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but will the government give them the money for it?

We need government to come up with the goods and make sure they are

doing their bit to make sure that London is kept safe.

Fire bosses warn if they don't get the money,

Also tonight: a woman was forced to wait for more than three hours after

suffering a miscarriage, she had the baby in her bag. A five-year-old

fined by the Council for serving lemonade to her neighbours, because

she did not have a licence. And the extravagant and extraordinary

mementos from a 65 year reign, Buckingham Palace shows of some of

the Queen's most interesting gifts. Good evening and welcome

to the programme. The Grenfell disaster

stretched our emergency services, who've since said they

need more equipment and more funding to be able

to tackle anything on such Now, it's decided to dip

into its reserve savings to pay for ?6 million worth of kit,

but it says it needs the cash back to avoid a huge amount of debt,

and the resulting cuts. Our political correspondent

Karl Mercer has the story. VOICEOVER: It reached just halfway

up Grenfell Tower, the aerial platform used by firefighters had to

be borrowed from Surrey. Firefighters heading into the blaze

had breathing apparatus that lasted just 30 minutes. And drones used to

help in the aftermath of the fire had to be borrowed from Kent. The

mayor asked the Fire Commissioner to draw up a list of the new kit the

brigade needs, she has, it is a long and costly one, they asked for three

higher aerial appliances at a cost of ?2.4 million, 1200 new breathing

apparatus sets, they will last longer, 45 minutes instead of the

current 30, two .8 million. It has asked former pro. New drones, new

masks and shirts and pop-up tents. The total bill, ?6.2 million.

Michael Fleck Denise spent 30 years working for the brigade, he says

that the items on it are long overdue. -- Michael Fleckney. I'm

happy to see this, especially pleased to see proposal for extended

duration breathing apparatus, a lot of people don't realise our

firefighters have only 30 minutes air in their standard sets, the

proposal for 40 minutes is a great increase in capacity. Also the

question of who will pay, the government is -- the brigade is

raiding reserves for the new kit but once the government to pay in the

long term. I have said to the commission, undertake a serious

review, I have promised my Commissioner that she will get what

she needs but the government must provide the resources to make sure

brave firefighters have the equipment they need. There are

worries that extra run is costs of ?6 million a year will leave the

brigade facing a huge black hole in its budget in three years' time. It

could be as much as ?30 million Winnie to find, that is around the

scale of the cut that we saw under Boris Johnson where we saw ten fire

stations close, we saw the removal of a large number of fire appliances

and fire engines and the loss of 500 firefighter jobs. -- it could be ?30

million that we need to find. We are determined that will not happen. We

ask the Home Office for an interview, they declined. London's

Fire Brigade will hope they do not get the same response when they ask

for money. STUDIO: A mother spent three hours

waiting in accident and emergency after having a miscarriage,

with her dead baby in her handbag. Tammy Anderson, who lives

in Dagenham, went to Queens hospital in Romford after losing her

baby that morning. Caroline Davies has

been speaking to her. What does the mother

say happened Carrie? I spoke with her earlier today,

she's has been speaking with newspapers and radio about this, she

says she feels this distressing experience she does not want any

body else to go through it, Tammy says that she found out in April

this year that she was pregnant, she then miscarried on the 13th of June,

at home. She called Queens Hospital in Romford and was originally told

to wait at home, later they said to come into the hospital, to come into

the maternity ward. Tammy said she did not want to go into the

maternity ward, she felt she could not make the journey, up a flight of

stairs, along a corridor, and for whatever reason, in her current

state, did not want to make the journey, she wanted to go to A

She went to Accident and Emergency, when she turned up there, she was

asked to wait in line. She called the maternity ward to let them know,

she subsequently waited in A for three hours. We have spoken to the

hospital as well, who have said that they really felt she should have

moved to the maternity ward, should have been treated there, that was

the best place for her, they tried to persuade her to move at the time.

The other thing to bear in mind, ANC is busy at the best of times, and

queens in Romford is known for having a particularly busy ANC. --

A This is a hospital that has come under scrutiny in the past. It

has come out of special measures because of A In 2013 they were

put under special measures, which means the hospital is not performing

to the level the inspectors would want, they brought in specialists

from outside to train them up. They decided as of March this year that

the hospital was in a state where it could continue on its own.

Historically people may remember the fact there was concerns over the

maternity wards there, several mothers died, it was found that

nurses could have done more to save them. Again, they have said those

services have turned around and they do not have concerns about them at

the moment. We do have a statement from the hospital as well, they have

said they are sorry to hear she had poor experiences and they continue

to monitor her situation. Lots more to come tonight,

including: the five-year-old fined by the Council for serving lemonade

to the neighbours, all because she did not have a licence.

Waterloo is the country's busiest rail station

but around half of it is going to be closed for almost

Passengers are being warned to expect major disruption

while improvement work is carried out and they've even been

Here's our Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards.

VOICEOVER: Waterloo deals with 99 million journeys a year.

But this August, nearly half of its platforms will be shut.

Commuters are being told to if possible change

Literally all I'm going to do is take the first train

and see what happens, and see how it goes from there.

Beyond that, if it means me taking a holiday, I will take a holiday.

I can work from home, so we can stay out of the way.

I'd rather not, but it will be a nightmare.

Some people will have to use it, it's a shambles, really.

And the impact will be felt down the line, stations

Clapham Junction will be much busier.

Upgrades to stations have hit problems previously,

Network Rail was heavily criticised after commuters suffered months

The mayor says the same thing can't happen here.

My message to the government is two things, one, properly

supervise these works, I'm afraid there are examples

where Network Rail has not provided a good service

Two, if it is the case that they overrun, the government

must provide speedy compensation to commuters, that is the incentive

for proper supervision and the incentive for these works

Waterloo is getting longer platforms.

So, it will be able to deal with thousands more passengers every

rush-hour, and to ease the congestion,

the old Eurostar platforms will be used for the first time in years.

There's never a good time to carry out such a large-scale project,

but we chose August because more people are away on holiday anyway.

The mayor has concerns it will not be.

We are working really hard and have comprehensive plans in place,

one of the most well planned projects that you come across,

we are really confident it will be delivered on time.

Waterloo is due to be finished by the end of 2018.

Passengers at Euston station are facing major disruption tonight

after someone was struck and killed by a train at Bletchley. Its

affecting some trains in and out of the station. Our reporter, Emma

North is at Euston and can tell us more.

At the moment ago we heard that there is disruption of the planned

kind at Waterloo but here it is unplanned, only a couple of hours

since schools broke up in London, inside Houston, very much the

feeling people want to get away for their holidays, in addition to the

usual hustle and bustle of Euston on a Friday night. Early on this

afternoon someone at Bletchley station was struck by a train and

died and Network Rail closed all of the lines coming into and out of

London, leading to huge delays at Euston, looking at the boards,

nothing coming in and nothing coming out. Network sale said a few moments

ago often the option is to cancel trains and start again. At about

6:10pm, one or two trains were announced, you saw people charging

to the platform to get to the first one they could. What should you do

if travelling tonight? Come to the station and try your luck or Network

Rail are saying, if you have a ticket out of Euston getting out or

coming into London, if you go to somewhere like King's Cross St.

Bankers, walk up the road, they will be accepting tickets, if you can

find a different way to make a journey, please do so. They say the

delays to the schedule will apply until 9pm tonight, but it does not

mean that everything will be back to normal. In actual fact, you will be

experiencing delays right until the end of today's service. Happy

holidays(!) -- if you go to somewhere like King's Cross St

Pancras, walk up the road, they will be accepting tickets.

Police are investigating the death of a young woman in Kingston. The

19-year-olds body was found three hours after she was reported

missing. Its being treated as a suspected honour killing. Another

woman, who was 21, was treated for slash wounds. Two men have been

arrested. A criminal investigation has been

launched after holiday-makers who left their cars with a parking firm

at Gatwick Airport returned to find the company had gone bust.

West Sussex Trading Standards said investigators were trying to find

the director of Gatwick First Parking Ltd. Police say more than

100 cars were found parked at various unsecured sites across West

Sussex and Surrey, including supermarket car parks and lay-bys.

Saima Ahmed disappeared from her home

She was reported missing, but police failed to follow

Five months later her body was found on a golf course in Edinburgh.

Today it was confirmed one senior police officer is to face

Two other officers will face sanctions.

She was a very kind, caring person, kept herself to herself, it was

completely out of character for her to leave home and not come home by

nine, 10pm, never out later than that, always let her parents know

where she was. VOICEOVER: To this day, Saima Ahmed's brother has no

idea why his sister disappeared, she was a librarian who cared for her

elderly parents, when she did not return home, the family reported her

missing the following morning. It was not until months later that her

remains were found here, in the grounds of a mansion, by a golf club

in Edinburgh, last year. Her brother told me how the Met failed to take

her disappearance seriously enough, they even had to find this CCTV

image, the last time she was seen alive, by himself, using his own

initiative, contact and perseverance. Today the police

regulator said that the fact that CCTV and other material was not

seized from the outset is reason enough to consider misconduct. It

may be the case that because the Met police refused to get it open, that

we may never know what happened. How does that leave the family?

Devastated. Ever since the body was found, police Scotland has led the

investigation and Martin Maclean has been the detective in charge, this

was his reaction to an acting chief inspector at the Met facing a

meeting, one less than a hearing, it means the officer will not be

sacked. Clearly mistakes may have been made but it is not for me to

comet upon them. It is easy with hindsight to say that if CCTV had

been gathered, that may have helped with the investigation and we may

have been in a different place but it was not and I am faced with a set

of circumstances I am faced with, and I have two proceed and execute

an effective investigation as best I can faced with whatever I am faced

with. For her brother, any recrimination is pointless, all that

remains important now is finding out how and why his sister died.

Still to come: playing video games is a sport in its own right, with

millions of people watching top gamers compete online. Tonight we

will be meeting some of the very best in the country, backing out for

hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of prize money here in London.

-- battling. What does one give the Queen of England for a present? An

elephant, two anteaters and a giant armadillo, they are not here, but in

a new exhibition, many of her other gifts are.

It's not exactly a good outcome for a

That's what happened to a five-year-old girl in Mile End,

who'd been selling cups of lemonade to festival goers.

Her father says his daughter burst into tears

when trading enforcement officers told her off not having a licence.

Yes this a story that's done incredibly well on social media,

and it's all over the news websites today.

It's this little girl who was selling 50p cups of lemonade

to Love Box festival goers in east London over the weekend.

She was approached by council enforcement officers

and they gave her dad the ?150 fine for trading without a licence.

Well he spoke to BBC Radio London earlier

and said he was shocked his daughter's lovely little

She was really proud of herself, she was really happy that she had made

other people happy, I think. And then, four enforcement officers

approached from the other side of the road, I was quite shocked, what

are they going to do, they turned on the mobile camera and began reading

through a legal script and saying, you have do have a trading permit,

etc, etc. My daughter ran in screening and said, daddy, I have

done a bad thing. The story has quite the reaction online:

I went out earlier and got reaction from people near Oxford Circus.

I don't know what to say, I'm speechless, ridiculous. She might

end up being one of our leading businesswomen, this is what we want,

we should be in courage in it. They did not need to be so harsh to her,

she is a little girl. Just having fun, and experience, just trying to

learn. That is an entrepreneur's dream ruined, now, what a shame.

Now Tower Hamlets Council has since cancelled the fine and apologised.

Let's get to the bottom of this, did she do anything wrong. Individual

council set their own rules, the government does give guidelines, it

says you have to contact the council to find out if you need a license to

trade, you then have two apply for it, telling them where and when you

want to trade, you might have do pay a fee. Tower Hamlets, the fee is

?75. The council can refuse to give you a license but if they grant one,

and you don't obey the conditions, you can be fined up to ?1000. In

summary, the council were well within their rights to issue that

fine but as they've admitted themselves, this was a bit of a

common sense fail. Does rather sound like it.

Now thousands of cricket fans will be at Lords this

and millions more will be tuning in from around the world.

England will play India in front of a sold out Lords on Sunday.

And a lot of the crowd will be women and young girls too.

VOICEOVER: If you want to see just how exciting women's World Cup

cricket can be, you only need to look back to England's semifinal

against South Africa, a match they won with just two balls to spare.

COMMENTATOR: Bold... She has done Ed! Shrub soul has done it for

England, they are into the Lord's World Cup final. -- bowled. --

Shrubsole has done it! VOICEOVER: And they will be playing India, who

they were beaten by in the opening match. Nice to be able to play them

again, we want to be able to put that right, the only team who have

lost here, to be able to play out here on Sunday and put that right

would be a really citing thing to do. Lord's has hosted a women's

World Cup final in the past, in 1993, England beat New Zealand here

to lift the trophy in front of an estimated crowd of 4500, this

Sunday, as well as millions tune in from around the world, this ground

is sold out, there will be over 26,000 cricket fans here, cheering

on both teams. Half of all of the tickets sold for the World Cup have

been bought by women, over one third have gone to fans under the age of

16, they have all been thoroughly entertained. Big scores, records

broken, the highest chases, highest runs scored, that is the kind of

cricket we want to portray, it shows women's cricket across the globe is

in a great state. England's women have a long history of winning

trophies in cricket, might they also win a few more fans by lifting

another World Cup this Sunday? Hopefully so!

Now, if you've got a teenager who spends endless hours

in their bedroom playing computer games, fear not, they may one day

E-sports is now considered a sport in its own right and some

of the very best gamers are here in London competing

for hundreds of thousands of pounds in prize money.

Chris Slegg joined some of them earlier, ahead of tonight's

It may seem strange to you why anybody would want to watch other

people playing video games, but believe me, many hundreds will be

here tonight, thousands more will be watching online, the teams

themselves will be competing on these consoles behind me, and the

players will be making quite an entrance out of this tunnel behind

me. We can meet one of the game is now, a lot of money at stake, one of

those competing, Confs, 24 years old, from Leyton, you will be

playing streetfighter five. Doesn't look like the healthiest sports to

me(!) you must spend many hours staring at a screen. Yes, and, well,

you could say there is a lot of repetitive strain injury, so you are

literally in the same position over and over again, repeating the same

moves, it can be detrimental to your health, but, it... You should know

when to take a break. Good luck tonight, I am sure you will have

many people cheering you on, this is a converted cinema, in full, the

G-Finity Arena, and it looks fantastic, Martin, the main

organiser, I understand football, rugby supporting, but I don't know

why you would follow this, how do you entice fancier. Same reasons,

the reason people go mad over people like Eric Cantona is because they

were fans of the way they played the game, like the guy you have just

met, people love him and watching because of the way he plays the

game, his personality, the easiest way to wrap your head around it,

think of your favourite sport, favourite team, apply the same

logic. Thank you very much. May seem quite odd to get your head around

for many of us but experts believe that by the turn of the decade,

e-sports could well be one of the top five most followed sports in the

world. STUDIO: A golfer from Bexleyheath

playing at The Open, is in a strong position to become

the top amateur. The former Dartford postman begins

his second round this afternoon. The 25-year-old who won

the European Amateur Championship to qualify needs a good

round if he's to continue More than 150 members

of his family and friends We are all together, all supporting

each other, it is just fantastic, people come out to watch them, they

have followed him for years. Family, friends, everyone around, it has

been amazing. Since 1993, the state rooms

at Buckingham Palace have opened to the public over summer,

and it happens again from tomorrow. This year, for the first

time there is a display dedicated to Princess Diana,

with rarely seen items It's to mark 20 years

since her death. Along with them, gifts

that The Queen has received on her travels around the world

in her 65-year reign. The exhibition reveals some

"interesting" presents from world heads of states,

as Wendy Hurrell reports. VOICEOVER: Millions come from all

over the world, and most will stop off here. Chances are, our Queen has

visited their country. She has made 250 overseas trips in her reign, and

it is custom to give and receive gifts, so there are thousands of

them, whittled down to 200 on show this summer. The box was full of

Pakistani sweets, I wonder how many Her Majesty eight. I like little

gurgle jugs, my dad got me one of those for Christmas. Not quite as

grand as those. -- ate. Financial wealth of the country's they come

from or shown off by these ornate gifts. Quite at home here under the

chandeliers. Some gifts are simple, a prayer shawl blessed by the Dalai

Lama. That is from Tibet. Elsewhere, handcrafted pieces from remote parts

of the globe, mapping the history of a well travelled Queen. The first

objects are from the Coronation and very early tours of the Commonwealth

in the 1950s right up to objects presented this year including just

last week, the most recent state visit, the 100 she has welcomed to

the United Kingdom. Gift-giving, as you will know at Christmas and on

birthdays, is not without its Harrell. A famous equation, the

president of South Africa presented her with a chess set which had been

lubricated, she did not know, by the predecessor, Nelson Mandela. --

which had been duplicated. That is not the only problem she may have

had, some of them were alive...! One of the disappointments of the

exhibition is there is no live animals, she had been given some 20

horses, apparently kangaroos, a ball, and even a sloth. -- bull. We

will never know what she thinks of any of them, she has had 65 years to

practice that polite smile one as when one receives a gift not to

one's taste(!) fairly pleasant day out there today,

reasonably warm, decent sunshine. This was taken by one of our weather

Watchers earlier on in the afternoon, we will see similar skies

through the afternoon, sunshine but also cumulus cloud around, and with

that, the chance of showers at times, some of them potentially

blustery and heavy, but not all the time, certainly some sunshine

around. Through this evening, we will see cloud thickening, and

overnight, some outbreaks of rain moving from West to East, tending to

Peter out, temperatures around 14, 15 degrees. Fresh start to Saturday.

Sunny spells, largely dry, by the afternoon, as the cloud increases,

chance of seeing some of those showers, even a rumble of thunder

possible by the time we get to the afternoon, in the morning, your best

bet in getting dry and bright weather, temperatures around 22

degrees. Moving through Saturday evening, chance of showers around,

they will be hit and miss, not everyone seeing the showers. Low

pressure in charge of the weather through the course of the weekend,

staying around on into Sunday but drifting further towards the

north-east. Sunday will probably see the better day of the weekend,

sunny, largely dry the course of the morning, fairly similar to Saturday,

again, chance of showers building jury the afternoon, the odd rumble

of thunder, perhaps some of the heavier showers. 22 degrees in the

sunshine should feel pleasant in between the showers. Looking through

into Monday, likely to start off a little bit cloudy and damp, breezy

as well, rain clearing away, and so on improving day for Monday,

returning to slightly sunnier, warmer conditions, 23 degrees. This

is how it is looking the next few days, if you showers, particularly

and Sunday afternoon, drying up and warming up a little bit into Monday

and Tuesday. A bit mixed, not too bad.

Always seems to get better on a Monday! That is all for now, I will

be back later on the 10pm news, but from all of the team, please do have

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