12/06/2014 BBC London News

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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News, with me, Asad @hmad.

A day after we showed how criminal gangs had infiltrated Scotl`nd Yard

a decade ago, through allegddly corrupt officers, the head

of the Metropolitan Police has told us it?s possible there's sthll

Sir Bernard Hogan`Howe was responding to

our special report which fotnd the Met concerned that dozens of

officers had appeared to have turned a blind`eye to serious crimd.

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Guy Smith.

The men responsible for heading up Scotland Yard, one a politician the

other Briton's top cop, tod`y at a photo shoot to talk about stccessful

police seizures of uninsured vehicles. But also another

opportunity to explain to Londoners whether the Metropolitan police are

still corrupt. You can never be sure there is no corruption, but we have

a hundred officers dedicated to this. We do employ 50,000 pdople and

it's possible. Last night BBC London reveal the scale of corrupthon. We

found the secret Scotland Y`rd unit had identified 42 serving officers

as corrupt. 19 ex`officers, and the same number of career criminals

linked to eight major crime syndicates. The report, produced in

2002, was disturbing account, it dealing in contract killings, in the

full knowledge of contract `` detectives. It told us how hmportant

court cases fail, about polhce operations and techniques bding

betrayed. The fact none of the crime syndicates had been seriously

disrupted shows us how affected the criminals were. It's still tnclear

ten years on how many indivhduals the Metropolitan police havd

prosecuted. There was a report in 2002 about corruption, and there was

action taken about corruption, and we continue to take action now. It

vital we maintain the confidence of the public and the British police

service. Do you feel confiddnt in the leaders of Scotland Yard that

they are telling you the trtth, that they have got a grip on corruption?

I am confident they take thd issue seriously, and you can see hn the

appointment of an assistant commissioner focused on this,

looking at the historic casds, which has been announced by the Home

Secretary. The announcement of the case will be into the murder of

Stephen Lawrence. A recent investigation found reasonable

grounds to suspect corruption. A gang of robbers has carridd out

a smash`and`grab, in broad daylight, at the Qteen s

silversmith, Mappin and Webb. Police are looking for thred

suspects and are awaiting ddtails The wife of the musician Patl Weller

has called for a change in the law to stop photos of children

being published without consent Hannah Weller was speaking `fter

The Mail: Online were ordered to pay damages

to the couple for publishing He's been a famous face the nearly

40 years. Paul Weller is usdd to being photographed, but he's

children, these are not the offending pictures. They've been

taken down, but the incident has left its mark. When the photographs

were published later on, we realised that they had been followed all

afternoon, and this person had been taking photographs covertly of our

children. The fact that thex were published seems so wrong to me. It

seems disgraceful. Today shd emerged from court having won the ldgal

battle, but they want more. They want the law changing. This has been

a long court case and Hannah Weller says it has been stressful `nd

unpleasant. She feels no ond else should have to go through this, but

the newspapers are going to resist the idea of making this a criminal

matter. Especially given th`t many celebrities have, at certain

moments, been more than happy to show off their offspring to the

cameras and there are other problems with getting legal permission. What

about crowd scenes? Football matches? How can you ask thd

parent's permission? What about foreign disasters, wars, yot can't

ask parents there? If you do that, you are breaking the new law. That's

ridiculous. So while it was a victory for privacy today, turning

photos of children into a crime will meet some determined resist`nce

A 24`hour strike by London's firefighters continues tonight.

It's over a row about pensions and is due to end tomorrow lorning.

Let's get the latest on what's happening from

Tarah Welsh, who's at Bethn`l Green Fire Station for us this evdning.

The reason these strikes ard taking place is because the governlent

wants to rage `` raise the `ge that firefighters want to retire and also

increase the amount they contribute to pensions. The unions don't want

that the government says it is a fair deal. They also say thdre is a

contingency plan in place. We saw it in action earlier. There was a fire

in Hackney down the road, no one was injured, but local people told me

that the crews took 20 minutes to arrive. The strikers Tommy would

normally take just four minttes This comes as London Fire Brigade

during the World Cup, the alount of house`buyers go up because people

have a drink and then cook. During the last World Cup in 2010, 40% of

kitchen fires were caused bx cooking being left unattended. This strike

ends at 9am tomorrow morning, but the message from London Fird Brigade

is, whether there is or strhke or not, World Cup or not, do not get

drunk and cook. 26 Celsius in central London, that

was the top temperature we got two on Thursday, but it will be warmer

tomorrow, and right now, thd temperature outside is 21 Cdlsius,

the kind of temperature we would expect in the middle of the

afternoon at this time of ydar. That just says a milder weather hs at the

moment. I'll start tomorrow, and the moment. I'll start tomorrow, and the

temperature should be up another notch. We will see highs evdntually

reaching highs of 20 Celsius, and `` 20 seven Celsius. A lot of drier

weather with sunshine and the warmest day of the year is likely

that there will be cloud through the afternoon and I have to tell you as

we head towards the evening there is a risk we could seek late evening

showers and thunderstorms, so take an umbrella. As the weekend, set to

turn pressure with temperattres easing back and here is my colleague

with the rest of the weekend forecast.

A day of contrast today. In the Northwest we saw cloud moving in

which brought a little bit of rain but it also stopped temperatures

from rising too far. 16 or 17 degrees typical, contrasted with 20

degrees in London. We will see the skies clear across the southern half

tonight. Some rural spots might dip into single figures and there might

be showers, mist and fog in rural spots, but