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That is all. It is goodbye from me. On | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London News. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Residents of a tower block in Camden have told the BBC that they don't | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
feel safe in their homes, despite urgent fire safety work | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
The work took place on the Chalcots estate following the Grenfell Tower | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
fire, but some residents feel that it's incomplete. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
The council disputes this, and says it was signed off | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
by independent building control officers and the blocks are safe. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
What was the urgent work that needed doing at the Chalcots? | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
Camden council invited the London Fire Brigade to carry out an | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
enhanced fire safety check inside these four towers. All 23 storeys, | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
in which around 3000 people live. What the Fire Brigade identified was | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
that urgent internal safety work needed to be done to the communal | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
areas. That work involved a range of measures that basically would stop | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
fire spreading from one part of a building to another. The council say | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
the work is done and signed off but residents have told us they don't | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
feel safe, that the work is shoddy and incomplete and could put lives | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
at risk. What did you see at the state? I was taken ruddy block | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
called Taplow by a resident. Camden council asked us to stop recording | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
but I managed to take some photographs. Here is one of a fire | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
door leading to the blog's only fire escape. You can see seals designed | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
to stop smoke and fire peeling off. That was repeated several times in | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
the building. The fire door doesn't shut and another one took only a | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
minute to close, it should take just a few seconds. In the stairwell, the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
only fire escape, these stairs should have nonslip strips that are | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
luminous in the dark, they were either missing or degraded. And that | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
was repeated throughout the building. There were a host of other | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
problems that viewers can look at online. Inside the flat, what's | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
interesting is that fire safety checks don't seem to have been done | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
to the same extent. One resident asked me to come in and she showed | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
me exposed electrical cables boxed in with cardboard. Experts have told | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
us that that should be a metal box and that it poses a huge fire safety | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
risk. What have the council and Fire Brigade had to say? We put the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
specific allegations to the council and invited the leader live. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Unfortunately, she declined the invitation. The council said urgent | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
work to contain fires was completed and signed off by independent old in | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
control from two other London boroughs and the council worked | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
closely with the Fire Brigade. A food delivery company says it's | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
bringing in new safety measures to protect its drivers | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
from being attacked It follows a series of acid attacks | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
where delivery drivers have been Around 450 assaults were recorded | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
by police in London last year. London is currently in the midst | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
of a moped crimewave. Three weeks ago, delivery driver | :03:16. | :03:34. | |
Jabeed Hussain was the first victim in a series of five acid attacks | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
in 90 minutes in north-east London. I was just running | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
on the street like a crazy. In the last year, the Met Police | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
recorded more than 16,000 incidents involving motorised two-wheeled | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
vehicles, compared with So the company is | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
adding new features. After I'm marked delivered, | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
I get the opportunity to give some feedback to the network | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
as to whether the delivery We have had delivery feedback | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
for a few weeks now, so prior to the terrible attacks, | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
but adding safety concerns as an explicit option | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
as a response to those incidents. Deliveroo drivers are all | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
self-employed, so not entitled They also all use their own bikes | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
and mopeds to deliver. Do you feel guilty at all | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
that they are putting themselves they don't get repairs | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
to bikes, things like that? As I said before, the safety | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
of our riders is the most important thing to us, | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
and it's our responsibility as a company to step up our efforts | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
so that they can feel safe For Jabeed, the fear | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
of being attacked again means he now won't work after ten o'clock | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
at night, and he says other The mother of Sally Anne Bowman, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
who was murdered in Croydon in 2005, says her daughter's remains have had | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
to be exhumed after her grave Linda Bowman told a newspaper that | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
"cruel people" had targeted the 18-year-old's burial place four | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
times in six months. She said her daughter's | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
remains were removed An investigation into the Croydon | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
tram crash is likely to call for a system to be introduced | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
to prevent serious accidents due to travelling at excessive | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
speed at high-risk spots. Seven people died and 51 | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
were injured in November last year. The Rail Accident Investigation | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Branch says it's also likely its final report will call | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
for improvements to windows and doors to keep passengers | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
inside the coaches. The World Athletics Championships | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
get under way tomorrow - the biggest event of its kind | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
in the UK since London It's hoped it'll inspire the next | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
generation to give athletics a go. Jessica Creighton has been to meet | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
some of the children getting active This is not your typical | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
athletics venue but, for these young people, | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
this is their stage, London 2017 will be the biggest | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
athletics event this country has I'm here in west London | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
with these young people, who have seen their stars | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
on the screen and now they're going to try | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
the sport out for themselves. Who better to give some tips | :06:42. | :06:53. | |
than a European gold medallist? You can meet new friends | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
from the estate that you probably wouldn't have met on a normal day, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and something like this encourages them to communicate with each other, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
make it fun and enjoyable. These World Championships will see | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
some of the biggest stars in athletics competing on the track, | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
and there's none bigger Normally, I think what happens | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
is they might watch the Olympics or they might watch Mo Farah | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
or Usain Bolt and then sometimes there's not somewhere for them to go | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
and they'll forget about it until four years later, | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
when it's the next Olympics We wanted to try and capture that | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
spirit at the right time. They've tried athletics | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
for themselves. Now they'll be able to watch | :07:37. | :07:37. | |
the pros in action live at the World Championships | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
through this project. And who knows how many might go | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
on to emulate their heroes? Now it's time for a check on the | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
weather with Elizabeth Rizzini. We've seen some sunny spells around | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
today and also some showers. What this photo doesn't show | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
you is how windy it is, and it's going to stay pretty | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
blustery for much of The south-westerly wind really | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
strengthening at times. Some more spells of brightness | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
and sunshine, but always quite a lot of cloud, | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
and still a small chance of one or two fleeting showers, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
particularly out towards the west. Top temperatures of | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
around 21 or 22 Celsius. The wind still quite | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
gusty into this evening, some late spells of sunshine, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
and overnight tonight we should stay Temperatures down to | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
around 14 or 15 degrees. The wind will start to ease off | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
as we head into tomorrow morning. We start on a nice, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
bright, sunny note. We keep sunny spells | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
around through the day. Crucially, the winds | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
are going to be lighter tomorrow, so it will feel pleasantly warm | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
in the sunshine. Still quite breezy though, | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
and temperatures slightly higher as well, 23 degrees will be the peak | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
of the temperatures For the weekend, it will feel | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
a couple of degrees cooler, Some of our temperatures away | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
from the towns dipping back Saturday, some sunny spells, | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
some afternoon showers. On Sunday, it's looking | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
dry with some sunshine. Riz Lateef will be here at 6:30 | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
with our evening news programme. You can also take a look at our | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
website at the usual address - The BBC Proms celebrates | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the extraordinary film music in a concert to mark | :09:23. | :09:52. | |
his 85th birthday. | :09:53. | :09:57. |