29/05/2017 London News

Good evening from BBC London News, I'm Victoria Hollins.

There was extra security in place today as thousands of runners took

to the Capital's streets for a 10K race.

Organisers say last-minute changes were made to arrangements

in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police

and City Hall, following the Manchester bombing,

United they run. A week ago today Londoners woke up to the news of the

Manchester attack. Today, undeterred, they turned out in their

thousands to pound the capital's streets, but the shadow of last

week's horrendous events loomed large. You have to come out in

support. You have to go on. That's it. I'm here for Manchester. I felt

safe, didn't you? Yeah, it was very well organised, definitely. It made

us even more determined I think, come out, show our solidarity. The

atmosphere round the course has been wonderful. Everyone's really pulled

together. Good for us. Despite the recent tragic events in

Manchester, over 12,000 runners turned out today for London's

vitality 10 K snaking their way through some of London's historic

sites before crossing the finish line here in front of Buckingham

Palace. But behind-the-scenes, it was the safety of the athletes and

the spectators that was uppermost in the minds of the organisers. We had

a full security review with the mayor's office, the Metropolitan

Police, the City of Westminster, all the agencies, the royal park,

everyone working together. A lot of security has been beefed up. We

don't give any details because that actually reduces the security, if

you give details. But a lot has happened. And the planning paid off.

Today's race went off without a hitch. Londoners determined to carry

on. With just over a week to go before

the general election, BBC London has visited one

of our key battle grounds. Carshalton and Wallington

was the only seat in London that the Liberal Democrats

won in 2015. So will their message on Brexit

bring victory again? Or will local issues

be more important? Welcome to the constituency of

Carshalton and Wallington, on the Surrey border where most people

voted Leave. It's one of the tightest marginals in London. But

will it be bins or Brexit that decide it here? This is an

incinerator, which will be burning waste at 850 degrees. It's rubbish

that concerns the Green candidate, as this incinerator nears completion

in the north of the constituency. He's been fighting it for years.

It's a really big issue. Imagine if you live around here. I was chatting

to a resident earlier, she was telling me that she owns her house.

What are the chances of her selling her house with that here now? The

value of the property's come down. I feel so sorry for people living

around here. Will those who live nearby be tempted to vote Green? As

we were filming Karen and her daughter passed by. It was not at

all what we were led to believe. I feel we've been betrayed in a lot of

ways. Will that change how you vote, would you consider voting Green? The

thing is with the Green Party as muches you might have our best

interests at heart, no-one listens. What do you say to that? Locally, if

enough people actually realise that the Green candidate that actually

took on the council's standing we could actually get enough votes to

be able to challenge those two parties as well. Thank you very

much, I'll bear you many n mind. New bin collections from the local

Liberal Democrat council have caused real problems here. There are

concerns that services at the local hospital could be cut. The MP for

the last 20 years has been the Liberal Democrat Tom Brake. He voted

Remain. At the last election, he got just 1,510 votes more than the

Conservatives. Clearly the bins issue has not been helpful. We're

seeing a decline that the level of complaints associated with the new

contract. But there are other issues that I think play much more

significantly in people's hearts. That is the future of our local

hospital, where I've got a track record of over 25 years of

campaigning for that hospital. Ukip aren't putting up a candidate here.

Last time, they got 7,000 votes. The Tory candidate, who also voted

Remain, says he'll be tougher with the local council. One of my

campaign issues has been to give the council a kick when it doesn't

provide people the services they're expecting. We have had the same

council in control here for more than 30 years. The Liberal Democrat

MP I'm up against is from the same party. He finds it perhaps difficult

to give them the kick they need when they underperformed. I think it's

going to be about Brexit and other national issues. I think it will be

about the NHS as well. There's big local issue in terms of St Helier

hospital. They feel that they need somebody to speak up for them. This

constituency isn't unusual, Brexit could dominate. But other local

issues might play their part in what happens on June 8.

of candidates standing in Carshalton and Wallington on your screen now.

There's plenty more information about the election and your local

Londoners are being asked not to feed the birds in Regent's Park,

following fears it could be linked to cases of inbreeding

The park has one of the largest grey heron colonies in the capital.

There is a mystery bird feeder who is dishing up unconventional

food for these herons in Regent's Park.

This is one of the areas where you will see a lot of people

putting food out for the geese and the ducks and the herons.

They are putting out bread, they are putting out all sorts

of scraps and notoriously lots of curried rice.

That has been a big problem here because it is just

It has been appearing regularly beside the water's edge and eaten

There are now concerns about possible genetic

Because they are so laden, they are not flying off

and exploring other areas, so they are becoming quite isolated

here in their little island and the problem is if they do become

isolated, they do not meet other herons from other

You end up with a very small gene pool and generation after generation

This island in Regent's Park is a home to around 20

It is one of the largest grey heron colonies in the whole of London.

But it is not just here where bird feeding is causing a problem.

Over in Richmond Park it is also a concern.

You get interested in the wildlife and after a while they

Royal Parks benefit from 77 million visitors to the park each year

and you can imagine if each of us just brings a little handful of food

for the birds that is far too much food for them.

Back in Regent's Park the mystery of the curried rice

Let's turn now to a check on the weather with Wendy.

It's been a strange old weekend. It has, yes. The weather for the week

ahead is settling down. We'll have decent spells of sunshine and

towards the end of the week, it's going to become very warm once

again. We did have a fairly unstable atmosphere over the last 48 hours or

so. That situation is clearing away now. We have a cold front going

through tomorrow. It's not going to come to much. Building in behind it,

high pressure. That's going to settle things down. Fewer showers,

more in the way of sunshine. And a bit of heat once again. You may

still see one or two showers this evening. They're tending to ease

away. There's not much pep left in them any way. Most of the night is

dry. Plenty of cloud around. Temperatures falling to 14 or 15

degrees. Another warm night. Then off to work again tomorrow. Not

school, though perhaps. Maybe one or two showers first thing. But most of

the day is going to be dry once again. There'll be a fair amount of

breaks in the cloud. Decent spells of sunshine, a little breezy.

Temperatures around about where they should be at this time of year. Then

Wednesday looking like a decent day as well. Plenty of sunshine, high of

22 degrees, lighter winds than Tuesday. Towards the end of the week

temperatures could be picking up to the mid-20s again.

A band of rain through Friday. If it does what it should and clears

through, next weekend will be with showers, a little fresher and

breezy. That's a long way off though. Much less complicated

weather to enjoy in the meantime. That's it for now. We're back in

breakfast tomorrow morning from 6. 25am. From all of us here, whatever

you're doing, enjoy the rest of your night. Bye for now.

Hello. There I think we've seen the back of the thunder storms now. Over

the next few days, our weather will start to come in from the Atlantic.

We'll draw down fresher air from the North West. Recently, we've been

drawing up humid air from the south, from the near continent. Of course,

it all went bang in the early hours of