:00:12. > :00:15.I'm Asad Ahmad. the UK learn from Norway and border.
:00:16. > :00:18.For the very first time, a piece of land in north London has
:00:19. > :00:23.been sold on condition that all the hundreds of new homes
:00:24. > :00:25.to be built upon it will be affordable.
:00:26. > :00:28.The Mayor of London believes it's a way of getting more much
:00:29. > :00:30.needed homes to Londoners who would otherwise be priced out
:00:31. > :00:37.But there's criticism too - as Karl Mercer explains.
:00:38. > :00:40.This site hasn't changed much in the last seven years.
:00:41. > :00:42.Perhaps the weeds have got a little taller,
:00:43. > :00:49.But perhaps these four fellas might be about to change that.
:00:50. > :00:52.Here in Walthamstow today, with their plans to build 330
:00:53. > :00:55.new homes on the spot in the next five years.
:00:56. > :01:04.All - yes, 100% of them - will be affordable.
:01:05. > :01:07.Sold to first timers who can buy a share in their new homes.
:01:08. > :01:10.For one-bedroom flats you'll be looking at about ?350,000.
:01:11. > :01:12.But with a shared ownership offer, it would enable somebody to buy
:01:13. > :01:14.a share of the property for about ?100,000.
:01:15. > :01:16.So, actually gaining a deposit for ?100,000,
:01:17. > :01:21.City Hall bought this land last year, then sold it on to two
:01:22. > :01:22.housing associations, at a profit and also
:01:23. > :01:29.The deal is you can have this land for a sum of money on the condition
:01:30. > :01:36.that every single home on this land is affordable.
:01:37. > :01:39.So, a couple earning less than an average wage would be
:01:40. > :01:42.Walthamstow, like many areas around London, has seen plenty
:01:43. > :01:45.Expensive flats have been going up around the area,
:01:46. > :01:48.so the local council leader is all in favour of
:01:49. > :01:52.It's not actually unique to us in Waltham Forest.
:01:53. > :01:54.I think it's happening right across outer London.
:01:55. > :01:58.The test for us as political leaders is what we do about that.
:01:59. > :02:01.Do we just sit back and let the private sector roll into town,
:02:02. > :02:05.Or do we put up a very strong fight, a very robust argument
:02:06. > :02:07.for lots of affordable and social housing?
:02:08. > :02:10.Most have welcomed plans for this site, but there are those
:02:11. > :02:13.who would like to see more homes for people to rent to put
:02:14. > :02:19.It's true that no council homes have started under the Mayor's programme
:02:20. > :02:22.I've been asking him questions about this.
:02:23. > :02:24.But, yet again, we see it with this scheme.
:02:25. > :02:28.We need to see new schemes in future actually prioritising affordable
:02:29. > :02:33.homes for rent that are really affordable, like council homes.
:02:34. > :02:35.The Mayor says homes for rent will come in time.
:02:36. > :02:37.Finding somewhere to live is likely to be the biggest
:02:38. > :02:40.challenge for the next generation of Londoners.
:02:41. > :02:45.Providing them, the biggest challenge for its politicians.
:02:46. > :02:47.Tolu Adeoye, you've been following this.
:02:48. > :03:00.It is. And more housing was the Mayor's big campaign pledge. He said
:03:01. > :03:03.last year he wanted to build 90,000 affordable homes over the next four
:03:04. > :03:07.years, but he has been criticised for not going about it quickly
:03:08. > :03:13.enough. This announcement is really a good indication of how he plans to
:03:14. > :03:17.do that, buying public land, selling it on cheaply with strict guidelines
:03:18. > :03:18.for developers. We spoke to one housing expert who said it was a
:03:19. > :03:20.good way to go. The really revolutionary thing
:03:21. > :03:22.about this method is that it takes a piece of land and gets it
:03:23. > :03:25.into the system for less That's really important,
:03:26. > :03:29.because the cost of land is the main factor making housing expensive
:03:30. > :03:33.in London for new homes. So, if the Mayor can get a piece
:03:34. > :03:37.of land and get it into a housing association's plans for cheap,
:03:38. > :03:51.that can make the house We mustn't lose sight of the fact
:03:52. > :03:56.that this is just 330 new homes. London is growing at a rate of
:03:57. > :03:59.100,000 people every year and needs 50,000 to 60,000 new homes to cope
:04:00. > :04:02.with that and the Mayor can't do it alone. They also said we need land
:04:03. > :04:12.that is currently in the hands of other public sector authorities. The
:04:13. > :04:15.Mayor has said he is trying to identify brown field sites that can
:04:16. > :04:17.be built on. His team say this is a marathon, not a sprint.
:04:18. > :04:19.Teenagers in London have outperformed the rest of England
:04:20. > :04:24.Figures were slightly down on last year, but a lot less compared
:04:25. > :04:28.Helen Drew has been meeting some students in west London to find out
:04:29. > :04:35.if they've had tears of joy or sadness.
:04:36. > :04:39.Getting exam results is a familiar sight,
:04:40. > :04:45.They only opened in 2012, so this is the very first group
:04:46. > :04:52.It's also the first year of the new grading system,
:04:53. > :04:54.where some subjects are awarded numbers 9-1, others
:04:55. > :05:01.A bit upset about the B in RE, but I can brush aside that,
:05:02. > :05:07.I feel fantastic, because I got a 9 in maths.
:05:08. > :05:14.I got Bs and I'm proud of that, because I didn't think
:05:15. > :05:19.Reach Academy is a free school, meaning it's government
:05:20. > :05:21.funded, but not controlled by the local authority.
:05:22. > :05:24.It was set up by a group of teachers who are delighted
:05:25. > :05:30.Nationally, and in the area, it's better than perhaps would have
:05:31. > :05:33.been expected of a school in a community like ours.
:05:34. > :05:41.But it goes to show that when you work hard and every person
:05:42. > :05:44.in the building comes to work every day loving their job,
:05:45. > :05:46.and working really, really diligently together
:05:47. > :05:48.The success story continues across the capital.
:05:49. > :05:51.In England, 66.1% of students got a C or above, or its equivalent.
:05:52. > :05:56.And for grade A and above, now a 7 and over, it's 19.8%
:05:57. > :06:05.Back in Feltham, one student who's overcome a lot
:06:06. > :06:11.She barely spoke at primary school and was incredibly shy when she came
:06:12. > :06:21.And an A* in English language and literature.
:06:22. > :06:28.And I thought I was terrible at physics!
:06:29. > :06:30.Across the country, this year's results have shown the biggest ever
:06:31. > :06:42.Here in Feltham, though, tears of joy.
:06:43. > :06:44.So many students have worked very hard.
:06:45. > :06:47.Over a million and a half tonnes of food is wasted
:06:48. > :06:50.every year in London - that's the same as each of us
:06:51. > :06:52.throwing away 200 bags of sugar every year.
:06:53. > :06:55.Most of it goes to landfill, so Dan Freedman has been finding out
:06:56. > :07:01.what's being done to try and solve the problem.
:07:02. > :07:04.Food waste, hundreds of tonnes of it here at the largest food
:07:05. > :07:13.And yet this isn't even 1% of what we waste on a daily basis.
:07:14. > :07:16.This is the latest delivery they've had here.
:07:17. > :07:19.This is about six tonnes of food waste.
:07:20. > :07:24.They'll get 30 deliveries just like this one every single day.
:07:25. > :07:28.Admittedly, a lot of the food is rotten and really smells bad.
:07:29. > :07:32.But some of this food, actually, looks OK to eat.
:07:33. > :07:34.Here, everything you see is separated out and recycled,
:07:35. > :07:37.producing gas, electricity and fertiliser which can then be
:07:38. > :07:47.This is known as an anaerobic digestion tank.
:07:48. > :07:50.Inside here is the digestate material, which is the end product
:07:51. > :07:55.from after the food product goes to our process.
:07:56. > :07:59.It's used as a rich fertiliser for farms in Surrey.
:08:00. > :08:01.But Paul says he can't understand why more London boroughs
:08:02. > :08:06.don't collect and recycle such valuable material.
:08:07. > :08:09.Of the 33 local authorities in London, only about 18 of them
:08:10. > :08:12.are actually segregating food waste and offering a segregated food waste
:08:13. > :08:20.That compares to cities like Milan, where they introduced a separated
:08:21. > :08:22.food waste collection service for their residents,
:08:23. > :08:24.and recycling rates went up from about 35% to over 56%
:08:25. > :08:35.Across town in Euston, and they do understand
:08:36. > :08:41.Using smart technology, they've cut it by 70%.
:08:42. > :08:44.It's a bit like a supermarket self checkout.
:08:45. > :08:47.All the waste is weighed, the only thing they have to do
:08:48. > :08:49.is tell the computer what type of food it is.
:08:50. > :08:52.In this kitchen, the Wellcome Trust, we've reduced food waste by 70%,
:08:53. > :08:54.preventing nearly 4.5 tonnes per year of food waste
:08:55. > :09:02.In the capital, ?2 billion worth of valuable food waste like this
:09:03. > :09:15.There are no openly gay professional football players in the league,
:09:16. > :09:21.which is why there's criticism of homophobia in the game.
:09:22. > :09:24.So Charlton Athletic has taken a stand and become the first
:09:25. > :09:26.professional club to affiliate itself with a team which
:09:27. > :09:34.It's hoped the move will help bring a change of attitude in the game.
:09:35. > :09:37.Tooting has made it into the top ten of the coolest places
:09:38. > :09:40.Yes, Lonely Planet calls Tooting's multiculturalism
:09:41. > :09:43.and originality, "captivating" - and it's the only place in Britain
:09:44. > :09:49.An area in Florence in Italy made it to number one.
:09:50. > :09:51.Tooting proudly came in after districts in New York,
:09:52. > :10:06.Lets see if the sun is shining on treating.
:10:07. > :10:12.It has been a better day today, we have had more in the way of blue
:10:13. > :10:16.skies. It looks good over the next few days, the bank holiday weekend,
:10:17. > :10:19.where we are going to see a lot of dry weather. Some sunshine around
:10:20. > :10:28.and if anything it should be a bit warmer than today. Quite chilly over
:10:29. > :10:30.the night, the cloud that developed has cleared away, clear skies and
:10:31. > :10:36.hardly a breath of wind. Temperatures down to nine or 10
:10:37. > :10:39.degrees. Chilly start first thing tomorrow. A bright and sunny
:10:40. > :10:42.picture, and will stay that way all morning, perhaps into the afternoon.
:10:43. > :10:47.A little bit of cloud heading our way. Not as much as today. With more
:10:48. > :10:51.sunshine around tomorrow, temperatures will be higher. We are
:10:52. > :10:55.looking at highs of 25 degrees, 77 Fahrenheit. Into the outlook over
:10:56. > :10:59.the weekend, looks good for the Notting Hill Carnival. A bit more
:11:00. > :11:01.cloud around. Should stay dry, more sunshine on the way as we head into
:11:02. > :11:04.Monday. National picture with Ben sunshine on the way as we head into
:11:05. > :11:09.Monday. National picture with Ben Rich.
:11:10. > :11:15.Good evening. Sometimes our weather brings us rapid changes, dramatic
:11:16. > :11:19.twists and turns. This is not one of those times. Things are moving very
:11:20. > :11:24.slowly at the moment. The sort of whether you had today is the sort of
:11:25. > :11:25.whether you will get tomorrow. Good news, probably,