03/03/2017 London News

On the programme tonight: More homes evacuated,

and roads and railways closed, as the army works to remove

an unexploded bomb from a building site in Brent.

If it had gone off when it was here in 1940, it would have demolished a

house, easily. And I think with these things, you never can be too

careful. We're live on the scene

with the latest. Also ahead: A warning

to women to be vigilant, after a spate of drink

spikings in Hertfordshire. Maybe you would expect it more in a

town you didn't know, you don't trust people so easy, but some were

so close to home, I am wary of wanting to go out again.

And we meet the women leading a female revolution in Art

after centuries of masterpieces created mainly by men.

Good evening and welcome the programme with me,

It's been 36 hours since the discovery of an unexploded bomb

in Brent, and soldiers are still working to remove

Schools, railways and roads around Brondesbury Park remain closed

This morning police extended a cordon around the site

were the bomb was found - forcing more residents

Tolu Adeoye is at the scene with the latest, Tolu.

The cordons have been lifted in most areas now, with the bomb made safe

within the last half an hour. There is one chord and still in place

behind me. The site just over there is where the bomb is. We understand

that many people have spent days at the rescue centre that has been set

up by Brent Council. A long, frustrating day, but the council

said there are number one priority was safety. Through the nights, bomb

disposal experts work to make an unexploded World War II bomb safe

enough to move. The chord and around the site would it was discovered was

extended from 200-300 metres this morning. More roads closed, nearby

schools, nurseries and playgroups shut as a precaution. Disruption,

confusion for those trying to get around. I want to find out where I

am going, really, because they closed here. I came past there. I

don't know where I am going to get back in. So basically, we are stuck.

The local residents have been brilliant, really understanding and

very supportive, and it is absolutely key to us because it

helps us make sure that people feel reassured that everything is under

control. This is where those forced from their homes spent the day. The

centre was set up by Brent council in a nearby church. Nearly 80 people

including the family spent Thursday night in a hotel. We were evacuated,

well, me personally and probably happen at probably 1:14pm yesterday

afternoon. A police over knocked on my door and said there was an issue

with the construction site near to where I live. I wasn't giving very

many details. I was just but I needed to leave the house as quickly

as possible, which is what I did. It will be nice to actually shower and

wears them clean clothes and so on and so forth. And exhausting.

Definitely new to me. It is quite nice but I would prefer my house.

You should just about be able to make out the grain behind me. That

is the site where the ?500 bomb was discovered yesterday afternoon. The

300 metre record and means this is as close as we can get. The Met says

experts are working very hard to resolve the situation as quickly as

possible. The Germans dropped bombs with different types of views. Some

were electrical and some were mechanical and they had different

uses, different purposes. And that will affect the planned that the

operator seeks to do but ultimately they will look to make that item

safe to remove from where it is currently located to a site where

they can safely destroy it via demolition. London was the most

bombed city during the Blitz. There have been a number of unexploded

devices discovered over the years, but the sheer size of this one,

buried away for so long, has made the operation to remove it all the

more challenging. So it really has been a waiting game today. But good

news is that that bomb has now been made safe. Brent Met Police said

progress dealing with the unexploded bomb is slower than expected. We

understand your frustration. So belief that people can now get back

home and use the roads again. We expect the bomb to be removed later

on this evening. OK, thank you very much.

A woman from Harlow says she no longer feels safe and has lost trust

in her community after her drink was spiked on a night out.

She is one of nearly a dozen victims who've fallen ill after drinking

Police are advising everyone, not just women, to be extra

By day, an historic town in Hertfordshire.

But after dark, Hartford has a thriving nightlife

with plenty of pubs and clubs open till the early hours.

It is a place Carrie Bone, who works in

publishing, says she doesn't feel safe socialising in again.

A night out with a friend ended abruptly

after she took a sip from her vodka and tonic.

It was quite early in the evening, about nine p.m., if

And then I think I either stood up or stood back and just felt

completely disorientated and really faint and dizzy and just

unbelievably unwell, so I said, "We need to leave, straightaway."

Went outside and started being unbelievably sick and couldn't move

my legs, just slumped around and stayed there.

The increasing number of suspected drink spiking attacks

in Hertford town centre has led the police

They say the type of drugs typically used are Rohypnol, GHP,

and ketamine, all designed to incapacitate.

One could take it and collapse and die straightaway.

What we are appealing for is people to be aware,

be cautious around it, but my fear is do not do it

because we have got systems in place to track you.

A test kit is being developed so people

who suspect their drink might

have been tampered with can check it.

It is part of a campaign called Not in my Drink.

It is very clever chemistry, actually.

So it is a pale yellow colour on the piece of paper.

You spot the drink on there and it changes orange or red and that

identifies that there is a drug present.

Carrie's reported her suspected drink spiking incident to

the police, but still feels wary going out in the evenings.

She is grateful her friend was there to

Without that, she believes things could have been a

There's lots more to come tonight, including:

Look, the driver isn't using his hands. Later in the programme we

will be out trialling new self driving technology in east London.

A teenager from east London who fell to his death from a cliff whilst

on a geography school trip had an infection that could have caused

An inquest into the death of 16-year old Paddy Dear last March heard how

he'd been suffering from acute tonsilitus and sepsis

A bright young rugby mad teenager. Paddy Dear had his hold life ahead

of him. But his life was ended tragically early year a year ago on

a school trip to West Wales. Paddy Dear and his school friends were

here at Dale Fort last March on a geography AS-level field trip. He

left one of the classrooms to go to the toilet, but never returned.

Septicaemia had set in, causing confusion and this year orientation

and his body was found hours later 150 feet down at the bottom of these

clips. Dale Fort was built to protect Milford Haven, but it has

been used as a base for school field trips since the end of the Second

World War. The manager of the Centre told the inquest the students are

warned of the danger of the cliffs. Paddy had acute tonsillitis and

developed sepsis or blood poisoning. Which may have caused confusion and

disorientation. The Pembrokeshire coroner recorded a narrative

conclusion noting Paddy died of injuries after falling from height

while suffering from septicaemia. Paddy's family are now campaigning

to raise awareness of sepsis. I think we're seen any last year that

the profile of the condition has actually gone up immeasurably and I

suppose if we can take some pride in Paddy's name has helped in raising

the profile of sepsis so that we can lower that figure of 44,000 deaths

per year. These symptoms can come on within hours. Sometimes even within

minutes. The symptoms that patient can experience is agitation,

confusion, high temperature. It is a long journey home to Hornchurch.

Today's inquest is another step in the long grieving process for Paddy

Dear's family. They're hoping his legacy can live on and that no other

families have to go through what they have.

Detectives investigating the murder of an 80-year-old woman

at an allotment in Colindale have made an arrest.

Lea Adrisoejoko was found in a lock up in Sheaves Hill Avenue

Scotland Yard say they know how she died, but are yet

A 40-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murder.

The parents of a six month old baby are challenging doctors in court

Charlie Gard is receiving round the clock

treatment at Great Ormond Street hospital for a rare

With no accepted cure for the disease, hospital bosses

believe he should be allowed to die with dignity.

But his parents want to take their son to America

Two commuter groups have launched a High Court challenge over

the Government's handling of the Southern rail crisis.

They're accusing the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling of acting

unlawfully by causing indirect discrimination to

Our Political Correspondent Karl Mercer reports.

This is the easiest part of Chris Stapleton's

to central London on Southern Trains.

Generally, it gets a lot worse when he gets on board.

I am expecting no-one to be there with the ramp to

let me off, even though the staff at my starting station have phoned

ahead and told the team at Victoria that I am coming.

It appears his fears aren't isolated ones.

How was Southern when it came to getting ramps for her to

I'm just hoping after the trouble that has

been caused that there is someone out to get me off at Clapham

That is why I was asking him where he was getting off, so we

will just had to wait and see if there is anyone

at Clapham Junction, because there never is.

But disability campaigners say that is too rare.

They are joining a legal case against Southern and the Government.

What we want is for the Secretary of State to be held responsible and

declare that he has failed to police the franchise in a proper way and

particularly around ensuring that disabled people can access between

services that is their right to do so.

The ramp ready at Victoria when he arrived.

He fears, though, it won't be there next time.

I get a tight feeling of anxiety in my

And it's very unpleasant, very stressful.

I want a simple, smooth journey like everyone else.

I want to be able to get off the train like

I don't want to go to through this faff and this palaver every

It says only a small fraction of journeys by disabled

Most of us will see our council tax bills go up in next month,

as local authorities look to fund a gap in their social care budgets.

Research by BBC London has found that 24 boroughs in London,

along with Southend, Hertfordshire and Surrey,

will put up the household tax by almost 5%.

That's an extra ?60 a year for the average household.

Getting the garden ready for spring. Lee and Trevor lived in West Ham.

With their carer. They were paired up by a service called shared lives

which used to be run by the council. Now it is a not-for-profit company

that helps vulnerable adults to be cared for in family homes. I like it

because she makes me laugh and it is like a family. The council says

turning services into small businesses makes them more

cost-effective because then they can bid for outside funding. That is the

one reason they say it is managing to freeze council tax. It is

astonishing how much taking a small business out can save us. And we

improve the service. Along with many other areas all want to freeze

council tax, but 28 London boroughs want to charge 2-3% to help pay for

adult social care. As do Essex, Southend, Hertfordshire and Surrey.

And 27 of those local authorities will add an additional 1-2% on top

of that forecourt council services. The Mayor of London is also

increasing his share of council tax by an average of 8p per week to pay

for policing and lives by many local authorities to bump up their own

part of the council tax has prompted questions over whether they could be

using concern over social care funding as an opportunistic wake to

get more cash for other things. What witnessing this current year is

council is being encouraged by the Government to push up council tax to

pay for social care and deciding that that gives them cover to push

up their own share of the council tax within the rules as much as they

can. Because their own budgets are under pressure anyway. Favouring

spends almost ?1 million per year clearing up rubbish like this. That

is more than double what it used to spend on fly-tipping just two years

ago and it is that kind of added financial pressure that the council

says is forcing it to put up council tax. We don't get nearly as much

grass as other London boroughs gets so we start from a difficult

position. And we have extreme pressures. We have the largest

percentage of over 65 is of any London borough and also the largest

net increase of school age children. Shall we go and put some more soil

and put the flour in? The Government says it has made ?26 billion

available to London borough is so that they can plan ahead.

And you can find out if your authority is raising council

tax by visiting the BBC London website, where you'll

I am at the Imperial War Museum word this week they are marking 100 years

since the foundation of the museum here in London and these German

rockets are just the tip of it. I am finding out how women are changing

the art world as they take the top jobs and begin their creative

careers. A self-driving car is having

its first major trial on our roads. The Japanese car maker Nissan hopes

tests on its new vehicle will reassure drivers

that the technology The cars are guided by five radars,

four lasers and 12 cameras. Our Transport Correspondent Tom

Edwards went for a ride in one. Radars, lasers, and cameras mean

this car can drive itself. Because the British Government

are very proactive to consider this kind of

technology, electricity and autonomous driving,

to These were the reactions

from other drivers. Not everyone is

convinced it is safe. But London is at the forefront

of a number of trials. Companies are convinced

the future of motoring 90% of traffic accidents

are caused by human error. And autonomous driving machine

will never be distracted. It is not intelligent

enough yet, but we are confident that we can improve

the performance of automatic driving And then I think we can achieve much

higher level of safety. And our journey wasn't

without incident. Here, the driver had to take

over from the computer. This is not expected vehicle

in the dictionary so we So the computer didn't

know what that was? As you can see,

the technology is not perfect yet and it is still learning

and we have three years until this should be on the road, but

the companies who are trialling this think it is going to bring down

congestion and make the roads much, I notice they did not let Tom do the

driving. It's been documenting

Britain's military history for generations past and present,

and this weekend the Imperial War Museum celebrates

its centenary year. Dan Freedman is there

for us tonight. It was 100 years ago this weekend

that the decision was taken to start documenting the experience of war

for Britain and the Commonwealth and more importantly for the people that

live there. One of the first articles was this ?13 gun from the

First World War, and then on to more sophisticated weaponry, the

silhouette that would been so familiar to people living in London

during the Blitz. The doodlebug, looming overhead, said a cross by

the Nazis. And then on to more modern types of warfare and the

impact of a car bomb on a city like Baghdad in 2007. But the reason that

this was envisaged in the first place way back in 1917 was because

of the impact the First World War was having on people here in

Britain. Laura clout in the curator of the exhibition here. Laura, just

tell us about what was going on at the point at which they decided to

start documenting this? In 1917, the First World War had ended. We did

not know whether we would be victorious or whether we would lose

this war. But it did not matter. Because the Imperial War Museum was

founded on a belief that saw significant was this conflict by way

of its scale and its impact upon ordinary people, whether they were

civilians, whether there were soldiers, it was decided a

collection was needed to acquire objects to document those

experiences forever. So in 1970, the idea for this museum comes to be and

it is past and in 100 years we are still here doing that job. And you

have got a ration book there from the time, calling on people to

submit their own memorabilia, as grim as it might be at times from

the time. Absolutely. This appeal is in a ration book so every single

person in this country had one of these books and this appeal makes it

quite plain that the museum is looking for a close personal

testimonies by way of poems, letters, photographs and it even

mentions that if you think they are of trifling character, they could

still be very significant for a collection which was about how did

people respond and how did they feel to live through this war which

really changed the world. And very quickly, in terms of those personal

stories, how much more in some ways revealing are they bad when you talk

about strategy and military tactics and things like that? I think they

are really important to what we do here because when you can empathise

with another person's individual experience, it makes it seem so much

more real, whether that person lived through war, on the fighting fronts,

or on the home front. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. As I

say, the 100 year anniversary of the Imperial War Museum in London is on

Sunday. Turning to art, and this

week we've been looking into why female artists

are still under-represented If you visit the capital's

galleries and museums, most of the great masterpieces

are by men. But in the second of her two part

series, Wendy Hurrell has been looking into how things

are changing as more women Mostly male artists fill the history

books that filled the But more women than

men are graduating. Those like Sophie Derrick -

in the same year she has had her work in the Royal Academy

summer exhibition, short listed for It is really challenging

trying to find time to do artwork, but I just

didn't want to lose the momentum that had built up behind my work

in the year before he was born. I have to be really

organised and planned weekend around when my husband can

take the baby and I can do is fully This is a new generation

of emerging artists making a modelling

career of fine art. You're kind of self-employed when

you start out and I think women are very good at that

kind of multitasking, making the artwork

well as thinking about the branding and the marketing of themselves and

using the internet and these opportunities have arisen where

women can use their entrepreneurial mindset to actually forge a career

But to rewrite the history books, these women must also

be represented in the great galleries.

From 2014, we had 12 elections and ten of those elections

have been for women and I think that was the real turning point

in them saying this is terrible, this is

It does not reflect the world in which we live.

A world where more women are in the top

I don't think I was really seen as a credible kind of

manager or leader for many years as a mother.

So this particular new role for me has happened kind of

interestingly, maybe not coincidentally, the year after my

Now director at the Tate Modern, Francis has focused on diversity.

As a result, the new switch house-building, we now have male and

We are discovering really interesting careers, fascinating

bodies of work, important positions, all made by women and women who have

been overlooked, and those of us who are in positions

of responsibility are going to make sure that it is a

So it seems we are starting a new chapter in art

Weather. What can we expect? Very mixed weather. One day will be much

better than the other. Today it was a good weather for ducks and geese.

We had quite a bit of rain around this morning. If you're wondering

what the sunshine looked like, this was the best I could find. There was

a lot of cloud around. This was the earlier picture. We dried off a bit

in the afternoon and saw the cloud thinning a touch. That will be

heading our way at the moment. Most places are still dry but as we run

through the night, we will find these outbreaks of rain arriving. It

will turn wetter just as it gets to turning out time. These are the

temperatures. Pretty mild. There will be some rain around at times.

More cloud as well. Dole and wet first thing tomorrow. This ring will

not last long at all tomorrow morning. Then after that, we will

get some brighter skies and maybe even some sunshine. A passing shower

if you not lucky. A lot of dry weather. 12 Celsius. It should feel

quite pleasant. Not too windy. As we head into the evening, we start off

fine and dry but we may start to see some showers arriving as we approach

the witching hour. So you can clearly see which will be the best

day this weekend. Make the most of Saturday. That is the message if

you're going to be out and about. It is a conjugated weather map that we

have. We have this area of low pressure and this pressure is living

in behind it and that is the one that will bring a very difficult

look to the weather on Sunday. Brain quickly moving across from the West,

wind picking up as well. That ring can be quite heavy. Some dry weather

and some sunshine if you are lucky and then some heavy showers arrived

later on in the day. Not quite as high in terms of temperature.

Average for the time of year. Some strong and gusty winds on the way.

We have that mixed weather into Monday as well. Looks dry on Tuesday

but probably only briefly with more rain to come. Thank you very much.

Now the main headlines: Thersea May has accused the SNP of pursuing

independence at any cost and warned that they may not gain control

The SNP called that a power grab. The final report into

the Shoreham Air Show crash has concluded that the pilot was flying

too low and too slow at the time of the incident in which 11 people

died in 2015. Results from yesterday's election

a world war two bomb discovered yesterday on a building

Schools, the Overground and roads around Brondesbury Park remain

I'll be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now

from everyone on the team have a lovely evening.