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A passenger films a Croydon tram driver apparently

asleep at the controls during the morning rush hour.

His party manifesto says it will build it, but the former Mayor

of London insists he's still against another

A third runway, I think, would do all sorts of damage in terms of

noise pollution, which we can hear now, and above all air pollution as

well. I don't think it has been properly thought through.

London City Airport moves its air traffic controllers 100 miles away

to monitor planes remotely with digital technology.

And will they be singing on the rain on stage in Regent's Park this

evening, because the summer season has lasted. -- has started.

Good evening and welcome to the programme.

The Mayor has tonight said he's "furious" after footage emerged

of a tram driver asleep in front of the controls.

An investigation has been launched by the tram company

just six months after another one of its trams derailed in Croydon,

Here's our Transport Correspondent, Tom Edwards.

This footage taken by a passenger on Wednesday shows a tram driver

apparently asleep at the controls during the morning rush hour.

Given to the Evening Standard, the person who took the footage told

the paper there were about 50 passengers on board.

The tram was being held at a red light.

Again, it puts driver fatigue in the spotlight.

It's happened to me once in ten years.

Recently four drivers told the BBC they'd fallen

How many drivers do you think have fallen asleep in the cabin?

I would have to say most drivers have at some point in their careers.

These seven passengers died when a tram derailed

It was travelling at 46 mph around a tight corner,

where there was a 30 mph speed limit.

A preliminary report has said the driver lost awareness,

although why that happened an investigation is still

Drivers have told the BBC they're reluctant admit fatigue

Why aren't drivers telling the operators what's going wrong?

If we were to come forward and say, excuse me, I fell asleep,

The mayor says he is furious at the latest incident.

The operator First Group says the driver has been suspended.

TfL has passed the footage onto the ongoing investigations.

But all of this again heightens concerns about driver fatigue

I'm at Wembley as the national stadium celebrates its tenth

anniversary and prepares, yet again, to welcome Millwall in a League 1

play-off final. Yesterday Theresa May's

manifesto promised her party would build a new

runway at Heathrow. Today Theresa May's Foreign

Secretary said he still opposed He of course, is London's former

mayor Boris Johnson, who said today that plans to grow

Heathrow were not the right solution, and not

properly thought through. Here's our Political

Correspondent, Karl Mercer. Somewhere in there is a former

mayor. This is why we can relatives break Boris Johnson out at election

time, even if not everyone is entirely sure which party he

represents. This is the main guy! Vote for him, for his parliament.

Vote Conservative. Conservative. There you go. Conservative, indeed.

In fact, one of the most senior in the country. But not on the message

of his party's manifesto. A third runway would do all sorts of damage

in terms of noise pollution, which we can here now, and above all air

pollution as well. I don't think it's been properly thought through.

I've had good conversations with... You don't think it's been properly

thought through by Theresa May and your party? I think that when it

comes to the problems of air pollution and others, we will find

considerable obstacles. I was consistent as mayor and I've been

consistent as Foreign Secretary. I remain of the same view that it is

the wrong solution. Lets get a sign outside high-street cobblers. I'll

be happy to fix his shoes for him. As mayor, Mr Johnson was a big fan

of the Crosswell to plan to build a new rail link from north to south

London. It didn't get a mention in the manifesto. Crossrail doesn't get

a mention. I am a big fan. In the last year, I have not bashed the

mayor. But I do think if he believes in this it is up to him to put

forward the plan and a better business case. Because that has not

happened. And that is disappointing. The new Mayor's office called those

comments hypocritical, saying Labour would build Crossrail two. Sadiq

Khan has also crossed swords with his predecessor over another London

building project - the Guiding Bridge. Are you wasting ?46 million

of taxpayers' money on a bridge to nowhere? That is entirely his

wastage. It was up to him to proceed with this project. I do believe it

will still be done and it will be a great thing. But it's a shame that

he's been so... A pity. City Hall that it had taken action to prevent

further loss of tax payer money due to the way that Mr Johnson went

ahead with the Garden Bridge. The Foreign Secretary may have some

bridges of his own to build Labour Party policy.

They've had more success in the capital than elsewhere

with members sitting on the London Assembly,

But they haven't performed well in general elections past,

coming fifth behind Ukip and the Lib Dems in 2015.

This time round they're determined to do better,

even targeting Jeremy Corbyn's seat in North Islington.

Our Political Editor, Tim Donovan, has more.

Just 170,000 people were in the market to vote Green

Well behind even the Liberal Democrat Party in collapse.

But it's in places like Brixton here that they're trying to build up

One of the party's two co-leaders told me the issues that mattered.

In Lambeth, we are the second party, where I live,

We are holding the Labour council to account.

It's very clear in London that we are producing something very

Particularly around, for example, estate demolition

It seems that the Labour Party of ignoring local feeling

and the Greens representing that local feeling.

They came third in last year's mayoral contest,

have two London assembly members, and a handful of councillors.

But their strategy appears to be to get to second

in target Labour held seats, like Dulwich and West Norwood,

Streatham, Hogan and St Pancras, and Islington North -

and yes, really, against Jeremy Corbyn.

Is this the problem, it's not very strategic going up

against the leader of the Labour Party?

I mean, clearly, when you've got Jeremy Corbyn living

But we are standing to give people an alternative

because there are many areas of policy where we're different.

There's a weird contradiction in the Labour Party policy,

which is on one hand they're talking about air polution, which is great.

We welcome that and we have been pushing it up the agenda for years.

But if you're then looking to expand City Airport,

build the Silver Town Tunnel, then you are in contradiction

What about the Progressive Alliance idea?

You've made some bold statements by withdrawing

We felt that in this election, someone needed

In order to bring about change, someone's going to have to put

We felt the Green Party was the right party to do that.

So we wrote to Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron, Caroline Lucas

and myself, and said, let's go and talk about this right

It hasn't been a great response, though, has it?

Do you regret that this has happened?

No, I think it has put it on the agenda.

But they know they have to make progress where they are standing.

And staying with the general election for a moment,

BBC London is hosting a special debate programme hearing

from all the main parties on what they will do

That is on the 30th of May. If you'd like to join us as part of the

audience in central London, just send us an e-mail to the address on

screen. London City Airport is moving

its air traffic controllers to a new base 100 miles

from the actual runway. It'll be the first in Britain

to abandon its control tower with a bird's-eye view

of the runway, opting instead to use digital technology

to monitor planes remotely. The airport says the move

will make managing the planes Our Transport Correspondent,

Richard Westcott, has been Modern airports are

dynamic, fast flowing. Hundreds of pieces being

moved around every minute. And all of those movements

must be tightly choreographed This is London City Airport,

and that is just one of the 300 or so take-offs and landings

that happen here every day. And until now, all of those

flights have been coordinated by a group of controllers,

who look out of these windows here. But in the future, those windows

are going to be replaced by these Controllers won't just see

the airport, they'll be The thing is, this digital

control tower is 120 miles But by 2019, controllers

will be sitting here Using pictures fed from a new

camera tower next to the runway. Unlike the old tower,

they can zoom in for a better view. Put radar data onto the

screen to track aircraft. Critically, for safety,

the cameras can pick out rogue drones near the airport,

and light the runway at night. My initial reaction

was sceptical, because I'm used They give the control of

more information in terms of what they can be,

what they can hear, how they can identify targets,

how they can track targets. So the awareness that

the controller gets is it is all The tower controller's job

is to look out the window. Now, I know exactly

what you're thinking. The number one question

I've been asked by everybody I've told about this is,

"What if the TV screens go down?" How secure is it?

Highly secure. The system's been

independently stress-tested We have three cables that

are in place between the airport If one of those was to fail,

there is a back-up. In the event that that fails,

then there's another cable there. And they're all rooted,

taking different routes London City's convinced

the new system will make their operations more

efficient and more safe. The idea of a control tower miles

from the airport may seem odd, An online fly tipping map shows

the worst places for dumping waste are in and around London -

particularly North East London. Enfield has the worst record

with more than 70,000 incidents last year,

and conservationists say the volume of illegally

dumped waste is still rising. Sarah Harris has visited one

of the latest areas to fall victim. It's hardly recognisable as a bee

farm. Normally, nectar is collected here in Essex, but overnight these

huge mounds of waste were dumped on the site, killing thousands of bees

and almost destroying the business. I'm angry, I'm disgusted. I am lost

for any explanation of why they choose to behave this way. I have to

say, on behalf of my son, who was also my apprentice, he's absolutely

devastated, which is why he's not here. This has absolutely floored

him. This fly-tipping map compares rates of dumping across the country.

With Enfield having the highest number of offenders, with more than

70,000 cases. Haringey follows with around 34,000, and new has more than

30 2000. Enfield blamed the way the figures are collated and says it is

determined to stamp it out. What's clear is that fly-tip is still

getting away it. To dispose of this vast amount of

waste legally would cost several hundred pounds. The government did

change the rules last year making it possible for councils to spot fine

fly-tippers ?400. But critics say this doesn't go far enough. Unless

there are more tips open for longer hours, this problem will only get

worse. Hundreds of tonnes of rubbish,

including fridges, building rubble and even cars, dumped on the a 40

roundabout in Buckinghamshire. Environmentalists say it is the huge

mounds of waste which are becoming their biggest problem.

It's a very severe incident. We have seen a lot of those over the last

few months in Essex, which is extremely disappointing.

Unfortunately we are seeing at the moment is the dumping of industrial

waste on industrial scale. Multiple lorry rides which really are a

blight on the landscape and damaging to the environment and the social

aspects of the county. Despite the destruction of are

enough bees left to salvage this Essex farm. But it will cost

thousands of pounds and many months to return to normal. The farmer begs

the question - how could anyone want to do this?

Still to come... Temperatures went up, then the rain

came down. What about the ups and downs of the weekend weather? All

the details later in the programme. Last week the NHS was one

of the hundreds of organisations targetted by cyber criminals

demanding ransoms. Thousands of appointments

and operations had to be cancelled, and many hospitals were unable

to access their IT systems, A week on we've visited

Barts Hospital Trust, which has had to clean

up around 10,000 PCs. So how did one of London's largest

hospital trusts handle the biggest cyber attack in its history? I

Barts, two words are being used to describe the last week - difficult

and exhausting. We are here with the CT scanners.

There are two Sikis which are normally completely linked

electronically to patient Lacourt. The virus has meant that the link is

broken and we have had to go onto paper systems. The staff have had to

be incredibly flexible. People from the finance department have helped

to remove viruses and from HR they have helped direct patient.

At the height of last week's attack, ambulances were diverted from Barts.

All the hospital stepped in to help trauma and stroke patients. The

capital's four major trauma centres were on a major incidents.

Hyam we have tried and tested processes which take we have tried

and tested processes which kick in. The priority of keeping our patients

safe came first. What happens now to the paperwork

throws up a whole new challenge. These are the two and a half

thousand patients that we have seen this week all on paper. We are

currently going through a process of transferring all the information

from paperback onto computer systems. All the bits of paper that

we have generated we have to keep for seven years for an adult and 21

years for a child. That will have to be stored. There are now checking

all the computers which is not a small job - there are 10,000 of

them. A green bit of tape so the terminal is fine. Amber and red

means things still aren't quite right.

We have done our best we will make sure that we pick up any problems

which arise. Some patients have had operations cancelled. We have been

able to do 65% of elective operations, that is 1000. But we

haven't been able to do them all for reasons around patient safety. We

are really sorry for the disruption this has caused people.

They fought hard to keep the doors open. Two thirds of the trust's

planned operations have happened. Two and a half thousand people have

been seen in A There's my date set for things to be fully back to

normal and as with any emergency operation, the recovery may take a

little time. The new Wembley Stadium

hosted its first competitive match Since it's been built,

the National Stadium has welcomed over 20 million visitors to

sporting events and concerts. as the football season

reaches its conclusion, many of our sides are

preparing to play there - Emma Jones is there

for us this evening. As you say, a decade since the arch

of this new stadium replaced the Twin towers of the old one. You

mentioned there has been over 20 million visitors - I imagined many

of those who used the more than 2000 pilots who at this venue, more than

any other venue in the world. -- 2000 toilets here at this venue. The

first competitive game was in 2007 when Chelsea played Manchester

United in the FA Cup final and won 1-0 to lift the trophy. The Blues

have already claimed silverware this season. They will be the 20 17th

Premier League champions. To celebrate that, their manager

Antonio Conte has been given his own energy on the social media site

Twitter. He is the first manager ever to receive that honour. -- his

own emoji. Chelsea will be back here on the 27th of May when their

proponents will be Arsenal. The question is, will be Arsene Wenger's

last match in charge of the Gunners after 21 years at the club? He says

talks about his future will take place after the cup final. Before

that, they have a large game against Everton in the league if they hope

for a top four finish and Champions League football.

I think what is most important for us is to win

After that, what happens to me is less important, I think.

I'm here to serve the club and the best way to do

Preparations are taking place for the League 1 play-off final, which

will be here tomorrow. Millwall were here last year and lost. This time

they're hoping to go one better against Bradford.

Millwall are preparing for yet another trip to Wembley.

This will be the club's fourth League 1 play-off

The team go into this one hoping to erase last year's memories

Is a difficult place to lose a game, at Wembley.

There is so much love for the players and the team.

If you get beat, it's really disappointing.

But we've got no God-given right to succeed this year.

We need that little bit of luck on the day.

We need to handle the occasion better than we did last year,

and we certainly need to perform to the best of our ability.

COMMENTATOR: Galloping forward is Tony Craig

Striker Steve Morrison knows the highs and lows of the play-offs,

and just what it would mean for the club to go up.

His second full season in charge, taking the team to two play-off

Yeah, it would just mean everything for everybody,

and we will do everything in our power to try

Opponents of Millwall and their fans will know the kind of atmosphere

The question is, can those Lions fans now takes some of that

to what's become their second home recently, Wembley, to help

I think confidence should be going through the team.

But it all depends if we show on the day.

All the way home, I don't think we said a word

The Millwall fans celebrate the fact that no one likes them,

What they do care about is a win and promotion at Wembley.

We've had very warm and very wet weather already this week.

Ben Rich will be here later with the weekend forecast -

and there are a few people looking nervously at the sky this

The first Open Air Theatre show is on tonight -

Wendy is there now - brolly at the ready?

Just in case, yes! The staff have been telling me all the way through

the day today that this place has a special microclimate, that when the

show starts, the rain stops and the sun comes out. They were true to

their word because as the doors opened, just that thing happened.

The picnic area is full up with hampers, a champagne cork went

flying across. I've been here all day looking at the final

preparations for the summer season. A final shake, spirits and stick at

the Theatre of the year. The summer season opens with On The Town. It's

a 1944 Leonard Bernstein musical. You might know it from the film

starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

This season and two version stars Strictly star Danny Mac, learning

the particular charms of this particular stage. There is a pigeon

are always comes to watch the show. Restart the show off whistling, and

they all join in. It was great. -- start the show off. We know you can

dance. How will you dealing with the dancing? I'm sure your fabulous?

Icon dans compared to this! Or anyone else on the stage. I'm

telling you! Maybe if there was a samba in their... Lap I love

dancing, but my character doesn't get to dance that much. But the

little bit I do get, I'm living for that one bit!

Recently, two veteran actors have criticised the West end. Jeremy

Irons says it's awash with bad musicals. Sir Derek Jacobi moaned

the use of TV stars to, I quote, get bums on seats. We won the Olivier

award this year for Jesus Christ Superstar. People are coming to see

these big shows in our venues. We have big people in them, but for us

it's about the whole production and seeing it there.

The 140,000 people coming here over the summer holidays over the summer

season, and some of the experts are here already. You've come

well-prepared. Do you come often? We certainly do. It's very important to

what -- what you wear is very important. Yes, lots of layers.

Well-prepared for rain, sunshine, anything. That is the British summer

for you! At least you have the warmth from the wine as well. Have a

lovely evening, everybody. We will put a quick call into the Met office

to find out what is going on, but they very rarely cancel a show.

Of course they don't cancel it! The show must go on. We have Ben here to

tell us what the weather is going to be like.

I think we can be optimistic, certainly compared to what we've had

a the last couple of evenings. The last night ordered before would have

been deluged by rain. We have had some showers around today. I Kings

Cross there has been a little bit of sunshine and showers. That is the

weather we take into the weekend. Quite a few showers around tomorrow.

Sending is probably the drier stay at the weekend. This is how things

have panned out today. We started off quite cloudy with patchy rain.

Then the sun came out and showers sprang to life. Some of the showers

out of the West have been very, very heavy indeed with flashes of

lightning and rumbles of thunder. Don't be at all surprised if you get

a thundery showers to the first part of this evening. Hopefully not at

Regents Park! Although I'm not making any promises. Through the

night the showers will fade and there will be clear bulbs. 5-6

Celsius in the countryside. -- there will be close pores. Tomorrow, a

nice looking start but take an umbrella because there will be some

showers bubbling up. Some of them heavy and perhaps under a time.

Temperatures around 17-18 Celsius. On Saturday, a decent night for

getting out and about because the showers should tend to fade away.

That takes us into what is a nice looking day on Sunday. It should be

largely dry with bowls of sunshine around. In that sunshine it is going

to feel warmer temperatures up to around 20 Celsius. Into the week,

temperatures climbing a little bit. It will further little bit warmer.

Plenty to be optimistic about as well.

We shall be optimistic. Thank you, Ben.

I'll be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now

from everyone on the team, have a lovely evening.

It's cold. Tastes a bit like avocado.

And soon we're all going to be eating them.

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and a dung beetle, twice the protein of beef.

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