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ahead to make sure that we get
equality for our daughters and | 0:00:00 | 0:00:01 | |
granddaughters. | 0:00:01 | 0:00:01 | |
Welcome to BBC London News
with me Alpa Patel. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
Six pupils at a secondary school
in Wandsworth were taken to hospital | 0:00:16 | 0:00:23 | |
after taking what's believed
to be prescription drugs. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
None of the school girls is said
to be in a serious condition | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
but counselling is being offered. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
It comes amid growing concerns that
teenagers are buying | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
and using highly addictive
anti-anxiety drugs purchased | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
from the internet. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
Our Education reporter,
Marc Ashdown, has the story. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:41 | |
A popular, oversubscribed school,
rated as good by inspectors, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
but Burntwood Girls School
is at the centre of | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
a possible drugs scare. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
1,700 pupils study here. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
The alarm was raised
yesterday lunchtime | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
after six girls were taken ill, | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
seemingly unable to even stand up. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
The head teacher
did not want to do an | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
interview with us today but has said
in a statement that as soon as she | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
became aware the girls
were unwell, she called | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
paramedics and alerted
their parents. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
The six girls were taken
to a local hospital to be | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
treated, accompanied
by family members. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
The head said they have now been
discharged and as far as she is | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
aware, thankfully, they've suffered
no long-term ill effects. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
The Metropolitan Police told us
they were called to the school | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
by the Ambulance Service. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
They explained: | 0:01:25 | 0:01:35 | |
Some parents and pupils told us
today that the drug Xanax had been | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
taken by some students. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
It is used to cope with anxiety. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:57 | |
Not available on the NHS,
it can only be obtained | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
with a private prescription
and if abused, it can be | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
dangerous. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
Although Burntwood is an Academy
outside of local authority control, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Wandsworth Council has stepped
in on safeguarding grounds to offer | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
counselling to those involved. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
The school says it
is cooporating with | 0:02:17 | 0:02:18 | |
the council and police
as they investigate how such highly | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
addictive drugs could have
found their way into the hands of | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
children. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
Well Marc joins me now. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
While talking to parents and expert
it is clear that some feel that | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
there is an emerging crisis with
young people. The drug Xanax is | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
highly addictive and that is why the
NHS do not prescribe it for anxiety. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
It is ten times stronger than other
anxiety drugs. Late last year one | 0:02:44 | 0:02:52 | |
person in America died from an
overdose last year. So there can be | 0:02:52 | 0:03:00 | |
nasty side-effects, blurred vision
and seizures but taken with other | 0:03:00 | 0:03:08 | |
drugs and alcohol they could be
fatal. And that is the warning for | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
parents, that they are being
purchased year. Research from Oxford | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
University yesterday showed that
there are many sales on the dark web | 0:03:16 | 0:03:23 | |
right here in the UK and kids are
feeling stressed, mental health is a | 0:03:23 | 0:03:29 | |
growing and problem these pills can
be bought for £1 from the street | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
dealer. MPs and doctors are calling
for more action and already feel | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
that we have a serious problem.
Thank you for that analysis. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
The founder of Wikileaks Julian
Assange will continue to live | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
in the Ecuadorian Embassy
in London after a UK | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
arrest warrant was upheld. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:54 | |
The 46 year old has claimed
political asylum since 2012 | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
and confined himself to the embassy
for five years, to avoid | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
extradition to Sweden. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
If you drive in London -
you will waste on average three days | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
of your life every year -
stuck in rush hour traffic. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Today we found out just how much
it's costing London motorists. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
New research says the average
cost of delays is almost | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
£2,500 per driver a year. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:19 | |
That amounts to an
estimated £9.5 billion | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
to London's economy. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:27 | |
It also found that the most
congested road in the country is | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
a stretch of the A406 near Hangar
Lane. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
From there Alice Hutton
sent this report. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:33 | |
This is the busiest road in Britain. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
Drivers on the North Circular
between Hanger Lane and Chiswick | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
spend more time sitting in traffic
than anywhere in the country. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
Going at speeds of just 13 mph. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
And it's not just
wasting their time. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
It costs drivers in the capital
thousands in wasted fuel | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
and work, including those
at this motoring cafe. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
You can do ten miles
here and it can take an hour. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
If you go ten miles where I live,
in Welwyn Garden, it will take | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
you ten minutes, 15 minutes. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
So it's like four times,
just to sit and listen to the radio. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
Nick Barton has been
on the road as a heavy goods | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
driver for over 25 years. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
The profits could be X amount
in the end of nothing | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
due to the extra fuel. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
The health. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:20 | |
You know, you don't sleep as much
and you're extremely tired | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
when you're driving. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
And it's just not good
at all for somebody's health. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
The top three most congested roads
in the UK are all in London. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
From Hangar Lane to the Chiswick
roundabout, drivers lose | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
about 56 hours every year. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
It is 50 hours from Kennington Park
to Norbury station. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
And 47 hours from Russell Square
to New Fetter Lane. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
The study was carried
out by the traffic | 0:05:44 | 0:05:45 | |
monitoring company InRex. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
They say that the gridlocked roads
are costing the London economy | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
£9.5 billion a year. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
It is a global city,
truly an economic metropolis. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
The population is rising,
I think it is 1.7% last year. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
The economy grew by 2.3%. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
Much higher than the rest of the UK. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
There are more people
just wanting to get out | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
in the car, doing business,
and travelling for leisure. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
We are an old city with
an ageing infrastructure. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
The Department for Transport said
today it was investing £23 billion | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
in road schemes to ease congestion
in the UK. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
They call it the biggest
investment in a generation. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
They also said the ultimate
responsibility for clearing London's | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
traffic filled streets lies
with the mayor and | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Transport for London. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:34 | |
Turning now to how the capital has
been marking a hundred years | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
since the first women got the vote. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:44 | |
East London women played a key role
in the campaign. But working-class | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
women mobilising to add their voice
to the cause. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:54 | |
The popular image of
the suffragette, educated, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
middle-class women campaigning
for the vote. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
But for working-class women
in the East End slams | 0:06:57 | 0:07:04 | |
-- slums the idea was unimaginable. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Except to Sylvia Pankhurst,
a leading suffrage campaign | 0:07:06 | 0:07:07 | |
who thought they needed it the most. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Sylvia was a lifelong socialist. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
And she was concerned
that the voices of working women | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
were being left out of the struggle
for the vote. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
And when the day came
that they were going to be awarded | 0:07:16 | 0:07:26 | |
the vote, that they would not
be served by the law | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
whenever that came in. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
And so she very deliberately
looked for the largest | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
working-class community
near London, near Westminster. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
In 1912 she moved to Bow
and set up her headquarters | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
next to a local pub. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
Which became a focal point
to mobilise local women. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
Many of whom campaigned
against the harsh conditions. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
That is where we met two
of the descendants of Jane Savoy, | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
one of the activists at the time. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:50 | |
The only thing my grandmother
told us was she was | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
a suffragette and used
to chain herself to the railings. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
She was one of six women chosen
to see the Prime Minister, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
Herbert Asquith, to make their case
for the vote. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
Jane was a brush maker
and she explained what her work | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
involved, how hard she had to work. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
43 years she had been
working as a brush maker. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:11 | |
And it was from that deputation
that Herbert Asquith had | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
some sympathy with them. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:19 | |
He was not a supporter of women's
rights and when they went to meet | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
with him he closed the meeting
by saying well, if the change must | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
come, we must be bold and face it. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
And that was interpreted at the time
in the press as a sign that votes | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
for women was on the way. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
And they kept the pressure
on with their militant tactics. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
She is supposed to have flung a shoe
at a policeman at the May Day fair, | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
trying to arrest Sylvia! | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
She was a militant as well! | 0:08:46 | 0:08:52 | |
All our family, the women
in the family, have always been very | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
strong, forthright woman. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:56 | |
And I can only assume that she stood
up for what she believed in. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
And she actually took part
in history to bring this all about. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:06 | |
Jane Savoy died in 1928,
the same year that all women | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
were given the vote. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Her leader and friend, Sylvia
Pankhurst, wrote this tribute. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
"Mrs Savoy's eyes have closed now
in their last sleep. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
The grey streets of Oldfield Road
are greyer and colder for her loss." | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
Which I think is a lovely tribute
to what they thought | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
of her in the area. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:33 | |
Some amazing women in that report. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
And if you want to see another
inspirational woman, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
go to our Facebook page | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
where you can see a piece
this young woman. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
Selina Begum is 17 and she has
just become the first | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
state school student -
to win the individual prize at Eton | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
for a debating competition. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
Find her story on the BBC
London Facebook page. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
That's it for now from me,
but lets find out what the weather's | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
up to with Elizabeth Rizzini. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
up to with Elizabeth Rizzini. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
And you have some new graphics for
us. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
Welcome to our window on the world,
this is a Weather Watchers picture | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
from earlier showing some sunshine.
Certainly it felt cold today and | 0:10:11 | 0:10:19 | |
will be very cold night tonight with
the widespread frost and a warning | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
out for snow and ice is valid for
eastern areas of the country. So you | 0:10:24 | 0:10:36 | |
can see these white areas which is
the snow. Heading into tomorrow | 0:10:36 | 0:10:42 | |
morning. Starting off on a very cold
note at around minus three degrees. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
But tomorrow quite a decent day,
Cloud clearing south-east and we | 0:10:47 | 0:10:53 | |
have sunny skies behind that. So a
lot of sunshine and temperatures | 0:10:53 | 0:10:59 | |
slightly higher than earlier today.
Heading through the rest of the week | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
temperatures set | 0:11:04 | 0:11:04 |