26/08/2014 BBC London News

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Police have revealed there's been a five`fold increase in

the number of arrests for stspected terrorism offences since last year.

It comes as a senior Scotland Yard detective made

a direct appeal to the publhc to help identify radicalised Londoners

who may be about to commit offences such as travelling to Syria to fight

for extremist Islamist groups. Here's our Home affairs

correspondent, Guy Smith. A call to the public,

particularly the Muslim comlunity to help identify so`called asphring

terrorists. Today the police made an appeal

across the UK but especiallx in London, asking us all to look

out signs of becoming radic`lised. People will spot family,

friends people in their comlunity Someone who starts to behavd

in an odd way, perhaps showhng signs of radicalisation talking

about travel, selling possessions, perhaps raising money to tr`vel

abroad and put two and two together The question is whether thex

pick up the phone to us. James Foley's murder is

the most recent shocking incident to Not just in the Middle East

but also here in Britain. Scotland Yard says the incrdase in

the number of dangerous indhviduals have been challenging because nearly

half of those travelling to Syria who are now of concern were never

known before as a terrorist threat. During the first half

of this year there have been 69 In the last four years The Let has

prompted the removal of more than 45,000 pieces

of extreme online content. And in the past 12 months, tnder

the government's Prevent programme there has been a 58% increase in

the number of times the authorities have intervened in turning xoung

people away from extremism. Many may remember protests

around the world when a Danhsh newspaper published cartoons

of the Prophet, Mohammed. This Londoner was jailed

for soliciting murder. He was unimpressed

with today's appeal. Muslims will look to that and say,

how can we ever cooperate whth such an oppressive system

and be a party to that systdm. It is unacceptable and Islalically,

it's not allowed. But moderate voices

are also concerned. It's like everywhere you go, as

a Muslim you are being watched and that's the suspicion the colmunity

feels throughout from top to bottom. From the outset we have

been critical of this. While some believe some Muslims have

been alienated, It needs the public's help `nd

for community and religious leaders to continue to

speak out against extremism. Police in Hertfordshire are urgently

appealing for the driver of a blue car involved in a fatal hit`and`run

to contact them immediately. 16`year`old, Fazan Ahmed was struck

by what's believed to be a Peugeot in Hemel Hempstead on Fridax evening

and died at St Mary's Hospital As you've been hearing,

London doctors are treating Britain's first Ebola patient with

the experimental drug, ZMapp. The volunteer nurse, Willial Pooley,

has been flown here from West Africa and is in a special hsolation

unit at the Royal Free Hosphtal From south`east London,

Milton blogs about issues affecting He has been trying to get accurate

facts about the Ebola outbrdak to family and friends there and says

many Londoners with connecthons in People are very fearful

for their parents, friends `nd loved ones back home because the situation

seems to be getting out of hand Flights are being cancelled

on a daily basis. They don't know if their relatives

who have actually gone to Sierra Leone would be actually

trapped and would not be able to Now the arrival

of the UK's first Ebola pathent in London, flanked by policd and

whisked to a specialist unit has turned attention to the caphtal s

ability to treat the virus. Public Health England put ott

information that went to general practitioners,

A departments and other lots of places where we have an intdraction

with people returning after foreign William Pooley is being cardd for

in one of two beds in the And this evening we learned he has

been given the experimental The Health Secretary says

treating him here is low risk. I am actually proud

about what the NHS is able to offer I think the public can be rdassured,

not just by the precautions we are t`king but

the superb care he is receiving It is a stark contrast to

the conditions in West Africa and the World Health Organization

says it is concerned about the high number of health profession`ls

developing the disease. Today, a London charity worker

recently arrived in Liberia I've seen health workers ushng

dustbin bags for gloves bec`use That contributes to the sprdad

of Ebola but also they are working incredibly

hard and incredibly long hotrs. Fatigue sets in

and you can make mistakes He says restrictions on flights have

made it harder to get equiplent medicine and health workers to

the areas they are most needed. Like others, he is full of praise

for Mr Pooley and his willingness to volunteer in a country which

needs all the help it can gdt. We understand so far Mr Pooley has

been given one dose Doctors here say they have lade it

clear to him, it's not necessarily a cure, but they've added thehr voices

to those in praise of the volunteer nurse, describing him as a resilient

and remarkable the young man. Has it stopped raining yet?

Yes, but we had 48 hours of it. Saint James 's Park in central

London had 50 millimetres, close to what we get in the month of August.

Tomorrow is that, fine and ht will be warmer. The process starts as we

go through the night. Maybe one or two patchy outbreaks but drhve

through the night. Rakes in the cloud. 11 or 12 degrees, max be

further north you will get down into single figures for a time. We will

wake up to sunshine tomorrow. Patchy cloud around and into the afternoon

and evening, coming in from the south`west. Temperatures will be up

to 22 degrees. Cloud will bring patchy rain overnight into Thursday

but on Thursday and Friday, largely dry with some sunny spells. Heavy

showers around to start off at the weekend but the early signs are

next week will be weekend but the early signs are

next week will be more settled. Now we get the UK forecast.

Not all of us need the weather to change. It has been lovely for the

past couple of days. Lovely loose guile in