28/08/2017 London News


28/08/2017

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I'm Alice Bhandhukravi for the news where you are.

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As we've been hearing, Notting Hill Carnival

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is drawing to a close shortly and, overall, it's been a successful

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event, despite heightened concerns over security.

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Latest police figures suggest arrests are down on last year.

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And, for the second day running, respects were paid

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to the victims of Grenfell Tower, as Dan Freedman reports.

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It is carnival day two, and we are stowaways on board one

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We are on board Smoky Joe's Roadshow float.

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The noise is deafening, the bass is shaking my chest.

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But on the ground amongst the sequins is a security

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challenge heightened by

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an unprecedented year of terror in London.

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Things are developing, and so are our responses

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to the nature and extent of any possible threat.

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Clearly, we are using technology to support us

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And so we will use anything that is lawful

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and proportionate to help us keep communities safe.

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So far, arrests are down compared to last year.

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Anything could happen to anyone, anywhere.

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That is what terrorists want to do, be inside and make you afraid,

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We have our roots in the West Indies,

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whatever, but we see it as we are all one.

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Once again, today, at 3pm, the sound systems

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were silenced as a mark of respect for the victims of Grenfell.

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If you judge a community on how it responds in the

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face of terror and tragedy, then this community is passing that test

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Believe it or not, this is what Carnival looks like when it is

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coming to an end, quite a name down. There are literally thousands of

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people on the streets. We have had more than 1 million people here

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across the weekend. It is not even the world's biggest, that accolade

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goes to Rio. I have to say the weather here today, it has been

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warmer than Brazil. That is why the London Ambulance Service has been

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telling everyone to keep drinking as much water as possible. We have seen

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some incidences of people being carried to the ambulance and

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emergency service tents, clearly needing attention.

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Amidst the colour and costumes, the most poignant moment and memorable

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moment so far of Carnival 2017, when the sound systems quietened for a

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minute on both days at 3pm, and people turned their mind to the

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victims of them fell tower just half a mile from here.

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A teenage boy has died at the Reading Music Festival.

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Paramedics were called to a tent in one of the campsites,

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but the 17 year-old was already dead.

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Police say his death is being treated as "unexplained".

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Next, it's a martial art you may not have heard of.

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Gatka is combat training followed by Sikhs.

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Although traditionally fought with a sword, nowadays,

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competitions are less danberous, using wooden sticks to spar.

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Today, the national championships were held in Chigwell.

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In the red corner, and the blue, this is the Gatka UK Championship,

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Yes, gatka was introduced to the Sikh fold by the sixth

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This also meant not just physically or aggressively,

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but humbleness without service to mankind, without meditation,

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without forgiveness, without compassion, you can't

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The aim is to land the most hits on your opponent, and defend

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Hundreds of years old, it came to the UK 25 years ago.

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Now, there are thousands of practitioners, or gatka badge,

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It has taught us a lot of discipline, commitment.

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We made lots of friends while being here.

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It helps them stay connected to their roots.

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And the values that their parents would have taught us.

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Before I would look down on the floor.

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Now I can look them in the eye and have a proper conversation.

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It is watched over by the new MP for Slough, also president

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In other parts of the world, people looked to London for leadership.

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That is why we are holding this for the second year out

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of five, we have held the championship in London.

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I am hoping this annual event will go from strength to strength.

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And maybe the gatka champion of tomorrow

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We have been lucky with the glorious weather.

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I had given up in August, but a beautiful day.

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Now, a lovely evening as well with warm sunshine.

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Through the night, we will see some cloud in Kent and Sussex and Thames

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Estuary. Even one or two showers in the early

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hours, very warm, 17. More cloud to start, mist patches

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first thing. The afternoon brings more warm

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sunshine but not as hot as today. The mid-20s. Not so on Wednesday. A

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good deal fresher, rain moving up into the afternoon.

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We're back later in the Ten O'Clock News.

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The weather today has been pretty warm. Temperatures have got up to 28

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Celsius. It is the warmest late August bank

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holiday on record. We are just checking that. It was funny across a

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lot of the country but not everywhere. These are the

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temperatures at eight o'clock. Still 25 degrees in London. That shows how

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warm the areas across the UK. It will stay warm across England and

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Wales. To the north of this weather front which will bring some spots of

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rain to Yorkshire and Wales, it is a lot fresher with the air coming of

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the ocean. Tomorrow, a lot more cloud around

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