23/11/2017 London News

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The Mayor accuses the government

of abandoning Londoners over air

pollution calling it a scandal.

We have been told overnight London

cannot bid for that.

We'll explain why and hear

what the government has to say.

Also tonight...

It is such a senseless, senseless

things to do. That he is not here

with us.

A mother appeals for help to

catch her son's killer.

He was out with friends

and stabbed to death

for his Rolex watch.

Plus - a warning about Black Friday

from police over shopping fraud.

And a fox in the family -

how an adopted cub is making himself

at home in Hertfordshire.

A very good evening

to you and welcome to the programme.

He's accused the Government

of abandoning Londoners

affected by air pollution.

The Mayor says it's a scandal

that our city won't be eligible

for a new multi-million

pound Clean Air Fund.

Sadiq Khan was giving evidence

to a joint inquiry at the Commons

into improving air quality.

to a joint inquiry at the Commons

The government said London already

receives a settlement from them

to improve air quality

and reduce harmful emissions.

Louisa Preston reports.

A message from primary school

children about the poor quality of

the air they breathe in the capital.

These young people from Chestnuts

primary School in Haringey were

petitioning Downing Street because

they go to school where pollution

levels break the law.

It is bad for

the children because our playground

is next to a busy road. That is

really not good for our health.

Ever

pollution is causing a lot of deaths

and diseases. Maybe if it cannot be

stopped it should be reduced

somehow.

Diesel vehicles are the

biggest cause of the problem in

London and in the budget the

Chancellor increased tax on diesel

cars and announced £220 million for

a Clean Air Fund but the capital

will not get any of it, something

the mayor says is a scandal.

The

government is saying there is £220

million. We cannot receive any of

that. It is not sustainable to

expect a London mayor to do this

investment to help local authorities

without help from central

government.

It is not just the

mayors saying the government is not

going far enough.

We want bigger

taxation that could have led to a

bigger fund to help people get out

of their diesel car and switch to

alternative forms of transport.

Clean air is a complex problem with

pollution coming from construction

vehicles, boilers, farming, wood

fires and even car tyres as they

wear down. The government insists it

is cleaning up the air as fast as it

can but with children starting to

make a stand and every person in the

capital breathing in air that

exceeds global guidelines it is an

issue not likely to go away.

Louisa, the Mayor not

holding back over this?

He is not. He is not happy. He made

that clear on Twitter. He said it is

a scandal the city will not be

eligible for the government clean

air fund. He added... We heard

yesterday the Chancellor is

increasing taxes on diesel cars to

create this 220 million Clean Air

Fund. Local councils will be able to

apply for money but London will not

because of its devolved powers. We

know Sadiq Khan has put air

pollution as a top priority and

introduce the T charge last month

and we know the ultra emission zone

will be put in place next year. The

oldest and most polluting vehicles

with the T charge pay extra to come

into London and with the low

emission zone the older cars will

have an additional charge put on

them. What is the government saying?

We have had a statement from the

Department night saying the Mayor of

London has received a comprehensive

funding settlement from the

government worth more than 5 billion

. Next year, the government will

publish a clean air strategy to set

out new areas of tackling air

pollution. The mayor feels annoyed

he cannot get his hands on any of

this money announced yesterday

because of the problems we have in

London, and he believes the

government should do more to help

people that suffer with high air

pollution in the capital.

Thank you.

A senseless attack that has

left a family broken -

the words of the mother

of builder Danny Pearce,

who was stabbed to death

in Greenwich while being robbed

of his Rolex watch.

Four months on, the Met

is renewing its appeal

for information about his killers

with a £10,000 reward

for information that leads

to a secure conviction.

Helen Mulroy reports.

Enjoying a night out with friends.

This was Danny Pearce in Greenwich

on the 14th of July this year.

Just hours after this video

was taken, Danny was dead -

stabbed as he made his way home,

all for his Rolex watch.

He was my baby.

All our lives have changed.

All of them.

How you see me I have changed into

two people. I am one person at work

because I cannot be like this at

work. When I come home... This is

how I am.

Two men have been arrested but no

charges have been laid.

Now the Metropolitan Police

are renewing their appeal

for information.

Newly released CCTV shows

Danny making his way

down King William Walk

with friends just after midnight.

This was the moment he was singled

out by his killers on their moped.

They make a U-turn to return

and launch their attack.

One produces a hunting knife

and the other a gun.

They make a demand

for Danny's watch.

A struggle ensues and ultimately

Danny ends up here, unfortunately

fatally stabbed, and here

on these very steps sadly

Danny lost his life.

The group had been shot at,

and Danny repeatedly stabbed.

It's most likely the longest, most

sustained stabbing I have ever come

across in my 26 years of service.

Danny's family hope that

in revealing more details

about the violent and

sustained attack that

killed their son and brother,

in here, what is a popular London

nightspot, it may jog the memory

of anybody who knows

anything further about

the identity of his killers.

I just can't get it out of my head.

Such a senseless, senseless thing

to do and he's not here with us.

He's just not here.

Crimestoppers is offering a £10,000

reward for any information that

will secure a conviction.

And the number to call

Crimestoppers is 0800 555 111.

That number again, 0800 555 111.

You're watching BBC London News,

coming up later in the programme...

As the trial date is set next

month for the Hampstead

mother jailed in Iran,

we speak to her husband

about how they are coping.

Christmas shoppers are being urged

not to rush into buying gifts

from unknown sellers.

New figures show that

in 2015 victims lost nearly

£10 million to fraudsters.

In 2016 that figure

rose to 16 million.

City of London Police have launched

a campaign warning buyers

that they could be playing

into the hands of scammers

in their attempts to snap

up seasonal bargains.

Helen Drew is on a busy

Oxford Street and can tell us more.

You may be watching this thinking I

cannot think about Christmas

shopping until December but a lot of

people right now are well under way

with their heirs and tomorrow will

be busier. It is Black Friday and

shortly after cyber Monday, the

busiest day for online shopping.

Police today warned of the dangers

that can come with it. 32 days until

Christmas. Some people are ramping

up present buying. The Action Fraud

team is warning of online shopping

dangers. They say the most likely

thing people tried to buy from

fraudsters are mobile phones

followed by clothing and accessories

and then footwear. Specific items

victims report are Kanye West's

trainers. Fitness watches and this

make up. If I go on the official

website I can buy this popular

lipstick it for $29 plus shipping

from America but online by searching

can find the same thing for £1.99.

They say if something looks too good

to be true, it probably is. Those

items often turn out to be fake or

never turn up. It is also stealing

credit card details. This afternoon

it did not take long to find victims

of fraud.

Somebody had put something

on my card and I checked the bank

statement and it was seven or eight

flights, over £2000.

Frightening. I

do not do much online shopping

possibly because I am nervous of

that very thing happening. The only

online fraud I have had is buying

concert tickets that was enough.

I

am reasonably cautious, probably not

enough.

Probably passwords need to

be about. The 14 say it is crucial

to think twice.

I did think there

was something wrong but I clicked

anyway. If you take time, time to

think, count to five.

It will

probably save you money. The 14's

campaign is urging people to do

that. Slow down and think before

clicking the buy now button. You

heard the advice of the report about

having to avoid online shopping

fraud. The City of London Police

issue other advice which includes

using PayPal online because that

offers buyers a certain amount of

protection and making sure you have

antivirus software on your devices

and you update it regularly. Another

piece of advice, ensuring you use

strong passwords, and it does not

mean the same password for

everything. When I interviewed the

detective inspector, he told me the

most popular pass word still is the

word pass word. If it is a website

where you need numbers it is

password 1234. If you think that

sounds familiar you might want to

think about changing that. Last year

there were £60 million of Christmas

shopping fraud and before that 10

million so it is increasing and

police said they expect this year it

will be more than ever.

A man from Luton who was about to

travel to Syria to join so-called

Islamic State has been jailed

for six years.

The Old Bailey heard how 22-year-old

Mubashir Jamil had become

obsessed with martyrdom.

He was arrested after a covert

police operation last year

after telling an undercover officer

he'd blow himself up.

He'll serve part of his sentence

in a secure hospital.

Footage has emerged of the moment

a teenager came off his bike

while police officers were trying

to stop him in south London.

The video shows 15-year-old

Terrel Jones-Burton crash

into a shop doorway in Bermondsey.

He was arrested on suspicion

of robbery and taken to hospital

with facial injuries.

His mother has told BBC

London her son was the victim

of mistaken identity

and excessive force.

The police watchdog

is investigating.

It's now been 600 days

since a London mother

was first imprisoned in Iran.

That's according to the campaign

to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

She's being held in Tehran

accused of spying -

charges she denies.

The time she's served means

she becomes eligible for early

release from her first

sentence of five years,

but is still facing further charges

for which a trial date is believed

to have been set for next month.

Nazanin's husband Richard

is here with me.

Thank you for coming in.

Does it feel like there is a light

at the end of tunnel

in terms of Nazanin eligible

for early release?

Certainly now we have got to a

point, 600 days is a long time but

now we have an application in hoping

she will be granted it and we have a

march on Saturday where we will take

a letter to the supreme leader's

office in London to ask if he will

consider her case. There are

certainly things we can hope for.

How is Nazanin coping? You mentioned

she found lumps in her breast.

That

is right, ten days ago she was taken

to the doctor with lumps in her

breast and the worry was breast

cancer because she has it in the

family. She was taken back last

Saturday and responded to medication

so it looks like they are not

cancerous, which was a relief. In

terms of her mental health, it is a

long time to be in solitary

confinement and imprisoned. In the

past month there has been the

turmoil of things in the media here.

She is pretty fragile.

How are you

coping? It has been a long process

and the past couple of weeks, people

will have seen me on television all

over the place. I am glad she's

getting the attention, that is what

keeps me going.

You mentioned the

past few weeks have been busy and

you have been on media, because of

comments by the Foreign Secretary.

You met Boris Johnson last week. Are

you feeling any more confident you

will get to go to Iran because that

is what you wanted?

I met the

Foreign Secretary and asked him that

I would like to come with him when

he goes to Tehran and he said he was

keen and he had to consult with his

staff and the Iranian authorities.

He sent me a text message this

morning saying his thoughts were

with us. I followed up with the new

trial date for 10th of December to

ask if he could get there in time

for that. I will put in a new

request to the Iranian embassy to

ask if I can be there to witness the

trial.

When you met, did you talk

about the fact the comments he made

in the Foreign Affairs Committee

saying Nazanin was training

journalists and the effect it may

have had? The statement said the

Iranian Foreign Minister assured the

Foreign Secretary his remarks have

no bearing on Nazanin Zaghari-

Ratcliffe -'s case and he is

committed to working with the UK.

The Foreign Secretary stressed there

are worries about the new case and

we talked about the details of it

and what was likely next and about

health and about the visit. The key

focus was on when is he going green

can I go with him.

Do you think the

government is doing enough to get

Nazanin home in time for Christmas?

I hope they are doing all they can.

One thing we are pushing for is to

have a meeting to discuss the idea

of diplomatic protection, where she

is protected more seriously than

already, so there are things to push

behind closed doors and as soon as

the visit is arranged, the better.

Please keep us posted and we wish

you the best.

More than 80 firefighters

were called to a fire

at an industrial estate in north

London this morning.

It started just after nine

o'clock and destroyed

part of football-club

Tottenham Hotspurs'

merchandise warehouse.

The cause of the fire

is unknown and there are no

reported casualties.

The introduction of new Thameslink

rail services to ease north to south

travel through central London has

been delayed by up to a year.

The new timetable of 24 trains

an hour at peak times on the Bedford

to Brighton line was meant to be

in place by December 2018

but it has been put back.

The National Audit Office said

adequate arrangements hadn't yet

been made to manage the launch.

Still to come this

Thursday evening...

Chips can prevent global warming so

that has got to be a good thing.

We'll tell you why it may not be

as far fetched as it sounds.

And...

# Please release me, can't you see

#.

Engelbert Humperdinck talks

candidly about how his music

is helping his wife

who has Alzheimers.

Next, a story which

has divided opinion.

A family in Hertfordshire has

defended keeping a fox as a pet.

They adopted the animal

after it was handed into a vet

when it was just a few days old.

They've been hand-rearing

it for seven months.

As Sonja Jessup reports.

No, it is not a scene from last

year's John Lewis Christmas advert.

Jasper the fox is a family pet. He

has lived with Natalie and her

children since he was two days old.

She took a call from a vet who said

he'd been abandoned and would need

hand rearing.

At first it was

through the night every couple of

hours I would have to get up and

feed him.

The family already had

three dogs, a cat and a horse.

Natalie said the fox fits in well

but she treats him differently to

her other pets.

You can only

domesticate them to a certain level

so it is respecting his natural

behaviours and learning what his

noises mean and learning when you

have to be careful. His warning

signals, stuff like that.

In fact

after a few months, Jasper proved

too much of a handful inside the

house so he now has his own

enclosure in the garage. An animal

charity says foxes belong in the

wild, but Natalie says she is

worried he wouldn't survive.

He's

not in a cage, his only there in

night-time and for his safety so

it's not like I'm keeping him

captive in a cage. He has a sense of

freedom and we do go on walks so

people are always going to judge

whatever we do.

She's hoping Jasper

decides to settle here and make

himself at home.

Turning now to a bold claim -

could chips and fried food really

help save the planet?

It may not be as far

fetched as it sounds.

Scientists at Reading University

have found cooking in fat

might just be help.

As Asad Ahmad explains.

We don't really need an excuse

to eat more fish and chips.

But it is always good

to have one and you

won't find a better

excuse than this.

Chips can prevent global warming,

so that has got to be a

good thing.

OK, maybe he is exaggerating

slightly, but the

principle of what the chip man

is saying could be true.

How?

Scientists at the University

of Reading were studying the climate

when they started to look at the

impact of cooking fats in the air

and this is the science bit.

These molecules that

are emitted in large

quantities in urban areas, they make

it easier for clouds to form.

Clouds have a massive

impact on climate

change because clouds generally

are believed to cool.

If you had more clouds,

it could potentially lead to

increased cooling.

So a lower temperature.

OK, just to break that scientific

explanation down further,

what the doctor is

effectively saying is this.

When you deep fat fry,

tiny molecules of fat go up

in the atmosphere.

As they rise, they stay

there for some time and

while there, they thicken cloud and

that has the effect of keeping more

of the sun rays away

from us and therefore

cooling the temperature,

helping global cooling.

And nobody is happier than those in

the local chip shop.

But they say they have been

doing their bit for some time.

We recycle oil.

The crispy bits, the batter,

we get, we recycle

them into oil to be

used again, so none

of it is going to waste

and we

made a conscious effort to cut

down on plastic items.

We have changed a lot

of our things to cardboard.

So we have always

been quite conscious

about the effect on the environment.

So chip shops could argue they now

have a new eco-status, doing their

bit for the planet, trying to stop

icecaps from melting.

But even the scientists

at Reading University are

the first to say a lot more

research needs to be done.

Now to the man who has sold 150

million records across the world.

He's Arnold Dorsey to his

friends and family,

but to us he's Engelbert

Humperdinck.

At the age of 81, he's still touring

and has a new album.

Wendy Hurrell has been talking

to him about his how his music

is helping his wife,

who has Alzheimers.

# Please release me...#.

The song that kept the Beatles off

the top spot in 1967 and launched

a half-century career.

I'm so thrilled that one song has

given me that passport to the world.

Now Engelbert Humperdinck has

produced a new album of covers.

One by Bruno Mars.

This is the first time they met.

I

told him he would become a big star

and he became a megastar.

The album is dedicated

to his wife of 53 years.

Patricia was diagnosed

with Alzheimer's a decade ago.

Just Like The First Time

was written especially for her.

The duet I'm Glad I Danced With You,

a lot of the songs depict exactly

what a man thinks about his better

half, you know?

I met her in a dance hall

when she was 17 years old,

and we have been dancing

together ever since.

# I'm glad I danced with you #.

She listens to the album every day!

Does she?

Yes, she listens to it every

morning and there's a smile

on her face when she hears it.

She's not totally compos mentis

but she's beginning to understand

more now and I think musically

it is great therapy for her

because it brings back the past.

And it's wonderful,

and she's learning to talk

a bit more now again.

It's just wonderful, wonderful.

The progress, it's not supposed

to happen but it's happening

and I think it's a miracle.

Time to get a check on the weather

with weather with Darren Bett.

The sunshine made us smile today but

temperatures are taking a downward

trend over the next few days. 15

degrees was our top temperature

today, and tomorrow the temperatures

will be lower so it is turning

colder. But the winds will be

lighter as well, probably getting

off to quite a cloudy start because

there is some rain on the way

overnight to head our way as well.

Today we have been sort of in

between rain. We had the early

bursts of rain, gusty winds clearing

away, then we have been waiting for

these showers to come our way but

they have taken a long time. It

won't take long before we see some

wetter weather moving across from

the west and heading across most of

the London area and the south-east,

but tending to clear away later on

in the night. It keeps temperatures

up. The following few nights will be

colder than that five or 6 degrees.

We should see sky brightening, some

sunshine at times up for the most

part I think it will be a dry day

with the risk of some showers in the

afternoon. Temperatures struggling

to make double figures, eight or 9

degrees will be typical. The chilly

day, but that means that where we

have the clear skies overnight

tomorrow night and into the start of

the weekend it will be called. We

are looking at a touch of frost away

from the centre of London. Those

temperatures won't be far away from

freezing. A cold start of the

weekend but a bright start. The

winds will pick up on Saturday so it

will feel colder with the winds

strengthening. And so those

temperatures again falling away, not

as warm. It will be colder, six or 7

degrees. Into cold air right the way

through the weekend. Briefly we get

orange, this is milder air, not the

drink all fruit and it could be

accompanied by rain. That will be on

the first half of Monday, then the

cold air is set to return.

Darren, thank you. Recapping

headlines before we go...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

warns the UK is in danger

of losing almost 20 years

of growth in earnings.

It says the squeeze on living

standards in the past ten

years is unprecedented.

Dozens of people had to be rescued

from their homes in parts of Cumbria

and Lancashire last night

after heavy rainfall

caused flooding.

More than 70 people

were helped to safety.

The physical and mental health

of around 15,000 former

professional footballers

is going to be studied

by researchers who are trying

to determine the long-term impact

of heading a football.

The Met Police is offering

a £10,000 reward

for information about the killers

of Danny Pearce, who was killed

in Greenwich in July while being

robbed of his Rolex watch.

And the Mayor's accused

the Government of abandoning

Londoners affected by air pollution.

Sadiq Khan described it

as "a scandal" that the capital

won't be eligible for

the new Clean Air Fund.

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From me and the team here,

have a lovely evening.