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up to the hype. No sense of excitement. This is a team which has

hit rock bottom in terms of performance on the pitch and

popularity of the pitch. What they popularity of the pitch. Wh`t they

have got to do is start winning, no have got to do is start winning no

matter who has the captain's armband. Now he has got to do

something else, and that is winning. Four teenagers have been convicted

of killing a man who had a mental age of a

nine`year`old for his mobile phone. Dean Mayley was stabbed

in the heart while walking home in Greenford

earlier this year. In his summing up, the judgd,

Martyn Zeidman QC, said he wished he could turn the clock back

for the 24 year`old victim. Alice Bhandukravi reports

from the Old Bailey. Dean Mayley looked like

a normal 24`year`old, that he was a vulnerable adtlt

with a mental age of nine. The jury was told that

as soon as you spoke to him, it was obvious

he had learning difficulties. And today his family spoke of

how innocent and how popular he was. Everyone that knew Dean loved him,

he was such a nice kid, everyone. He had manners

and he had respect for people. It don't cost you anything, respect,

and he had that. But Dean didn't have the capacity

to understand what was happening to him on

the evening of the 7th of Fdbruary. As he walked home

here along Ruislip Road, he was targeted by four teenagers

in a car looking for someond to mug. Police say that car had been

driving up and down the road. The teenagers inside,

a group of knife`point robbers, Ryan Beresford, 18 at the thme,

Miguel Leiba, who was 16, and the ringleader,

18`year`old Michael Mensah. As footage captured by CCTV shows,

Mensah stayed in the car for his North Face jacket

and mobile phone, Ryan Beresford and Miguel Leiba

backing him up, And when Dean didn't do

what Jamal Jones wanted, I'm absolutely delighted

with the verdicts today, to anyone who is considering

stepping outside their front door armed with a knife,

that if they're prepared to use it, then they have to be prepared

for the consequences. said that this was

yet another example of a kind and innocent person

losing their life because somebody else

was using a knife. The jury was unanimous

in its decision. They found Jamal Jones

guilty of murder and the other three guilty

of manslaughter. They were also found guilty

of attempted robbery, a charge Jones had

already admitted. There were emotional scenes here

when the verdicts were read out and had to be led out of the dock

crying and wailing. Alice Bhandhukravi, BBC London News,

at the Old Bailey. The Government has comes under

increasing pressure to do more to stop young Muslims

becoming radicalised before going to countries

like Syria and Iraq to fight. BBC London has found

that funding to London's cotncils to help them fight extremism

has been cut by around 90%. in such an important area

is irresponsible. But the Home Office insists

that their overall spending on programmes aimed at prevdnting

radicalisation has increased. A man has been jailed

after splashing a noxious fluid over six strangers

in a nightclub queue in Vauxhall. was sentenced to two years

and four months for emptying the contents

of a plastic bottle over a group outside

the Lightbox nightclub in Jtne. Some of the victims were left

with ulcers in their eyes and mouths Workers on London Underground

will refuse to do overtime or go on courses from next week in

a row over ticket`office closures. follows an earlier strike

by RMT members. TfL says it will continue

discussions with trade unions and have guaranteed there whll be

no compulsory redundancies. Government advisors have revealed

how the majority of senior jobs go to those from private schools

and Oxbridge graduates. But the Business Secretary,

Vince Cable, says there's no reason why London state pupils

can't access the capital's top jobs. They are the engines

that drive Britain, London's seats of power

and influence. Within a few Tube stops of lost

of us, but open to so very few. This is some way

from the corridors of power, but there's no lack of ambition

here. It's not often that one of

Britain's highest profile scientists but in the lab,

even the brightest of pupils The people that do get into Oxbridge

have a lot more opportunities than maybe we would have, although

we have a lot of opportunithes, But when you go to a privatd school,

you do get a lot more, there's no point

in saying its equal. 80% of pupils here at Saint Paul's

Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets qualify for free school meals,

but every student in the sixth form has been given an offer

of higher education, including one to read medichne

at Oxford. London has a better track rdcord

than most places in the UK for sending children from disadvantaged

backgrounds to university, but if you are born

in a tough corner of the capital, what chance do you really have

of joining the elite? In 2011, more than 1200 puphls

from London went to study at Oxford

or Cambridge. 380 came from state schools,

and among those the number getting free school meals w`s 2 `

that's 1.6% of the total. Let's say you are growing up

in Tower Hamlets and looking at Westminster

or the Royal Courts of Justice, you think, it is on my doorstep

but I'm never going to get there. I think what we are seeing

in schools like St Paul's W`y here is we are taking some of thd most

deprived communities in the UK. The potential is there, we see it

happening, but you are right, we do have a problem

with social mobility in the UK. You can have excellent schools

that take students in their local community,

educate them to the highest level, and then eventually it is obvious

that that elitism will break down. our institutions don't represent

the people they serve and only a change in this

will fuel London's long`term future. but let's find out what the

weather's up to with Stav Danaos. It was lovely and noticeablx warmer,

a top temperature of 23 degrees in the capital.

A milder night than recently, double figures for most places. Tolorrow

figures for most places. Tomorrow looks breezy but with good spells of

sunshine around. High`pressure to the south, low

pressure to the north, this weather front will bring outbreaks of rain

during Friday night into thd first during Friday night into thd first

part of Saturday morning, so a damp start, sunshine developing, showers

pushing from the north`west, a top temperature of 22 degrees.

Hello! We had a touch of autumn in August, now we are hoping for a bit

of summer in September, both as a result of former Hurricanes. It was

Hurricane Bertha that brought cold air a week or two ago, now we have

another later in the week moving into the Atlantic, but it is going

to take a more northerly track, picking up this warm, subtropical

air, pushing it across the Atlantic, hopefully arriving on our shores,

something warmer, drier and sunnier for most of us for the first week of

September. Tonight, actually, fairly mild for most, quite a breezy night,

blustery across many north-western parts around this area of low

pressure, touching near gale force through the Irish Sea. Heavy rain

moving out of Northern Ireland N-word into a good part of northern

Scotland. -- onwards. In clear