18/07/2017 London News

Buying a knife over the internet will become more

difficult if new government proposals become law.

It aims to restrict children's access to weapons,

and it comes as knife crime in London continues to rise.

In a moment, I'll be discussing if the proposals go far enough,

but first, this report from Tom Symonds.

This is the sharp end of the battle against knife crime in Britain.

Without good reason, it is illegal to carry anything

But these are the sorts of knives police in London have

found or had handed in, including a so-called zombie knife,

It is illegal to buy a knife if you are under 18,

but some young people are getting them delivered.

The plan is to change the law so knives purchased have to be

Some types of knives can't even be sold or passed around.

Police may also get stronger powers to seize them.

We want to make sure we extend the power of police to take away

these dangerous knives and to make them less available to young people,

so we can start to break that cycle of danger and of violence

After all, police reported knife crime has started rising.

This young man did not suffer a serious injury,

despite being stabbed, but every knife on the streets can

Joining me now is Patrick Green from the Ben Kinsella Trust.

This is all happening after what I understand

are so-called trend of "safe stabbings".

It is a term I personally dislike because I don't think you can use

the word safe and stabbing in the same sentence. This comes about as

we have learned through our work with young people many of them carry

the misconception that you can stab somebody in a certain part of the

body and it causes no effects, usually on your backside, that is

what they say. What we point out in terms of the education work we do,

there is no safe place to stab somebody. If you stab somebody, you

are beloved veins and nerve endings and it can cause death or serious

disability to somebody. What we are seeing lately is the term being used

around young people, usually those who are authentic, to warn of other

young people and they stab them in certain areas of their body.

Clearly, the Government want to take action. Amber Rudd saying she wants

to clamp down on internet sales of knives. Do you think this is going

far enough, that there is enough being done to dry down the number of

knife crimes? This is an important announcement from the Home

Secretary. Most of the legislation the police use was drawn up in the

1950s or the 1980s, so it is time that legislation moved on. Many

young people have been able to buy some horrendous night over the

internet through online shopping. What this announcement means is that

the police will have additional powers to deal with that. Young

people have been using loopholes to get these nice and this will address

many of those. So it is welcomed and a welcome announcement from the Home

Secretary. We understand that knife crime is on the rise in London, due

to police figures. Why do you think that is? What is causing it to

rocket? We have been looking at what has been happening historically

around night crying. Shortly ago, we had three years of knife crime is

falling. What is different from 2012 to now, we have to take into account

the austerity cuts and the youth services cuts that they have

endured. Youth services provide a great benefit to young people in

terms of positive mentoring and support and diversion away from

crime. And also police numbers. Police numbers have fallen as well

and I think that is restricting the ability of the police to deal with

knife crime. Patrick Green, thank you very much. It is an ongoing

subject. Thank you very much. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has

reiterated his opposition to US President Donald Trump being allowed

a State visit when he comes to Britain.

In an interview with CNN, Mr Khan said the President had

policies that 'many in the UK disagree with,' and therefore

he didn't think it was appropriate to 'roll out the red carpet.' Last

week, the White House confirmed Mr Trump's visit here has been

delayed until next year. Footage has emerged of a group

of bystanders in South London intervening when some thieves tried

steal a scooter that was Two muggers pushed the rider off

the saddle after coming up One attempted to drive the scooter

away, but members of the public ran to help and even stood in the way

of the stolen bike. It forced the man

to abandon the theft. The number of European workers

registering to work in London has fallen by around 10% in the year

following the EU Referendum. The Centre for London says

it's because of Brexit, claiming it's also leading

to a slowdown in job creation. It suggests London's economy

is beginning to wobble, while others point to continued

large-scale investment Train passengers will

soon be able to judge the punctuality of their journeys

with much greater accuracy. It's because punctuality statistics

will be given to the nearest minute instead of to the nearest five

or ten minutes. Each train operator will publish

the results from next spring. Archaeologists have

discovered a rare Roman The ancient grave was found a short

distance from Elephant Castle and its excavation has taken

over six months. The next step is to have

its contents exhumed. Well, I'm on this construction

site here in Borough, where this Roman sarcophagus

has been found. We can speak now to one

of the archaeologists here. You think this is a significant

find, don't you? This really is an incredibly

remarkable find for Southwark. There have only been two

sarcophagus found in London. And it was buried within a mausoleum

and alongside the Roman road, We know that during the

post-mediaeval period it was robbed, so some of the treasure was probably

taken at that time. So grave-robbers found

it before you did? But it had already been about 1,000

years old by that time. So we're hoping that some

of the less shiny things will still be preserved

in the bottom of the coffin. Because this is quite a significant

sarcophagus, someone important. It must be someone of great

wealth and social status because the majority

of Roman Londoners would not be And it is very prestigious,

beside the Roman road. We have already run the metal

detector over it, so it is reading that there are metal objects inside,

but we just don't know what they are We shall soon see what treasures

and stories the sarcophagus holds. It will, of course, take several

months to find that out, though. Well, it's another warm

day across the board. We have seen quite a bit

of cloud and you can see here in our Weather Watchers'

pictures, first thing this morning it was quite grey,

but the cloud has been starting to break up, brighter spells

emerging and sunny spells as well, and that continues

through the afternoon. It will continue

to feel warm as well. We have an easterly breeze blowing

down the Thames Estuary so further east perhaps feeling a bit cooler

than it did yesterday. Further west, though,

temperatures getting up to 26 or 27. UV levels very high,

as is the pollen count. The Met Office has issued a yellow

weather warning for heavy rain for the evening in the form

of thundery showers. Many places won't see them

but if you do get these showers, Quite a lot of rain in a short space

of time, frequent lightning as well. The minimum temperature will be

quite warm and sticky, quite uncomfortable for sleeping -

between 18 and 20. The storms clearing out of the way

tomorrow in the early hours and then plenty of sunny spells around

with a bit more cloud The chance of one or two

isolated thundery showers Another warm night Wednesday

into Thursday but a cold front moves through and that brings some cooler

air, so turning fresher with some Riz is here later with our

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