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Lizo Mzimba, BBC News. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Here on BBC One it's time
for the news where you are. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:01 | |
Welcome to BBC London News
with me Chris Rogers. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
First tonight: A former shop owner
who illegally sold dangerous | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
skin lightening products -
has been fined thousands of pounds, | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
following an investigation
by this programme. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:30 | |
Banaras Hussain pleaded guilty
to ten offences and was given | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
a suspended sentence. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
Officers at a London council went
undercover to gather evidence | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
of his under-the-counter business,
and seized thousands of products. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
Tarah Welsh reports. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
When an undercover researcher tried
to buy band skin whitening products | 0:00:39 | 0:00:45 | |
from this store in Peckham in 2015,
this is what happened. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:52 | |
They offered us the
biggest pot they have. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:05 | |
But look, former director,
Banaris Hussain, gets it | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
from under the counter. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
When we asked for a receipt,
he ripped the name of | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
the company from the receipt. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:22 | |
He knew what he was doing was
illegal. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
illegal. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
Earlier that year and the year
before that he had been convicted | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
for a similar offence but that
would not stop him, | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
when the council raided the shop,
this is what they found. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
A semi-hidden storage area,
no ceiling to it, you have to get | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
in there on your hands and knees,
and there was lots of | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
steroid -based products. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:39 | |
One of those was that
which we bought before. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
Products containing this chemical
can damage the liver, nervous system | 0:01:43 | 0:01:49 | |
and have a number of negative
effects on the skin. From this shop | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
alone two and a half thousand
potentially dangerous products were | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
seized by the Southwark trading
standards department. People selling | 0:01:56 | 0:02:04 | |
face going to prison for up to two
years. This man was handed a 15 week | 0:02:04 | 0:02:10 | |
suspended sentence and ordered to
pay costs and fines of almost | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
£26,000. The footage from our
investigation was used as part of | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
the prosecution case. We filmed you
selling these products in your shop | 0:02:19 | 0:02:27 | |
two years ago, we wondered if you
will stop now, you've been convicted | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
four times. Completely stopped,
happy? What would you say to the | 0:02:32 | 0:02:37 | |
people who may have been harmed
using your products. Who got harmed? | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
They cause liver damage, skin
problems, organ failure. No comment. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:47 | |
The sentence sends a message to
those people who want to sell | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
illegal products to members of the
community that our team, trading | 0:02:50 | 0:02:58 | |
standards, will prosecute them and
bring them to justice. This isn't a | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
problem just here in Southwark.
According to London trading | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
standards in 2000 1615 businesses
across the capital were fined more | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
than £168,000 for dealing in unsafe
cosmetic products. While there is | 0:03:13 | 0:03:19 | |
still demand for such cosmetics,
we're likely to see more convictions | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
from those profiteering from selling
them. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
Campaigners have failed to block
a controversial £2 billion | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
housing scheme planned for north
London. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
But despite the High Court ruling -
the development may not go ahead | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
anyway because of a political row. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
Marc Ashdown has been
following the legal battle | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
with Haringey Council. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:46 | |
Lots of twists and turns in this.
The heart of it is straightforward, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
how do you solve a housing crisis?
Hangai has thousands of people on | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
the waiting list. The current
council had a plan to build 6000 | 0:03:54 | 0:03:59 | |
more homes but with a public-private
partnership. It's called the | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
Haringey development vehicle, it
would have been building homes with | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
a private developer. It angered
left-wing members of the party, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Jeremy Corbyn supporters, the all
powerful momentum group who are dead | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
against it. Campaign is to get to
the High Court. The High Court judge | 0:04:14 | 0:04:23 | |
backed the council is aborted their
plan and blew out of the water all | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
the arguments against it. Certainly
not for now. Infighting has led to | 0:04:26 | 0:04:33 | |
Claire Cockburn resigning, claiming
bullying, sexism and intimidation at | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
the hands of Corbyn supporters. Last
night the council passed an | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
amendment kicking it all into the
long grass. These clips sum up where | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
we are. I have no pleasure in
proposing this amendment because I | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
still believe I believe it's only
today and it may be popular, the HDV | 0:04:49 | 0:04:58 | |
is the best solution available
because politics means engaging in | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
the world as it is rather than the
world as we may want it to be. I'm | 0:05:02 | 0:05:09 | |
hoping now there is a real listening
to the local community and I think | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
that's what the Labour Party is
doing. The feeling I was getting | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
when I was up there is people
weren't confident this scheme would | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
deliver them the secure homes they
need. That is why there needs to be | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
a real reconsideration. Bit of a
mess isn't it? It is, it's gone | 0:05:22 | 0:05:29 | |
beyond, some say, one council in
London symptomatic of the deep | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
divisions in the Labour Party. Could
we see more centrist versus | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
left-wing clashes in the run-up to
the local elections in May. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Possibly. It leaves Haringey with a
major housing problem. We saw a | 0:05:39 | 0:05:46 | |
judge backing this plan saying it
was perfectly fair and legal. The | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Shadow Chancellor saying people in
the area don't really want it. A | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
more Corbyn supporting council were
coming in May. The people will want | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
to see housing built. It's a tricky
one. Thanks for that. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:08 | |
It's not your usual Museum exhibit -
but part of a giant fatberg found | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
under the streets of Whitechapel has
gone on display at | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
the Museum of London. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
The toxic lump was one
of the largest ever found, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
and is going on show
because of it 'historical | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
significance'. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:20 | |
Wendy Hurrell has more. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:28 | |
September last year. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:29 | |
One of the biggest fatbergs
in the world was found | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
in the Victorian sewers below
Whitechapel. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
It was 250 metres long. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:34 | |
The Museum of London
wanted a piece of it. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
Here it is, the last remaining part
of the Whitechapel fatberg, | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
safely encased in not one,
but two very thick glass boxes. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
The oils have been aired ride,
so it's almost like a rock now. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
In its greasy grip things like
sweetie wrappers are sticking out. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
It also hatched its own flies. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:58 | |
And no one knows what's
going to happen to it next. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
Because nobody has ever tried
to preserve a fatberg before. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
It's very experimental,
low-temperature storage, freezing, | 0:07:05 | 0:07:15 | |
storage in formaldehide. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
And we slowly worked the options
and ruled all of those out. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
It stops letting off toxic gases
now, the smell in case | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
you were wondering... | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
Dry fatberg has a bit more
of a smelly toilet sort of smell. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
These fatbergs have been
found all over London | 0:07:34 | 0:07:35 | |
and all over the world. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
And I think it's a really good way
of putting it on display | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
and starting a difficult
conversation about what | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
are we doing, what are
we doing to our city? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Do we need to look at our own
actions and think about how we might | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
have to do things differently? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:49 | |
It'll be on display
at least until July. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
A stark reminder of our issues
with waste in the metropolis. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
And starting a difficult
conversation about what are | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
we doing, what are we doing
to our city? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
16 The firefighters
at Paddington Red Watch were some | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
of the first on the scene
at the Grenfell Tower | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
fire last June. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:03 | |
Now 9 of them have decided to run
the London marathon to raise money | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
for the victims and their families ,
in full firefighters kit | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
and breathing apparatus sets. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
Regular marathon runner
Sophie Raworth has been talking them | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
about the night of the fire. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
71 people died that night. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:16 | |
The fire crews who repeatedly queued
up to go into the burning tower | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
managed to save the lives
of 65 others. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
It was quite chaotic. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:23 | |
We were there 13 hours. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
Even on a big job you get relief
for five hours later, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
another crew will come and relieve
you from another station. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
But we didn't want to go anyway,
we wouldn't have left anyway. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
The enormity of it only hit us,
hit me personally, after, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
a few days later when I'd seen
what had happened. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:44 | |
You wouldn't be human if it didn't
affect you in anyway. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
What kind of response did you get
from the community afterwards? | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
It was quite overwhelming. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
The thanks and applause we got. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
Was quite something else, really. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
So the fact they did appreciate us
was sort of difficult to deal with, | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
because we don't really
get that day-to-day. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:05 | |
What happened that night affected
them also deeply that nine | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
of the Grenfell Tower firefighters
are now training to run | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
the London Marathon to raise money
for the victims and their families. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
And they're not making it
easy for themselves. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
You're going to run 26.2
miles with this on? | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
Oh my God. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
How much does this way? | 0:09:24 | 0:09:30 | |
30. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
30 kilos. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:33 | |
That's like carrying
a sort of small kid. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Not even a small kid,
but a nine-year-old | 0:09:35 | 0:09:36 | |
child on your back. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:37 | |
It all means extra training,
running around the fire | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
station in between shifts. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
The money raised will be split
between three charities, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
want help firefighters,
two others at the heart | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
of the Grenfell community. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:55 | |
We're not doing it for our own
personal gain, we want | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
the story to be about them. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Trying to raise as much money
for them as possible. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
Firefighter Martin Gillam
finishing that report there. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Firefighter Martin Gillam
finishing that report there. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:06 | |
That's it for now from me,
but lets find out what the weathers | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
up to with Chris Fawkes. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:10 | |
Thanks a lot. The day started off on
a promising note with a fair bit of | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
sunshine, the cloud over a little
bit but not before this weather | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
watchers snap was caught. Thanks for
sending it in. Whether on the | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
change, a weather front moving in
overnight and tomorrow morning as | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
well, bringing rain and cold air
following. We're looking at rain | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
arriving before long. It would be
quite heavy, the wind picking up for | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
a time. The cloud and rain keeping
temperatures up. Those between three | 0:10:34 | 0:10:40 | |
and six Celsius. Tomorrow morning
it's rain should move away fairly | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
quickly, the sky brightened up for
time. That cold air moving in, we'll | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
see some sunshine but also some
wintry showers blowing in on a brisk | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
and chilly north-west wind.
Temperatures struggling through the | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
afternoon, while in central London 5
degrees. It'll feel cold but | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
forecast to get a little bit milder
as we look at the outlook for the | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
next few days. Rain on | 0:11:03 | 0:11:04 |