28/07/2017 London News

Tonight on BBC London News - an exclusive report.

This is data protection against possibly child abuse

or whatever, and it's just left here.

We reveal how hundreds of confidential files,

including child protection documents, have been dumped

Now a support group for child sex abuse victims says the documents

I think about those care files being people, human beings,

and I think about their stories being left in just any situation,

The Crossrail worker crushed to death by concrete.

The Mayor pledges millions of pounds to turn London's black cabs green,

by persuading drivers to ditch their dirty vehicles.

And back on track - London's historic postal service

tunnels are reopened as a tourist attraction.

Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.

So, we start tonight with an exclusive report.

BBC London has discovered that hundreds of confidential documents,

some relating to child protection, have been dumped in

an unlocked storeroom on an estate in south London.

The papers show names and addresses, and now a survivors' group

for child sex abuse victims in Lambeth has contacted us,

saying the hoard could include files relating to abuse at a local

Concerned resident Mitchell Krishnan contacted BBC London

But on closer inspection, it was clear the documents

Lambeth ACPC child protection interagency protection...or

This is data protection against possibly child abuse or whatever.

The piles of Lambeth Council paperwork have been stored

in the unlocked ground floor storeroom as long

They also include names and addresses of families

It's a disgusting thing, that it's just left here

for anybody, like myself, and yourself to be able to see this

information and possibly use it in an horrible,

ugly way that it possibly it could be used in.

It's not, it's not being protected while it's exposed like this, is it?

We took some of the documents to a leading solicitor on data

This is very serious from the council's perspective...

He's worked for the Australian government and the Obama

administration in the US, advising on data protection issues

and says this kind of security failure is being taken increasingly

seriously by the courts under the Data Protection Act.

Organisations have very serious responsibilities around

the data that they hold and the data they create.

So if a local council were to just dispose of data in a basement

or in a way that's inappropriate, that would probably breached

Watching BBC London's report on the dumped documents

He was a victim of abuse at Shirley Oaks children's home

in Croydon, and leads the survivors group.

He says he's been told by Lambeth Council 140 boxes

of documents have gone missing relating to the case.

He wants to be sure these files were not left in this store room.

I think about those care files being people, human beings,

and I think about their stories being left just in any situation,

But we also think about what we believe has been a cover-up,

and it's consistent with what we know Lambeth have done

They've been removed from council buildings and just locked

The physical and sexual abuse of children at Shirley Oaks

while in the care of Lambeth Council, was said to be

on an industrial scale, stretching back to the 1960s.

A former detective working on the case then says this

It's imperative that the history of these documents

How did they arrive in the basement of this tower block?

Who actually put them there, and what was the reason for these

sensitive documents being placed in effectively an insecure basement?

Because the continuity and integrity of that documentation could be

the difference between a successful or a failed conviction at court.

It will be a painstaking job, going through these files,

but there are many people who want questions answered.

How did they get to this store room and why?

Well, let's find out what Lambeth Council

Yes, I first saw these documents with my own eyes earlier in the

week. I thought it would be fair to Lambeth Council to allow them enough

time to come onto this programme and talk in person about as much as they

could about how these documents got there and how seriously they were

taking it. But they have chosen to respond with a statement, the nub of

which is they've thank the BBC for alerting them. These documents have

now been taken to a safe and secure place owned by the council and they

are being reviewed very efficiently. I just want to reduce this part of

the statement word for word. They say"...

So no full answers yet, but this investigation is continuing. Back to

you. I know you are keeping a close eye on this, thank you.

That BBC London exclusive is our top story this evening,

but there's still lots more to come on the programme - so don't go away.

A row over the future of this historic chapel,

honouring soldiers who fought in the Battle of Britain.

Three firms, jointly working on Crossrail,

have been fined ?1 million over the death of a worker

and two other incidents in which workers were injured.

The family of 43-year-old Rene Tkacik, who died

after being crushed by falling concrete, has described

This was not the outcome Rene Tkacik's mother Marta wanted -

a ?300,000 fine for the Crossrail contractor BFK, for failing

Marta says, "I am very disappointed with the sentence.

In the year that BFK killed Rene, their turnover

The fine will not have any impact on them.

We were an ordinary family, living ordinary lives.

Rene was the centre, the heart and soul of our family.

As Rene's mother listened to proceedings via an interpreter,

the judge said the fines he imposed do not and cannot reflect

They said the deceased was a very talented and industrious man,

who dedicated his life to his family, his wife,

When a tonne of wet concrete fell on Rene Tkacik in March 2014,

he was so deep underground it took an emergency team six minutes

The 44-year-old Slovakian was fully trained nozzle man; using a device

like this to spray concrete onto the tunnel walls in Holborn.

He then made a fatal error, walking underneath the still wet

There's an understanding within health and safety law that

people will make mistakes and people do make errors.

There is a legal duty on individuals to look after themselves

to look after others, but the primary responsibility

The area underneath the wet concrete should have been roped off.

Today at Southwark Crown Court, the company were told to pay more

than ?1 million for failures that allowed the death of Rene Tkacik

and the injury of two other men in separate incidents in 2015.

Crossrail say safety has always been and continues

BFK say they send their sincerest sympathies to all the families,

friends and colleagues of the individuals involved.

A man has been arrested following an acid attack

in East London which left two people with life-changing injuries.

The two men were taken to hospital on Tuesday after a noxious substance

was thrown at them on Roman Road in Bethnal Green.

A 23-year-old was arrested on suspicion of causing

A computer hacker, who masterminded global cyber attacks

from his bedroom in Hertfordshire, has had his sentence reduced.

Adam Mudd from Kings Langley created a programme which was used to carry

The 20-year-old was jailed for two years in April,

but a judge reduced his term to 21 months, saying the original

punishment was "too tough", after pleading guilty.

Plans for a multi-million pound museum to be built at the historic

RAF Chapel at Biggin Hill, have met fierce opposition

They don't like the design for the museum,

Sonja Jessup has the story and joins us from Biggin Hill.

Yes, St George's Chapel behind me is a very special place for many

people. It's not actually the museum that has upset them, the idea of

that, but the design itself. The council insists its ?5 million plan

for a museum around the Chapel will help safeguard its future. Just two

years ago the Chapel was under threat of closure. The MOD decided

to stop funding but the campaigners are not convinced.

The tiny St George's Chapel at Bigging Hill airfield remember

those who went out against the enemy and did not return...

Built with backing from Sir Winston Churchill,

St George's Chapel is a memorial to the airmen who lost

John Nelson remembers watching the Battle of Britain over Biggin

I particularly remember the aircraft taking off from the airfield.

They took off at the end of the runway here they turned sharp

left to vanish over the top of Tatsfield Church,

and on the way they passed our windows at eyelevel.

You could actually see the pilots in the aircraft as they went by.

But John's among thousands of people who signed a petition

against plans to build a museum around the Chapel.

The local council's approved the scheme, saying it will protect

The vision is about remembering the few and honouring the many,

not just the pilots that fought out there in the Second World War

but all those local residents that have been not forgotten,

but now can be set down in memory and on film for the future,

Campaigners say that's all very well, but called

We all want a museum, it's long overdue for begin

but our concerns are that the current

design is totally wrong, it is inappropriate in its design,

it is not sympathetic and there is a huge public feeling

Brian Philp, who served in the RAF, says the design

This is a special memorial chapel, dedicated to nearly 500 young

airmen that took off from here and never returned.

It's a sacred place and it deserves its sanctity

Campaigners have backed an alternative plan for a museum.

They say this way the vestry wouldn't have to be demolished.

It part of the listed building and it's not,

as has been alleged, a recent addition.

It was built in 1990, which makes it 27 years old now.

It's been there for half the life of the Chapel.

The council insists the new museum will open in November next year.

Campaigners say their fight will continue.

Next, to the Mayor's battle against air pollution,

and Sadeeq Khan's aim to turn London's polluting

He's giving over ?40 million to help make it happen,

with the money being offered as an incentive for cabbies

to ditch their diesel vehicles for electric ones.

But the body representing drivers says it's not nearly enough,

At the moment, we only have one choice of vehicle? Yes, only one

choice of electric vehicle you will be a bid to buy... It's the ?42

million carrot, London's cabbies are learning more about what help they

will get to make their black cabs go green. In a little over six years,

the site of the diesel powered blackcap on the streets of London

will be a thing of the past, but the journey isn't straightforward to get

there and although London's cabbies agreed the change does need to

happen, they want it to be worth their while. Earlier this year

every black cab driver was offered money to help pay for a new electric

vehicle. We've been given ?7,500 towards the cost of the vehicle we

still don't know the price of. Anyone who buys the electric vehicle

is given ?5,000 so in reality we only get an extra ?2500 to buy a

commercial vehicle. Of that ?2500, because of changes in the last

budget, I will take ?2500 from the mayor, giving Philip Hammond back

?1500 of and the end result is we end up with ?1000 towards buying a

vehicle that is likely to cost something like ?60,000. Now a second

incentive has been offered to help cabbie selling on that old vehicles.

If you have a taxi that is ten years old, you would decommission in

London and get ?5,000 in subsidy from the Mayor. For an 11-year-old

cab you would get ?4000, for a 13-year-old cab... And so on down to

the minimum of ?1000. The problem is when you decommission a vehicle in

London, you are going to select outside of London where it can still

be used as a taxi. The values outside of London have dropped

massively. The London mayor said our air is Tilsley, just under 10,000

people die year because of the pollution. The new taxi will cost

between 50- ?60,000, ?5,000 discount isn't going to help. What we need to

see is transport for London using their power to bulk by taxis to get

the price down to make them affordable for ordinary taxi driver.

When it comes to wear these new electric caps will be charged, the

LT DA took us to what they claim is the only rapid charging point in

central London that you don't need to pay to get to. We have to try and

put this into a working day. Exactly. Invest in a tea stall. I

guarantee that tea stall will be open longer hours? 24,000 chewing

queueing up to George. If they can't afford a cab, at least they can

consider a new career... It is 6:45pm. This is BBC London

News on BBC One. Still to come... After the success of our cricket

team, we meet the harlequins centre hoping to lead England to glory at

England's World Cup campaign. The skater that has gone from

skipping school to collaborating on art works with Damien Hirst, or

before the age of 20. It's called Mail Rail

because for 75 years, a network of railways ran under

the streets of London, used by Royal Mail to

sort - all our post. The system was closed

almost 15 years ago, but now it's back-on-track -

as a tourist attraction. Throughout its 500 year history,

the Royal Mail's mission has And now down the chute,

into the vans... To harness technology of the day,

to deliver letters and parcels as quickly and accurately

as possible is full. This new Postal Museum shows how

deliveries have evolved. But by the early 20th century,

the mail stystem in London faced two big problems; heavy fog

caused by smoke billowing In 1927, this underground

rail network opened. On the Post Office tube railway,

25,000 mail bags a day travel through 6.5 miles of tunnels below

crowded city pavements... For 75 years, unmanned trains

shuttled mail between two railway stations,

Liverpool Street and Paddington. Passengers will soon be able to ride

specially adapted trains It was a really important part

of moving the mail and speeding up It was essential to allowing that

communication to happen quickly. Its running costs were deemed too

high; transporting mail above ground This is one of the mail platforms,

this is where the trains would have stopped and the mail would have been

loaded into the containers. The suddenness of the system's

closure also surprised many. It almost looks like

it was abandoned. The equipment was

all left down here. Newspapers and things like that

still laying around. All the trolleys, the trains

were still down here. Soon to become a quirky visitor

attraction, for some mail rail has The Postal Service really

is the first social network. Keeping people in touch,

allowing people to stay in touch It was important that the speed

was important, and that's what mail rail was about,

speeding that system up. Tim Masip reporting. What an

incredible ride that must be. Days after England won

the Women's Cricket World Cup, England's Women's Rugby Union Team

are favourites to win But even if they do, the players

won't have their professional contracts renewed -

and that's threatening Chris Slegg has been speaking

to one of England's most experienced players -

Rachael Burford. At this year's Six Nations,

England swept all before them Harlequins centre Rachel Burford has

played in three already, including the last one in France,

which England won. I just remember there was a pivotal

timing of when we knew that they wouldn't be able to come

back, because we knew we were about to celebrate

being world champions. Just running on, screaming

"World Cup" at each other, I remember I was between laughing

and crying, like not knowing With Johanna Konta having become

the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon semifinals for 39

years, and England's cricketers claiming the World Cup on Sunday,

our rugby players are determined to extend the feel-good

factor into late summer. It's fantastic seeing how good

women's sport's going a moment and we want to join that,

and be a part of that and make sure that we try and keep the momentum

of women's sport in the limelight. But are England's female rugby

players getting a raw deal? Even if they win the World Cup,

again, their contracts end after the tournament as the RFU

switches funding to the sevens. The RFU announced record revenues

of more than ?400 million last year, and has been forced

to defend its position. I understand if you see

a part of the strategy, you say oh that's not fair somehow

to a small group of people. I'm looking at the whole

game and saying, how can we move the women

and the girls came forward? How can we have a strategy

which means we have sustainable Has it made life a bit uncertain

for you and some of your team-mates? No, I think we've known

for a while and we've gone into all of our preparation focusing

on what we do up until September, and then players will have their

plans ready for post-World Cup. England had to Ireland

at the end of next week. On August 9th against Spain

in Dublin, their quest for more Ride London has started - with more

events planned over the weekend. There are a series of routes

open to professional and amateur cyclists,

depending on their ability, It means lots of road

closures in place, which you can check out

on the Transport for London website. London has a tradition of producing

talented young artists, but not many of them can say they've

worked with the likes of Damien Hirst, run

their own fashion label, and professionally skateboard

as part of their art. Well, meet Blondey McCoy - who can

boast all those things and more. Wendy Hurrell has been

to meet him where it all began, I smashed my face on the floor,

just at eyelevel, I could watch it. It came out root and all and bounced

in front of me, so now My sister was kind enough to just

put hobnobs in the blender But skating has also been

a gateway for Blondey McCoy, to make valuable contacts,

channel his compulsive creativity This is where I came when I was

meant to be anywhere else. Like school, or home or just

with any other sort of prior commitments or anything,

it's where I ran away from it all and straight

into everything else. Everything else being going pro

with Palace Skateboards, being the creative director

of his own skate wear brand and putting on his fifth

solo show as an artist, So, over to the white walls

of Soho's Heni Gallery, It's self reflective

and explores his personal experience The whole sort of show

is about getting out of bed It clearly was, for one

work in particular. This is in collaboration

with Damien Hirst, and it's called Beautiful Chemically Imbalanced

Painting. You could not recreate

this if you tried. I mean, you could pick the same

colours and throw them, but really you don't know how it'll

turn out until the very end, so to get these blues,

which really match up with the reds It's like the stars have

aligned on this one. So this young Londoner is going

places, on four tiny little wheels. What an incredibly talented young

man. Reminds me of someone else I know... No, no, it's not you,

I was getting worried there! You want to know about the weekend, of

course. Let's move on, probably best.

Not what you're hoping for this weekend if you have it off, unlike

me. Cool breeze, some sunshine and it will be warm in the sunshine but

some rain around as well. This picture taken by one of our weather

watchers in Plumstead. Some early sunshine this morning, but you can

see how the cloud has been increasing. We have lived a charmed

life at the Oval for the cricket, not much rain at all but some

arriving this evening, properly by about nine o'clock or not before. It

will linger until the early hours of the morning on and off and then

things calm down a bit towards the end of the night as skies begin to

play. Temperature is not particularly on the low side, 14-15.

As we head into tomorrow, we start with some early sunshine. Make the

most of that because the rain will be sitting through the English

Channel and move northwards again, probably around lunchtime, and

continue into the afternoon. There could be some heavy bursts of rain.

Before the rain arrives, temperatures might get as high as

201121, not exciting for this time of year. This weather front is

bringing the rain, starting to strengthen as we head into the

evening hours tomorrow evening. Some heavy bursts of rain but by the time

Assad is out of bed it will be dry and there will be some sunshine

around and it will be a decent start to the day. Back to square one like

the other day, westerly winds, bright London goes into the Surrey

Hills on this is where the showers are coming from, some of those

showers could be heavy and thundery. As we head into the beginning of

next week, it will be dry for the most part. A similar range of

temperatures but the risk of some further blustery showers. Thank you.

By the time I get out of bed on Sunday!

A recap of the headlines... Charlie Gard, whose parents fought a battle

to treat him in the United States for a red genetic condition, has

died. The BBC understands that at least 60

buildings have failed an official fire safety test in which insulation

and cladding, of a similar type fitted to Grenfell Tower,

were analysed for the first time. The only buildings named so far

are in the north of England. The Chancellor, Phillip Hammond,

has said there's broad agreement in Cabinet that there should be

a transition period of up to three This programme has discovered

hundreds of confidential files, some relating to child protection,

dumped on a south London estate. That's it, we'll have more

on our exclusive story about confidential files

being dumped on an estate in south I hope you can join me

on BBC One for that. Bolt is a shining example

of the best that we can be. A man like him

is not born very often. There's just so much work

to get to that one moment, Ahead of his final race,

the inside story of the fastest man. God put me on this Earth to run

and that's what I'm going to do.