18/07/2017 London News

First tonight, cracking down on knife crime in the capital.

The Home Secretary has outlined plans, targeting

It would force customers to collect them in person,

enabling shops to carry out ID checks.

One mother, whose son was killed, welcomes the move but says parents

She's been speaking to our reporter Tolu Adeoye.

On the 24th February, my son Jonathan, nicknamed JJ got

stabbed in the heart outside the Town Hall in Islington.

They took out his main artery, punctured his heart and punctured

This CCTV footage shows the chaos as Michelle's son tried to skip

The 28-year-old father of two was stabbed in the chest would later

They leave, their faces are not covered up.

That's how confident they are they're not

You know, my boy didn't carry a knife.

JJ's killers still haven't been found.

Knife crime is on the rise in the capital.

Between June 2015 and May last year, there were nearly 10,000 offences.

In the year to May this year, there were nearly

Just designed to go in and pull everything out, it's horrendous.

The Home Secretary has been shown the sorts of knive that's have

been found by police, all handed in in London.

It's illegal to buy a knife if you're under 18, but some young

The Government plans to change the law so knives purchased have

We know from our own experience, from police information that we've

had, that young people have been able to buy knives who might

be underage online and we want that to stop.

The other thing we're announcing is making sure we can

consult on new legislation, potentially, so that

knives that are illegal, but are held in private property can

JJ's mother welcomes anything that will restrict the sale of knives

but says policing must start at home.

A lot of these weaponry is coming out of the kitchen drawer.

As parents, you need to be checking your children's bags before

Talk to your children, find out who they're hanging out with.

Because you really do not want to feel like I'm feeling now.

If you think about someone you really love and close your eyes

and think you're never going to see them, touch them, feel them,

even just get a phone call from them, "Mum,

You know, that's how I feel every moment of every day.

There were tears tonight from both residents and council

representatives at a meeting to update the community

The response team faced questions on support for victims

and over charity donations not getting through.

Arriving for answers, armed with questions, many gathered this

evening for a meeting that, at times, became emotional from all

sides. I saw everything from the fire, from the beginning to the end.

From a 17-year-old's side of it, growing up in this community, I

loved, it I thought, you know, everyone's loving. And this whole

tragedy has made me see we have no support from you. What are you going

to do to support us? It's absolutely clear to me that you've been let

down. APPLAUSE

And you've been let down by statutory and public authorities.

For many who feel they don't have the truth, it was heated. I have

evidences to suggest that you guys are actually lying about the actual

total fatality. I'm telling you to tread very carefully. Following

questions surrounding where online and charity donations have been

going, Barry Quirk had this to say. First of all, there's 700 just

giving pages, 700. Which is phenomenal contribution for people

round the country. None of this money is controlled by the

authorities. It will be controlled by the Charity Commission. After the

meeting, there was still disappointment from some in the

community. It's clear that although the council and local services are

trying very hard, they are still failing to engage with the

communities and there's a culture of disengagement here in Kensington

Chelsea. The council has promised change. The investigation says it

will give answers, whether it will give this community closure is yet

to be seen. They've been quite public in not

seeing eye to eye when it comes to travel bans

and Twitter etiquette. Now the mayor of London has told

American TV audiences that their president shouldn't be

honoured with a state visit Whether it was courting the NFL

at Wembley or trying to woo the new American owner

of Formula One in the capital last week, London's mayor has been eager

to roll out the red carpet where lucrative deals

with the US might be on offer. But now, he's reiterated

that he won't be doing the same for the American president,

in an interview with a US Would you be open to a state visit

by Donald Trump here to the UK? State visits are different

from a normal visit. At a time when the president

of the USA has policies that many people in the UK disagree with,

I'm not sure if it's appropriate for our Government to roll out

the red carpet for a state visit. It's not the first time the two

leaders have clashed. Last month, the US president took

to social media to criticise the mayor's response to the terror

attack on London Bridge. But now, some of the mayor's

political opponents What kind of message is that

to American companies who want to invest in the United Kingdom,

or indeed, those Americans who've made their home here, that massive

insult to their country? It's not about the personal spat

between Don and Sadiq. This is about a relationship

between two countries. So for him to adopt his own foreign

policy, I think, is irresponsible and it means he's not

treating his job very seriously. So far, President Trump hasn't

responded to Sadiq Khan, at least not through his preferred

method of Twitter. Did the mayor's comments add extra

significance this time because they were made

to an American news network and will be presented

to a domestic audience there? There are people out there willing

to, they'll jump on Khan for having said this if they're

Trump supporters. If they're not Trump supporters

they'll hold this up as yet another bit of evidence that

Trump is not doing anything good for US relations

with the outside world. And yet last weekend,

President Trump did have The carpet might have been

blue rather than red, but many have seen this trip

as a sign of growing closeness Tonight, Sadiq Khan has

made it clear he too wants a strong alliance,

but told us the point of having a special relationship with the US

is that we stand by them through difficult times

but are not afraid to tell It's been described

as an archaeological gem, a sarcophagus, believed to be

an ancient roman relic, has been It's one of only three ever

found in the capital. For most of these archaeologists

this is the most significant find of their careers, a building

site near Boro, once This stone coffin, the last resting

place for someone very important. They would have been very wealthy

and they would have had a lot of social status to be honoured in -

it's not only the sarcophagus. It's the fact that

it's constructed into But whoever was buried

here did not rest entirely in peace, because back in the 1700s, this

grave was robbed. An opportunist person

uncovered the top of the sarcophagus and pushed the lid

to the side and took some The treasures may have been

snatched but the real wealth Lies within the earth under

the two ton lid, which this morning was being lifted very,

very carefully. The last time a discovery like this

was made was 18 years ago. Spittalfield, the woman, as she's

called, was found in tact, a wealthy Italian who's provided

a wealth of knowledge. We know from the isotopes

in her teeth that she was born She travelled all that way

and is buried in this amazing lead coffin placed within this stone

sarcophagus, she is just fantastic. It's no wonder they are

excited about this. It's taken seven months of careful

digging to get to this point, moving the sarcophagus for

the first time in 16 hundred years. The sarcophagus is headed

for the Museum of London, The story of this

mysterious Roman vip to I'll wish you a very goodnight

and leave you with Elizabeth Rizzini We could be in for a stormy night

indeed. Here's the warning signs, some cloud as captured by Helen in

Hackney earlier. Here is the Met Office weather warning, we see

torrential down pours in many places overnight. There could be thunder,

lightning, hail, the lot. Here are the storms just tracking up from the

south at the moment. Parts of west London have been badly hit. These

storms could pop up anywhere through the early hours of tomorrow morning.

We could see very heavy rain within just a short space of time. Tracking

northwards, it should be a drier picture by tomorrow morning.

Uncomfortable night's sleep for many. Lows of 18 or 19 degrees.

Tomorrow should be mostly dry. Thunder storms may pop up through

the late afternoon. Probably a sunny start. It will feel warm and even

more humid tomorrow. Clouding over through the afternoon.

Highs of 27. Here's the outlook: Good evening. There is some dramatic

weather out there at the moment. Some vicious thunder storms that

have pushed into southern parts of the country. Earlier on, we saw some

really torrential rain across the south-west, particularly west

Cornwall, where we had issues with flooding. Then this evening, storms

have developed across some other southern areas of England. One

particularly potent