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Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London News. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Weapons - including two foot-long, serrated | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
"Zombie Knives" and a machete - have been found just | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
yards from a busy high street in East London. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
They were discovered in Tower Hamlets, as part | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
of a new scheme that asks local people to look out for | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Well, this is a new initiative in Tower Hamlets. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
We know that violent gangsters, they don't always want to carry | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
around large weapons with them, for fear of getting caught. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
So what they do is, they stash them in green spaces, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Weapons like this one, which was found in Poplar. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And this was actually found by a member of the | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
What the police are doing is enlisting the public's help to | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
search these huge areas, because they can't do it | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
with the officers that they have, getting the public | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
involved, creating awareness and taking | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
some of these weapons, and | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
these weapons here, off the streets of London. | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
I am joined by Detective Inspector Chris Saul, | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Chris, it seems, if we look at these weapons, that it is | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Yes, we are very pleased with the weapons we are finding. We are | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
enlisting local residents, local authorities and police, mobilising | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
together and accepting that it is not just a police problem or local | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
authority or public problem, it is all of our problem if we can | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
mobilise together, we can combat more effectively. | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
And how do you train members of the public to go out with | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
you and perform the sort of searches that police officers would normally | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
We give them a full safety briefed tint to begin with. Then we pair | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
them up to begin with with a police officer, they would walk through the | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Open space they are searching methodically, slowly and above all | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
else safely. At the end, when we have found things, we get together | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and we have a debriefing and make sure everyone understands what they | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
have found. OK, Chris Soole, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
thank you very much. Well, so far, they have | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
conducted three searches this one of them, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
off London's streets. Well, elsewhere in East London, | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
a man in his twenties was stabbed Police say two other people | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
were injured during the incident, A woman whose family was fundraising | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
to pay her medical bills, after she suffered a suspected heart | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
attack while on holiday Heather Pyke, who was 62 | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
and from East London, Her family began a crowdfunding | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
campaign to bring her home because of confusion | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
over travel insurance. A pensioner from Essex says | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
he's considering giving up his life-saving hospital | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
treatment because he has to wait so long for transport | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
to and from appointments. Ronald Dean goes to hospital three | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
times a week for dialysis, but says he often spends hours | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
waiting for an ambulance. Ron Dean is ready, but will his | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
ambulance turn up on time? For three days a week, | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
this is his life. He just sits waiting for two hours | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
in the morning, sometimes longer, and we just have to sit | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
here and wait all the time Oh, I've got used to it | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
now, but it's terrible. His partner has tried to find out | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
why they're often late. Not enough ambulances, | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
not enough workers, Ron has diabetes and | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
can't drive anymore. He is reliant on the patient pick-up | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
service to make the 45 minute journey to Cambridge | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
for his dialysis. Some go by taxi and, | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
last year, the East of England Ambulance Service spent | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
over ?1 million on cabs. There will always be teething | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
problems, but when we look at the quality and the experience | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
of our patients in that service, one of the ways in which we measure | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
that is, what percentage of patient contacts result in a complaint | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
or a compliment? Now, what that tells me | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
is that in excess of 99% of patients actually have a really | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
positive experience. On time today, he needs this | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
dialysis to stay alive. But Ron often has to wait | :04:26. | :04:37. | |
when his treatment ends and has This evening, his partner Florence | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
gets ready for his return. Sometimes, that can | :04:41. | :04:52. | |
be as late as 8pm. At that time, he won't want his tea, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
after nine hours away from home. A minute's silence will be held | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
at the Notting Hill Carnival later this month - | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
to remember the victims The Carnival route passes | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
within half a kilometre Organisers say they'll halt | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
the music at 3 o'clock, to show respect for their grieving | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
friends and neighbours. Legoland has applied | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
to build a large extension The plans include three new rides, | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
accommodation and parking. Its owner, Merlin Entertainments | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Group, says it's part of a long-term Over 300 years after opening | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
its doors, Britain's oldest wine merchant has decided it's finally | :05:27. | :05:45. | |
time to modernise its 'Berry Brothers Rudd' | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
was founded in 1698 and, for much of that time, | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
it's supplied wine But as Sarah Harris has been finding | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
out, the shop has now had to adapt For hundreds of years, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
this was the place in London to come Berry Brothers Rudd is the oldest | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
wine merchants in the country. Kings, Admirals and artists have | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
passed through its timber Centuries ago, some | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
believed it to be the place One of the quirks of coming to buy | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
you wine from your London merchant back in the 19th Century was that | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
customers would weigh One of the famous clients | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
was Lord Byron, the poet, and he was concerned | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
about his weight. And he went on that not-so-famous | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
diet of white wine and dry biscuits. But, you will be surprised to learn, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
it did actually work. He started out at 13 | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
stone, nearly 14 stone, and five years later, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
he was just over nine stone. Good wine in moderation is still | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
known for its health benefits, even if weight loss isn't | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
one of them. Jordi's family have kept the best | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
vintages here for generations. He says most customers now | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
are looking to know where their wine comes from and would rather have | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
quality, not quantity. When people come in, | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
if they are buying a bottle, And that wine is important to them | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
and they want to be involved Online sales put many retail | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
outlets out of business, but a new shop here is making | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
tasting and buying wine They don't really come just | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
for buying a bottle of wine. They are looking for an experience, | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
to explore new regions, So for many Londoners, it seems | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
coming to sample your own wine in person is not so much of a chore, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
but a retail experience. Though if you're expecting to lose | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
weight like Lord Byron, A rather grey day, not much rain so | :07:59. | :08:21. | |
far, but we have seen rather grey skies. They will continue to darken | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
through the afternoon as the rain edges closer. You will get outbreaks | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
of rain, but it will be wet and windy towards this evening's | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
rush-hour. The rain moving from the South and a strengthening southerly | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
breeze. It is going to become quite windy and wet through the rush hour | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
and it feels fairly call, the maximum temperature 17-19dC. The | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
rain continues this evening and overnight, but hanging onto the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
breeze which its North and East and through the early hours of tomorrow | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
morning, the rain should clear. Clearer spells through the Thursday | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
morning. Not too chilly overnight. Temperature is not dropping to bar, | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
around 15 Celsius. Tomorrow, a drier day with sunny spells, we will see | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
some showers, but they will blow through quickly on a south-westerly | :09:14. | :09:14. | |
breeze. Riz will be here with our | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
6:30 evening programme. But for now, from us all, | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
a very good afternoon. The latest of our Premier League | :09:22. | :09:44. | |
commentaries for you this season, the whole game in full | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
here on 5 Live. It's been a knockout day | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
in the Premier League. One of the most sensational | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Premier League games in history. This is Daniel Sturridge, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
round the goalkeeper, and scores for Liverpool | :09:58. | :10:08. | |
what could be a crucial goal. | :10:09. | :10:13. |