:00:12. > :00:15.I'm Claudia-Liza Armah. so it's goodbye from me,
:00:16. > :00:17.Teenagers across London are receiving their GCSE results,
:00:18. > :00:22.in a year that saw tougher exams introduced in English and Maths.
:00:23. > :00:25.A free school in Feltham, which only opened five years ago,
:00:26. > :00:32.hoped to raise standards in the area.
:00:33. > :00:38.This is Reach Academy's first Poloz set of GCSE results and Helen Drew
:00:39. > :00:42.has been finding out if their work is paid off.
:00:43. > :00:50.Getting exam results is a familiar sight, but not reach Academy,
:00:51. > :00:53.Feltham. They only opened in 2012, so this is the very first group to
:00:54. > :00:58.have that GCSEs. It's also the first year under the new grading system,
:00:59. > :01:10.where some subjects are awarded numbers nine, 21, the other is the
:01:11. > :01:14.traditional Eight, B and C. I got six Eight stars. I got a nine in
:01:15. > :01:19.maths, I wasn't expecting it at all. I passed English and maths. I got
:01:20. > :01:24.Bs, I'm proud of that because I didn't think I would do well. I was
:01:25. > :01:27.nervous. Reached Academy is a free School, meaning its government
:01:28. > :01:31.funded but not controlled by the local authority. It was set up by a
:01:32. > :01:35.group of teachers who are delighted with today's results. Nationally and
:01:36. > :01:44.in the area it's better than perhaps would have been expected of a school
:01:45. > :01:48.that serve the community like ours, but it goes to show that when you
:01:49. > :01:50.work hard and every person in the building comes to work everyday
:01:51. > :01:52.loving their job and working really diligently towards a common goal,
:01:53. > :01:56.what can be achieved. One student who has overcome lots of
:01:57. > :02:00.difficulties is Nikhita Shaunak. She barely spoke at primary school and
:02:01. > :02:09.was incredibly shy when she came here. I got an A in history and our
:02:10. > :02:14.e-commerce A star in English language and B in physics and I
:02:15. > :02:22.thought I was terrible! Are you really proud of yourself? Yes. And
:02:23. > :02:27.say her mum is proud is an understatement. Yes, she's gone from
:02:28. > :02:30.the bottom right up to the top. It's amazing, absolutely fantastic. I
:02:31. > :02:36.think you're going to treat her today? Absolutely. This year's
:02:37. > :02:38.results have shown the biggest year decline across the country, here
:02:39. > :02:40.Feltham, tears of joy. Now as part of our series
:02:41. > :02:43.looking at how we deal with waste in the capital,
:02:44. > :02:45.today we're focusing on food waste, which costs
:02:46. > :02:47.London ?50 million a year. Dan Freedman is at a food recycling
:02:48. > :02:51.centre, which says only 18 out of 33 councils collect
:02:52. > :02:59.food waste separately. I'm at Bio Collectors
:03:00. > :03:01.in Mitcham in Surrey, the largest collector and recycler
:03:02. > :03:04.of food waste in London. Have a look at what they've
:03:05. > :03:06.collected already today. This is about ten
:03:07. > :03:08.tonnes of food waste. They'll be collecting 150 tonnes
:03:09. > :03:11.by the close of play today, and they'll turn it into fertiliser,
:03:12. > :03:16.into electricity, and into gas. Paul, you have some of this
:03:17. > :03:22.fertiliser to have a look at. How does it get from this food
:03:23. > :03:27.waste, to this fertiliser? So what we do here is a process
:03:28. > :03:31.called anaerobic digestion, where we take the raw food waste
:03:32. > :03:34.and we take all the nasty things from it, like packaging
:03:35. > :03:37.and plastics and things. We put it through a process
:03:38. > :03:42.which includes our anaerobic digestion tanks, where we create
:03:43. > :03:45.methane gas, and the methane gas we purify and we use that
:03:46. > :03:49.to generate electricity and bio methane, which we inject
:03:50. > :03:53.into the gas grid. The local houses can use that
:03:54. > :03:56.gas in their cookers. The smell, as you'd expect,
:03:57. > :04:01.is quite overpowering. The smell is what you'd typically
:04:02. > :04:04.expect from your bin. Paul, thank you, fascinating to find
:04:05. > :04:10.out what they do with food Dan Friedman reporting from Mitcham
:04:11. > :04:25.earlier. An 800-year-old stone coffin
:04:26. > :04:27.was damaged when visitors to a museum in Essex put
:04:28. > :04:29.a child inside it. Part of it tumbled over
:04:30. > :04:31.and a chunk fell off at Prittlewell Priory Museum in
:04:32. > :04:33.Southend. A spokesperson says staff
:04:34. > :04:35.were "shocked and upset" Those responsible were caught
:04:36. > :04:49.on CCTV, but ran off The weighing scales are being
:04:50. > :04:53.brought out and take measures at London zoo today, as the animals
:04:54. > :04:57.prepare for their annual way. Home to more than 700 different species,
:04:58. > :05:01.zookeepers regularly record the heights and weights of all the
:05:02. > :05:03.creatures at the zoo was a way of monitoring their overall well-being.
:05:04. > :05:05.This month, the BBC has been marking 70 years since India
:05:06. > :05:09.But what does the anniversary mean for those of Indian descent
:05:10. > :05:14.Rajindar Singh Dhatt, who is 95, was a freedom fighter
:05:15. > :05:18.He later joined the British army during World War two.
:05:19. > :05:21.Rajindar and his family have been speaking to BBC
:05:22. > :05:29.When I hear my grandad's story, it doesn't feel real to me,
:05:30. > :05:37.I can't put him being in a war and him being my grandad
:05:38. > :05:44.But when I do hear, it makes me feel quite emotional, to be honest.
:05:45. > :05:49.I can't comprehend how he went through what he went through.
:05:50. > :05:50.Rajindar Singh Dhatt joined the British Army
:05:51. > :05:55.in 1941, when he lived in Punjab, pre-partition India.
:05:56. > :05:57.But before he fought with the British, he saw
:05:58. > :06:04.Before you joined the British Army you were a freedom fighter.
:06:05. > :06:45.India gained independence in 1947, but with it came division
:06:46. > :06:49.and the biggest mass migration of all time, which Rajindar Singh
:06:50. > :06:59.What happened at that time is quite sad.
:07:00. > :07:09.Bloodshed, killings on both sides, and it's heartbreaking.
:07:10. > :07:11.What does independence mean to British-born Amrit?
:07:12. > :07:14.Personally I don't know what it means to me.
:07:15. > :07:19.I don't think I've really thought about it too much.
:07:20. > :07:24.Obviously he's done what he's done so we can have a better life
:07:25. > :07:27.and so he could come here and give us what we have now,
:07:28. > :07:39.Now the weather, with Elizabeth Rizzini.
:07:40. > :07:44.It was a slightly cooler start to this morning and we also
:07:45. > :07:47.patches around as well, but they lifted nice
:07:48. > :07:52.replaced by blue sky and a bit of high cloud.
:07:53. > :07:55.A vineyard in Stratford as captured by our weather watcher here.
:07:56. > :07:57.Sunny spells for the rest of the afternoon with more cloud
:07:58. > :07:59.developing, but it should stay dry, feeling pleasantly
:08:00. > :08:01.warm in the brightness and the sunshine and
:08:02. > :08:02.the westerly breeze, temperatures peaking
:08:03. > :08:04.at around 22 or maybe 23 degrees Celsius.
:08:05. > :08:07.Any showers will be largely confined to the West and will be
:08:08. > :08:10.very light in nature, most of us will stay dry.
:08:11. > :08:13.Some late brightness this evening, the sun setting and
:08:14. > :08:16.And then overnight tonight, not a lot to
:08:17. > :08:20.There should be lots of clear spells around, temperatures possibly
:08:21. > :08:23.dipping a touch lower than they were last night down
:08:24. > :08:26.to about 12 or 13 Celsius in most areas.
:08:27. > :08:28.And again some mist and fog patches forming
:08:29. > :08:30.into tomorrow morning, with even lighter winds.
:08:31. > :08:32.But again they are going to lift very quickly,
:08:33. > :08:37.Light winds, so feeling pretty good in the
:08:38. > :08:39.sunshine, lots of that through the morning and then more cloud
:08:40. > :08:42.developing as we would expect to see to the afternoon.
:08:43. > :08:44.Top temperatures peaking tomorrow at 25, maybe even
:08:45. > :08:48.And then that leads us to the bank holiday weekend.
:08:49. > :08:53.I think at the moment it's looking mostly dry, with
:08:54. > :08:55.sunshine, nice and warm, temperatures generally between low
:08:56. > :09:00.But still quite a lot of uncertainty around the
:09:01. > :09:06.It could still change and there may well be some showers
:09:07. > :09:10.Otherwise, temperatures up to 24 degrees.
:09:11. > :09:14.Feeling a touch fresher I think as we head into Monday.
:09:15. > :09:20.That westerly breeze will start to pick up too.
:09:21. > :09:22.Asad Ahmad will be here with our 6:30pm evening programme.
:09:23. > :09:26.But for now, from us all, a very good afternoon.