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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News - | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
The organisation that manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The Prime Minister says action needed to be taken to address | :00:18. | :00:32. | |
residents' concerns that the tenant management organisation | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Theresa May also criticised Kensington and Chelsea Council | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
for not responding quickly enough to the fire. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
It comes as the first residents accepted offers | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Our political correspondent Karl Mercer reports. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
From the chandelier shop, across Chelsea's King's Road, | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
these are the flats that Kensington and Chelsea Council has bought | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
as new homes for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
There are 30 homes here, a mix of one- and two-bedroom flats, | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Three families from Grenfell have already said they want to live here. | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
I think it's an interesting question, because... | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Today, the leader of Kensington and Chelsea visited the site, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
the morning after Grenfell residents had met the Prime Minister | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
to tell her how unhappy they were with the council's | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
I spoke to the Prime Minister this morning, and I accept | :01:15. | :01:26. | |
there is a legacy, of course there is a legacy, of lack | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
of trust left over from, you know, how the council performed | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
But look here, look what we're doing today, look at the flats, | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
the quality, the offer, the fact that so many people | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
You know, we're getting there, I accept it's slow | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The council has set aside around ?75 million to sort out accommodation, | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
and so far has 105 properties available for Grenfell families. | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
It says just over 180 families in and around | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
the block need new homes, and just nine have so far | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
accepted permanent offers, although 23 have moved | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
The prime minister met Grenfell residents last night, | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
and told them that the body that ran the tower for the council, the local | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
tenant management organisation, would be stripped of its power over | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
the estate - something residents have long called for. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
I was able to tell them that the tenant management | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
organisation will no longer have responsibility for the Lancaster | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
What we were also able to do was to hear from some specific | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
issues that individuals had at that meeting. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Is this really the death knell for the tenant | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
management organisation, which has been running | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
your council buildings? It's us saying that we don't think | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
It's not a viable option for us, and we will look for other | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
options, and we will start with Lancaster West estate, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
The council says it will eventually take over all the stock currently | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
run by the tenant management organisation, but will | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Everything to do with Grenfell Tower will take time, it says. | :02:58. | :03:09. | |
Damn joins me now. There was a meeting this evening between the | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
council, the residents and the police, no tenant management | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
organisation? No, I was at the meeting, they didn't show up, there | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
was some anger about that, they have never faced the public over this. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
And anger was also expressed at the council, once again, calls for the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
leader of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation to | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
step down. But much more sub Judi Dench we have seen at recent | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
meetings. The most interesting conversation I had this evening was | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
with a young father of two who is really upset that his eight-year-old | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
son is so traumatised, and yet they cannot get access to any mental | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
health help for him. He doesn't want to go to sleep, he wants to sleep in | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
my bed, he wants to be by me all the time, he doesn't want to leave my | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
side. I'm trying to sort out myself so I can help him, but I want to | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
help him more than I want to help myself, because... He can't | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
articulate how he really feels. And I need someone who is trained to | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
bring it out of him. This is what I keep on telling, I am not trained | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
for this. On the biggest issue for many of these people, which is | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
housing, things are moving slowly. Three families who lost people in | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
the fire have now accepted properties. The website for choosing | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
new housing run by the council, we heard this evening has now gone | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
live, and out of 151 households, 110 have logged on, that's 80%. But of | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that, three quarters expressing an interest in those properties, so it | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
is very slow going. Police say they are treating the | :04:41. | :05:05. | |
blaze as suspicious. Borough Market is to become | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
the first market in the country It's all part of an attempt to stop | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
more plastics going to landfill On average, each Londoner | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
buys around four plastic That adds up to 1 billion bottles | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
of water every year. Alex Bushill reports in the second | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
of our series on how we deal Ever wondered where your plastic | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
bottles end up if you don't recycle? So, this is what you find | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
on the Thames in central London. You find strand lines | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
full of plastic bottles, you find mounds of plastic wet | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
wipes, and you find bits of the Thames carpeted | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
with plastic bags. Debbie says the Thames | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
is being choked by plastic rubbish. As the plastic starts to break down, | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
then it gets mistaken for food items, and it can be swallowed | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
by animals, and then it fills up and clogs the digestive systems, | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
so that these animals slowly Well, Borough Market think water | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
fountains and reusable bottles are. The traders here are also promising | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
to stop selling disposable water The cost to the environment far | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
outweighs our own costs. So, it's something that we have | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
to do, and it's something that Let's put these reusable water | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
bottles to the test. They cost ?2 each, and that's | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
without any water in them. Would you pay ?2 for | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
one of those instead? Absolutely, fantastic idea, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
better for the environment, ?2, that's value for money, | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
then, do you think? I think so, if you fill it | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
up at home, especially Do you want to buy it off me now, | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
then, put your money Despite other forms of plastic | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
still being used everywhere here, from fruit punnets to pint glasses, | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
Borough Market insist one day, That's the vision, and I'm | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
an ambitious person. This is about Borough Market | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
rebuilding after the terrorist attacks in June and coming forward | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
confidently and saying, The Government and the Mayor | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
of London are both consulting on a possible return deposit scheme | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
for plastic bottles - so, these are all examples of how | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
just maybe the tide is turning on all things cheap, | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
plastic and disposable. Supermodel Naomi Campbell has | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
highlighted the lack of diversity at Vogue magazine under the former | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
editor, by pointing to a recent photo which showed not | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
a single ethnic minority A new boss is taking the reins | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
at Vogue, the first non-white person It's the fashion bible thousands | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
turn to every month, and these are the people behind | :07:48. | :07:59. | |
British Vogue. But is there anything | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
wrong with this picture? The supermodel Naomi | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Campbell thinks there is. There isn't a single | :08:10. | :08:10. | |
non-white employee. "This is the staff photo | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
at British Vogue under the previous editor, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Alexandra Shulman. Looking forward to an inclusive | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
and diverse staff, now that Edward Enninful is the editor, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Let's hear your thoughts." Her request led to criticism | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
of Vogue, including from this blogger, who says she wasn't | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
surprised by the photo. I do think it's a problem, | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
because for it to be Vogue UK, and they're based in London, | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
the fact that London is one of the most multicultural | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
cities in the world, there isn't an excuse | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
for the whole of the team... That was a very massive team photo, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
that was a big team, That's an issue, because fashion | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
is consumed by people Hello, my name is Edward Enninful, | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
I'm the editor-in-chief British Vogue's new editor, renowned | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
fashion stylist Edward Enninful, is not only the magazine's first | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
black editor, he's also And he's already been | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
making changes, including hiring Naomi Campbell | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
as a contributing editor. But Edward Enninful faces a big task | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
ahead in an industry that has often been criticised for lacking | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
diversity at best, By nature, people kind | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
of are inspired by their cultural backgrounds and the people | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
that they know. So, until you recruit | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
from a large group of people, that's the way to get diverse | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
products out into the industry. Why do you think there aren't | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
any black faces there? I think it's not a matter of, | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
you know, there are black people who aren't qualified to fill | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
the positions, I just don't think British Vogue would not put | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
anybody up for interview But many will be looking closely | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
to see who makes up next year's staff photograph | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
after Edward Enninful's That's it for now from me, but let's | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
find out what the weather's Not a great deal of sunshine for us | :09:57. | :10:23. | |
today. But a lot of dry weather to come, and some warm sunshine at | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
times, too. We are seeing the cloud finally breaking up, with clear | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
skies overnight. You will notice it being quite a bit cooler away from | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the centre of London. Tomorrow, we start off bright and sunny, a lovely | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
start to the day. That could be a little bit of cloud but I don't | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
think it will give us a shower. Let's have a look at the outlook, | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
and as we head through Friday, into the weekend, it's going to be | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
warming up. The big warming up. The big picture is with | :11:00. | :11:11. | |
BBC Weather. Hello and good evening. Summer warmth made a vague attempt | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
at a comeback earlier on this week, but it was swept chromatically aside | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
over the last 24 hours by some very heavy downpours, which caused | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
localised flooding in places. Most of the showers now have cleared | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
away, some rain still affecting the Northern Isles Scotland. But for | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
many, it was a fine end to the day. Through the | :11:40. | :11:40. |