14/11/2017 London News

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Good evening and welcome to BBC

London News with me, Louisa Preston.

The Labour Leader has refused

to reprimand one of his MPs

after she found herself embroiled

in a race row.

Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad wrote

an article that refers

to London Assembly member

Sean Bailey as a "token Ghetto boy".

She's apologised, but

the Conservative politician has

branded it "cowardly".

Our political editor,

Tim Donovan, has the story.

It's now a very public

row between a Labour MP

and a Conservative Assembly

member over what she said

about him seven years ago.

These people are on the list

because it's so cheap...

At the time, Shaun Bailey

was on the campaign trail,

filmed by us, in fact,

as he fought for the parliamentary

seat of Hammersmith.

He had been one of David Cameron's

great hopes for winning in London.

This was Emma Dent Coad

this June, after winning

the seat of Kensington.

In the article she wrote back

in 2010, she accused Bailey

of allowing himself to be exploited

to bolster the Tories' image.

Who can say where this

man will ever fit in,

however hard he tries, she wrote.

One day, he is the token

ghetto boy standing behind

David Cameron, the next looking

interested behind George Osborne.

Ever felt used?

She asked.

I notice you are not apologising,

do you want to apologise?

What, for quoting what

somebody else had said?

Yes.

Today, under fire, she claimed

she had just been repeating

words used by others.

And it wasn't racist.

If he feels offended by it, of

course I apologise, of course I do.

If somebody actually read the blog,

they would see I was quoting other

people's sources of what people

were saying at the time.

But he was unimpressed by what he

viewed as a half-hearted apology.

Well, she didn't really apologise.

All she did was reiterate the point

and try to blame other

people, fictitious people.

Am I offended?

Of course I am.

But it isn't about me.

It's about young black children up

and down the country.

Many ethnic communities struggle

to feel part of Britain,

to be involved, and attacks

like this - at the core

of people's beliefs,

and in the political arena -

prevent people from being involved.

The Conservatives don't appear

at this stage to be wanting to let

this lie and they've written

to the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

urging him to discipline

Emma Dent Coad as soon as possible.

I'm not going to withdraw

the whip from Emma.

I'll obviously ensure that

people discuss the use

of language with people.

But I will make sure that everyone

treats others with respect.

Her view - it was legitimate

political criticism.

His - it crossed the line.

Tim Donovan, BBC London News.

Police are hoping a potentially

life-saving film will be shown

to schoolchildren so they know

what do in the event

of a terror attack.

The animated film urges young people

not to "waste time" taking pictures,

but to run away from danger.

Chris Rogers explains.

Where did you guys go when we ran?

We hid.

We must have got separated.

The film begins with three teenagers

catching up after escaping

a terror attack by gunmen.

I was trying to make you laugh.

But then there were

those three pops.

It was like fireworks.

As they talk through their

horrifying experience,

they realise they did

everything right to survive.

Run!

The message is the same

for schoolchildren

as it is for adults -

run, hide, tell.

Another key message -

don't stop to film

scenes on your mobile.

But is it a message

that will unnerve these

16 year olds, or reassure them?

It made me feel as though,

that you would know what to do

in that situation, that it's much

clearer, even if you do panic.

And you can sort of think clearly

now about the points

that were raised.

Stay quiet, not a sound.

Shh!

It's smart having everyone

turned their phones on silent

and vibrate off two.

I think it was really helpful.

Good advice to know what can happen

and how we can survive.

Has it changed how

you would have reacted?

Yeah.

Because I would have

went on Snapchat and

posted everything, so...

Rather than run?

Yeah!

The question is, could the money be

better spent on other dangers?

The children. Terrorism is by no

means the biggest killer. It is the

road. Nearly 5,000 children under 16

are killed every year on foot by a

car.

There are always difficult

choices about where to spend money

and for me, it is important we spend

it in this area. It is unlikely a

young person will be involved in a

terror attack, book for me, young

people are telling us through the

survey that we have completed with

them that they want to have a

discussion around terrorism.

The

attacks this year in London and

Manchester took some of the youngest

victims of terror this country has

ever seen. The Met hopes this video

will not just save lives, but also

encourage young people to face up to

the threat of terror, no matter how

rare and attackers.

Turning now to what is the largest

transport project in Western Europe.

Crossrail costs nearly £15 billion

and will carry an estimated two

hundred million passengers a year.

The East-West rail service

will connect Reading, in Berkshire,

to and from Shenfield,

in Essex, through Central London.

A key part of the link will be

the new tunnel coming

into Tottenham Court Road.

Our transport correspondent,

Tom Edwards, got special access

ahead of some services

beginning next year.

Right, we're at Bond Street Station

and we're just about to go into

the running tunnels.

This is a rare look at what will one

day be an everyday commute.

Then you'll see how all the railway

systems fit and the works

that we're undertaking

at the moment.

Our guide is Greg Purcell.

When Bond Street is finished,

137,000 passengers a day will use

this station and these platforms.

This is where the passengers

will be, eventually.

Oh, right.

Yeah, that's the platform screen

doors all the way down and they go

the full length of the tunnel.

Each platform is over

250 metres long.

You've got the platform screen door

and behind that is the track.

And so you'll stand here,

get on the train and off.

Yep, the doors will open,

train turns up...

Off you go, on your merry way.

It'll take one minute to travel

by train to the next station.

For us, it takes a little

longer, as we're passed

between different contractors.

Above us, Oxford Street.

Yeah, Oxford Street above us,

Central Line above us,

which you can just hear.

The tunnels are finished, but there

are still 1,400 workers on site.

Soon, the power lines will go in.

The Metro section means you've got

quite a lot of stations that

are quite close together.

So between Bond Street

and Tottenham Court Road

is between 800 and 1,000 metres.

Before we're allowed

onto the tracks, there are checks

to make sure engineering

trains aren't running.

We've got about 500 metres

to go before we get

into Tottenham Court Road,

so it's a matter of seconds.

Yeah.

These are the platforms

at Tottenham Court Road.

What's striking here is just how

long these platforms

are - and when it's finished,

24 trains an hour will

come through here.

The walk took about an hour,

it'll take one minute by train.

Services are due to start running

through Central London

at the end of next year.

Tom Edwards, BBC London News.

Sir Mo Farah has described

receiving his knighthood

as "a dream come true".

Britain's most decorated track

athlete says meeting

the Queen is right up

there with winning

his Olympic medals.

He's just moved back home

to the capital to focus

on his road-running.

More from our sports

reporter, Sara Orchard.

COMMENTATOR:

The double double!

Four Olympic titles!

He's Great Britain's most

successful track athlete.

With four Olympic Golds and six

World Championship medals,

today was the time to add yet

another title, with the Queen

on hand to confer his knighthood.

Sir Mohamed Farah,

for Services to Athletics.

It's in recognition for a career

that has scaled the heights.

Sir Mohamed Farah is the only

athlete in modern Olympic history

to win both the 5,000 and 10,000

metres at successive Olympic Games.

It's definitely way up there, close

to my Olympic medals, for sure.

You know, to come here, to Britain,

at the age of eight,

not speaking a word

of English, and to achieve

what I have achieved over

the years and to be knighted,

there's no words really to describe.

Mohamed Farah arrived in this

country as a boy with nothing.

Mo's story remains

an inspiration to many.

When he arrived from Somalia,

having been split from his twin

brother, he attended Feltham

Community College, where Mo's

athletics talent was spotted.

It's been an incredible

journey and I've enjoyed

every part of it but,

at the same time, you know,

anything is possible in life.

If you work hard at it.

I remember going to school

with my wife when we were younger,

we never dreamed of coming

to Buckingham Palace.

Back in 1999, aged just 16,

he won the Mini London Marathon

and having now retired from track

running, he's back living in London

to focus on road racing.

He could even compete

for Great Britain in the marathon

at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Sara Orchard, BBC London News.

That's it for now from me,

so I'll say goodnight and hand

you over to Chris Fawkes

for the weather.

A quick look at the satellite

picture, with extensive cloud across

the UK. The exception to the North

West of Scotland where it is more

broken and more sunshine. Why am I

talking about the Scottish weather?

Sunny skies are coming our way but

not until Friday. Before then,

cloudy and that will thicken further

overnight to bring outbreaks of

light rain by the end of the night,

so turning damp. 8-9d so a mild

night. Wednesday, rain first thing

in the morning. It should move out

of the way reasonably quickly.

Leaving a lot of cloud. That will be

quite low. A chance of some mist

over the tops of the Chilterns and

it could be murky for a time but the

cloud with us for much of the day

with not much sunshine. It could be

big enough for rain and even into

the afternoon. Highs of 12 degrees.

More cloud on the way on Thursday.

Rain on Thursday evening. And the

Scot is sunshine on Friday.