08/09/2017 London News

"You don't just kill a son, you kill a whole family."

The words of Ricky Hayden's father -

in a machete attack outside his home in Romford.

The 27-year-old confronted a group of teenagers he suspected of trying

Today, one of them was given a 14-year jail sentence

They came to court hoping for justice, wearing orange,

Ricky Hayden was a security guard, and gave close personal

He was at his family home in Romford last September when there

Ricky, his brother and his dad ran out onto this street.

They thought that Ricky's brother's scooter was about to be stolen.

The men that they confronted, Tommy Roome and Tarrell Hinds,

Rick, who had run out into the road in just his boxer shorts,

He was stabbed, and died later in hospital.

They don't just kill the person, they kill the family.

Hinds was acquitted, Roome was found guilty of manslaughter.

At the end of the day, it is a good, good result,

so that's one more person off the streets that we have not got

My son, he died for nothing, just to stop someone

stealing a motorbike, and it's wrong.

We've lost a son, a perfect son, he was perfect

I don't want anyone to go through that.

We're just going to fight for knife crime now.

We need to get these kids off the streets with these knives.

Away from the court, his family and friends met to remember.

Data picked up from the mobile phones used by commuters

on the Tube could be used to help tackle overcrowding.

It follows a four-week trial over the summer.

Wi-fi has become something Londoners use on the Tube everyday.

But now TfL has found a way for us and the wi-fi to work for them, too.

Transport for London used to be able to tell where you were going simply

by looking at where you tapped in and out with your Oyster card.

But now, thanks to wi-fi, it can tell not just where you're going,

Over the summer, Transport for London tracked the phones of two

As people went on their journeys, they created a personal map,

and for a system that's so fixed, the way we use it is

For example, almost a third of everybody going from Waterloo

to King's Cross took the Bakerloo line to Oxford Circus

and then changed onto the Victoria line.

But people used no fewer than 18 different routes just

TfL say it shows pinch points they didn't know

We'd love to be able to give this information to customers

who are at a Tube station, to be able to say, take

this particular path, because it's less busy.

Or to be able to provide information if there's

a disruption on the network, to explain what's happening

But how do people feel about TfL knowing our every move?

Sounds quite scary, I've only just moved to London so I'm getting

If it speeds up the system and creates a more efficient

TfL say the data was double scrambled to keep it all anonymous.

But who knows, one day, checking your e-mails could not just

keep you connected but could keep us all moving, too.

It's a first - driverless buses in the capital.

And for the next fortnight, Londoners will be able

to take a ride one, around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards explains.

This is an autonomous bus, driven by computer, on trial

on a 12-minute loop around the Olympic Park.

Travelling at 2mph, there is a staff member on board.

You can see now, we're moving incredibly smoothly,

And the technology is there, it's brilliant.

You think computers are better drivers generally than human beings?

From this 5-10 minute journey, then yeah, probably, I'd say!

London is seeing a number of trials of driverless vehicles -

And the Government is trying to make it easier to attract investment

It's all part of a revolution I think that's going to change

the lives of people across the world.

We're going to see vehicles that can provide better transport options

for people with disabilities, provide better public transport

links at odd times of the day, when a vehicle like this can fill

a link which wouldn't otherwise be there.

So, I think we're on the brink of starting a transport revolution.

It uses cameras and lasers to scan the road, but what if someone

Some think autonomous vehicles will reduce

Others fear it will mean fewer jobs for drivers.

These have already been tested in other cities.

It needs to be developed over time, and that's why trials like this

We'll be trialling this alongside pedestrians

We've had other, smaller-scale trials and we're using all that data

These are still early days in this emerging industry.

This bus, which is free to catch, will be running

That's it from me, I'll leave you now with Stav,

Thank you. It looks like the showers will be continuing to ease away

during the night. Lengthy clear spells developing and turning fairly

fresh as well. Into tomorrow, it's a day of sunshine and showers and

feeling again on the cool side. Starting off with one or two showers

around as well as some sunny spells and the showers will be getting

going in the afternoon. The showers die away during Saturday night as

average of high pressure builds in. Before that point, it will be quite

a fresh start in the Home Counties, with some good spells of sunshine

later on. Then the rain will arrive. It remains unsettled into next week

as well. Quite windy on Monday. Hello. There are signs that by this

time next week, our weather will be trying to settle down. Until then,

it is low pressure after low pressure. This one will be coming in

on Sunday, with rain spreading south-east across the UK. Around our

first area of low pressure, the wind will continue to blow in plenty of

showers to western parts of the UK overnight. Watch out for the

northern lights in Scotland - quite a show last night and it could be

again tonight. And maybe in parts of north-east England as well. In the

west it looks 30 wet in the morning in the north-west tomorrow. Some

showers in Scotland but then becoming widespread across England

and Wales in the