30/06/2017 London News

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BBC London has learnt that parts of the flagship Crossrail

Five station upgrades in the west of the capital won't now be

Our transport correspondent, Tom Edwards, has this exclusive report.

Welcome to west Ealing cross-rail station. It's meant to have a new

footbridge, new lifts and new public legal am. It's meant to be finished

by the end of next month. This is what has been built so far, this

station has been delayed. Four other stations Acton, Ealing Broadway,

Southall and Hayes and harring ton will be put back as well. Most were

meant to be finished by the end of the year. We're expecting to have,

by next month, a new station, with all associated works around it.

Residents say they're bitterly disappointed and have been told very

little by the developers, Network Rail. They've been hiding and citing

minor delays and not answering our questions. Doesn't look like minor

delays. No. I mean, this is supposed to open next movement that's clearly

not going to happen. There'll be a huge knock-on effect. In the way the

project was meant to run is that the work local to the station would be

completed before we got the massive increase in passengers. Now they're

going to be trying to build a new station, new roads, redirect traffic

at the peak of demand from new passengers. It's going to be crazy.

85% of cross-rail, the largest engineering project in Europe, has

been completed, including stations like Canary Wharf. New trains will

start using this section in west London next summer. But the stations

won't be ready. The local council says these delays will put back

their work time prove the area. Real frustration. Some degree of anger.

We were told that we would actually get Ealing Broadway delivered early,

in the initial planning stages. Now we're looking to have a considerable

delay and that is going to have real impacts in terms of health and

safety issues in the - from May 2018, trains will be running but the

new station buildings won't be there. Cross-rail says all the

stations will be finished by the time its full service opens in 2019.

Not everyone, though, believes that. Cross-rail's much repeated mantra,

being on time and on budget, no longary plies here.

-- no longer applies here. A damning report of Feltham Prison

and Young Offenders Institution has discovered unpredictable

and reckless violence, with one prison officer actually

being attacked while the inspection The Middlesex jail has

been found to be unsafe Ayshea Buksh has been looking

through the details. Well, this report was carried out by

Her Majesty's Inspectorate, which is an independent scrutiny of the

prison system. Feltham has boys between 15 and 18 and also young men

aged between 18 and 21. The report said that safety and inactivity has

sunk to its lowest level. They do point out there is good work being

done by staff, but in very challenging environments. What seems

to be happening is there's more violence between inmates and towards

staff so what's happening is they're getting locked up for longer,

creating more frustration and hindering attempts at

rehabilitation. Unfortunately, in terms of trying to manage this

really disruptive and violent behaviour has put itself into a

negative cycle which is punitive and just involves more and more

restrictions on the ability of the boys to move around, to get into the

fresh air at all, to get exercise and most importantly, to get to

school. Less than half of the boys in Feltham are getting to school.

You've been speaking to campaigners, what's been the reaction from them?

The Howard league for penal reform say this isn't the first time

they've seen such problems at Feltham. They're dealing with legal

challenges by a number of boys at the moment, one of which was in

solitary confinement for many hours. The National Offender Management

Service say they are determined to improve safety and purposeful

regimes and there will be a new youth custody service. Thank you.

A charity - concerned about the long-term impact

of the Grenfell Tower fire on the local community -

is offering free counselling to those who need it.

Yesterday it was a local teacher who sought their help,

I've got a child who asked me, you know,

that he lost his friend, so he

is not seeing him any more, you know, in the class.

The painful realities of life after Grenfell Tower.

Mohammed Taranweh teaches children Islamic studies.

He is now learning how to school them in grief.

Ask them, describe them, ask them what are you going through?

What exactly is it that is troubling you?

We must bring their fears onto the table.

Bring everything out as much as possible.

Even if they cry, let them cry as well.

Dr Shamandar Talwar is a psychologist providing the answers

He's put together what he is calling a task force of councillors to

For Mohammed, with pupils in his class who have lost best

friends, that support helps answer their difficult questions.

What is their understanding of it, how do

they interpret it when they talk to you?

All of the children were saying, you know, was it because of

the fridge, that all these people got killed?

You know, that is why, they get kind of terrified even by

just the concept of the fridge at home.

For those directly affected, when I see and hear their stories.

social worker to help and said that educational psychologists are

providing support but Dr Talwar still astonished at the

It is strange because you know, one would expect in London,

2017, things would be put in place but that is the reason we are

God forbid we have another crisis like

this but at least we will be ready to have a task force, a group of

people, a group of psychologists that will go in and support people

Now, though, that crisis is Grenfell and

A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering

the teenager Quamari Barnes - who was stabbed to death outside his

Quamari - who was also 15- was attacked outside

the Capital City Academy in Willesden in January.

The court heard his killer can't be named because of his age.

New figures suggest the rise in rough sleepers in London has more or

less stopped for the first time since 2009. Records show more than

8,000 people were seen sleeping rough on the streets last year.

That's just 12 more than the previous year.

The world's oldest emergency phone service was launched

The first 999 calls were made here in the capital, and it wasn't

until after the Second World War that the system was rolled out

Time for a look at the weather now - here's Elizabeth Rizzini.

We started off today with some sunshine but since then it has

Still some bright spells, some spells of sunshine I think

In those, it will feel pleasantly warm but there will also be

a few showers around, too, mostly towards southern

Home Counties, parts of Kent and Surrey, maybe even Essex.

Heavy downpours to be expected, slow-moving and possibly quite a lot

of rain within a short space of time.

But for the rest of us, it is going to stay dry.

The showers will fade away through the afternoon.

Top temperatures of 22 or 23 degrees.

If you are going out this evening, it should

be dry for most of us, I think.

And then through the early hours, we've got some outbreaks of rain

Most of this rain will be quite light and patchy and won't amount

It could still be around for early risers tomorrow morning

but a mild start to the day, 14 or 15 degrees.

Quite a cloudy morning really tomorrow but we will see the cloud

thin and break and we will get sunshine coming through.

It will feel a touch warmer tomorrow and a touch breezy,

but with highs of 23 or 24 Celsius, it will feel quite

Sunday not quite so good, some showers around through the morning.

They will clear to give us some sunny spells by the time

Wimbledon fortnight starts next week.

Possibly a few showers at times but also a lot of dry weather.

Well, that's it from us on the lunchtime team.

Louisa Preston will be back with more at 6.30pm.

There's plenty more news, travel and weather on our website

at bbc.co.uk/london and on BBC Radio London.