09/02/2018 London News

Now on BBC One, it's time

for the news where you are.

Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.

There's been a surge in the number

of young people buying

tranquillisers and other drugs

online to deal with

anxiety and stress.

The rise has led to the NHS opening

it's first dedicated clinic in west

London to deal with the problem.

One of the drugs being bought

on the web is called 'Xanax'.

Caroline Davies has been hearing

from a mother who witnessed

a radical change in her teenage

daughter after she

ordered it online.

She was really intelligent,

good grades, never got

into trouble - EVER.

She went from being a normally

behaved teenager to just

being a completely different person.

I didn't recognise the person

I was living with.

This woman, who we're called

Michaela, found out last year

that her daughter was taking Xanax.

It's a medicine

prescribed for anxiety.

But like a worrying number

of teenagers and young people,

her daughter took it

without a prescription.

She was 14.

It was like she was

really drunk, zombified.

When the effects were wearing

off she'd get angry,

aggressive, violent.

She said it was fun and then

she said she was doing it because it

made her feel better.

Highly addictive, Xanax

is also known as Alprazolam

and is a tranquilizer.

It's up to 20 times

stronger than Valium.

In America it's well-known,

sung with about in rap songs.

# Mixed with the Xanax...#.

But its dawning dangers

are also well documented.

It's illegal in the UK

unless you have a prescription,

but there are worries that more

Londoners are buying it and other

prescription medicines online,

which is why the NHS have funded

a clinic in Earl's Court

to tackle the problem.

These medicines are prescription

medicines for a reason,

because they do have harms

if they're taken inappropriately.

The Government told us that law

enforcement agencies continue

to work to shut down UK based

websites found to be selling these

drugs illegally and that they're

taking strong action to prevent

the harm caused by drugs.

Michaela's daughter was eventually

excluded from her school,

now she's stopped taking Xanax.

That drug completely changes your

personality and how you behave.

Because she's not doing that

now, things are better.

They're looking brighter.

If you asked her what she would do

now, she'd say no, don't do it.

Don't take it.

It ruins your life.

Caroline Davies, BBC London News.

The men who carried out last year's

terror attack on London Bridge,

which claimed eight lives,

were all found to have

steroids in their blood.

Khurum Butt, Rachid Redouane

and Youssef Zaghba carried out

the killings in June.

Frankie McCamley can tell us more.

Frankie.

Yes. Now, many will remember, even

those these three suspects were shot

dead within nine minutes of officers

arriving on the scene The Met police

are carrying out an investigation.

They look at the CCTV footage,

witness evidence, analysing the arms

used in the attack and

reconstructing it as well. When that

van drove into a group of people on

London Bridge. Today we heard more

about the attackers themselves.

Toxicology results were released

from the three bodies. A substance

which is a steroid hormone was found

in each of those. What the coroner

will look at this closely to find

out why and what exactly that could

mean. He also said he will look at

Intelligence Services and finding

out exactly what they knew about

these three men. Especially Khurum

Butt who had been under

investigation in 2015 for two years.

That is going to be a key focus.

When does the inquest take place?

As

always is the case, the police

investigation needs to conclude

first, then the first inquest is

going to begin at the start of 2019.

That will focus on the victims.

Alsecond one will follow soon after

that, looking at the attackers

themselves.

Thank you very much for

that.

For decades it was the home

of some of the nations best

loved TV programmes.

But now, BBC Television

Centre, in west London,

is set to become home

for thousands of Londoners.

The site was sold a few years ago

to make way for a housing

and leisure development.

But as Tolu Adeoye has been finding

out, some of the old magic is set

to return to the studios too.

For 50 years, Television Centre in

White City was the home of the BBC.

From Blue Peter, to

The Record Breakers.

Hello again, welcome

back to Whistle Test,

back at TV Centre this week.

And Old Grey Whistle Test, many

classic shows were recorded here.

It closed five years ago

and after years of redevelopment

it's reopening, now housing nearly

1,000 flats, a gym, shops,

restaurants and an exclusive

members' club, but it is still

a Television Centre.

Three refurbished TV studios will be

used to record shows,

including Graham Norton

and daytime ITV programmes.

We've done a lot of upgrade

in terms of the wiring

and all of the technology,

the floor, the seating.

It's been amazing.

For the architects behind

the project, working with such

an iconic existing building

presented challenges,

but also opportunities.

We've recreated the original windows

using the original design intent

of these white operable panels

within the black frames

of the static ones.

We've repositioned and resupported

the original Helios statue

in the middle of the fountain there.

One of my favourite parts

I think is the stage door,

which is going to be

the new entrance for

all the apartments.

Actually how we've managed

to restore all the original assets.

But there is quite the price

tag if you want to live

in the TVC building,

£650,000 for the cheapest

one bedroom flat.

Around 6,000 people will eventually

be living and working

among these corridors.

Many who've bought, the developers

say, want to be close

to broadcasting history.

Tolu Adeoye, BBC London News.

Great memories.

Finally, pedestrians in west London

had a lucky escape this week

when a large block of ice fell

from the sky onto a street.

A security camera caught the moment

the block landed in Kew

on Wednesday morning.

It narrowly missed a street cleaner.

The road is under the Heathrow

flight path and it's thought

the ice fell from a plane.

That's it for now from me,

but I'll leave you with

Chris and the weather.

Was that block of ice a sign of

things to

Was that block of ice a sign of

things to come? They call it blue

ice. I wouldn't want one of those on

my head, that is for sure. Cold

weather tonight of we finish the day

like this. In Hackney clear blue

skies. It's the clear skies allowing

temperatures

Out to the west we have a lot of

cloud. That is is key to what is

coming our way as we look at the

forecast in the next 24-hours.

Temperatures are dropping away at

the moment. We will see a widespread

frost. In the countryside

temperatures my yus four -- minus

four or five. The cloud will move

quickly during the morning.

Temperatures slow to rise. We will

see outbreaks of rain moving in. Not

too heavy. Most will see rain.

Temperatures finishing eight degrees

or so. The second-half of the

weekend colder with some sunshine.

Temperatures about eight degrees for

the high.