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On the programme tonight: An investigation into a suspected

Heathrow parking scam after hundreds of tickets were issued in five days.

I just cannot believe my car has been left here in this un-secure car

park overnight and possibly for two weeks, can't believe it.

We'll have advice on what to look out for - so you can park safely

Labour's Kate Hoey hits back calling it "nasty and confrontational".

Algae are reporting on why environmentalists are warning of an

ecological disaster as more and more rivers are starting to dry up.

but how actor Tom Hardy chased and apprehended a suspected

Welcome to BBC London News with me Riz Lateef.

An investigation has been launched into a suspected

Heathrow parking scam - where around 300 tickets

were issued in just five days near the airport.

The owners of one vehicle say they'd given their car to a meet-and-greet

parking company and were told it would be stored securely.

Home after a 14 hour flight, Julia and David O'Neill left their car

with a meet and greet parking company. The company were supposed

to place their car in a secure compound. Instead, while they were

away, it's been here in a council run pay and display car park, a 15

minute Drive from Heathrow, along with dozens of other cars, racking

up parking tickets. I've counted 99 to get on around 50 cars, some with

up to five on the windscreen, which begs the question, what are they

doing here? I spoke to one of the local wardens and he said to me,

this is a private Heathrow car park which has been overflowing. What

they've done is they have parked all the cars over here and gone and

that's it. They haven't returned and the wardens have been giving tickets

every single day. Hillingdon Council are now investigating whether 275

parking tickets costing ?60 each could have been given to drivers

believed to have units meet and greet parking companies. In many of

the cars here you can clearly see tickets linking them to Heathrow. In

one, the driver's name, phone number and flight details were left on

display for all to see. I can't believe our car has been left ear.

After meeting them off their fight, I'm taking Julia and David to her

Derek Carr has been spending its time. Here we are. -- to further

their car has been spending its time. I wouldn't leave a car park

like this in daytime. When I saw the car it had one ticket on it and when

I meet them they had no idea they would be getting fine. I can't

believe my car has been left here in this un-secure car park overnight

and possibly for two weeks. Just cannot believe it. Parking tickets

but they've gone. We'll wait and see if the council contacts us and gives

us a parking ticket. What's also not clear is who's liable for the

tickets. It says in the paperwork that it would be kept in a secured

car park compound and I'm afraid this certainly isn't. If have known

this, would you have used the service at? Definitely not. I could

have parked it here myself I just left it here and got the bus to

Heathrow. The council say everyone who receives a parking ticket has

the right to appeal but if they do cancel the tickets the worry is it

will encourage parking firms to do this again. If they don't, drivers

by Julia and David may get hit with hundreds of pounds worth of fines.

Rather worrying for people who simply want to park

their vehicle safely before going on holiday?

We should point out that not all these companies are up to no good, a

good bit to check is to look for the park mark logo, an award given by

the police after they do annual checks on some facilities, it's

basically like a kitemark for the parking industry. Parking comparison

websites sometimes have the park Mark Laugel on their home page. The

British parking Association said don't presume that all the parking

facilities on their sites are necessarily up to that level. You

have to look at the small print with all these different car parking

facilities, one of the ones we looked at as part of this piece said

in the small print that at peak times they move some of the cars to

a secondary and less secure facility, as part of the protocol.

People who read that would have known about that. What they couldn't

have expected was that they would have received a parking tickets by

being in a council car park. If you have been affected by this parking

scheme like this, get in touch with us on our Facebook page, send us a

message and we'll give you advice as to how to proceed with that. Some

helpful advice there. You're watching BBC London News,

coming up later: Honouring some of our first world war heroes -

as a memorial is unveiled for the Freemasons who received

the Victoria Cross. Police have confirmed

that the Hollywood star, Tom Hardy, chased and helped detain two people

suspected of moped theft. Eyewitnesses say the actor sprinted

through gardens and a building site before grabbing one suspect

by the scruff of the neck. He's a heart-throb and action hero

but this time actor Tom Hardy played himself. In what could have been a

scene from one of his own films and this wasn't Hollywood, this was

Richmond. It's been claimed that Tom Hardy had been walking along here on

Sunday afternoon minding his own business, when he saw two men on him

moped and they jump through the lights and crashed into another

vehicle. The two men riding the moped tried to run off and he

pursued one of them through an alleyway and gardens belonging to a

block of flax. He jumped over a wall and grappled him to the ground. --

block of flats. It was also claimed after the chase that he dragged one

of the men into this bus stop and made a citizen 's arrest. It turns

out the moped had been stolen, which police confirmed the actor detained

one of the teenagers and added the 16-year-olds were arrested on

suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and taken into custody. The

actor's agent wouldn't comment on what happened. Tom Hardy studied

drama in Richmond and lives locally with his family. Locals we spoke to

were suitably impressed by what he did. Wonderful. Great. My lover have

a go hero. I don't know too much about it but he apprehended -- I

love a have a go hero. Would you love Tom Hardy to apprehend you?

Very much so. That's really impressive. I've heard generally

he's a good guy and a nice guy, I mean, it does surprise me but at the

same time, if anyone in Richmond where to do that, I guess it would

be Tom Hardy. I think it's very exciting and I think it's quite

brave for anyone to interfere in such a thing. I think most people

would think good effort, but people need to do what's right for them and

make sure they are safe and if you are thinking of intervening, think

about the risks and just make sure your say. Tom Hardy fans might be

pleased by what he apparently did. Police said the two teenagers have

been released under investigation. A 20-year-old man whose computer

hacking business carried out more Than 1.7 million cyber attacks has

been jailed for two years. Adam Mudd from Kings Langley

in Hertfordshire was 16 when he created his Titanium Stresser

programme - which the Old Bailey heard he sold to criminals

across the world. A letting agency based in London

could be prosecuted after forty people were found living

in squalid conditions. Officers from Harrow Council raided

a three bedroom house They discovered 17 people sleeping

back to back on mattresses. The home was searched

on suspicion of overcrowding and being let without

a Multiple Occupancy licence. Pro-brexit MPs have hit back

against a campaign to oust them Labour's Kate Hoey is one

MP being targeted - leaflets merging her face

with Nigel Farage's have been distributed in her

Vauxhall constituency. She's called it 'nasty

and confrontational'. Here's our Political

Editor Tim Donovan. Remember this, Wendy in and out

campaigns took to the Thames and these two Brexit tears were pictured

side-by-side. The Lib Dems do. Sometimes it's nasty stuff. They are

now showing the Labour MP for Vauxhall morphing into the former UK

leader. That a typical Lib Dem kind of pollster, the way they play

elections, they tried to always look at doing things in a nasty and

confrontational way and I haven't seen a policy they've put out. Her

views on Europe have hardly been a secret, she says. She currently has

a 12,000 majority. But the area voted strongly for Remain and the

Lib Dems smell a Brexit backlash. The candidate says the leaflet just

points out the obvious. Kate Hoey, what she says is typical Lib Dem is

nasty and confrontational. I don't see this as nasty. Kate Hoey chose

to campaign with Nigel Farage, that was her choice. She could have

campaigned with Boris Johnson, she didn't, she chose to step away from

the mainstream Leave campaign and chose to stand side-by-side with

Nigel Farage. But it's not just the Lib Dems after her. She's one of 20

MPs being targeted by anti-Brexit campaign group is launching today.

For a lot of my constituents, the referendum is over, we are leaving,

we now want to get a brilliant deal we want to get on with starting to

live in a country that is able to no control its own way of life. She's

not alone in London. This is three of the Tory MPs who voted for Brexit

being targeted. The campaigners are also urging people to vote against

this quartet, including Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative

leader. One of those Tories the campaign says he's not bothered. Any

targeting can be done, but I have a track record of what I've delivered

for my area and these are organisations coming in from

nowhere. They are seeking to impose their views on the people of Hendon.

It hasn't taken long for some clear tactics to emerge but who can know

yet exactly how Brexit will influence the selection? Let's cross

strait to Tim in Westminster. You have some breaking news about Zac

Goldsmith. It's become apparent in the last couple of days he was

adjusting to try to get back to Richmond Park, the seat he lost in a

by-election before Christmas. That, we know, is now true but what we

didn't expect is that he might have to fight for the right to fight for

the seat because it's emerged this evening that he's got to be one of

three candidates going forward to be chosen by the Conservatives. At a

meeting of the local association tomorrow he'll be up against a

barrister and a local business person, both of these people, we're

told, are on the Conservative candidates list but what you can

take from this the feeling that the local association down there may not

be unanimous by any means that Zac Goldsmith's return is the right

thing and there will be reasons for that, not least that when he stood

down over the issue of Heathrow, he then stood again as an Independent

and some may well feel, has he suffered punishment enough? He has

made it very clear that he supports the Conservatives, back supporting

the Conservatives again but others will look at the issue of Heathrow

itself because, of course, under Theresa May, the policy has been to

go ahead with expanding the report, that policy hasn't changed and

clearly at Conservative headquarters, they have decided that

there needs to be a choice, so tomorrow evening the association

down there will decide. Thanks very much for that update.

After exceptionally low rainfall this winter -

environmentalists are warning that there could be

a possible drought on the way in parts of Hertfordshire.

They say a growing number of rivers are drying up -

threatening wildlife and water supplies.

Yvonne Hall is in Chesham with more on this

. Not a drop of water in sight. This is part of a two-mile stretch of the

river at home in Hertfordshire which is now completely dry. It should

look like this, with about two feet of water providing a vital habitat

for dozens of breeding species. It's also a chalk river and globally rare

habitat. You can see it's very dry at the moment. Environmentalists say

the impact of exceptionally low rainfall is threatening an

ecological disaster it's absolutely devastating and it it has come at

the worst possible time. Right in the fish spawning season, also the

time when we see invertebrates hatching like mayflies and its a lot

of the food for the birds in the area rearing their young, so it's a

huge head to the local ecology of the area. It's not just this river

that suffering, 400 metre stretch Chesham in has also dried up, one of

several rivers across the south-east crying out for rainfall. The company

Affinity water supplies more than 3 million people in Hertfordshire and

it says it is also growing increasingly concerned about the

lack of rainfall. It's starting to make plans for a possible drought

this year and in a statement the company said there has been a drop

of nearly 50% in rainfall levels in the last nine months. It urging

people not to waste water and to use it as efficiently as possible. It

also says there is advice on the company's website on how to save

water. The big thing to do is reduce the amount of water that you are

consuming. Think about your water use about the consumption on what

you are using it for. Some showers forecast over the next two days but

environmentalists say it would have to rain heavily every day from now

until July to get the rivers flowing again and save the wildlife that

snow at serious risk. Stay with us, still took on this Tuesday evening.

I'm with one of the greatest drummers in the world. He received

his award for contribution to jazz. Is beginning to feel a lot more like

April as we have been here, it's been a very dry months of art but

that last we've got some showers and a forecast. All the details later.

Before that though - a memorial to some of the most

highly decorated First World War heroes - all of them Freemasons -

The 64 men who received the Victoria Cross have been

honoured at the organisation's headquarters in Covent Garden.

It was a morning of celebration and remembrance. One in ten of those who

receive the Victoria Cross following World War I was a Freemason and now

they're names are Kljestan storms outside Freemasons Hall, testament

to incredible acts of courage. He inspired his men with his own

contempt. Where others had failed he led the bombing party under enemy

fire. Such cells -- self-sacrifice and devotion is to be commended.

Inside Freemasons Hall, wooden figurines represent the 64 brethren.

Here's my grandfather, who was 21, a lieutenant. It was in the First

World War in northern France and he was there with the 15th. These

characteristics of courage, resilience, being comrades, I think

it's something we have to remember. You won't always where he was a

Freemason. No that another interesting part of the chapter and

I want to dig into that more. This great ornate hall was itself built

as a memorial to all the Freemasons who lost their lives on active

service during the Great War. In total there were over 3000 of them,

each of the names inscribed here on the role honour. It's our 300

anniversary of the foundation of English Freemasonry and that

coincides very nicely with the 100th anniversary of the end of the First

World War. Values of the military, values of Freemasonry are very

similar, honour, integrity, supporting your fellow man and the

fraternity. Today was about the 64 but all the recipients of the First

World War will have similar commemorative paving stones

elsewhere, part of a national drive to engrave their names on history.

A multimillion-pound red and white candy striped townhouse

in Kensington can stay as it is - following a ruling

The owner won her battle after the council

ordered her to repaint the three-storey property.

She's denied that it was done to spite neighbours who objected

More than ?13,000 has been raised following the death of football Ugo

Ehiogu. The former England international collapsed at

Tottenham's training centre last Thursday where he worked as a coach.

The money will be used to help children from disadvantaged

backgrounds to have the opportunity to play football.

They're one of the highest selling Rock n roll bands of all time

and arguably London's biggest musical success story.

Today, the man who keeps beat for the Rolling Stones,

Charlie Watts is being awarded a major accolade for his

Alice Bhandhukravi has been speaking to him.

You are being honoured today for your contribution to jazz. There's

that Fred your heart lies? It lies in many places. It's one of the

places, yeah. Ever since I was a young man. A lot of people know you

for your rock and roll and being in the Rolling Stones, they might not

know the jazz influence. It's all the same, really. Is it? Yeah. It's

all about creating an atmosphere and feeling. There is terrible rock and

roll, bad rock and roll and not very good jazz but it's a feeling, when

it's good it's the same thing. What was it like in those days, in the

jazz clubs of London. They don't exist any more. There were many more

of them. Much more of a fraternity as well. I was never in it, I was a

bit young. What does it mean to you to get this award in recognition to

your contribution to jazz and blues? I can't really believe they bothered

to do it. Having said all that, it's very flattering and very nice

honour, really, but I can't see myself in the position they have put

me in. But, you know, you can argue forever about things like that. It's

just a very nice thing to have happened. Just proves if you keep

going long enough, you never know. Many congratulations, thank you very

much. Charlie Watts speaking to us there.

Now, if you're a fan of programmes like Strictly -

A dance studio for Londoners with disabilities has held

a contest in the style of the popular TV programme.

The finalists trained for weeks with professional dancers to take

part in the competition - many of them having

It's a big day for cera, after five weeks of dance training from

scratch, she's about to take to the stage at her local theatre in

Stratford with her professional partner. Having the strictly

treatment is giving her the chance to think about her dad who sadly

died recently. She's dancing to his favourite Frank Senatla song and

feels he's been urging her on -- Frank Sinatra. He's looking down on

me and saying stick at it. She'll have to wait while her competitors

take to the floor. As the first time a programme of ballroom and Latin

training has been set up for people with learning difficulties in the

capital and today's Strictly competition is testament to just how

far the group has come. People were regularly sing to us, why can't we

participate? We want summer we can do this so we decided to set up the

Studios, London's first ever dedicated company that provides

opportunities for disabled and non-disabled people to learn dance

in an inclusive environment. Now it is Sarah's big chance in front of a

panel of judges and she has taken to it like a natural, making her

partner proud. She was always 45 minutes before the

lesson, waiting for me on the studio, watching the videos, really

wanting to do it but at the same time I think she has this kind of,

I'm performing now, people are looking at me, she's not shy at all

and it helps to become the performance a bit bigger. Good. Be

confident. No mistakes. The Strictly experience has gone so well, dance

teachers plan to travel all over the capital with Sarah and the others

determine to keep dancing. Doesn't that make you smile? Time for a

check on the weather with Elisabeth and the April showers have arrived.

They certainly have, working their way down from the north. Very dry

months as we have been hearing. We have only had two millimetres of

rain so far in April, would normally expect to see around 50 millimetres

for the month so we are well behind. We got used to the dry weather. What

could have been a bit of a shock to the system this morning was just how

cold it was. Many of us dropped to below freezing and many of the

suburbs as we started this morning. An early frost to run but a lovely

day, bluebells out and we started to see the clouds billed as we headed

into the afternoon and now we have these showers that will push down

from the north, so we will see some wet weather at last. We're still in

that cold air for the next few days. It will feel quite chilly, a bracing

northerly wind and plenty more showers at times, particularly

tomorrow but some brighter spells, sunny spells and showers and it will

gradually turn a bit milder as we head towards the end of the working

week once. This is the reader and the satellite picture from earlier.

Some of these shivers in Northern counties have been heavier, some

hail and thunder. Over the Downs intend we might see some sleet but

Western areas more likely to stay dry through the night and here it's

going to feel colder into tomorrow, temperatures in the girl spots

dipping below freezing and a chilly start to the day tomorrow. -- in

rural spots. A dry early start, some April showers later on. Sunny spells

and April showers, still in the cold air, so it will feel quite chilly

and there will be brighter spells at times and expecting the showers to

be quite widespread tomorrow and last all day. The wind will turn a

bit north-easterly and sending the showers just about everywhere across

the capital. Temperatures up to only 11 or 12 Celsius but temperatures

will really drop in the showers and there will be some gusty winds

around as well. Put your brolly in your back, basically. Thursday, we

will see a dry and bright start and gradually things will cloud over and

we will start as he some milder air working its way through and see a

little bit of rain at times through the afternoon but not very much in

terms of rainfall. Friday it will stay dry. We'll start to see some

sunshine as we head into what went to be the bank holiday weekend. All

the threat of some rain, a lot of dry weather and sunshine and

temperatures by then will be back up to where we'd expect to see them at

this time of year. A reminder of the day's headlines,

the pie minister has taken her election campaign to Labour's

heartland of South Wales and she told party workers that backing the

Conservatives would strengthen her hand in rented negotiations. The

Labour Party Adam Brexit spokesman said he accepted free movement of

people could not continue but suggested the UK could still allow

immigration of EU nationals if they had a guaranteed job offer. Here in

London, pro-European campaign groups have announced they'll target Brexit

supporting MPs to oust them from office. One of them, Labour's Kate

Hoey describe an election leaflet as nasty and confrontational. President

Trump's. Ivanka Trump has defended his record on women's writes during

a summit in Berlin with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And an

investigation has been launched into a suspected parking scam near

Heathrow Airport in which hundreds of tickets have been issued to

motorists. That's it for now, but plenty more on our website or join

the conversation on Facebook. I will be back with our late news at the

usual time of 10:30pm, hope you can join us then. From all of the teeny,

thanks very much for watching and what average of up to, do have a

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