:00:00. > :00:00.said it had been bought by `n anonymous bidder. Now it is time for
:00:00. > :00:13.the news where you are. This is BBC London News with me,
:00:14. > :00:20.Asad Ahmad. Tower Hamlets Council has been
:00:21. > :00:22.severely criticised in a report into its handling of May's local
:00:23. > :00:25.and European elections. The Electoral Commission described
:00:26. > :00:26.the council's count, which lasted four times longer than
:00:27. > :00:29.it should, as "inadequately Here's our political correspondent,
:00:30. > :00:36.Karl Mercer. It was the count that went on and
:00:37. > :00:39.on and on. For a minute after minute,
:00:40. > :00:43.hour after hour and recount after recount, staff here worked up
:00:44. > :00:46.to 17 hour shifts, trying to work out who won the elections for mayor
:00:47. > :00:50.and local council in Tower Hamlets. Eventually independent candhdate
:00:51. > :00:53.Lutfur Rahman was declared But the scenes
:00:54. > :00:59.as he left the count were as chaotic Hundreds of supporters gathdred
:01:00. > :01:05.amid protests from their political opponents
:01:06. > :01:08.and claims of intimidation. Today the electoral commisshon has
:01:09. > :01:11.published a report into events at the count,
:01:12. > :01:13.it doesn't make pretty reading. It says the venue was too small,
:01:14. > :01:16.that there weren't enough counting It points to security delays
:01:17. > :01:21.and says some counting staff were Fundamentally, the problems were
:01:22. > :01:26.a failure in planning. There were delays in getting
:01:27. > :01:28.counting staff and counting agents That delayed things by two
:01:29. > :01:32.and a half hours. There were insufficient staff to be
:01:33. > :01:35.able to either recover from that or to do the counting in the thme
:01:36. > :01:38.the returning officer had intended. Fundamentally,
:01:39. > :01:40.that meant that a local election count he planned to take six hours
:01:41. > :01:46.took 23 and a half hours. All of this, says Peter Gold,
:01:47. > :01:48.an opposition councillor, He'd written to the
:01:49. > :01:52.Electoral Commission about it years The authority should actually say
:01:53. > :01:57.something is going wrong here. What about the Government saying
:01:58. > :02:00.that Tower Hamlets is not c`pable of running a proper election and count
:02:01. > :02:03.and appointing people to do it? They have commissioners
:02:04. > :02:04.for various things in local authorities, we should have
:02:05. > :02:07.outside people run our elections in The Electoral Commission has now
:02:08. > :02:15.ordered Tower Hamlets to have its plans for next general election
:02:16. > :02:18.by December, a full five months There are major problems
:02:19. > :02:24.and the council needs to stop being complacent and face up to them
:02:25. > :02:27.and make sure this never happens again, otherwise
:02:28. > :02:29.the public rightly won't have confidence in our democracy, in the
:02:30. > :02:32.case of residents in Tower Hamlets. The election count was
:02:33. > :02:39.John Williams' responsibility. He says he's learned lessons
:02:40. > :02:42.from the night. Would it be fair to say
:02:43. > :02:45.the count from start to finhsh was I wouldn't say it was a shalbles,
:02:46. > :02:49.I would say there were certainly factors that led to it taking
:02:50. > :02:52.a lot longer than we planned, including some
:02:53. > :02:55.of the measures we put in place to It took longer than it should have
:02:56. > :02:59.done to admit everybody to the count in the first placd, that's
:03:00. > :03:02.true, but part of that was because we were absolutely keen to lake sure
:03:03. > :03:06.nobody was in the count venue who Tower Hamlets says it has learned
:03:07. > :03:14.lessons and says they will be put into place at a by`election due
:03:15. > :03:17.to be held this Thursday. There will be more police on hand,
:03:18. > :03:20.more people to do the count and a bigger venue, they don't want
:03:21. > :03:29.a repeat of May's scenes. An employment tribunal has ruled
:03:30. > :03:32.that a black Scotland Yard firearms officer suffered discrimination
:03:33. > :03:35.because of her race and sex. The Metropolitan Police now faces
:03:36. > :03:37.a compensation claim from Carol Howard,
:03:38. > :03:39.who was said to have been "singled A BBC investigation has revealed how
:03:40. > :03:47.a waste removal man who tells his customers he's legally disposing
:03:48. > :03:49.of his rubbish has Under new guidelines, his company,
:03:50. > :03:53.which is based in Kent, could be one of the first to face
:03:54. > :03:57.tougher penalties for fly`thpping. We are trying to catch a fly`tipper
:03:58. > :04:08.who dumped vanloads of rubbhsh. He's completely blocked
:04:09. > :04:10.the lane here. I have cars that come down here
:04:11. > :04:16.and have to then reverse in my This is who we believe is
:04:17. > :04:21.responsible, Wally Marney. In a house with cameras
:04:22. > :04:24.and a tracker in the rubbish, I'll be honest with you,
:04:25. > :04:34.it would be 100 quid. Eight hours later,
:04:35. > :04:36.he drives towards isolated country We temporarily lost the van
:04:37. > :04:44.and rubbish. We've now found him, he is dmpty,
:04:45. > :04:47.and we've suspect he's just dumped Emitting a signal, our tracker shows
:04:48. > :04:52.he travelled down and Guilden Hill At 9.54pm, though, the tracker was
:04:53. > :04:58.emitting a stationary signal from Church Road, suggesting the waste
:04:59. > :05:01.from his truck had been tipped. Every item he had in the back of his
:05:02. > :05:13.truck now littered the country lane. The following morning I
:05:14. > :05:18.discovered the waste blocked They've just dumped this
:05:19. > :05:30.right outside of our gate. In one week we believe he fly`tipped
:05:31. > :05:33.on at least three occasions. In response to our investigation, Mr
:05:34. > :05:40.Marney told us he never fly`tips. He says he pays someone else to
:05:41. > :05:43.dispose of the rubbish, He refused to give us further
:05:44. > :05:50.detail, repeatedly declined to be interviewed and said if we tried to
:05:51. > :05:54.film him he'd smash of our camera. Mr Marney,
:05:55. > :05:56.Colin Campbell from BBC News. After repeated requests for
:05:57. > :06:00.an interview, we decided to ask him People pay you to get rid
:06:01. > :06:05.of their rubbish but all you do is dump it in the
:06:06. > :06:09.countryside, isn't it, Mr Marney? We want some answers off you,
:06:10. > :06:11.Mr Marney. You're getting nothing off le,
:06:12. > :06:13.nothing. Last year, it cost more than ?3
:06:14. > :06:21.million to clear up fly`tipped This fly`tipper says he's now given
:06:22. > :06:49.up collecting people's rubbhsh. Time now for the weather. Sdems like
:06:50. > :06:55.this once again, because we are expecting it to be sunny again. It's
:06:56. > :06:59.going to be warmer than yesterday. This evening and overnight, some
:07:00. > :07:02.patchy cloud around but largely it's dry and clear with some mist or fog
:07:03. > :07:10.patches developing through the second part of the night. Tomorrow,
:07:11. > :07:11.we get off to a beautiful start, lovely sunshine, a bit of f`ir
:07:12. > :07:17.lovely sunshine, a bit of fair weather cloud into the afternoon.
:07:18. > :07:19.Temperatures at least 22 degrees around London. The centre of London
:07:20. > :07:25.itself probably getting nearer 5 or itself probably getting nearer 25 or
:07:26. > :07:28.26 degrees. On the outlook, it's a similar day on Thursday with
:07:29. > :07:31.sunshine and warm conditions. A bit more cloud on Friday. None of this
:07:32. > :07:34.survives into the more cloud on Friday. None of this
:07:35. > :07:38.survives into the weekend, some rain around on Saturday.
:07:39. > :07:43.It's certainly been a feast of football again. The temperature in
:07:44. > :07:44.S?o Paulo was much the same as