04/07/2014 BBC London News

That's all from us. Now on BBC One, it's time

for the news where a recruitment crisis. The sdrvice

says it faces a shortfall of 60 paramedics. It is calling for a

review of paramedics. It is calling for a

public sector pay to help rdtain front line staff.

OK, we are off to an urgent care centre at Guy's Hospital. Alice

wanted a front line job in London. 11 months ago, she got one. We are

en route to a 67`year`old. Alice is typical of the new recruits

the London Ambulance Servicd does get. 24, a graduate and keen to work

in the capital, where the job is at its most challenging. Pull them

towards you and push them away. This is the side she ajoys. Allen has had

a suspected stroke and will be taken to a unit. Long`term it depdnds

which direction my career hdads in. I think I'll have to move ott to

bring up a family or buy a house. I could not do it in London. Being a

graduate I have a lot of unhversity debt. I have come to London. I am in

debt. I am considering moving out in the future. I cannot afford to stay

and work in London. This is my wage slip... Jonathan is looking

elsewhere ` Australia pays ` big issue. He earns ?1940 a month. His

rent alone is ?1500. You want to do a job in the nation's capit`l that

you are proud of. You cannot even afford to pay the rent or jtst about

pay the rent. So, what's thd point? That's basically what frustrates me.

I come home and think, what is the point of my day. I have helped a

couple of people. Have I moved myself on? I want my family to

advance. I want more kids. Where am I going to live? It is a re`l

problem for London's ambulance service. In a submission to the

London health board it says if the current trend continues it will have

600 front line vacancies by the end of the year. In May alone 30

paramedics left. In 2011`2002, 1 had left. That nearly trebldd to 238

last year. The issue for us here is the high cost of working and living

in London. Not just us but `ll public service workers. We have

asked them to seriously consider what more can be done to support all

public sector workers with the true cost of living and working hn a

capital city. London Ambulance Service is recruiting not jtst here

but also from overseas. These are challenging times.

Four people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man

stabbed to death in when den. Two men aged 19 `` in Hendon. Two mean

19 and 20, and two girls, 16 and 17 remain in custody. It is thought the

38`year`old victim was stabbed to death during a failed robbery. A

fraudster who targeted elderly and vulnerable victims using a bogus

lottery scam has been jailed for eight years. Frank Onyeachonam

bought of sport cars and properties in Canning Town and Nigeria, after

defrauding people out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Labour has won

two out of three seats on Tower Hamlets Council. It follows a

by`election in the Blackwall and Cubitt Town wards. It was closely

watched after criticism of the borough during the elections in May.

As well as Labour's win, thd Conservatives held one seat. A free

school which faced collapse before it even opened has fresh hope

tonight. Funding for Fulham Boys School was pulled by the Edtcation

Secretary at the last minutd after a permanent site fell through. After a

tense day of negotiations bdtween Michael Gove and the major `` mayor,

City Hall are confident a solution can be found. These are people with

a can`do attitude. Passions ran high as perspective parents vent their

anger. The Education Secret`ry pulled the plug at the last minute,

leaving 100 pupils with no school. Devastated. I am gutted. We'll fight

until it stops and we get otr school back. A Government representative

was present. Parents hope they got the message. It is not ethical. It

is not considerate to familhes and the boys. The whole transithon from

primary to secondary is so dmotional and detrimental to their

development. My son has special needs, so the search for a school

for a child with special nedds takes longer. The school was due to open

on this temporary site in sdventh and then move to the sul `` in

September and then move to hs Sullivan school site. The ndw Labour

council is keeping that open. Michael Gove says no permandnt site

equals no school. He told us yesterday who he thinks shotld help

find one. Luckily we have in the Mayor of London a Conservathve mayor

who has backed free schools. Who when other local authorities have

been difficult in the past has liberated sites. I am deterlined we

will find a site for this m`rvellous group of people. The mayor helped

ten new schools help new sites last week. Although this came as a

surprise to Boris Johnson, he rang Michael Gove this afternoon. The two

are working together to find a solution. They will meet as early as

next week and a number of options have been identified.

Representatives at the school have given the news a cautious wdlcome.

Time is running out. They h`ve pupils a uniform and a per speck tus

described by ministers as the best ever created by a free school.

Finally they have hope that this school may open as planned.

That's it from me this evenhng. I will leave you with the weather

It gets to the weekend and ht starts to rain. Typical! It is not a lost

cause! Most of the rain acttally is coming through tonight. Aftdr, that

there's a risk of a few showers as the weekend goes on. Yes, it will be

cooler. Pleasantly warm when the sun makes an appearance. The rahn is

here. You may appreciate th`t on the garden. It will get heavier during

the night. With all that gohng on and after a warm day temper`tures

are not going down too far. It is a damp and dismalstart in the morning.

The early heavy rain will clear Patchy rain will be around. It gets

brighter and drier through the day. Sunny spells coming through into the

afternoon. There may be somd further showers coming through later in the

afternoon. Temperatures are still into the 20s. It will still feel

pleasantly warm. So, it is ` slow start to the weekend. Let's look

further ahead. After that e`rly rain on Saturday, there is still a chance

for a shower on Sunday, espdcially later in the day. Before th`t,

plenty of sunshine. Today's weather played out like a

classic World Cup match - a tale of two halves.

Highest temperatures for this year. A different story further north and

west. A lot of cloud around. It was breezy, and yes, we saw significant

rain. This rain has to clear further east overnight and then it

introduces a different feel to our weather - sunny spells but also

showers. So a good drenching for the gardens overnight. Some of the rain

heavy over north-east England for a time and stretching up towards

south-east Scotland as this weather front goes further east. First