30/03/2017 London News

Coming up tonight's programme before 7:

The family of the Westminster attacker, Khalid Massoud are told

Former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone faces expulsion

from the Labour Party over comments he made about Adolf Hitler.

Apologise for what? I never said Hitler was a Zionist. There can be

no future for someone in the Labour Party who has such as lack of

sensitivity around these issues. The primary school deciding

whether to issue face masks to pupils to combat London's air

pollution. Find out where you can go

to gaze at 3000 jellyfish We talk to Sheena Easton

about bringing A coroner has passed

on her sympathies to the family of the Westminster attacker -

who was shot dead At an inquest, Dr Fiona Wilcox said

Khalid Masood's family were also Masood died after killing three

pedestrians and fatally stabbing, PC Keith Palmer

at the Houses of Parliament. Khalid Masood's attack lasted just

one and a half minutes and took four innocent lives and was stopped and

killed by a single gunshot. The inquest into his death heard today

as he entered the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and with

knives he was challenged by a police officer who shot him dead. The

coroner has called the full details of how he drove his vehicle across

Westminster Bridge, twice mounting the curb, killing two pedestrians.

He mounted the curb a third time and had another man who later died in

hospital. He abandoned the vehicle and attacked and killed PC Keith

Palmer before finally being stopped. A senior officer explained there may

be in excess of 1500 potential witness this, 140 considered

significant. The IP CC has launched an investigation examining officer

's decision to use lethal force, though they stressed no one is under

investigation within the police or any criminal misconduct. The Duke of

Cambridge visited medical staff today at St Thomas 's Hospital to

thank them and he also visited London Ambulance Service. The

inquest into Khalid Masood's death was adjourned until May the 19th.

The Singapore funeral Wilcox also passed on her sympathies to his

family, describing them as victims also. -- senior coroner Fiona

Wilcox. That's our top story this

evening, but plenty more to keep you with us -

including: Plans to transform the historic

Royal Arsenal ammunitions building in Woolwich -

into a new Arts centre, A defiant former Mayor of London,

Ken Livingstone, has appeared before a Labour Party misconduct panel,

saying he has nothing to apologise for after making

controversial comments Last year, speaking

on BBC Radio London, Mr Livingstone claimed that Hitler

"collaborated" with the Jewish If found guilty, he could be

thrown out of the party - Here's our Political

Correspondent, Karl Mercer. This was the scene in

Westminster a year ago. Ken Livingstone at the centre

of a media scrum over comments he made early on BBC radio

London's Vanessa Feltz' show. It is completely over the top

to try and dismiss it. Let's remember, when Hitler

won his election in 1932 his policy then was Jews should be

moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism

before he went mad. Opponents labelled the comments

anti-Semitic and Livingstone Berated that morning that angry

fellow MP John Mann. This morning London's former mayor

turned up at a Labour Party disciplinary hearing which will rule

if he will be kicked He was asked if he will apologise

for those comments. If you look at the Jewish Chronicle

website that be it states I said Hitler was a Zionist,

it states I said Jews If I had said something

like that I would not just apologise, I would be retired

from public life completely. He again defended his

words of a year ago. I simply said that back in 1933

Hitler's Government signed a deal with the Zionist movement

which would mean that Germany's Jewish community

were moved to what is now Israel. That is very different to saying

Hitler supporter Zionism. The meeting is being held behind

closed doors, taking evidence Ken's consistent failure

to recognise the hurt, pain and the offence he's caused

within the Jewish community and Holocaust survivors in the UK

make it clear that can be no future for somebody in the Labour Party

who has such an appalling disregard and lack of sensitivity

around these issues. That is no point

hanging around today. It will be late tomorrow

before we hear anything. The hearing is scheduled

to last two days. No police officers are to face

criminal charges over the way they dealt with a man

who broke his neck outside Julian Cole from Wembley was left

brain damaged and paralysed Last year, the Independent Police

Complaints Commission recommended disciplinary charges should be

brought against the officers. Mr Cole's family say they'll appeal

against the decision. 17 people have been charged

after anti-deportation protestors locked themselves to a plane

at Stansted airport. Flights were temporarily

suspended on Tuesday evening after demonstrators entered

a secure area. The Campaign Group, Lesbian

and Gays Support the Migrants says Last month we revealed how lollipop

men and women are becoming increasing rare in London

as councils make cutbacks. A Freedom of Information request

revealed that up to 80 jobs have And today, Hounslow Council told

almost all its lollipop They have been on London's streets

for more than 50 years, but soon will they become

a rare sight? In Hounslow this morning summoned

to the Civic Centre, Hi, my name is Tracy and I have been

a lollipop lady for 14 years. I've been a lollipop

lady for three years. And the reason for this

meeting, not good news. A discussion about

possible redundancy. Last month BBC London revealed seven

London councils have seen or are expecting possible cuts

to their patrols, adding up Today in Hounslow 14 of those 80

people were told their post will go at the end of the summer term

unless schools or even sponsors Our last day for the service

is the 21st of July. Extremely heartbroken, actually,

because it's the end of an era. You know, how are the children get

across the road in the morning? It's just too upsetting

to even speak. Hounslow Council says it had

to stop funding the patrols So far two schools have agreed

to pay for a patrol and the council Opposition councillors say

it is the wrong decision. Hounslow Council have employed

lollipop ladies for years and years, even when our children

were at school, and they provide The removal of school

crossing patrols is not We do recognise in the current

financial climate difficult Hounslow Council says 20 mph zones

are already in place around schools, but some feel this is the end

of an era. Feel free to tell us what you think

about this story, councils making cutbacks to lollipop woman. Should

they be on the front line for cuts orchard there John be protected. --

should their jobs be protected? A Christian nurse sacked

by the NHS after offering to pray for patients

is claiming she was Sarah Kuteh, was dismissed

from Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, for what was described

as "gross misconduct". One complaint from a cancer patient,

claimed that the nurse had told him he would have a better chance

of survival if he prayed. Sarah Kuteh's the job included

filling out the operation questionnaires with patients at the

hospital. When it came to asking if they have a religion it did not end

with a simple Tech in the box and she admits in engaging people in

conversation. The Trust said her manner was an appropriate but she

does not agree. Where do you draw the line and say you must stop that,

let me find out if we should talk about this religion bit. At what

stage to carry on talking to the patient and when do you saying we

should not go there. There is a line that is not distinct. She was sacked

after ignoring warnings that the list of complaints. Patients say she

preached and made them feel awkward. One cancer patient was told if he

prayed he would have a better chance of survival, while another was given

a Bible and asked to sing a Sahm. He said he was a to the religious

fervour, like a Monty Python sketch. It is an appropriate when someone is

about to go into surgery and is receiving care, for someone to use

that as an opportunity to push their own religious beliefs. And any job

what I have worked with vulnerable children or adults I would rightly

expect to be fired for that misconduct. She says she was

offering comfort and usually only brought up to us jam at the FT

patient initiated the conversation. -- brought up her Christianity if

the patient initiated. It is a fundamental question about freedom

for people to speak about the faith naturally in the workplace. She is

claiming unfair dismissal and seeking reinstatement and

compensation. The judge will give his verdict in the coming days.

You're watching BBC One, on the final Thursday in March.

I am at Herne Hill Velodrome as it celebrates its regeneration of the

opening of the brand-new pavilion. And 3000 jellyfish in

a beautiful new display, which you can see close-up,

without getting stung. After spending over 200

years making ammunition and explosives for Britain's armed

forces, the former Royal Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich has

taken another significant step forward towards its

complete transformation. It's been given the go-ahead

to create hundreds of jobs It'll rival the South Bank, and we

sent Yvonne Hall to take a look. His Majesty visits one of our great

arms factories to see for himself how Mr Herbert Morrison's go-to-it

policy is operating. King George VI on a

morale-boosting visit Work here was crucial

to supplying troops then the Boer War and both world

wars, but gradually arms Now Greenwich council

plans to turn the site into a major arts

and entertainment complex. This is an amazing courtyard

at the back of the ammunition factory and it will be

an outdoor event space. We will be able

to have, for example, Greenwich and Docklands

International Festival, we will be able to have dance here, we can

bring in seating, if necessary. The ?31 million development

won council approval It includes theatres,

music venues and artists' spaces. This is the biggest

factory on the site It turned their skin

yellow and many died The council has discovered this

building has amazing acoustics and they will hold

orchestral performances Five buildings will be developed

here, four are grade two Local historians are

delighted they will If they bring these buildings back

into the public realm and ensure people will be able

to get into them and the type of development is most likely to not

affect the fabric of the buildings It is hoped the first part

of the development will be finished by September next year,

to coincide with the opening

of Crossrail nearby. The whole site is expected to be

open by the end of 2019. Governors at a school in Lambeth

are tonight discussing whether to issue masks

for it's pupils. London won't have seen anything

like it since the Second World War, but these masks

are to combat air pollution. Could these masks be the future

for children in London? Archbishop Sumner School in Lambeth

is discussing whether to introduce them to pupils to help limit

the effects of air pollution. We have some very busy

roads around here... Father of three and school governor

Adam Matthews told me why The real concern as a parent

and from the other parents around here is not enough is being done

to address diesel fumes We are looking to see

if there is a way we can help parents find better routes to school

to invest in masks so Nine-year-old Henry

thinks it is a good idea. He has asthma and his mum uses

backroads to take him to school He says he wishes fewer

people used cars. When I'm walking to school I get

wheezy and start to cough and all the car fumes go

into my lingslungs and it makes it Earlier this year the mayor

announced toxic air audits would be carried out at 50 primary schools

in some of the most polluted areas in London, including

this school in the city, to help the schools work out how

to better protect pupils. But in the latest stats

from City Hall it was found 360 primary schools are in areas that

are exposed to dangerous levels Experts say much more must be done

to tackle the problem. ClientEarth is calling for the lower

emission zone to cover We are talking about minute

particles, less than the 20th of a width of a human hair,

so these are going to be very hard What we need to focus on is ensuring

the air is clean for everyone to breathe without resorting

to things like mask. We need to tackle emissions

from road transport, especially diesel vehicles,

which are known to The mayor has said he is committed

to improving the quality in London and will make a further

announcement next week. For many, though, the time has

come to take the problem Swimming in the sea,

before being surrounded But instead of driving people away,

Sea Life London hopes Londoners will jump at the chance to come

face-to-face with thousands of them. The jellyfish have been

bred in the basement, which technically makes them

Londoners. Tarah Welsh has been

taking a look at them. They are at mystical creatures that

have been on Earth for more than 500 million years and now thousands on

show London. This exhibition has been three years in the making and

has four staff dedicated to breeding and looking after them. I am giving

their food. It is basically a very tiny shrimp we hatch in the morning

especially for feeding the jellyfish. Down here they have been

reading a number of species. Here we have baby jellyfish, around 100, and

you can see they look like Little stars at this stage. These will turn

into the adult jellyfish saw even in the biggest jellyfish in the ocean

will start off like this in size. There are those with mask these

things and the more harmless ones. This is the moon jellyfish, the most

common. Around the edge there are hundreds of thousands of stingers,

they cannot sting you because they are too small to get through my

skin. This ?2 million investment might be fascinating but there is

also research going on. A number of jellyfish isn't going as other

populations in the seat shrink. The worst year before the dinosaurs and

they will certainly outlive the rest of us. -- they were here before the

dinosaurs. During it's glory days,

which lasted decades, Herne Hill Velodrome

was an Olympic venue back in 1948. But in recent times

it was threatened with closure. However the community

rallied around to save it - and today they celebrated the fruits

of their hard work. Emma Jones is there for us this

evening to see what it looks like. Cyclists are being here using this

facility is on this lovely evening and the good news as they can do

this for years to come because the future of the venue has been secured

and that was part of today with the opening of this brand-new building.

-- and that was topped off today. Over to Herne Hill for the 38th

meeting of cycling champions... And it was a venue

for the 1948 Olympics. But with no long-term lease in place

the site fell into disrepair. Only campaigning from

the local community savedit. And today, with the official

unveiling of a new pavilion, It has been a very long road

and just to look around at the sea of people,

they all came and I've made the difference to what this track

is and it is down to the volunteers. So many people have put so much

heart into this place. And while it might all look

brand-new the architects wanted to keep a sense

of this venue's history. There have been a pavilion

here from the original track in 1891 and although the building

was derelict and had to go we did not want to lose all memory

of it and we managed to keep the memory of it by keeping these

wonderful cast-iron columns. We've got six of them

which we reconditioned and have brought in to this

modern timber structure. A circuit where Sir Bradley Wiggins

started his glittering cycling career, now saved for others,

young and old. I raced with Bradley Wiggins' dad

down here and I raced It's very good to see we achieved

something like this. To not have the track and not be

able to train at the velodrome I mean, I still would have tried

to pursue a career in cycling but I would not be where I am now,

I think, without it. It is physical evidence, sort of,

of us putting our feet down and saying we are going to keep

riding here, we are going Those who fought so long

to save this velodrome can now The velodrome has a 99 year lease so

lots more evenings of cycling for the cyclist to look forward to.

Somebody said today this is what happens when a community comes

together and refuses to take no for an answer.

She was the first music reality TV star back in 1980,

when she featured on the BBC's The Big Time.

Sheena Easton then went on to record a James Bond theme track

Now, four decades on, she's making her West End debut.

It is the all singing all dancing spectacular, a tale of high glamour

and romantic nostalgia. Set in the 1930s, 42nd Street follows the

journey beyond Broadway actress who dreams of stardom. It opens in the

west end next week and stars Grammy award winning first bag. It is doing

well and we are just fine tuning and tweaking it -- Grammy award-winning

Sheena Easton. She plays the part of the past prime primadonna renowned

for her inability to dance. She is a diva, the old school diva that is

starring in the show, the show within the show and she has got some

nasty this in her. She likes to throw her weight around is a bit. In

1981 Sheena Easton recorded a Bond theme, the same year she featured in

a BBC documentary that was searching for a start. Six years later she

worked with Prince. We've lost a great icon of the music industry and

it hit a lot of his fans very hard and a lot of us in the music

industry who admired him as a creative person, writer, a producer.

It's maybe her debut on the West End stage but she is no stranger to the

capital. There is places that are familiar to me and places I know I

should remember but they seem to have changed and things have been

built that I am exploring and discovering it again. Although she

have -- she has eight shows a week or publisher will have played for

more of those discoveries as she spends the next year in the capital

the boards. -- treading the boards. We both

remember watching Sheena Easton in the 1980s. I found out before we

went on air this is your last weather forecast for us. Is that

true? Indeed it is. And what a privilege to be on BBC London for

it. What are you going to do? Get some sleep back after 28 years of

night shift. The future is exciting and so is the weather. More fine

weather to come tomorrow. Today we reached 22 Celsius. This is a

beautiful shot across the River Thames. There is a very small chance

you could catch a light shower this evening but hardly worthy of

mentioning and mainly staying dry. Not a lot going on weather-wise,

light winds, will cool down slightly. The mild night. Double

figures to start tomorrow and tomorrow is set to be another decent

day, not just as warm and a bit small close and it might thicken up

enough to give the odd fleeting shower through the capital but it

will not last long. A refreshing breeze in the afternoon. Temperature

is good for the time of year. Usually the average is 12 Celsius so

that shows you how warm it is at the moment. Towards the weekend, Friday

night will be fine and dry. The weekend is a bit up and down. The

bullet on Saturday with low pressure coming in generating some showers

before a ridge of high pressure rescues as -- a blip on Saturday.

Suddenly start is bright and bright but close will bubble up one or two

sharp showers. Some avoid them but the risk is they are. Fielding drill

as well. -- feeling cooler as well. Saturday, I expect to see scenes

like this, they shall work cloud and maybe the odd rainbow but by Sunday

the showers will fade away and plenty of blue sky and sunshine, so

getting better. Thank you John, it has been an absolute pleasure and on

behalf of of us all we wish you the very best for the future. I've been

asked, is that Europe is high or does it belong to Thomas? -- your

tiny. Finally, I'm just going to give

you a re-cap of the main BBC news headlines this Thursday,

30th of March: Two senior surgeons say

lives of young children are being put at risk

at the Royal Manchester Children's hospital, because of the intense

pressure to tackle waiting lists. They spoke out after a boy

died when his urgent Thousands of EU laws -

on everything from workers' rights to the environment are to be

transferred into UK law The 'Great Repeal Bill'

will allow our courts to scrap, That is it. Join me at 10:30pm for

the latest. Goodbye for now. For full sets and more from

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