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Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London News. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
I'm Sonja Jessup. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
The BBC has learned the number of sexual offences reported | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
on the Tube has more than trebled in the last five years. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
More than 700 cases were recorded last year. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Transport for London says it's because many victims are now more | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
confident to come forward for help. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
Tolu Adeoye has this report. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
I was stood behind loads of people and this guy was behind me | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
and he sort of started rubbing himself up against me, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
and I thought, maybe I've got the wrong impression here, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
but then I realised as it became more pronounced | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
that he was actually, you know, feeling me up, groping me. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Imogen Groome was assaulted while travelling on the Central line | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
on her way to work back in April. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
She says the experience has changed the way she now | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
gets around the capital. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
I will usually try and plan around and take the bus where I can, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
just because there's more space and you're not going | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
to get crammed in. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
It shouldn't happen, that's the bottom line. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
People shouldn't just take advantage because they can. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
It's not acceptable. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
The number of reported incidents is rising. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
Statistics show, in the year to March this year, there were more | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
than 700 reported offences on the Tube. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
That's gone up threefold from 225 five years ago. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
They account for around half the attacks reported | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
on the train network. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
He definitely had blue eyes. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
You know, he shouldn't get away with it. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
Police say campaigns like this one mean more victims have | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
been coming forward. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
Can we catch them after one report? | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
Sometimes, sometimes not. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
But certainly it will help us build that picture and we can establish | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
when people come on the system, when people come off the system, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
what trains they are on. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
That can open up lines of enquiry to help catch these people. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
Research on the London Underground shows that most offences | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
were reported during rush-hour, dispelling the myth that this has | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
anything to do with late-night drinking culture. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
It's often sober men travelling to and from work | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
on packed Tube carriages. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
And campaigners say everyone using public transport | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
has to take responsibility for keeping women safe. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
There's lots of bystanders lots of the time just turn the other | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
eye, because they don't want to intervene, but I think it's | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
really important that we all say, this is not on, it's not | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
what we want for ourselves, it's not what we want for our children. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
We want to create a society where children are free to walk | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
around and be in public safe without fear of attack. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
Imogen didn't report the assault, something she now regrets. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
I'd like to report being sexually harassed on the Tube. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
She's urging other women to speak up. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
A new crackdown's been launched to tackle the sale of illegal | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
tobacco across the capital. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
Trading Standards are using specially trained sniffer dogs | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
to target businesses suspecting of selling it. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
Drivers have been warned they face long delays after a lorry believed | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
to be laden with chocolate bars went up in flames on a major | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
road in Kent. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
Three out of the four lanes on the London-bound A2, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
near Bluewater shopping centre, were closed to allow | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
the blaze to be tackled. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Highways England said the lorry's load had melted | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
onto the carriageway. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
Ten years ago, a woman from Hertfordshire made medical | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
history by becoming the first person in the UK to donate a kidney | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
to a complete stranger. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
Grandmother Kay Mason from Welwyn Garden City had to fight | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
for the right to do so. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:37 | |
She says was considered "mad" by some at the time. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
She's been speaking to our reporter, Yvonne Hall. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
We are in the home in Welwyn Garden City of Kay Mason, | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
who fought for years to get the law changed to allow people to donate | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
kidneys to people they didn't know. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
Ten years ago, Kay was successful and became the first person | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
in the UK to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
Kay, why did you want to do this? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
I wanted to do it once I realised it was possible to do it | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
because I felt I had led a very privileged life. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
I'd been well and had successful grown-up children, | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
so I had no dependents. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
And I felt I was able to do it. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
How has your recipient fared since the donation? | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
My understanding is that she is well. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Has this had any impact on your health at all? | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
No, I'm hale and hearty. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
And what would your advice be to someone who's thinking | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
of donating a kidney? | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
They've taken the first step in thinking about it, | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
and it's worth consulting family, because having support | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
is very useful. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
And then they can get information from the Give A Kidney website, | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
and then approach their local transplant unit. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
Thank you very much, Kay. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
It's hoped the tenth anniversary of Kay's donation will inspire | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
others to follow suit. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
There are currently about 5000 people in the UK waiting | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
for a kidney donation. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
The incidence of kidney disease is rising and, every year, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
about 250 people die whilst waiting for a suitable donor. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:10 | |
Next, we've heard how some areas in the capital have | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
introduced their own currency - like the Brixton pound, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
for example - to help support local businesses. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
Well, east London has taken it a step further - | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
it's now got its own digital currency, via an app. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
So, a gimmick? | 0:05:27 | 0:05:28 | |
Or a savvy way of helping the local economy? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
Ayshea Buksh has been finding out. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
It's a Hackney cafe where using money is sometimes discouraged. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
This customer has paid for her superfood smoothie | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
with a mobile phone, topped up with East London pounds. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
You're using the app and the local currency and you're using local | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
businesses and whatnot, and it's staying within | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
the community and recirculating. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
Customers upload money using an app on their mobile phone, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
and they are given small financial incentive for spending | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
their digital currency locally. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
It's a start-up company that began in Israel and is now being used | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
in Liverpool and 70 businesses in Hackney and Shoreditch. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
We're really educating customers to shop locally, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
live locally and support independent businesses, rather than going | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
to shop at a big chain. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
They might take their money somewhere else | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
other than east London. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
Do you think maybe it's just a gimmick? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
No. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:27 | |
I wouldn't think it's a gimmick because I can see how customers | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
are happy to use it. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:31 | |
It's not the first time we've seen local currencies. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
Back in 2009, the Brixton pound was launched and, more recently, | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
there have been similar schemes in Bristol and Lewes in East Sussex. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
But, elsewhere in Hackney, not everyone was so positive. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
I'm kind of old-fashioned. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:50 | |
I like to see hard money. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
I know what I'm spending, rather than using an app, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
so I don't think I'd be using something like that. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
What about the poor people that can't do things like that? | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
Everything's gone all digital and then there's poor people that | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
can't understand it. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
I'm not really on my phone, to be honest. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
And all that technology, I don't really understand. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Just keep it to the minimum. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
Digital currencies might not be everybody's cup of tea, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
but tech-savvy east Londoners can now boost the local | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
economy even further. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
Now, do you have a head for heights? | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
Then this could be the restaurant for you. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
London in the Sky is serving food 100 foot in the air | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
by Chelsea Embankment. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
The table's suspended from a crane, with chefs and guests strapped in. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
But you do have to hold on to your plate. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:42 | |
You can see more on that story on our Facebook page. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
Now the weather with Georgina Burnett. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:48 | |
We are going to see quite a change in the weather over the next | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
few hours in contrast with this morning. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
This was the scene captured by one of our weather | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
watchers a few hours ago. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
Thank you very much for that. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Quite a lot of cloud around. | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
But we are seeing that push off into the north-east, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
and the rain with it as well. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
So we are left with a drier, brighter end to the day, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
with some decent sunshine. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
Temperature-wise, getting up to about 21, 20 two Celsius today, | 0:08:09 | 0:08:14 | |
but those temperatures actually dropping off over the next few | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
hours with that cooler air coming in behind. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
Overnight, mainly clear skies. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
We'll see a bit of cloud building in the early hours of the morning. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
Temperatures getting down to about 13 or 14 degrees Celsius. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
There was a bit of cloud around tomorrow morning, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
but still quite a bright start with some sunshine. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
We'll see cloud building as we head through the day, mainly dry, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
but there may be one or two outbreaks of rain ahead | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
of this band that's pushing through in the evening. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
Quite a blustery band of rain, it is. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
Tomorrow, temperatures getting up to 22 Celsius, | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
that wind bringing in some warmer air again. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
So that band clears through the night, but Saturday, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
we are still seeing a fair few showers, some of which will be | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
quite heavy, with longer spells of rain as well. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
Quite a cloudy day on Saturday, not much brightness around. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
But Sunday there will still be some showers around, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
but they should be mainly light. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
Just one or two heavy ones. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:04 | |
Also some sunny intervals in between. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
Temperature-wise, with that warmer air coming in, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
we could get up to 23 Celsius tomorrow, but otherwise | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
we are sticking in the low 20s for the next few days. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
That's it from us - do join us again at 6:30pm. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
Riz Lateef will be here with our evening programme. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
Have a great afternoon. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
Bye-bye. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 |