0:00:00 > 0:00:00Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
0:00:11 > 0:00:12Good evening.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14I'm Riz Lateef.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18Some of the most vulnerable Londoners
0:00:18 > 0:00:20are being trapped in a "cycle of homelessness",
0:00:20 > 0:00:23due to a change in the law - according to the charity Crisis.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26It says new, tougher criteria are being used to remove people
0:00:26 > 0:00:28from social housing waiting lists.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30BBC London has learnt that across the capital,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32the number has been cut by a third.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Raising questions as to who has been removed and why.
0:00:34 > 0:00:41Our political correspondent Karl Mercer has been investigating.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Clavia used to be on the housing waiting list.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Since August she hasn't been.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48She couldn't pay her rent and fell into arrears.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51She's now homeless and unable to get back on the waiting list for a home
0:00:51 > 0:00:53for herself and her two children.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58You're just stuck in a place where you have no control.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01That's the worst, I think one of the worst feelings.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04You have a problem that is your problem but you can't solve it.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Nothing you can do about it.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10For six months this has been their home, living with friends
0:01:10 > 0:01:11of her daughter.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14But they are about to be on the move again.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Since August, they've been permanently just in bags and boxes.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20This is how I've lived.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22If I'm here today, I might be there tomorrow, I might go
0:01:22 > 0:01:27to my mum's for a couple of nights, just to...
0:01:27 > 0:01:33Clavia's not alone.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Across London thousands of people have been taken off the list
0:01:35 > 0:01:37for council homes, since the introduction
0:01:37 > 0:01:39of something called the Localism Act six years ago.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41It gave local councils more power to decide who should
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and shouldn't be on the list.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46If they can't register for social housing then their options are very
0:01:46 > 0:01:51limited. People can end up in some kind of spiral of homelessness and
0:01:51 > 0:01:55poverty, where, if the reason they could not register previously was
0:01:55 > 0:01:59they had went arrears, then they are forced into more expensive solution,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03then things are going to get worse them.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06There is a mixed picture across London and illustrated pretty
0:02:06 > 0:02:09clearly where I'm standing here in north London.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11On my right is the London Borough of Camden.
0:02:11 > 0:02:16Here, waiting lists have gone down by 16,000 since 2012 and a drop
0:02:16 > 0:02:23of something like 85%.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26But if we switch across the road just a few feet away,
0:02:26 > 0:02:34this is the London Borough of Islington, where the waiting lists
0:02:34 > 0:02:41have actually gone up by more than 4300, a rise of 36%.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Some councils have excluded people like Clavia in rent arrears. Others
0:02:44 > 0:02:45have introduced rules saying only people who've
0:02:45 > 0:02:51lived locally can get on the list. But the rules across London are
0:02:51 > 0:02:52We have urged the mayor to do something to bring Burris
0:02:57 > 0:03:00We have urged the mayor to do something to bring boroughs
0:03:00 > 0:03:02together to make things more consistent, particularly the local
0:03:02 > 0:03:03connections problem.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07It needs sorting out at a London level, because if you've lived in a
0:03:07 > 0:03:10borough for a few years, and a different Borough for a few years,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13you might not qualify for housing anywhere in London, but living in
0:03:13 > 0:03:15London ought to be a qualification for being eligible for housing
0:03:15 > 0:03:16in London.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Any change like that would come too late for Clavia.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21A British Airways engineer has died after a crash between two
0:03:21 > 0:03:24vehicles on the tarmac at Heathrow early this morning.
0:03:24 > 0:03:25Another man was injured.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Hundreds of passengers had to be evacuated from a plane
0:03:27 > 0:03:28and flights were delayed.
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Chris Rogers has more.
0:03:29 > 0:03:30It's just after 6am.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33The tragic pictures of the aftermath of the runway crash emerge.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35An airport worker is killed as he does his rounds.
0:03:35 > 0:03:40The other driver suffers a broken shoulder.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Police are investigating why the white BA van and yellow
0:03:42 > 0:03:46pick-up truck collided.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Often used by Heathrow's staff to direct aircraft
0:03:48 > 0:03:51and inspect the runways.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Hundreds of horrified passengers, their planes delayed
0:03:52 > 0:04:03for around two hours, can only look on.
0:04:04 > 0:04:0925 flights were cancelled.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Hundreds of passengers were stranded. They were told to leave
0:04:12 > 0:04:16their planes and head back to the terminal building.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18London Ambulance later tweeted, confirming one of the drivers
0:04:18 > 0:04:19suffered a cardiac arrest.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"Despite our extensive efforts to resuscitate him at the scene,
0:04:22 > 0:04:24and on the way to hospital, he was later pronounced dead".
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Heathrow Airport and British Airways are cooperating
0:04:26 > 0:04:29fully with the investigation and expressed deepest sympathies for the
0:04:29 > 0:04:36family of the engineer who died here today.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Chris Rogers reporting there.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39It's a first for a FTSE 100 company.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Lloyds Banking Group has set an ethnic diversity target for staff
0:04:42 > 0:04:44among its senior management - by 2020.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47It says it wants to better reflect the customer base it serves.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Alice Hutton has the story.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Bankers in bowler hats and sharp suits.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58The City of London in the 1970s was a very different place to today.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Or is it?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03In the corridors of power in 2018, black, Asian and minority ethnic
0:05:03 > 0:05:13faces are conspicuous by their absence.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Lloyds Banking Group are hoping to change that.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18So at senior management our figure is 6%.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20And, actually, that reflects the external labour market at senior
0:05:20 > 0:05:21management positions across the FTSE 100.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24But I think our view is that we need to do more
0:05:24 > 0:05:26and we need to go further.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28That's the other reason for introducing the goal,
0:05:28 > 0:05:31to accelerate the pace of change and to make sure that our most
0:05:31 > 0:05:33senior levels in the organisation are more representative
0:05:33 > 0:05:34of the external labour market.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Lloyds say they are confident they can meet their diversity
0:05:36 > 0:05:38targets within the tight two-year time frame.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41But in a place like the City, how realistic is it?
0:05:41 > 0:05:42And is it ambitious enough?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43I think it's a good idea.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46I think it's a good initiative.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Whether it's going to be successful or whether it's going to have
0:05:49 > 0:05:52any kind of traction, you know, remains to be seen.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55I suppose there's a perception of an old boys network,
0:05:55 > 0:05:56maybe, in the City.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Maybe that's because traditionally, you've had a lot of middle-class
0:05:59 > 0:06:03white males who've been running operations.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06You look at it historically, there are more whites
0:06:06 > 0:06:08here than there are blacks, but it's not a true
0:06:08 > 0:06:11representation of the ratios.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15So if you look in society, there are more ethnic minorities
0:06:15 > 0:06:18than there are represented here in the City.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Lloyds might be the first FTSE 100 company to set these public targets,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24but they aren't the only organisation working to improve
0:06:24 > 0:06:28diversity at senior levels.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Joanna is the managing director of a consultancy,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34which helps businesses recruit ethnic minority talent.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38There are issues around development and opportunity,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41so if you do not have a visible role model in a position
0:06:41 > 0:06:43in which you aspire to get into, it can be quite discouraging.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46And it can make you believe that that's not something
0:06:46 > 0:06:48that is actually achievable within that organisation.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Which is why what Lloyds is doing is so good.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53It will actually encourage people within their organisation to believe
0:06:53 > 0:06:57that the company are taking it very seriously.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00In one of the largest financial centres in the world, Lloyds' move
0:07:00 > 0:07:02won't have go unnoticed.
0:07:02 > 0:07:11This might be a welcome step towards greater transparency.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Next: 30 tonnes of wet wipes a day.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16That's what Thames Water says it's having to clear
0:07:16 > 0:07:19from London's sewers, and it's costing millions.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22It was only last year a giant fatberg - longer than Tower Bridge
0:07:23 > 0:07:26caused problems in East London.
0:07:26 > 0:07:31Brace yourself for some of the pictures in Tom Edwards' report.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Welcome to Europe's largest sewerage plant in Beckton, East London,
0:07:35 > 0:07:40serving four million Londoners.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44It deals with 17,000 litres of sewage a second.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Here though, they have a growing problem of nonperishable
0:07:47 > 0:07:51items, mainly wet wipes.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54It is a massive problem, not just for us, but for London.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58We remove 30 tonnes of what we call rag, a day.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03That is a combination of wet wipes, sanitary products etc.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06This causes a lot of damage to the infrastructure, to the
0:08:06 > 0:08:09environment, in terms of pollution because of blockages, and also to
0:08:09 > 0:08:16people's homes when there is a blockage and there is flooding.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20Wet wipes help fat and grease congeal in
0:08:20 > 0:08:25sewers, to form huge fatbergs like this one in Whitechapel.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29It is costing Thames Water £1 million a month
0:08:29 > 0:08:32to unblock the sewers.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33This demonstration shows what happens to
0:08:33 > 0:08:39tissue paper in water compared to wet wipes.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Paper disintegrates quickly.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47But the plastic in the wet wipes means it is not affected.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49I'd like Londoners to bin it, not block it, which is the
0:08:49 > 0:08:51message from Thames Water.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Stick it in your dustbin, don't throw it down the toilet.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57I'd also like the manufacturers to stop marking things
0:08:57 > 0:09:00as flushable when they clearly are not flushable items.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02That is what we need to be doing.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06This would save an awful lot of money that Thames Water could then
0:09:06 > 0:09:08be spending on other things.
0:09:08 > 0:09:13Other things like Thames Water's poor record at fixing leaks.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17So the message for Londoners - sewers can only deal with waste
0:09:17 > 0:09:20from people and paper.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Tom Edwards, BBC London News, Becton.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27The World War Two bomb which forced the closure
0:09:27 > 0:09:30of City Airport earlier this week - has been detonated in the sea
0:09:30 > 0:09:32off the Essex coast.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34The Royal Navy diffused the half tonne device
0:09:34 > 0:09:37in a controlled explosion.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39It was found in the Thames during building work
0:09:39 > 0:09:40in the Docklands area.
0:09:40 > 0:09:48Bad weather prevented the operation taking place yesterday.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I'll say goodnight now, and it's over to Phil Avery
0:09:51 > 0:09:57for a check on the weather.
0:09:57 > 0:10:04Hello. Thank you. Yes, the weather did getting the way of the
0:10:04 > 0:10:07particular operation yesterday. But that was not the this morning.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Our Weather Watchers were not cowering behind the glass because it
0:10:16 > 0:10:23was a glorious start but then the cloud filling in from the west. The
0:10:23 > 0:10:29afternoon really did look as grim as that. Some of the cloud lingering
0:10:29 > 0:10:34into the first part of Thursday, helping to keep temperatures up. You
0:10:34 > 0:10:39may not be scraping the cars first thing. It does not look as if there
0:10:39 > 0:10:44is a lot of weather but there is a breeze to be considered. There are
0:10:44 > 0:10:47islands of cloud coming through. Some of them may give one or two
0:10:47 > 0:10:52showers in one or two spots but many of you will get away with a dry day.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56If you can tuck yourself out of the breeze I suspect it will feel
0:10:56 > 0:11:04springlike. The