31/05/2017 London News

It's about offering people a direct pathway into a different type of

career in policing, the uniform attraction is attractive to some and

a barrier to others. With a week of campaigning to go,

we follow the main parties on the capital's streets -

and Londoners reactions to them. Also tonight: could this be

the sound of the underground? Commuters could soon be able to make

phone calls on the tube. I don't think I would call much,

it's more texts and what SAP. Sometimes I miss a lot of calls when

I'm using the trip. Worn by the Bishop of London

at the Queen's Silver Jubilee - the embroidered cloak is one

of the rare treasures Welcome to BBC London News

with me, Riz Lateef. We start tonight with a first

for a British police force - and a radical approach

to recruitment. Aspiring officers will be able

to join the Metropolitan Police as trainee detectives WITHOUT having

to work in uniform as Scotland Yard says it's to help

address the shortage of detectives and to attract graduates

with diverse skills and backgrounds. But critics are concerned

about recruits not having any policing experience before taking

on a specialist role. Here's our Home Affairs

Correspondent Nick Beake. High priority in the detective 's

training goes to the identification of suspects... The Art of the

Scotland Yard detective has been honed over decades. This was 1946.

Successful candidates have always been selected after gaining years of

experience in uniform on the beat. But times have changed and now for

the first time detectives will be recruited into the Metropolitan

Police directly from outside. At the moment Scotland Yard is short of

around 600 detectives. Under this new scheme 18 new recruits will be

taken on initially and they're starting salary will be around

?30,000. This is about offering people a direct pathway into a

different kind of career, we know from research did last year in

London, this is really appealing because the uniform attraction is

attractive to some and a barrier to others, particularly with the male

and BME. Direct entry detectives will need to have a degree, they

will undergo 18 weeks of training, some of it in the classroom, some of

it out in the boroughs, with a focus on investigative skills. But some

former release of this is so it's simply not enough time to learn the

tools of the sect of trade. I don't know how you can condense two to

three years of training, from being a probationary constable through to

training detective and then becoming a detective. I think that'll be

developed a crime in that time because you develop so many life

skills, to ensure that you are not going to make errors that somebody

will get off at court. This is what today's met detectives face. Here,

suspected drug dealers in Holton. It can be tough work many serving

officers of put off joining CID because of the high workload and

pressure to get results, creating this shortage. Copy table on the

left-hand side... London's most famous detective was never actually

a policeman. We'll talented civilians step forward once again

and solve the case of Scotland Yard's missing detectives?

This direction of travel, a sign of The Times or of desperation? This

lack of detectives across the country has been described as a

national crisis, they found that officers were stressed out,

detectives were often taking on cases they weren't experienced

enough to do, we know that in all there are 600 vacancies to fill in

London, today the Police Federation has said that they don't feel that

this is a magic bullet that will solve all problems. There was also

concerned that it's open to graduates. But it's an opportunity

to bring into Scotland Yard some of the brightest and best who wouldn't

have thought of applying, people from black and minority ethnic

backgrounds. It is a sign of The Times in that there is more

specialist crime to investigate now, fraud and cyber crimes, applications

are now open and if this goes well, it'll be something that will be

repeated in the future and probably rolled out across the country.

Onto the election now - and the main parties have

deployed senior figures on the campaign trail today.

The Tories focusing again on Brexit, Labour on the threat

Here's our political correspondent Karl Mercer.

There is one more week of this to go. One more week of handshakes,

speeches, backing up key policies, and selfie is, of course. You have

to do it. Boris Johnson in Eltham today may dupe plenty of this but

has clearly still got work to do. Are you Conservative? Of course. He

was on message today, expect a plenty more of this from the

Conservatives over the coming week. Brexit is they clear line of attack.

If you go with Jeremy Corbyn, you will be sending into negotiations in

Brussels a guy who doesn't really understand what is at stake. It's

perfectly obvious that Labour don't have a clue what they mean by coming

out of the EU, taking back control of our immigration policy, and our

cash. It would be catastrophic, they would eat him for breakfast. Labour

was also unfamiliar territory in Hammersmith with its health

spokesperson dropping in on an area where changes to local hospital

services are proving controversial. Les Bleus, promising more money for

the NHS. At the moment the NHS is going through a big financial

squeeze and many other changes are simply because NHS bosses have to

balance the books and the NHS hasn't been given the money it needs, we

will invest substantially within the NHS and once we have, we can look at

how services are designed, look at what community services we need. But

we have got to involve the public. I hope we're going to turn it on now,

the poster which we are launching today... Former Lib Dem leader Nick

Clegg was in Southwark, decking Conservative plans to do away with

universal free lunches for primary school children. Not only do I think

her decision to snatch lunches is a it hits the poorest, kids won't get

a decent meal in the middle of their school day, it's also so dishonest

the claim that somehow free breakfast will be readily available

when the Conservatives on figures show that they only kick waiting for

7p per breakfast. -- only calculating. Seven more days.

BBC London has been to some of the key battle ground seats. The night,

it is Ealing Central and acting, Labour's most marginal seat in the

capital. It was won by just 274 votes at the last election so it's

an area where every vote counts. The members of the ceiling site of know

a thing or two about tactics. You have to understand your opponent.

When someone is falling behind, seize up on the pace. Try to group

together. Sometime you only job is to move aside at the right moment.

That is what the Greens are doing here, to help out the incumbent,

from Labour, the Greens aren't fielding a candidate at all here.

And with a majority of just 274, the Labour candidate knows this could be

crucial. She considers herself the most vulnerable Labour MP in London.

I have a record I'm fighting on the stump, I have done 17,000 individual

bits of casework, people that have dealt with me how appreciative of

that and they can be all sorts of local issues, there are multitude of

things, schools, every school will lose out on the fair funding

formula. She met us at this sweet factory on an estate where those

local issues resonate. It is being forced to move because of the new

high-speed railway line HS2 but Brexit is also key. A lot of our

workers are from abroad, it will make it more difficult to get staff,

costs have gone up, 15% of our raw materials, we're trying to avoid

increasing our prices but it's not very easy. And this is where the

Liberal Democrats hope they might pick up votes. The party used to do

well here but its support evaporated in 2015. Now it's hoping to

capitalise on the constituency's Strongbow to remain in the EU. You

have some people who voted Conservative last time, who voted

Remained, were coming over to ask, some people voted Labour in 2015,

but don't like what they see of Jeremy Corbyn and so are coming over

to us, what the Lib Dems are uniquely calling for is a referendum

on the terms of any final deal, with an option to remain. But Labour's

strongest challenge is likely to come from the Conservatives, they

are chasing after every one of those 274 votes and could benefit from

Ukip deciding not to stand here. So narrow is the margin, the Prime

Minister came to the pavements with candidate. But it was cleaning up

the estate or organising the community day, I'm someone that

residents come to when they want something fixed, and over get the

job done, it's the same if I was then elected member of Parliament, I

will listen and represent their interests and deliver. There is so

little between the Conservatives and Labour here, voters know their every

move matter. The Heathrow expansion affects us, and the decimation of

the local health authority. The media election is completely about

Brexit. I feel we voted last year but nobody had any idea what they

are voting for. Public services and the NHS, I work in the NHS so it's

close to my heart. Battling for those hearts and heads, candidates,

each pushing for the line. And here is a the full list

of candidates standing in Ealing Central and Acton -

you can of course head to: Our Political Editor,

Tim Donovan is here with me. Pretty clear what this

is being fought on now and what it comes down

to, isn't it? Yes, it's not a retreat to core

messages but that the stage with just over a week to go, it's

absolutely when you should be able to see what the party's Key lines

are, not least because they have had a chance to road test them, they

know by now what is strongest, what is working, what isn't. You still

see, with Theresa May, the emphasis is on continuity, reliability, Boris

Johnson putting that out today although Minogue Theresa May has had

a bit of a bashing over her manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn, his focus

through the Shadow Health Secretary, on public services, but will be the

emphasis, how much money is being injected into a range of public

services. It's worth saying that the Greens today are focusing on public

services as well, education, their co-leader sat a key stage two test

early in the week, got the result outside the Department of the

education and the Greens are saying these tests are incredibly

stressful, teachers don't like them, children don't like them, they want

scrapped. These are children who are vulnerable, who need encouragement,

support, the broad range of what is on offer and instead they are pushed

down this narrow, rigorous path of testing and league tables which

parents, teachers and children don't want. The next government, whoever

it is, needs to listen. Any idea how this is looking for London? No, you

can see the volatility in the national polls, Labour have already

been ahead in the polls in London, when we see an next poll it will be

testing to see if that is reflective, the kind of contraction

between fund that we have seen nationally. If you take a seat like

Ealing, it's fascinating, and will tell a big story on the night. Where

the Greens and you could have stood aside, clear choices, we assume an

election that will be a lot about Brexit but no way of knowing. London

is a Remain in place, are people going to punish the Conservatives

for being in charge when we made the decision or have removed on from

that now? Still to come: as Tom Cruise...

Latest movie The Mummy crashes into cinemas, how London played a

starring role. It looks like temperatures are on the rise again,

just how high will they go? London is moving a step closer to

our European counterparts in Paris and Berlin. We already have Wi-Fi on

the cheap. The Mayor and Transport for London

are in talks with telecoms companies about providing the infrastructure

and Gareth Furby has On the Underground, it's a different

story using your mobile phone. The signal goes within seconds. On the

platforms there is Wi-Fi but by the time you have it working nicely...

Here is the train. And on board there is no signal at all which

leaves people browsing storage media or playing Games. Or putting their

phones away altogether. It's not good, if turning up blitz somewhere,

you are turning up late somewhere, you can't find somebody up and say

you're not going to be there. Sometimes I miss a lot of calls from

I'm using the cheap. But pretty soon this is all going to change. The

Mayor of London's office issued a statement:

this man is a self-confessed tech geek who is pretty excited about

this possibility. What it'll involved is putting little repeater

boxers all the way down the tunnel is so signal can get to you even

inside the tunnel, it's fairly simple. Why has it taken so long? I

would say it's about the deal that tearful wants to cut with the mobile

networks. If the deal is done, text messages and data soon may not be a

problem but what about conversations?

Peter foot is for the campaign for courtesy and he thinks there is a

risk people may just end up shouting into their phones. It's not going to

work. It's going to be too much noise, it'll become like a verbal

free for all. And back underground today, there were some mixed

opinions. Having a bit of refuge from data and contact is good for

the mind, good for people, they should do without. It's a good idea,

we pay so much money every month to do line rental and we can't use the

phone on the train. I think it's a really bad idea, find it interesting

listening to people's conversations with no regard for other people,

loud, shouting, arguments. Transport for London say it is keen to offer

full mobile phone coverage, the introduction of this will need to be

commercially viable and would follow engagement with staff and customers.

From the sweeping sands of the Middle East to, well,

Tom Cruise's new film The Mummy has been mainly filmed

But not many of our London landmarks survive the world

of gods and monsters as Alice Bhandhukravi reports.

It may be a story from ancient Egypt that it was clear to the makers of

The Mummy them that the setting of most of this big budget action

thriller would be London, not only for our historical landmarks but

also because of the history which lies beneath our feet. You guys ran

out of places to bury bodies. Pits were dug, when we were making The

Mummy, you're making a movie about a woman who can raise the dead, it

seemed perfect. The film starts with Crossrail. In London, it is a

reality. I hadn't seen it added into the front part of our film, when I

saw it, it went oh my God. It do something that inspires in EU, this

idea that it's real. Some of the key scenes take place in the Natural

History Museum as you have never seen it before. It's wonderful that

all these amazing monuments want to celebrate film and want London to be

shown in this incredible light and the dentist to rue that we have

should be celebrated, especially the Natural History Museum being one of

our main locations and centrepoint within our film. I get to run with

Tom Cruise through the gem room! One of the best days of my life. And you

have a bus running down the road that Tom Cruise and up sitting in

which amused me. It's probably been awhile since he got on a bus! Has he

ever been on a bus? I don't know! That I would like to see.

Now we know there's no shortage of heritage in London.

But today was a day for celebrating the capital's history -

with 40 museums and galleries showcasing some of the rare

Let's find out more from Sarah Harris who's in the city

Yes, the idea of today is to see those little gems, things that

Londoners can't see all year round but will be able to see today for

one day only, and Michelle here at the Bishopsgate interview has been

digging in the archives to find special treasures. There was some

music play from the 1920s, a hundred years ago, nightclubs in London is

the theme. However it is based around this particular item, a

brochure for the club, which was in Tottenham Court Road in the 1920s,

what I especially like about this brochure is his it has an attention

from a disgruntled clubgoer. Most people thought nightclubs were

healthy and people were popping around keeping fit. Dancing was seen

as a whole something and people promoted not clubs as a place to

book and go to that of steam. They would have created not every

Thursday and people will just go and dance like crazy to let off steam.

Are those notes saying things like, not the night? One I really like is,

the latest word in social clubs, so we get a sense this was presenting

itself as a fashionable social club. Good luck for the night, earlier I

was lucky enough to see another artefact that really sees the light

of day at St Paul's Cathedral. It took 17,000 hours of stitching in

the 1970s to complete his Jubilee coat, only out on display for 24

hours as part of the first history of London day. Beryl, Gladys and Liz

are still so proud of what they achieved that in 1977. Each

embroidering a church. But stitching did you use? I used a 18 carat

Japanese gold, in those days, because we're talking 40 years ago,

there was no super duper threads, except one, invisible thread, which

was a nylon type thread which was terrible to use. You put a stitch in

and it popped out. We had to get into the mood to be able to do it

properly. The coat was first formed in 1977 at St Paul's service of

thanks giving for the Silver Jubilee. The Bishop of London has

won it on special occasions ever since, its title tends to cause some

confusion. Someone has commented on Facebook saying, they have spelt

cape wrong, should be... No, it has a herd, that is just how to war

things, they have gone on from there. London's 73 spires are all

represented and those who were part of the project are test as thrilled

as they were about with the crater. Very, very proud indeed, it was a

lot of work, we put a lot of ours in that it was worth it. It I can't

believe it's getting such publicity now after all this time, it's

wonderful. Cope will be preserved in special conditions out of the light.

Time for the weather. Steadily warming up!

We did reasonably well today, got to the low 20s, a fair bit of clever

but little rain to speak of. Temperatures not really dropping

away too far, another mild night, quite great, low cloud spreading its

way from the south. Overall, a pretty quiet night. Quite a warm

start to what will be a very warm day and after that grey start,

predicted spells of sunshine. -- predicted spells. It doesn't last

too long, the cloud, it will break up and some good spells of sunshine.

Quite a warm afternoon, very pleasant indeed, however there is a

weather front looking to the West and it's trying to head our way but

on Friday I suspect it will stay to the west of us for the most part.

Just ahead of that weather front, as the Filipe Luis again, quite a warm

afternoon, that warmth may well spark off a few storms.

Through Friday evening, the weather front tries to push in from the

West, a few showers creep in, a warm start to Saturday. Saturday it self,

a day of sunny spells and scattered showers, a similar sort of day on

Sunday. Just to watch out for one or two of those thunderstorms on

Friday. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has

challenged Theresa May to take part in the night BBC election debate in

Cambridge. He agreed to take part earlier today but the Prime Minister

has still refused. At least 90 have been killed and hundreds injured by

a massive bomb in the heart of the Afghan capital, among those killed

was a driver who worked for the BBC. In a first for a British police

force, the Met will begin recruiting people as detectives without having

to work in uniform as beat officers. Scotland Yard say it's to address

the shortage of officers and attract graduates from diverse grounds. You

can see more on our website. We are back later. Have a good evening.