27/07/2014 BBC London News


27/07/2014

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Stay with us on BBC1 for the news where you are.

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Residents on an estate in south London say they're living in fear

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for their safety - as building work takes place all around them.

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Hundreds of new homes are being built in Lambeth to replace flats -

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which are still being lived in - leading to concerns over danger

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This is the shiny future they have been promised.

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But to get there, residents on this estate in Lambeth must wait

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for their homes to be torn down and rebuilt around them.

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And that means living on a demolition site,

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It is not being treated like a building site, they are not

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securing it well enough, there are health and safety risks.

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Look at all of these bits just left unattended.

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We have got a lot of kids in the area so they could easily come in.

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We are just trying to enforce the health and safety and make sure

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these sites are properly secured just to prevent a horrible accident.

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This property has been empty for a couple of months now

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and until recently you could walk inside there.

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We have been told that a couple of nights ago people came and started

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a fire inside, which is why all of this stuff was brought outside.

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The door has now been boarded up by the developers but you can see that

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There is much anger here towards the developers.

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Residents on the Myatts Field North Estate now want

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And for some of those already in their new homes it has not been the

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This is where the leak is coming from

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and that is why the cupboard is like that and it needs to be replaced.

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The quality of the properties are poor.

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It looks nice and they are lovely but they are poor.

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It's the sound issue, it's the floods, it's the leaks

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Some people haven't had hot water for weeks or months.

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The developer, Regenta, says there is a repairs team

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on hand and that the derelict properties are checked every day.

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Meanwhile, Lambeth Council says it is investigating the alleged

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But with years until all this is complete residents say they will

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continue to shout to ensure they are not forgotten amongst the rubble.

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Gatwick Airport has apologised to hundreds of passengers

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after they were told to go home without their luggage.

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Officials blamed staff shortages - while many travellers used social

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media to complain of delays of up to five hours.

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Gatwick says operations have now started returning to normal.

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The police watchdog has begun an investigation after

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a man died following an incident involving police in north London.

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It happened in Islington in the early hours of this morning

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London Ambulance Service were called,

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission said its investigators

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Two people arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit female genital

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A 72-year-old Ugandan man was stopped at Heathrow Airport

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after arriving on a flight from Kampala with an 11-year-old girl.

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Specialist officers took the girl - who's a UK national -

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An elderly couple from Southfleet in Dartford have spoken of their

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terror after burglars raided their home and viciously attacked them.

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Rani and Jas Apaul were asleep in bed when the intruders struck.

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These distressing pictures show the impact of the violent attack

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on Rarni and Jas Apaul in their own home that left them

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They were in bed when the break in happened at around 10:15pm.

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My first memory is of three chaps standing at the foot of our bed.

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And the light going on, and thinking the inevitable is going to happen.

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I just about got to the corner of the bed when they whacked me with

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Mr Upaul was so badly beaten he suffered a broken

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The burglars then assaulted Mrs Upaul before breaking into the

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couple's safe and making off with cash, jewellery and their passports.

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They have gone through an horrific experience

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so I would appeal for anybody with any information whatsoever

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about the attack, the information in regards to the property

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I don't want to be alone in that house.

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In fact, I don't want to live in that house any more.

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A ?5000 reward has been offered to help find those responsible.

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Let's now get the weather forecast for the start of the week from Sara.

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We've got some showers in the forecast for tomorrow.

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It's a risk of showers for us all though.

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Some warm sunshine between the showers

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Generally dry weather throughout the night and more comfortable to sleep

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Some sunshine tomorrow but the showers always there towards

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the east making their way toward central London and

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they will be slow-moving, thundery and with some hail mixed in.

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Plenty of sunshine either side of those showers but

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if you catch one it will be quite torrential, and The Met office has

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issued a weather warning - in force through the day tomorrow -

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Tuesday will be drier and brighter with good spells of

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Some cloud, but generally dry for the middle part of the week

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That's it from the BBC London weekend team for tonight.

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From all of us here, we wish you a very good night.

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Good evening. Top temperatures today were good for all 5 degrees down on

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what we saw yesterday and humidity was a bit lower so all in all much

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more comfortable end to the weekend. For the week ahead there is warmth

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in the sunshine over the next few days, but not completely dry because

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they will be some showers and notably the coming few nights should

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be a bit cooler. Earlier today we saw heavy thunderstorms in the far

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south-east but lots of fine weather that it was wet underneath this

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cloud in the West of Scotland and Northern Ireland and a bit of a

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breeze. Wet and windy weather is moving its way south all the while.

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It should be largely dry over Scotland overnight and the wind will

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clear

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