06/03/2017

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:00:00. > :00:11.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

:00:12. > :00:29.They say she was their rock - the heart of their family.

:00:30. > :00:30.The children of 80-year-old Lea Adri-Soejoko

:00:31. > :00:32.who was found strangled at allotments in

:00:33. > :00:34.north-west London - have paid tribute to their mother.

:00:35. > :00:36.Today a man has appeared in court charged with murder.

:00:37. > :00:39.Her son and daughter have appealed to the public for more information -

:00:40. > :00:41.and have been speaking to our home affairs

:00:42. > :00:45.We have had the heart ripped out of our family.

:00:46. > :00:48.We can hardly process what has happened.

:00:49. > :00:51.The private grief of a son and a daughter laid bare.

:00:52. > :00:56.Today outside the allotment where their mother was found

:00:57. > :01:03.Nothing was a drama, she was very calm, funny.

:01:04. > :01:19.We're just appealing for anyone who might have seen anything.

:01:20. > :01:24.Lea Adri-Soejoko's body was discovered last week in a shed

:01:25. > :01:27.at the community gardens where she was a secretary.

:01:28. > :01:40.She was 80 but acting like she was 30 and younger.

:01:41. > :01:42.Having almost like another teenager time, she just

:01:43. > :01:45.loved her life, she was going out, starting to dress more trendily.

:01:46. > :01:48.She was just loving her life and that has been taken from her.

:01:49. > :01:54.These are the tribute at her home a short distance away.

:01:55. > :01:58.His death has touched friends as well as family.

:01:59. > :02:10.The whole world is falling apart around me and my family.

:02:11. > :02:13.Here in Colindale a grieving family has been appealing to the public

:02:14. > :02:16.Meanwhile in Wimbledon, a 40-year-old man, Rahim Mohammadi,

:02:17. > :02:19.has appeared in court charged with the pensioner's murder.

:02:20. > :02:23.The police will not be drawn on a motive, but say they need more

:02:24. > :02:25.help from the public including any information about the

:02:26. > :02:32.Did anyone find them in and around the area?

:02:33. > :02:34.That's three keys with a Morrisons key fob on them.

:02:35. > :02:40.For local drivers and residents, did you see Lea on Monday?

:02:41. > :02:43.She's very distinctive, platinum hair, as family describe

:02:44. > :02:46.it, distinctive boots, black with white spots, pink piping,

:02:47. > :02:59.Did you see her at the allotments or at her home address?

:03:00. > :03:01.And neighbours, did you see anyone calling at her address on Monday?

:03:02. > :03:04.We need to have as much information as possible so we can get

:03:05. > :03:14.Nick Beake, BBC London News, Colindale.

:03:15. > :03:16.The BBC has discovered that pollution levels around one

:03:17. > :03:19.of the busiest sections of road in the country have been excluded

:03:20. > :03:21.from official government data - despite regularly exceeding

:03:22. > :03:24.All this week in our series Toxic London -

:03:25. > :03:26.we'll be looking at the issue of air quality.

:03:27. > :03:29.Tonight Sarah Smith reports from the Dartford Crossing on why up

:03:30. > :03:30.until two years ago levels of pollutions there

:03:31. > :03:36.50 million journeys are made on this stretch of road every year.

:03:37. > :03:38.The towns closest, Dartford to the south

:03:39. > :03:42.and Thurrock to the north have some of the highest percentages of death

:03:43. > :03:45.due to air pollution in the south-east.

:03:46. > :03:49.In Dartford the council's recorded nitrogen dioxide

:03:50. > :03:54.levels above safe limits for years and when the town didn't appear in

:03:55. > :03:56.the national air quality plan they were puzzled.

:03:57. > :04:06.We discovered that the tunnel approach road was classed as a rural

:04:07. > :04:13.road, and therefore the air monitoring figures that they had and

:04:14. > :04:15.that they were using for their modelling purposes was incorrect.

:04:16. > :04:18.It's meant that for years, national data

:04:19. > :04:21.this incredibly busy stretch of road.

:04:22. > :04:28.Whoever decided that there's no pollution around here, we doesn't

:04:29. > :04:31.Whoever decided that there's no pollution around here, doesn't

:04:32. > :04:35.I've got two small children and regularly

:04:36. > :04:38.if you live here you will notice several times a day, or several

:04:39. > :04:40.times a week, there is just bumper-to-bumper traffic.

:04:41. > :04:44.The crossing and its approach roads aren't

:04:45. > :04:47.classed as part of the motorway but as the A282 and A roads can

:04:48. > :04:49.count as rural if they're outside urban areas.

:04:50. > :04:51.But that's clearly not the case here.

:04:52. > :04:53.Jim Sutton, who lives near the crossing,

:04:54. > :04:54.believes it exacerbated the respiratory problems which afflicted

:04:55. > :05:03.The air pollution round here certainly didn't help her.

:05:04. > :05:05.She used to say, "I wish we could move, Jim."

:05:06. > :05:10.Scientists from King's College have carried out their own monitoring.

:05:11. > :05:15.The European legal limit was broken on three days.

:05:16. > :05:20.That was primarily because the pollution

:05:21. > :05:22.which the road is producing every day with the traffic

:05:23. > :05:26.with pollution that was coming over from the continent.

:05:27. > :05:28.The Department for the Environment says the

:05:29. > :05:31.Department for Transport made the classification.

:05:32. > :05:33.The Department for Transport says it was the Department

:05:34. > :05:37.Either way it's finally been reclassified as urban.

:05:38. > :05:42.This news comes on the day that the head of the World Health

:05:43. > :05:45.Organisation described air pollution as one of the most pernicious

:05:46. > :05:50.It's linked to the death of hundreds of thousands of children every year.

:05:51. > :05:56.Sarah Smith, BBC London News, the Dartford Crossing.

:05:57. > :05:59.And continuing our series - tomorrow we'll have rare access

:06:00. > :06:04.inside the capital's specialist children's asthma clinic.

:06:05. > :06:08.If you're interested in what changes you can make -

:06:09. > :06:19.An unexploded World War Two bomb which was discovered on a building

:06:20. > :06:22.site in north-west London last week has been detonated in Essex.

:06:23. > :06:26.Experts from the Royal Navy and British Army safely disposed

:06:27. > :06:33.of the 500lb device at a military base in Southend.

:06:34. > :06:35.As part of the Government's drive to train up more

:06:36. > :06:37.apprentices by 2020 - from next month companies

:06:38. > :06:40.with a payroll of ?3 million or more will be forced

:06:41. > :06:52.to invest thousands in training school leavers or lose the money.

:06:53. > :06:54.But are businesses aware of the new levy?

:06:55. > :06:56.Marc Ashdown reports from the National

:06:57. > :06:59.Negotiating a route into work is a tricky business.

:07:00. > :07:01.The Army is one of 70 exhibitors here trying

:07:02. > :07:04.Apprenticeships are increasingly seen as a way into all

:07:05. > :07:10.While many of her friends are off to university, Zena is training

:07:11. > :07:17.Sometimes when people go to university they're still trying

:07:18. > :07:25.But, not only that, they're in a huge amount of debt.

:07:26. > :07:27.15,000 students are expected to attend this event.

:07:28. > :07:30.It's a shop window to show how varied and important

:07:31. > :07:33.Historically, people thought that an apprenticeship was for people

:07:34. > :07:35.who aren't academically bright or do not have a choice

:07:36. > :07:40.An apprenticeship really is open to anybody.

:07:41. > :07:43.It is crucial, it is absolutely crucial that we have a workforce

:07:44. > :07:44.that is better educated, better trained, better

:07:45. > :07:51.To that end, new legislation from April means any firm

:07:52. > :07:55.with a payroll of ?3 million or more will have to commit 0.5%

:07:56. > :07:59.of its budget to training apprentices, or lose the money.

:08:00. > :08:03.But a recent survey by City and Guilds found more than a third

:08:04. > :08:06.of London businesses aren't even aware of the new levy.

:08:07. > :08:13.Nine years ago I joined as an apprentice and I started my

:08:14. > :08:17.career and since then I've stayed with the company.

:08:18. > :08:20.And someone tells me you are employee of the year?

:08:21. > :08:26.Yes, I won an award, employee of the year

:08:27. > :08:32.Even those who have struggled academically,

:08:33. > :08:37.He's now thinking of signing up as a tank engineer.

:08:38. > :08:43.It's actually very nice to come up and have a surprise, like, "Oh,

:08:44. > :08:46.your three GCSEs can get you quite far in life even if everyone else

:08:47. > :08:50.That is probably a very reassuring thing to me.

:08:51. > :08:52.For many students and parents it's a first conversation

:08:53. > :08:58.Rather than his brothers who have both done degrees,

:08:59. > :09:01.he is more interested to go and not have the debt.

:09:02. > :09:03.You just jump straight through to a career and you get

:09:04. > :09:06.to learn skills needed for the apprenticeship you're doing.

:09:07. > :09:15.More and more young people then are realising the benefits

:09:16. > :09:20.That's it from me, but I'll leave you now with Wendy Hurrell

:09:21. > :09:31.The Weather for the Week Ahead is very mild, that's the first thing

:09:32. > :09:37.you will notice, particularly midweek onwards. We will encounter a

:09:38. > :09:42.few spells of rain and it will be windy at times so not like the day

:09:43. > :09:45.we had today which was practically perfect, bits of blue sky,

:09:46. > :09:48.blossoming underneath them, that's because we got lucky, there were

:09:49. > :09:54.showers around down the eastern side of the country and a few traipsing

:09:55. > :09:57.in from the west as well, we were in the nice sunny slot, the puffy

:09:58. > :10:01.cumulus clouds to enjoy throughout the day. It's conceivable one or two

:10:02. > :10:06.showers will creep across London and the Home Counties in the early hours

:10:07. > :10:09.of the morning but mostly it is dry with clear sky, particularly parts

:10:10. > :10:14.of Surrey and Buckinghamshire, temperatures may be low enough for a

:10:15. > :10:18.touch of frost locally and it may be a chilly start under clear skies

:10:19. > :10:22.first thing tomorrow morning but we will get brightness and sunshine and

:10:23. > :10:25.it will turn more hazy as the day goes on and cloud over completely

:10:26. > :10:33.eventually. Before that happens temperatures should get into double

:10:34. > :10:37.figures and behind me here is the rain that comes through on Tuesday

:10:38. > :10:40.night. It eventually clears through the leaves behind a lot of cloud.

:10:41. > :10:44.From Wednesday onwards rather grey skies but rather mild conditions, 13

:10:45. > :10:47.or 14 degrees, often breezy but the winds are south-westerly so the mild

:10:48. > :10:52.weather comes from that direction and it gets a bit upset at the

:10:53. > :10:57.weekend. A low pressure system moves in and that turns the wind to a more

:10:58. > :11:01.northerly quarter so the outlook for the weekend is something rather

:11:02. > :11:05.cool, it will be windy at times as well and still rather unsettled with

:11:06. > :11:09.some blustery showers around. That's the London forecast and now for the

:11:10. > :11:17.National forecast, over to Nick Miller.

:11:18. > :11:24.North-west France and Plymouth were miles apart weather-wise. This

:11:25. > :11:29.southern flank in north-west France there was a wind gusts of 120 mph

:11:30. > :11:32.which we just dodged. That area of low pressure continues to move

:11:33. > :11:37.quickly south-eastwards so that by tomorrow it is in Italy on its

:11:38. > :11:41.southern flank, stormy in Sardinia and around it strong winds blowing

:11:42. > :11:44.through south-east France. We've got a little bump in the ice bars with

:11:45. > :11:45.lighter winds, a brief