25/01/2017 London News

We start this lunchtime with news just in that the

Mayor of Lewisham has said, in his opinion, there should be no

compulsory purchase orders on land around Millwall's football stadium.

It comes after BBC London learned that the council would hold

an independent review into controversial plans

which would see over 2,000 homes built, as well as a state

Millwall have suggested it could force them to leave the area.

Yes, this is Millwall's community trust. This is where the young

players will train in their Academy and where schools will use the

facility here. There are several pictures. With me is one of the

Labour councillors who has opposed this development. Why have you felt

so strongly about it? I think that the Kenya to trust and the Academy

are really integral to our local community. -- the community trust.

Millwall football club has been in Lewisham for over 100 years. It's

part of the cultural heritage of our town. What is your understanding of

what will happen to this community trust, and other businesses, if the

plans go ahead as they stand at the moment? We have been told that the

football club would have to look at the option of moving. There have

been a football club on this site for some 12 years. Before that, it

had been out for 100 years. It would be phenomenal and such a loss to the

community to lose a successful football club. But the new

development means new homes, new housing. Desperately needed in

London. Desperately needed new housing, but new social housing,

too. There is zero social housing proposed in this development and

very little so-called affordable housing, which is even out of the

reach of most Londoners. The BBC has seen a letter which says there will

be a review of parts of this development, hence an anti-smoking

promises -- hence an end to some of the promises made. I welcome an

independent enquiry, but it must be independent and it must be

investigated. It must have an investigation so we get clarity.

Because what we don't have at the moment is clarity on the future of

Millwall football club, Millwall community trust, and all the good

work it does locally. The local residents and the public deserve to

know this. Thank you very much. We have asked Lewisham Council and the

developers for a statement. But so far they've not been available for

comment. Several businesses in Wembley have

been destroyed after a large fire gutted a building

on an industrial estate. It began on Monday evening

but wasn't brought under control Over 120 fire-fighters

tackled the blaze. The cause is not yet known

and an investigation has begun. Alpa Patel has been meeting

some of those affected. Well, this is the complex at the

heart of this fire here in Wembley. It broke out on Monday night. About

120 firefighters tackled the flames. I spoke to the site manager who says

there's about 50 businesses inside. He told me it's very likely that the

whole building will now have to be torn down. I've been speaking to one

business owner. He owns an IT consultancy company and he told me

this has come as a shock and has been very disruptive to his

business. As far as I know, it is 100% total loss. So we have lost all

the equipment, servers, computers. Some of the back-ups. You can

imagine just watching something, where you work, burning in front of

your eyes, and not being able to do anything. It's... It's painful. It's

difficult. I'm glad that it didn't happen while I or my staff were in

the office. Hopefully the insurance will pay for the equipment. But we

are safe, nobody is injured, that is the positive point. Sanjay is not

the only business owner to be severely affected by this massive

fire. We've been filming all morning and business owners have come up to

us all morning telling us their stories, how they've lost Ark, how

they've lost equipment. They're now dealing with their insurance

companies. One thing is for sure - they will not be returning back to

this complex here. -- how they've lost stock.

Next this lunchtime, a North Korean diplomat who defected

from the London embassy last year has given his first TV interview

Thae Yong-ho told the BBC he believes the regime will collapse

Now living in South Korea, he's been talking about how much

The North Korean Embassy, just off the North Circular in Ealing.

For about ten years, this was home to the former

Then in August, he defected to South Korea.

In his first interview since defecting, he says

he believes his relatives in North Korea would have been

sent to prison camps as punishment for his actions.

I am sure that my relatives and my brothers' and sisters'

families are now all sent to either remote, closed areas,

I am very much now determined to do everything possible to pull down

To save not only my family members, but the whole of the North Korean

On the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, he says he believes

the dictator is prepared to fire nuclear weapons at America

Kim Jong-un will press the button on the dangerous weapons

if he thinks that his rule, dynasty is threatened.

Remembering his life in London, the former diplomat says

I really miss, kind of, you know, the life.

Even now I'm really sorry for not saying goodbye to my tennis club.

I still miss the English spring and autumn.

Now I really want to say goodbye and thank you

Another cold and foggy morning and it's set to get even colder.

Good afternoon. It has been another very cold and very foggy day.

Visibility considerably reduced this morning, but it has led to some

beautiful Weather Watcher pictures. You can see in Twickenham earlier,

the freezing fog. Over towards Kingston as well. It has been across

the board. It hasn't really gone anywhere this afternoon. If you

don't have the fog, it will remain rather cloudy. The fog, if it does

lift, it will lift into cloud and be a grey afternoon. We are seeing this

cloud coming up from the consonant, importing cold air. The temperatures

will struggle between 2-4 Celsius. Overnight the temperature will fall

away. We are looking at temperatures of zero or maybe below. So a

widespread frost. We could see fog, but the wind will pick up, helping

to clear it out of the way. A cold, frosty start tomorrow morning. The

cloud will thin and break. We should see glimmers of brightness and

sunshine. The south-easterly wind will strengthen and it's a bitterly

cold south-easterly wind. Feeling raw through much of Thursday.

Temperatures between 1-5 Celsius. Feeling particularly chilly if you

factor in the wind-chill. Cold despite being more sunshine in the

afternoon tomorrow. Another cold night Thursday into Friday. Still

breezy for Friday, but we're starting to see some slightly less

cold air. A touch mild, if I can say that, as we head through Friday and

Saturday. Riz will be here at 6:30pm

with all the latest. Thanks for watching,

have a lovely afternoon. Should've seen Hillary's face.

She was stood there with Bill.