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Labour's plan to regenerate estates

by giving residents more say -

but will it help solve

the housing crisis?

You can see in neighbouring

Haringey, where momentum Labour,

interfering in the way things

are done, and the result will be

nothing will be built.

Jailed for a terror attack on muslim

worshippers in Finsbury Park -

we'll have more from relatives

of the man he killed.

Before our father left

the house that night,

he had spent the evening

with his family.

He was such a peaceful

and simple man.

He had no bad thoughts for anyone.

Plus, how a council leader

who called this student

"an appalling little child"

is facing calls to resign.

And...

Tickety-boo, 62!

Eyes down for a full house -

could Bingo be bouncing back?

Good evening and welcome

to the programme.

I'm Victoria Hollins.

Everyone agrees London

needs more homes.

But there's still a lot

of disagreement over how those

homes should be built,

and who should build them.

Today, Jeremy Corbyn

and the Mayor Sadiq Khan came

together to pledge local residents

themselves should be given more

power when housing estates

are being regenerated.

If they don't like the plans,

they could then be scrapped.

Our Political Correspondent Karl

Mercer joined the Labour leader

and Mayor in Barnet.

At the expense of the working-class

community that they never ever...

The campaign trail is already being

trod.

I'm looking forward to us

winning for the people of this area.

Expect to see plenty more of this

pair across the capital. In Barnet

this morning, one of Labour's key

targets.

We were trying to work out

which famous act he would most

resemble. Jekyll and Hyde?

I thought Starsky and Hutch!

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Or Cagney and Lacey, we don't mind.

Laurel and Hardy.

They've clearly worked

on working together.

They've not always been

on the same page politically.

Today they were.

The Mayor unveiling plans for people

living on estates to have the final

say in any regeneration

of their area.

If the developers want

City Hall money...

The expectation is you will consult

with and engage with residents and

then there will be rebuttal. Unless

the residents are in favour, you

will get no funding from me.

It's a plan backed

by his party leader,

and comes in the middle

of the ongoing row in neighbouring

Haringey over the Labour council's

regeneration plans there.

It's leader Claire

Kober quit this week.

In a bitter row, local Labour Party

opponents had challenged her plans

to build 6,500 homes in partnership

with a private developer.

She says she stood down because of

sexism, bullying and intimidation by

Labour Party colleagues.

Any sexism,

any bullying is totally wrong in any

circumstances by anybody and any

complaints when received will of

course be investigated.

He now wants locals

in Haringey consulted over

what happens next.

That is the key point. Local

residents should have their say in

what happens.

I definitely agree

with that because then it's your

taking consideration about how

people feel before doing anything.

I

believe it's important, because I

think there's too much

underhandedness going on.

When you

redevelop an area a lot of the time

people can't afford to live in the

area. I think you definitely need to

have a say.

In Barnet, new homes

continue to go up and the issue will

be a key one in the coming

elections.

We have built things, he

hasn't, the mayor hasn't built

anything. It is the boroughs that do

it. You can see in neighbouring

Haringey, momentum Labour

interfering and the result is

nothing will be built. It is a great

tragedy for the people who urgently

need homes.

The mayor's plans could affect

up to 25 estate regenerations

across the capital each year.

Karl Mercer, BBC London News.

And the Labour Leader has

given his reaction to the 43

year jail sentence given

to Darren Osborne,

the man who drove his van

into muslim worshippers outside

a mosque in Finsbury Park last June.

It emerged during his trial that

he'd wanted to attack

Jeremy Corbyn as well.

Do you know what the response of the

local community was? We all came

together, all of us, every

community, every faith came together

and went to the mosque and Muslim

Welfare House to show our support

for them. The answer to Darren

Osborne is, you will not divide us,

you will not divide our wonderful

multicultural community in Finsbury

Park or anywhere else and you don't

frighten us either.

Let's get more on this from

Ayshea Buksh who's in Finsbury Park.

And Ayshea, the family have

given their reaction?

That is right, Victoria. I am inside

Finsbury Park Mosque, not far from

where this attack happened. The man

who was killed, Makram Ali, was 51

years old. He had six children.

Earlier today one of them spoke

outside the court, when the man who

killed her father was sentenced.

Before our father left the house

that night he had spent the evening

with his family. He was here. It was

here where he felt most comfortable.

It was such, he was such a peaceful

and simple man. He had no bad

thoughts for anyone.

I am joined by a trustee of the

mosque here. I understand, thank you

for allowing us to be here this

evening. I understand you have been

working with Makram Ali's family.

Tell us about that, please.

Basically from the outset we set out

to establish a forum to try and

comfort and offer the service they

will need, the victims, and make

sure we speak to all the victims and

their families. We've set up this in

Finsbury Park, a voice for for them.

The idea was to work with them and

the local authority, as well as if

them the emotional help, working

with organisations such as Victim

Support. At the same time, we made

sure they had access to the main

services they needed, emotionally,

medically, and build on that.

Hopefully they will find a bit of

comfort.

There were others caught up

in what happened that night. People

who were injured. How are they

doing?

It is a fact this is a scar

that will stay with them for life.

After the judgment, it is not

something that will just go away but

hopefully they will be relieved.

Hopefully the service offered to

them, it will continue and we are

committed and determined to

basically make sure they have access

and they participate and get all the

services that is needed.

It was said

in court some of the witnesses that

night were now suffering from

flashbacks and had anxiety about

going out at night. How have you as

a mosque balanced the vigilance

around your worshippers, but also

reassurance to them as well?

First

and foremost I would like to commend

the three special witnesses, the

victims that had to come

face-to-face with the perpetrator. I

think it was very difficult for

them. At the same time, we ensured

they had so many different

activities they could use and

utilise.

Thank you so much.

Islington Council has set up a

memorial project as well. They will

be working with Makram Ali's family.

Back to you, Victoria.

Thanks very

much.

Still to come...

New footage of Sigmund Freud in

Hampstead, where the psychoanalyst

settled after fleeing the Nazis.

And coming up in just a few minutes,

I'll be telling you whether we will

see more sunshine through the

weekend than many of us did today.

All of the detail of the weekend

weather prospects in just a few

minutes.

It's a week on from when three

boys were tragically

killed in a car crash

in Hayes, west London.

Harry Rice, George Wilkinson

and Josh McGuinness were hit

by a motorist when on their way

to a birthday party.

Tonight a vigil is to be held

in their memory close

to where they lived -

Chris Rogers is there

for us this evening.

This simple loan poster is all there

is to remind us of the three

teenagers that this community has

now lost. But tonight at 8:40pm,

exactly a week since they were

killed, their parents, friends,

families, girlfriends and teachers

will all descend on the green hair,

to be united in grief. Until now the

focus has been very much on the spot

where they were killed about ten

miles away from here. That is where

I met one man who knew them very

well, who managed to pull together

the words to describe why these

three teenagers meant so much to so

many.

The loss of the three boys have hit

the community so badly. It's

devastating to me and everybody who

knew him and the families as well,

they must be really, really hurt. I

feel for them, I really do.

Davies

struggling to compare their three

students that will never return to

his kick boxing classes. From the

left, Josh McGuinness and George

Wilkinson aged 16 and Harry Rice

aged 17. They were knocked down when

a car ploughed into a bus stop,

hitting them and then a lamp post.

This is a little bit of George doing

a bit of kick boxing.

It is a

treasured moment of his most regular

and Pat 's most talented club

member, George.

He was such a great

martial artist, very good. I'm sure

he would have made a black belt. It

just tells you about his cheeky, fun

and lovable way.

Nothing can fill

the void their parents are feeling

right now but clearly this huge

coming together of the community and

tributes like yours that are being

paid for their sons, must be a help.

You spoke to George's dad?

Yes,

yesterday. It was such... So heart

filled, that so much is being done

by everybody. And then message from

George's dad to everybody is he

can't thank you enough for all that

you are doing, all that you care

about.

The alleged driver has been

charged with three counts of death

by dangerous driving. An

investigation continues, but nothing

will make sense of the loss of life

felt by so many.

The boys are so

special, so loved that that's why

the community has come together.

Chris Rogers, BBC London News.

We're well used to Donald Trump

getting into hot water

with his social media comments -

now a Council leader in Surrey has

been heavily criticised for abusive

remarks he made on Twitter.

Kevin Davis, the leader

in Kingston, called a teenager

"an appalling little child".

It came after the college student

asked an awkward question

in a public meeting.

Marc Ashdown has the story.

You've probably never heard of this

estate but they are big in Kingston,

big builders of big projects. So who

works of them is of interest to the

folk around here. Recently this

young man posted publicly about his

new role with them. It turns out he

is the son of the Kingston Council

leader. Which led 17-year-old local

resident James here to enquire at a

public meeting whether that was a

conflict of interest.

Just a yes or

no will suffice, I don't need a big

answer. The topic just sort of got

moved on and he sat there with his

head down not answering.

So he took

to Twitter to ask again, and got

this response...

It's incredibly upsetting and

distressing, really. My family were

very upset when they read it.

Obviously there almost an element of

rough-and-tumble, if you like, in

these sorts of affairs but that

behaviour and that language does not

come under that category at all.

It's abusive, really.

Councillor

Kevin Davies didn't want to give us

an interview. He has released a

statement in which he said he let

his passion get the better of him

after his son was used as what he

said was a political tool. He said I

need to acknowledge James is someone

else's son. I shouldn't have risen

to this attack, for that I

apologise.

All this is a familiar tune for

opposition councillors. Who say they

have repeatedly asked about the

leader's business dealings.

There is

certainly a perception among local

people that it's something. It's a

question that's been brought up time

and time again but never really had

any clarity. And a separate issue,

which is how you talk to people, how

you present yourself in public and

whether or not this is the right

tone for the leader of the council

to have.

Nearly 2000 people have

signed a petition calling for him to

resign. All James wants is a proper

apology. If Councillor Davies was

inviting you in to talk about this,

would you be happy to?

I'm happy to

sit down any time with him.

Watch

this space!

West Ham have sacked their director

of player recruitment following an

investigation into claims he told

agents that the Premier League club

didn't want to sign any more African

players. In a statement, West Ham

said it would not tolerate any type

of discrimination.

66 ago, the murder of

a 17-year-old girl shocked

a quiet village in Hertfordshire.

No one has ever been arrested

for it, but today officers believe

there is a good chance that someone

still alive knows who

strangled Anne Noblett.

Yvonne Hall reports.

January 1958 and in quiet

countryside near Wheathampstead

in Hertfordshire, hundreds of police

officers and volunteers search

for missing 17-year-old college

student Anne Noblett.

The local community were fantastic.

The military were involved,

the dog section, hundreds of police

officers in searching the area

between Harpenden and

Wheathampstead, but to no avail.

Ann Noblett was last seen

on the evening of December 30th,

1957, here in Marshalls Heath Lane,

Wheathampstead, where

she lived with her family.

The popular college student had just

been to a dance class and was seen

hurrying along here to her home

about a quarter of

a mile up the lane.

But Anne never made

it to her front door.

A month later and two brothers

were walking their dog five

miles away in Whitwell.

They find Anne's frozen body

in secluded woodland.

She had been strangled and may have

been sexually assaulted.

There was an indication

that she probably had been

in chilled or refrigerated storage

prior to being deposited here.

There seemed at the time no other

reasonable explanation as to why

she'd be in the condition

she was when she was found.

It's unclear how much evidence

was gathered in 1958,

but nothing has been kept.

But today's forensic

tests could still help

identify the killer.

People hoard, people keep things,

and we would certainly hope that

somebody might just give us that

little bit of information.

They may not realise how

important it is to us,

but anything at all can now be

of use to us.

Detectives now hope what will

finally solve the 60-year-old

mystery are the consciences

of people still alive

who may know who the killer

is and will have the courage

to name them.

It might be a guilty conscience,

it might be through separation

in relationships, who knows?

These things do happen

from time to time.

And I think it's just worth

asking the question again.

It's a wish Anne's surviving brother

has never given up on.

He doesn't want to talk on camera,

but says he thinks of his loving

and caring sister every day

and still hopes her killer will one

day be brought to justice.

Yvonne Hall, BBC London

News, Wheathampstead.

Now this Sunday will you be staying

up to watch the Superbowl?

It's one of the biggest sporting

events of the year -

and one of the players,

you may want to cheer

on is Jay Ajayi.

He plays for the Philadelphia

Eagles, but was born here in London.

Emma Jones has the story.

Touchdown!

The Philadelphia Eagles on their way

to booking their place

in Sunday's Super Bowl.

The team includes Hackney born

running back Jay Ajayi.

He won't be the first ever London

born player to reach a Super Bowl,

but he joins an elite group

including this double winner

asking him the big question.

You're on the cusp of being another

British-born Super Bowl

winner so how do you feel?

It's a blessing.

At the end of the season

and everything I get to review

everything but just from the journey

of this where I've come from,

from the UK to here,

to now being in the Super Bowl

in my third season, NFL,

it's all a blessing.

He was back in Hackney

to surprise players

from the London Blitz American

football team recently.

He may have left London

when he was seven,

but it remains home.

This is London Blitz.

Look at you guys training.

This is Hackney.

London Blitz has already produced

players who have gone on to play

in America and even in the NFL.

And Jay Ajayi's success

could provide even more inspiration.

The fact he is from London,

I thought, he killed it

and became a superstar.

That's not a big thing that usually

happens to UK players,

but he did it and he inspires us

to let us know that one

day we can do it too.

The Eagles team wear dog masks

because they are so often

call the underdogs.

That will be the case again this

weekend but could they spring

another Super Bowl surprise?

Emma Jones, BBC London News.

It was once a popular night out,

attracting ladies of a certain age

hoping for a big win.

But there's been a huge fall

in the number of bingo halls

in the capital in recent years.

That's why one group is trying

to bring in a younger crowd.

But will it catch on?

Thomas Magill has been to find out.

Hold onto your dabbers,

this is bingo like you've

never seen it before.

So the Social Bingo Academy

is the first organisation that's

been set up to try and empower young

people so that they know the rules,

they go in a bit more confident.

Young people like Ruby

and her friends, who all admit

going to traditional bingo isn't

exactly their idea

of a good night out.

I actually used to go to bingo quite

regularly when I lived in Salford,

so it was a real sort of bingo hall.

It was filled with smoke...

People that are above a certain age,

that have nothing better to do,

that's the only way

that they can entertain themselves.

So, bingo has a serious image

problem amongst younger people

who say it hasn't changed much

from its heyday in the '80s.

But for regulars then, and now,

going to bingo was about more

than just playing the game.

I come nearly every day,

to meet all my nice friends,

including Nora here.

Nora at the table.

Bosses are working hard to attract

new players by making it more fun.

The industry is worth

£45 million to London's economy

and employs around 1000 people.

And before the smoking ban

came into force in 2006,

there were over 50 clubs

in the capital.

These days, there's under 20.

Welcome to the Social Bingo

Academy launch night.

But are events like this one in

Camden encouraging people to gamble?

I don't think bingo sits

in the realm of problem gambling.

It's not about the winning,

because when you're at an extreme

gambling event, it's all about am

I going to win or am

I going to lose?

Whereas you can come

to a Social Bingo Academy,

not win a thing and hopefully

still have a really good time.

And before the fun starts,

there's just a few things

to learn, like the lingo.

It's tickety-boo, 62!

But for others like Ruby,

it all comes down to luck

and her secret weapon.

I have my lucky bingo dabber

so I kind of like knew I'd

probably win, at some point.

The challenge now these guys

know their clickety click

from their two fat ladies is to get

them into bingo halls

across the capital.

The question is, has this

crash course helped?

I love bingo so much!

If I wasn't a convert

before, I'm 100% now.

And it's even better if you win.

Thomas McGill, BBC London News.

Next, he's one of the best known

members of the Jewish community

who fled the Nazis to come

and settle in London.

Sigmund Freud -

the Psychoanalyst and Doctor -

was living in Austria before

he sought refuge here.

His Hampstead home is now a museum

where a new exhibition marks 80

years since he arrived

in the capital.

Wendy Hurrell reports.

The result will ponder in the

garden. We are watching for a

goldfish.

On Freud narrates a home

video from 1938 showing her father

and his grandson 's at the house in

Hampstead. He has just narrowly

escaped Nazi 's in Austria. Arriving

in London in his 80s.

He was very

ill at the time, it was the end of

his life, he only lived here for one

year.

Jayne is an artist whose work

is inspired by her family history

represented in this house.

It has

given us first-hand knowledge, easy

access, to the theories of Sigmund

Freud. It's delivered his legacy

straight into our hands. I feel so

enriched by it, just as a person,

let alone a great granddaughter.

Just as an artist I would say.

And

she is not the only one.

It is

there, we have defined it, like a

compass, where are you compared to

Freud? You're taking everything, the

other factors, the cradle of the

time in Hampstead, north London.

Born in Israel this artist's work is

the first exhibition this year

marking the arrival of Sigmund Freud

in London 80 years ago. Installed in

a study where he worked.

When he got

here he was able to recreate his

working situation from Vienna. He

jammed packed all of the cases, all

of the surfaces with all of his

antiquities which were so integral

as to how he worked and his process.

He became the best nonperson in the

growing community of Jewish

refugees.

He was met by lots of

journalists and photographers and

said it was the first time he felt

famous.

As famous as the

psychiatrist coaches in popular

culture today. This is the original.

Inside a Hampstead house which

became a museum, the last home of

this influential Austrian exile.

Now, let's check on the Weather

with Philip Avery.

This was the action packed scene

this morning, I was expecting a bit

more in the way of sunshine. It did

peek through an occasion that we

were not that favoured today. A lot

of sunshine to be had but a great

clump of cloud for the greater part

of the afternoon across the greater

part of our area. I am sure the

favoured few saw a bit of sunshine

but I was not one of them, not that

I ventured out much. It was on the

cool side, in north-westerly breeze.

Overnight if you are stepping out

for the most part it is dry, I would

have thought the last of that cloud

giving maybe one shower or two away

to the east and things clouding up

later into the West. But before that

happens temperatures might have

dipped away, if you are pawn row

freezing. How do I break this to you

gently? I cannot, it is one of those

days I'm afraid, a lot of cloud

around, little in the way of

sunshine. A weather front not 1

million miles away and for the most

part the rain is light and patchy, I

can guarantee it will be on the cool

side, four, five or 6 degrees only

and here we change the scene and

change the theme on Sunday. It will

not be if you thought you saw

wintering us in the showers I would

not be surprised because the isobars

on Sunday, the wind from the

north-east, will be really

noticeable. As we get into the start

of next week I think it's still a

factor, it's essentially a dry start

to the week but we might still have

some showers coming down on that

north-easterly breeze. No heatwave

this weekend by any means at all and

certainly on Sunday, it will feel

much colder than that and there

could be wintry showers around.

The Prime Minister is under

increasing pressure to be more

specific about what she wants

Britain's future trade relationship

with the EU to look like.

Negotiations on Brexit are due to

resume with Brussels on Monday.

That's it, I will be back later

during the ten o'clock News but

burn-out from everyone here,

whatever you're doing have a lovely

evening. Goodbye for now.