:00:00. > :00:13.Tonight on BBC London News: The growing dangers
:00:14. > :00:15.of the drug Spice - a homeless man who warned
:00:16. > :00:28.You can buy a bag cheap. But there's worse than Halliburton. -- ht is
:00:29. > :00:32.worse than heroin. Also tonight, the Mayor acctses
:00:33. > :00:34.the Government of dithering by delaying a final decision over
:00:35. > :00:37.airport expansion for anothdr year. Plus: Full military honours
:00:38. > :00:41.for two London soldiers, more than 100 years after they fell
:00:42. > :00:57.in the Battle of the Somme. Yes, they are insects. How
:00:58. > :00:58.scientists and restaurateurs are looking at what we make the eating
:00:59. > :01:05.in future. Good evening and welcome
:01:06. > :01:08.to the programme. We're talking about synthethc
:01:09. > :01:13.drugs - like Spice - being smoked openly by homeless
:01:14. > :01:17.people in London. We know this, because a man called
:01:18. > :01:24.Nick who we interviewed just two weeks ago - who said
:01:25. > :01:35.he was desperately trying gdtting Westminster Council says his
:01:36. > :01:44.death highlights that In The Strand, no-one noticds
:01:45. > :01:48.as a homeless man carries a single rose to the spot
:01:49. > :01:51.where his friend died. He was such a happy person,
:01:52. > :01:53.always up for a laugh. Who we interviewed just over
:01:54. > :01:57.a fortnight ago and who told us he was determined to stop t`king
:01:58. > :02:01.a psychoactive drug called Spice. I have been clean three weeks
:02:02. > :02:04.now, mate, so I am not He called for a crackdown
:02:05. > :02:10.on dealers selling it It is the worst drug it is,
:02:11. > :02:22.it is worse than crack and heroine. Killed according to accounts
:02:23. > :02:29.from some of his friends by the very He smoked a thing called a Spice
:02:30. > :02:36.spliff, next minute he had ` heart He was trying to get off it
:02:37. > :02:43.and he went back to it, and then that is why
:02:44. > :02:49.we sadly lost him. Two weeks ago Westminster Council
:02:50. > :02:56.launched a campaign for a ftrther crackdown on these psychoactive
:02:57. > :02:58.substances, showing several places The word the council used
:02:59. > :03:03.to describe this was an epidemic and councillor Nikki Aiken let Nick
:03:04. > :03:05.who told her he wanted I want dangerous drugs,
:03:06. > :03:12.the Government to clock down on it. Whatever crackdown is being planned
:03:13. > :03:15.or under way, it has all cole too He he only took a couple
:03:16. > :03:20.of puffs and had a serious I understand he may have
:03:21. > :03:26.had a cardiac arrest, it is proof there is a drug
:03:27. > :03:29.that is now on the street In May the Government outlawed
:03:30. > :03:42.selling these substances but not using them, so police
:03:43. > :03:43.can't confiscate them. Katie has been homeless for seven
:03:44. > :03:46.years and knew Nick for most Warning notices were put
:03:47. > :03:56.up by a charity that Dealers are jumping on the larket,
:03:57. > :04:06.and are selling people stuff which is often not what it says
:04:07. > :04:08.on the packet. We have heard today that it might
:04:09. > :04:25.have been rat poison. I was out for 15 minutes. This
:04:26. > :04:32.person also collapsed after taking some of the drug but survivdd. She
:04:33. > :04:36.says this is the most dangerous thing she has ever taken. When they
:04:37. > :04:49.said I had overdosed on space, I could not believe that.
:04:50. > :05:00.Because statistics are not being collected specificallx
:05:01. > :05:06.for this issue, no-one seems to know but people on the streets
:05:07. > :05:20.I heard five people died in the last couple of weeks.
:05:21. > :05:24.The Home Office says its new act is working.
:05:25. > :05:27.The Met says Nick's next of kin have now been informed about his death,
:05:28. > :05:29.and a postmortem examination is being arranged.
:05:30. > :05:35.They are seeing something ndeds to be done. For the police this is a
:05:36. > :05:39.difficult issue. Somebody could be sitting on the steps of a police
:05:40. > :05:43.station smoking this drug, getting completely off their head, `nd the
:05:44. > :05:48.police can do nothing. They cannot confiscate this drug so instead they
:05:49. > :05:52.will target the dealers. Thdre are powers for us to do with people who
:05:53. > :05:56.are supplying it and alreadx we have taken a good number of people off
:05:57. > :06:03.the streets. We have seized over 1000 packets of various different
:06:04. > :06:07.bands of these substances. H think by trying to disrupt the market and
:06:08. > :06:11.tried to remove it from the streets we can best protect vulnerable
:06:12. > :06:16.people. That said, as does take timd. Yes,
:06:17. > :06:21.Westminster council are seehng tonight to the public, simply do not
:06:22. > :06:24.give money to homeless people in the borough because they could just
:06:25. > :06:29.spend it on the strike and ht could kill them. As for Nick and his body
:06:30. > :06:33.is in a mortuary and that shngle red rose which was left at the scene of
:06:34. > :06:41.his death that has already been stolen. He has no memorial.
:06:42. > :06:46.The Peckham mother who was a victim of a stalker
:06:47. > :06:54.wants to empower more young women through martial arts.
:06:55. > :06:58.The Mayor has accused the Government of "dithering" by delaying the final
:06:59. > :07:01.decision on where to build a new runway in the south E`st.
:07:02. > :07:11.Sadiq Khan, who favours Gatwick over Heathrow,
:07:12. > :07:13.says it's causing yet more uncertainty for businesses
:07:14. > :07:16.Let's get more from our Political Editor Tim Donovan
:07:17. > :07:28.What the Government does next week is give its choice, its preference.
:07:29. > :07:33.But then, as we heard yesterday that leads to a formal procdss which
:07:34. > :07:38.will lead ultimately to a vote in Parliament in at least one xear s
:07:39. > :07:42.time. Too long said the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today. Two long
:07:43. > :07:47.given the uncertainty that business given the uncertainty that business
:07:48. > :07:51.already faced over Brexit. The Government's decision to yet again
:07:52. > :07:55.delay deciding where to build the new runway will cause unnecdssary
:07:56. > :07:59.uncertainty for British bushnesses already struggling with Brexit. No
:08:00. > :08:02.more than ever businesses nded certainty and stability in order to
:08:03. > :08:11.make investment decisions and to keep jobs in Britain. What has been
:08:12. > :08:14.the reaction to his comments? The Conservatives have countered.
:08:15. > :08:18.They say they are shocked that the Mayor of London seems to want to
:08:19. > :08:22.deny Londoners a consultation. They say that is nothing new herd, this
:08:23. > :08:26.was always going to be the formal consultative process, to get this
:08:27. > :08:32.off the ground. What do we know about the timetable? By the winter
:08:33. > :08:37.next year, 2017, the early lonths of 2018, we will have a vote on a
:08:38. > :08:40.national policy statements but then if Heathrow were gets the nod to the
:08:41. > :08:45.airport would take about ond year or 18 months to put together ddtailed
:08:46. > :08:49.plans to actually build this runway. They would then be a planning
:08:50. > :08:54.inquiry and a planning decision so all in all it could take colmuter
:08:55. > :08:59.for years, mid-2020, before you see the bulldozers move in, which is why
:09:00. > :09:04.MPs are wanting more claritx on a timetable from the Prime Minister.
:09:05. > :09:09.There is a formal process that has to be undertaken so the Govdrnment
:09:10. > :09:14.will identify its preferred option off-site. That will then go to a
:09:15. > :09:17.statutory consultation. The Government will then considdr the
:09:18. > :09:20.results of the statutory consultation and bring forw`rd an
:09:21. > :09:26.airport 's national planning statement on which this House will
:09:27. > :09:33.vote. Of course we have been here before. In January 2009 Labour then
:09:34. > :09:36.decided to go ahead with a third runway, the then Transport Secretary
:09:37. > :09:40.made the announcement in thd House of Commons. But we learned that even
:09:41. > :09:42.then he had his doubts about whether or not it would be built, as my
:09:43. > :09:48.colleague reports. Heathrow is now operating at around
:09:49. > :09:51.99% of its maximum capacity. Seven and half years ago Geoff Hoon
:09:52. > :09:55.stood up in the House of Colmons The Government remains
:09:56. > :09:57.convinced that additional capacity at Heathrow
:09:58. > :09:59.is critical to this country's Even in the chamber
:10:00. > :10:02.it caused uproar with Hayes MP John MCDonnell,
:10:03. > :10:04.who is now the Shadow Chancdllor, It was fundamentally
:10:05. > :10:18.important to the future of Britain's
:10:19. > :10:20.economy and well-being that that decision
:10:21. > :10:21.was I'm sorry that there has bedn
:10:22. > :10:27.a delay because the economic factors Did you really think when you stood
:10:28. > :10:31.up and announced that that Heathrow would
:10:32. > :10:33.get a third runway? No I didn't but I always re`lised
:10:34. > :10:36.that there were significant The emphasis I placed
:10:37. > :10:41.at the time was on the importance to the British economy
:10:42. > :10:43.of expanding Heathrow. I always recognised that thdre
:10:44. > :10:46.were political factors and those political factors
:10:47. > :10:49.are frankly getting in the way. Expanding airport capacity
:10:50. > :10:53.in the South East goes It was here today
:10:54. > :10:59.that local government formally joined the campaign
:11:00. > :11:01.against the Roskill Commisshon's majority recommendation
:11:02. > :11:03.of Cublington as London's third The Roskill Commission decided
:11:04. > :11:08.there should be a new airport in And the anti-Maplin campaigners
:11:09. > :11:18.who are today vowing to make the Government eat
:11:19. > :11:20.it's hat over Maplin... A later plan for an
:11:21. > :11:23.airport in Maplin Sands I want to make one final pohnt
:11:24. > :11:29.which is relevant to this I will not support, in fact
:11:30. > :11:37.I will oppose a third runwax. And plans to expand Heathrow
:11:38. > :11:39.were shot down with this plddge from David Cameron in the rtn up
:11:40. > :11:43.to the 2010 election. What were your civil servants saying
:11:44. > :11:44.to Were they saying, Secretary of State
:11:45. > :11:48.you would be very brave to give this the go-ahead,
:11:49. > :11:50.or were they saying, They certainly said those sorts
:11:51. > :11:59.of things on a number of occasions but their job is to ensure that
:12:00. > :12:02.Britain has the best transport Do you think a third
:12:03. > :12:08.runway will ever be built? I do, yes, because I think
:12:09. > :12:10.the If we are to maintain Heathrow
:12:11. > :12:15.as a hub airport serving international passengers,
:12:16. > :12:18.serving the British economy, we have to go
:12:19. > :12:29.ahead with expansion. A prominent Muslim who clails he has
:12:30. > :12:33.links to MI5 is likely to dhe in jail for murdering a Syrhan
:12:34. > :12:36.cleric following a power struggle Abdul Hadi Arwani from Acton
:12:37. > :12:40.was sprayed with bullets from a sub machine gun in April
:12:41. > :12:42.last year, by a hit man Today Arwani's family said nothing
:12:43. > :12:45.could reduce the pain of losing him in such
:12:46. > :12:48.a brutal and calculated way. Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt
:12:49. > :12:52.Nick Beak reports. You have seen the picture
:12:53. > :13:05.of the city before and after. Abdul Hadi Arwani, an Islamhc
:13:06. > :13:07.preacher, speaking here four years ago,
:13:08. > :13:09.describing the atrocities he witnessed as a young man
:13:10. > :13:12.growing up in Syria. He said he had photographed
:13:13. > :13:14.what happened there When they found out that I did
:13:15. > :13:18.that they issued a capital But in the end it was a dispute over
:13:19. > :13:23.the ownership of this West London Mosque
:13:24. > :13:28.that led to his death. Arranged by 63-year-old Muslim
:13:29. > :13:31.convert, Khalid Rashad. You can see how evil
:13:32. > :13:34.the defendant was, the way he took extreme measures, brut`l
:13:35. > :13:37.measures, to kill a person over what And for that, quite
:13:38. > :13:42.fittingly, he has been convicted of murder and he hs going
:13:43. > :13:47.to serve 32 years behind bars. Father of six Mr Arwani was shot
:13:48. > :13:50.dead in his car in Wembley last The hired killer was Iraq w`r
:13:51. > :13:56.veteran Leslie Cooper. Detectives later found
:13:57. > :13:58.his machine gun and ammunition inside
:13:59. > :14:03.pensioner Rashad's shed. As part of his defence Rash`d
:14:04. > :14:07.claimed back in 2012 MI5 asked him to become a secret agent
:14:08. > :14:09.to spy on the Muslim He claimed that twice he turned them
:14:10. > :14:22.down and they were unhappy. The jury was told that
:14:23. > :14:23.the security service neither confirms nor
:14:24. > :14:25.denies any claim of The mosque gained attention back
:14:26. > :14:29.in 2013 when a terror But it was a disagreement
:14:30. > :14:33.over who controlled the place two years
:14:34. > :14:52.later Still to come. I am at a restaurant
:14:53. > :14:57.in South London which is taking part in London food Tech week. I will be
:14:58. > :14:58.finding out what that means while our colleague of mine eats some
:14:59. > :15:03.bugs. They sacrificed their lives
:15:04. > :15:08.for their country. Privates Harry Carter,
:15:09. > :15:11.from West Ham, and William Larmon, from Holborn, were killed
:15:12. > :15:14.at the Battle of the Somme Now, over a hundred
:15:15. > :15:19.years on, they have Alex Dunlop explains how
:15:20. > :15:36.it was all possible thanks The remains of Harry Carter and
:15:37. > :15:39.William Marmon, fittingly bordered by Royal Anglians, soldiers with
:15:40. > :15:45.strong connections to the old regiment. Leading the mourndrs, nine
:15:46. > :15:52.family members, who never ilagined they would be making the jotrney.
:15:53. > :15:58.You do not realise what that journey -- what's that generation wdnt
:15:59. > :16:04.through. And I were a gener`tion, how easy we have had it in some
:16:05. > :16:11.ways. They were given a bad ill with military honours. What makes this
:16:12. > :16:17.story so remarkable -- they were given a burial.
:16:18. > :16:24.It was thought they were buried in this cemetery, in fact they were two
:16:25. > :16:29.miles away. For three years this historhan and
:16:30. > :16:36.his team has mapped the tunnels used to literally undermine the
:16:37. > :16:40.enemy. In November 1915 Harry and William were on sentry duty when a
:16:41. > :16:47.massive German mine erupted below them. The fallout killed thdm and
:16:48. > :16:51.six comrades. Thanks to adv`nces in DNA testing the MOD were able to
:16:52. > :16:56.trace the family 's two gendrations on. I have never known anything like
:16:57. > :17:00.this in 20 years of working for the Commission, a case where so much
:17:01. > :17:05.evidence has been gathered that two individuals have been given back
:17:06. > :17:10.their identity. It has been exciting, if that is the right word,
:17:11. > :17:17.but also deeply moving. I fdel like I know William and Harry now. For
:17:18. > :17:24.now the headstones of the shx remaining people killed still stand
:17:25. > :17:29.in the town. But the bodies of those men are almost certainly sthll
:17:30. > :17:33.buried somewhere underneath these traitors. But it is too difficult
:17:34. > :17:38.and dangerous to recover thd remains.
:17:39. > :17:44.As Harry and William's families take a final tour of the place where they
:17:45. > :17:45.died it is sobering to think that 40 bodies recovered from the Wdstern
:17:46. > :17:51.Front every year. Being the victim of a stalkdr
:17:52. > :17:54.would be a terrifying experience for anyone -
:17:55. > :17:57.but a single mother from Peckham turned her harrowing experidnce
:17:58. > :17:59.into a positive one - taking up marital arts
:18:00. > :18:01.to protect herself. For Della O'Sullivan the hobby led
:18:02. > :18:05.to a lifestyle and career - and now she's hoping to empower more
:18:06. > :18:19.young women into taking up the art Meet Della O'Sullivan, a 33,year-old
:18:20. > :18:30.mother from Peckham. She is also one of the most highly ranked Whng Chun
:18:31. > :18:34.fighters. I had a stalker for a four-year period when I was a
:18:35. > :18:38.teenager. I did not feel in control of the situation. The person that
:18:39. > :18:43.was targeting me was quite ` big person. Nobody helped me. I felt the
:18:44. > :18:49.only person that could help me was me. She walked away from a career as
:18:50. > :18:53.a legal secretary, becoming an instructor and opening her own
:18:54. > :19:01.martial arts school. When I started I went to try something new. You get
:19:02. > :19:07.what you call that Wing Chun bug. Next month she will go to Htngary
:19:08. > :19:12.where she will take the exal to become a master. To do that she has
:19:13. > :19:16.to take down 30 men who will attack her in succession. Ahead of that she
:19:17. > :19:21.is running a self-defence sdminar for women and girls at the dnd of
:19:22. > :19:24.the month. Proceeds will go to a domestic abuse charity and she is
:19:25. > :19:29.hoping she can empower a new generation of e-mails.
:19:30. > :19:32.The techniques and the applhcation are practical. -- a new gendration
:19:33. > :19:41.of females. Now, you may not know it, btt this
:19:42. > :19:44.week is London Food Tech wedk, where restaurateurs,
:19:45. > :19:45.scientists and businesses look at ways at changing what's
:19:46. > :19:56.on our dinner plate. They're experimenting
:19:57. > :19:57.with bugs and insects, and even looking at meat grown
:19:58. > :19:59.in a lab. Well, Asad certainly
:20:00. > :20:05.was which is why he's at an unusual restaurant in Elephant and Castle,
:20:06. > :20:14.so tell us more. I did not know what to expect. I
:20:15. > :20:22.knew this restaurant was taking part in London Food Tech Week. I also
:20:23. > :20:27.knew that fruit and veg is `ll unsellable. But I was not expecting
:20:28. > :20:36.this where they are growing their own herbs to use. It is all mind
:20:37. > :20:42.boggling. A team from London Food Tech Week is coming here tolorrow to
:20:43. > :20:49.learn more. My colleague wanted also to learn more. Would you believe he
:20:50. > :20:57.ended up eating some bugs also. Watch this. Farming in London,
:20:58. > :21:03.21st-century style. This is the capital's only micro farm and it is
:21:04. > :21:15.based somewhere you might not expect. We are 33 metres below the
:21:16. > :21:22.streets of Clapham. We are hn a former World War II air raid shelter
:21:23. > :21:25.that is now a farm. It combhnes the history of London with the `ir raid
:21:26. > :21:34.shelters in the fact that 8000 people were sheltering during the
:21:35. > :21:38.war. You mix that with the future of food production, and I find that
:21:39. > :21:42.exciting. It can take as little as eight days to produce some of the
:21:43. > :21:46.crops down here and it is this kind of small business, producing food in
:21:47. > :21:50.London for Londoners, that dxperts from around the world who are
:21:51. > :21:56.gathering for they say is ndeded to help tackle global food shortages
:21:57. > :22:02.stop we are never going to be able to feed all of London with our
:22:03. > :22:04.tunnels but we will be able to feed some of London which will t`ke
:22:05. > :22:08.pressure off agricultural environments. Over 100 small
:22:09. > :22:13.start-up businesses are takhng part in this year's London Food Tech
:22:14. > :22:20.Week. This is one of them and they are hoping to turn this frol game
:22:21. > :22:28.its flour instead of a quitd. It is its flour instead of a quitd. It is
:22:29. > :22:38.a normal cocktail with crickets an ingredient he and 14. We ard seeing
:22:39. > :22:49.a lot of innovation. -- ingredient he in protein. It is nicer than it
:22:50. > :22:55.sounds. Back in Clapham this restaurant is happy to use gradients
:22:56. > :23:02.on its doorstep. We have thhs space in London. It makes sense that we
:23:03. > :23:05.have got Michael Howard is going down the road. Crickets cocktails
:23:06. > :23:10.and salads bagged makes not whet your appetite now that experts warn
:23:11. > :23:17.if we do not stop wasting food they could be coming to a dinner plate
:23:18. > :23:21.near you. Things are certainly happenhng here.
:23:22. > :23:28.We are pushing the boundarids when it comes to food technology. This is
:23:29. > :23:34.the largest thing of its kind. Why London? Why not London? London is
:23:35. > :23:42.famous for food. And also technology.
:23:43. > :23:48.Why not? It is the place to be. When it comes to technology and food my
:23:49. > :23:54.first thought would be, is organic the best without involving
:23:55. > :23:59.technology? We have no chance to combine the two to make our much
:24:00. > :24:08.easier. Our living wall behhnd as makes sure the water is regtlarly
:24:09. > :24:16.administered. And this thing with London's first restaurant whth a
:24:17. > :24:22.zero waste sounds great. I `m sorry but unsellable food does not mean
:24:23. > :24:28.inedible food. What we are trying to do is fight the perception of what
:24:29. > :24:30.we think is waste and is not. Supermarkets have made constmers
:24:31. > :24:37.think that's perfectly constmable food is not. London Food Tech Week
:24:38. > :24:41.businesses get behind it like businesses get behind it like
:24:42. > :24:48.Google, Coca-Cola, London Ilperial College. If I am late back to the
:24:49. > :24:49.office... I am going to enjoy myself here first.
:24:50. > :25:09.Thank you. You did say you would eat some bugs.
:25:10. > :25:17.I have got the picture, I whll leave the punch line to you. It w`s that
:25:18. > :25:22.sort of the where it looked like it might shower. This is not the
:25:23. > :25:27.invasion of the Mr runs, I suspect that is the office late on that
:25:28. > :25:33.view. We were not alone in having our fair share of cloud. It was
:25:34. > :25:40.better towards the East where it has been a blustery day. Some of the
:25:41. > :25:46.showers in the north Sea have made it down to us and is risk overnight
:25:47. > :25:50.of having that the chance of a shower particularly running into
:25:51. > :25:54.areas north of the liver. That combination of cloud from the
:25:55. > :26:02.showers and also the bodies will keep the frost that be. It feels
:26:03. > :26:05.just about right for October. If you are stepping out onto platforms or
:26:06. > :26:09.the bus stop first thing yot will need a couple of layers but that is
:26:10. > :26:12.nothing too dramatic about the weather but you might need `
:26:13. > :26:21.waterproof as that is the chance of showers tomorrow. Temperatures where
:26:22. > :26:25.they have been for quite sole time. Again if you are stepping ott to
:26:26. > :26:30.tomorrow evening there is jtst that chance of the odd shower passing by.
:26:31. > :26:35.of a low pressure not 1 million of a low pressure not 1 million
:26:36. > :26:38.miles away across the north Sea High pressure is dominating across
:26:39. > :26:41.the rest of the British Islds and I do not think we will see anxthing
:26:42. > :26:45.radically different on that for the next couple of days. On Friday
:26:46. > :26:57.perhaps again the chance of a shower. But for the most part a lot
:26:58. > :27:02.of dry weather. Into the wedkend much more of the same.
:27:03. > :27:05.Thank you. The arrival of dozens of chhldren
:27:06. > :27:12.from the Jungle camp in Cal`is has sparked a row over
:27:13. > :27:15.whether they are in fact under 8. A call from the Conservativd MP
:27:16. > :27:18.David Davies to carry out ddntal checks to establish their age has
:27:19. > :27:34.been criticised as unethical. And there have been calls for an
:27:35. > :27:38.inquiry into the levels of violence in jails after someone was stabbed.
:27:39. > :27:52.That is all for now. Goodbyd. Everyone's living these
:27:53. > :27:54.amazing lives, You're like a...
:27:55. > :28:06.Different person?