0:00:00 > 0:00:01Still cold, George. Darren, thank you. That's all from the BBC
0:00:04 > 0:00:05Tonight on BBC London News:
0:00:05 > 0:00:07The Met Police asks for almost £40 million
0:00:07 > 0:00:09from the Government to pay for the Grenfell Tower
0:00:09 > 0:00:18investigation.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21We have approximately 200 officers that will be working on that over
0:00:21 > 0:00:25the next year. We don't think it is reasonable for us to pick up those
0:00:25 > 0:00:27sort of costs.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Scotland Yard also wants extra funds to pay for policing last
0:00:30 > 0:00:31year's terror attacks.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Also tonight:
0:00:32 > 0:00:34A 95-year-old woman walks free from court after knocking down
0:00:34 > 0:00:42and killing a cemetery worker in Maidenhead.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47Rain as have gone up, but passengers face widespread disruption to their
0:00:47 > 0:00:52journeys because of a fresh wave of strikes -- rain fares have gone up.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54The details from Waterloo.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57And we catch up with Michael Palin, ahead of a special programme
0:00:57 > 0:01:06marking his life on screen.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Good evening and welcome to the programme.
0:01:09 > 0:01:14I'm Victoria Hollins.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16The Metropolitan Police has asked the Government to pay
0:01:16 > 0:01:18almost £40 million for its investigation into the fire
0:01:18 > 0:01:26at Grenfell Tower, in West London.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Scotland Yard says it's one of the biggest and most complex
0:01:29 > 0:01:31inquiries in the history of the force.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Around 200 officers are working on the inquiry into the blaze,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35which claimed the lives of 71 people.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Our political correspondent, Karl Mercer, reports.
0:01:38 > 0:01:43They are starting to cover the remains of Grenfell tower.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Sheeting now up around half of the first eight
0:01:45 > 0:01:46floors of the building.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48The rest stands as a stark reminder of what happened
0:01:48 > 0:01:49here nearly seven months ago.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51And the political fallout from the fire continues.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Grenfell led to one of the biggest police investigations ever
0:01:54 > 0:01:58mounted by Scotland Yard, with around 250 officers involved.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Now Scotland yard has said it needs help to pay.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05It's put in a big bill to the Home Office, asking
0:02:05 > 0:02:09for £11.1 million to cover the cost of the investigation this year.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12And a further £27 million for next year.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16It says it expects to have more than 200 officers still on the case
0:02:16 > 0:02:18over the coming twelve months.
0:02:18 > 0:02:24We don't think that it is reasonable for us to pick up those sort of full
0:02:24 > 0:02:29cost. As we know, that sort of investigation will go on for some
0:02:29 > 0:02:29time.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30time.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33There are worries too that the Met simply can't afford extra spending,
0:02:33 > 0:02:34as it's already having to make cuts.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39We are still absolutely facing savings and cuts for London that we
0:02:39 > 0:02:43are very, very worried about. We are really worried that police officer
0:02:43 > 0:02:49numbers going dip significantly below the 2,000 if this continues.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51The police, though, aren't the only emergency service facing
0:02:51 > 0:02:53a big bill in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55London's Fire Brigade has also seen costs rise.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57It's in the process of buying new equipment.
0:02:57 > 0:03:04And in the wake of the fire, its inspectors made 520
0:03:04 > 0:03:14visits last summer to check the safety of other buildings.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17We learned today that 188 cases in the capital failed
0:03:17 > 0:03:19the Government's cladding safety test - more than the rest
0:03:19 > 0:03:21of the country put together.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22No wonder, then, that London Assembly members
0:03:22 > 0:03:25were asking for government help for the Fire Brigade too.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Can you update us? Have you exhausted all your conversations
0:03:27 > 0:03:32with government around any money that they wish to allocate you?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Politically mindful of what you heard this morning from the police.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39It feels like the police are having some success, then there is no
0:03:39 > 0:03:43reason why the Fire Service should not have that same criteria relaxed.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44The Home Office told us today that:
0:03:44 > 0:03:46"Given the unique and tragic circumstances of this event,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49we will consider any application we receive for funding
0:03:49 > 0:03:53from the Metropolitan Police as a matter of priority."
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Lots more to come, including:
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Calls to identify and support expectant mothers suffering
0:03:58 > 0:04:08from mental health problems during pregnancy.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13A 95-year-old woman who knocked down and killed a man after mistaking
0:04:13 > 0:04:16the accelerator for the brake has been given a suspended sentence.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Gertrude Lister told police that her car "just took off"
0:04:19 > 0:04:21as she tried to leave a cemetery in Maidenhead on
0:04:21 > 0:04:26Valentine's Day last year.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31Joe Campbell reports.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Gertrude Lister was driven to court today.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36She's not got behind the wheel since she killed cemetery
0:04:36 > 0:04:45worker Paul Mills and returned her licence to the DVLA.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47A man escorting the 95-year-old carried a suitcase.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50She'd been warned there was a very real possibility she would be
0:04:50 > 0:04:51going straight from court to prison.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Mrs Lister's barrister said it was hard to think of more tragic
0:04:54 > 0:04:56circumstances than what happened in this cemetery on Saint
0:04:56 > 0:05:01Valentine's Day last year.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03One moment, his client had been tending her husband's grave.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Just a few seconds later, she was responsible for the death
0:05:06 > 0:05:08of somebody else's loved one.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12It was as she left the cemetery that she hit the accelerator,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15rather than the brake.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17The car, rather than slowing down, sped up, hit a verge
0:05:17 > 0:05:18and became airborne.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20It crashed through a hedge.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21Mr Mills was working on the opposite side.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26He died in hospital less than an hour later.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29The court heard so-called unintended acceleration was a recognised factor
0:05:29 > 0:05:31in accidents like this, especially involving automatic cars
0:05:31 > 0:05:36driven by elderly motorists.
0:05:36 > 0:05:44In actual fact, the over-70s are statistically the safest group
0:05:44 > 0:05:47of drivers on our road, done by age,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50in terms of how many collisions they have that cause injury.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53They're frail, so if they do have one, they tend to be
0:05:53 > 0:05:56injured themselves.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Events like this one, that are tragic, as all these things are,
0:05:59 > 0:06:01are actually really unusual.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Judge Paul Dugdale said these were wholly exceptional circumstances.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Gertrude Lister's mistake in pressing the accelerator harder
0:06:08 > 0:06:11and harder, thinking it was the brake, had had
0:06:11 > 0:06:17a devastating effect, he said, on Paul Mills's family.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21As his widow, Tracey, realised Mrs Lister wouldn't be
0:06:21 > 0:06:23going to prison today, but her 16-month sentence
0:06:23 > 0:06:25was going to be suspended, she stormed out of court.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Mrs Lister herself left without commenting.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32Joe Campbell, BBC London News.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Strikes affecting three different train operators serving London
0:06:34 > 0:06:39are set to go ahead next week after talks stalled.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42The RMT union has a long-running dispute over the role of train
0:06:42 > 0:06:44guards, which has led to a fresh wave of strikes
0:06:44 > 0:06:48starting from Monday.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Well, Marc Ashdown is at Waterloo for us this evening,
0:06:50 > 0:06:52where some of the services will be affected.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Marc.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58Yes, Victoria, this is where the biggest impact will be felt.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Services run by South Western Railway is out of Waterloo. That is
0:07:02 > 0:07:06because the RMT union has called a series of 24 hour strikes for next
0:07:06 > 0:07:10week which will run on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. South-western
0:07:10 > 0:07:16says they will still be able to run about 70% of services, they hope,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and that translates roughly two 450 trains out of here on each of those
0:07:19 > 0:07:25days being cancelled. This is about the long-running row over the role
0:07:25 > 0:07:30of guards on trains. The RMT has a line in the sand and it says a
0:07:30 > 0:07:33second safety grid, bar staff should always be present on every surface.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37SWT said after talks this week, it has promised that will happen, but
0:07:37 > 0:07:42the RMT says privately that is not accompany it telling it and as far
0:07:42 > 0:07:46as it is concerned, the strikes will go ahead next week, which is bad
0:07:46 > 0:07:49news for passengers around here.I see the point of modernisation, I
0:07:49 > 0:07:53can see the point by the union as well, am annoyed by strikes because
0:07:53 > 0:07:57that says to me some idiot has not done their job properly.I am livid
0:07:57 > 0:08:02it. Coming into the New Year, 3% pay rise and we are confronted with the
0:08:02 > 0:08:07same thing all over again.I think it is appalling. I'm not overjoyed
0:08:07 > 0:08:11about it, but I will try and work from home to get about it because I
0:08:11 > 0:08:14have the flexibility to do that. There will be other stations and
0:08:14 > 0:08:22routes affected by strikes next week.Yes, that is right. The same
0:08:22 > 0:08:26issue of the guards, but two different operators. Greater Anglia
0:08:26 > 0:08:30guards will strike on Monday, Wednesday and Friday affecting
0:08:30 > 0:08:35trains into and out of Liverpool Street station. The company says it
0:08:35 > 0:08:37is disappointed, it bought talks were constructed, but it will try
0:08:37 > 0:08:43and run a full service on those days. And RMT members at Southern
0:08:43 > 0:08:47will go on a single 24 hour strike on Monday to affect London Bridge,
0:08:47 > 0:08:52Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Southern describes the
0:08:52 > 0:08:56action as regrettable and says it has invited the RMT back for talks
0:08:56 > 0:09:01but has not heard back, it thinks it can run a 90% service. Monday night
0:09:01 > 0:09:06is the FA Cup match between Brighton and Crystal Palace, so along with
0:09:06 > 0:09:10tens of thousands of football bands, it could be tricky. The advice is to
0:09:10 > 0:09:15check before you travel, this is bad news for the passengers, the biggest
0:09:15 > 0:09:19rise in train fares for five years and now fresh disruption and
0:09:19 > 0:09:22frustration to their journeys. Victoria. For now, thank you very
0:09:22 > 0:09:24much indeed.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Wreckage from a seaplane which crashed near Sydney,
0:09:26 > 0:09:29killing five members of a London family and the pilot,
0:09:29 > 0:09:30has been recovered.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33The aircraft had been submerged in more than 40 feet of water
0:09:33 > 0:09:35after coming down on New Year's Eve.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37It's emerged that the plane was rebuilt after it was "destroyed"
0:09:37 > 0:09:44in a fatal incident more than 20 years ago.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Louisa Preston reports.
0:09:46 > 0:09:54The wreckage of the seaplane should help to explain why
0:09:54 > 0:10:00a routine flight over Sydney, its waterways and rugged bushlands
0:10:00 > 0:10:02bushlands ended in disaster for a London family.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04The salvage operation at Jerusalem Bay began
0:10:04 > 0:10:05shortly after dawn.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Police divers used inflatable bags to lift parts of the aircraft
0:10:07 > 0:10:09from the bottom of the Hawkesbury River.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13One of the first pieces of the plane to be recovered was a damaged wing,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17followed by the engine, and the tail.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20By the time that the wreckage was boarded on the barge,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22we saw that there was severe damage to the plane.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25And it appeared that there had been quite an impact
0:10:25 > 0:10:28on hitting the water.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Tributes have been paid to the family from Tooting who were killed
0:10:30 > 0:10:35in the crash.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Tycoon Richard Cousins, his two grown-up sons, his fiancee
0:10:37 > 0:10:41and her 11-year-old daughter.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44Crucial to the investigation will be the aircraft's
0:10:44 > 0:10:48past history.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53We now know that the seaplane came down in these waters
0:10:53 > 0:10:5720 years ago.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00We've got a range of factors that we look at the folly
0:11:00 > 0:11:03we construct the sequence of events that led up to the accident,
0:11:03 > 0:11:05and hopefully find factors that contributed to the accident,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07with the ultimate goal of trying to prevent something
0:11:07 > 0:11:08like this happening again.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Air-crash investigators plan to release their initial
0:11:10 > 0:11:12findings within a month, but a full report could
0:11:12 > 0:11:17take up to a year.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19As part of our Leaving London series, this week, we've been
0:11:19 > 0:11:21hearing from those who have decided to turn
0:11:21 > 0:11:22their back on the capital.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Tonight, two businesses who've decided to relocate to Birmingham.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Tolu Adeoye has been finding out what the UK's second
0:11:27 > 0:11:30city has over London.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32London can be a pricey place to do business.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Expensive office space, high business rates,
0:11:37 > 0:11:39soaring transport costs - just three factors pushing some
0:11:39 > 0:11:41away from the capital.
0:11:41 > 0:11:49Many are choosing to move to Birmingham, with more than 17,000
0:11:49 > 0:11:52new businesses registering here in 2016, it has the largest
0:11:52 > 0:11:54economy of any UK regional city.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58We want to revolutionise access to low-cost energy storage.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Reusable battery company Celeron is currently based in Hayes,
0:12:00 > 0:12:04but will move operations to Birmingham this year.
0:12:04 > 0:12:12We have to think very carefully about the cost
0:12:12 > 0:12:16of setting up both assembly and...
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Because we're making things for our business.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20And also, the cost of actually having office space.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24So we figured that it makes a lot more sense to be setting up
0:12:24 > 0:12:25somewhere where it's cheaper, which ultimately means
0:12:25 > 0:12:28that we have a higher chance of success with our business.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Tech business Oxygen Finance has been based
0:12:30 > 0:12:31in Birmingham for 18 months.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33We've had a handful of people move from London to Birmingham.
0:12:33 > 0:12:39A mixture with the team that work remotely.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42But in that time, we've also recruited 40 people.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44The company says relocating made more than just business sense.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46The work-life balance, so the commute is easier, shorter.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50There's a lot of investment that has gone into Birmingham,
0:12:50 > 0:12:56so you get the same things that you'd get in London, if not more.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58And also, you've got larger organisations like HSBC
0:12:58 > 0:13:00and Deutsche Bank moving up.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04And with 6,000 technology firms here, we all can't
0:13:04 > 0:13:08And with 6,000 technology firms here, we all can't be wrong to pick
0:13:08 > 0:13:09this as our location to do business.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Of course, Birmingham isn't the only place tempting businesses
0:13:11 > 0:13:12away from the capital.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Manchester's a great city.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Leeds is a great city.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16And I can see the attraction.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17The short-term attraction.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20But the Chamber of Commerce says London is still the best place
0:13:20 > 0:13:21to do business in the UK.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24We are a city of, what, eight and a half million people,
0:13:24 > 0:13:26growing to ten million people.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27That is a big marketplace.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29So I think you have to think very seriously
0:13:29 > 0:13:31before you decide that, actually, for a small,
0:13:31 > 0:13:33short-term saving, perhaps in terms of rents or cost of living,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37that you move out of what is a huge, huge marketplace and a place
0:13:37 > 0:13:38where your company can grow.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40For some companies, though, leaving London is worth the risk,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42to give their businesses every chance of success.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Tolu Adeoye, BBC London News.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50Still to come...
0:13:50 > 0:13:55There is a danger in these sort of programmes that they sound a bit
0:13:55 > 0:13:57like obituaries!
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Celebrating a life on screen, but Michael Palin has no plans
0:14:00 > 0:14:03to give up working any time soon.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Post-natal depression is a well known condition,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10but now a new report has found that one in four women
0:14:10 > 0:14:13suffer from mental health problems during pregnancy.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16The study by researchers at Kings College London found that
0:14:16 > 0:14:1915% of those questioned suffered from anxiety prior
0:14:19 > 0:14:22to giving birth
0:14:22 > 0:14:26while more than one in ten said they experienced depresssion.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28while more than one in ten said they experienced depression.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31In a moment we'll talk to the report's author.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33First Frankie Mccamley has been speaking to one woman
0:14:33 > 0:14:36about her experience.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41I mean I guess I didn't notice the time I was feeling as wrong as I
0:14:41 > 0:14:46was, but during the first trimester I had quite bad nausea and that made
0:14:46 > 0:14:51me feel quite ill. It was over the summer as well so it wasn't ideal.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56The second trimester I was fine so I thought it was a doddle, then in the
0:14:56 > 0:14:59third trimester I got panicky. I went to dinner with friends and had
0:14:59 > 0:15:05to get out of the restaurant because I felt I was trapped and needed air.
0:15:05 > 0:15:12When you were at your lowest, how were you feeling?My lowest was
0:15:12 > 0:15:16postnatally, I was feeling anxious all the time and stopped sleeping. I
0:15:16 > 0:15:19tried sleeping pills but nothing seemed to really work and it brought
0:15:19 > 0:15:25on a lot of anxiety, the same symptoms as prenatally but much
0:15:25 > 0:15:30worse and that's what made me realise I had had anxiety during
0:15:30 > 0:15:33pregnancy as well.Looking back, do you think you could have had more
0:15:33 > 0:15:40help and there could have been more help out there available?Definitely
0:15:40 > 0:15:46in the pregnancy bit it wasn't on my radar at all. I did NCT classes,
0:15:46 > 0:15:49they are quite far through your pregnancy, but this wasn't something
0:15:49 > 0:15:53they covered so just awareness that it is something you could struggle
0:15:53 > 0:15:56with is really fundamental.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Professor Louise Howard, who wrote the report,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01was listening to that and joins me now.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Thank you for coming in. We heard awareness is key for those who
0:16:05 > 0:16:09suffer with mental health problems, how do the medical health
0:16:09 > 0:16:14practitioners pick up on these problems in the first place?The
0:16:14 > 0:16:18study has shown two simple screening questions on low mood and lack of
0:16:18 > 0:16:24interest in things can be really helpful in the context of a general
0:16:24 > 0:16:28discussion about emotional wellbeing as well as physical wellbeing at any
0:16:28 > 0:16:34point in pregnancy, it can help midwives, obstetricians and GPs
0:16:34 > 0:16:38identify women who may be experiencing not only depression
0:16:38 > 0:16:42but, as our report highlights, other conditions as well are also common
0:16:42 > 0:16:47in pregnancy.You mentioned this one in four figure we talked about, how
0:16:47 > 0:16:53easy is it to say this is because of pregnancy or it is perhaps a
0:16:53 > 0:16:59pre-existing condition?Yes, so a lot of research suggests some women
0:16:59 > 0:17:02indeed have already experienced symptoms for some time but this
0:17:02 > 0:17:05might be the first opportunity for them to come into contact with a
0:17:05 > 0:17:11health professional is and actually by being asked will start to realise
0:17:11 > 0:17:15this isn't normal. But for other women it may be that the pregnancy
0:17:15 > 0:17:19itself has triggered the condition. It may be a non-planned pregnancy,
0:17:19 > 0:17:25there might be a lack of social sports, and it may be as a result of
0:17:25 > 0:17:29rape or partner abuse so there's lots of reasons it might happen in
0:17:29 > 0:17:33pregnancy rather than being a long-standing condition.What are
0:17:33 > 0:17:39the implications of these problems are not picked up during pregnancy?
0:17:39 > 0:17:49Baby -- may become chronic, but we also know there is evidence that
0:17:49 > 0:17:53actually during pregnancy there can be an impact on the pregnancy itself
0:17:53 > 0:17:58through a variety of mechanisms so early identification and treatment
0:17:58 > 0:18:03is really important.OK, we have to leave it there. Thank you very much
0:18:03 > 0:18:04indeed.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Now, her story been described as a fairy tale -
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Michelle Lawrence from Catford was a mum, working in the city
0:18:10 > 0:18:13and training as a body builder.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16In just six months she went from novice competitor to world champion,
0:18:16 > 0:18:17winning her title in November.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Our reporter Jim Wheble went to meet her.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22It's an early start in Catford, and the beginning of a long
0:18:22 > 0:18:25day for world champion body-builder Michelle Lawrence.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27And ten minutes later, she's in the gym.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30It's about finding balance really.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Do this in the morning, go to work, come home, repeat.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37A lot of people would say, you call that balance?
0:18:37 > 0:18:40That is balance!
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Back home for six, breakfast prepared, lunch and dinner prepared,
0:18:44 > 0:18:49all before the working day even begins.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52But the real magic happens here in the evening at Stone's
0:18:52 > 0:18:55gym in Thornton Heath.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Five, often six days a week, it's a training schedule that's made
0:18:58 > 0:19:03Michelle a world champion in record time.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05To be invited to the finals, the British finals,
0:19:05 > 0:19:09and win that as well, I wasn't expecting.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12But then to go to Miami to compete in the world finals,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17that was really, really, just an amazing experience for me.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18And then you won it.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19I won it.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22This is Michelle before training got serious just over a year ago,
0:19:22 > 0:19:26not even making the cut in her first competition.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Come on, come on, come on!
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Then along came Imla.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Five, let's go!
0:19:32 > 0:19:34An expert muscle conditioner, and six months later after intense
0:19:34 > 0:19:39hard work, this happened.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42# The minute you walked in the
0:19:42 > 0:19:44joint, I could see... #.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47The winner at the world amateur finals of the drug-free athletes'
0:19:47 > 0:19:50coalition body-building competition,
0:19:50 > 0:20:00where even lie detectors are used to stop the cheats.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06With a final practice or the all-important poses,
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Michelle's training day finally ends...
0:20:07 > 0:20:12Due to start all over again at 4:50 in the morning tomorrow.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15What an achievement!
0:20:15 > 0:20:18He has a reputation for being a 'nice' man -
0:20:18 > 0:20:20though his colleague John Cleese will jokingly tell you different.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Michael Palin has enjoyed more than half a century in the spotlight.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25He's been a successful writer, actor and presenter
0:20:25 > 0:20:26in film and television.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Now his career is the subject of a documentary made
0:20:28 > 0:20:29in association with BAFTA.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Wendy Hurrell been speaking to him.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
0:20:34 > 0:20:36But prolonged questioning is expected when promoting
0:20:36 > 0:20:38a new documentary.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Michael Palin dashed around New Broadcasting House this morning,
0:20:40 > 0:20:44straight from Radio Four to us.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Me talking about me talking about myself.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Absolute overindulgence!
0:20:49 > 0:20:52There's a danger, I think, in these sorts of programmes
0:20:52 > 0:20:55that they sound a bit like obituaries, you know.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Your life on screen, I think it's called.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Well, you know, I'm still alive and hoping to carry on.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03It's a bit like getting lifetime awards, which I've had a very
0:21:03 > 0:21:05nice one from BAFTA.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08But that's it, you'd never get a second lifetime award.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Anything you do from now on...
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Anything you do from now on is just spoiling the picture.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Stop it!
0:21:15 > 0:21:16Stop working!
0:21:16 > 0:21:18And I'm not going to stop working because I don't
0:21:18 > 0:21:24know what else I'd do.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26The comedy writing and performances came first, perhaps
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Monty Python the pinnacle.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Often the scripts were bashed out in west London.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34We were given a second series, which no one quite expected,
0:21:34 > 0:21:37and we went to Acton rehearsal rooms and there was a woman sort
0:21:37 > 0:21:42of cleaning her step.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44She said, "Oh, not you lot!
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Are you doing some more?"
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I said, "Yes, we are," and she said, "Oh, dear."
0:21:47 > 0:21:50And it's in the capital that Michael Palin has lived
0:21:50 > 0:21:51the majority of his life.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I like, in a sense, the size and scale of London because you can
0:21:54 > 0:21:55be absorbed into it.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58It's not like living in a small village where everyone is watching
0:21:58 > 0:21:59and you're the central figure.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03So I quite like that ability to lose yourself in London.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Or lose yourself at sea - part of the documentary features
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Michael Palin's travel programmes, a topic his old Python
0:22:08 > 0:22:12mate John Cleese still playfully jibes him about.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Whenever he talks about my travel documentaries,
0:22:14 > 0:22:15he always goes Michael's...
0:22:15 > 0:22:17HE YAWNS.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22He does that!
0:22:22 > 0:22:25I wish he didn't but it does make me roar with laughter
0:22:25 > 0:22:26every time he does it.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Is there one particular thing you're most proud of?
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Yes, it's the way I fell into the loch after being hit
0:22:31 > 0:22:34by a fish by John Cleese in the fish slapping dance.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37It's a rather good fall if you freeze frame it,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39there's a nice diagonal.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41And keeping my pith helmet on, the boots are on.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42It's a very military fall.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44It looks like it's part of the ritual.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45You're falling by numbers!
0:22:45 > 0:22:49One, into the canal.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52I'm going to check that what you say is true!
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Then you can reverse it, which is rather lovely too.
0:22:54 > 0:22:59It's quite balletic.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Michael Palin made a TV entrance in the '60s
0:23:01 > 0:23:03and whether as a writer, actor or presenter,
0:23:03 > 0:23:04he's not finished yet.
0:23:04 > 0:23:11See his story so far on BBC Two this Sunday.
0:23:11 > 0:23:21Michael Palin: A Life on Screen is on 9pm this Sunday on BBC Two.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27One person has been injured and is being treated for bruising after a
0:23:27 > 0:23:30giant inflatable ball raised above the centre of Oxford Circus became
0:23:30 > 0:23:40untethered possibly due to high winds. It's part of the Lumiere
0:23:40 > 0:23:43London Festival. The council say they are working with emergency
0:23:43 > 0:23:48services to assess and manage the situation. We are told the ball has
0:23:48 > 0:23:52gone back up again, the roads have reopened. This is the scene in the
0:23:52 > 0:23:57area now, you can see the traffic is moving, but it will be busy for some
0:23:57 > 0:23:59time in the area.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Now the weather with Sarah Keith-Lucas.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04And as
0:24:04 > 0:24:06And as we have just heard, very windy.
0:24:06 > 0:24:16The wind will gradually ease as we had through tonight but we've had an
0:24:16 > 0:24:20unsettled time recently. This was sent in from Bromley earlier in the
0:24:20 > 0:24:24day. As we move through this evening, we will see windy
0:24:24 > 0:24:28conditions over the next few hours, you can see the proximity of the
0:24:28 > 0:24:32isobars, and an approaching weather front from the west set to bring
0:24:32 > 0:24:36weather for the second half of the night. Still pretty windy
0:24:36 > 0:24:40conditions, later tonight we see the arrival of some heavy squall a
0:24:40 > 0:24:44showers with hail mixed in, then during the early hours of Friday the
0:24:44 > 0:24:51winds will fall lighter and it will stay mild. Foremost, free. There
0:24:51 > 0:24:56could be a touch of frost in rural spots. The bit of a mixed day with
0:24:56 > 0:25:00sunshine, still some showers moving through on the breeze west to east,
0:25:00 > 0:25:04perhaps on rain to the north of London during the afternoon but many
0:25:04 > 0:25:08seeing a good deal of dry weather with temperatures around eight or 9
0:25:08 > 0:25:14degrees. Slightly cooler than it has been in the cooling trend, continues
0:25:14 > 0:25:19into the weekend. Friday night set to sea fog and mist developing too.
0:25:19 > 0:25:25During the early hours of Saturday, you can see the mist and fog around.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28It stays fairly great throughout the day with rain on the cards as well
0:25:28 > 0:25:32but we will start to see brighter spells lifting the mist and fog and
0:25:32 > 0:25:36later in the day. Temperatures pretty much what we have seen over
0:25:36 > 0:25:42the last few days, perhaps a touch caller at around seven or 8 degrees.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Then we see high pressure building through the second half of the
0:25:46 > 0:25:50weekend, across all of the country, keeping the weather is dry and
0:25:50 > 0:25:54settled. Sunday is set to be the better day of the weekend, most
0:25:54 > 0:25:58showers clearing awake and a return to something more sunny, but colder
0:25:58 > 0:25:58as
0:25:58 > 0:26:01to something more sunny, but colder as well.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06A bit confusing, I have to say. Thank you very much indeed.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Tonight's main headlines now...
0:26:08 > 0:26:11The BBC understands that one in eight patients taken to hospital
0:26:11 > 0:26:14by ambulance in England so far this winter has had to wait more
0:26:14 > 0:26:16than half an hour to be handed over to NHS staff.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18The target is fifteen minutes.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20One of the country's most prolific sex offenders is to be released
0:26:21 > 0:26:22from prison on licence.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24John Warboys, who was known as the "black cab rapist",
0:26:24 > 0:26:27is thought to have committed dozens of rapes and sexual assaults
0:26:27 > 0:26:31on female passengers.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Scotland Yard has asked the Government for almost
0:26:33 > 0:26:3540 million towards the cost of the investigation
0:26:35 > 0:26:38into the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41The Met has also asked for additional funds to help
0:26:41 > 0:26:45policing following last year's terror attacks.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48A 95-year-old woman who knocked down and killed a man at a cemetery
0:26:48 > 0:26:51in Maidenhead after mistaking the accelerator for the brake has
0:26:51 > 0:26:56been given a suspended sentence.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58And homelessness charities have criticised the leader of the council
0:26:58 > 0:27:00in Windsor for suggesting that rough sleepers should be cleared
0:27:00 > 0:27:05from the town before the royal wedding in May.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07That's it.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I'll be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now
0:27:09 > 0:27:12from everyone on the team have a lovely evening.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Goodbye.