:00:00. > :00:13.Goodbye. for the news where you are.
:00:14. > :00:15.Good evening and welcome to BBC London News.
:00:16. > :00:24.There's growing pressure for older drivers to have to take a test
:00:25. > :00:27.to make sure they're fit to stay on the roads.
:00:28. > :00:29.More than a quarter of a million people have signed a petition
:00:30. > :00:34.It was started by a man whose wife was killed by an elderly
:00:35. > :00:39.Frank has been driving for most of his life.
:00:40. > :00:42.Know where you are relative to as much traffic as you possibly can.
:00:43. > :00:44.But despite 56 years of experience behind the wheel,
:00:45. > :00:51.he feels he benefits from an appraisal from time to time.
:00:52. > :01:01.I can see that I'm not as sharp as I was ten or 15 years ago.
:01:02. > :01:04.There is no legal age to stop driving in the UK but under
:01:05. > :01:06.the current DVLA system, drivers have to renew
:01:07. > :01:08.their licence every three years from the age of 70.
:01:09. > :01:20.And that must apply when I'm driving a car.
:01:21. > :01:29.Not disclosing a medical issue can have devastating consequences.
:01:30. > :01:31.In 2012, Ben's wife was killed while walking
:01:32. > :01:32.with their 2-year-old son, Jackson.
:01:33. > :01:35.When the pressure was on, when the driver had to choose
:01:36. > :01:38.between an accelerator and a brake, he wasn't able to make that decision
:01:39. > :01:42.Ben is campaigning for drivers to be retested every three years
:01:43. > :01:45.Last year, road safety experts delivered a report setting out
:01:46. > :01:48.a national strategy for safe driving into old age.
:01:49. > :01:50.It made a number of recommendations including increasing the age
:01:51. > :01:53.of licence renewal to 75, if proof of an eye test
:01:54. > :01:57.Older drivers, at the age of 70, you are no more likely to be
:01:58. > :02:05.But as we do get older and start to suffer from frailty,
:02:06. > :02:07.eyesight and hearing, then yes, problems can arise
:02:08. > :02:09.if we do not address them at an early stage.
:02:10. > :02:11.Meanwhile, Ben is hoping his campaign will highlight the issue
:02:12. > :02:18.Families of people with disabilities say they fear their loved ones
:02:19. > :02:20.could lose their independence because two day care centres
:02:21. > :02:26.The council - which owns the buildings - has been allowing
:02:27. > :02:29.a charity to use them rent free, but says it can no
:02:30. > :02:37.He's 23 next month and he has severe autism.
:02:38. > :02:46.Ertan spends most of his days at this care centre.
:02:47. > :02:48.He takes part in art classes, cooking and even goes sailing.
:02:49. > :02:52.But the council has told the charity which runs the centre that the lease
:02:53. > :02:55.on the building is due to expire and it can no longer
:02:56. > :02:59.Meaning that the centre will have to close.
:03:00. > :03:03.The centre is the best price for us to pay.
:03:04. > :03:14.It has given Ertan's mother sleepless nights.
:03:15. > :03:17.My business would have to fold, my teaching would have to stop,
:03:18. > :03:23.because I would literally be his round-the-clock carer.
:03:24. > :03:27.It's not only his independence but it's ours.
:03:28. > :03:30.Just two miles away, another centre has also been told
:03:31. > :03:41.Julia's Sun is severely brain-damaged. He has been going to
:03:42. > :03:46.the centre for 11 years. It is outrageous that people who have had
:03:47. > :03:50.the misfortune to be brain-damaged, through no fault of their own, and
:03:51. > :03:52.it could be you or I, they are suddenly landed in this position
:03:53. > :03:58.where they have nowhere to go. Southwark Council says
:03:59. > :04:00.it is working to try to keep But what about the people
:04:01. > :04:07.who use Queen's Road? Some people might want
:04:08. > :04:15.to go to Riverside, the Council's new resource centre
:04:16. > :04:18.for people with disabilities. But families say they are still
:04:19. > :04:21.worried about what the future holds Next, the story of the north
:04:22. > :04:24.London plumber with Ian Puddick from Enfield
:04:25. > :04:29.was renovating an old bakery when he discovered it once used
:04:30. > :04:32.to make and sell illegal gin. As a plumber, Ian Puddick is no
:04:33. > :04:39.stranger to tinkering with pipes. But when he bought a converted
:04:40. > :04:44.Victorian bakery as his new office, he never imagined he'd be swapping
:04:45. > :04:46.ballcocks for botanicals thanks to a discovery
:04:47. > :04:50.about the building's past. We learned that the bakers,
:04:51. > :04:53.back in the day, made and sold illegal gin,
:04:54. > :04:55.so I tracked down the family descendants,
:04:56. > :05:08.got the original recipe. From that I bought a little still,
:05:09. > :05:11.played around with it - just for a bit of fun -
:05:12. > :05:14.and now I make gin. His simple recipe gin is now sold
:05:15. > :05:17.in Fortnum's and Harrods as well as his local farmers market
:05:18. > :05:20.but that doesn't mean he isn't happy to serve customers
:05:21. > :05:22.who pop in on spec, too. London has seen an explosion
:05:23. > :05:26.of small batch artisan distillers in recent times and gin lovers
:05:27. > :05:28.cannot get enough of it. You get all sorts of people
:05:29. > :05:40.that are making gins, most small batch gins
:05:41. > :05:42.will have a story. These are people who are passionate
:05:43. > :05:44.about what they do. But how plausible is the story
:05:45. > :05:53.of illicit gin being sold out of a Palmer's Green bakery
:05:54. > :05:56.in the late 18 hundredths? The perfect cover,
:05:57. > :05:58.if you are going to be distilling, making your own alcohol from malted
:05:59. > :06:00.mash, you're going to There's going to be a lot of smells,
:06:01. > :06:04.boiling, fermenting wheat. And is probably going to be
:06:05. > :06:07.a lot of steam around. Now a bakery, lots of wheat around,
:06:08. > :06:10.it's got your ovens running, I think it's a highly
:06:11. > :06:13.plausible story. Meanwhile, Ian is hoping one day
:06:14. > :06:16.soon he can give up the day job fixing dirty pipes and fix
:06:17. > :06:18.dirty martinis instead. Chelsea have announced that captain
:06:19. > :06:22.John Terry will leave the club when his contract expires at the end
:06:23. > :06:24.of the season. The 36-year-old has won 14 major
:06:25. > :06:27.honours at Stamford Bridge after making his
:06:28. > :06:28.first-team debut in 1998, having risen through
:06:29. > :06:30.the youth ranks. Time for the weather
:06:31. > :06:38.now with Louise Lear. Good evening. If you have managed to
:06:39. > :06:38.extend your Easter break, you will probably be happy
:06:39. > :07:05.Yes, it could be cold first thing with lovely sunshine to compensate.
:07:06. > :07:11.It should stay dry, maybe with just an isolated shower. But that really
:07:12. > :07:18.will be few and far between. In terms of the feel of things, 10-14
:07:19. > :07:21.degrees. We are playing a repeat performance into Wednesday. High
:07:22. > :07:26.pressure means a chilly start on Wednesday, dry and largely Sunni.
:07:27. > :07:29.We will be back later tonight- at twenty past ten.
:07:30. > :07:48.Hopefully you managed to enjoy some good weather this Easter. It has not
:07:49. > :07:53.been ideal but it has not been that bad. Pretty cold tonight. Sharp
:07:54. > :07:57.frost on the way in role areas and across northern parts. The skies are
:07:58. > :07:58.not clear just yet but they are starting to