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for the Salisbury nerve attack as

the Prime Minister visits the crime

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scene.

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On BBC London this Thursday night:

scene.

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For the first time,

London's Air Ambulance attends

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to more violent attacks than road

traffic accidents -

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And the victims are younger.

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We're also seeing schoolchildren,

where we have to cut off their

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school uniform to get to them to try

and help and do some operations,

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which is just tragic.

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We hear from a teenager who lost

a friend to knife crime.

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Also tonight:

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Why these children are upset

their school could close just five

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years after it opened.

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Plus:

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How a company in Hertfordshire

could have found a way

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to clean-up litter in space.

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And...

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# We are the kids in America...

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And don't pretend you're

not singing along.

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Stay with us as we catch

up with Kim Wilde.

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Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.

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For the first time in nearly 30

years, London's Air Ambulance

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says its being called out to more

stabbings and shootings

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than it is to road

traffic accidents.

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Their lead clinician says it's now

not unusual for them to perform open

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heart surgery for stab wounds twice

in a single day.

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The news comes as another teenager

died from a knife attack,

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while a man was shot dead in east

London.

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Karl Mercer has spent the day

with the Air Ambulance.

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As we were filming, another

call-out... They do this 1800 times

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a year, nearly a third of all the

missions are to victims of stabbings

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and shootings.

We are seeing

patients who are stabbed multiple

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times, perhaps with much more brutal

weapons than we saw before. We are

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still seeing people who are stabbed

once and passing away at the

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roadside. We're also seeing

schoolchildren where we have to cut

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off their school uniform to get to

them to try and help and do some

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operations, which is just tragic.

For the first time, stabbings and

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shootings account for the big

slumber of missions, bigger than

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road accidents. 560 victims of knife

and gun crime in the last year. Many

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in teens.

The horror is not in the

injuries. It is in the age of the

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victims and the constant drip, drip,

drip of life, afterlife, after life,

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being ruined by injuries. That has

got to stop.

At the end of last

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year, BBC London filmed a week in

the Royal London hospital. This is

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where the victims of the growing

violence are brought. On busy

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nights, the air ambulance can bring

in several victims. The air

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ambulance is paid for by charity

donations with the NHS paying for

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the stuff.

Every member of the team

has a case, most shifts where they

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come back absolutely downtrodden

because of what they have seen and

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because they have had to break news

to relatives of those patients at

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the scene. Which is harrowing.

Obviously more harrowing for the

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people involved, but it does affect

all of the medical teams through the

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system, who are trying to help.

One

of those trying to do that is

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surging, Martin Griffiths.

It is

very concerning because we are

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living in a society where use is

starting to degrade and people are

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having near fatal events in their

childhoods. -- youth. We talk about

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knife intervention at that age but

at 13, 14, where do you start the

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intervention work?

That is a

question for wider society, but

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while it looks for an answer, the

victims will continue to come.

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Well, many people affected

by knife crime are teenagers

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and the authorities are constantly

looking at ways of deterring young

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people from carrying knives.

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So as part of the BBC's

Annual School Report Day,

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we asked 18-year-old Abbianca

from east London to take a look

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at the issue for us.

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This is her report.

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Hello, I'm Abbianca.

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Sixth form student at

Draper's Academy, in Harrod Hill.

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I want to explore the ways

in which the education system can

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help reduce knife crime.

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This issue is very close

to my heart because in 2016,

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I lost a dear friend of mine

who was a victim of knife crime.

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I went to Scotland Yard to speak

to a senior police detective,

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who deals with knife crime

on a daily basis.

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I asked him if he thought schools

should have compulsory

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lessons on this issue.

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What to think about this,

do you think this can

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make a difference?

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I think it would make

a difference, I think we need

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to change the messaging.

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We have been saying for some time

that police on their own are not

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going to arrest or enforce their way

out of this.

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We need some answers and we need

to ask the right questions,

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so let's get into our

communities, younger people.

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Here I am back at my school,

Draper's Academy where I'll be

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interviewing head of sixth form

and some students on the issue

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of tackling knife crime.

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Some people may carry

knives for protection,

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especially because there's other

teenagers carrying knives anyway.

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When community centres

are shut down and therefore,

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the youth clubs that were held

in them get people getting bored

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and therefore joining gangs

because they don't have the group

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where they could have gone to.

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If I'm being honest,

schools don't really teach

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about knife crime that much.

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My first talk was in year 12,

I was 16 when I had my first

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talk about knife crime.

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Do you think that these lessons will

make a difference and have an impact

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on the younger generation?

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I'm not convinced.

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I think people who are attracted

to gangs and attracted to carrying

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knives, they've kind of fallen out

of the education system.

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There isn't one solution

to tackling knife crime,

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but from my interviews,

it seems that changes

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in the education system

could possibly contribute

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to reduce knife crime.

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Abbianca, BBC School Report.

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Our thanks to Abbianca

for that report.

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Well, it's Thursday the 15th March.

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This is what's still

to come on the programme:

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A small part of the Paddington basin

is being transformed. I will explain

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how later in the programme.

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London's Museums are some

of the best in the world,

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but they say they're

being overlooked when

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it comes to Brexit.

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They argue its essential

for them to know how

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they'll have access to art,

staff and funding after

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the break from the EU.

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To put it all into perspective,

London's Creative industries

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generate almost £50 billion a year,

which is around half the UK's total.

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It also accounts for one

in six jobs in London.

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The issue has been

discussed at a conference

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at The National Gallery today,

from where we can hear

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from Katharine Carpenter.

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There are figures out today showing

this place was the second most

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visited attraction last year in the

UK, second only to the British

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Museum. Those stats are important to

London at the moment and this sector

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is trying to get its voice heard in

the breadth in negotiations. Members

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gathered here today to try to

discuss how to do that, had to try

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and get the issues they are

concerned about heard by the

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government, amongst other things.

There are many other common things

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but individual concerns for

different parts of the sector, as I

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found out to some of those who run

our galleries and museums.

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We'll place these as we planned...

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Putting the final touches to this

exhibition of work by Austrian

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artist is a precise business.

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But after being shown at this

north London gallery,

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some of these pieces might be loaned

elsewhere in the EU,

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a fairly simple process

while we are still members.

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It's really relatively smooth,

it's a number of pieces of paper.

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It means we can import and export

duty free, if you like.

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But if administration,

bureaucracy then comes into it,

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we'll have to employ somebody

at some stage to deal

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with all that paperwork.

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He says he's prepared

to make the necessary

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changes, but needs to know

what they'll be, soon.

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Getting clarity on these issues

is just as important

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for large institutions.

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Here at the natural history museum

it can take up to three or four

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years to plan an exhibition.

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So even if you factor

in a transition period,

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time is beginning to run out.

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The Museums Association warns that

London's cultural offering could be

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affected with access to funding

and staff major concerns.

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30% of museums in the UK

employ staff from other

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countries in the EU.

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There is concern that some

of will leave and the museums

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won't be able to attract

high-quality, specialist staff

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in very niche subject areas,

which typically they rely on to put

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on the kind of amazing

exhibitions that you see today.

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But some see Brexit as a chance

to widen the opportunity.

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The fledgling group,

Artists for Brexit, hopes it

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will create a more level playing

field globally and remind

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creatives they need to engage

with wide audiences.

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You finish up with artists and art

work is not actually speaking

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with the people of the British

Isles.

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People with whom they are supposed

to be engaging, but just

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talking amongst themselves.

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This is bad for the arts, long term.

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But if some audiences

are being overlooked,

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so too is the cultural sector

as a whole, according

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to Alistair Brown.

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The decisions that are being made

about things like the customs union

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are being made at such a high level

in government and they are facing

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so many different competing

demands from areas like

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the city, from industry.

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That it's difficult for museums'

concerns to be heard at that level.

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And with so much at stake,

it's a point London's arts

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will keep on making.

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The government has got back to us on

the point of overlooking this

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sector. It told us it wants the best

deal from the negotiations so it can

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begin to grow and thrive. When it

set its own immigration policy after

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Brexit it will welcome those with

the skills and expertise to allow

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museums and galleries to continue to

do what's best. Let's speak to John,

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are you reassured by those words?

A

small amount, they talk the right

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talk and they are trying to be

reassuring. The issue for us, is

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London, this incredible, welcoming

and cultural and artistic city,

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going to be as open for business, as

open for people from across the

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European Union to ply their trade.

That is what makes this industry so

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intriguing, Brits and people from

far afield can work together. £92

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billion annually, there is nothing

soft, nothing about entertainment in

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this. This sector produces four

times as many jobs as others over

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the last year. This is the real

powerhouse for Britain.

It is clear

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what you want but how will you get

it, you have only got a year to go?

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We are engaging with them all the

time but are they listening? I can

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get out of bed either side and give

you a different answer. We have got

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our work cut out. We have to

demonstrate that economically,

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socially, culturally and in terms of

Britain's image abroad, the creative

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industries and tech or the key

drivers for the economy. If they

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don't put this sector front and

centre of the negotiations, all of

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us in London will suffer

economically as a result.

You heard

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a very strong case being made by the

sector, it just hopes now the

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government will listen.

We will watch very carefully. Two of

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the news now...

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A ceremony has been held

to celebrate the life of Makram Ali,

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the man killed in the Finsbury Park

terror attack in June.

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A plaque

and a tree were unveiled

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by his daughter and grandchildren.

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Mr Ali was killed by a van

driven by Darren Osbourne,

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who's been jailed for life.

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Also in attendance, was the Police

Commissioner, Cressida Dick

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and Mayor of London,

Sadeeq Khan.

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A woman who posed as a survivor

of the Grenfell Tower Fire

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has been convicted of fraud.

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Southwark Crown Court heard that

47-year-old Joyce M-Sokeri,

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pretended to have lost her home

and her husband so she could obtain

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cash, donations and accommodation.

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At the time, she was

living in Sutton.

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M-Sokeri will be

sentenced next month.

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Parents at a primary

school in west London,

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which opened in 2012, have said

they're devastated after being told

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it plans to close at

the end of next term.

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Minerva Academy in Paddington

is only half full,

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still on a temporary site,

and has no school playground.

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Our Education Reporter, Marc Ashdown

has been finding out why.

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Schools open, another

day of learning ahead,

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something most parents

simply take for granted.

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But school

days at Minerva Academy

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in Paddington could be numbered.

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Only half full, and based on this

woefully inadequate temporary site,

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the head has told parents she plans

to shut in the summer.

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It's so stressful,

especially for the children.

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My son has been

two days he's not eating properly,

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he is not sleeping good,

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he's telling me that

"I hate learning."

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How are you feeling?

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Mad, sad.

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I will never forget this school,

it's because I've got friends that

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I've known for seven

years, six years.

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Minerva only opened in 2012.

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In a letter to parents,

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the head says falling pupil numbers

across Westminster has hit funding.

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She says the current

site has not helped,

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there is no playground and promises

of a brand-new building

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seem to have evaporated.

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It was supposed to be

here in Paddington basin,

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apparently, but apparently

now there is nothing.

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We were supposed to move

how many years ago?

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Two, three years ago.

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And everything was behind, behind,

behind, and promises.

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And now, no school.

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I wonder where is the new building,

what have they done with it.

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Critics will argue this is another

example of what they have long

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argued is a fundamental flaw

in the Government's

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academies programme.

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New schools are only

supposed to open

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where there is a clear basic

need for more places

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and in suitable buildings.

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Here, it appears, there is neither.

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It follows news that

Floreat Brentford is set to close,

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another free school which could not

find a permanent home,

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or make the money add up.

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I do think this is chickens

coming home to roost

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for the free school movement.

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There's been a whole series

of stumbles and free schools,

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with free schools failing.

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I'm sure some have been

successful but the

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general rule about free schools

that this is a privatised model of

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running an education system, it's

too risky to run an education system

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based on ideology.

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Children have one chance

in a primary school or a

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secondary school and we can't

play games with that.

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Minerva is run by a multi-Academy

trust, the Board of Trustees says

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staff are still providing a good

level of education but for a range

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of factors, the school is no

longer financially viable.

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If it does close, the local

authority, Westminster, says it's

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ready to step in to make sure all 89

pupils can go to a good

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school elsewhere.

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Marc, what doesn't quite add up

is that we've often reported

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on the shortage of school

places in London.

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Now a school is closing

because there aren't enough pupils?

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It does seem a bit odd. It is worth

explaining what academies are

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because it can be confusing.

Originally they were Tony Blair

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policy to turn around struggling

schools, then when the coalition

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came in in 2010, Michael Gove

flipped it and gave outstanding

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schools more power, and struggling

schools were forced to convert. Free

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schools give parents the power to

start schools if they are not happy

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with the local ones. Both academies

and free schools answer directly to

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government, taking the council out

of the loop. I think we all agreed

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the big problems these schools face

is trying to find buildings to open

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in as was the case here.

We heard it

said the chickens are coming home to

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roost, is this a sign of things to

come?

Demand is always the key. A

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few years ago there was a population

boom, too many kids and not enough

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places. Is this the first sign that

is starting to change around? I'm

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not sure. Some parents still

struggle to find places. Councils

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might be out of the loop but they

still have the duty, the legal duty

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to educate every child in the

country so if things start to go

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wrong, as seems to be the case here,

the council like Westminster has got

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to step in and provide a place for

every pupil.

Thanks for that.

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A driver in Essex has

filmed a trail of

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fly-tipping covering

a quarter of a mile.

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It's the second time in a year that

Watery Lane in Hullbridge

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has had to close because of rubbish.

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It's cost the local

council £1,500 to clear

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and caused long tailbacks

through nearby villages.

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Local people say flytipping

in the area is a weekly problem.

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Here's a sight you wouldn't

expect to see, especially

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if you were on holiday in Mexico.

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London buses.

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The low emission ones have arrived

in Mexico City as part

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of a one billion PESO deal,

that's over £40 million.

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It's aimed at helping

traffic and pollution

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in the Mexican capital.

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It's easy to get caught up

in the pace of London life,

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never taking time out

to enjoy the city.

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But a new art installation

on the Regent's Canal

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aims to get us to relax.

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Victoria Hollins is at the

Paddington Basin to show us how.

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If you have just walked in from work

and had a stressful day at the

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office, you may wish you had someone

like this to spend some time. This

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is in a redeveloped Paddington Basin

and it is an art installation which

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has just been switched on. A

flotilla of 180 origami boats. Part

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of the first Mindful series taking

place here, there will be yoga and

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meditation taking place. It is

polymer paper so no fear about the

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weather in the next few days. They

go through the process of changing

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colour every 20 seconds or so and I

have to say it really is quite

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peaceful. A short time ago I spoke

to the artists behind this.

The

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thinking behind this is to have

something which is calming and

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floating, and encourages you to take

the second and stop, and after a

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busy day or during a busy day even,

it is something that makes you stop

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and take a couple of minutes to

yourself. That is what the brief was

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and what it is here to do.

These are

more to so there's no chance they

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will float away. There is food here

as well. The only then I would like

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to change as the temperature!

I feel relaxed already, and this is

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making me feel even more relaxed

because this is what it is like to

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be in space, minus the suit, the

desk and chair of course!

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But what we forget is all

the rubbish that's out there.

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It's been left after so many

launches into space,

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and as there are no bins

it just floats about.

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So Airbus in Hertfordshire

have designed a type

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of rubbish picker to clear it up.

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Kate Bradbrook has been

seeing if it could work.

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Litter and waste is a growing

problem here on planet Earth,

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but it's also becoming a serious

issue in space.

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Old satellites and space

craft from years gone

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by discarded in low Earth orbit.

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As the spacecraft are orbiting

around up there, then there's

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the risk of them colliding with each

other, and when they do,

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they explode to create a huge amount

more debris that then can

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collide with other spacecraft

and you just get this

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snowballing effect.

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But there's a possible solution,

a giant litter picker or space

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harpoon is being tested

here at Airbus in Stevenage -

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designed to capture debris

and safely dispose of it.

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Each harpoon like this

one will be travelling

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at 25 metres per second,

that's 56 mph, slower than a bullet

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but fast enough to spear its target.

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With 18,000 pieces of smaller

junk in orbit, there

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is a tool for that too.

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It's designed to harpoon small

spacecraft up to around the size

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of a washing machine,

and reel them in so can

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be safely deorbited.

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This one is called Envisat,

it's a non-functioning satellite

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that's around the size

of a double-decker bus.

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It's about eight tonnes

so it's much too large

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for our small harpoon to handle,

so we've developed this,

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which is a clean space harpoon.

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In many ways it's very similar,

it has a lot of the same

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technology behind it.

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We pierce the satellite,

deploy the barbs, we are now locked

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in so we can have a mechanical

interface with our satellite

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and we can use our tether

here to turn it back

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into the atmosphere

where it can be safely destroyed.

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Testing in space will

begin later this year.

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By the mid 2020s, this could provide

the answer to our cosmic clean up.

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Kate Bradbrook, BBC London News.

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And that's why they say the best

ideas are the simple ones.

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OK, pop pickers.

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Here's one to take

you back to the '80s.

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Because one of the best known

singers of the decade

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is about to go on the road

again after successfully

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dabbling as a gardener,

becoming a YouTube hit

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and a radio DJ.

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Wendy Hurrell has

been talking to her.

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Who is it? This lady...

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# Looking out a dirty old window

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# Down below the cars in the city go

rushing by...#

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The song that

propelled Kim Wilde to stardom

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was a family effort,

written by her brother Ricky

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and father Marty.

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# We're the kids in America (whoa)

# We're the kids in America (whoa)

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She's gone on to sell

30 million albums worldwide.

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I love the original song

and I love to sing it still.

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I love to see how the audience react

to it when I sing that song.

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# We're the kids in America (whoa)

# We're the kids in America (whoa)

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Then this viral video.

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Two slightly tiddly Wildes

after a Christmas party in 2012,

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serenading passengers on a train.

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My brother was falling over

backwards and my antlers fell off.

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It's just the most ridiculous thing!

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It's all a bit of a blur as you can

imagine, but it was really good fun.

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The public were really sweet

about how they responded to another

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over-refreshed icon on a train.

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That unlikely catalyst

revived her musical career and now

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they are back, less

wobbly, with a new album.

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And from March the 31st,

Kim is off on her first UK tour

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in more than 30 years.

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# Pop pop music, give me

pop pop music

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# Don't stop, give me pop,

give me pop pop...#

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So she's kicking her other career

as an award-winning landscape

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gardener into the long grass

for a bit.

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It's a tour in April,

I think you're just trying to get

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out of the weeding and the pruning

and everything else that needs

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to be done in the garden.

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It's too true!

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I'm looking at the garden and I'm

thinking I'm going to have

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to get my old man sorting out

the garden because I

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ain't can be here!

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There's a lot of work can be done

in a garden in April so I'm just

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going to have to leave all that,

rush in in May and ruin my nails!

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Oh, God!

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The horticulture at home

in Hertfordshire for

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now will have to wait.

0:24:340:24:36

Wendy Hurrell, BBC London News.

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It's great she has come out with

some new songs but the old ones are

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classics. I will tell you about it

later!

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It was one of those days to start

with, it needed to cheer up a little

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bit. This was the scene in the City

of London, looking rather grey, then

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it had a happy ending for most of

us. It's going to go downhill though

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through the rest of this evening and

overnight. We have got some heavy

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rain, a bit like last night, it kept

me awake for a while and it might

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have done new too. Not a

particularly cold night, seven or 8

0:25:250:25:30

degrees but yet again it will make

for something of a wet commute

0:25:300:25:34

first. A breeze coming in, and

noticed there is some darkness

0:25:340:25:39

around the rain as we show it coming

up and across just about all parts.

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Then things do improve, the clearer

skies coming in behind so some

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sunshine, yes, temperatures

responding.

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It got today, I had to take my coat

off, spring almost. Then showers,

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and I have moved you through to

Saturday and you are thinking where

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has the sunshine gone. There is a

snow shower working its way through

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southern and eastern parts of London

and down through Kent and there will

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be plenty of them late in the day.

Up to four degrees only, and that

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really sets us up for the weekend

because on Sunday we have a flow of

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cold, bitter air coming in from

Scandinavia and Siberia and that

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will last us into the start of next

week when we begin to see a recovery

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on the temperatures. Sunday could be

tricky, Saturday night and Sunday,

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not just because of the two degrees

is a maximum but there may well be

0:26:400:26:46

some significant snow. More on that

tomorrow.

0:26:460:26:50

some significant snow. More on that

tomorrow.

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Just before we go and leave

you in the safe hands

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of The One Show, let me remind

you of the day's

0:26:550:26:58

main news headlines.

0:26:580:27:00

The Prime Minister has said

Britain's allies are taking a united

0:27:000:27:02

stance against Russia,

after the chemical

0:27:020:27:03

attack in Salisbury.

0:27:030:27:04

Today Theresa May visited the town

where the ex-Russian spy

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and his daughter were poisoned.

0:27:070:27:08

In Syria, thousands of people have

fled part of Eastern Ghouta,

0:27:080:27:10

after it came under ferocious

attack.

0:27:100:27:12

A humanitarian corridor

was opened up by advancing

0:27:120:27:14

Syrian government forces,

allowing civilians to escape.

0:27:140:27:18

The police investigation

into the Grenfell Tower Fire

0:27:180:27:21

has found that a fire door installed

in the block could only hold back

0:27:210:27:24

flames for around 15 minutes.

0:27:250:27:26

That's half the time

it was supposed to.

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That's it.

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If you missed any part

of the programme or want

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to see some of it again -

you can on the BBC iPlayer.

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I'll be back at 10.30 on BBC One.

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Join me then if you can.

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Bye for now.

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