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There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now on BBC One, time for the news where you are | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good afternoon from BBC London News, I'm Victoria Hollins. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
The parents of a schoolboy from Croydon who died | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
after taking ecstasy have spoken publicly for the first time | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
since his death and say they want lessons to be learnt from it. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
16-year-old Daniel Spargo-Mabbs died after an illegal rave in January. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
The couple have set up a charity in their son's memory, | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
He was warm, kind, funny, quirky, adventurous. | :00:33. | :00:49. | |
And it has been six months since he died. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
His parents had no idea their 16-year-old son Daniel was | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
His decision to try ecstasy for the first time that night cost | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
The door went and it was the police saying Daniel had been found | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
His body temperature was up to 42, 43 degrees. | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
He had so many wires and tubes and monitors. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
The best of modern science couldn't save him. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Last week, this man pleaded guilty to supplying the drugs to Daniel | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
You started a foundation in his name. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
What do you hope to achieve, what are the goals for the future? | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
We just wanted to do anything we possibly could to warn other people. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
If it got Daniel, it could get other young people, | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
The family have commissioned a play about Daniel's death. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
It will be performed at schools around the country. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
It feels most of the time... I just think that this is a horrible dream. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
We just don't want anyone else to be where we are. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
His parents say that if their efforts can stop one more | :02:11. | :02:22. | |
young person from trying drugs, it will all be worthwhile. | :02:23. | :02:36. | |
Two people have been arrested for conspiracy to commit female | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Police stopped a 72-year-old man arriving at Heathrow airport | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
The man - from Uganda - was later arrested. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
A 40-year-old woman was also arrested in Hackney. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
The girl was put into the care of social services. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Well, the Commonwealth Games are now well underway, and helping to make | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
the event a success are the thousands of volunteer helpers. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
Just like at London 2012, the Games Makers have captured | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
the friendly spirit of the event - a legacy that continues in London | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
today with the start of the annual 'Visitor Welcome' programme. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
This year, 19 million people will visit London, | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
that is more foreign visitors than any other city in the world. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Many will have been inspired by the 2012 London Olympics and a | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Two years later, that legacy lives on with a team | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Starting this weekend, 630 volunteers in their distinctive | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
pink polo shirts will be based at nine tourist hotspots. | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
simply to welcome people and to help them | :03:49. | :04:00. | |
We surveyed visitors last year and 98% of them said they had | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
a wonderful time interacting with the ambassadors. | :04:06. | :04:06. | |
Some people will go from pod to pod on their stay. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Others will go back to the same pod every day and go, | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
On duty at Piccadilly Circus today are six | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
London ambassadors, including Annabel and Kelly, who both started | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
I don't know if I would be doing it otherwise. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
So you are a living legacy of the Olympic Games. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
The joy of helping people, and once you help them, the smile | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
And I want to give back to London what London has given to me, because | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
It is time to do something positive for the country and the city. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
The team of London volunteers will be helping visitors every day | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
And the weather - tonight any showers will die away | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
and it'll stay cloudy. with patchy rain possible around dawn. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Tomorrow will feel fresher, though still quite warm, with sunny spells. | :05:01. | :05:13. | |
A bit of a change on the way, in fact it has already started in the | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
north and west of the UK. It will be cooler, temperatures slipping back | :05:22. | :05:21. | |
to where they cooler, temperatures slipping back | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
to where they should be for this time of the year. Some sunshine, | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
to where they should be for this time of the year. Some sunshine but | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
also some outbreaks of rain. Ahead of this crowd, some sunshine and | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
heat, 29 in Southampton but only 16 in the Western Isles. Heavy rain for | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
a time overnight working its way deep words -- eastwards. Elsewhere, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
largely dry, particularly in southern counties. Warmer in the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
south-east, 18 or 19 degrees. Any rain on | :05:54. | :05:54. |