28/12/2017 London News

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London News, I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.

More details now of the woman found

dead in a north London park.

Police say she was

22-year-old Iuliana Tudos.

She'd been missing since

Christmas Eve when she was last seen

heading for a bus home from Camden.

Tolu Adeoye reports

from Finsbury Park.

Flowers and cards have been left

here outside Finsbury Park

for 22-year-old Iuliana Tudos,

whose body was discovered

here yesterday afternoon.

Iuliana was reported missing

on the 24th of December,

but it was only yesterday at around

4:30 that a member of the public

found her body inside

an outbuilding

next to the sports pitch

here in Finsbury Park.

Officers and the London

Ambulance Service were called,

but she was pronounced dead

at the scene.

Now, the park has been open

for much of the day,

but a significant area

was cordoned off.

We've seen forensic teams working,

and the police tent

is still up this evening.

We don't know how

Iuliana was killed,

but this is being

treated as a murder investigation.

A postmortem was due to take place

today at Haringey mortuary.

Police are keen to speak to anyone

who may have seen anything

suspicious over the holiday period.

They say they are trying to piece

together a timeline of events

and work out a motive

for this attack.

So they are appealing for anyone

who's seen anything to come forward.

Tolu Adeoye reporting there.

A great-grandmother says she's been

unable to leave her flat for seven

months after the lift

in her block broke down.

Bernice Grant and her daughter say

they have been offered a new place

but they may have to pay

for it to be made suitable

for the 81-year-old, who's disabled.

Emma North reports.

For seven months, Bernice Grant

hasn't left her flat.

I miss going out.

To see people and talk to people.

I want to go places.

Go to the day centre, to service.

But now I can't go anywhere.

The lift in her block in Penge

broke down at the end of May.

It is still broken.

Arthritis stops Mrs Grant

from moving very far,

and the four flights up to her flat

are well beyond her.

She relies entirely on her daughter.

Thank you very much.

My daughter, she has done her best.

She sees that I have something

to eat and drink

in the days while she is away.

She keep in touch

with me all the time.

And she comes home in the evening,

I am so glad to see her.

The housing association which

owns the block said

replacing the lifts takes time

and isn't straightforward.

It also says two other

properties have been offered

to Mrs Grant and her daughter.

Mrs Grant needs a wheelchair

and says they had to turn one down

because it was on a steep slope.

The other, her daughter says,

was uninhabitable.

A spokesman for Affinity Sutton

said, "Whenever we make

an offer to a tenant,

we ensure we are satisfied

the property meets the whole

household's needs in terms

of accessibility and location."

Mrs Grant and her daughter

have been offered

and have said yes to a new flat,

but they have been told it is not

suitable for someone who is disabled

and there is no money to pay for any

changes - they may

have to foot the bill.

I am blessed, she's my mum.

She done a lot for us

when we were young and growing up.

It's payback time.

Just take our time,

being together is the main thing.

The main thing is, once we have

somewhere to call our home again,

that it what we want,

that is what we need.

Both Mrs Grant and her daughter say

they can't wait for next year,

they want things to get better

whatever the cost.

Emma North, BBC London News.

A woman has been left

with life-changing injuries

after she was sprayed

with acid in East London.

The 36-year-old had been walking

alone on Westferry Road

near South Quay station

at around seven o'clock last night

when she was attacked.

She was taken to hospital with burns

to her face and leg.

A new crowdfunding website

has been launched

to try and help

the capital's homeless.

It's called Beam, and the idea

is that people donate money online

to individuals who are homeless

to help them get training

and qualifications to do

the job they want to do.

People can simply go to the website,

which is wearebeam.org.

They can meet homeless people,

read their stories,

individuals who are referred

by homelessness charities.

They can read their career

aspirations and contribute

to the funding of those campaigns.

It might be an individual becoming

a plumber, electrician or teacher.

These are all different

employment pathways

Alex Bushill will be here tomorrow

morning with Breakfast.

I'll leave you with

the weather from Phil Avery.

Hello, I'm afraid

it's going be one of those starts

to the day on Friday,

quite a bit of rain with us,

and on the cold side as well.

quite a bit of rain with us,

The rain clears away and then it's

a mix of sunny spells and showers.

The early rain through the night

will be falling onto pretty cold

surfaces, so just watch out for ice

if you are on the move

first thing on Friday,

and for a time we might just be

on the southern fringe of all

the snow that you will have heard

about through the bulletins of late.

Once that rain has gone,

a mix of sunny spells and showers,

the showers urged along

by a noticeable westerly breeze,

temperatures never better

than about eight or nine

in the centre of town.

And it's a wet start

to Saturday as well,

though thankfully that moves away

on quite a noticeable

southwesterly breeze,

and then we get a wee bit

of brightness following

on through the afternoon

and look at those temperatures,

12 or 13 degrees or so,

and we keep a similar sort of thing

going as we get on through Sunday,

a fraction cooler on Monday.

Here's Ben with the national

weather picture.