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for the Salisbury nerve attack as
the Prime Minister visits the crime | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
scene. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:04 | |
On BBC London this Thursday night:
scene. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
For the first time,
London's Air Ambulance attends | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
to more violent attacks than road
traffic accidents - | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
And the victims are younger. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
We're also seeing schoolchildren,
where we have to cut off their | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
school uniform to get to them to try
and help and do some operations, | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
which is just tragic. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
We hear from a teenager who lost
a friend to knife crime. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Also tonight: | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Why these children are upset
their school could close just five | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
years after it opened. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
Plus: | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
How a company in Hertfordshire
could have found a way | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
to clean-up litter in space. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
And... | 0:00:41 | 0:00:48 | |
# We are the kids in America... | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
And don't pretend you're
not singing along. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
Stay with us as we catch
up with Kim Wilde. | 0:00:54 | 0:01:01 | |
Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
For the first time in nearly 30
years, London's Air Ambulance | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
says its being called out to more
stabbings and shootings | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
than it is to road
traffic accidents. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Their lead clinician says it's now
not unusual for them to perform open | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
heart surgery for stab wounds twice
in a single day. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:23 | |
The news comes as another teenager
died from a knife attack, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
while a man was shot dead in east
London. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
Karl Mercer has spent the day
with the Air Ambulance. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:37 | |
As we were filming, another
call-out... They do this 1800 times | 0:01:37 | 0:01:43 | |
a year, nearly a third of all the
missions are to victims of stabbings | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
and shootings. We are seeing
patients who are stabbed multiple | 0:01:47 | 0:01:54 | |
times, perhaps with much more brutal
weapons than we saw before. We are | 0:01:54 | 0:01:59 | |
still seeing people who are stabbed
once and passing away at the | 0:01:59 | 0:02:05 | |
roadside. We're also seeing
schoolchildren where we have to cut | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
off their school uniform to get to
them to try and help and do some | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
operations, which is just tragic.
For the first time, stabbings and | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
shootings account for the big
slumber of missions, bigger than | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
road accidents. 560 victims of knife
and gun crime in the last year. Many | 0:02:20 | 0:02:25 | |
in teens. The horror is not in the
injuries. It is in the age of the | 0:02:25 | 0:02:33 | |
victims and the constant drip, drip,
drip of life, afterlife, after life, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:42 | |
being ruined by injuries. That has
got to stop. At the end of last | 0:02:42 | 0:02:48 | |
year, BBC London filmed a week in
the Royal London hospital. This is | 0:02:48 | 0:02:54 | |
where the victims of the growing
violence are brought. On busy | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
nights, the air ambulance can bring
in several victims. The air | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
ambulance is paid for by charity
donations with the NHS paying for | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
the stuff. Every member of the team
has a case, most shifts where they | 0:03:07 | 0:03:13 | |
come back absolutely downtrodden
because of what they have seen and | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
because they have had to break news
to relatives of those patients at | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
the scene. Which is harrowing.
Obviously more harrowing for the | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
people involved, but it does affect
all of the medical teams through the | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
system, who are trying to help. One
of those trying to do that is | 0:03:28 | 0:03:34 | |
surging, Martin Griffiths. It is
very concerning because we are | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
living in a society where use is
starting to degrade and people are | 0:03:37 | 0:03:46 | |
having near fatal events in their
childhoods. -- youth. We talk about | 0:03:46 | 0:03:59 | |
knife intervention at that age but
at 13, 14, where do you start the | 0:03:59 | 0:04:06 | |
intervention work? That is a
question for wider society, but | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
while it looks for an answer, the
victims will continue to come. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
Well, many people affected
by knife crime are teenagers | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
and the authorities are constantly
looking at ways of deterring young | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
people from carrying knives. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
So as part of the BBC's
Annual School Report Day, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
we asked 18-year-old Abbianca
from east London to take a look | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
at the issue for us. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:28 | |
This is her report. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
Hello, I'm Abbianca. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
Sixth form student at
Draper's Academy, in Harrod Hill. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
I want to explore the ways
in which the education system can | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
help reduce knife crime. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
This issue is very close
to my heart because in 2016, | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
I lost a dear friend of mine
who was a victim of knife crime. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
I went to Scotland Yard to speak
to a senior police detective, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
who deals with knife crime
on a daily basis. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
I asked him if he thought schools
should have compulsory | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
lessons on this issue. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
What to think about this,
do you think this can | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
make a difference? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:04 | |
I think it would make
a difference, I think we need | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
to change the messaging. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
We have been saying for some time
that police on their own are not | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
going to arrest or enforce their way
out of this. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
We need some answers and we need
to ask the right questions, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
so let's get into our
communities, younger people. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
Here I am back at my school,
Draper's Academy where I'll be | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
interviewing head of sixth form
and some students on the issue | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
of tackling knife crime. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
Some people may carry
knives for protection, | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
especially because there's other
teenagers carrying knives anyway. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
When community centres
are shut down and therefore, | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
the youth clubs that were held
in them get people getting bored | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
and therefore joining gangs
because they don't have the group | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
where they could have gone to. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
If I'm being honest,
schools don't really teach | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
about knife crime that much. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
My first talk was in year 12,
I was 16 when I had my first | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
talk about knife crime. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
Do you think that these lessons will
make a difference and have an impact | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
on the younger generation? | 0:06:01 | 0:06:02 | |
I'm not convinced. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
I think people who are attracted
to gangs and attracted to carrying | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
knives, they've kind of fallen out
of the education system. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:16 | |
There isn't one solution
to tackling knife crime, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
but from my interviews,
it seems that changes | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
in the education system
could possibly contribute | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
to reduce knife crime. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Abbianca, BBC School Report. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
Our thanks to Abbianca
for that report. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
Well, it's Thursday the 15th March. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:33 | |
This is what's still
to come on the programme: | 0:06:33 | 0:06:40 | |
A small part of the Paddington basin
is being transformed. I will explain | 0:06:40 | 0:06:46 | |
how later in the programme. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:54 | |
London's Museums are some
of the best in the world, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
but they say they're
being overlooked when | 0:06:56 | 0:06:57 | |
it comes to Brexit. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:58 | |
They argue its essential
for them to know how | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
they'll have access to art,
staff and funding after | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
the break from the EU. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:04 | |
To put it all into perspective,
London's Creative industries | 0:07:04 | 0:07:10 | |
generate almost £50 billion a year,
which is around half the UK's total. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
It also accounts for one
in six jobs in London. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
The issue has been
discussed at a conference | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
at The National Gallery today,
from where we can hear | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
from Katharine Carpenter. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:30 | |
There are figures out today showing
this place was the second most | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
visited attraction last year in the
UK, second only to the British | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
Museum. Those stats are important to
London at the moment and this sector | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
is trying to get its voice heard in
the breadth in negotiations. Members | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
gathered here today to try to
discuss how to do that, had to try | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
and get the issues they are
concerned about heard by the | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
government, amongst other things.
There are many other common things | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
but individual concerns for
different parts of the sector, as I | 0:08:00 | 0:08:07 | |
found out to some of those who run
our galleries and museums. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
We'll place these as we planned... | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
Putting the final touches to this
exhibition of work by Austrian | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
artist is a precise business. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
But after being shown at this
north London gallery, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
some of these pieces might be loaned
elsewhere in the EU, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
a fairly simple process
while we are still members. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
It's really relatively smooth,
it's a number of pieces of paper. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
It means we can import and export
duty free, if you like. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:37 | |
But if administration,
bureaucracy then comes into it, | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
we'll have to employ somebody
at some stage to deal | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
with all that paperwork. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:43 | |
He says he's prepared
to make the necessary | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
changes, but needs to know
what they'll be, soon. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
Getting clarity on these issues
is just as important | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
for large institutions. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
Here at the natural history museum
it can take up to three or four | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
years to plan an exhibition. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:58 | |
So even if you factor
in a transition period, | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
time is beginning to run out. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:07 | |
The Museums Association warns that
London's cultural offering could be | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
affected with access to funding
and staff major concerns. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
30% of museums in the UK
employ staff from other | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
countries in the EU. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:21 | |
There is concern that some
of will leave and the museums | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
won't be able to attract
high-quality, specialist staff | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
in very niche subject areas,
which typically they rely on to put | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
on the kind of amazing
exhibitions that you see today. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
But some see Brexit as a chance
to widen the opportunity. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
The fledgling group,
Artists for Brexit, hopes it | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
will create a more level playing
field globally and remind | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
creatives they need to engage
with wide audiences. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
You finish up with artists and art
work is not actually speaking | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
with the people of the British
Isles. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
People with whom they are supposed
to be engaging, but just | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
talking amongst themselves. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
This is bad for the arts, long term. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
But if some audiences
are being overlooked, | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
so too is the cultural sector
as a whole, according | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
to Alistair Brown. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
The decisions that are being made
about things like the customs union | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
are being made at such a high level
in government and they are facing | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
so many different competing
demands from areas like | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
the city, from industry. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
That it's difficult for museums'
concerns to be heard at that level. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
And with so much at stake,
it's a point London's arts | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
will keep on making. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:31 | |
The government has got back to us on
the point of overlooking this | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
sector. It told us it wants the best
deal from the negotiations so it can | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
begin to grow and thrive. When it
set its own immigration policy after | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
Brexit it will welcome those with
the skills and expertise to allow | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
museums and galleries to continue to
do what's best. Let's speak to John, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:58 | |
are you reassured by those words? A
small amount, they talk the right | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
talk and they are trying to be
reassuring. The issue for us, is | 0:11:01 | 0:11:08 | |
London, this incredible, welcoming
and cultural and artistic city, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
going to be as open for business, as
open for people from across the | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
European Union to ply their trade.
That is what makes this industry so | 0:11:18 | 0:11:24 | |
intriguing, Brits and people from
far afield can work together. £92 | 0:11:24 | 0:11:32 | |
billion annually, there is nothing
soft, nothing about entertainment in | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
this. This sector produces four
times as many jobs as others over | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
the last year. This is the real
powerhouse for Britain. It is clear | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
what you want but how will you get
it, you have only got a year to go? | 0:11:46 | 0:11:52 | |
We are engaging with them all the
time but are they listening? I can | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
get out of bed either side and give
you a different answer. We have got | 0:11:56 | 0:12:02 | |
our work cut out. We have to
demonstrate that economically, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
socially, culturally and in terms of
Britain's image abroad, the creative | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
industries and tech or the key
drivers for the economy. If they | 0:12:10 | 0:12:16 | |
don't put this sector front and
centre of the negotiations, all of | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
us in London will suffer
economically as a result. You heard | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
a very strong case being made by the
sector, it just hopes now the | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
government will listen.
We will watch very carefully. Two of | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
the news now... | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
A ceremony has been held
to celebrate the life of Makram Ali, | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
the man killed in the Finsbury Park
terror attack in June. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
A plaque
and a tree were unveiled | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
by his daughter and grandchildren. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
Mr Ali was killed by a van
driven by Darren Osbourne, | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
who's been jailed for life. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
Also in attendance, was the Police
Commissioner, Cressida Dick | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
and Mayor of London,
Sadeeq Khan. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
A woman who posed as a survivor
of the Grenfell Tower Fire | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
has been convicted of fraud. | 0:12:57 | 0:12:58 | |
Southwark Crown Court heard that
47-year-old Joyce M-Sokeri, | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
pretended to have lost her home
and her husband so she could obtain | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
cash, donations and accommodation. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
At the time, she was
living in Sutton. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
M-Sokeri will be
sentenced next month. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Parents at a primary
school in west London, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
which opened in 2012, have said
they're devastated after being told | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
it plans to close at
the end of next term. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Minerva Academy in Paddington
is only half full, | 0:13:22 | 0:13:28 | |
still on a temporary site,
and has no school playground. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Our Education Reporter, Marc Ashdown
has been finding out why. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
Schools open, another
day of learning ahead, | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
something most parents
simply take for granted. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
But school
days at Minerva Academy | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
in Paddington could be numbered. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
Only half full, and based on this
woefully inadequate temporary site, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
the head has told parents she plans
to shut in the summer. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
It's so stressful,
especially for the children. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
My son has been
two days he's not eating properly, | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
he is not sleeping good, | 0:13:56 | 0:13:57 | |
he's telling me that
"I hate learning." | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
How are you feeling? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
Mad, sad. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
I will never forget this school,
it's because I've got friends that | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
I've known for seven
years, six years. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
Minerva only opened in 2012. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
In a letter to parents, | 0:14:12 | 0:14:13 | |
the head says falling pupil numbers
across Westminster has hit funding. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
She says the current
site has not helped, | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
there is no playground and promises
of a brand-new building | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
seem to have evaporated. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
It was supposed to be
here in Paddington basin, | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
apparently, but apparently
now there is nothing. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
We were supposed to move
how many years ago? | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
Two, three years ago. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
And everything was behind, behind,
behind, and promises. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
And now, no school. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
I wonder where is the new building,
what have they done with it. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
Critics will argue this is another
example of what they have long | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
argued is a fundamental flaw
in the Government's | 0:14:45 | 0:14:46 | |
academies programme. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
New schools are only
supposed to open | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
where there is a clear basic
need for more places | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
and in suitable buildings. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
Here, it appears, there is neither. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
It follows news that
Floreat Brentford is set to close, | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
another free school which could not
find a permanent home, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
or make the money add up. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:10 | |
I do think this is chickens
coming home to roost | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
for the free school movement. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:17 | |
There's been a whole series
of stumbles and free schools, | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
with free schools failing. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
I'm sure some have been
successful but the | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
general rule about free schools
that this is a privatised model of | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
running an education system, it's
too risky to run an education system | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
based on ideology. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
Children have one chance
in a primary school or a | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
secondary school and we can't
play games with that. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
Minerva is run by a multi-Academy
trust, the Board of Trustees says | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
staff are still providing a good
level of education but for a range | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
of factors, the school is no
longer financially viable. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
If it does close, the local
authority, Westminster, says it's | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
ready to step in to make sure all 89
pupils can go to a good | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
school elsewhere. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:55 | |
Marc, what doesn't quite add up
is that we've often reported | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
on the shortage of school
places in London. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Now a school is closing
because there aren't enough pupils? | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
It does seem a bit odd. It is worth
explaining what academies are | 0:16:04 | 0:16:09 | |
because it can be confusing.
Originally they were Tony Blair | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
policy to turn around struggling
schools, then when the coalition | 0:16:13 | 0:16:18 | |
came in in 2010, Michael Gove
flipped it and gave outstanding | 0:16:18 | 0:16:24 | |
schools more power, and struggling
schools were forced to convert. Free | 0:16:24 | 0:16:30 | |
schools give parents the power to
start schools if they are not happy | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
with the local ones. Both academies
and free schools answer directly to | 0:16:34 | 0:16:39 | |
government, taking the council out
of the loop. I think we all agreed | 0:16:39 | 0:16:45 | |
the big problems these schools face
is trying to find buildings to open | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
in as was the case here. We heard it
said the chickens are coming home to | 0:16:48 | 0:16:58 | |
roost, is this a sign of things to
come? Demand is always the key. A | 0:16:58 | 0:17:03 | |
few years ago there was a population
boom, too many kids and not enough | 0:17:03 | 0:17:08 | |
places. Is this the first sign that
is starting to change around? I'm | 0:17:08 | 0:17:14 | |
not sure. Some parents still
struggle to find places. Councils | 0:17:14 | 0:17:21 | |
might be out of the loop but they
still have the duty, the legal duty | 0:17:21 | 0:17:26 | |
to educate every child in the
country so if things start to go | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
wrong, as seems to be the case here,
the council like Westminster has got | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
to step in and provide a place for
every pupil. Thanks for that. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:42 | |
A driver in Essex has
filmed a trail of | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
fly-tipping covering
a quarter of a mile. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
It's the second time in a year that
Watery Lane in Hullbridge | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
has had to close because of rubbish. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:50 | |
It's cost the local
council £1,500 to clear | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
and caused long tailbacks
through nearby villages. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:54 | |
Local people say flytipping
in the area is a weekly problem. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
Here's a sight you wouldn't
expect to see, especially | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
if you were on holiday in Mexico. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
London buses. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:02 | |
The low emission ones have arrived
in Mexico City as part | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
of a one billion PESO deal,
that's over £40 million. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
It's aimed at helping
traffic and pollution | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
in the Mexican capital. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
It's easy to get caught up
in the pace of London life, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
never taking time out
to enjoy the city. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
But a new art installation
on the Regent's Canal | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
aims to get us to relax. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:24 | |
Victoria Hollins is at the
Paddington Basin to show us how. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:34 | |
If you have just walked in from work
and had a stressful day at the | 0:18:37 | 0:18:42 | |
office, you may wish you had someone
like this to spend some time. This | 0:18:42 | 0:18:47 | |
is in a redeveloped Paddington Basin
and it is an art installation which | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
has just been switched on. A
flotilla of 180 origami boats. Part | 0:18:50 | 0:18:57 | |
of the first Mindful series taking
place here, there will be yoga and | 0:18:57 | 0:19:02 | |
meditation taking place. It is
polymer paper so no fear about the | 0:19:02 | 0:19:07 | |
weather in the next few days. They
go through the process of changing | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
colour every 20 seconds or so and I
have to say it really is quite | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
peaceful. A short time ago I spoke
to the artists behind this. The | 0:19:16 | 0:19:22 | |
thinking behind this is to have
something which is calming and | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
floating, and encourages you to take
the second and stop, and after a | 0:19:26 | 0:19:41 | |
busy day or during a busy day even,
it is something that makes you stop | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
and take a couple of minutes to
yourself. That is what the brief was | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
and what it is here to do. These are
more to so there's no chance they | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
will float away. There is food here
as well. The only then I would like | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
to change as the temperature!
I feel relaxed already, and this is | 0:20:03 | 0:20:09 | |
making me feel even more relaxed
because this is what it is like to | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
be in space, minus the suit, the
desk and chair of course! | 0:20:13 | 0:20:19 | |
But what we forget is all
the rubbish that's out there. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
It's been left after so many
launches into space, | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
and as there are no bins
it just floats about. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
So Airbus in Hertfordshire
have designed a type | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
of rubbish picker to clear it up. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:29 | |
Kate Bradbrook has been
seeing if it could work. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
Litter and waste is a growing
problem here on planet Earth, | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
but it's also becoming a serious
issue in space. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
Old satellites and space
craft from years gone | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
by discarded in low Earth orbit. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:44 | |
As the spacecraft are orbiting
around up there, then there's | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
the risk of them colliding with each
other, and when they do, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
they explode to create a huge amount
more debris that then can | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
collide with other spacecraft
and you just get this | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
snowballing effect. | 0:20:54 | 0:21:00 | |
But there's a possible solution,
a giant litter picker or space | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
harpoon is being tested
here at Airbus in Stevenage - | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
designed to capture debris
and safely dispose of it. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:11 | |
Each harpoon like this
one will be travelling | 0:21:11 | 0:21:12 | |
at 25 metres per second,
that's 56 mph, slower than a bullet | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
but fast enough to spear its target. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
With 18,000 pieces of smaller
junk in orbit, there | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
is a tool for that too. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
It's designed to harpoon small
spacecraft up to around the size | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
of a washing machine,
and reel them in so can | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
be safely deorbited. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
This one is called Envisat,
it's a non-functioning satellite | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
that's around the size
of a double-decker bus. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
It's about eight tonnes
so it's much too large | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
for our small harpoon to handle,
so we've developed this, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
which is a clean space harpoon. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
In many ways it's very similar,
it has a lot of the same | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
technology behind it. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:51 | |
We pierce the satellite,
deploy the barbs, we are now locked | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
in so we can have a mechanical
interface with our satellite | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
and we can use our tether
here to turn it back | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
into the atmosphere
where it can be safely destroyed. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
Testing in space will
begin later this year. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
By the mid 2020s, this could provide
the answer to our cosmic clean up. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
Kate Bradbrook, BBC London News. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:18 | |
And that's why they say the best
ideas are the simple ones. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
OK, pop pickers. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:24 | |
Here's one to take
you back to the '80s. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Because one of the best known
singers of the decade | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
is about to go on the road
again after successfully | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
dabbling as a gardener,
becoming a YouTube hit | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
and a radio DJ. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:33 | |
Wendy Hurrell has
been talking to her. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
Who is it? This lady... | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
# Looking out a dirty old window | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
# Down below the cars in the city go
rushing by...# | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
The song that
propelled Kim Wilde to stardom | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
was a family effort,
written by her brother Ricky | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
and father Marty. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
# We're the kids in America (whoa)
# We're the kids in America (whoa) | 0:22:48 | 0:22:54 | |
She's gone on to sell
30 million albums worldwide. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
I love the original song
and I love to sing it still. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
I love to see how the audience react
to it when I sing that song. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:06 | |
# We're the kids in America (whoa)
# We're the kids in America (whoa) | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
Then this viral video. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
Two slightly tiddly Wildes
after a Christmas party in 2012, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
serenading passengers on a train. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:19 | |
My brother was falling over
backwards and my antlers fell off. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
It's just the most ridiculous thing! | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
It's all a bit of a blur as you can
imagine, but it was really good fun. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
The public were really sweet
about how they responded to another | 0:23:28 | 0:23:36 | |
over-refreshed icon on a train. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
That unlikely catalyst
revived her musical career and now | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
they are back, less
wobbly, with a new album. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:47 | |
And from March the 31st,
Kim is off on her first UK tour | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
in more than 30 years. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
# Pop pop music, give me
pop pop music | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
# Don't stop, give me pop,
give me pop pop...# | 0:23:55 | 0:24:01 | |
So she's kicking her other career
as an award-winning landscape | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
gardener into the long grass
for a bit. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
It's a tour in April,
I think you're just trying to get | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
out of the weeding and the pruning
and everything else that needs | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
to be done in the garden. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
It's too true! | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
I'm looking at the garden and I'm
thinking I'm going to have | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
to get my old man sorting out
the garden because I | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
ain't can be here! | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
There's a lot of work can be done
in a garden in April so I'm just | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
going to have to leave all that,
rush in in May and ruin my nails! | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
Oh, God! | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
The horticulture at home
in Hertfordshire for | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
now will have to wait. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
Wendy Hurrell, BBC London News. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:45 | |
It's great she has come out with
some new songs but the old ones are | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
classics. I will tell you about it
later! | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
It was one of those days to start
with, it needed to cheer up a little | 0:24:56 | 0:25:01 | |
bit. This was the scene in the City
of London, looking rather grey, then | 0:25:01 | 0:25:07 | |
it had a happy ending for most of
us. It's going to go downhill though | 0:25:07 | 0:25:15 | |
through the rest of this evening and
overnight. We have got some heavy | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
rain, a bit like last night, it kept
me awake for a while and it might | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
have done new too. Not a
particularly cold night, seven or 8 | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
degrees but yet again it will make
for something of a wet commute | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
first. A breeze coming in, and
noticed there is some darkness | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
around the rain as we show it coming
up and across just about all parts. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
Then things do improve, the clearer
skies coming in behind so some | 0:25:43 | 0:25:50 | |
sunshine, yes, temperatures
responding. | 0:25:50 | 0:26:01 | |
It got today, I had to take my coat
off, spring almost. Then showers, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
and I have moved you through to
Saturday and you are thinking where | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
has the sunshine gone. There is a
snow shower working its way through | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
southern and eastern parts of London
and down through Kent and there will | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
be plenty of them late in the day.
Up to four degrees only, and that | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
really sets us up for the weekend
because on Sunday we have a flow of | 0:26:17 | 0:26:24 | |
cold, bitter air coming in from
Scandinavia and Siberia and that | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
will last us into the start of next
week when we begin to see a recovery | 0:26:28 | 0:26:36 | |
on the temperatures. Sunday could be
tricky, Saturday night and Sunday, | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
not just because of the two degrees
is a maximum but there may well be | 0:26:40 | 0:26:46 | |
some significant snow. More on that
tomorrow. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
some significant snow. More on that
tomorrow. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:53 | |
Just before we go and leave
you in the safe hands | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
of The One Show, let me remind
you of the day's | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
main news headlines. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
The Prime Minister has said
Britain's allies are taking a united | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
stance against Russia,
after the chemical | 0:27:02 | 0:27:03 | |
attack in Salisbury. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:04 | |
Today Theresa May visited the town
where the ex-Russian spy | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
and his daughter were poisoned. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:08 | |
In Syria, thousands of people have
fled part of Eastern Ghouta, | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
after it came under ferocious
attack. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
A humanitarian corridor
was opened up by advancing | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
Syrian government forces,
allowing civilians to escape. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
The police investigation
into the Grenfell Tower Fire | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
has found that a fire door installed
in the block could only hold back | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
flames for around 15 minutes. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:26 | |
That's half the time
it was supposed to. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:33 | |
That's it. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:34 | |
If you missed any part
of the programme or want | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
to see some of it again -
you can on the BBC iPlayer. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
I'll be back at 10.30 on BBC One. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
Join me then if you can. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:43 | |
Bye for now. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 |