:00:00. > :00:31.It's about offering people a direct pathway into a different type of
:00:32. > :00:32.career in policing, the uniform attraction is attractive to some and
:00:33. > :00:34.a barrier to others. With a week of campaigning to go,
:00:35. > :00:37.we follow the main parties on the capital's streets -
:00:38. > :00:40.and Londoners reactions to them. Also tonight: could this be
:00:41. > :00:42.the sound of the underground? Commuters could soon be able to make
:00:43. > :00:52.phone calls on the tube. I don't think I would call much,
:00:53. > :00:57.it's more texts and what SAP. Sometimes I miss a lot of calls when
:00:58. > :00:59.I'm using the trip. Worn by the Bishop of London
:01:00. > :01:02.at the Queen's Silver Jubilee - the embroidered cloak is one
:01:03. > :01:04.of the rare treasures Welcome to BBC London News
:01:05. > :01:16.with me, Riz Lateef. We start tonight with a first
:01:17. > :01:18.for a British police force - and a radical approach
:01:19. > :01:21.to recruitment. Aspiring officers will be able
:01:22. > :01:23.to join the Metropolitan Police as trainee detectives WITHOUT having
:01:24. > :01:26.to work in uniform as Scotland Yard says it's to help
:01:27. > :01:32.address the shortage of detectives and to attract graduates
:01:33. > :01:36.with diverse skills and backgrounds. But critics are concerned
:01:37. > :01:38.about recruits not having any policing experience before taking
:01:39. > :01:41.on a specialist role. Here's our Home Affairs
:01:42. > :01:54.Correspondent Nick Beake. High priority in the detective 's
:01:55. > :02:02.training goes to the identification of suspects... The Art of the
:02:03. > :02:14.Scotland Yard detective has been honed over decades. This was 1946.
:02:15. > :02:18.Successful candidates have always been selected after gaining years of
:02:19. > :02:24.experience in uniform on the beat. But times have changed and now for
:02:25. > :02:28.the first time detectives will be recruited into the Metropolitan
:02:29. > :02:33.Police directly from outside. At the moment Scotland Yard is short of
:02:34. > :02:37.around 600 detectives. Under this new scheme 18 new recruits will be
:02:38. > :02:41.taken on initially and they're starting salary will be around
:02:42. > :02:46.?30,000. This is about offering people a direct pathway into a
:02:47. > :02:50.different kind of career, we know from research did last year in
:02:51. > :02:54.London, this is really appealing because the uniform attraction is
:02:55. > :03:00.attractive to some and a barrier to others, particularly with the male
:03:01. > :03:04.and BME. Direct entry detectives will need to have a degree, they
:03:05. > :03:09.will undergo 18 weeks of training, some of it in the classroom, some of
:03:10. > :03:13.it out in the boroughs, with a focus on investigative skills. But some
:03:14. > :03:19.former release of this is so it's simply not enough time to learn the
:03:20. > :03:24.tools of the sect of trade. I don't know how you can condense two to
:03:25. > :03:27.three years of training, from being a probationary constable through to
:03:28. > :03:33.training detective and then becoming a detective. I think that'll be
:03:34. > :03:37.developed a crime in that time because you develop so many life
:03:38. > :03:48.skills, to ensure that you are not going to make errors that somebody
:03:49. > :03:54.will get off at court. This is what today's met detectives face. Here,
:03:55. > :03:59.suspected drug dealers in Holton. It can be tough work many serving
:04:00. > :04:02.officers of put off joining CID because of the high workload and
:04:03. > :04:11.pressure to get results, creating this shortage. Copy table on the
:04:12. > :04:16.left-hand side... London's most famous detective was never actually
:04:17. > :04:20.a policeman. We'll talented civilians step forward once again
:04:21. > :04:25.and solve the case of Scotland Yard's missing detectives?
:04:26. > :04:32.This direction of travel, a sign of The Times or of desperation? This
:04:33. > :04:38.lack of detectives across the country has been described as a
:04:39. > :04:41.national crisis, they found that officers were stressed out,
:04:42. > :04:45.detectives were often taking on cases they weren't experienced
:04:46. > :04:51.enough to do, we know that in all there are 600 vacancies to fill in
:04:52. > :04:56.London, today the Police Federation has said that they don't feel that
:04:57. > :04:59.this is a magic bullet that will solve all problems. There was also
:05:00. > :05:06.concerned that it's open to graduates. But it's an opportunity
:05:07. > :05:10.to bring into Scotland Yard some of the brightest and best who wouldn't
:05:11. > :05:14.have thought of applying, people from black and minority ethnic
:05:15. > :05:20.backgrounds. It is a sign of The Times in that there is more
:05:21. > :05:23.specialist crime to investigate now, fraud and cyber crimes, applications
:05:24. > :05:26.are now open and if this goes well, it'll be something that will be
:05:27. > :05:29.repeated in the future and probably rolled out across the country.
:05:30. > :05:32.Onto the election now - and the main parties have
:05:33. > :05:34.deployed senior figures on the campaign trail today.
:05:35. > :05:36.The Tories focusing again on Brexit, Labour on the threat
:05:37. > :05:53.Here's our political correspondent Karl Mercer.
:05:54. > :06:00.There is one more week of this to go. One more week of handshakes,
:06:01. > :06:10.speeches, backing up key policies, and selfie is, of course. You have
:06:11. > :06:17.to do it. Boris Johnson in Eltham today may dupe plenty of this but
:06:18. > :06:25.has clearly still got work to do. Are you Conservative? Of course. He
:06:26. > :06:29.was on message today, expect a plenty more of this from the
:06:30. > :06:35.Conservatives over the coming week. Brexit is they clear line of attack.
:06:36. > :06:38.If you go with Jeremy Corbyn, you will be sending into negotiations in
:06:39. > :06:43.Brussels a guy who doesn't really understand what is at stake. It's
:06:44. > :06:48.perfectly obvious that Labour don't have a clue what they mean by coming
:06:49. > :06:54.out of the EU, taking back control of our immigration policy, and our
:06:55. > :07:02.cash. It would be catastrophic, they would eat him for breakfast. Labour
:07:03. > :07:06.was also unfamiliar territory in Hammersmith with its health
:07:07. > :07:10.spokesperson dropping in on an area where changes to local hospital
:07:11. > :07:15.services are proving controversial. Les Bleus, promising more money for
:07:16. > :07:19.the NHS. At the moment the NHS is going through a big financial
:07:20. > :07:22.squeeze and many other changes are simply because NHS bosses have to
:07:23. > :07:27.balance the books and the NHS hasn't been given the money it needs, we
:07:28. > :07:32.will invest substantially within the NHS and once we have, we can look at
:07:33. > :07:37.how services are designed, look at what community services we need. But
:07:38. > :07:42.we have got to involve the public. I hope we're going to turn it on now,
:07:43. > :07:44.the poster which we are launching today... Former Lib Dem leader Nick
:07:45. > :07:48.Clegg was in Southwark, decking Conservative plans to do away with
:07:49. > :07:58.universal free lunches for primary school children. Not only do I think
:07:59. > :08:01.her decision to snatch lunches is a it hits the poorest, kids won't get
:08:02. > :08:05.a decent meal in the middle of their school day, it's also so dishonest
:08:06. > :08:07.the claim that somehow free breakfast will be readily available
:08:08. > :08:15.when the Conservatives on figures show that they only kick waiting for
:08:16. > :08:25.7p per breakfast. -- only calculating. Seven more days.
:08:26. > :08:31.BBC London has been to some of the key battle ground seats. The night,
:08:32. > :08:37.it is Ealing Central and acting, Labour's most marginal seat in the
:08:38. > :08:45.capital. It was won by just 274 votes at the last election so it's
:08:46. > :08:49.an area where every vote counts. The members of the ceiling site of know
:08:50. > :08:55.a thing or two about tactics. You have to understand your opponent.
:08:56. > :09:03.When someone is falling behind, seize up on the pace. Try to group
:09:04. > :09:07.together. Sometime you only job is to move aside at the right moment.
:09:08. > :09:12.That is what the Greens are doing here, to help out the incumbent,
:09:13. > :09:21.from Labour, the Greens aren't fielding a candidate at all here.
:09:22. > :09:25.And with a majority of just 274, the Labour candidate knows this could be
:09:26. > :09:32.crucial. She considers herself the most vulnerable Labour MP in London.
:09:33. > :09:35.I have a record I'm fighting on the stump, I have done 17,000 individual
:09:36. > :09:40.bits of casework, people that have dealt with me how appreciative of
:09:41. > :09:46.that and they can be all sorts of local issues, there are multitude of
:09:47. > :09:51.things, schools, every school will lose out on the fair funding
:09:52. > :09:55.formula. She met us at this sweet factory on an estate where those
:09:56. > :10:00.local issues resonate. It is being forced to move because of the new
:10:01. > :10:07.high-speed railway line HS2 but Brexit is also key. A lot of our
:10:08. > :10:13.workers are from abroad, it will make it more difficult to get staff,
:10:14. > :10:17.costs have gone up, 15% of our raw materials, we're trying to avoid
:10:18. > :10:21.increasing our prices but it's not very easy. And this is where the
:10:22. > :10:24.Liberal Democrats hope they might pick up votes. The party used to do
:10:25. > :10:33.well here but its support evaporated in 2015. Now it's hoping to
:10:34. > :10:38.capitalise on the constituency's Strongbow to remain in the EU. You
:10:39. > :10:43.have some people who voted Conservative last time, who voted
:10:44. > :10:48.Remained, were coming over to ask, some people voted Labour in 2015,
:10:49. > :10:54.but don't like what they see of Jeremy Corbyn and so are coming over
:10:55. > :10:58.to us, what the Lib Dems are uniquely calling for is a referendum
:10:59. > :11:03.on the terms of any final deal, with an option to remain. But Labour's
:11:04. > :11:08.strongest challenge is likely to come from the Conservatives, they
:11:09. > :11:13.are chasing after every one of those 274 votes and could benefit from
:11:14. > :11:17.Ukip deciding not to stand here. So narrow is the margin, the Prime
:11:18. > :11:23.Minister came to the pavements with candidate. But it was cleaning up
:11:24. > :11:27.the estate or organising the community day, I'm someone that
:11:28. > :11:30.residents come to when they want something fixed, and over get the
:11:31. > :11:34.job done, it's the same if I was then elected member of Parliament, I
:11:35. > :11:39.will listen and represent their interests and deliver. There is so
:11:40. > :11:45.little between the Conservatives and Labour here, voters know their every
:11:46. > :11:51.move matter. The Heathrow expansion affects us, and the decimation of
:11:52. > :11:55.the local health authority. The media election is completely about
:11:56. > :12:00.Brexit. I feel we voted last year but nobody had any idea what they
:12:01. > :12:05.are voting for. Public services and the NHS, I work in the NHS so it's
:12:06. > :12:07.close to my heart. Battling for those hearts and heads, candidates,
:12:08. > :12:09.each pushing for the line. And here is a the full list
:12:10. > :12:12.of candidates standing in Ealing Central and Acton -
:12:13. > :12:23.you can of course head to: Our Political Editor,
:12:24. > :12:26.Tim Donovan is here with me. Pretty clear what this
:12:27. > :12:28.is being fought on now and what it comes down
:12:29. > :12:37.to, isn't it? Yes, it's not a retreat to core
:12:38. > :12:42.messages but that the stage with just over a week to go, it's
:12:43. > :12:47.absolutely when you should be able to see what the party's Key lines
:12:48. > :12:51.are, not least because they have had a chance to road test them, they
:12:52. > :12:56.know by now what is strongest, what is working, what isn't. You still
:12:57. > :13:01.see, with Theresa May, the emphasis is on continuity, reliability, Boris
:13:02. > :13:05.Johnson putting that out today although Minogue Theresa May has had
:13:06. > :13:11.a bit of a bashing over her manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn, his focus
:13:12. > :13:15.through the Shadow Health Secretary, on public services, but will be the
:13:16. > :13:22.emphasis, how much money is being injected into a range of public
:13:23. > :13:29.services. It's worth saying that the Greens today are focusing on public
:13:30. > :13:34.services as well, education, their co-leader sat a key stage two test
:13:35. > :13:37.early in the week, got the result outside the Department of the
:13:38. > :13:40.education and the Greens are saying these tests are incredibly
:13:41. > :13:49.stressful, teachers don't like them, children don't like them, they want
:13:50. > :13:51.scrapped. These are children who are vulnerable, who need encouragement,
:13:52. > :13:55.support, the broad range of what is on offer and instead they are pushed
:13:56. > :13:59.down this narrow, rigorous path of testing and league tables which
:14:00. > :14:05.parents, teachers and children don't want. The next government, whoever
:14:06. > :14:11.it is, needs to listen. Any idea how this is looking for London? No, you
:14:12. > :14:15.can see the volatility in the national polls, Labour have already
:14:16. > :14:18.been ahead in the polls in London, when we see an next poll it will be
:14:19. > :14:23.testing to see if that is reflective, the kind of contraction
:14:24. > :14:27.between fund that we have seen nationally. If you take a seat like
:14:28. > :14:32.Ealing, it's fascinating, and will tell a big story on the night. Where
:14:33. > :14:39.the Greens and you could have stood aside, clear choices, we assume an
:14:40. > :14:45.election that will be a lot about Brexit but no way of knowing. London
:14:46. > :14:50.is a Remain in place, are people going to punish the Conservatives
:14:51. > :14:52.for being in charge when we made the decision or have removed on from
:14:53. > :15:04.that now? Still to come: as Tom Cruise...
:15:05. > :15:09.Latest movie The Mummy crashes into cinemas, how London played a
:15:10. > :15:11.starring role. It looks like temperatures are on the rise again,
:15:12. > :15:26.just how high will they go? London is moving a step closer to
:15:27. > :15:28.our European counterparts in Paris and Berlin. We already have Wi-Fi on
:15:29. > :15:32.the cheap. The Mayor and Transport for London
:15:33. > :15:35.are in talks with telecoms companies about providing the infrastructure
:15:36. > :15:44.and Gareth Furby has On the Underground, it's a different
:15:45. > :15:50.story using your mobile phone. The signal goes within seconds. On the
:15:51. > :15:56.platforms there is Wi-Fi but by the time you have it working nicely...
:15:57. > :16:00.Here is the train. And on board there is no signal at all which
:16:01. > :16:07.leaves people browsing storage media or playing Games. Or putting their
:16:08. > :16:10.phones away altogether. It's not good, if turning up blitz somewhere,
:16:11. > :16:13.you are turning up late somewhere, you can't find somebody up and say
:16:14. > :16:17.you're not going to be there. Sometimes I miss a lot of calls from
:16:18. > :16:21.I'm using the cheap. But pretty soon this is all going to change. The
:16:22. > :16:30.Mayor of London's office issued a statement:
:16:31. > :16:39.this man is a self-confessed tech geek who is pretty excited about
:16:40. > :16:41.this possibility. What it'll involved is putting little repeater
:16:42. > :16:44.boxers all the way down the tunnel is so signal can get to you even
:16:45. > :16:51.inside the tunnel, it's fairly simple. Why has it taken so long? I
:16:52. > :16:55.would say it's about the deal that tearful wants to cut with the mobile
:16:56. > :16:58.networks. If the deal is done, text messages and data soon may not be a
:16:59. > :17:11.problem but what about conversations?
:17:12. > :17:15.Peter foot is for the campaign for courtesy and he thinks there is a
:17:16. > :17:21.risk people may just end up shouting into their phones. It's not going to
:17:22. > :17:29.work. It's going to be too much noise, it'll become like a verbal
:17:30. > :17:34.free for all. And back underground today, there were some mixed
:17:35. > :17:39.opinions. Having a bit of refuge from data and contact is good for
:17:40. > :17:45.the mind, good for people, they should do without. It's a good idea,
:17:46. > :17:50.we pay so much money every month to do line rental and we can't use the
:17:51. > :17:53.phone on the train. I think it's a really bad idea, find it interesting
:17:54. > :17:58.listening to people's conversations with no regard for other people,
:17:59. > :18:02.loud, shouting, arguments. Transport for London say it is keen to offer
:18:03. > :18:07.full mobile phone coverage, the introduction of this will need to be
:18:08. > :18:13.commercially viable and would follow engagement with staff and customers.
:18:14. > :18:16.From the sweeping sands of the Middle East to, well,
:18:17. > :18:19.Tom Cruise's new film The Mummy has been mainly filmed
:18:20. > :18:24.But not many of our London landmarks survive the world
:18:25. > :18:32.of gods and monsters as Alice Bhandhukravi reports.
:18:33. > :18:38.It may be a story from ancient Egypt that it was clear to the makers of
:18:39. > :18:42.The Mummy them that the setting of most of this big budget action
:18:43. > :18:45.thriller would be London, not only for our historical landmarks but
:18:46. > :18:53.also because of the history which lies beneath our feet. You guys ran
:18:54. > :18:59.out of places to bury bodies. Pits were dug, when we were making The
:19:00. > :19:04.Mummy, you're making a movie about a woman who can raise the dead, it
:19:05. > :19:10.seemed perfect. The film starts with Crossrail. In London, it is a
:19:11. > :19:17.reality. I hadn't seen it added into the front part of our film, when I
:19:18. > :19:24.saw it, it went oh my God. It do something that inspires in EU, this
:19:25. > :19:26.idea that it's real. Some of the key scenes take place in the Natural
:19:27. > :19:33.History Museum as you have never seen it before. It's wonderful that
:19:34. > :19:38.all these amazing monuments want to celebrate film and want London to be
:19:39. > :19:42.shown in this incredible light and the dentist to rue that we have
:19:43. > :19:46.should be celebrated, especially the Natural History Museum being one of
:19:47. > :19:53.our main locations and centrepoint within our film. I get to run with
:19:54. > :20:02.Tom Cruise through the gem room! One of the best days of my life. And you
:20:03. > :20:06.have a bus running down the road that Tom Cruise and up sitting in
:20:07. > :20:15.which amused me. It's probably been awhile since he got on a bus! Has he
:20:16. > :20:17.ever been on a bus? I don't know! That I would like to see.
:20:18. > :20:19.Now we know there's no shortage of heritage in London.
:20:20. > :20:22.But today was a day for celebrating the capital's history -
:20:23. > :20:24.with 40 museums and galleries showcasing some of the rare
:20:25. > :20:28.Let's find out more from Sarah Harris who's in the city
:20:29. > :20:42.Yes, the idea of today is to see those little gems, things that
:20:43. > :20:48.Londoners can't see all year round but will be able to see today for
:20:49. > :20:54.one day only, and Michelle here at the Bishopsgate interview has been
:20:55. > :20:59.digging in the archives to find special treasures. There was some
:21:00. > :21:03.music play from the 1920s, a hundred years ago, nightclubs in London is
:21:04. > :21:08.the theme. However it is based around this particular item, a
:21:09. > :21:12.brochure for the club, which was in Tottenham Court Road in the 1920s,
:21:13. > :21:17.what I especially like about this brochure is his it has an attention
:21:18. > :21:21.from a disgruntled clubgoer. Most people thought nightclubs were
:21:22. > :21:26.healthy and people were popping around keeping fit. Dancing was seen
:21:27. > :21:34.as a whole something and people promoted not clubs as a place to
:21:35. > :21:37.book and go to that of steam. They would have created not every
:21:38. > :21:42.Thursday and people will just go and dance like crazy to let off steam.
:21:43. > :21:48.Are those notes saying things like, not the night? One I really like is,
:21:49. > :21:52.the latest word in social clubs, so we get a sense this was presenting
:21:53. > :21:59.itself as a fashionable social club. Good luck for the night, earlier I
:22:00. > :22:07.was lucky enough to see another artefact that really sees the light
:22:08. > :22:13.of day at St Paul's Cathedral. It took 17,000 hours of stitching in
:22:14. > :22:18.the 1970s to complete his Jubilee coat, only out on display for 24
:22:19. > :22:21.hours as part of the first history of London day. Beryl, Gladys and Liz
:22:22. > :22:27.are still so proud of what they achieved that in 1977. Each
:22:28. > :22:35.embroidering a church. But stitching did you use? I used a 18 carat
:22:36. > :22:41.Japanese gold, in those days, because we're talking 40 years ago,
:22:42. > :22:46.there was no super duper threads, except one, invisible thread, which
:22:47. > :22:53.was a nylon type thread which was terrible to use. You put a stitch in
:22:54. > :22:58.and it popped out. We had to get into the mood to be able to do it
:22:59. > :23:04.properly. The coat was first formed in 1977 at St Paul's service of
:23:05. > :23:07.thanks giving for the Silver Jubilee. The Bishop of London has
:23:08. > :23:14.won it on special occasions ever since, its title tends to cause some
:23:15. > :23:22.confusion. Someone has commented on Facebook saying, they have spelt
:23:23. > :23:28.cape wrong, should be... No, it has a herd, that is just how to war
:23:29. > :23:35.things, they have gone on from there. London's 73 spires are all
:23:36. > :23:40.represented and those who were part of the project are test as thrilled
:23:41. > :23:47.as they were about with the crater. Very, very proud indeed, it was a
:23:48. > :23:54.lot of work, we put a lot of ours in that it was worth it. It I can't
:23:55. > :24:02.believe it's getting such publicity now after all this time, it's
:24:03. > :24:07.wonderful. Cope will be preserved in special conditions out of the light.
:24:08. > :24:16.Time for the weather. Steadily warming up!
:24:17. > :24:23.We did reasonably well today, got to the low 20s, a fair bit of clever
:24:24. > :24:27.but little rain to speak of. Temperatures not really dropping
:24:28. > :24:35.away too far, another mild night, quite great, low cloud spreading its
:24:36. > :24:46.way from the south. Overall, a pretty quiet night. Quite a warm
:24:47. > :24:52.start to what will be a very warm day and after that grey start,
:24:53. > :24:57.predicted spells of sunshine. -- predicted spells. It doesn't last
:24:58. > :25:07.too long, the cloud, it will break up and some good spells of sunshine.
:25:08. > :25:13.Quite a warm afternoon, very pleasant indeed, however there is a
:25:14. > :25:17.weather front looking to the West and it's trying to head our way but
:25:18. > :25:22.on Friday I suspect it will stay to the west of us for the most part.
:25:23. > :25:28.Just ahead of that weather front, as the Filipe Luis again, quite a warm
:25:29. > :25:40.afternoon, that warmth may well spark off a few storms.
:25:41. > :25:46.Through Friday evening, the weather front tries to push in from the
:25:47. > :25:54.West, a few showers creep in, a warm start to Saturday. Saturday it self,
:25:55. > :26:03.a day of sunny spells and scattered showers, a similar sort of day on
:26:04. > :26:04.Sunday. Just to watch out for one or two of those thunderstorms on
:26:05. > :26:13.Friday. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has
:26:14. > :26:17.challenged Theresa May to take part in the night BBC election debate in
:26:18. > :26:21.Cambridge. He agreed to take part earlier today but the Prime Minister
:26:22. > :26:25.has still refused. At least 90 have been killed and hundreds injured by
:26:26. > :26:30.a massive bomb in the heart of the Afghan capital, among those killed
:26:31. > :26:35.was a driver who worked for the BBC. In a first for a British police
:26:36. > :26:39.force, the Met will begin recruiting people as detectives without having
:26:40. > :26:42.to work in uniform as beat officers. Scotland Yard say it's to address
:26:43. > :26:53.the shortage of officers and attract graduates from diverse grounds. You
:26:54. > :26:55.can see more on our website. We are back later. Have a good evening.