You need | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
to work for at least three or four years. He has managed an eighth | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
position finish, he has played great football, he looks like a great | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
prospect. They are alluding to what Brendan Rodgers has done at | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
Liverpool, taking them to second. A young up`and`coming manager. | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Mauricio Pochettino is in that mould. If he overachieved at Spurs | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
then they will be pleased. What they need is stability as rabid Ginola | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
has said. This is the sixth manager in seven years for Tottenham. A Met | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Police officer who lost his four`year`old son to a rare cancer | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
is using his experience to try and help save other young children. The | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
survival rates for neuroblastoma are low but a promising new vaccine has | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
been developed in America. So Sergeant Dick Brown, and 80 other | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
officers are raising money to bring the vaccine to the UK. Mark Jordan | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
has the story. Off the normal beat and in hot pursuit of a new | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
life`saving cancer treatment, 85 off`duty British bobbies gather for | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
a half marathon in New York, fundraising after Sergeant Dick | :22:24. | :22:35. | |
Brown lost his son to the disease. It reminds me of lots of the | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
experiences of my son and it reminds me of the tragedy of the disease. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Parents should not have to bury their children, and that is what we | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
are trying to do, we are trying to stop that. Children like Lily. For | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
two years, I followed the family after NHS doctors said they could do | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
no more when her cancer relapsed. We were then taken into an office and | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
told to take some pictures, make the best of her because it will be | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
lethal. Compare that to the pioneering trial treatment then | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
offered to Lily at New York's prestigious Memorial Sloan`Kettering | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Hospital. It is about 75% of our children who grow up and move on. It | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
is no longer part of their issues any more. Before that? Before that, | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
unfortunately, we had no survivors. Lily is now back at school and in | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
full remission but the New York treatment cost the family and | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
charity over ?1 million. Other European countries like Greece, for | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
example, pay for their children to come and get treatment at | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Sloan`Kettering but not the NHS. It leaves British cancer charities in | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
the awful position of picking which children they can pay to send here. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Lily is a real inspiration to us and as much as we would like to say we | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
can send them all abroad, it is too expensive. So today, charities | :23:56. | :24:15. | |
pledged over 250,000 for a promising cancer vaccine developed at | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
Sloan`Kettering to come to Bristol 's Royal Hospital for Children. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Tragically, like Jack, many do not survive a relapse. The new American | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
vaccine teaches the child's body to destroy cancer. It is early days but | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
12 out of the 15 given it two years ago remain cancer`free. It is a | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
great joy to see somebody who had a high risk disease and had a relapse, | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
and here they are, disease`free, enjoying life, growing up like they | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
ought to be doing. So, thanks to charity, the NHS will now be able to | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
offer this trial vaccine for cancer. It remains experimental but as the | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
story shows, research is turning no hope into real hope. | :24:50. | :25:02. | |
Good luck to them. What is happening with this weather? Hopefully Wendy | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
can shed some light on when it'll improve... Such a hopeful face! It | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
has been dismal but I have some good news. This week it will become dry | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
and warm wishes the opposite of today. `` which is. It would be | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
accompanied by cloud, though. The highest temperature today was 14 | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
degrees in Southend and in terms of rainfall, over the last two or three | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
days, we have had 22 millimetres just south of London, near Gatwick | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
airport. That is about one inch of rain. Half an inch elsewhere. There | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
is more to come. It is raining out there again if you are north of | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
London, and it will get to the south over the next few hours. There will | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
be heavy rain mixed in with this, but I think it will lull a little | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
bit through the morning. We will stick with the cloud and it will be | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
mild with centres of eight to 11 degrees. Rain around south of London | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
in the morning. Then it. Raining, finally. We are left with cloud and | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
on higher ground it will be a misty and murky start. Some brightness in | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
the afternoon. Not much sunshine but it will be a tiny bit warmer with | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
centres of 16 or 17. Thursday, a great start but once the sunshine | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
breaks through, that will trigger of some and showers so the umbrella is | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
needed. Largely dry on Friday and by Saturday, more sunshine will break | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
through and it will feel warmer. Improving! Just in time for the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
weekend! Yet. The main headlines... David Cameron has told European | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
leaders that it cannot be "business as usual" after Euro`sceptic parties | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
made sweeping gains in last week's elections. UK leaders are setting | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
out their response to the results. Rolf Harris has begun giving | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
evidence in his indecent assault trial. He's told jurors he's a | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
tactile person but denies claims he abused four girls between 1968 and | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
1986. Senior military leaders in Nigeria claim that they know where | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls are being held. But they won't | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
reveal the location and say they've ruled out using force to free them. | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
That's it for now. I'll be back with the latest for you during the Ten | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
O'clock News. From us here ` thanks for watching and have a lovely | :27:42. | :27:42. | |
evening. | :27:43. | :27:43. |