02/11/2016 London News

A black east Londoner claims he s being stopped dozens of timds

a month simply because of the colour of his skin.

But it doesn't happen on thd street - it happens on the River Thames.

He says police keep stopping him on his boat, and he's fed up of it.

He's even taken mobile phond footage of an officer boarding his boat

The Met has teams of officers patrolling the Thames.

But at the moment their powers are limited.

Unless they suspect terrorism, they can't stop and search boats.

And one man claims they've been going too far, at least as far

I was like, "Look, there's kids there!"

Michael Sylvester from Plaistow says he was stopped and his boat boarded

without consent when he was on a day trip with friends and children.

The reason they stop us is because they say "terrorhsm"

Two police boats can be seen either side of Mr Sylvester's boat and he's

not happy when an officer boards and asks what they're doing.

I'd like to know where you've been...

If you can answer the questhons about who is on the boat...

He got his rope, chucked it on and said he's getting

We fit the description of tdrrorists because obviously they must believe

If I was a white guy behind this wheel here,

You haven't been given permission to get on my boat.

Mr Sylvester says, before it was boarded, the children

He claims he's being stopped repeatedly.

I would say 30, 40 times in the past month.

This happens to me every tile I come on this water.

The Met has a very different view of this incident,

saying patrols are routine `nd it was one of four stops that day.

The Met says the officer thought he had consent and police

were concerned about people not wearing life jackets.

A community adviser on stop and search says the event does

For me, looking at the clip, my concern again is the polhcy

No one really understands what the police rights

The Terrorism Act gives polhce the right to stop and search

on the river if an officer suspects a craft is being used

It is now being recommended the Met is given more powers

The police can stop and search somebody they see on the ro`d,

in a car, but if it a boat on the river, they simply don't

have the powers the moment to stop them and check that everythhng is OK

A change may come as early as next year.

Mr Sylvester, though, is not happy with the way

he is being treated under the existing law.

Tributes have been paid to an Italian student

who was killed as he cycled through Knightsbridge on Monday

21-year-old Filippo Corsini, who's reported to be an Italian

prince from one of the oldest and well-known families

in Florence, was studying at Regent's University London.

Knocking down the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium and starting again

has been suggested as a possible solution to the problem of

It comes a day after Mayor Sadiq Khan ordered

an investigation into the increasing bill, which the taxpayer

Back then, to many, it felt like London's

showpiece Olympic Stadium was worth every penny.

Four years on, there have bden problems with access to the stadium,

crowd disturbances and now the revelation of further

It cost ?272 million to convert the Olympic Stadium

Just ?15 million came from the Premier League club,

the rest from the public purse, and a further ?51 million whll now

I've ordered an investigation to find out what's gone

But also to find financial solutions going forward.

Every summer, we're going to spend millions and millions of potnds

in relation to retractable seating and the other issues,

and the obvious question is, why weren't these things known before?

Moving those seats was supposed to cost ?300,000 a year.

Now it's emerged the cost will be ?8 million a year.

That's because they aren't all that retractable,

taking 15 days to remove for athletics events or concerts

Some believe it can never bd a truly multipurpose stadiul.

I would demolish it, knock it down to the surfacd

and rebuild something that's suitable for its purpose,

and I know that sounds bizarre, when you're talking about htndreds

Somebody bold enough has got to say, we've got to stop just shovdlling

money into this failure, into this white elephant.

You can't blame West Ham football club for taking

The blame solely lies with the people who signed

off on the contract, so that's why this

They need to properly scruthnise who signed off on that deal and make

sure a deal like that doesn't happen again.

Hopes of recouping some of the costs lay with finding

It's emerged negotiations whth one have just broken down.

Right now, this doesn't look like the stadium

Today, a suggestion to knock the stadium down.

Yes, exactly right. Last night, we heard that the Mayor of London Sadiq

Khan and ordered an investigation into spiralling costs, and we heard

there Andrew Boff saying thd stadium should be knocked down. We have had

become and sport committee, the chairman, Damian Collins, s`ying the

costs are astronomical, so pressure is mounting. It's no surprise

politically that Sadiq Khan is pinning the blame, and incoling

Labour pinning the blame Boris Johnson, but it's also a sensitive

time for West. They are havhng problems with the crowds getting

into the stadium and crowd disturbances. It's being reported

tonight that next season West Ham may have to play some of thdir games

away from home. Most people tonight will be hoping that this

investigation by Sadiq Khan will get to the bottom of this matter and not

cost the taxpayer any more loney. It's exactly 350 years and two

months since that fateful night in the City of London

which was to change it forever. It's when the Great Fire

of London started and, although we know a lot

about what the streets lookdd like in the years after the fire,

what was it like before? The Great Fire of London was

merciless, incinerating thotsands But what did the city look like

before the disaster? Student at Leicester's De Montfort

University came up with this virtual fly through,

using historic maps from the British Library, drafted

while the embers still burndd. We start travelling down

Pudding Lane, where the fird started You can imagine the

fire starting here. And then due to the direction

of the wind, stretching west St Margaret's Church, just

on the corner of Fish Hill Street - of course, that isn't there -

and this is roughly where the monument is now for the Great

Fire. One of the main figures

in the rebuilding of London is Robert Hooke, the guy responsible

for the design of the monumdnt. Next, Fish Hill Street,

close to the site of Billingsgate, for centuries the home

of the capital's fish market, bordering what is now

Lower Thames Street. Running parallel to the rivdr,

it's always been And people from the City

having a lunchtime drink. This is interesting here,

Billingsgate and the dock in Billingsgate, because of course

that no longer exists. That's the wonderful

thing about old maps, this helps you visualise wh`t it

must have been like. This instant draft of a gutted

London was soon after used as the basis of this

cutting-edge 17th-century m`p. A vast swathe of white

from the Tower of London to the Strand, illustrating

the nothingness of a destroxed city. Today, though, we can virtu`lly fly

through the streets. That's it for now from me, but let's

find out what the weather's up to. Harry Potter star Emma Watson has

secretly been leaving books on the London Underground today, so people

can find them and give thosd a read. You can read all about it on the

website. It's a good story. But now the weather with Phil. I know it's

got chilly, but I quite likd it My favourite time of the ye`r as

well. Just enough children to start turning believes. This was captured

by one of our weather watchdrs. Of course, it's talking. The vhnes give

it away. But we weren't alone in Dorking. Many people enjoy the

sunshine. You had to be quite a long way north to see cloud. This will be

one of the cooler nights we have seen of this season. Yes, -3 also in

the countryside and not much better than two or three in town. Tomorrow

morning, cold and frosty at the bus stop, on the platform, VQ mtte. It

will be a bit more cloudy l`ter in the afternoon perhaps, but ht will

not stop the temperature is coming up to around 12. Mick Miller has the

national picture. The weather may have turned colder

but for many of us today there was abundant sunshine. This is from the

end of the day from Oxfordshire Cold and clear by day and clear and

even colder overnight. That is the recipe at this time of year.

Widespread ground frost setting in. Parts of East Anglia already below

freezing. In western Scotland, temperatures may stabilise. It could

even go up a feud degrees with thickening cloud, outbreaks of rain

and a freshening breeze. By the end of the night, the coldest weather

will be across southern parts of the UK, with some of us below freezing,

scraping ice off the car, and patchy fog. This is breakfast, such a

different start for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Outbreaks of rain

moving in, most persistent into western Scotland. Perhaps a bit more

cloud feeding into the far west