26/01/2017 London News

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Coming up on the programme this evening: A father who was showing

off in his car is sent to prison for dangerous driving.

Five children were in this speeding vehicle when it mowed down

My sister, she was caring, kind person who always looked

out for other people, and she was...

The driver today begged the victim's father for forgiveness.

Also ahead: A protest camp makes a last stand against an oil company

which wants to start drilling on the Surrey Hills.

I'd like my grandchildren to have the same growing up,

with all this wonderful countryside around them.

Police identify the body of a man found on Saddleworth

The City of London issues a challenge to the capital -

recycle your coffee cups to prevent millions of them

And after falling into disrepair for decades,

some forgotten treasures are rediscovered in Peckham.

Thank you for joining us, I'm Asad Ahmad.

A speeding driver described as "arrogant" has been found guilty

of killing a student in south-west London as she crossed the road

Farid Reza and William Spicer were both showing off

through the streets of Kingston when one of them crashed into

Before sentencing, Reza knelt at the feet of the victim's father

Our home affairs correspondent, Nick Beake, was in court.

Compassionate, selfless, with so much to live for. A family tribute

today to Hina Shamim, knocked down and killed by a speeding driver who

was simply showing off. Caught on CCTV, this is Hina Shamim, holding

her coursework, heading towards the library, but coming towards our two

BMWs. It shows them hurtling along at twice the speed limit. The car in

front hits the 21-year-old before smashing into a bus. Nearly two

years on and the family's losses still unbearable. I find it really

hard to cope. It has been really tough for all of us. She was a big

part of our family and we all loved her and losing her at such a young

age has been really difficult. The 36-year-old Farid Reza was at the

wheel. In court, he fell to the feet of his victim's father begged for

forgiveness but the jury had already rejected his claim he was trying to

get away from another driver he had just cut up. That driver was William

Spicer. He walked from court after being found guilty of a lesser

charge of careless driving. It happened here on an evening when

many students were in the area. The cars were travelling down the street

at 70 mph. When one of them hit Hina Shamim, she did not stand a chance.

In the car that hit her with five children. One of them that Sasha and

a fractured jaw, collarbone and skull but survived. How would you

characterise the driving that night? Contemptible. 16 mph with children

in the car, ridiculous. Let's not forget there were seven people

injured that night, one fatally, one seriously and the other five

moderately. It was horrendous. After her death, Hina Shamim's family

raised ?30,000 to go to an impoverished area of Pakistan. It is

a legacy but they say her death has left a void that can never be

filled. That's our top story this evening

but still to come before 7: More misery for commuters in east

London as troops staff walk out and crippled the central line. -- Tube

staff. Protestors are tonight

making their last stand against an oil company which wants

to start drilling for oil A camp was set up on Leith Hill

to oppose the work by those concerned that the drilling

would damage an Area But Europa Oil has been

given permission to evict They call it the fort. Only a

handful of people remain inside. They would not let us any closer.

After a High Court ruling on Monday, the lives can turn up at any moment

a victim. -- bailiffs. Some campers have been here since October. The

latest action by protesters and residents in the seven-year fight

over the prospect of test drilling for oil. I would like my

grandchildren to have the same growing up, with all this wonderful

countryside around them to stop this is not about fracking the shale gas,

which is much more controversial and has got plenty of headlines. This is

straightforward drilling for oil. But for these protesters in

residence, that is not the point. They believe there is a wide issue.

Surrey Hills has been designated as an area of outstanding natural

beauty and they say if provision is granted to drill here, it could be

granted just about anywhere. And it is a serious project. There is

already a site up the road in rock. The oil rig itself would be 35

metres high. It is hoped it could yield up to 11 million barrels.

There is also a chance there might be no oil there whatsoever.

Recently, the stakes have been raised. Protesters have been accused

of blocking lorries in the road. Jackie was one of them. The bigger

picture is the entire wheel it will be industrialised if we do not look

out or watch what is happening because there is going to be Surrey

Hills, broken, they are looking at drilling a line across the wheel to.

Surrey County Council which has opposed plans to rout says drilling

is some days off but the days of this protest appeared to be

numbered. Some news in brief now

and neighbours have paid tribute to a couple and their young son

who died in a fire at a remote The family hasn't been formally

identified but friends have named them as Tiago and Adriana Nunes

and their son, Tiago Junior. It's not yet known

what caused the fire It's being claimed that patients

across Hertfordshire and Essex are being put in danger as it's

taking too long for Paramedics aim to get to those

with the most life threatening conditions within eight minutes

but figures obtained by the GMB union show almost a third

of patients who rely on the East of England Ambulance Service

are waiting longer. The service says the number of calls

it's responding to has A video showing football fans

singing anti-Semitic insults directed at Spurs supporters

is being investigated Some fans heading towards the Etihad

Stadium before Tottenham's game against Manchester City on Saturday

were heard chanting Officers said they were treating

the footage as a hate crime. A homeless hostel in north London

welcomed a royal guest today. Prince Harry visited

the Running Charity, who use exercise to boost

the self-esteem of Official figures show rough sleeping

has risen for the sixth consecutive The mystery behind the identity

of a man found dead more than a year ago on Saddleworth Moor in the north

of England has finally been solved. He's 67-year-old Londoner David

Lytton, who was only identified when detectives discovered he had

travelled from Pakistan to Heathrow For more than a year, his identity

was a mystery. Now we can finally put a name to the face. The body of

David Lytton was found on Saddleworth Moor on the 12th of

December 20 15. He had no wallet, no ID, no phone and was seemingly

untraceable, until now. We were so pleased, after so much work went

into it. I could not believe we potentially found him. It was the

first family knew. David had been living in Pakistan in Lahore since

2006. Mr Lytton left Pakistan on the 10th of December 2015 and arrived in

heat through the following day. He then took the train to Manchester

Piccadilly and was captured on CCTV. Later, he arrived at a pub where he

asked directions to the top of the mountain. It played on my mind, the

fact we have not been able to find out and tell two years later. But in

hindsight, everything is easy, but at least we have closure now and we

can all put to rest. From the pub, he headed to a local beauty spot.

This is a reservoir where Mr Lytton trekked through on his way up the

hill to the moors. Why he travelled such a distance and why he came to

this location remains a mystery. Among the theories, whether Mr

Lytton had a personal connection to a 1949 plane crash close to where

his body was found. John Mundell has followed the story closely from the

start. There are so many unanswered questions. A man who the police

believe took as own life in December 2015 and compounded by the fact that

they had no idea who he was for so long but at least now they have an

identity and have managed to speak to his family. He had been named

Neil by local mortuary workers because of where his body was

discovered. David Lytton finally has his identity back but remains a man

shrouded in mystery. Commuters travelling into town

from east London faced more misery today after London Underground staff

on both the Central and Waterloo It's the second walkout on the tube

under mayor Sadiq Khan. Services were disrupted but,

east of Leytonstone, That's where we can join Alpa Patel,

who can tell us more. This strike is causing disruption

for commuters but it is many people using the Waterloo City line and

the central line. At Leytonstone Station, all services on the central

line Easterby had been suspended but it is looking calm and collected

actually. A very different story in Ilford this morning during the

morning rush-hour. People tweeted pictures of an overflowing station,

people queueing outside station. Is booked one woman who was stuck in

those queues who said it the two hours to get from Newbury Park to

Ilford. She lost a day's wages. She is not the only person to have

experienced that misery because of the strikes.

I had to come up from the Tube station from Gants Hill and then

I'm really running late to go somewhere and it's ridiculous

with these Tube strikes, they are happening all the time.

I used to easily get the train and it was closed.

How much did this affect the journey time?

How did you feel when you got to the station and realised you

That man has an extremely good point, it is an extremely cold day

today, adding the people's misery. The RMT union say they are staging

the strike because of what they are calling the movement of staff. This

has come as an embarrassment to the mayor of London. Before he was

elected, he promised zero strikes. He has not been able to keep that

promise. My message to the trade unions

is let's talk about it, let's Because when there's a strike,

everyone's a loser. Strikes are a sign of failure

and I'm determined to make sure that London will prosper

from an excellent modern and Another strike tomorrow. A few miles

from where you are standing now. Yes, start operating the Woolwich

ferry going on a 24-hour strike tomorrow. That will affect lorry

drivers, so lorry drivers who would normally travel between Woolwich and

Central London, a journey that should take ten minutes, now have to

detail via the Blackwall Tunnel, and that tunnel is not the best... Not

good at the best of times so expect the morning and evening rush hours

to be extremely busy tomorrow. And that is not the only strike

expected. The Woolwich Ferry workers say they will go on strike again.

There will be a few problems there. You're watching BBC London News

on BBC One this Thursday evening. We will put the Wycombe players to

the test with an FA Cup quiz. After another cold, grey day here in

London, it will be a very chilly night ahead.

If you live or work in the City of London, it won't surprise

you that it has the highest concentration of office workers

Many of them drink coffee and so you can imagine how many

coffee cups that are thrown away every day.

With only one in every 400 recycled, the City has issued a challenge

to all Londoners to do something about it, as Tolu Adeoye explains.

Team may traditionally be a nation's favourite drink coffee culture has

taken the UK by storm. We love to get it to go but disposing all our

cups is increasingly challenging. Every day, 7 million are thrown away

unless the 1% of cuts could be recycled. The problem is that these

cuts are made from paper and plastic, so you can the lid, you can

recycle this bit of cardboard, but inside the paper cup there is a

plastic film which makes it waterproof and it is really

difficult to recycle these two together. We think that most people

do want to recycle. Many people think they are currently recycling

them. Now an initiative to boost recycling has been launched in the

City of London. The Square mile challenge is encouraging businesses

to sign up to scheme which provides specialist recycling facilities for

copy cups. Technology to separate the plastic and the paper has only

fairly recently been developed. It is new technology, it needs

developing, it needs volume to go to those males, to get them to develop

and expand. That is what we're trying do and the challenge is to

supply that volume and correct template. Last year, the Liberal

Democrats called for a 5p charge on copy cups. But the government says

Coffey chains and brands are already working to reduce usage. This is one

of the number encouraging people to buy reusable cups. We do these. They

are a cup that is a permanent takeaway cup. You can bring it into

us. We will put your takeaway coffee in here and as an incentive, you

will get a free copy for a week. It is really important because anything

we can do to make easy on the planet. If you work in the Square

mile, you'll start to see beans popping up from April. The ambition

is to recycle 5 million cups within 12 months and inspire other areas to

take up the challenge. Wycombe Wanderers will play one

of the biggest games in their history when they take

on Spurs at White Hart It's only the second

time they've got this far in the FA Cup so,

unsurprisingly, But before meeting that

challenge, Chris Slegg gave The reaction from the players when

the draw for the FA Cup fourth round handed them a trip to White Hart

Lane to take on Tottenham Hotspur. Wycombe's rather splendid nickname

is the chair boys because of the town's historic chair making

industry. So to celebrate their FA Cup run, we would celebrate with a

special addition of FA Cup mastermind and asked the chair boys

to take to the chair! It's not quite as swanky as the mastermind chair

but, hey, this is League 2. Left back, Wycombe Wanderers. Who did you

beat and the FA Cup first round this season? Portsmouth. What was the

score when you beat Chesterfield in the FA Cup second-round 5-0. Sam

Wood, midfield, Wycombe Wanderers. In the third round, you beat steel

bridge, who scored the winning goal? I did. Your team-mate is the

heaviest play in the Football League. How much does he way? 101

kilograms. What is the furthest Wycombe have ever gone and the FA

Cup? Fifth round. Semifinals. Who was Wycombe's manager when you reach

the semifinals? Sanchez. Who scored Wycombe's winning goal against

Leicester in the 2001... FA Cup quarterfinal? Rooney. Sam, you

got... Three correct. Presentation time. Sam, you admitted you did not

watch much football. Look, you got four, Angelo, seven for you. You

have a winner, congratulations! Is there any chance he think that

somehow you can not Tottenham out of the FA Cup? We have to go there

believing we have a chance at the wipe there is no chance turning up.

We will go there, give it a great shot and hopefully pull off.

Congratulations. Can they do it? We will find answer to that question on

Saturday. I think John Humphrys had better look out!

Rye Lane in Peckham - you may not think it but,

in its heyday, it was a rival shopping destination

So much so that the Holdron's Department Store, which opened

in the 1880s, was later snapped up by Selfridges, who traded

Now, after falling into disrepair over decades, some forgotten

treasures have been rediscovered, as Jim Wheble has been finding out.

Khan's Bargains, Peckham, but in the 1930s and 1940s,

Rye Lane was the Golden mile shopping in south London and had two

huge department shores. This was the highlight. By 1930s, it occupied the

whole city block. He had this grand idea. It was high class, exclusive

shopping but then the store closed. Decades of quick repairs and

suspended ceilings took their toll until Mr Khan arrived.

And I don't like the suspended ceiling anyway.

It was so dark, it was just above these shelves,

And the way it was designed, the lighting, the mirrors,

And when those ceiling tiles came down, this is what they discovered.

An Art Deco vaulted ceiling, a thousand glass bricks,

This was designed in the early modernist style to bring ventilation

in. 1000 class lenses letting daylight into them shop. The glass

lenses were covered in black tar. Nicknamed the Michelangelo of

Peckham and spending months on a skateboard, fixing the ceiling. So

many people could be Superman! And some call me

the hero of the day! I can just imagine him with his

angle grinder or whatever you want to call it, painstakingly going over

this piece of glass for an hour. While we were inside, watching this

happened last summer, daylight was beginning to filter into the space.

Dave, my cameraman, stay with me because I want you to point at the

in this direction. You see this green triangular thing here? This is

another discovery. It is actually an Edwardian... This is characteristic

of an Edwardian department store, to get daylight deep into the plans.

This is a lantern. Before they did the Art Deco face-lift? Probably

from 1900 or so. Once again, the team have revealed this.

Bringing the old store back to its former splendour.

Now let's check on the weather with Sarah Keith-Lucas.

It was a cold day and a really great day. But we did see a little bit of

sunshine before sunset. Clear spells here above King's Cross captured by

one of our Weather Watchers. That temperatures will only had one way

tonight. We are in a cold night ahead and the office have issued a

warning for potential icy stretches during the early hours of Friday

morning. Do take care if you plan to header on the roads. Untreated

surfaces could be slippery. Clear spells the night, keeping things

largely dry, temperatures taking a tumble, and then a bit more cloud

moving in from the south. Could bring with it like rain, even

perhaps snow, and that will snow on cold freezing ground. The other day,

after that cold, frosty and icy start, sunshine during the course of

the morning. By the afternoon, Clark Dickens once again, perhaps bringing

the odd splash of light rain. Temperatures though back to 5-8 . It

will feel milder. The start of your weekend, rain initially with us on

Saturday. That should push away the East fairly quickly. Saturday, in

improving picture. Sunshine breaks through and that should lift

temperatures to 10 degrees or so. During the second half of the week,

this weather front moves in from the south-west. Some uncertainty about

how far north it will get but it is likely to bring us a spell of

blustery and wet weather through the day on Sunday. This is our Sunday is

looking. We are likely to see wet weather but milder and temperatures

up to 11 degrees. He is the outlook over the next few days. Things are

turning milder but more unsettled with some rain. Brighter weather on

Saturday. Just before we go tonight,

a look at the stories making the day's main BBC headlines:

The Justice Secretary has insisted that she's taking action

to transform prisons after new figures showed

that the number of suicides, assaults and cases of self-harm

in jails has reached record levels. The Prime Minister is on her way

to meet President Donald Trump in Washington as the President

sparked a new controversy, saying that he thought torture

should be used for terror suspects. A speeding driver has been found

guilty of killing a student as she crossed the road

outside her university in Kingston. Farid Reza begged the victim's

father for forgiveness. And campaigners protesting

against oil drilling in Surrey have lost a High Court ruling that

will lead to the removal Bailiffs are expected to remove

the protestors within days. And that's BBC London News

today, the 26th January. I'll be back with our late

news at 10:30pm but, whatever you're doing this evening,

I hope you have a very good evening.