:00:00. > :00:10.to get the truth as as possible. It's goodbye from me
:00:11. > :00:22.The London Ambulance Service has made significant progress
:00:23. > :00:24.according to a new report by the health watchdog.
:00:25. > :00:26.Crews have also been praised for their care and compassion
:00:27. > :00:28.during the Grenfell fire and recent terror attacks.
:00:29. > :00:38.It's the country's biggest ambulance service and its busiest.
:00:39. > :00:45.It was also the first to be put into special measures.
:00:46. > :00:50.This is what it does on a daily basis.
:00:51. > :00:56.Fabiana, a diabetic, on her first day at work had collapsed.
:00:57. > :01:00.You haven't eaten at all and it is still that high, is that because you
:01:01. > :01:04.have been throwing up so much? After being seen to by paramedic
:01:05. > :01:07.David, she was off to hospital. This though is what the service has
:01:08. > :01:10.also had to do in the past month. Dealing with the terror attack
:01:11. > :01:13.at Borough Market and also they were sent into Borough Market
:01:14. > :01:29.as armed police hunted That is in our job title, the
:01:30. > :01:35.hazardous job team, to bring care to the patients who needed most, who
:01:36. > :01:39.possibly for whatever reason cannot get out of the situation.
:01:40. > :01:43.Unfortunately the ones I saw sadly died but I know the other people in
:01:44. > :01:45.the team were faced with people with quite tragic injuries and severe
:01:46. > :01:47.injuries. Today's report from the Care Quality
:01:48. > :01:49.Commission praises what it calls the outstanding work of front line
:01:50. > :02:00.staff, but it has kept the service Everybody wants to work in an
:02:01. > :02:04.organisation that is recognised for doing really well, and to be told
:02:05. > :02:08.you are outstanding is excellent but it is a journey of everybody working
:02:09. > :02:13.together, continually improving what we do. We are seeing very definite
:02:14. > :02:24.signs of improvement in London Ambulance Service, contrast from
:02:25. > :02:25.2015 is marked. It is hoped the service will be out of special
:02:26. > :02:31.measures at the end of the year. A boost for staff, who have been
:02:32. > :02:33.tested as never before Incredibly proud, and to be one of
:02:34. > :02:43.the team makes me incredibly proud. Police urgently want to speak
:02:44. > :02:46.to a man in connection with a double A warning viewers may find some
:02:47. > :02:52.of these pictures disturbing. Police say 24-year-old
:02:53. > :02:54.John Tomlin should not be Resham Khan and her cousin have been
:02:55. > :02:57.left with life-changing injuries after the attack in Tollgate Road
:02:58. > :03:01.in east London. A murder investigation has been
:03:02. > :03:03.launched following the death Police were called to a party
:03:04. > :03:10.at a warehouse in Coronation Road with stab wounds who
:03:11. > :03:17.later died in hospital. A pilot who was temporarily
:03:18. > :03:19.blinded by a laser is warning that there will be
:03:20. > :03:22.a tragedy if something It comes as police say there's been
:03:23. > :03:28.a worrying rise in the number of incidents targeting flights
:03:29. > :03:31.at Gatwick Airport. A warning - there are flashing
:03:32. > :03:45.images in her report. They can dazzle and distract at the
:03:46. > :03:50.most crucial moments, and last year there were more than three laser
:03:51. > :03:54.attacks a day on aircraft across the UK. Just a few months ago a police
:03:55. > :03:59.helicopter was targeted over Crawley, despite the threat to
:04:00. > :04:03.safety people asked all shining laser pens at pilot. If this goes
:04:04. > :04:08.on, one day there will be on aircraft accident, it's bound to be.
:04:09. > :04:12.The lasers are getting stronger, the effects are getting worse and if you
:04:13. > :04:17.have two pilots who cannot see where they are going there is a real
:04:18. > :04:21.problem. Heathrow remains one of the worst hit airports for attacks on
:04:22. > :04:29.the number at Gatwick Airport is increasing. In 2015 there were 30 --
:04:30. > :04:34.39 incidents, last year that number increased to 55 but this year Sussex
:04:35. > :04:38.Police has recorded another 27 cases. The British airline pilots
:04:39. > :04:43.Association wants offenders to face a prison sentence of up to five
:04:44. > :04:46.years, a proposal that was abandoned because of the general election but
:04:47. > :04:55.there is hope it could reach the Commons before the summary says.
:04:56. > :04:59.Ultimately an aircraft would crash and that would mean fatalities on
:05:00. > :05:05.board and on the ground as well. It is important we look at updating
:05:06. > :05:07.laws with regard to laser pen laws with regard to laser pen
:05:08. > :05:10.matter MPs from across the house matter MPs from across the house
:05:11. > :05:16.would agree on. At the moment it is a criminal offence to shine a laser
:05:17. > :05:18.at an aircraft and you can be fined up to ?2500. But for some, this
:05:19. > :05:22.isn't a strong enough deterrent. It's the first new opera house to be
:05:23. > :05:26.built in the UK this century. Grange Park Opera is hidden
:05:27. > :05:28.away in an orchard of Incredibly, it took just 11 months
:05:29. > :05:34.to create partly thanks Sonja Jessup has been
:05:35. > :05:39.talking to the woman On March the 21st, 2015, somebody
:05:40. > :05:48.sent me a tweet from the Telegraph, saying Bamber Gascoigne had
:05:49. > :05:50.inherited unexpectedly who was a Duchess, a beautiful
:05:51. > :05:59.15th century house, 350 acres and he didn't know
:06:00. > :06:01.what to do with it. I thought, I know
:06:02. > :06:06.what to do with it! And I kind of looked it up, I tried
:06:07. > :06:09.Google mapping it, but because nobody had been here
:06:10. > :06:11.it was very difficult to figure out where it
:06:12. > :06:13.was and eventually, when I saw a picture
:06:14. > :06:19.of it, I thought, this is absolutely perfect, so within about a month of
:06:20. > :06:22.reading about it, my trustees and I went to see Bamber and
:06:23. > :06:24.Christina and explained to them what we could
:06:25. > :06:27.do here, that we would build the Opera
:06:28. > :06:32.house and ideally we'd get it ready for the 2017 season, therefore
:06:33. > :06:36.we had to move super quickly. Martin Smith has actually built this
:06:37. > :06:40.extraordinary structure, five Did some people think
:06:41. > :06:48.you were slightly I think when I said it
:06:49. > :06:56.would be ready, there was a period when I had to
:06:57. > :06:59.have a contingency, in case it But he always said that seven months
:07:00. > :07:02.before the festival he would tell me whether
:07:03. > :07:04.it was possible. It became clear he was building
:07:05. > :07:07.at such a pace it was going Right to the very end,
:07:08. > :07:11.when we were doing tours and people saw it wasn't finished,
:07:12. > :07:13.people were saying, I said no, no, this will be ready,
:07:14. > :07:19.I can see it's finished. So a lot of the decorative
:07:20. > :07:23.stuff was done very, very We were screwing seats
:07:24. > :07:26.in on the last day. The audience arrived,
:07:27. > :07:28.700 people arrived, for the magnificent opening,
:07:29. > :07:31.and I literally was wearing what I'm wearing now,
:07:32. > :07:33.because I'd been moving fire Now the weather with
:07:34. > :07:54.Elizabeth Rizzini. That afternoon. It is very grey and
:07:55. > :08:00.overcast today, the cloud is big and low for many of us but we have had
:08:01. > :08:05.to see that through the afternoon to see that through the afternoon
:08:06. > :08:07.and the vast majority should stay dry too. We haven't got the worst
:08:08. > :08:11.weather in the country but we are weather in the country
:08:12. > :08:13.underneath all of this cloud. If we underneath all of this cloud. If we
:08:14. > :08:18.get any breaks in the cloud and the sunshine comes out, the temperature
:08:19. > :08:25.will rise and this could spark off some isolated showers. Most will
:08:26. > :08:33.stay dry, the winds are right, it feels muggy but temperatures are not
:08:34. > :08:37.too high at 20 Celsius. Overnight it should stay dry or mostly dry with
:08:38. > :08:42.clear spells here and there. We start of the day on a mild note at
:08:43. > :08:47.around 14 Celsius for most places. Tomorrow looks like a better day in
:08:48. > :08:51.terms of sunshine, there will be more of it, the cloud will break
:08:52. > :08:54.into the afternoon but the higher temperatures again could spark off
:08:55. > :08:58.some afternoon showers and some of them threatened to be heavy. There
:08:59. > :09:03.will be rain as we head into Friday evening. Temperatures will be higher
:09:04. > :09:08.through the afternoon, 21-23 Celsius. If you are heading out on
:09:09. > :09:12.Friday night, be warned there will be some heavy rain around and that
:09:13. > :09:15.could stick around into the early part of Saturday, but over the
:09:16. > :09:17.weekend we should see some sunny spells and temperatures will be in
:09:18. > :09:18.the low 20s. Riz Lateef will be here
:09:19. > :09:22.with our 6:30 evening programme. But for now, from us all,
:09:23. > :09:28.a very good afternoon.