:00:13. > :00:14.Good evening and welcome to BBC London News,
:00:15. > :00:19.Serious failings have been found in children's
:00:20. > :00:24.Ofsted inspectors have rated the services as inadequate and said
:00:25. > :00:27.there's insufficient scrutiny at all levels.
:00:28. > :00:30.Officers and councillors say they were unaware that children
:00:31. > :00:33.were being left in harmful situations, but the authority says
:00:34. > :00:35.it will make it an absolute priority to improve things.
:00:36. > :00:41.Here's our education reporter, Marc Ashdown.
:00:42. > :00:44.Tower Hamlets looks after 333 vulnerable children,
:00:45. > :00:49.Ofsted says too many children here are being left in situations
:00:50. > :00:55.Inspectors found widespread and serious failures throughout
:00:56. > :00:59.There was insufficient scrutiny at all levels.
:01:00. > :01:02.Officers and politicians across the council didn't know
:01:03. > :01:07.New managers uncovered a deeply worrying picture,
:01:08. > :01:09.yet there was still insufficient rigour in challenging
:01:10. > :01:18.Ofsted said children living with abuse wait too long for help.
:01:19. > :01:21.And there was a failure to consider whether children had been trafficked
:01:22. > :01:27.The last Ofsted inspection was in 2012.
:01:28. > :01:30.Children's services were found to be good with outstanding features.
:01:31. > :01:32.Since then, inspectors say there's been a significant
:01:33. > :01:41.22 children were taken into care in January.
:01:42. > :01:45.Three very young children had to spend the night in a police
:01:46. > :01:50.station as there was nowhere for them to go.
:01:51. > :01:53.I blame the previous administration, but the current administration
:01:54. > :01:56.has not tightened up what they inherited.
:01:57. > :02:00.There's evidence senior members were not going to committee
:02:01. > :02:04.meetings, evidence of reports being lost, data not being provided.
:02:05. > :02:07.That needs to be tightened up so we can ensure our young people
:02:08. > :02:16.I deal with a lot of vulnerable women facing domestic violence.
:02:17. > :02:27.It is significant that the lead member, the chief executive,
:02:28. > :02:35.They say clearing up the mess left by the previous
:02:36. > :02:37.Lutfur Rahman administration, of which Councillor
:02:38. > :02:41.She maintains the current mayor inherited a flagship service.
:02:42. > :02:45.You have been in there for two years.
:02:46. > :02:48.It takes time to turn organisations around.
:02:49. > :02:51.Looking at the Ofsted recommendations, if I had known
:02:52. > :02:54.then what I know now, we would have knuckled
:02:55. > :03:01.The headline is this is an improving service.
:03:02. > :03:03.There are areas of positive development.
:03:04. > :03:10.But it clearly criticises the way we have been doing
:03:11. > :03:24.More than 3000 children in this borough require some kind of help
:03:25. > :03:29.Ofsted has made a raft of improvements to ensure the most
:03:30. > :03:31.vulnerable young people are failed no more.
:03:32. > :03:33.Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment a bus passenger
:03:34. > :03:37.Just to say we're about to show the amateur video of the struggle,
:03:38. > :03:40.which could be uncomfortable viewing for some.
:03:41. > :03:42.It happened in Stoke Newington on Tuesday.
:03:43. > :03:44.An eyewitness told the BBC that the two men had been arguing
:03:45. > :03:48.The attacker ran off after being disarmed, and the passenger
:03:49. > :03:55.It was a brutal murder more than 30 years ago that's
:03:56. > :04:01.Clara Kirton was found dead in her Southwark flat in 1985 -
:04:02. > :04:04.a broken beer bottle one of the only clues left at the scene.
:04:05. > :04:10.Now police are offering a ?20,000 reward to help catch her killer.
:04:11. > :04:13.Sonja Jessup has been speaking to her son.
:04:14. > :04:17.There's a photograph of my mother with her brother.
:04:18. > :04:21.This is how Brian Kirton would like to remember his mother,
:04:22. > :04:27.Not how he found her that day in November 1985.
:04:28. > :04:30.Clara had been murdered in her own home.
:04:31. > :04:34.This frail 86-year-old grandmother the victim of a violent attack.
:04:35. > :04:49.There's never a day goes past now where I don't remember it.
:04:50. > :04:52.A police hunt has been launched for the vicious killer
:04:53. > :04:54.of an 86-year-old woman in south London over the weekend.
:04:55. > :04:57.Mrs Clara Kirton was attacked at her home...
:04:58. > :05:02.The case then and now has baffled detectives.
:05:03. > :05:07.It is thought this was a burglary which went horribly wrong.
:05:08. > :05:09.Drawers in the flat were thrown open.
:05:10. > :05:14.Police believe she may have known her killer,
:05:15. > :05:17.who panicked and then attacked her when
:05:18. > :05:27.Police appeals at the time focused on a broken beer bottle and a bloody
:05:28. > :05:30.trail of footprints left at the scene.
:05:31. > :05:32.Detectives today have no new evidence.
:05:33. > :05:36.They're offering a ?20,000 reward for information.
:05:37. > :05:38.We've looked at forensic opportunities.
:05:39. > :05:42.We still have some unidentified fingerprints.
:05:43. > :05:46.If anyone wants to put somebody forward, we could easily eliminate
:05:47. > :05:54.Brian Kirton says the death of his mother has devastated his family.
:05:55. > :05:58.But he's never stopped hoping her killer can be caught.
:05:59. > :06:06.I know somebody out there knows something or knows somebody.
:06:07. > :06:43.I would love to see justice for my mother.
:06:44. > :06:46.Now, if you're thinking of visiting the cinema over Easter
:06:47. > :06:50.and enjoy watching films, Brexit may have a bigger
:06:51. > :06:56.A Booker prize-winning novel now turned into a film,
:06:57. > :06:59.made by a company which has received about ?170,000 from
:07:00. > :07:03.Money that boss says is vital for development, finding ideas,
:07:04. > :07:06.seeing if they will work, help in the early stages.
:07:07. > :07:11.It gave us some space and time and an extra energy,
:07:12. > :07:17.I think it would have happened anyway, but it certainly
:07:18. > :07:20.made it a lot easier, having this EU grant.
:07:21. > :07:25.The Creative Europe Fund has nearly 1.5 billion euros to distribute
:07:26. > :07:28.across the continent between 2014 and 2020.
:07:29. > :07:33.So far, over the last three years, 56 million euros has gone to the UK,
:07:34. > :07:39.Most public help for films comes in the form of tax breaks.
:07:40. > :07:43.But exclude that and this money has accounted for about 9% of public
:07:44. > :07:51.London is the creative industries, and to have that European funding
:07:52. > :07:54.directly going into that art - and it's not subsidy, it's not good
:07:55. > :07:56.money going after bad - it's absolutely central
:07:57. > :08:01.And for the success of this great capital city.
:08:02. > :08:05.But others are welcoming the Brexit separation,
:08:06. > :08:08.deploring a subsidy culture which they say tends to help
:08:09. > :08:15.It can't be the purpose of any grant or subsidy body to be funding either
:08:16. > :08:20.multimillionaires who could actually fund themselves on their gold cards,
:08:21. > :08:27.The media class in the UK is treating Brexit and the loss
:08:28. > :08:31.of EU funding, or the potential loss of EU funding, as if there's been
:08:32. > :08:40.In fact, in the short-term, there's been one specific Brexit benefit.
:08:41. > :08:44.As a direct consequence of Brexit, I've moved my next film
:08:45. > :08:52.Brexit meant the currency went down about 11%,
:08:53. > :08:55.so we're getting a lot more bang for our buck.
:08:56. > :09:00.The government says it's invested more than ?400 million in UK film
:09:01. > :09:02.last year through tax breaks and grants.
:09:03. > :09:19.But once it's no longer paying into the EU, will there be more
:09:20. > :09:32.To mark two decades since her death, a new memorial garden has opened
:09:33. > :09:34.at the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales -
:09:35. > :09:39.Called the White Garden, it's filled with flowers that
:09:40. > :09:41.are inspired by memories of Diana's life, style and image.
:09:42. > :09:43.Formerly the Sunken Garden, it can be viewed from a public
:09:44. > :09:51.walkway and will be at its best until September.
:09:52. > :09:55.I'll say goodnight and hand you over to Nick Miller to find out
:09:56. > :10:04.what the Easter weather will be up to.
:10:05. > :10:10.Not much sunshine, not much rain. There are some sunny moments on the
:10:11. > :10:13.way for the first day of the long weekend, which gets off to a fine
:10:14. > :10:17.start tomorrow. Tonight, quite a bit of cloud, some clear spells.
:10:18. > :10:21.Temperatures heading down into single figures. Some spots may be
:10:22. > :10:24.cooler than this as we start the day tomorrow. Tomorrow, just like today,
:10:25. > :10:29.there will be quite a bit of cloud in the sky. There will be breaks,
:10:30. > :10:32.allowing some sunny spells to come through. When the sun shines it
:10:33. > :10:35.feels pleasantly warm. The temperature degree or so higher
:10:36. > :10:40.compared with today there's a chance of light rain late tomorrow evening.
:10:41. > :10:43.Not as much as gardeners would want. For Saturday, some sunny spells
:10:44. > :10:48.especially during the first part of the day. Later, more cloud. There
:10:49. > :10:53.may be the odd shower around. Saturday is the coolest day of the
:10:54. > :10:57.weekend. For Sunday, Easter Day, a good deal of cloud around. It's not
:10:58. > :10:58.out of the question there could be a spot of light rain from that cloud.
:10:59. > :11:04.We will keep We will keep you updated. Now with
:11:05. > :11:08.the National Outlook, Tomasz Schafernaker.
:11:09. > :11:14.Good evening. It's not exactly cracking whether this Easter. I
:11:15. > :11:19.think the main message is there's going to be a lot of dry weather,
:11:20. > :11:24.just a little bit of rain from time to time. Not so bad overall across
:11:25. > :11:27.most of the UK, wherever you are hopping to and from. From today we
:11:28. > :11:32.have a fair bit of cloud around. We had some cloud around earlier on
:11:33. > :11:36.today. It's going to stick around through the course of the night. A
:11:37. > :11:39.few spits and spots of rain here and there towards the south, clearer
:11:40. > :11:40.skies, may be turning quite chilly