:00:00. > :00:00.at the age of 56. It is goodbye from me, we now join the news teams where
:00:00. > :00:10.you are. The row over these spikes designed
:00:11. > :00:15.to deter the homeless Charities condemn
:00:16. > :00:28.their installation. It is an awful way to treat people.
:00:29. > :00:29.We pay a lot to live here. It is not nice when people ask you for money
:00:30. > :00:33.every morning. Now the Mayor supports calls
:00:34. > :00:37.for them to be removed. Police launch an investigation
:00:38. > :00:39.into homophobic attacks after three men are sprayed in the face with
:00:40. > :00:42.ammonia outside a London nightclub. Plus ` the increase in the number
:00:43. > :00:46.of Londoners accessing food banks. Car park turned performance space `
:00:47. > :00:53.the gravity`defying show wowing The Mayor has joined calls for metal
:00:54. > :01:05.spikes designed to deter homeless people from bedding down outside
:01:06. > :01:10.a block of flats to be removed. Boris Johnson today described
:01:11. > :01:13.the spikes in Southwark as ugly, Homeless charities have condemned
:01:14. > :01:21.the developer for installing them. As a petition calling on the Mayor
:01:22. > :01:24.to remove them received thousands But first this report from
:01:25. > :01:39.Nick Beake. The latest addition to the pavement
:01:40. > :01:44.in Southwark. Metal studs outside private flats. A legitimate way to
:01:45. > :01:51.prevent rough sleeping or a heartless approach? First time I saw
:01:52. > :01:55.someone lying here was a homeless couple. I did not like it because I
:01:56. > :02:01.did not like having to walk past them. It sounds selfish, so when I
:02:02. > :02:07.saw those studs, I thought it was a good idea. Her husband works at a
:02:08. > :02:14.nearby shelter. A lot of them are my friends. If you lie on them it will
:02:15. > :02:22.make you get spiked. They are popping up all over the West End.
:02:23. > :02:30.Interesting, opinion is split. Some people think this invention method
:02:31. > :02:40.is there enough. Others think it is heartless. Do you find it offensive
:02:41. > :02:46.people put studs so you cannot sleep there? No, if it was your property
:02:47. > :02:50.what would you do? What would you do? I have been on the streets
:02:51. > :02:57.nearly 16 years. I think putting these things up is out of order. He
:02:58. > :03:01.says he blames the authorities for forgetting about ex`service men like
:03:02. > :03:05.him. The Labour group on the London assembly has criticised the mayor.
:03:06. > :03:10.He disagrees and says he will be contacting the developer of the
:03:11. > :03:14.flats. It is not the way forward for a city like London. You should not
:03:15. > :03:22.be discouraging homeless people. It sends the wrong signal about the
:03:23. > :03:26.development you are in. The management of the building would not
:03:27. > :03:33.tell us why they put the studs in. Homeless charities say it will not
:03:34. > :03:36.tackle the problem. We have seen a 75% of rough sleeping because of a
:03:37. > :03:40.lack of affordable housing and cuts to benefit. Those are the issues we
:03:41. > :03:46.need to tackle, not putting studs in the pavement. While they only maybe
:03:47. > :03:54.a couple of centimetres high, they have started a big debate.
:03:55. > :03:58.John Bird is with me here and joining us from our Exeter studio
:03:59. > :04:20.Katie, thousands had signed a petition to have they removed, you
:04:21. > :04:25.don't like them? Not at all. We have benches that slope slightly, we have
:04:26. > :04:30.benches that have handles in between them so you cannot lie across them.
:04:31. > :04:36.In Heathrow at terminal five, only has 700 seats even though it
:04:37. > :04:43.processes 30 million passengers. We have ways of moving people on, but
:04:44. > :04:46.we are offended because they look spiky. People would have to say,
:04:47. > :04:51.what would I want if that was my front doorway. But I have two go
:04:52. > :04:56.down every morning and clear up after somebody who has been using it
:04:57. > :05:00.as a bedroom or their toilet. Or would I want to see a set of spikes.
:05:01. > :05:06.Most people would want to see spikes. Does that sound
:05:07. > :05:11.unreasonable? No, it sounds as though we have have the same problem
:05:12. > :05:17.in London as we have always had. Not enough basis for home peak ``
:05:18. > :05:21.homeless people. You could remove all of those impediments and you
:05:22. > :05:25.still have a city bowling over which is commercial and becoming more
:05:26. > :05:31.commercial, every square inch is commercial. So essential beds for
:05:32. > :05:36.people in need who are drifting in and out of the capital don't get a
:05:37. > :05:42.look in. We did hear from a homeless person in that report who supported
:05:43. > :05:58.removing them? Supported removing them? Sorry, supporting having them?
:05:59. > :06:00.We are closing down more opportunities for homeless people in
:06:01. > :06:07.the city to find themselves a place to stay. The spikes are a symbol
:06:08. > :06:11.that ordinary people are getting outraged. I think we should go with
:06:12. > :06:18.their outrage, but what we need to do is say to Boris Johnson, why are
:06:19. > :06:24.you carrying on what Ken Livingstone did which is to make London a soup
:06:25. > :06:31.do per financial capital where 30% of homes are empty in Mayfair. Let's
:06:32. > :06:36.bring it back to the issue of spikes and that is what people are calling
:06:37. > :06:42.to be removed, including the mayor. Do you have any sympathy for people
:06:43. > :06:46.sleeping rough apart from people saying, I don't want this in my
:06:47. > :06:52.backyard? We are mixing two issues we need to separate. This is about
:06:53. > :06:57.spikes that are there to move people along. Is there an issue about
:06:58. > :07:02.homelessness and the number of beds in London? Yes. But we build walls
:07:03. > :07:08.around our gardens, we put fences where we don't want people to come
:07:09. > :07:12.in. This is the same thing but people are hopping aboard the
:07:13. > :07:16.outrage bus. You have two as, if that was my front lawn would I want
:07:17. > :07:22.someone sleeping there and step over them to get to work in the morning?
:07:23. > :07:28.The truthful and set is, know I would not. If we remove them in this
:07:29. > :07:34.one place in Southwark, should they be removed elsewhere in the capital?
:07:35. > :07:41.I would not want to waste a lot of time on gestures. I am a person who
:07:42. > :07:47.wants real justice for people who are poor in the City of London. I
:07:48. > :07:54.don't want this social engineering where we drive the poor people out.
:07:55. > :07:58.I am more interested in the fact it raises a hue and cry and we need
:07:59. > :08:02.these symbols to get together to say, let's make sure the next Mayor
:08:03. > :08:03.of London delivers over social housing rather than talking about
:08:04. > :08:20.it. Thanks very much indeed. A new fire training centre opens in
:08:21. > :08:26.east London hoping to save taxpayers more than ?60 million.
:08:27. > :08:30.A man who had ammonia sprayed in his face in what's thought to have
:08:31. > :08:33.been a homophobic attack, has said he fears he may never see again.
:08:34. > :08:35.He was one of three men attacked outside
:08:36. > :08:38.a nightclub in Vauxhall in the early hours of yesterday morning.
:08:39. > :08:41.Police are looking for a man who was caught on CCTV.
:08:42. > :08:46.Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith reports.
:08:47. > :08:53.This is a suspect police are looking for. Easily recognisable. The
:08:54. > :09:01.assaults took ways in an area south of the river in Lambeth, well`known
:09:02. > :09:06.for its gay nightlife. It was about 4am on Sunday just outside this
:09:07. > :09:09.nightclub in Boxall. Two men were verbally abused before being
:09:10. > :09:16.attacked with what police believe was ammonia. A third man was sprayed
:09:17. > :09:22.in the face. Using such a highly toxic substance, the victims were
:09:23. > :09:27.lucky to escape serious injury. It is shock, disbelief. It is a
:09:28. > :09:35.horrible thing to happen to anyone. It is hate crime at its worst. In
:09:36. > :09:41.London, homophobic crime has gone up by almost 7%. Apart from
:09:42. > :09:59.Westminster, Lambeth, where the latest attack happened, has the
:10:00. > :10:13.worst record. We are treating this as a linked incidents and they will
:10:14. > :10:15.be treated as a homophobic offence. I would like to reassure the LGBT
:10:16. > :10:18.community and the wider community that Lambeth is a wonderful place to
:10:19. > :10:20.be. London is said to be one of the most diverse cities in the world,
:10:21. > :10:22.but there is concern so many hate crimes go unreported whether that is
:10:23. > :10:23.verbal abuse or harassment and assault. We know gay people across
:10:24. > :10:25.London do suffer homophobic incidents. Obviously, following the
:10:26. > :10:26.events of the weekend, gay people in and around here will be feeling
:10:27. > :10:31.concerned. Detectives were looking for this man, along with two female
:10:32. > :10:32.suspects. This afternoon, two women came forward and are helping with
:10:33. > :10:47.enquiries. Inspectors have criticised a school
:10:48. > :10:53.in London after finding Islamic books in the library. It comes on
:10:54. > :10:55.the day six Birmingham schools were put into special measures for
:10:56. > :11:01.failing to protect pupils from extremism.
:11:02. > :11:07.Inside the classroom there appears to be little to set this apart from
:11:08. > :11:13.any other. When Ofsted inspectors visited last month, they raised a
:11:14. > :11:18.number of concerns. They rated the school as inadequate. Top of their
:11:19. > :11:22.concerns ` the lack of teaching about different cultures and faiths.
:11:23. > :11:27.Claims the school reject. We have had people from the church and other
:11:28. > :11:31.faith communities come into our school teaching them about their
:11:32. > :11:36.religion. Do you accept any of the findings? In terms of the religious
:11:37. > :11:45.ethos of the school, it is an Islamic phobic report. Michael
:11:46. > :11:50.Gove's ignorance of Islam is matched only by his hostility. Ofsted have
:11:51. > :11:54.criticised the library about having too few books about other religions.
:11:55. > :12:02.They say the books promote fundamentalist views. This is the
:12:03. > :12:07.staff library. These books are not available to the children and they
:12:08. > :12:11.are not being taught to children. The argument does not hold any
:12:12. > :12:16.water. The report comes on the day when offset published findings about
:12:17. > :12:24.allegations of extremism at a number of schools in Birmingham. The local
:12:25. > :12:28.MP says the timing is not helpful. I do have concerns about the timing of
:12:29. > :12:35.this report released on the same day as the Birmingham report. There is
:12:36. > :12:44.not a link between this situation but people will think there will be.
:12:45. > :12:52.Ofsted said Olive tree school must prepare children for living in
:12:53. > :12:58.Britain. The school's governors said they reject this report in its
:12:59. > :13:05.entirety `` entirety and now they are seeking legal advice.
:13:06. > :13:07.The number of people using food banks in London
:13:08. > :13:13.It's gone up by nearly 130% compared to last year, according to the food
:13:14. > :13:16.But the Government has questioned the figures saying it doesn't
:13:17. > :13:35.Like thousands of people across London, Tracy had no choice but to
:13:36. > :13:41.visit a foodbank. It was a case of swallowing her pride or not eating.
:13:42. > :13:41.I had just had a baby, had ?6 a week to
:13:42. > :13:44.swallowing her pride or not eating. I had just had a baby, had ?6 live
:13:45. > :13:45.on. My partner's wages were messed about and did not get any money. It
:13:46. > :13:51.was essential to go to the foodbank. about and did not get any money. It
:13:52. > :13:56.was essential to go This man's come to the Redbridge food rang and
:13:57. > :14:00.everybody has to be referred by a social worker and show about you. As
:14:01. > :14:08.well as receiving three days of supplies, they get advice on how to
:14:09. > :14:13.improve their situation. This is the stockroom where they keep
:14:14. > :14:15.everything. It has all been donated. Such is the generosity they have an
:14:16. > :14:22.overflow area with all sorts of things, tea bags, serial, tins of
:14:23. > :14:26.beans and nappies. The essential things people need. They also have
:14:27. > :14:33.an informal agreement with their local supermarket to take surplus
:14:34. > :14:36.stock. Research says only 2% of unwanted supermarket food goes to
:14:37. > :14:45.charity, the rest is turned into biofuel. The number of food banks in
:14:46. > :14:49.London has grown rapidly. Five years ago there was just one in the
:14:50. > :14:51.capital, now there are 39 spread across every London borough.
:14:52. > :14:55.ago there was just one in the capital, now there Last year alone
:14:56. > :15:00.they helped around 90,000 people. A lot of people come here because they
:15:01. > :15:05.have problems with benefits and we are concerned for a lot of people,
:15:06. > :15:11.they are a Social Security said the net. It means they cannot afford to
:15:12. > :15:15.feed themselves and their families. The government says it is spending
:15:16. > :15:21.?94 billion a year on benefits and is fixing the system to help people
:15:22. > :15:25.lift themselves out of poverty. But some fear food banks are seen as the
:15:26. > :15:37.answer rather than the solution to the problem.
:15:38. > :15:52.travelling to Brazil for the World Cup. And a risky new show here in
:15:53. > :15:56.this Waterloo car park. The mayor opened a new fire training centre in
:15:57. > :16:01.east London today. It will for the first time the privately run, saving
:16:02. > :16:06.?66 million. But there have been no new recruits to the Fire Brigade
:16:07. > :16:16.since 2011, meaning only serving firefighters will have training
:16:17. > :16:21.there. More now from Karl Mercer. Yes, this is the new Fire Brigade
:16:22. > :16:25.training centre, it was Omar and a couple of hours ago by the mayor.
:16:26. > :16:31.They have got a mock`up of a building, firefighters have to try
:16:32. > :16:36.to get into that building. Just down here you can see a sewer, so
:16:37. > :16:40.firefighters can practice if people get trapped underground. Also we
:16:41. > :16:50.have got the kind of tools, the circular saws, and here, another
:16:51. > :16:55.scenario, somebody trapped in a car in a garage. And then, through the
:16:56. > :17:00.archway there is a giant new fire house, where temperatures get up to
:17:01. > :17:07.something like 350 degrees, something the mayor tried out
:17:08. > :17:10.earlier. Dressed for action, the mayor, on a tour of the latest
:17:11. > :17:16.addition to London's firefighting capability. This centre in east
:17:17. > :17:21.London is one of two which will replace the old site in Southwark.
:17:22. > :17:27.There are high`tech training rooms, real`life scenarios played out in
:17:28. > :17:34.real time. We have one adult female and one baby in the lounge, have you
:17:35. > :17:40.got that? Two floors away, the fire officer is deciding what to do next.
:17:41. > :17:43.Two doors down, another trainee is playing the part of an officer on
:17:44. > :17:52.the ground outside the burning flats. I have got no more is there
:17:53. > :17:56.people down here, over. The site is not without its controversy. It is
:17:57. > :18:00.run by a private company after the Fire Brigade decided to outsource
:18:01. > :18:06.its training, saving ?66 million over ten years. The old training
:18:07. > :18:12.centre was very good for ten years but it was no longer fit for
:18:13. > :18:19.purpose. We need to train our firefighters for the challenges they
:18:20. > :18:22.will meet today. The brigade is not actually recruiting at the moment,
:18:23. > :18:27.there has been a freeze on new staff since 2011. This site could see
:18:28. > :18:33.around 200 staff are weak being trained. This man is unlikely to be
:18:34. > :18:39.one of them, the mayor spending ten minutes in the new fire house in
:18:40. > :18:44.these kind of conditions. It was about 350 degrees, but I want you to
:18:45. > :18:49.know, we extinguished the fire. What it shows to me is the incredible
:18:50. > :18:54.bravery of the London Fire Brigade. They do this stuff many times a
:18:55. > :19:00.year. These guys will beginning into buildings and getting people out in
:19:01. > :19:03.incredible conditions like that. The second new fire training centre is
:19:04. > :19:08.due to open in west London in September. Thousands of England fans
:19:09. > :19:12.are starting to fly out to Brazil head of the World Cup, starting on
:19:13. > :19:18.Thursday. Among them, many London supporters who have been planning
:19:19. > :19:21.and saving up for their trip F`4 jet years. As Sara Orchard discovered,
:19:22. > :19:31.one group has been getting some last`minute travel advice. `` for
:19:32. > :19:36.years. The World Cup is going to be an unforgettable experience... Is
:19:37. > :19:40.video is for fans travelling to the World Cup. At a forum in the City,
:19:41. > :19:47.tips were being shared from ace Ashley invited guest. I am the
:19:48. > :19:53.British ambassador to Brazil, and I am an England fan. For most of us,
:19:54. > :20:01.the World Cup will be enjoyed on the TV, but for travelling England fans,
:20:02. > :20:07.it can be the trip of a lifetime. I have waited all my life for
:20:08. > :20:12.something like this. 16 last year, and we all get to a point in our
:20:13. > :20:20.lives when we think, maybe we will not be able to do as much. `` 60
:20:21. > :20:26.last year. I have been saving ?100 a month for the last two years. Each
:20:27. > :20:31.fan has their own story, and their own way to travel. We have not
:20:32. > :20:39.booked any accommodation. Take a tent, stay in a campsite, see what
:20:40. > :20:43.happens. Up until the last minute, I did not even know about my flights.
:20:44. > :20:49.I have done quite a lot of research, I now feel quite happy
:20:50. > :20:53.that I will feel safe. Our job is to look after distressed British
:20:54. > :20:59.nationals who might get robbed or hospitalised, I hope not. Also we
:21:00. > :21:03.must understand things we cannot do, we cannot bail you out, we cannot
:21:04. > :21:09.give you a ticket, I have already been asked for three! Can England
:21:10. > :21:17.win the World Cup? You have got to dream. Can they win it? No. Well,
:21:18. > :21:22.you never know! English optimism at its best.
:21:23. > :21:33.Now, open`air theatre, but perhaps not as you have seen it before. The
:21:34. > :21:40.Roof takes place on top of a car park opposite the National Theatre
:21:41. > :21:46.and the audience where headphones. We live in a video age, but The Roof
:21:47. > :21:51.promises a totally different experience, even for gaming fans.
:21:52. > :21:56.The action takes place not through a screen that out in the open air.
:21:57. > :22:02.Using dance, theatre, music and free running, the show is a collaboration
:22:03. > :22:09.between experimental theatre director David Rosenberg and the
:22:10. > :22:14.choreographer. We wanted to find a new way of placing the audience in
:22:15. > :22:20.relation to the action. We really wanted to have the audience and
:22:21. > :22:24.be quite exciting to be able to have be quite exciting to be able to have
:22:25. > :22:32.action which keeps going around and around. This is their third
:22:33. > :22:38.collaboration. Previous collaborations included The Electric
:22:39. > :22:44.Hotel, which took place in industrial wasteland in King's
:22:45. > :22:49.Cross. This particular 360 degrees theatrical experience takes place
:22:50. > :22:55.here in this Waterloo car park under the night sky. Audiences will be
:22:56. > :22:57.wearing headphones throughout. The show has been described as a
:22:58. > :23:04.computer game which comes to life. What makes it such a thrill is the
:23:05. > :23:09.element of risk. You have to be so aware of the people around you, you
:23:10. > :23:15.cannot switch off, it is what you are landing on, and the actual
:23:16. > :23:20.danger. When it is dark and the lighting, music and weather come
:23:21. > :23:25.into play, it adds to the experience. But even in this
:23:26. > :23:29.rehearsal, there were some hints of how different this could be for
:23:30. > :23:35.Londoners. It is a bit of a dream, because as a kid growing up, you
:23:36. > :23:40.watch things like this, and to be able to do lots of fighting and
:23:41. > :23:44.really good stunts is quite satisfying. You can suspend reality
:23:45. > :23:52.in Waterloo, where the show runs until the 28th of June.
:23:53. > :23:58.Returning to that story about spikes being used as a deterrent against
:23:59. > :24:04.rough sleepers. You have been giving us your views. This one says ` it is
:24:05. > :24:08.disgraceful that Boris Johnson condones the practice. I would like
:24:09. > :24:14.to see his reaction to the homeless sleeping outside his own property.
:24:15. > :24:17.This one says, I am all for it. If the homeless need somewhere to
:24:18. > :24:22.shelter, they should go to the officials to get help. This one says
:24:23. > :24:28.she is appalled about how the upper classes are looking down on the less
:24:29. > :24:34.fortunate. Shame on you this one says, as brutal as it may sound, it
:24:35. > :24:37.is not the job of landlords or tenants to manage these problems,
:24:38. > :24:47.but it is their job to maintain their properties and keep their
:24:48. > :24:50.attempts `` their tenants safe. Thank you very much for your views
:24:51. > :24:56.this evening. Let's get a check on the weather now. Over to Georgina
:24:57. > :25:00.Burnett. It is much of the same, really. For the week ahead, it is
:25:01. > :25:09.looking largely dry, with some sunny spells. We have got a bit of rain
:25:10. > :25:16.pushing up from the south over the next couple of hours. But it was not
:25:17. > :25:29.in time to ruin today's temperatures. A very warm day indeed
:25:30. > :25:34.today. Over the next couple of days, we will continue with this largely
:25:35. > :25:42.dry weather. However, this rain is coming up from the south coast.
:25:43. > :25:46.There could be some thunder. One thing we will probably all have
:25:47. > :25:53.tonight is quite a humid night. Not quite as sticky as it was last
:25:54. > :25:58.night. Very warm indeed overnight. It could be a bit murky early
:25:59. > :26:07.tomorrow morning, but brightening up fairly quickly. Plenty more sunshine
:26:08. > :26:17.on the way. For most of us it should be a dry day tomorrow. Not looking
:26:18. > :26:31.too bad for Wednesday and Thursday, either. We hold onto that high
:26:32. > :26:38.pressure, soap temp butchers will gradually be getting get as the week
:26:39. > :26:46.goes on. `` so those temperatures will be getting higher as the week
:26:47. > :26:52.goes on. But also, some fairly mild nights this week, which could be
:26:53. > :26:56.uncomfortable. The main headlines ` the Education
:26:57. > :27:00.Secretary, Michael Gove, has ordered an inquiry into weather his
:27:01. > :27:04.department did enough regarding extremism in schools. Six schools in
:27:05. > :27:08.Birmingham have today been put into special measures. An inquiry into
:27:09. > :27:12.the care provided at a care home in Sussex has made more than 30
:27:13. > :27:17.recommendations in a bid to prevent a repeat of the institutionalised
:27:18. > :27:23.abuse which led to the death of five residents. And the comedian Rik
:27:24. > :27:29.Mayall has died at the age of 56. His long`time friend Adrian
:27:30. > :27:36.Edmondson described days spent with him as some of the most carefree,
:27:37. > :27:38.stupid days I have ever had. Thank you very much for joining us. I will
:27:39. > :27:53.be back in the Ten O'Clock News. THROWS VOICE: 'A weekly treat
:27:54. > :28:00.of all the best bits of Radio 2.' But that isn't quite
:28:01. > :28:13.the end of the story. ..then...
:28:14. > :28:19...he landed... ..and in a flurry
:28:20. > :28:31.of feathers, they were gone. But that isn't quite
:28:32. > :28:33.the end of the story. Perhaps you'll dream
:28:34. > :28:36.of a great adventure.