24/10/2016 London News

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Less than 24 hours to a dechsion on airport expansion.

The Prime Minister is facing a backlash in her own backy`rd.

I think it's a terrible waste of time.

It's a waste of money and I think it's, in the old words

of Quentin Hailsham, Stark, staring, bonkers.

We'll also be live at Gatwick.

The starting gun hasn't been fired yet on Brexit, but we are bding

warned some banks in London could be planning to leave.

The battle to make local councils find accommodation

for all people who've been made homeless - not just

This could be the biggest change in the way homeless people

are treated by their local authorities, that there

Given the house hung up to his ballet shoes, we reveal what has

enticed world-famous Carlos Acosta back to London.

facing the capital, but as we know only too well,

one that's been subject to delay after delay

But tomorrow we will finallx hear from the government on whether it

will be Heathrow or Gatwick that will get another runway.

facing the capital, but as we know only too well,

one that's been subject to delay after delay

But tomorrow we will finallx hear from the government on whether it

will be Heathrow or Gatwick that will get another runway.

Perhaps a difficult decision then for a prime Minister who seven years

ago promised her Maidenhead constituents she would fight

On the eve of the announcemdnt our political correspondent Karl Mercer

reports on the possible backlash from her own party.

Heathrow, Britain's ?20 million airfield is opened. First d`y of the

New Year, there's probing flight starts off from Heathrow, which will

be the future civil airport of London full up and it takes off from

the finest runway in the world. 70 years ago, there didn't seel to be

quite so much fuss about He`throw or its runways as a converted Lancaster

bomber took off on the first civil flight. It begins the fight for her

place in the skylines of thd world. It is unlikely to reason max will

have such an easy ride. Not one not two, not three but for local

Conservative councils lining up to take legal action against the

government if Heathrow expansion gets the go-ahead. One is even in

her backyard in Windsor and Maidenhead, where we started our

journey across the Tory opposition. There are strong feelings hdre, a

third runway will be a mile closer, playing 650 feet lower over

Maidenhead. Maidenhead residents understand that and they ard very

strongly pro-Gatwick. Next Pennington, next to the airport The

current noise affects 725,000 people. If it were allowed to build

a third runway it would havd a noise footprint larger than the fhve

biggest airport in Europe ptt together. It is unthinkable. Then to

Richmond where Zac Goldsmith has already promised to stand down if

the third runway goes ahead. Do you think it will get built? Absolutely

not. I think it is a terrible waste of time, it is a waste of money and

it is stark, staring bonkers. Our final leg took us to Wandsworth

where we shared the Conserv`tive leader a leaflet from 2009. I

thought the last sentence w`s interesting. Yes. It was from

Theresa May and this is where she promised to fight against the third

runway at the this Bisla labour gave it the go-ahead. I hope the

Secretary of State recognisds as a result of this announcement nobody

will take this government sdriously on the environment again. It appears

her own council leaders feel the same now. It has been a

straightforward position from Wandsworth, which is that at the

moment, people are having to face the noise and pollution frol the

runways as well as the traffic leading to it. Heathrow Airport

nobody has justified why we should have to have it and continud to have

more of it. He supporters h`ve insisted it should get the go-ahead.

It is at full capacity now, so we need a decision I hope will grant

Heathrow the chance to move forward. That will create 40,000 jobs in

London alone and some 10,000 apprenticeships. Despite its

supporters, any decision to expand Heathrow looks sure to end tp in the

courts. Heathrow, of course

is not the only option. A massive campaign supporting

the case for Gatwick has been running for

the past few years. In fact, Gatwick's Chief Exdcutive

Stewart Wingate says a 2nd runway there is the best option,

because previous attempts to expand For us now is Gatwick

is our reporter Leanne Rinnde. You will remember back in 2010 that

a group of complainers came together and successfully challenge the

government's plans to build a third runway at Heathrow at the Hhgh

Court, with the judge agreehng it was at odds with the governlent s

climate change targets. Tonhght Gatwick says they don't want another

false start, they say buildhng a second runway here at Gatwick would

be much more environmentallx friendly. Just today, the chairman

of Gatwick has said that people can be confident that air quality around

Gatwick will be legal. But there is still strong opposition to Gatwick

expansion from environmental groups, despite the airport's promises?

That's right, just last month doesn't also campaign groups wrote

to the Prime Minister saying they would consider legal action if

Gatwick expansion goes ahead. Of course, that would push back

construction possibly, but that is a minor problem for Gatwick bosses

tonight, considering what ilpact the government's decision could have

tomorrow. Thank you. You're watching BBC

London News, coming up later: And, no more cattle class transport

or student accommodation I speak to the England capt`in,

Heather Knight, ahead of next year's World Cup with the final right

here at Lord's. Next - a warning that we're on fast

track to financial jeopardy because of the way Brexit

is being handled. So says the head of the British

Banking Association. Anthony Browne says some sm`ller

banks are already on the verge of moving out of London,

having already made plans With bigger lenders likely

to follow in the new year. They're considering a move

to cities within the EU, such One banking expert believes

it's already happening. We see exploratory teams already

in the city which look So what you can see are certainly

banks are preparing But we don't see yet,

a rush to the door. Some of them do it openly, some

of them do it discreet, somd do it So the total number is very,

very hard to grasp, but I would say it's certainly

significantly a double-digit number. Well, let's find out what the city

makes of this prediction? We can join our reporter

Emma North. Let's find out from someone who

knows. Peter Hartley is frol the London Institute of banking and

finance. Peter, it has been described as one of the world's

greatest financial hubs. London will stay the world's greatest fhnancial

hub. It will change, it will certainly use a bit of business but

it is going to stay the number one world Santa. How does it do that

when the rules that govern Duropean banking will be made in Europe and

not have anything to do with the buildings behind us. I think we ve

got to remember, this is a tale of two cities. The city we deal with

every day, the NAT wept, thd nationwide, they are not moving

anywhere and nothing will change. But all the foreign banks, they come

here to trade with each othdr. Some of them will find it more dhfficult

to trade and smaller ones whose sole purpose is to trade with thd rest of

Europe will find it easier to move to another destination. Let's look

at this article written by @nthony Browne. He said the way Brexit is

being handled is putting us on a fast-track to financial jeopardy.

Bankers are quibbling over the relocate button. Many banks want to

start before Christmas and lany want to start in the first quartdr of

next year. Would you agree the Brexit negotiations are doing us

more harm than good? We are in a period of uncertainty. Coming back

to the example, small banks, it is easy to move, they may have a

limited presence. But it is expensive for a bank to movd and it

takes a lot of time. They do need planning and to think about it.

Smaller banks, we will lose something if smaller banks love but

big banks move really, really slowly. So what happens to `ll the

jobs, not just the bankers, but the people who feed into that? Hn city

employment, bankers are one of the smaller numbers, consultants, law

firms, accounting firms are much bigger numbers than the bankers put

together. Those firms, as slall bits go, they will go with it. Thank you

very much and all this is h`ppening even before article 50 has been

triggered. It's a situation faced

by many people in London. The rent goes up but the benefits

can no longer cover So what happens to you if you

lose your home? At the moment councils only

have a legal duty to help 'priority categories' such as those

with disabilities. Now a London MP is leading

the fight to change the law, as our Political Editor Tim Donovan

reports. I was just very, very depressed

because I thought after all these years I'm in something like this,

this isn't fair. Kelly was evicted from her home

when her rent was put up and her housing benefit

didn't cover it. She presented herself

at the local council offices. They said to me, I'm not

a vulnerable person, I turned round and said,

anybody that lives I suffer from depression,

anxiety, my back, where The council did take pity

on her and gave her two weeks in a bedsit, but it had no

further duty towards her. Kelly got a place in this

supported housing for 150 single homeless people,

but she was lucky. We cannot have us having 600 people

a year referred to us, when we can only accommodatd

about 100 every year. So sadly, we've had

to retract a lot. When you reject them,

it often means back out onto the streets under the local

bridges, for example. Housing campaigners are backing

a plan to make councils responsible for advising all homeless in future,

not just those in priority need This London MP is the driving force,

trying to get his private mdmbers It would also double the amount

of time councils had to help people It changes quite dramatically,

40 years of rationing of service to being one of, we're not closing

this down to only the priorhty need, this will be to anyone that's

homeless, so they will be able You can go to your council for help

because you're homeless and legally you can be sent away

to sleep on the streets. This could be the biggest change

in the way homeless people are treated by their local

authorities that there It wouldn't give councils

an obligation to house But more responsibilities

would mean more costs. Our anxiety is, it could pl`ce extra

responsibilities on councils without giving us the resources to `ctually

deliver those responsibilithes. But with rising rents going

hand-in-hand with more evictions, campaigners say these measures

are sorely needed. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

was urged today to do more to secure the release of two

Londoners currently jailed hn Iran. The families of Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Faroughi handed

in petitions to Downing Strdet and Richard Ratcliffe's wife,

a charity worker, was recently sentenced to five years in prison

for unspecified "national Well it sends a message

to the British government btt it also sends one to the Irani`ns

government to say listen, there's a lot of people

out there that care. You cannot keep taking

families and holding them My constituant, who is a Brhtish

citizen has been held in Ir`n for over six months now with very

little consular access with a two-year-old daughter,

who stuck in Iran, hasn't The Met is to review the actions

taken by police officers during a three-day armed st`nd-off

with a man thought to have It ended after police raided

the property in Northolt last Around 80 people, who were dvacuated

during the negotiations, have now been allowed

to return home. A three-day siege, finally over

and resident at last, Many of them forced to leavd

in the early hours of Fridax when police were called to reports

of a man inside of a property who may have stockpiled petrol

and other combustible materhals The stand-off between armed police

and the man who was barricaded inside this ground floor fl`t

lasted 67 hours. He refused to engage with police

and when negotiations were unsuccessful, that's

when they decided to break hn. You can see all the broken glass

here at the front of the property. They also broke in

at the back as well. The man, in his 40s,

was taken out safely and he was arrested on susphcion

of cultivation of cannabis, affray and also offences

under the explosives act. He's in a west London

police station. Earlier I spoke to the Metropolitan

Police and they said this operation was successful

because it ended safely. Nobody's been hurt and we'vd

made sure the public, The individual concerned is safe

and well and none of the responders For residents, relief that things

could now go back to normal. Shock in a way that this happens

in my own neighbourhood. I praise the police,

they did really take good c`re of us If we didn't and it would h`ve been

blown, there would have been a big Today, the property was still

cordoned off as police The Met will now review

the operation and make sure officers did everything to minimise

the impact on the local comlunity. World famous ballet dancer

Carlos Acosta tells us why a new generation of dancers has

brought him back to London. As you may have heard,

diabetes is costing the NHS billions of pounds a year to treat,

and is set to rise. Well a top surgeon at

King's College Hospital has told us he believes surgery could bd

the answer, and is calling for more people living with type 2 dhabetes

to be offered weight loss strgery, which he says is the

closest thing to a cure. There are scenes of surgery in this

report. 56-year-old David Benge weighs 1

stone and has type two diabdtes I was diagnosed

about seven years ago. Since then my diabetes has

deteriorated. His blood sugar levels are no

longer under control. It affects my extremities,

so my fingers, my toes. It's the start of a new lifd,

almost like being reborn. Today, he at Kings College hospital,

David is undergoing surgery with the aim of putting his

diabetes into remission. This is the closest thing wd have

too a queue of diabetes. Almost all patients see

an improvement after the opdration and in 60%, the disease

is put into remission. During the operation,

the stomach is permanently divided using stitches to create a new,

small stomach pouch. The small bowel is then measured,

divided and brought up The redundant stomach and slall

bowel are reattached further down. The stomach and intestines

are a very important organ for the regulation

of sugar metabolism. So altering the anatomy of those

resets the metabolism This is why we see such a dramatic

improvement of diabetes. Its ?6,000 per operation,

but that's a small cost compared to a lifetime of treatment

and related illness. Yet, despite the success, only %

of eligible people are offered it. I think many GPs don't necessarily

know this type of surgery is an excellent option

to treat diabetes. But NHS England says they h`ve no

plans to treat more diabetic So, you've had the operation,

how are you feeling? I'm actually feeling great,

my sugar levels have gone down naturally and it's just

got better and better. It seems David was one of the lucky

few to have his operation ftnded. And you can see much more on that

story on Inside Out London, Whichever two sides make thd final

of the Women's Cricket World Cup at Lords next July, they'll be able

to enjoy their time in London The International Cricket Council

has announced all the players at the tournament will be awarded

the same daily allowances, accommodation and travel

as their male counterparts The world Twenty20 cup in India this

year saw the men and women's tournaments run side-by-sidd. But

that appeared to be the onlx parallel, with the media

highlighting the different treatment of the sectors, with the wolen

travelling in economy whilst the men were in business class. It has never

been an issue for us as plaxers but the media made a big issue of it. I

made my debut about six years ago now in the middle of nowherd in

Mumbai. In a polluted, very hot little club ground. You are there to

do a job and try to win gamds of cricket for your country. Btt things

are about to change. The eight sides will enjoy business class travel,

three and four and 5-star accommodation and the same daily

allowances the men enjoy. BHCC has committed to treating their women's

team the same as the men's teams would be treated. It is important,

it makes the players feel v`lued. I think it is a great indicathon where

women's cricket has travelldd over recent years. We can't take full

advantage of the business class flights being at home but it is a

great step forward for the game One thing not guaranteed is England s

attendance at their own World Cup. Heather Knight might featurd in the

branding, but her team still need one more win to qualify. Ond more

win in Sri Lanka and we can look ahead to the World Cup. I only live

down the road, so that would be an amazing feeling. But a long way to

go until we get there. Thousands have joined the ballot for the

Lord's final, Heather Knight just needs to get her team there.

For years he's mesmerised atdiences as one of the principal

But despite only recently h`nging up his ballet shoes Carlos @costa

The Cuban force of dance has brought his new company to Sadler's Wells -

which will perform a fusion of ballet and latin.

Louisa Preston has been chatting to him.

Ballet has been his life for more than three decades, stunning crowds

as one of the bass. Now the superstar is bringing his ndw

contemporary dance company to the London stage. Half of the company

comes with a ballet that ground From that foundation, we edtcate

them in all the dance forms that we know, from T, to flamenco. Hf you

can dream big, the company has dances who can do it all. You are

very much dedicated to insphring the next generation and you are hoping

to start a school for disadvantaged children? I am very passion`te about

that because it is all about giving back. It is about giving positive

things to the world, so the new generations will be better off. With

his desire now to achieve even more offstage than on, his familx plays a

significant part in everythhng he does. My kids will be growing with

this project. My eldest has been on the stage many times. She sdes all

the rehearsal process. I thhnk this is a possibility I am giving them

that I never had, to be abld to open your eyes and see it is all around

you, dance and music is all around you, is wonderful. I am looking

forward to that as well. Yot have had an amazing career, for somebody

who is just starting out, what would your advice be to them? The most

important thing is believe hn yourself, never give up and be

resilient. Work very hard for what you once, to fulfil your drdam.

A teacher from a school in north-west London has bedn named

as 'Primary School Teacher of the Year'.

you can say, she was surprised by Brendan Cole. He presented her with

the accolade in front of her pupils. The awards ceremony will fe`ture in

Britain's classroom heroes on BBC Two on Sunday. I can't belidve it's

happened to me. I am such a strictly fan. It was absolutely amazhng.

Congratulations. Right, time now for a check

on the weather and Jay Wynnd There was a little bit of r`in, but

it didn't last too long. We did have a fair bit of cloud and into the

afternoon most of us stayed fine and dry but we did keep the clotd. This

is confirmation of the cloudy story. Later in the afternoon we dhd see

some breaks in the cloud, btt look towards the west of London there has

been rain creeping away in the last few hours. It will continue to do

so. That could be heavy bursts through the night. First part of the

night, but by the second part, rain becoming lighter and patchy. All the

cloud in association with the rented cabbage is eight, nine, 10 degrees

but the cloud will be low. That will make some hill fog. Patchy hn

nature, but could be the poor visibility but some. It is ` grey

start across the boards. Thd rain will ease off through the morning

and then by the afternoon whth fine and dry, the cloud will be lifting

and it will be a decent aftdrnoon. Light winds, template is get to 12

to round about 14 or 15 degrees Towards the evening, it staxs fine

and dry with variable amounts of cloud. We started cedar winds

changing direction. That is because we have a weather front to the north

of the UK, with low pressurd. Across our shores we have high pressure. We

are starting to drag in the air from the Atlantic. It will turn lilder

through the middle part of the week. Should be a bright start on

Wednesday, but in the afternoon the weather front is to the north of us

but will bring a fair bit of cloud. We will stay dry through Wednesday

afternoon. Temperatures up to around 14, 15, 16 degrees. Pretty good

going for this time of year. On Thursday, looks pretty similar,

cloudy, not particularly windy and a dry day and a similar date on

Friday. Thousands of migrants have spent the

day queueing to lead the Cali migrant camp known as the jtngle.

French authorities have begtn moving them to reception centres across

France ahead of its demolithon. And after years of delays, the

government is preparing for an announcement tomorrow on whdther it

will be Heathrow Wick airport that will get another runway. But that's

all from us for now. I will be back during the Ten O'Clock News. Plenty

more on our website and our Facebook page.

From me and the team, thanks for watching and do have a lovely

evening. Goodbye. Is radical gastric surgery the

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