01/08/2017 London News

The family of a woman who suffered a heart attack on holiday warns

others about confusing travel insurance, as they face huge medical

The longer she is out there, it means that my sister has to stay

out there and we have to keep going backwards and forwards

The money is just going to get higher and higher.

An expert advises what to be aware of when buying insurance.

A second day of trouble at a Hertfordshire prison.

Reports prisoners with weapons seized control of a wing.

I will be live at the opera in Holland Park for a special charity

performance in memory of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire which

happened one mile up the road. And inside Europe's

biggest trainers festival - where some limited pairs,

believe it or not, fetch Good evening and welcome

to the programme. First tonight - a devastated family

have begun an urgent crowd funding campaign to get their mother back

home to east London after she suffered a suspected

heart attack in Turkey. We start tonight with a family

desperate to bring their mother back home to east London

after she suffered a suspected heart attack while on holiday in Turkey -

and the 62 year-old They've begun a crowd-funding

campaign because they're facing huge medical bills and the cost

of flying her home - all because of what they describe

as a simple mistake when taking Tolu Adayoye's report

starts with images some For ten days now, 62-year-old

Heather Pyke has been in a coma in a hospital in Turkey following a

suspected heart attack while on holiday with her two daughters and

granddaughter. It was horrible, me and my sister just broke down. My

poor niece was outside, with one of the translators. We had to put our

sunglasses on, because I did not want my knees to see how bad it was.

They discovered that their mother did not have travel insurance. She

had what is known as a European health insurance card, which gives

access to stay provided health care in EU countries, but Turkey is not

included. That was when the whole situation... I said, you can't help?

Can my insurer not help her? That is when it started from there. The

money will just get higher and higher. Did she make a mistake? I

think she must have done. My mum, obviously, she has never been good

with understanding stuff. About one quarter of British travellers go

abroad without insurance and today, experts warned of the need for

people to check before they travel. Am afraid it isn't unusual, people

go away and they do not have the EHIC card or do not understand that

a cover that the card provides. It only works in certain countries and

we have found out in this case it does not apply in Turkey. Wherever

you go, it is worth checking that you have a EHIC, everybody should

have won, it is applicable in the place you are going to but you

should underpin it with travel insurance. While a EHIC card

provides valuable health insurance cover, it does not provide the rest

of the benefits proper travel insurance world. Quotes are from

?22,000 to ?35,000. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office do not pay

medical bills or the costs of flying people home by air ambulance. The

family set up a Just Giving page to raise money. She is critical,

there's a chance she may not make it, another reason we have to get

her home. If anyone is going abroad, make sure you have travel insurance.

You don't know. Any situation that could occur... It is Ferran of

someone -- it is Ferran of someone may say, it will not happen to me,

but you do not know that. It was their first family holiday together

and one they will now remember for all the wrong reasons.

For a second day running there's been trouble

The BBC understands prisoners with weapons

seized control of a wing - and riot trained officers

Andy Moore is in Bovingdon with the latest.

The situation is now under control, we understand. This was the second

day of trouble in the prison, as you say. I arrived mid-afternoon and we

saw specially trained officers arriving, some in vehicles with blue

lights flashing and others in mini buses and coaches. They arrived

mid-afternoon in the last 30 minutes or so and they have been leaving

again. We don't have details about exactly what happened but BBC

sources have told us that there was a disturbance on the wing. Prisoners

managed to get hold of weapons somehow and took control of the

national wing. Officers retreated until members of the Tornado squad

arrived. There was another problem today and officers arrived again. It

took several hours to get the situation under control, nobody was

injured yesterday or today. Yesterday we had a report from an

independent monetary body, they said there were problems here with staff

shortages. Increasing amounts of drugs and increasing amounts of

violence. In the last 15 minutes we had a brief statement from the

Ministry of Justice. They say "Specially trained staff have

successfully resolve an issue at HMP The Mount. There were no injuries to

staff or prisoners. We do not tolerate violence in our prisons and

it is clear those responsible will be referred to police and could

spend longer behind bars". From the latest outside of the prison, thank

you. A former Roman Catholic priest -

already facing trial for historical sex offences -

has been charged with He taught at an independent school

in Ealing during the seventies. He's now accused of molesting

a total of ten boys That's right, Father Lawrence Soper

was first arrested in 2010 after the alleged victim -- one alleged victim

came forward. He skipped bail and went on the run in Italy. A European

arrest warrant was issued and a five-year manhunt issued across

various countries. He was eventually apprehended in Kosovo where he was

posing as a widowed author. He was extradited here and charged with

nine serious counts of sexual abuse against five boys dating back to the

1970s and 1980s. One boy was just 14 years old. A further five men have

come forward claiming he assaulted them in the same period, they were

under 16 at the same time and were all pupils at Saint Benedict School.

He is now facing 18 charges against ten alleged victims. And the school

has had a troubled history? Yes, in 2009 the former headteacher David

Pierce was convicted and jailed for eight years for a string of sex

offences. He was known as the Devil in the dog come and admitted abusing

five boys over a long period, 1972-2008, and his conviction

prompted others to come forward. Since then, there have been various

enquiries into the school. Lord Carlile lead an independent review

and the Vatican ordered a review in 2011. We could not find much on that

today, a source close to it said it was concluded some time ago but

never made public. We don't know the conclusions but there have been a

lot of changes at the school, it is cover education for boys and girls

now, and safeguarding procedures have been thoroughly reviewed, I am

assured, and they are very vigorous. As for Laurence Soper himself, he

appeared in court via video link today and was told when he appears

next Thursday at the Old Bailey that the Crown Prosecution Service will

try and put all of these charges together for one big trial which

could all happen as early as October. Marc Ashdown, thank you.

St John Ambulance has told this programme that more and more young

people in London are asking what they should do

It says teenagers have been seeking out first aiders

to ask what they should do if they or their

It is really important that you don't get contaminated too.

It is not your regular chat about first aid. Young people in north

London on the school holidays having a talk about what to do in the event

of an acid attack. St John's ambulance now include it as part of

their youth education programme. In addition to giving advice on knife

and gun shot wins. Are you to have be doing this in a city like London

with such young people? I am, surprised and disappointed. I teach

in schools every day and I hear about lots of different things

happening to our young people. This is the biggest shocker, I believe.

We do a lot around gunshot and knife wounds but acid attacks are so very

damaging and the deterioration can happen so quickly. It isn't that it

is local, it happens to anyone and everyone for no reason. You could be

selected for no reason, just because you were closest at the time.

Because it is so random, it makes it a scary situation. Unfortunately

what she said can be quite useful and it's unfortunate we have to

learn about that and it could be implement it by us. If it does

happen, and hopefully it doesn't, I would know how to help someone.

Instead of feeling very useless in that situation. In the last month

alone, there have been 12 alleged acid attacks in the capital. Other

emergency services like the London Fire Brigade and police say they are

working together to respond to the increase. It has been suggested by

the Met police that the latest increase in acid attacks is partly

due to the stronger legislation around possession of a knife.

Politicians have argued that carrying a corrosive substance also

now needs to be banned. Back in Islington, those supporting young

people at this youth club say legislation isn't the only answer to

tackling this worrying trend. This is one of those things where I think

policy often tries to get indirectly by putting a ban on acid, for

example. These are often linked to other social problems which run

deeper. In order to sort it out, you know, the most recent trend of

violence, we need to start tackling some of the serious issues we face

as a society. St John Ambulance say they do not want to increase anxiety

among young people but give them practical information, to reduce

potential damage inflicted by acid and feel more empowered on the

streets. One of the companies at the centre

of the Grenfell Tower disaster has appointed

a new interim chief executive. Kensington Chelsea Tenant

Management Organisation was heavily criticised by residents

in the aftermath of the fire. Frankie McCamley is in

North Kensington tonight. We have had the announcements that

Elaine Elkington will be the new chief executive of the Tenant

Management Organisation which ran the Grenfell Tower. She is taking

over Robert Black, who steps down back in June. He said he wanted to

concentrate on helping the ongoing police investigation into the fire,

as well as the public enquiry. Her appointment hasn't gone down too

well so far. That is mainly to do with a statement that she issued

following her appointment, which read that she was looking forward to

working with our resident led board and with staff to move the

organisation forward at a business critical time and supporting our

desire for continued service improvements. Now, you may notice

that she does not specifically mention the Grenfell Tower in the

statement, and that has caused a lot of anger and upset from resident

groups I have spoken to. Some have called for her to step down already.

One resident group said that it is very sad that she is seeing it as a

business critical time and not people critical. Someone else told

me that they were calling for the organisation to be dissolved and

they are disappointed it feels like this company is carrying on as

normal. Not a good start for a company at the centre of a police

investigation and a company the Metropolitan Police already has

reasonable grounds to suspect they have committed corporate

manslaughter. And another victim has today been named? Yes, that is

correct, one of the youngest victims to have died in the Grenfell Tower

fire, two-year-old Jeremiah Deen, who lived on the 14th floor

alongside his mother, one of 18 there. 32-year-old Zainab Deen also

died in the fire. A statement from the family thanks everyone for their

support, and the statement says "You spent a moment in our arms but a

lifetime in our hearts". Frankie, thank you.

Well we know that the public response after Grenfell

Tonight, another fundraiser is happening in nearby Holland Park.

It's a special opera performance and Alice Bhandhukravi is there...

That's right, people have already started to a ripe for the

performance that started at 8pm this evening. It isn't part of their

summer season but for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. We can

speak to the Director of opera here. Tell us about the performance? It's

an exciting and emotional day. We've been rehearsing a piece of music

which is very operatic, and a fitting tribute to the people

involved in the disaster. This is a tragedy which has struck

particularly close to home for you, hasn't it? Not only are we in

Holland Park only one mile from where the tragedy happened but one

of your members of staff was affected? It is only about a mile

away, we had to react to losing one of our close members of staff, who

had been with us for many years, it had a double effect. We are very

embedded in our community but also losing a personal friend as well.

Even more reason to do something like this. And what would you say to

the critics who would point out that this opera, in Holland Park, was

funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, at the same

time as, they would argue, the same borough neglected housing in the

borough, especially for those in the north where the Grenfell Tower is?

We haven't received any money from the council since 2015 and secondly,

I do not think it is an either or situation. Both can be funded by a

local authority or government, and there was never a choice, it wasn't

the last piece of money the council had. But it was a council run

service and in 2015 they gave you a final amount to live on for a short

space of time. Do you understand the criticism that some people may say

that actually opera is less important than decent housing? I

would agree with that as well, of course, but there's no reason why we

can't have both. That is our point. Also, our opera company is embedded

in the community, we do a lot of work in the community and Rugby

Portobello, we fight with them for ten years, and raised half ?1

million with them over the years, we will continue to work with them and

are proud of that. Thank you. As James said, they have worked with

the Rugby Portobello Trust over the last few years and all proceeds will

be going to them in aid of the victims of the fire. Alice, thank

you. The borough which fined a five year

old girl for selling lemonade on the pavement has now been

criticised for fining a bike shop for provided a free bike

pump on the pavement. Tower Hamlets said the pump outside

the shop in Shoreditch But they've since allowed the pump

to stay after the shop agreed to move it three yards around

the corner. And if you'd like to join

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Tuesday evening... Did John Terry do anything wrong

in this 'controversial moment' in his last match -

which led to thousands of pounds And the back and I have the weather

forecast. Let's say tomorrow may not be the best day of the week to

chance it without an umbrella... Death masks go back hundreds -

if not thousands of years - and were a way of preserving

the face of the deceased forever. Beethoven, Oliver Cromwell

and Napoleon all had them made shortly after their deaths -

and now it appears they're starting Gareth Furby has been to meet

a specialist in Highgate, who's taking orders for the masks -

from people who've lost loved ones. So you've got the guy laying

here dead and I literally just pour it out of the bowl,

and the whole of his head is literally covered in this thick

blue moulding substance. This was the former

manager of a Soho club. The mask was commissioned

by his friends. That's exactly how he

looked when he died. And as you can see, it

picks up every detail. Nick Reynolds says he's now made

almost 100 death masks. The thing is, I only tend

to remember the famous people But reminders, copies

of some of the masks, This was a guy that was executed in

Texas for a crime he didn't commit. I mean, it's the first

time I've done a corpse And in the kitchen,

which is Nick's workshop, One so recent, we've been

asked to hide the face, The last two I've

done have been young. You know, if you've got children,

and I've got two boys as well. But Nick says a death mask helps

some people deal with their grief. When somebody dies,

their loved-ones are still alive. They'll look at the photograph,

whatever, they'll have a weep. It is not three-dimensional,

it does not have any weight. Some people take the death

mask to bed with them. They wake up in the morning,

roll over and bingo, But they are tremendous cathartic

tools and they help people come I have had moments of, you know,

of just talking to it, you know. Joe Corre, who runs the company

Agent Provocateur, commissioned Nick to make a death mask of his father,

the artist and performer I keep that out on top

of the cupboard with one A copy of the mask is now

in Highgate Cemetery. It was made while his body lay

in a morgue in Chalk Farm. My exact thought, I walked in,

wow, that's Malcolm, Nick's masks can cost

upwards of ?2,000. The Highgate Cemetery Trust

says if more death masks are more being made,

it would be good to about whether the former Chelsea

captain did anything wrong in his last match for the club -

because there was a controversial Yes, John Terry has since signed for

Aston Villa but in his last game for Chelsea against Sunderland, he asked

both teams to make sure the ball was out of play in the 26th minute, to

coincide with the ball he wore for several years, so he could be

substituted and could be given a guard of honour. He saw it as a

fitting tribute for his near 20 years service at the club. People

would say, is this a big deal? You can see why people would say that

but a lot of people got wind of the idea and put money on it on the

timing of substitutions. Thousands of pounds was paid out, one customer

got odds of 100-1 on a ?25,000 -- on a ?25 bet. The integrity unit has

looked at this that there was no attempt to deliberately spot fix, so

John Terry and others have no case to answer. And it's a different

outcome to a similar case earlier this year? Yes, Wayne Shaw, Sutton's

reserve goalkeeper, dubbed himself the roly-poly goalie. He weighs 13

stone, and he became famous, and because of his weight one bookmaker

offered odds of 8-1 that he would be seen eating a pie on live

television. People that odds on it, and he was seen eating a pie and was

charged with intentionally influencing a betting market. It

appears like double standards but the FA needs to judge each case on

its merit and John Terry has no case to answer.

Trainers - something you wear or a collectors item?

Well, for footwear fanatics it's big business.

So much so, that Europe's biggest sneaker festival takes

place in east London - with some pairs fetching thousands.

Thousands of sneaker-heads, over 250 stalls, and a lot of cash.

Here in Brick Lane, I'm surrounded by footwear fanatics.

Buyers and sellers, there's everything from ?15 trainers to high

The international market for shoes like these

is estimated at ?40 billion, so I've come to Europe's biggest

sneaker festival here in London to find out why this kind

of footwear is so popular and lucrative.

My shoe size is a size 13, I haven't found any in my size yet.

I buy shoes and then resell them, I'm trying to make myself

We have interest in Yeezy and stuff like that.

We are trying to get them for retail and then sell them.

Celebrity endorsements, collaborations and limited editions

have all played their part in turning sneakers

Buyers and collectors are now making the most of the resell market,

estimated to be worth nearly ?1 billion.

We have resellers here but the event started out for collectors

who wanted to get rid of a few pairs.

Ronal Raichura co-founded the event in 2009 when he left

It grew from being like 200 people to 5000 people.

Buyers from around the world fly into London for this event

and they are willing to pay big money.

I think I made around the four grand mark.

From celebrities to teenagers and the very, very young,

more and more people are cashing in on the growing sneaker industry.

With some resellers making thousands of pounds of profit per pair,

I feel like I'm wearing the wrong footwear now! Let's get a look at

the weather. The Thursday August, is this a sign of things to come? Well,

it's a sign of something to come! It was a day of skies across London.

Pink for an early morning dog work in Feltham -- dog walk.

And puffy clouds set off nicely in South Croydon. But the cumulus

clouds built up into grey clouds as far as King's Cross, but most

showers fell north and west, and around into Essex as well. So, I

think the grey skies we see tomorrow, it will be largely cloudy,

breezy and the rain will be setting in as we go through the day. In the

Atlantic, a lovely swell of cloud, picked out on the picture. Pushing

towards us as we speak. And as it does so, a real squeeze on the ice

bars, and the rain comes in as well. As it sweeps through during tomorrow

evening and through the night, there will be heavy bursts of it before it

finally clears on Thursday morning. At the moment, we have quite nice

conditions. A couple of showers around, dying out quickly, and some

sunshine before it sets. Then it is largely dry with some cloud

beginning to creep in. It will be slightly warmer than last night with

temperatures of 13-15d. If you are up really early and live in the east

of London there will be some brightness but quite a lot of clout

from the word go. This breeze picks up and as the rain moves them, it's

light and patchy at first. On and off across London and the Home

Counties but through the afternoon it will be persistent and there will

be heavy bursts of rain working through as well. It's a cool day of

17-19d, the rain stays with us overnight into Thursday and then we

refer to what we had at the start of the week. On Thursday, a risk of

showers and sunny spells, fewer showers through Friday and at the

weekend, if I go out for one day over the weekend without an

umbrella, I bet on Sunday. I will hold you to that, Wendy. Thank you.

British Gas is to increase electricity prices by twelve

It means an average customer's bill will go up

60 people have died in the UK in the last eight months

after taking the painkilling drug Fentanyl.

The National Crime Agency says a further seventy deaths

A second disturbance in less than 24 hours at a prison in Hertfordshire

has been brought under control. Yesterday, rioting lasted several

hours and around 50 cells were damaged. That's all for now, I will

be back with the late News at 10:30pm on BBC News. You are always

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goodbye.