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tomorrow's talks when he will try to persuade Russia to end its support

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Figures suggest London has the worst conviction rates in the country

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That night I would have ended up dead if I hadn't left. I was caught

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up in the corner with my hands over my face trying to protect myself.

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Years after this fatal retirement-home fire

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in Hinchley Wood, the owners are fined almost

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That's how Sutton residents have described a new bin collection

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service where rubbish just wasn't being collected.

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And, two years after the multi-million pound burglary

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at Hatton Garden vault, we return to the scene of the crime

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with those retelling the story on the big screen.

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Good evening, and welcome to the programme.

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New figures suggest London has the worst domestic violence conviction

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rate in the country, 10% lower than the national average. The charity

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women's aid says women are being let down by the police who should be

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better at tackling the issue with coercive control and physical abuse.

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I met Laura at this refuge in Surrey. If the figures today

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underline how the Metropolitan Police could be doing far more to

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the bit abusive partners, her story drives home how much that matters.

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I feared that night I would have ended up dead had I not left. He had

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smashed candles over my head, glass candles. I was in the corner caught

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up with my hand over my face trying to protect myself.

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She is a survivor of coercive control. In her case her partner

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used the threat of suicide to force her to stay in a deeply abusive

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relationship where she was repeatedly raped and beaten.

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Complete that Mel, the reason I could not leave because I did not

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want the conscience of his death to be my responsibility.

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Coercive control is an area which charities explain why the match but

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police has a low conviction rate, 64% of positives and results in

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conviction, 10% lower than the national average.

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If they don't understand coercive controlled and are looking for a

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black eye and broken bones, they can underestimate the impact of coercive

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control and may not necessarily even think to look at the whole picture,

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they just think there has been no physical assault, therefore the

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story ends there. Unfortunately for that victim when

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the police walk away the story doesn't end. The charity is calling

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for police training which is what the Metropolitan Police is doing,

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with more specialist training and dedicated officers.

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They accept it is a challenge. People my not even realise they are

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themselves a victim of coercive control because it is the way it

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manifests itself, slowly and overtime. Our officers are getting a

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better understanding reflected in the amount we are recording on an

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annual basis which is increasing. The leadership is there but for many

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women it is about delivering on those promises, raising awareness

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and knowledge among officers across the force.

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We visit the companies that are changing the workplace

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The owners of a retirement complex in Surrey have been fined nearly

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half-a-million pounds for safety breaches which contributed

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87-year-old Irene Cockerton perished in a fire at Gibson Court

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The flames destroyed an entire block in a matter of minutes.

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Today, a judge said "extensive and substantial" safety failings had

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put residents in danger, as Marc Ashdown reports

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Every time I close my eyes, I could see those flames.

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It was six years ago but May Moorhouse is still haunted

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Within minutes, fire ripped through the Gibson Court retirement flats.

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87-year-old Irene Cockerton was overcome by smoke,

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her body was found in a wardrobe in her room.

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The blaze started after another resident's TV caught fire.

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Summary Fire Service brought a health and safety

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which owned the apartments citing a raft of failures.

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They hadn't carried out a suitable risk assessment which the judge said

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Fire dividing walls in the loft space were described as inadequate,

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Greasy vapours had built up in kitchen vents which opened up

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Managers had not been trained properly and there was no clear

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All this had been flagged up by previous safety

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First Port Retirement is a very different company today

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We have new owners, a completely new management team,

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and as the judge has previously noted, a much improved

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safety environment, including stronger policies,

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So we are sorry, we have applied the lessons, and safety

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Walking around the corner to see the whole building

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Annie's mother Mary lived close to Irene and May.

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The family still feel they have not had the proper support

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after the fire and trying to resettled.

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At that time of their lives when they needed to be somewhere

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I feel now we should receive some compensation for the trauma it has

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Fire fighters were praised in court for their bravery,

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tackling the huge fire, and for bringing this

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prosecution which highlighted what were described as substantial

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First Port faces a fine with costs of ?460,000,

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But no fine, said the judge, can compensate for the loss

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The friend of a British man who was killed in the terror attack

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in Stockholm says he's still making sense of a world that doesn't

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Chris Bevington was one of four people who died when a hijacked

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lorry was driven into shoppers last Friday.

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He'd been working for the music streaming group Spotify.

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Chris Bevington moved to Stockholm for love,

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after meeting his Swedish wife Annika in London.

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They raised two young boys here in Sweden but remained close

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As you can imagine we are all struggling to come to terms with

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To make sense of a world that no longer has our

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He was the most amazing father, husband, son, brother and friend

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We are all going to miss him terribly.

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He loved his family, his friends and his music.

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This is where Chris spent the last five years of his career.

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The Swedish headquarters of the music streaming company Spotify

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Everyone we have spoken to who worked with him

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described him as a wonderful guy with a lovely family.

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He would run through a wall for you, he was that kind of guy.

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I wanted to take the opportunity to say every ounce of energy and love

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that we all have goes to his family but also the families of those

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other people that were affected by this terrible tragedy.

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A tragedy that raises challenges for Sweden,

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and has changed the lives of Chris's loved ones forever.

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Thousands of stroke patients in England could benefit

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from a new programme to train more doctors in a complex procedure

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which can save lives and help reduce disability.

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The pioneering treatment is currently only available

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at St George's Hospital in Tooting, and involves doctors

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catching and removing a clot which is causing the stroke,

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to help restore the flow of blood to the brain.

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Margaret had a stroke just three weeks ago at the age of 50

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but she has benefited from a revolutionary treatment.

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I was very lucky because I should have come out more severe,

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I could have been paralysed and taken months of therapy

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Her doctors at this London hospital have led the way

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It is called a thrombectomy, and has a much higher success rate

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than conventional treatment using clotbusting drugs.

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Patients can be completely weak down one side and not have any speech.

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As soon as you take the clot out, they can start talking to you

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Other times it takes several hours or by the end of the evening next

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-- or next day they can have recovered a lot of function.

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With thrombectomies, doctors use this incredibly delicate

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piece of wire to fish the clot out of the patient's brain.

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They sometimes use another piece of wire like this

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8,000 patients across England will benefit from this treatment

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every year once the programme is rolled out.

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Not all patients will have the treatment.

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As some strokes are caused by a bleed rather than a clot.

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And it will take time to train the doctors and nurses

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But NHS England says it is making this investment because patients

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The workplace is changing more rapidly than many

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of us might think, as employers decide that the way

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to get the best out of workers, isn't by enforcing lots of rules

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They say it leads to a more productive, profitable workforce

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Tara Welsh has been to some businesses adopting

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Balancing work with life is something many businesses

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This media agency has moved well away from

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That of keeping employees at their desk.

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As well as having the option to work remotely, there are no job titles

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and the number of holiday days isn't capped.

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If somebody is getting married that year, they will take a lot of time

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off in that year and preparations for honeymoons, that stuff,

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equally if someone is saving up for a flat they might take less time

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off because they might have less money to go away and do nice things.

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We say to people, we expect you to take anything between four

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and six weeks as a sensible amount to take off each year.

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In Clerkenwell, they are beating a drum for flexibility.

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At this market research company, they found staff are less likely

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to need to make a formal application to change hours because as long

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as they are between 10-4 people can work a shift that suits them.

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Victoria says that makes her commute much more bearable.

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Rather than coming in during rush hour in the 9.30 period,

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I come in at 8am which makes my commute easier.

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People are measured against their performance.

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The difference is they are not measured against presenteeism.

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That they happen to be in a position where they can or can't stay

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Their performance is measured against their actual

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Flexible working has always been available to all staff here.

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Before 2014, companies were only obliged to consider applications

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Now, the law says anyone can apply to change their work pattern.

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And people only have that right once they have been

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There is a lot more companies can do and one thing

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hiring which is all about offering flexibility from

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-- hiring which is all about offering flexibility

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So we know from the research we do, timewise, that less than one in ten

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jobs is advertised with any mention of flexibility.

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And in London, it is even smaller, just over 7%.

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So, while some businesses here are leading the way when it

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comes to flexibility, it seems many still need

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And tomorrow, in the final part of our series, we'll examine

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whether flexible working in some jobs increases stress

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still to come tonight. I am in the vault that was ransacked

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by these two years ago, to talk to the stars of the new film about the

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Hatton Garden robbery. And will we have any rain for the

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gardens, or more of this lovely sunshine this week? I will have

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answers to those questions in the forecast later.

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Piles of rubbish bags in the street, overflowing recycling bins.

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Just some of the problems people living in parts of south London

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are facing after the local council reduced the number of

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Sutton Council changed them from weekly, to once every two weeks.

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Local residents say that's caused chaos and led

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to hundreds of people queueing at the local recycling centre.

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Sutton Council has now apologised for the problems.

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Frustration today in a queue for a council recycling depot.

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Hundreds of cars, many waiting more than half an hour.

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Sutton have changed their collection ofbins, OK, and I don't think people

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quite know where to throw all the stuff.

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One resident, Bert, showed us how he now has to use five bins

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Garden waste, paper and card, non-recyclable rubbish.

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Bottles, tins and plastics, food waste.

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He says not only is it confusing, his food waste

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As you can see, it is really festering by now

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It seems they have been inundated by calls and are not coping.

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Some Sutton residents have been posting pictures of piles

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-- of piles of rubbish, on social media.

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And this man witnessed another long queue at the weekend

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People went to B to get a free bin because Sutton Council told

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thousands of people that free bins were available.

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It caused a vast queue, lots of very angry people,

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and families were there forced to stay there for hours on end,

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This opposition councillor says it is all because a new waste

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collection contract has been agreed but not introduced.

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If you don't get your message clear, chaos ensues.

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Sutton Council says improved recycling will save ?10

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But today, along with the new contractor, it admitted

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We recognise people are unhappy, they have every right to be so.

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We have been working on this hard but in the first week things didn't

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In every service change, especially of that magnitude,

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This one is probably a bit more difficult than we expected.

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The council says 90% of collections have now been made

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Residents will no doubt be watching their bins

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A struggling gym that helps people with disabilities or mental health

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issues has been given some much-needed money to

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Ability Bow in east London doesn't get any help from the NHS, and has

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had to cancel some services in the past because

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But now, as Yvonne Hall reports, it's been given an injection of cash

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to help get more people out of their homes and active again.

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Kenneth Grant had polio as a child and in the last five years

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he has suffered sudden and devastating falls.

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He says being referred here to the Ability Bow Gym has

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helped him get physically and emotionally stronger.

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Ever since I have been here, I have seen an improvement.

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I have been depressed for a while, depressed.

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Just coming to the gym, I've seen a huge improvement.

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The Ability Bow Gym is the only one in London offering a one-to-one

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service to help people with physical disabilities and emotional

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Nearly 4,000 people have been helped here since the gym opened

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And more funding is desperately needed.

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Now, the City Bridge Trust, part of the City Of London Corporation,

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has given the gym a much-needed boost, donating nearly ?100,000,

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collected from travellers in the capital in the 11th century.

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People used to use London Bridge, they would go across the bridge

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by paying tolls, rents, people would leave money

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to the bridge because it was so important to London.

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That money got paid together and has been looked

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The gym's organisers say the grant means they can help hundreds more

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It enables us to work with people with mental health conditions.

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All the people we do work with have disabilities or health conditions.

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But this grant enables us to start a project specifically focused

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on people with mental health issues which largely a lot

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It is now hoped the grant will help the charity extend this unique

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service to other parts of east London too.

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And Crystal Palace's hopes of staying in the Premier

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League are looking a good deal brighter after their first win over

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Last night's result also heaped more pressure on visiting

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Chris Slegg is at Palace's Selhurst Park Stadium where the club

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is about to announce a new charity initiative.

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Chris, what's the mood like there today?

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You can almost hear those cheers still echoing around this place some

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24 hours on. A famous result for Crystal Palace, a dismal night for

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Arsenal, while many Arsenal fans were continued to chart for Arsene

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Wenger to resign, the Crystal Palace fans by separating just eight days

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after beating Chelsea, they are now six points clear of relegation. It

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has come at a perfect time. They had already designed this big event at

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Selhurst Park, they have announced a new name for their charitable

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foundation, known as the Kaptur Palace for life foundation.

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Sam Allardyce was here beating 10,000 youngsters Hutcheon some of

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the 10,000 youngsters they hope to help. I asked whether after the

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result he now has faith he can keep this team in the premiership.

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I have confidence we can stay up, yes, now.

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We have to make sure we apply that confidence in the last few games

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and make it a certainty and we can start planning the next year.

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We still have to keep a hold on our ambitions just yet

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because we're not quite safe but we have given ourselves

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a fantastic chance of getting six points ahead of that bottom three.

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It is fair to say you have had a few disagreements

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Right now, do you have sympathy with him given the nature

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I understand what he is going through and I think,

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you know, as a manager, you would hope that the club,

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and if he wants to, let him work through this one,

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I think he deserves the opportunity to work through, from what he has

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done over the last 20 years at Arsenal.

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Arsene Wenger has the support of Sam Allardyce. It doesn't seem to have

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the support of many of his fans now, they continue to call for him to go.

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You made tight-lipped on whether he will sign this two year contract the

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club have offered him. Many fans don't want him to do that, they want

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a change. He has survived many tough times but the club is now seven

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points adrift of fourth place, they have never missed out on Champions

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League football under him. It is not looking good but events here last

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night mean none have been as tough as this.

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It's almost two years to the day since the largest burglary

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in English legal history planned by four pensioners

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Underground safety deposit boxes holding tens of millions of pounds

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of valuables were taken, but nobody was hurt.

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Well, it's about to be released as one.

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As far as plots go, this real-life drama has it all.

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The target, a high-security safe depository.

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The perpetrators, a group of pensioners.

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Young or old, this is the biggest theft in history.

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Two of the stars met me in the real-life vault left

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Your character actually fits through that.

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Ours might be slightly bigger than that, that hole.

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Larry Lamb was already indirectly connected to the story

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He had been long-term friends with the man who owns

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Little did either of them know he would go on

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I lost track completely of the fact that it was all done

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And all of a sudden my agent was saying, some people

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are interested in you for a part in a film.

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People like a movie about old boys robbing.

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People sort of wanted them to get away with it, didn't they?

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But some have criticised the film for glamourising criminality

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and portraying characters who really had been involved in violent crime.

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You know, you just have to step away from that, I'm afraid,

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You are hired because you sort of resemble the character

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And the people producing the film figure you are the best person

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they can get hold of that can represent that character.

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No point in getting caught up in politics.

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We wouldn't get any parts if we didn't play the odd villain.

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And they are villains but, unusually for a film like this,

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Only a bit of age-related ill-health.

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It felt pretty warm today. Not bad at all, lovely in the sunshine,

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spring sunshine again. Here we are in Putney, with just some cumulus

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cloud and high cloud elsewhere. Through this week, a little crueller

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and cloudier, and here is a beautiful blue sky we had today but

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this mass of cloud over northern England and Scotland will move

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southwards tonight and tomorrow. By the time it reaches us, it will be a

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cold front. It comes up against this high-pressure system. Very little

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rain left on it. It means there is plenty of whether to enjoy. It will

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be dry throughout the middle of this week. Through this evening, we still

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have long, sunny spells. Through the night, clear skies once again. A

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little more breeze to night keeping things stirred up many tempters

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don't fall quite as low. Not as chilly as last night, 5-8 for most

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of us and a fairly bright start tomorrow. Make the most of any sunny

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spells tomorrow morning. There will be more cloud than today, it

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thickens up in the afternoon as that cold front approaches us. It is a

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breezy day with winds from a north-westerly direction.

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Temperatures at 16 for London. Maybe one or two showers from that cold

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front later in the day but not coming to much. Thursday, dry

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conditions, generally cloudy conditions. A little bit of a

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breeze, temperatures around where they should be. For the Easter

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weekend, Good Friday, another dry day, some sunshine. Rain to start on

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Saturday but not too bad for the Easter weekend.

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I'll be back later during the Ten O'Clock News.

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But for now, from everyone on the team, have a lovely evening.

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There have never been so many people in work -

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that's what the Government keeps telling us.

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But what's the reality of this Tory jobs bonanza?

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Well, if you're one of the millions of people working on

:27:46.:27:50.

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