29/08/2017 London News

By the end of this year, Londoners will become the first

people in the country with access to a GP seven days a week,

The promise has been made by the outgoing head

Dr Anne Rainsberry has also said the capital

could benefit from more money from government

She's been speaking with our political correspondent,

Are you ready? Steady?

It looks and sounds like any GP appointment, but Anastasia is a bit

young to realise that she may be at the forefront of change

in London, because her GP is part of a practice that delivers care out

Especially when you have a small child, they can't communicate,

so it's either A or 111, and it's much easier

Dr Hassan works in one of two surgeries in Southwark

offering appointments from 8-8 seven days a week.

Partly to relieve the pressure on A, a lot of these problems

can be dealt with by doctors, and patients don't

and it will relieve pressure on the A

It's something the outgoing head of London's NHS promised would be

happening across the capital by the end of the year.

As she prepares to leave office, she told BBC London it would give

But she did admit that hospitals in the capital could do with more

If everyone is struggling financially, is it not the case

that actually the NHS in London is underfunded?

In terms of the way the formula works, in terms of how money

is allocated, according to that formula, we are not underfunded.

That's not quite the same thing, though, is it? No.

As you leave, you recognise London is not getting the money

it needs to deliver the services it should be delivering?

There's lots of people in the NHS in London who express a view to me

that they feel that the NHS needs more money.

in order to deliver what the NHS needs to do deliver,

we need to have a public debate about it.

Could you do a better job if you had more money?

The answer to that has to be yes, cos it would always be yes.

That debate will rage on - so will the one about

what will happen to a deal that was supposed to be

signed between London and the national government

that would have given more power to the capital over the sell-off

of NHS land and could have led to higher pay for NHS staff.

It was supposed to be launched in January, what's happened?

Well, I mean, the intention of Partners in London

Does that drive you nuts when you are the head

You have this agreement that things need to change,

you think you've got a deal, and eight months on,

as you leave office, it hasn't been done?

I'm disappointed it hasn't been done but I'm confident it will be.

and the new woman who will take over the NHS in London.

Without a deal, there are fears health service staff in the capital

A teenager shot dead in East London has been named

by police as former RAF cadet 19-year-old Abdul Mayanja.

He was found by police after shots were fired

Police believe Mr Mayanja left his home in Plaistow

at about ten that night and may have been

accompanied by two women, who detectives want to trace.

The murder of a cartoonist which happened in 1987

is to be re-investigated by Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorist Command.

and known for satirising Arab and Israeli politics.

He'd already received death threats

prior to being shot dead in Knightsbridge.

nobody has ever been convicted of his murder.

shot dead 30 years ago on a London street aged 51.

His satirical cartoons featured a character called Handala,

based on Al-Ali's experiences growing up.

His work criticised both the Israeli and Palestinian regimes.

He received death threats in the years before he was killed.

30 years on, and Mr Al-Ali's family believe

the police knew who did this many years ago.

TRANSLATION: The police back then talked about that man publicly,

that he was wanted and they said the person organised

They were fairly confident they knew who fired the gun as well.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon on 22nd July 1987,

Mr Al-Ali was walking from his car to his office on Ives Street

when he was followed by a gunman and shot in the back of the neck.

Police say this is how the gunman would look today.

After the murder, he was seen running out of Ives Street

back across Draycott Avenue and into Ixworth place.

At the same time, a second older man in his 50s was seen concealing

what looked like a gun in nearby Lucan Place.

He gets into a left-hand drive silver Mercedes and drives away.

His job was to get rid of the murder weapon,

on open ground near the Hallfield Estate in Paddington.

This is the 30 year anniversary of Mr Al-Ali's death,

and over that period of time, 30 years, people's allegiances

change, people who might not have felt confident at the time coming

forward, I'd encourage them now to actually speak to us.

The police, in particular, do not close such inquiries.

They always remain active and are constantly reviewed,

and, as a result, if people feel they can help us,

I would encourage them to make contact.

While for now the person who pulled the trigger remains a mystery,

police are clear this was a politcally motivated murder.

It seems Mr Al-Ali's art was so effective,

When you think of London in the future,

you might imagine drones, or maybe flying cars

above your head, or an even heavier polluted,

over-populated city than it already is.

So what might London look like in 2050?

Here's the first in a series of reports.

This one comes from our transport correspondent, Tom Edwards.

Could flying cars be the future of transport in cities?

This is the latest sci-fi Blade Runner film.

NEWSREEL: All you need is a few hundred gallons of liquid hydrogen.

Or could jet packs revolutionise travel?

And there are plenty of ideas that don't make it.

In three or four years' time, every other car is going to be one.

The plan is for all vehicles in London to be zero-emissions by 2050.

Our kids will not know what an engine sounds like,

and a rev and this, that and the other in years to come.

There is no reason why everyone won't go electric

You can see, with the upsell of electric cars,

it will be the way forward. It's a game-changer.

The big challenge for city planners will be a growing population

and increasing demands on limited space.

It is predicted that, in 25 years' time,

the population of London will be 10.5 million.

That will mean increased investment in infrastructure,

Crossrail 2, Crossrail 3, perhaps even Crossrail 4.

there are all kinds of concepts of the future.

These are called T-bots. Droids that designate road space.

This is a 60-minute car that's stored while not in use.

In the 1900s, they also thought commuting would be be done by air.

The buzz phrase at the moment in the transport world is something

That is you use apps and smartphones

to call up vehicles to where you are.

Some people say that that means in the future we won't need

The question there is, what does that mean for the capital's streets?

We are already seeing trials of driverless vehicles in the capital.

Will automation make the roads, buses and trains

What would that mean, if there are fewer vehicles?

One interesting statistic is the average car today

Most cars are hardly ever used. You see that in London.

You walk around, the streets are filled with parked cars.

In the future, if we stop buying the cars that we don't need

and we only use mobility as a service, it could be

that we free up a lot of road space for other uses,

whether that's walking, cycling, more cafes, shops,

NEWSREEL: There's room on board for a passenger as well.

This is another idea that didn't make it.

Nonetheless, innovation and investment will be key

for the future of London's transport.

Why didn't that water scooter mated?! I would love to come to work

on that! Tomorrow, we'll look

at what London's homes That's it for now from me,

but let's find out Beautiful picture of Horse Guards

there. We have had some beautiful pictures,

and the dates over the weekend matched the maximum temperature, so

by rights we should be at 30 degrees, but it is going to be 16,

rather grey, damp with a northerly breeze. And a bit of rain around at

the moment through the English Channel, some on the heavy side,

that will be pushing up towards us through the night, then joined by

some more rain as we go through the day tomorrow. Along with that, the

breeze turning to a more northerly direction, more comfortable for

sleeping tonight, 11-13d. Keep the brolly with you first thing, heavy

bursts of rain, more persistent as the day goes on, and with the

northerly breeze, quite chilly compared to what we have had of

late. On the outlook, though, brighter news for the end of the

week, some sunshine, maybe the odd shower, but high pressure building

in for shower, but high pressure building

in for the weekend. Darren Bett has the national forecast.

Today the heat was focused on the south-east of England, tomorrow this

will be the focus of some rain. This was today in Kent, where we actually

saw the highest temperatures, not far away from Maidstone, 29 degrees.

We had 26 up in Chelmsford. Tomorrow we're going to struggle to make 15

or 16 degrees, a significant change from the last couple of days. It is

a two pronged rain attack, cloud from the near continent producing

showers, this will thicken up, rain developing in the south-west

approach is heading towards Wales, the Midlands and eventually the

south-west of England. At the same time, the showers in the channel

will develop more widely in the south-east. Further north, clear

skies, chilly overnight tonight, but for much of England and Wales, much

milder. Temperatures will not rise very much at all