01/09/2017 London News

after heavy monsoon rains across parts of South Asia. That is it. I

will be back The families who dreamt

of a better quality of life on the water but it turned

out to be anything but. Such a dark time. It was not what it

seemed. It has been very difficult. It's all because of this man -

who sold them luxury houseboats that turned out

to be worthless. Now a court says he has

to pay nearly ?2 million. As children

head back to school, a warning that London faces

a shortage of 34,000 secondary QPR coaches help the children

of Grenfell through sport. I want to feel how it is in the

community and have good support and know that people are there for me.

Good evening and welcome to the programme.

First tonight - the million pound designer

houseboats that were unlawful to live on.

Families invested in the luxury river homes houseboats

on the Thames in Hampton - only to find out after they bought

them that they were worthless - as they didn't have planning

Today after a lengthy civil case - the High Court ruled

that the developer had misrepresented the rights to live

on board, and that the families must be paid back.

Gareth Furby has this exclusive report.

This is how it was sold, a luxury lifestyle on board designer house

boats on the Thames River near Hampton Court. But it was all a

fantasy. Because there was no planning permission for anyone to

live here permanently. Now, following a civil court case, the

developer behind this fantasy can be exposed. Even though as he has made

perfectly clear, he does not like our cameras. This is make, a

developer who promised to make dreams come true but left his

customers with only nightmares. It was such a dark time. It was not

what it seemed. It has been very difficult. Let's start with Jennifer

and her family who saw their five bedroomed home to buy a house but at

Hampton Riviera cause they thought it would mean a better life. We

really excited to be involved in the development of a new Riverside

Marina and unity. This divisions details described a stunning home.

For 1.2 men and hands. 125 year mirroring lies included. It was

built by their specific issues. It doesn't look like a health board at

all. After they moved in, they discovered there was no planning

permission for residential development at all. If they stayed

on, they would be living there unlawfully. We sank into a pit of

despair. When we first met the family, they had had to move into a

rented home but right next door to the boat yard so they could keep an

eye on their expensive investment. It is just over there. The closest I

could get it was the peak of the gates. That is our house that we

built but we cannot live in. There was also a view from a nearby

bridge. Standing here looking at it, I feel absolutely heartbroken. It

was sold in mirroring license that does not exist. These people have

had their lives destroyed by this man. When these properties were

sold, people were not aware of the fact that they had no equal rights

to live within them. There was no legal residential planning

permission granted. It is the torment that goes with it, this man

is so controlling. Vivian and her husband want get any money back

because they were not involved in the civil case but they also bought

a house but, spending ?850,000. Again, a few months after moving in,

found out it had no residential mooring rights. They have now had to

make it nine miles upriver to find land where they can more and that

has cost them a further ?360,000. It is really only when we got away from

it, from that poisonous atmosphere, but you realise what a scam it

actually was. They are now having to rebuild their home because it had to

be taken apart for the move. Another big expense. We had to cut the roof

off to get it under the bridge. Never ever want it to happen to us

or anybody else. It has ruined our lives. This mould have now moved

their boat away from Hampton Riviera but it is not a solution. This is

it, we cannot live on it here because there is no residential

permission. Their house but is so large, it plays tomorrow weather can

live on board the cost them at least ?500,000. That is if they can find

one. The future is so uncertain because we just don't know whether

we will be able to live in our home again. ?150,000. Everything we had.

Fiona and her family also bought into this nightmare. The boat they

spend more than half ?1 million on is still at Hampton Riviera. The

only lived on board for a few weeks. After 5.5 weeks, we met with a

member of the Richmond Council who told us there is no mirroring

rights. Absolutely traumatic, it has affected our help. I just want him

out of our life. I want to wake up and not have to think about and over

again. Would you like to apologise to anyone? Throughout this case in

the High Court, the developer seen here in an orange jumper, maintained

he had done nothing wrong and claimed there were historic rights

to live at the marina. The judge dismissed that claim. Now he will

have to repay approaching ?2 million.

And Gareth this is a case you've been

Yes and it really has been a very difficult two years for the people

fighting this battle and if you look behind me tonight and this boat

yard, you can perhaps see how they were taken in by this dream. It

really is a beautiful part of London, very peaceful. It could have

been very special, but it didn't work out like that. Perhaps a lesson

to take away from this is just as you do careful checks when you buy a

house on land, you may have to do even more careful checks when you

buy one on what. Do not just take the words of the person you are

buying from. What the families are hoping is that this money almost ?2

million, will now be repaid without any further records to the courts.

We will find out if that happens in the next few months but for now,

from this tainted Thames riverside view, back to you.

You're watching BBC London News, coming up later.

How technology and artificial intelligence is changing health

Now, as families prepare to go back to school

after the holidays, there are warnings that the capital

faces a shortfall of thousands of secondary school places -

Councils say new powers are needed to make sure free schools

and academies expand to meet the demand.

Our Political Editor Tim Donovan has more.

Which street you live in matters when it comes to secondary schools

and this family know first-hand the anxieties. There's a big shortage of

places in America, Ealing. While James should get into his sisters

school as a sibling, many of his friends want and some are already

moving away. The mother feels the community is being broken up. We are

in this they will drink free school system where we just have to wait

for somebody to come forward and say they want to build a school. It may

not be in the area where the need is the greatest and it just feels to me

a bit as though the government are abdicating responsibility at a time

when we have this burgeoning population and we really need these

extra school places. This is the latest warning to emerge about a

looming lack of secondary school places in the capital. It is based

on research by the Local Government Association and the prediction is

that by 2022, there will be a big shortfall in places in London. 30

for a thousand more places are needed and 20 out of London's 33

bearers are predicting a shortfall. Councils want to be able to force

free schools and academies to expand. Often these deals are done

to increase the size of schools amicably but when push comes to

shove and the school refuses to do that, with a councilman teamed

school, we can force them but with an academy, we cannot and that is

leading to problems across London where we are worried that not every

child will have a school place when they needed. It is argued the more

academies are in error, the less control the council has yet it

remains all Ceredigion County Council statuary duty to find places

for children. The Department for Education says these figures are

misleading and point out that nearly ?6 billion across the country has

been made available for councils until 2020 to cater for the

projected increase in need was for places and it points out that that

money has been based on councils own assessment of what they need. In

Ealing like other parts of London, many primary schools are expanding

in recent years to cook with the rising population. But it seems

secondary provision has not kept pace.

Police in Aldershot have launched a murder inquiry

Police have released footage of an acid attack

on a takeaway delivery driver in east London.

A man's been jailed for trying to rob West Ham

footballer Andy Carroll as he drove home from training.

Jack O'Brien was sentenced to 11 years for multiple offences,

which included an attempt to take the England international's ?22,000

watch while he was waiting at traffic

Many people will remember after, it was widely reported that residents

had repeatedly raised their concerns about fire safety issues and they

were ignored. With this, the mayor is saying the government needs to do

more to respond to concerns about social housing. He is saying if

there was a commissioner in place, they could give tenants a voice on a

national stage. He once this commission to the Independent. He

wants them to have legal powers so social tenants and leaseholders can

put a stop to something of this happening again in the future.

Social housing is not part of the forthcoming public inquiry

committed? Now and that was very controversial. Residents felt it was

integral to what had gone wrong. The Prime Minister has said the

government 's housing minister would instead carry out a separate review

of the issue but it appears in making this call, Mr Khan is not

satisfied that this will go far enough. Still waiting to hear from

the government about their response to his letter.

First shame, then the jail and finally vindication. Over three men

wrongly jailed for a train robbery and why has it taken one of them

this man 40 years to clear his name. The whole thing is a complete

fabrication. In his home, Stephen still has the original police

witness statements from his trial back in

1976. He was in the wrong place at the

wrong time and rounded up by the arresting officer. He himself was to

later die in prison. He grabbed my head and push my head onto the roof

of the car and said, you are under arrest for the theft of Royal Mail

bags. We were now a -- nowhere near a station. It was when he recently

searched his name on the Internet, he found out the officer himself had

been jailed shortly after her mailbag set. Now he is appealing his

conviction to be quashed and is for the first time in 40 years speaking

about his ordeal. My kids, 37 and 35, I told them to days ago for the

first time and they were upset that I have never told them and they

said, whatever age you think we wouldn't believe you? I just have

this feeling, are you sitting there thinking, there is more to this? But

there is not. There's nothing to it. He also discovered that Ridgewell

had falsely arrested a succession of young black men at the time for a

string of robberies on the Underground. One of the cases became

notorious known as the Oval four. Winston was one of them and in the

end, served eight months in prison. There were about 89 officers in a

room with Ridgewell and his team there. They sat there, intimidating

you, intimidating you. He slapped me on the face, some of them punched me

in the back. Punching me again and again. All to get a false

confession? For me to confess that I did it. But the Winston and Stevens

cases relied entirely on police statements with no eyewitnesses even

victims accounts to cooperate. One reason among so many why they are

both hopeful that it convictions will in time be quashed.

You're watching BBC London News, coming up later.

I am fearless and full of beans. But of tri- weather for the store the

weekend. Some rain on Sunday, I will have the forecast later in the

programme. Turning now

to the final report in our series Smartphones diagnosing symptoms

and artificial intelligence But the technology depends on how

far we're willing to share our data. Nicola Ford looks at how our health

care is evolving to meet A doctor on his rounds but could

this soon be a thing of the past? At Great Run, nurses are using mobile

devices to keep an eye on their patients. We have a list of where

the sickest patients are so any patient will automatically default

onto a list so when we come on the shift, we can look at those sicker

patients and parrot house where we need to first and parrot has their

care. But technology is now changing the way we are getting diagnosed

even before we get to hospital. My tummy is killing me. I am sorry you

are feeling unwell. Some of the things are common. This company uses

artificial intelligence to provide chat box who diagnosed your

symptoms. Remember what happens when you go to see a doctor, you just

pass on to them information about your health and symptoms. When you

talk to a machine, you do exactly the same, the difference is that the

machine can look at hundreds of millions of variations of knowledge

as opposed to millions that can fit inside the human brain and in

return, it can do billions of variations of symptoms in seconds in

a way that a human brain cannot do. Thanks to technology, we are able to

monitor our help I can ever before. How we eat and exercise, and the NHS

is working with a number of apps to help us do this. This one allows you

to manage own health records. You can upload them from your doctor and

add information like your height and weight but it also gives you the

option to share with anyone you choose. It's at this point you can

decide whether you're happy to share your data for the purpose of

research. People want to potentially have their own access to their

medical records and there's great advantages to that because the

medical records follow you in the various health care and actions that

you may have. There will be wearing is about who has access to the

medical records and what those medical records contain, whether it

is around insurance or just Gravity issues. So, our security might be a

concern, technology could help reduce pressure on the NHS.

This should be quite a spectacle? It should. All quiet here now but as

you say, football stars like Alan Shearer and David Seaman, stars from

the world of music and television, too, will be putting a method but

tomorrow to play in the game to raise money for victims of the

disaster. Thousands have bought tickets but over 2000 have been

provided free to local families, and bits of the emergency services and

volunteers, to thank them for their help. But I have been finding out,

is that the only thing that West London's football clubs have been

doing to help local community. The sports centre sits in the shadow

of the tower. Tyler lost his grandfather in the fire. This by

also knew people who lost their lives. Both have been taking part in

a free summer football programme set up children affected by the disaster

using coaches from Queens Park Rangers as well as Chelsea, Fulham

and Brentford. We work from ten until for Mac. I want to feel how it

is in the committee and have good support and now the people are there

for me. Some of them saw it. We have young people here who unfortunately

no people who died in the fire. Some were in the blog of the actual fire

so we are giving them an opportunity to get away from being in the hotel

room, from spending the summer holidays thinking about things that

will be distressing and cannot and enjoy themselves. It is a committee

that means so much to so many, including DPR's director of football

who grew up on the estate tax to the tower. Under the tower is where the

community centre was. I learned to play football with my mates there.

This is my area and it is whatever we can do to help these kids is what

we want to do. The plan was to put on the programme for six weeks but

that will now be extended and it is hoped it will be here for another

three years. It will help give these children and many more help to heal

through football. Queens Park Rangers have stressed

that the programme, the match tomorrow is not about them. They say

they know great things have been done to raise money for the victims

of the disaster that they want to do something to because they are a

local football club. It is only a mile away from them for tower.

She was an artist who went on to become the fashion

editor of Harpers Queen and the Sunday Times

magazine in the 60s - notorious for her partying

Her favourite Soho drinking partner was the painter Francis Bacon.

In fact you'd be hard pressed to find a more colourful life

Wendy Hurrell has been to meet the 85 year-old

This is your garden? Yes. This bohemian nomad has put down roots in

a 15 years the world and estate on the Kings Road in Chelsea, a long

way from the Welsh ironing village where she was born. There was

nothing here when I came, absolutely nothing and I was so frightened. It

was a rough part of town and Molly had been more used to living in arty

corners and rock and roll mansions. She was bankrupt, alcoholism played

a large part but she has been sober for 30 years. I am fearless and I am

full of beans. You are, and you? Fearless and full of beans and with

many friends wherever I go. This is where I paint because this is where

the water is. These are my brushes and everything. Put it down. This is

how I start. The first step is hitting red of the white. But a good

start, isn't it? It is a good start. That's what I think. She never paint

on Cuba the cameras but she did for us. We have lost to an out of this

canvas! With 30 years, we lost as an artist. She had lost the use.

Instead she became an award-winning fashion editor. Because I always had

a knack of putting outfits together, I was invited to be the fashion

editor on Nova and then I went from there to Harpers and the Sunday

Times and it was on the Sunday Times learned to write. Write erotic

novels, hugely successful stories that mirrored her notoriously not

lifestyle. Very pink gallery. But art is her passion now and over the

road at the gallery, a retrospective of her work in a show that will

include talks on her life in colour. ABI new edition started just as if

that vibrancy decorated flat. Somebody somewhere will like to have

this. The weather is next.

It is going to be decent into this evening as well. We have some

sunshine around as we head into the evening hours. There are a few

shower clouds around. This was the view taken by one of our weather

watchers in Walton on Thames. Some of these clouds are producing the

odd shower but most of us will avoid those. Some late sunshine to be

enjoyed. The showers at the moment, mostly out towards the east of

London but we also have a few developing around Oxfordshire and

they may well just push further eastwards through the course of the

night. Most of us, it does stay dry with light winds and cure spells,

too. In the more urban areas, we will see temperatures at 11 or 12

degrees out in rural spots, we could see loads of seven colour and that

is a fresh start to your Saturday morning but Saturday is looking like

a decent day. Lots of sunshine on offer. Largely dry. Some cloud

building and it could bring the odd scattered showers through the course

of the afternoon but they are not likely to be as heavy as the last

few days. With the light winds and temperatures up to 21 degrees, it

will be a fine day to come from any on Saturday. Then we start to see

the cloud increasing from the West as we move through Saturday night so

it won't be quite as chilly through the early hours of Sunday with those

temperatures holding up the ring ten and 13 degrees first thing on

Sunday. A bit of the different feeling day on Sunday. Starting of

tripe some brightness but through the day, the cloud built in from the

west and later on in the afternoon, we see this area of rain arriving

with the wind is picking up too. Temperatures still at 18 or 19

degrees. It looks like this front will linger for a time through

Sunday night and into Monday. Then it eases away, so a slowly improving

picture. Monday will be a cloudy day with the odd spot of drizzle but

reasonably mild but year. Temperatures of 22 degrees but it

looks like the best day of the weekend will be Saturday.

Nine people have been suspended over allegations

of mistreatment at an immigration removal centre, run by the private

The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox,

has accusing the European Union of trying to blackmail

Britain into accepting a Brexit divorce bill.

A court orders the developer of these luxury

houseboats to pay back millions after ruling that he misrepresented

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