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children. That's all from the BBC News. We can now join the ndws teams

where you are. Concerns are raised over

the possible Islamification of a primary school where four governors

have resigned over what thex The Department for Education says it

will investigate any allegations Also tonight, an inquest begins

into the death of a mother whose shooting during a police rahd

sparked the 1985 Brixton riots. Revealed,

the proposal to build a ?600 million Rock legends the Who announce

a 50th anniversary tour. Good evening

and welcome to the programmd. First tonight concerns over possible

religious extremism at a school BBC London has learned that the

council has information concerning the possible Islamification of

Kobi Nazrul Primary school. A number of governors have resigned

over what they describe The Department for Education

has told us it will investigate It follows the so`called

Trojan Horse plot in Birmingham in which a number of schools were

the target of an alleged takeover David Cameron once chose Kobi Nazrul

as the backdrop to deliver plans for Tower Hamlets council is already

trying to remove the entire governing body over

an alarming slip in standards. Now BBC London understands

information has being received raising concerns over Islamhc

extremists at the school. After the events in Birmingham,

we asked every single London council to tell us of any tip`offs they ve

received about any of their schools. We asked for any details

of any alleged attempt by Islamic extremists to infiltrate anx school

or try and influence Tower Hamlets confirmed it was

in possession of relevant information, a document,

but so far has refused to show it But we understand the inforlation

does indeed relate to Kobi Nazrul. Four of the 15 governors

of the school have now resigned This man is one of them

and says he was not invited to meetings and was alarmed

at the amount of long`serving staff Some of the staff were

at the school for over a decade And

for them to suddenly walk away from Obviously I don't know what happened

in terms of the management from the top layer but therd's no

other conclusion you could reach. There must have been

a reason why they resigned. It must be what happened

at the school and the way the school Results have gone from 82% of pupils

gaining good sats to 40%, the worst Parents also have concerns

at the secrecy. We questioned the governors

and we asked them the reasons why But to this day we haven't had

a valid answer basically. Behind our backs, they tried to

put the school into an acaddmy. There was no consultation

with parents. How do I know

about my grandchildren? None of the parents we spokd to have

seen any overt extremism but we now know one of the governors

is a member of an Islamist group. Successive prime ministers have

considered banning the group. It has in the past infiltrated

and recruited at universitids and remains under constant review

by the Home Office. A local MP says the governmdnt

should have acted sooner. The government and the Secrdtary

of State has sat on its hands and, in the meantime, children are

suffering, parents are suffdring, parent governors have raised alarm

bells that in the governing board they've been in a minority so

this school needs action quhckly. The Department for Education told us

if they find evidence of extremism They are also awaiting the result

of an emergency OFSTED inspdction. That may shed light

on what's really happening inside because, at the moment,

the wider community is clearly not To clarify, these are concerns

at the moment about governance not necessarily about what's behng

taught in the school? That's right. Tower Hamlets are

concern about the school from way back in 2012 when the headm`ster was

hired after the council 's wishes. They objected strongly. The result

of dropped dramatically and other tried to intervene and calldd off ``

Ofsted in. What to make of this letter is lacking a possibld

concerns about extremism? It's hard to tell, really. Yes, this lan seems

to be a member of this extrdmist group. He did not deny it to us on

the phone today, but should it matter in the day`to`day running of

the school? We don't know if it does any effect at all full stop

certainly nothing in our investigation so far suggests only

kind of overhead attempt at this. This culture of secrecy does not

helpful for many parents we spoke to said they have been shot out and

then there is a clandestine attempt by the governors to turn thd school

into an academy out of council control with freedom of what they

teach. It doesn't really help. Poor governance and results is the real

key here. The Ofsted findings will be very interesting. Certainly, I

would be surprised given evdrything I've seen of that was not some kind

of intervention by the government very soon.

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An inquest into the death of a mother whose shooting sparked

Cherry Groce was shot by armed officers

during a police raid 29 years ago and died of her injuries in 201 .

Her son told the inquest how he was left confused, shocked

Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt, Guy Smith reports.

He was only 11`years`old when he saw his mother lying

on the floor wounded at the family home in Brixton.

She had been shot by an armed police officer.

Today he told a jury he was screaming and shouting repe`tedly,

He said he then heard her s`ying ?I can't feel my legs, I can't breathe,

He said he ?became hysteric`l when the police officer pointed a

Cherry Groce was left paralxsed and confined to a wheelchair.

She died from her injuries hn 2 11, 26 years after the shooting.

A shooting that provoked a riot in Brixton and raised questhons

at the time about policing the black colmunity

Police had been looking for her son, Michael Groce,

He was suspected of carrying out an armed robbery in Hertfordshire.

On a Thursday in September 0985 at an address in London, he pointed

a shotgun at a Hertfordshird police officer and then disappeared.

The next day, armed officers from The Met carried

It wasn't until early the ndxt morning that they targeted the

The jury heard that there wdre serious deficiencies in how

There was a lack of information about the layout of propertx

An independent review by West Yorkshire Police found grave

risks were created for both the public and the police.

It has taken the family of Cherry Groce

the past three years since her death to secure legal aid so that they can

Tomorrow, the jury is due to hear from the officer who shot hdr.

Four men have been arrested in connection with the rape

The girl was attacked by a group of men in the woods near

A 19`year`old and a 20`year`old remain in custody

A teenager who was stabbed to death as he walked home

from a friend's house in Harlesden over the weekend has been n`med

The 19`year`old was chased by two men wearing black hooded tops

He was taken to hospital but died hours later.

An eight day strike by power workers on London Underground will go ahead

after talks to resolve a row over pensions failed.

Members of the RMT union and Unite are due to walk out

Transport bosses say it'll have no impact on Tube services.

But unions warn there will be disruption.

Eric Pickles has accused in East London council of holding up an

investigation into how the borough spends taxpayers money. He says

Tower Hamlets has been slow in providing key information about its

administration. The council says it wants the investigation finhshed as

quickly as possible. What started as a BBC investigation into spdnding

Tower Hamlets quickly becamd an investigation ordered by thd

government. In April, it sent a team of accountants from

PricewaterhouseCoopers into the council to look at how the borough

had been spending its money. They were due to report back to

government today. Instead, there was this announcement by the man who

ordered that investigation. The council has considerably delayed the

investigation by delaying the provision of key information or not

providing it at all. This is not acceptable and I am consequdntly

extending the period for thdm to report and the costs will bd met by

the council. Whether the cotncil likes it or not, this investigation

will be thorough and comprehensive. In letters of the government, the

ordered it was claimed their investigation was held up the

documents they had requested had been delivered late to them, not

delivered at all. In a lettdr sent to the council today, the government

says Tower Hamlets will be footing the bill for the process. It will

cost around ?1 million. We don't want this to descend into a slanging

match. It is important for public confidence we get to the bottom of

these allegations and the sooner the better. I worry about the expense of

all this but clearly there hs still a cloud hanging over Tower Hamlets

politics. And I think public confidence requires us to gdt a move

on, get to the bottom of it, leave no stone unturned, and restore that

confidence. The council is considering a judicial revidw of the

governments decision to award an investigation. It expected the Mayor

will make a decision on that tomorrow. Today it said:

Tomorrow the focus will switch from spending two elections with a from

the electoral commission looking the count at Tower Hamlets in M`y, which

ended up taking five days to complete. It is expected to be

highly critical of the borotgh s planning for the polls. Offhcers

investigating an illegal rave in Croydon have released six ndw images

of people they would like to speak to. The men are not connectdd to the

death which occurred after the raid at a disused sorting office but they

could help police with other lines of enquiry regarding violence and

drugs. So far, 16 people have been arrested in connection with the

event. Thousands of passengdrs are still waiting to get the luggage

back after an IT failure at terminal five. Heath Row bosses say the

problem has now been fixed. At Gatwick, passengers suffered long

delays over the weekend which the airport blamed on staff shortages at

the handling company. A company that has traded 20,000 tonne towdr of

waste just a few yards from homes in Orpington has had its application to

bring more rubbish to the shte blocked by the High Court. The

company, which collect wastd from across the south`east, has barely

been ordered to remove all flammable material from the site. In dxactly

one week, the largest annual sporting event in the world comes to

London. Organisers are expecting around 1 million spectators to

welcome the cyclists. It is cost Transport for London ?6 million to

get it. So is it worth it? Where in the capital can you see it?

While Yorkshire has been gohng Tour de France crazy,

in the capital preparations here have been more low`key.

So far, most of the focus h`s been on Yorkshire and the north

And the Tour is a commercial organisation and so cities `nd towns

along the route have to pay for the privilege to hold the Tour.

Last time the Tour was here was in 2007,

and an official survey afterwards showed that nearly half of those who

Transport for London has pahd ?6 million to host this Tour.

All the cycling events we h`ve, there are people who watch ht

They think, "I can try this cycling as well "

Maybe not as fast as some of the elite riders,

When we had the Tour de France in 2007, we had an increase in cycling.

Cycling is now part of our mainstream transport.

I think that after the Tour de France,

Stage Three of the Tour starts in Cambridge and makes its way

It will finish on the Mall `t about 4pm on Monday.

While there has been critichsm of the number

of events being held in London, City Hall says the tour is different

The Government has calculatdd it's worth 100 million right

About a third of that will be in London, if not a bit mord.

There will certainly be a bdnefit for the hotels and tourism hndustry.

But the real advantage is the pictures

People will say to themselvds, "I looked at that at the Olxmpics,

it looked interesting, I'm seeing it again now,

The Tour will cause disrupthon on many roads and motorists have

been warned they will have to move their cars from the main rottes

Nonetheless, the authorities believe a mhllion

A new bridge connecting Thalesmead Tibetan is being headed by the

London chamber of commerce, who claim it would bring huge bdnefits

to the area. Let's find out more from Victoria in east London. Bring

us up to date. I'm standing just down the road next

to the river from gallows rdach and uninterrupted stretch of thd

Thames, rather attractive at this time of the evening. But a lot of

people think this bit is rather wasted and that there should be a

new crossing over the Thames. This has been discussed for around 3

years. The nearest bridge crossing to hear is actually at Tower

Bridge. They are saying that for a growing city, for a populathon that

is moving east across London, there needs to be a crossing and the time

is now. This is being driven by the London chamber of commerce, who have

released these architectural plans. They say if this bridge werd to get

the go`ahead, it would create around ?55 million economic benefits every

single year. It would lead to around 18,000 more jobs, as this area was

better connected. These plans have been released but they are just

plans at the moment. But already we've heard people not parthcularly

pleased at this idea, not ldast the Green Party, who say another bridge

and more traffic would just bring more pollution and that's the wrong

way forward for London. Will it get the go`ahead?

If recent history is anything to go by, it's not going to get the

go`ahead in the near future. In 2007, there was a judicial review

into the last plans for a bridge here. That got rejected bec`use

there were around 4500 objections to the plans. Supporters of thd latest

campaign say times have changed we've seen the whole area around

East London change, particularly since the Olympic Games. New

buildings springing up everxwhere, new business, new foreign money

coming into the area. If thd area is to continue to grow, there has to be

this crossing. They say that local people will now support this. In

2008, Boris Johnson also rejected these plans, took away around ? 00

million of funding, so I thhnk it's fair to say there isn't going to be

an agreement tomorrow, and probably not in the near future. Towdr

Bridge, one of the most famous bridges in the world, is celebrating

its 120th anniversary. It w`s opened in 1894, after eight years of

construction, built as a response to the growth of East London and

increasing demand to cross the river. The bridge was built at a

cost of just over ?1 million. Roger Daltrey is calling it "the

beginning of the long goodbxe". Rock veterans The Who have announced a

series of 50th anniversary shows. The tour, which starts in November,

will end at the O2 Arena in Greenwich in December. With more

details here's our entertainment # I was born with a plastic spoon

in my mouth... With an intimate a cappella set

and a chat with the press, Who members Roger Daltrey

and Pete Townshend take to the stage of Ronnie Scott's to announce

their 50th anniversary tour. But this exciting news

for fans is bittersweet, as it marks the fact that these ageing rockers

plan to wind things down a little. I don't think we are

going to stop playing. We've always been available

for charity shows and events, one`offs, but the touring shde

of it is going to have to come to I should say that not all of

The Who's history has been pleasant It is great just to have thhs

partnership with Roger, we share The Who and what's good and bad

about it but today it's all good. It was here in May 1969 that The Who

premiered Pete Townshend's rock opera, Tommy, so it seems only

fitting that the band should return to this West End venue to announce

their long goodbye. Tommy was called pretentious

by journalists with no imaghnation. But in actual fact we were

encouraged to be pretentious. Pete Townsend probably is working

for ever on material, it wotld seem. Equally, Roger, he loves totring,

singing and playing. I think there's plenty more

to come from both of them. Both have confirmed plans to record

so it's certainly not all over yet. The sun has been in and out of the

clouds today. It is one for the vegetation, the grass is certainly

going to be green after the showers we've had here. They've popped up

across the rest of London and the Home Counties here and therd. Still

spitting at it this evening. There's a terrific shower over the

southeastern part of the M24 that's just gone through. Let's take a look

at the picture for this evening Some showers very heavy, thdy are

going to be tailing off as we go through the night. Come abott ten

p.m., we should have seen the back of them and most of the dry weather

will come through tonight. Ht will also be clear. Temperatures below

last night, they got into shngle figures in a few places, thdy will

probably be at about 11 degrees in London suburbs. Some shallow mist or

fog patches early tomorrow lorning, but they will burn away quickly and

won't cause a problem. Tomorrow is going to be quite a contrast. There

will be plenty of sunshine. We will have the sunshine continuing. That

is into the afternoon as well very miniscule chance of a shower through

the day tomorrow, but mostlx it s going to be dry and lots of sunshine

to enjoy. The winds won't bd too strong either and temperatures will

be up to around 22 Celsius, very pleasant indeed. Through thd middle

part of this week into Wedndsday, high pressure prevails, there will

be plenty of sunshine, largdly dry conditions once again. It's going to

be a tiny bit warmer day by day On the outlook for Wimbledon, this is

just an example. It will be very similar across London and the Home

Counties elsewhere. We will have temperatures nearer the mid`20s on

Thursday. We will cling on to that fine weather for Friday as well

before it clouds over overnhght Saturday is looking like a real

disappointment, but we don't have to worry about that yet becausd there's

sunshine to enjoy tomorrow. Now a reminder

of the day's headlines. The veteran entertainer Rolf Harris

has been found guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault

against women and young girls. The offences were committed

between 1968 and 1986. The former editor of the News

of the World, Andy Coulson, and the paper's former Royal editor, Clive

Goodman, are to face a retrhal. A jury convicted Coulson

of phone hacking last week, but was unable to reach verdicts on charges

that they paid police officdrs to Every employee in Britain

now has the right to request Employees can expect

their request to work flexibly to be considered "in a reasonable manner"

by employers. A school in Tower Hamlets is

at the centre of concerns over BBC London has learned that the

council has information concerning the possible Islamification of

Kobi Nazrul primary in Whitdchapel. I'll be back later during the

Ten O'Clock News. From all the team here, thanks for

watching and enjoy your evening If you were there,

you'll all get done for murder We don't have to prove

who used a knife any more. He's only gone and stabbed someone,

hasn't he? If you were there,

you'll all get done for murder I thought

they were going for a pizza! I'm pleading guilty to nothing, Mum.

They can do what they want. Our son's innocent, Mrs Ward.

Please, go.