12/04/2017 London News

But locals are worried about the impact on their homes.

I was in a new-build home less than six months with notification at the

attention of facing it being demolished.

Also ahead, the rise in women undergoing a double mastectomy

Since Angelina Jolie, those numbers have gone up by about 70%, because

at the Angelina Jolie affects. The project feeding

children, while removing And the campaign to reunite

War World II soldiers with their dog tags,

after thousands of them A boost for the economy and a relief

for long suffering drivers - or is it just a "crazy idea"

and "a disaster for Well, both views are being voiced

after the announcement of a new multi-billion pound road

link across the Thames. It's a tunnel which will

effectively link the M25 north of the River, with the A2 -

south of it. Our Political Editor, Tim Donovan is

near the Dartford crossing tonight. I hope you can see, that there is

the top of the QE2 bridge, part of the Dartford Crossing at the centre

of the story but sadly it is about as close as we can get because we

are told not typically it is absolute transport gridlock around

here on the approaches to hear on the 813. An accident on the M25

approaching the Dartford Crossing, almost as if the Government arranged

best to make the point that another solution is badly needed. One of the

busiest stretches of road in the country and often no one is going

anywhere fast which is why the Government felt the decision that

took today was an important one. Many people use this Crossing can

live in Kent and work in Essex and vice versa and this will provide an

extra option for them because it will ease the pressure on Dartford

only a separate route can do. Now they have to build it and a new

approach would reverse Essex marshland. This landscape east of

London will soon be completely transformed. That is Tilbury power

station, although there is east Trowbridge Village and in between is

Tilbury marshes and on the other side of that Reg Rivers hedges are

ready opening of this tunnel on the northside of the Thames will be dug.

This is due to start off the M25, and don't hear on the side of the

Thames, underneath the Thames and coming out east of Gravesend and

there will be a link road to join the eight to and the idea would

siphon off a lot of the cross-channel traffic, particularly

haulage business to get to the rest of the country that is why at local

hauliers feel really welcome it because it will relieve pressure on

the existing Dartford Crossing. We are absolutely delighted. It is the

only option that can seriously avoid the congestion and destruction that

we have on a daily basis trying to get to and from Kent. In this

village, and a quiet cul-de-sac, a feeling of dread. The estate is less

than two years old with great regret community and it is you will find

the road is intending to go all the way across here, are all the way

around and join right through this property. He is aiding a campaign

and he doesn't believe the option chosen will relieve the Dartford

Crossing the officials claim. Disastrous. It will cover the entire

borough and blight the entire borough. 495 thousand creditors on

green belt land which could get back again. Over 200 residential

properties, most people commercial properties and it won't fix the

problem which is the congestion of the Dartford Crossing. The final

decision has yet been taken on what will be demolished but there will be

more consultation and here they voted to fight one. Many others

behind the Google this evening may fuel other Crossing can't come soon

enough. The Transport Secretary says one of the main reasons they have

gone for this option is there was a consultation with 47,000 responses

and he claims the majority of those were in favour of it. It looks like

it will cost around ?5 billion. Will it end up being a toll bridge like

the QE2 or Dartford Tunnel and the Government are saying we haven't

decided. Some will say that if you didn't put a toll on the bridge but

continued to tour the Dartford Crossing it could create incentives.

.... That Crossing a big talking point in London this evening. I have

been to a major new exhibition by the Scott Henry Moore showing this

is an artwork that another been seen by the public before.

In recent years, a number of consultants say there's been

a sharp increase in the number of women in London choosing

to have a double mastectomy - as a precaution against breast

It's attributed - largely some say - to actress Angelina Jolie,

who had a much publicised double mastectomy herself,

What does Nina Newton have in common with Angelina Jolie?

Well, one is a former ballerina who is now a

The other, a UN ambassador and movie star.

They do both share the same remarkable battle with

cancer, a battle they both fought and won before it had even begun.

Surgically removing what they assumed were healthy breasts before

For Nina, the timing couldn't have been

better as tests on her removed breast tissue would show.

The results came back that I did in fact

have early breast cancer in my left breast and that

And this is the surgeon who gave her that news.

He has long championed preventative double

But has only recently seen a spike in interest.

There is a steady stream of women coming through for

assessment and since Angelina Jolie, those numbers have gone up by about

70%. We call it the Jolie affect.

With or without celebrity endorsement, this surgery

but is now available on the NHS for women

It is the woman particularly whose mother got breast cancer, especially

at an early age, particularly less than 40, two first-degree relatives

less than 50, three or more at any age and that

repeating itself through mother, through grandmother,

There is a significant saving to the NHS as well.

On the left we have a healthy breast.

For a preventative double mastectomy it

It would prevent a tumour ever arising as you can see here on this

The treatment for that if successful is in the region of

and trauma of months of

Just one of the reasons why Nina is doing

her bit to follow Angelina Jolie's example.

Both raising awareness that for those like them who are at the

highest risk, prevention really is better than cure.

There's been a massive rise in gun and knife crime in London

over the past year - with the Metropolitan Police

admitting it can't solve the problem by itself.

It says it needs the help of Londoners.

Help in making sure young people aren't carrying weapons -

thereby keeping themselves and others safe.

Our political correspondent is Karl Mercer.

There's no dressing these figures up...

And they will be a concern to Londoners...

What we learned today is that Gun crime has gone up 42%

The picture for Knife crime is bad too.

With just over 12 thousand offences last year.

And worryingly Knife crime with injury is up 21 per cent

12 people injured by a knife very day in London.

You don't need crime figures with a knife crime is a growing problem in

London. This crime scene tape tells its own story. Following the fatal

stabbing of a teenager in west London and in other deadly attack in

east London, two more signs of a growing problem for the Met. There

are far too many young people being seriously injured and in a number of

cases killed because of what is a fight three people are using knives

and it concerns me that what we are seeing and Italy and those numbers

is an increased number of young people who originally carrying a

knife around of whatever sort with them. The Met has gone and the front

foot of a set of figures that make grim reading. All numbers are up. I

think with statistics rising as they have done and that would have more

guns of the street, you can say of the reasons as there are more guns

in circulation. We have taken more guns off the street and the last two

years than ever before, 1400 guns have been taken off the streets of

London. Well crime is rising, detection rates have fallen. The Met

has been criticised for being hundreds of detective short. City

Hall today called the figure is deeply disturbing and called for the

Met's funding to be protected from further cuts. Over the last four

years we have taken over ?600 million order for a budget and other

savings that we are going to make sure that will have an impact on an

organisation's capability. The Met like other forces around the country

is facing a budget squeeze at a time when Kramer is beginning to rise

again. And if we take a look at those

overall crime figures ..... They've gone up by 4.6%

in the last year .... It is going in the wrong

direction of course, but the Met keen to point out today

that that figure is still 16 per cent lower than the total number

of crimes ten years ago. I know we can all sometimes get

carried away with statistics in order to prove a point,

but here's an important one for you - one in five -

that's 20% of all children in London - risks going hungry

every school day. And that figure only increases

during the school holidays - and so a local project in Brixton

is leading the way in Many mums will know that after a

game of football there are boys just want to be fed. These mums are

volunteering today and Johnson's playing here to helping to cater for

over 60 boys. We have so and stuff. The aim is to make sure children

from lower income families are kept fit and fill up during the holidays.

They get a proper meal, freshly cooked on the day and it is healthy.

They get that along with three football so it is all good. I think

is important for them to come out of the house and do something

constructive to stop it has worked so well here that the idea has been

rolled out nationally. And bringing a bit of song and sauce to the long

as the leading act as local entrepreneur Levi roots. There is a

serious reason behind the scheme, it is estimated half a million children

in London are facing hunger and the summer borders. Back in my day be

never had that kind of problem because it was more of a community

spirit and be looked after each other. No I think it is about

individual lives and becomes harder for patients because it is so

individualistic the way that we live nowadays. It is going to meet them

together in unity liquid we have done today. The programme aims to

help seven and a half thousand children from 250 disadvantaged

areas. It is a hidden problem. When you think about it, it makes sense

that if kids are getting free school meals they are not getting them

during the holidays. There is an issue there. The question is how

other families able to do with that issue and the gap. Most of the

funding is public and much of the food donated but of course it has

the football that keeps the kids coming back. Me and my team played

and we didn't give up. Did you could make it better? The food was nice.

And I enjoyed eating food because it tells me to get strong. It admits

she wonder why any capital and 2017, our children still going hungry.

This is what's still to come before seven.

Lifting the spirits of a nation at war -

we speak to Bill Nighy and Gemma Arterton about their new

And the mystery behind thousands of dog tags dug up

They belong to World War Two soldiers, but no-one

Masterpieces by the sculptor, Henry Moore have been unveiled

Among the work being displayed is a piece he did as a schoolboy -

and other monumental bronze pieces which made him world famous.

The farmhouse is in the hamlet of Perry Green, from where

Pieces of artwork rarely placed on display by one Briton's

Born in 1898, Henry Moore's new exhibition at his studios

in Hertfordshire charts hid coming of age as an artist up to the 1930s.

Sebastiano Barassi is the curator here.

He has been working on this exhibition for years,

sourcing artwork not only from across the country

This is a small piece from circa 1922, 1924 when Moore

was a student in London at the Royal College of Art.

This is made from plasticine on the subject of the mother and child.

And I understand that this has never been seen by the public before.

The reason is because these pieces are quite experimental,

they are ideas and develop that rather than finished work

and therefore they don't necessarily have that kind of wide appeal

and don't necessarily look like a Henry Moore.

There are five studios here at the foundation in Hertfordshire.

This one is called the Maquette studio which means model in French.

It is where Henry Moore created models of his sculptures before

This latest exhibition coincides with the opening of a new visitor

centre and the 40th anniversary of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Well aware of financial struggles, he set up the trust to give grants

This is a very special time for the foundation.

It is our 40th birthday and we have just invested in new facilities

here at the Henry Moore foundation, we have built a fabulous new visitor

centre, we have developed an amazing archive to store all of Moore's

And better than to go back to Henry Moore's early career

and look at the way that he became the great artist

Becoming Henry Moore opens to the public on Good Friday

until the end of October, an opportunity to catch a glimpse

of artwork never seen before by such an influential sculptor of our time.

London being relentlessly bombed by the Nazis,

while Londoners try everything they can, to keep going.

That's when the Government thought films could help -

boosting morale during those dark days of World War II.

Now a film's been made about how it was all done -

and it stars Bill Nighy and Gemma Arterton.

Both have been speaking to Alice Bhandhukravi.

London suffered further heavy bombing raids last night.

It is 1940, and Katrine is trying to make a name as a screenwriter

at a time when many of the men have gone to war and London

It is a film about making a film but it is also a film

about the struggles that women faced as they navigated their

Did the level of sexism surprise you?

Yes, I can't imagine what it must have been like actually but one

of the first things that she is told that she has offered the job is that

obviously you can't be made for the chaps and she says,

Some things haven't changed that much.

Except nowadays and they just don't see it.

They wouldn't say it, and the woman could say, how much?

And obviously we can't pay you as much as the chaps.

I don't think we've been properly introduced.

But it's not just about sexism, it's also about propaganda and how

important that was to the war effort.

Between us, we'll have them weeping in the aisles.

The Blitz, for which a lot of people, including myself,

have a kind of nostalgia for, largely people who weren't there,

In order to keep people's spirits up just as a practical and valuable

and useful and responsible thing, they made these movies.

But on the other hand people talking about how it was such a good time

to be together and people really, their sense of humour is what kept

people going and there was a sense of pride and community.

National pride and personal pride, the main character does much

more than make a film, she sets a precedent.

From one World War Two campaign to another -

and a man from Stansted is desperately trying to trace

the descendants of soldiers who fought in the war -

after he found personal identity 'dog tags' in a field

He's managed to track down eight families so far -

Dan Freedman has been speaking to him.

These are just a few of the 14,000 adult tags that Dan discovered were

scouring Europe's old bases and battle sites. It is a hobby that has

become an occupation, research for first and Second World War

artefacts. We went to check anti-aircraft battery and found

absolutely nothing. You usually get old bits and pieces but we will put

a long way and found nothing. We saw a raised bank and one of the guys

went to check it out and got a signal but it was a continuous

signal and we thought there was something different here. We

scripted with a spade and these things just appeared. You couldn't

count them there were so many. He is hoping to reunite the owners or

their families with dog tags he believes never found their way to

the soldiers they were made for. Any collector will tell you that metal

dog tags are postwar and that has always been the case. However when

you look at the serial numbers of these they tell you they are World

War II issue but nobody knows any World War II soldier ever having a

metal dog tag. You look at the records online and you find this guy

was in Burma and 44 and utterly in 43 and they were made during the

war. But they were never issued. His study at home these are Stansted

this is very own military Museum and behind each and every treasure and

trinket is another fascinating piece of history. This is a German

bayonet, we found about 24 German soldiers and one field the redirect

any graveyard and Latvia. He says personal items to families free of

charge, saying it is not about the money but he estimates the

collection could be worth up to ?20,000. It is incredible, such a

lovely feeling. Everyone is over the moon. For this relic hunter more

than most perhaps the search really is a never ending.

Sock a video has emerged of two Metropolitan Police officers chasing

a pink down a road in east London. Yesterday happened this afternoon, a

passing jogger also tried to catch the animal, it was safely recaptured

Fraley and returned home. There are so many questions we want to ask of

you will find out later. I try not to make a pig's ear with

this forecast. We've had some sunshine today,. Most

visited season sunshine but we have this area of cloud that is gradually

edging southwards and this is a very weak front, not much left on it just

a few showers at the wood across the Midlands. We could get the odd

shower over the next few hours that it will be clearing overnight and it

will be a dry story, some lengthy clear spells and that will allow

temperatures to dip down. Getting quite cold in the countryside, three

or four. It should be bright enough first thing that cloud will quickly

develop as we go on through the morning and that cloud will probably

stay with us through the afternoon perhaps thinning later in the day

for the few bright sunny spells. With that cloud will feel cooler,

temperature is reaching a high of 14 will stop it will stay fine during

the evening and through the forecast and towards Good Friday, some

further weather systems coming down from the Northwest, again tending to

be pretty weak as they run into relatively high pressure across

southern England suffered Good Friday it looks like this. A lot of

cloud around but it will be thick enough for a few spots of rain, no

huge amounts but he will find most of the rain is up over the

children's and admit stay dry in London. A weak system but the

potential for rain is there. Entries to weekend, on Saturday we are

looking at some reasonable conditions, white or sunny spells

and temperatures of 215. For Sunday a dry picture with some sunshine and

highs of 16 and four Monday although there is some uncertainty in the

forecast I think overall and should stay dry and a chance of sunshine

again. Now, a quick look at the day's main

news headlines before we go The Health Secretary has ordered

a review of an NHS Trust - after the 'avoidable' deaths

of at least seven babies at The trust says their mortality

levels are in line with Russian President,

Vladimir Putin has said ties with the United States have

'deteriorated' since He made the comments

as Foreign Ministers from both countries met to find

areas of agreement. The Thames is to get

a new multi-billion pound crossing. It'll link the M25

motorway with the A2. The Government says it

will boost jobs in London. And watch it all again on the idea,

and Julie again at 1034 more. Thank you, bye for now.

'The UK has voted to leave the European Union by 52% to 48.

'Ukip leader Nigel Farage celebrated the result,

'declaring that dawn was breaking on an independent nation.'