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So it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

A ninister says this year's Notting Hill Carnival should be

relocated in light of the Grenfell disaster - but organisers disagree.

Carnival was born in this area so even the

people and the residents of the Grenfell area are

Now the Mayor of London wades into the row.

Plans for a statue of Margaret Thatcher outside

parliament are blocked over fears of vandalism.

The man who was left fighting for his life

after being bitten by a spider he believes was hiding

in a bunch of bananas tells us his story.

They are at least still talking to me.

Unfortunately they are not actually talking to each other.

The romcom full of morning suits and one liners -

we look at how it inspired a new generation of romantic films.

First tonight: A row over whether this year's

Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party -

should be relocated in light of the Grenfell tragedy.

The route passes within yards of the burnt out tower prompting

the Minister for London to question whether it's appropriate to stage

But the Mayor of London has rejected the call,

saying the carnival belonged on the streets of its

For the last seven years, this is how he has warned of the carnival.

Warm up for the carnival, 2017. Like others around Notting Hill, he awoke

to the news this morning that the Minister of London has asked that

the carnival to move this year after the Grenfell Tower fire. It passes

through streets away. He said that news has upset many. Most people are

actually saying they are going to stop the carnival. That to me is

trigger enough, discomfort between the committee. We do not want that.

The carnival should take place because it is important this year

than any other year. The row started after Minister of the London Bridge

to the mayor saying... The Mayor's reply was pretty clear.

He said: Sadly, neither men were available to

be interviewed today. But the local MP was not pulling her

punches. Why are now should yet another white man in a suit have any

idea about what is good for this community who is grieving, raw open

wounds and actually they decide what is right and what is wrong at the

moment. Not us, not me either. There were mixed views over whether the

carnival should be moved. I have lived in this area all of my life.

It is one of the greatest things. But in respect it should be. I think

it should go ahead and celebrate life. I think the carnival should

carry on as usual. I do not think the people who have lost their lives

would have liked to that hope to be cancelled. Maybe we should respect

the area. This manager of carnival I'm not planning to follow the

advice. That is his opinion. He is entitled to his opinion but that is

not going to happen. It has never been a consideration. We support the

people from Grenfell Tower. Tonight, a statement from Kensington

and Chelsea Council said there were no plans to move carnival this year.

A plan to put a statue of Margaret Thatcher outside

the House of Commons has been blocked because of fears that it

However the Prime Minister has told the BBC that those concerns should

Ayshea Buksh has more on this and joins us

There are currently 11 statues here in Parliament Square, ranging from

Winston Churchill hear all the way round to more modern-day additions,

such as Nelson Mandela. The Margaret Thatcher statue would be ten feet

tall, made of bronze and costing around ?300,000, that money there

has been raised by a public memorial charity. The objections have come

from some significant quarters, although there has been support for

it as well, the royal Parks who are in this line have said that they are

worried because they have not been given an assurance that the family

of Margaret Thatcher have approved the project. Also a local residents

and business Association who said they worry although she is, of

course, significant figure, she was a controversial one and there could

be the risk of vandalism. That suggestion though has been rejected

by the current Prime Minister Theresa May.

I understand there have been a number of issues that have been

What I'm very clear about is that there is no,

there should be no suggestion that the threat of vandalism should

stop a statue of Margaret Thatcher from being put up.

Theresa May making her position clear that. How real do we think the

risk is and what happens now? The proposals are currently with

Westminster Council, they will make the final decision. It is yet to go

to their planning committee. There is a risk of vandalism here in

Parliament Square, a very public place. A few years ago, Winston

Churchill's statue was to face. I have seen here, a South African

politician, he has fresh graffiti on his plinth as we speak.

Thank you very much. We are on London's newest waterways,

the Bow Back Rivers and what it means is you can now loop around

the Olympic Stadium by boat. The owner of a construction firm has

been jailed for "appallingly dangerous" health and safety

breaches - which led to the deaths The Polish labourers fell

from a balcony of a multi-million pound flat in central

London in 2014. He ran a multi-million pound

building company, specialising in Today, a judge said

Martin Gutaj had a gung ho attitude towards safety

which cost the lives of The tragedy happened during a ?1

million job in this posh London An 18st sofa was too heavy to carry

up the stairs so five workers tried to hoist it up over these

railings using ropes. Now, the railings were 130 years

old, Victorian era, and They collapsed forwards

into the street, causing three of the builders

to lose their balance. Now, one of them miraculously

was caught by the 22-year-old Tomasz Procko

died on the pavement, along with his friend

Karol Symanski, who was 29. During the trial at

the Old Bailey, the jury heard how the firm

Martinisation London Limited had a long history of poor

health and safety. The entire workforce was Polish,

but risk assessments were The company was found

guilty of manslaughter and Jailing 44-year-old

Gutaj for 14 months, Judge Gerald Gordon told him, "Word

has got to go out, health and safety on building sites is vital

for employees and others in what is Those who are wilfully blind

to the risks," he said, "have got to expect to go

immediately to prison. In an impact statement,

Tomasz Procko's mother described him as a sensitive

boy who will always be in the hearts was entirely foreseeable

and preventable. Victims of the 7/7 terror attacks

have been remembered 52 people died when four suicide

bombers attacked London's transport It remains the single worst

terrorist atrocity on British soil. As Caroline Davies reports,

this year's event has paid tribute to victims of more recent

atrocities. So, starting with King's Cross

and Russell Square. James Adams, Sam Adam,

Lee Christopher Harris... 52 names, the lives

lost 12 years ago Today, their families

and survivors came to Among the names was 22-year-old

David Foulkes, it was He was on the same

carriage as one of the I am David's father,

I'm going to tell you he was... I'm going to tell you he

was the best son that We talk about David every day,

we keep him alive in our minds and I know all the other

families keep their loved ones alive Today's service felt

particularly poignant given the recent attacks in

London and Manchester. For many of the people who have

attended the service today, survivors or families of victims,

it's brought back some very painful Every time something like that has

happened, it has been quite He was six metres

from one of the blasts. He walked away with burst

eardrums and cuts. Sometimes it's difficult to get

on a train, I still have to use 12 years ago today, it was very hot,

just like today, to get onto a hot and crowded

tube train is a trigger. Sirens going on in the

background, helicopters, 7/7 led Graham to set a charity. The

recent rise in attacks means they are struggling. The number of people

we support has gone up since Manchester, the funding has remained

fixed under the low level from central government. We could do with

some help. The message from today's servers with clear. We stand

together, you are not alone. Detectives in East London have

released a new picture of a man they want to talk to in relation

to a recent acid attack in Beckton. 24-year-old John Tomlin is wanted

after a man and a woman were sprayed with a corrosive liquid as they sat

in a car last month. Both have been left

with life changing injuries. Tomlin is around 6ft tall

and has distinctive tattoos Police say he should

not be approached. A man's been describing how

he was left fighting for his life - after being bitten by a spider

at his home in Hertfordshire - which he thinks was hiding

in a bunch of bananas. Paul Jory was put in an induced

coma for nearly a week and underwent eight operations

to stop the poison spreading. He's been speaking to our

reporter Sarah Harris. It was a big spider,

probably about that sort of size. After unpacking a bunch

of bananas he bought from his local shop in St Albans,

Paul Jory noticed a large arachnid crawling up his arm before feeling

an excruciating burning sensation. Fortunately only for

a few seconds and it was like an electric shock

going through my body. It was a browny black, not long,

long legs but shortish long The 59-year-old father

says he doesn't know which kind of spider it was

but managed to get to casualty He ended up in a forced coma

after the poison spread. The medics acted extremely quickly

and if it wasn't for them and the NHS, and the nursing

staff and the doctors, If I handle a spider,

their first question normally Suzie has worked

with spiders for more than 20 years and helps

people with phobias. She says this kind of

reaction is extremely rare. The only time people

have a severe reaction and potentially they can die

through anaphylactic shock, same with people who have

anaphylaxis with peanuts, bee stings, and in fact more people die

each year from bee stings, coconuts on the head and the latest

is selfies, people trying to get a selfie on the edge of the cliff,

more people are dying in that way, but these things

don't make headlines. The minute it is a spider

bite or anything like that, then there is real

sensationalism, they want to put it on the front page and it's sad,

it's nowhere near like that and look She doesn't want to hurt me

and it is really, really sad for me these guys

have a bad reputation. Paul is now recovering at home

and still has some paralysis He continues to use his local

shop for groceries, but bananas are off

of the shopping list. Sarah Harris, BBC

London News, St Albans. They are at least

still talking to me. Unfortunately they are not actually

talking to each other. More than 20 years after Four

weddings and a funeral - a young director tells us how

the classic romcom has One great British tennis player is

through today at Wimbledon. I will be summer weather last? I will have

the details later in the programme. Next, the London Olympics are long

gone but regeneration work in the park itself

has been continuing. A decade ago part of the waterways

around the stadium were completely polluted,

but that's all changed. Today as the latest section opened,

our environment correspondent Tom Edwards took to the water to see

the transformation. Welcome to the Bow Back Rivers,

London's newest waterway. One of the half miles

of previously unnavigable canals. Ten years ago, you would've

had tyres in here, fridges, washing machines,

full of industrial pollutants and now look at the state

we are at now. Part of the scheme

is to reinstate these We have created all of this reedbed

habitat in several areas of the park waterways and that's allowed

species to flourish. We will see here coots,

moorhens, kingfishers, all the kind of animals

that are a sign really Before the Olympics,

this is what the area looked like. Long before that,

the canals were used to This project has taken

ten years to get And what it means is that you can

now loop right around the Olympic Raymond Lyons has lived

on his longboat for about a We love living in the canal

and we docked up at the Olympic Park, so, as I say, there's

an interest to go around the Bow Back waters and stuff, which have

been closed for some time. We want you to come

here, we want you to cruise through, we want you to

admire the wildlife that is returned to the park, we want you to enjoy

the views of London stadium. As well as boat owners,

tours will now use these waterways to also witness

London's rediscovered industrial Ahead of Pride Weekend -

all this week we've been looking Tomorrow the parade will see

thousands of people on London's streets -

in celebration of The event - which started out

in the 70s as a protest for gay rights - is now

celebrating its 45th anniversary. And it's been expanded to include

a number of other events. Chris Slegg is at one now

and can tell us more. This White collar boxing, you may

have heard about. Nearly everyone fighting tonight was a complete

novice ten weeks ago. What they have had intense training. They are

fighting for the paying public. White-collar boxing with a rainbow

hue because of these bad boxing event to be associated with pride,

90% of those fighting are of the LGBT community. That rats showed how

London's separation of diversity has died specified. -- has diversify.

A few hundred people playing games at one of London's early gay

liberation events, not a parade or a rainbow flag in sight.

We are here at Hyde Park, where Britain's first

Peter Tatchell said that the peaceful event received a rather

hostile reception in the first days of the events.

There were about 700 of us, people were hostile and the police were

We marched anyway. We began with a rally and then marched a where we

held a key day in the park. In the early days, pride events were not

very well attended. In the 1980s as the events were

beginning to gather pace and more people were attending, a crisis

of epic proportions hit London's AIDS devastated the London gay

scene and centred it into In 1988, when section 28 was

introduced, suddenly the numbers jumped to 30,000. It kept on rising

every year thereafter. Through the 90s and naughties, pride went from a

largely political motivated marched to a celebration of equality.

Despite financial struggles, the event is now popular than ever. Has

that method of equality became lost in corporate sponsorship? It is

important we have that cross-section of society represented our pride. It

is important for us, it cost around ?900,000 to put pride on each year

and we need some money to be able to build that of unsafely and also the

entertainment and everything that sits around it.

Scrap the commercial sponsorship. However much that is a celebration

and a party but a claim for equal human rights. This year, a million

people are expected to attend, not something bad that started off by

the few hundred people having a singsong.

The first light of the evening is underway here. Pretty good standings

as they have not done any boxing before 80 weeks ago. We can squeak

to an organiser and a participant. Lauren, you are fighting later. Why

have you decided to put on boxing? The idea came from John Durrant, one

of the head coaches here. He had decided that he wanted to get more

involved in the community, he thought it would make it more

accessible to them, to people who might not necessarily have thought

of taking part in this before. He came to us, we decided to organise

it. We went to pride and they jumped at the chance because they had not

had a boxing event before. That is how it came about.

You are going to be fighting in a couple hours' time. You have not

done any boxing a few months back. How are you feeling? My emotions are

mixed. The adrenaline is racing. I am petrified but excited as well.

You are a teacher. What do you pupils make of your boxing exploits?

I have told a few of them and they have wished me luck today. Some of

them have done a bit descriptive writing on it. Apparently I win,

they have told me that. It will be good to see. Lauren, LGBT role

models in boxing, Nicola Adams, how has she helped in that respect? I

think she has helped put the sport out there. As the first female woman

to win the Olympics and to win double and then come out

essentially, she has opened the field while wild open to anyone who

wants to take part. It is great people have got that role model but

they can look to. I want to encourage anyone to get involved.

Thank you very much. I hope everyone stays safe tonight. This is one of

the very many different ways that Pride is being celebrated this

weekend. Quite an atmosphere there. Thank you

very much. Takes me back a bit. One of the UK's

most successful romantic comedies. It's been more than 20

years since the release of Four Weddings and a Funeral -

one of the Uk's most successful romantic comedies

made by London Director, Since then the film has inspired

a new generation of romcoms - one of which is released later this

month, The Big Sick, a nontraditional boy

meets girl love story. Alice Bhandhukravi has been

speaking to its star Kumail Nanjiani and his hero,

Richard Curtis. You can't look like you

and yell white girl. It's a rom com which tackles

casual racism and cultural And its writer, who plays

himself in the movie, says his career in comedy

started when he saw this. This is only the second time I've

ever been a best man, I hope I did the job or that time,

the couple in question are at least Unfortunately, they're not

actually talking to each other, the divorce came

through a couple of months ago. Four Weddings And A Funeral

got me into rom coms because there was a guy who was sort

of awkward and not super confident, alpha guy who was good

with the ladies so, I was like, OK, Call you, go home, I hope... Your

driver needs to put on his pants. The Big Sick is about how

Kumail met his wife. His comedy idol Richard Curtis,

who created Four Weddings, so rom coms are at their best

when they are true. The best romantic comedies

aren't written by people who think, oh, I must

write a romantic comedy, they are written by people

who are looking at their own lives and find that the love bit

of those lives are funny. Four Weddings was, you know,

80% autobiographical. The films that made me write

Four Weddings were Gregory's Girl, just a bunch of movies

about slightly useless boys falling in love with Annie Hall,

these kinds of movies. So it's very sweet,

the thought that I might be But as well as awkward

romance, this film also deals with contemporary issues,

from underlying Islamophobia... So, 9/11, I've always wanted

to have a conversation with... You've never talked

to people about 9/11? To the pressure to conform

to certain traditional values. And whilst it may be set in America,

this story is likely to resonate with audiences here too,

keen for the rom com to touch subjects that

are usually off-limits. Now Wimbledon has been basking

in the sunshine and that's There will be a few changes at the

weekend. It will come as welcome news, I suspect. It has been another

hot and sticky day here at Wimbledon, not quite as warm as

yesterday, 31 Celsius a little bit earlier on at Heathrow. We have now

started to get a bit of the breeze going on and some cloud cover here

at Wimbledon which is probably a relief for the cloud behind me. They

are watching Andy Murray take the first set on Centre Court. The good

news if you're been suffering from the heat and the humility and frizzy

hair that goes with it, it will be turning fresh air this weekend. For

the weekend, but of a drop in temperature, slightly cooler

conditions coming through. This evening, still some sunshine hanging

on for eastern areas of the capital, but we have some cloud developing,

thickening through the course of the night. A week weather front coming

through, very weak indeed, hardly any rain at all. A very warm and

uncomfortable night sleeper head once more. Lose around 17 or 18

Celsius. Tomorrow morning, it is going to start off on a doll, damp

note. If you like showers around, if you are coming to Wimbledon, a full

day's play. Sunny spells developing through the afternoon. It will not

feel quite as warm or oppressive in the sunshine. - this time around 24

to 25 Celsius, a lot more comfortable. As we had through to

Sunday, it looks like we will see some Strauss, no play here at

Wimbledon on Sunday. Some good spells of sunshine around, we are

looking at highs of around 25 Celsius. If you are coming on

Monday, this is the day where we are expecting disease interruptions in

play. Some heavy, thundery showers developing on Monday, but by then,

temperatures back down to where they should be at this time of year.

Quite changeable, some lovely warm sunshine into this we into the start

of week two at Wimbledon. It looks so lovely that. Thank you

very much. President Trump has been

holding his first face-to-face meeting with the Russian leader

Vladimir Putin. The two met on the sidelines

of the G20 sumnmit of the world's major economies in the

German city of Hamburg. Great Ormond Street Hospital has

applied to the High Court for a fresh hearing in the case

of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard. It follows a letter from medical

professionals, claiming new data indicates that his condition

could be improved by There are calls for the Notting Hill

Carnival to be relocated because the route passes very close

to Grenfell Tower. The London mayor has

ruled out a move. That's all from us

this Friday evening. Your views always welcome

on our Facebook page. Victoria Hollins will be

back with our late news. Thanks for watching

and have a wonderful weekend. MAN: What makes you two make

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