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Good afternoon, welcome to BBC London News. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
There are claims that the number of people who could contract cancer | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
from asbestos poisoning in the capital's hospitals | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
of hospitals contain asbestos - which is deemed safe, | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
But the Unite Union - and a legal expert - disagree, | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
claiming an increasing number of people are dying from lung | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
It seems there may have been a lot of in the corridors of Guy 's | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
Hospital where I spent six years training. Everyone used the tunnels. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Of the four doctors who trained there and who subsequently developed | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
cancer in the last five years, I'm the only one left alive. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Doctor Andrew Lawson wrote about his condition in 2010. Four years later, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
he died. He had been suffering from me is a kind of lung cancer caused | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
by reading in asbestos dust. It is terrible that somebody is | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
cheated of their life and their future, he was only halfway through | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
his life. He says he contracted it while training at Guy 's Hospital, a | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
claim that the NHS Trust refuses to be drawn on. The white asbestos, the | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
kind used in the hospitals, is deemed safe as long as it isn't | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
disturbed. Experts disagree and say its | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
presence in hospitals need to be addressed. If the ticking time bomb, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the number of people developing this kind of cancer in the country | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
continues to rise and the expected peak has been exceeded several times | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
already. So, the prediction of when numbers of these cases are going to | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
peak has been moved forward several times since I've been doing this | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
work. There are now calls for the government to urgently remove | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
asbestos from all NHS hospitals. We know that asbestos kills people and | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
we know the longer it stays in the building, the higher the chance of | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
it being disturbed and therefore we know that it is likely that some | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
time in the future, it will be responsible for the deaths of | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
members of the public and workers alike. According to the latest | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
figures... 1000 people in London died from the | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
disease between 2011-2015. Seven nurses or doctors died, but it | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
is believed that more NHS workers died from it. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
After a Freedom of information request, the BBC found that 94% of | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
hospitals still contain asbestos. Andrew was typical of a sufferer of | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
this kind of cancer. It took years for these symptoms to show. Once | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
diagnosed, it's only thought that people survive between 12-21 months. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
They all knew, they all knew about the dangers of asbestos but they did | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
not take enough action to remove the risk for those who worked there. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Charlotte franks, BBC News. We were provided with a statement | :03:22. | :03:37. | |
which said that it is safe as long as it is not disturbed. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
The Met Police Commissioner says five terrorist attacks have been | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
foiled in the last few weeks, some of which were "very close" | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Cressida Dick says in addition there've been "hundreds | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
and hundreds" of arrests of people who are radicalised, | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
and are either spreading hatred, supporting terrorism | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
The Mayor has joined the family and friends of one of the youngest | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
victims of the Grenfell Tower fire s his funeral took | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
A service for five-year-old Isaac Paulos was held | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Isaac - who lived on the 18th floor - died after reportedly | :04:05. | :04:16. | |
becoming separated from his family as he tried to escape. | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire is probably the most famous secure | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
hospital in the world, but the Victorian building | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
It'll be replaced by a brand new hospital - | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
being built at a cost of nearly 250 million pounds. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
Some of the most notorious criminals in history have been detained in | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
pawn -- in Broadmoor's Victorian walls | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
but after 250 years, the institution has been completely rebuilt. These | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
are the first pictures of the new ?242 million hospital. It will be | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
run in a completely modern way. We went to the three bridges secure | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
unit in London, to find out just how different life for patients will be. | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
We promote movement here, yes, there are locked doors but they are free | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
to move around and that is a difference from the old building. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
This hospital may look 5-star but it is secure. 80 male patients, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
considered a danger, live here. But it isn't all about locking people | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
up. There are three aspects here, physical security, doors, locks, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
fences, that kind of thing. Procedural security, procedures | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
coming through, but also relational security, the professional and | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
therapeutic relationship between staff and the men that they look | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
after. The new Broadmoor Hospital will officially open in the autumn. | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Then more, BBC The World Para Athletics | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Championships begins Among those going for a medal | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
for Great Britain on the opening night is former Surrey schoolgirl | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Abbie Hunnisett. this is the iPad app that helps | :06:03. | :06:16. | |
Abbie communicate. My main hope for the championships is to have fun, | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
relax and enjoy the experience. I would like to throw a new personal | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
best. We sent out questions before meeting her, she typed out her | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
answers which she played by hitting the corresponding button. What will | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
it be like to compete in a World Championships in your own country? I | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
think it is going to be incredible, I've competed there before at the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Anniversary Games with about 30,000 people. She's been training for her | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
event, the F32 club throw, for athletes with cerebral palsy and | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
other impairments. What is the highlight of your career? The first | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
time I competed at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium, also | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
going to Rio and the whole experience of becoming a | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Paralympian. At the age of 21, she has achieved so much already. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Now, her parents will be getting ready to cheer her on again in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
London... I threatened to buy a megaphone. They say that I don't | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
need one! To call her a Paralympian is fantastic. It's great to go back | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
to some of the special schools I have tended to speak to students and | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
show that if they do their best, they can do whatever they want in | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
life. If all goes well, Abbie will have another career highlight to | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
talk about. Let's go over to Wimbledon now for a | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
look at the weather. Elizabeth is there, looking like good weather for | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
tennis? It certainly is today, it's a cloudy picture at the moment. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
A cool, fairly moderate light moderate Midwest elite degrees | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
around -- Midwest breeze around. It's important to remember just | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
because British singles players have gone out, it doesn't mean they've | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
gone out in the doubles. Heather Watson and Jamie Murray will play | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
with their partners later this afternoon. It's brilliant weather | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
for tennis this afternoon, it's going to stay dry, breaks in the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
cloud giving sunny spells. Temperatures lower than yesterday at | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
around 22 or 23 degrees. There will be brightness through the evening. A | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
nice evening to be watching the tennis. Overnight, cloud will | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
thicken, fresh and comfortable for sleeping at this time of year. Lows | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
of 14 degrees. Into tomorrow morning, it will fill increasingly | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
warm and humid. We get off to a nice and bright start but cloud amounts | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
increase. Some spots of rain for the middle part of the day but otherwise | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
it should stay dry tomorrow and in any sunshine. Then, we are looking | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
at highs of up to 25 degrees. A similar story on Sunday. In any | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
sunshine it will feel increasingly warm, quite humid, there is the risk | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
of light showers through the afternoon on Sunday. Then, turning | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
caller on Monday with temperatures hotting up once more into the start | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
of next week. STUDIO: That sounds good, Elizabeth, | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
thank you. That's all from us- | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Alice Bhandhukravi will be here From all of us this lunchtime, have | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
a great afternoon. Goodbye. When I think of the world | :09:24. | :09:40. | |
we inhabit, everyone will think, Yeah. And it wasn't, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
it was done by hand over days and weeks | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
and months and years. | :09:47. | :09:50. |