27/02/2018 London News

easterly. Wrap up warmly if you do

have to go out.

Tonight on BBC London News:

Fears over the fight

against breast cancer,

as early detection rates

in the capital are some

of the lowest in the country.

This could save your life.

Going for screening means

that you can catch the cancer

well before you can feel a lump.

My mum couldn't feel

anything at all, and

she was religious about checking.

So if she hadn't gone for the scan,

it would have been too late.

Also tonight - two people have died

after a fire in a flat

above a shop in Kingston.

Snow disruption and delays

on parts of the rail network.

Were train operators right

to cancel some services?

Plus, your pictures

of how a blizzard turned

some of the capital

into a winter wonderland.

Furbies as you've never

seen them before.

We meet the man behind the musical

creation that's gone viral.

A very good evening

and welcome to the programme.

First tonight - fears over

the diagnosis and treatment

of breast cancer here

in the capital.

We know, the earlier

the disease is detected,

the higher the chances

of successful treatment.

But according to a major new report,

women in greater London

are the least likely to be screened

and early detection rates

lag behind other regions.

Tolu Adeoye has the details.

Yes, Riz.

The figures are stark -

every year, around 11,500 women

die from breast cancer.

That's nearly 1000

deaths each month.

And this is concerning in London,

because here the attendance rate

at screenings was the lowest

in England last year.

Just 64% of women who were

invited to a screening

attended within six months.

And that falls well short

of the national target of 70%.

I've been speaking to one woman

who says screening has saved

the lives of several members

of her family.

So my mum has had breast cancer, my

aunt, I have add, 12 members of the

family have all had breast cancer.

Her family knows more than most how

important detecting cancer can be.

She found a lump while checking her

own breasts, but she says her mother

was saved by screening.

She went to

her first possible screening

appointment, slightly younger than

the normal age, 49 rather than 50,

but her turn came up, so she went.

She had three tumours, and they

wouldn't have been felt on

self-examination, so it was

important she went for screening, if

she thought she was too busy, which

she nearly did, it might have been

too late.

Greening is offered to

women between 50 and 70 years old.

-- screening. The vast majority of

women survive for five years after

screening, but many do not go, why?

We know women in London are busy and

it can be difficult to attend, and

women are more transient in London,

they move house more regularly, and

if they are registering with a GP,

their screening invitation may be

delayed. And we know that London has

higher rates of BME women, and I are

cultural sensitivities about talking

about breast screening, breast

cancer, and that can make it more

difficult for women to attend.

There

is some good news - although below

the national average overall, more

women are taking up screening than

ever before. Tower Hamlets had one

of the lowest rates across the

country, but following a number of

interventions that has been

significant improvement. They

include offering people second

appointments if they don't respond

to the first invitation, calling

people before an appointment, and

going out into the community to

remind people how important it is to

go for screenings. NHS England says

it is helping local areas to improve

the consistency of service for

patients across the country. This

woman says awareness is vital.

It is

so important to talk about it so

other people are conscious of it,

they know to check themselves and go

for it so they can be diagnosed

earlier.

Two men have died after a fire

in Tolworth in southwest London.

Five others were taken to hospital

for smoke inhalation.

The cause of the blaze

is not yet known.

Yvonne Hall has more.

The burned-out remains of the

building where two men lost their

lives this morning. Fire broke out

in a flat above a wine and food

store in Tolworth near Kingston just

before 5am. A loft conversion next

door also caught fire. Other homes

nearby had to be evacuated. It took

50 firefighters nearly three hours

to get the blaze under control. The

area has been called and off all day

with work now under way to make the

damaged building safe. -- cordoned

off. These officers are still tried

to contact all the relatives of the

men who died here before releasing

their identities. -- police

officers. Five people who live in

the flat survived but were taken to

hospital suffering from the effects

of breathing in smoke. They have

since been released. Meanwhile,

police and fire investigations are

under way to find exactly how this

blaze started. Yvonne Hall, BBC

London News, Tolworth, near

Kingston.

A father of four from South London

who posted homemade videos

on the internet glorifying

the Islamic State group has been

jailed for three years.

50-year-old Gary Staples

from South Norwood loaded up clips

showing armed IS fighters

and Osama Bin Laden.

He was found guilty of seven counts

of encouraging terrorism and one

count of disseminating a terrorist

publication last month.

Coming up later in the programme:

The artefacts that reveal more

about the cultural history

of some of the capital's

diverse communities.

The wintry conditions have caused

some serious disruption

in some parts of the capital,

with rail services

in the east the worst hit.

More on that in a moment.

Even central London

saw a five-minute flurry,

which delighted many

who captured it on camera.

Here are just some of the pictures

you've been sending in.

MUSIC PLAYS

There is no where I come from.

Quite

exciting, quite enjoyable.

I have

been in London since last year, and

it is the first time I have seen

this much snow.

I am from Spain, it

doesn't snow much there either, so I

am excited for the snow.

So looking lovely.

If you weren't trying to travel

on parts of the transport network.

There was disruption, although not

as much as was expected.

Stations in Essex and Kent did see

delays and cancellations,

as our transport correspondent

Tom Edwards reports.

This time-lapse footage from a tower

block shows a snow storm

engulfing the Greenwich Peninsula.

Blizzards and snow showers came

and went throughout the day

in London and the Home Counties.

Sometimes it was localised,

sometimes thick.

It meant central London looked more

like Moscow at times.

And out in Essex, commuters

this morning faced cancellations

and delays on the trains.

It's a bit of a worry that it's

going to be cancelled last minute

when you've already got here,

especially because I planned

this for like a month.

They're doing all they can.

The main trains going

through are working,

it's just the little stations that

are struggling at the moment.

This evening, I think

it's going to be

quite difficult getting back,

so I don't know.

I think a lot of people

who are working in London are

probably going to really struggle.

An amended timetable

was brought in by Network Rail

and the train companies.

They thinned out services.

It meant they could

use more of these.

I think we were right

to make contingency plans,

and also to warn customers

what they were going to be,

and what the levels

of service were going to be.

I also think we were quite

right now,

when the weather hasn't proved

as bad as it was predicted,

to start reinstating services.

At some stations like Chelmsford,

it took over an hour

to get on a train as they were full.

And the overground and TfL

rail also suffered.

On the roads, ice did mean some

tricky driving conditions in places,

and longer journeys.

The M20 was just gridlocked.

We tried to go some backstreets,

and basically it was just even

worse, so we had to turn around

and come back due to the weather.

We'll just have to see

what the weather's like when we get

a bit further east, so...

hopefully, we'll make it on time.

Most transport in the capital hasn't

been badly affected yet,

although there will still be

apprehension from commuters about

what lies ahead later this week.

Well, let's pick up with Tom

at Victoria Station.

What's the latest?

Very busy here, actually, at

Victoria Station, big crowds

gathering, and a lot of delays and

cancellations. You might, for

example, be able to make out the

train to Orpington cancelled,

Ramsgate also cancelled, lots of

people standing around, waiting to

find out when next train home is

going to be. As for the restrictions

brought in by Network Rail, there

has been a little bit of criticism

of those behind-the-scenes. The

phrase as I have heard, overkill,

too draconian, way over the top.

Network Rail, though, they are a bit

dammed if they do, dammed if they

don't. They said to me, we are not

weather experts, our information

comes from the Met Office. There is,

though, a little bit of good news

for commuters - those restrictions

out into East Anglia, denied they

have been lifted, and TfL Rail and

the overground are getting a little

bit back to normal. The big question

now is how long that is going to

last. Riz.

OK, thank you very much indeed. We

heard that they are not weather

experts, but Nick Miller is, thanks

for joining us again. Variations,

really, is what we seen, hard to

predict, puts a lot of pressure on

guys.

That is the case with snow showers,

and that has been the forecast over

the last couple of days, some areas

have add snow shower after snow

shower, particularly in the east of

London, where as others have had a

dusting, that brief snow shower in

London, maybe one centimetre out of

that. That is what the weather said

is delivering at that moment, that

big variety continuing with further

snow showers. -- we are looking at

Thursday and Friday for an area of

snow, some doubt about how much we

will see on Thursday, but likely to

get some snow on Friday, a longer

period of snow. How heavy? That is

open to debate, we will keep across

that, but the transition from

showers, hit and miss Komla more of

us seeing a longer period of snow

later in the week.

And a detailed

forecast later, thank you.

Wormwood Scrubs is again

under the spotlight,

just months after a damning report

into conditions there.

Now, the family of a 46-year-old

prisoner who recently killed himself

there believe he was let down

by the prison management.

Marc Ashdown reports.

Four weeks ago, an inmate

at Wormwood Scrubs

was stabbed to death.

Outside, we spoke to

worried relatives of other

prisoners at visiting time.

I'm terrified what's

going to happen next.

Whoever's been visiting today,

they are all really shocked.

This is Sarah today.

Tragically her partner died

at the prison on Friday.

He took his own life.

She believes the authorities

let him down.

They could have done more, yes,

cos I was concerned and they said

to me that they would monitor him

every day, and I don't

think that was true.

So, he was on hunger strike?

Yes.

And I don't think that was true,

that he was getting monitored.

Her partner was jailed

after he became abusive

at a betting shop last year.

After a short sentence,

he was due to be deported

to his native Sri Lanka.

He had been refusing to eat.

The Prison Service has

offered its sincere condolences

and says a full independent

investigation will be carried out.

No more prison deaths!

Protesters outside Wormwood Scrubs

earlier this month again raised

concerns about conditions inside.

Repeated inspections have

flagged staff shortages

and high levels of violence.

Families just want to know

prisoners are safe.

London prisons take

people from local courts,

and there is a churn of people

coming in and out,

so people will come in on remand

or for short periods of time,

or until they are transferred

to a longer term prison.

So there are people coming

and going every day in huge numbers.

That puts a great strain

on the prison because the staff

They are awash with drugs, vermin,

they are overcrowded, filthy,

under resourced, understaffed.

They are not safe.

My partner was a loving

person, and...

I loved him too much,

and he shouldn't have...

He shouldn't, he shouldn't.

I just...

I just wish he was

with me, that's all.

Mark Ashdown, BBC London News.

called

Still to come before seven:

making music the Furby way. We meet

the East Londoner who has created an

internet hit with the 90s toy.

We've heard about the great

things that becoming

the European City of Culture has

done for places like

Hull and Liverpool.

So, could the same happen

here for London with a new London

borough of culture award.

Up for grabs more than a million

pounds to the winning borough.

But as Ena Miller reports -

why announce just one winner -

when you could have two?

The London Mayor's call for action.

What Boro couldst... Could prove

that they deserve the title of

Borough capital of culture and win

the £1 million? The entries came

flooding in. 22 councils entered,

two winners for the next two years

were announced at the City Hall

today. Here is the first one.

The

winner of the London Borough of

culture 2020 ghosted...

LAUGHTER

It is Brent.

Our bid has been about

young people and raising aspirations

for them. Setting up that trust

whether young people will be at the

heart of it, leading from the front

is going to make sure that young

people become the next leaders Brent

and London.

What would you say to

those people who think the money

could be better spent somewhere

else?

Culture and arts is who we

are. We want young people to be

doing constructive and useful things

rather than being led astray and

giving criminal acts, so it is an

investment in young people, in

communities, but it also brings in

jobs and taxes to our city and

country.

The Mayor's job was only

done after he announced the winners

of 2019. And the celebrations

continued all the way to

Walthamstow.

I work with young people and the

general consensus is that the

authorities don't really care, but I

think this is the perfect way and

the perfect statement to show that,

yeah, we do care.

Leaving all the

celebrations behind us, we are

entering one of the spaces that will

benefit from the award. Now, the

council says the money will go

towards developing culture and will

also go towards protecting the jobs

that create it.

We need to give more

studio spaces, more office desks.

Each borough at dart-mac it seems a

challenge that every borough is up.

Emma Miller, BBC London News. Former

Arsenal striker Ian Wright says he

cannot make a case for us in Wenger

remaining as manager of Arsenal

beyond the end of this season. --

Arsene. Ian Wright said the club

should change managers as soon as

possible.

I want Arsenal to start

the challenge again and to sign

players that make people excited

again, I want somebody who will come

into the Arsenal board who will lay

down the law to people, and a new

manager, whoever that is going to

be, and the players who are now on

easy street literally. A few of them

own easy street and read out

properties on it. It will take

Arsenal a few years to get back into

that because remember, everybody is

progressing right now and moving

forward, all of them.

Ian Wright,

speaking there.

Next, continuing our look at how

different cultures in the capital

have influenced London.

It coincides with the BBC's

documentary series Civilisations

about significant works of art

and what it tells us

about the people who created them.

Tonight, Wendy Hurrell

reports on the connection

between an artefact

in the Wallace Collection and

the Indian community in Southall.

Some 300,000 people from the Indian

subcontinent live in the capital. In

Southall in west London, the colour,

spice and sound of their culture

makes snowy streets vibrant. Just up

the road in Hayes, traditional

Indian sweets are being whipped,

rolled and decorated.

When there is

the birth of a child, someone is

getting married or engaged,

graduation, any time, Indian sweets

are giving out just to celebrate

with us the joyous occasions.

They

are named after a word that derives

from the word for snow. This is a

dagger made early in the 1600s and

evidence points to it having been

owned by Prince Koran, who became

the Mogul emperor and commissioned

the Taj Mahal.

There are a number of

things in the Wallace collection

that are associated with famous

historical figures. There is a

portrait of the Prince in the

Victoria and Albert. He he's wearing

gold decorated with stones, and it

has a duck's head over the top. It

is a dagger of unprecedented

richness. It is set with something

like 2000 tiny pieces of Ruby,

emerald and diamond is. -- diamond.

It is a human masterpiece, and human

beings dug some rare materials out

of the ground and they made that.

Its presence here tells us about the

British Empire. Its combination of

Islamic and Hindu styles reveals the

secrets of the Muslim empire. Back

at the burgeoning sweet shop empire

in Southall, an opportunity for

cultural exchange.

Rocky road, Eton

mess... We will be adding more

flavours to match the continents.

And just to say the programme

Civilisations is on this Thursday

at nine o'clock on BBC Two.

The

For details of events happening

near you, go to the the website,

bbc.co.uk/civilisations.

Now, you may remember these toy

creatures from the late '90s.

But trust me - you've never seen

Furbies quite like this.

Because an East Londoner who prides

himself on turning junk into musical

instruments has made an organ out

of them, and it's

become an online hit.

So we sent our very own Furby,

Gareth Furby, to meet

the musical inventor.

We're inside a disused building

of the Mile End Road in East London

to meet a 27-year-old

called Sam Battle.

He's rapidly filling this room

with electronic inventions he's

built himself.

This is my lair where I make things.

Basically, I build this stuff.

They are musical instruments,

often made out of other

people's junk.

When I'm very lucky,

I find it on the streets.

I've never been shy

of diving into a skip when

I see one.

And we're not recommending

you do this at home,

but this is a skill Sam's taught

himself over the past six years.

I was quite bad

at physics at school,

not very good at science,

didn't get very good grades,

but I am just very practically

minded, so this just

kind of worked.

He's starting to make a bit

of a name for himself,

taking his inventions on tour,

so here are his top three.

In third place, the musical bike.

With a synthesiser

and a drum machine on

it.

In second place, the megadrone.

I call it a megadrone

because one pitch would

be a drone, but this

is

100 of them.

The point is to see

what it would sound like.

If it doesn't exist, build it.

But even that can't

compare to his newest and

most ambitious creation.

At number one...

This is a Furby organ.

It takes 45 Furbies.

I've found them in charity

shops, car-boot sales.

Each of the Furbies

are assigned a note,

and they are assigned a key to sing,

so they are singing in tune.

Of course, for someone

who shares the

name Furby, which has been traced

back to medieval Yorkshire but was

then adopted by a toy company,

this is all quite fascinating.

But even Sam admits

he may have created

something a little unpleasant.

I've made a monstrosity.

This is like Frankenstein's

evil monster.

What have I done?!

It's already a viral hit

on the internet, and soon

they'll be joining him on tour.

Gareth Furby, BBC London News.

that is quite something!

Time for a check on this bitterly

cold weather, and Nick's here.

It is about to get even colder out

and about tomorrow. Here is another

view of the snow shower that came

through this afternoon. We have

another warning out to be aware of

the potential for snow. Some places

will get nothing and others will

just get a few centimetres overnight

and into the morning. We expect the

heaviest showers to be well to the

East of us, running through parts of

Essex and Kent, running through

Surrey overnight and into the

morning. You could see a snow shower

just about anywhere. As we saw in

central London today, it doesn't

take long for that snow to

accumulate to a few centimetres.

Those are your overnight

temperatures, well below freezing,

so it will feel bitterly cold in the

morning. Check the situation before

you head out in case the snow

showers have had an impact during

the course of the night on the

travel situation near you. A few

more showers in the morning, but

through into the afternoon, it

becomes mainly dry, with a bit of

dry, sunny weather around. It does

nothing for the temperature. This

would be a chilly night at this time

of year. These are the daytime highs

tomorrow, so some not getting above

freezing. Factor in the wind, this

is quite breathtaking. This is what

it will feel like at times during

the day tomorrow. In two minus

double figures. Talking snow showers

at the moment, a quieter day to come

tomorrow, but then we are watching

this area of low pressure coming up

from Iberia and pushing a spell of

snow to southern parts of the UK. As

we go into Friday, we could see more

widespread snow pushing up across

our path of the world that may be

lasting some time. This is the

outlook as we go through the rest of

the week. Look how the temperatures

head up into the start of next week.

Bitterly cold now, but the end is in

sight.

The weather is one of our main

headlines than that. Snow has caused

major disruption in many areas

across the UK. Treacherous driving

conditions, train cancellations and

dozens of flight delays. Hundreds of

schools have been closed and there

could be worse weather to come

tomorrow.

The international trade Secretary

Liam Fox says any form of customs

union with the EU after Brexit would

be a complete sell-out for the UK.

A major report has found women in

Greater London are the least likely

to be screened for breast cancer.

London also lags behind other

regions when it comes to early

detection rates. More on the day's

stories on the website, and lots of

your snow pictures on our Facebook

page. Thanks for those. I'll be back

later during the Ten O'Clock News.

Thanks for watching and do have a

lovely evening. Goodbye.