25/08/2017 London News

We start this lunchtime with the hunt for a gang behind

Using a sledgehammer, the men smashed their way

through Joya-Lukkas jewellers in Forest Gate in east London

in a raid detectives have described as audacious.

Unsophisticated, but effective, three men crawl into the East London

jewellers and leave with ?1.8 million worth of jewellery.

To get inside, they've smashed a hole big

enough using a sledgehammer and a crowbar in the early hours of the

It is a cruder, less lucrative version of the ?40 million

This is an unusual method to conduct a burglary, and they may have been

inspired by the incident at Hatton Garden that led them to use this

option to gain entrance to the property.

The jewellers specialise in Asian gold

and diamond necklaces, pendants and earrings.

It was unusual because of the value of the property stolen and also

because they were underneath the scope of the alarm system and also

because they have smashed this large hole through the real wall of the

premises. And so they crawled along the floor and managed to evade it?

Yes, it is quite clear by the CCTV that they have not been captured by

the alarm system because they have crawled underneath.

Police are now looking for eight suspects - three who went

inside and five who acted as lookouts in the ten hours running up

As you might have heard, there are big warnings from Rail

companies to anyone travelling over the bank holiday weekend.

Major engineering works are taking place effecting several services

Sarah Harris has more from London Bridge.

So this is the message if you're planning to take the train anywhere

in London over this bank holiday weekend - plan ahead.

And with me for more of those details is Simon from

So there's a lot of work to do, isn't there?

Just take us through some of it, here particularly

Yeah, so here at London Bridge, we have the next stage

of the Thames Link programme, where we are realigning some of the tracks

outside the station, bringing new platform six

into operation for Charing Cross passengers, which will be open

on Sunday the 3rd of September, so we are here for eight days.

There will be an impact on train services,

for which we apologise in advance to customers.

Euston is closed, there is disruption all over London.

Why this particular weekend for all of the...

I mean, it is obvious for the bank holiday people coming here, but why

Why did you decide to have different works going on in the same

Clearly, August bank holiday is a time when

there is lower travel on the network.

A lot of people are away on their holidays, and therefore we

often choose these bank holiday weekends to do our major engineering

We recognise there will be some disruption of our customers.

It is a lower number of people that are

impacted, so hence the amount of work that we're doing over this

weekend, not just here at London Bridge but also at Euston, at

Waterloo and other major centres around the country.

So the main thing is it is not impossible to travel

across London by train this bank holiday weekend, but definitely

Police say a woman who made a string of false sexual assault allegations

cost Scotland Yard more than ?250,000.

25-year-old Jemma Beale from Bedfont has been jailed

She claimed she'd been sexually assaulted or raped

One of the men she accused was jailed for seven years,

The MP for Streatham Chukka Umuna's calling for radical action

to help immigrants integrate into society.

Mr Umunna, who chairs the All-Party-Parliamentary Group

on 'Social Integration' says the anti-immigrant rhetoric of last

year's Brexit campaign is making it harder for new arrivals.

He's renewing calls for the government to make

Councillors in Kensington and Chelsea have agreed

a ?76 million pound package to help people who lost their homes

?40 million will go towards buying homes from private social

while money's also being set aside to compensate people who owned

On the 5th anniversary of the London 2012 Paralympic Games,

there are claims it left no positive legacy for disabled people.

Research from the disability charity Scope shows despite the success

of the games themselves, there's been little change

in the way disabled people feel they're treated by society

In an attempt to make theatre accessible for all,

one company in Wimbledon has developed a production

Using sounds and smells, the show's all about being interactive.

Colin Paterson went for a preview to find out how it all works.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, adapted into a 50 minute

musical show for children who are deaf-blind.

Oily Carts are based in Tooting, and since 1991, they've made

theatre for children with profound learning disabilities.

This is their first for deaf-blind children.

Well, if we can't relate to them by those

There's a sense of movement that they have

come a kinaesthetic sense, so we often use movable seating.

And the cast of Kubla Khan aim to create a

stately pleasure dome by interacting with the children using water, sand,

I mean, it's just an honour to kind of

do it and get to have this communication with these kids,

And music also has a crucial role to play.

People don't just hear with their ears.

Some people say as much as 60% of what you hear you pick up

The vibrations are an essential part and then how you play with those

textures so that you can actually feel dumb and you can almost swim

through them. both on the children

and their parents. What bit did James

particularly like, then? I think he liked the moving

water, definitely Because he loves bath time,

so he can relate to that It's not very often

that she enjoys something that she is part of, and she was

really part of this. Tomorrow, this ground breaking show

will have its official Colin Paterson, BBC

London News, Wimbledon. Now the Weather with

Elizabeth Rizzini. Hello. Good afternoon. Some

beautiful weather ahead for the bank holiday weekend. April start of the

morning with some mist. That did not last long and it is replaced with

blue sky and sunshine and that is what we have for the rest of the

afternoon. It will stay dry. Temperatures will peak at a little

bit higher than they were yesterday at around 25 Celsius. A lovely day

with brightness around and the sun will set around 8pm tonight.

Tonight, we will see some cloud drifting in from the west. Northern

Home Counties may start off on a bit of an overcast no tomorrow. Don't be

to put off by that cloud. For many others, it will be a sunny start as

well. Lows of 15 Celsius, so a mild start to the bank holiday weekend

and it is going to be glorious at times. It will stay dry. There will

be plenty of sunshine around. Perhaps a little more in the way of

cloud on Sunday but we should stay dry and it will feel warm in the

sunshine. Temperatures in the mid-20s. For some of us, a cloudy

start, particularly towards the North on Saturday. It won't take

long before the sunshine break through. A lovely, sunny afternoon.

Highs of around 25 Celsius, perhaps as high as 27 Celsius on Saturday.

Perhaps a little bit cooler on Sunday and more in the way of cloud

by the time we get to Monday we could be looking at 27 Celsius or

even 28 Celsius. Becoming changeable again on Tuesday.

Asad Ahmad will be here with our 6.30 evening programme.

But for now, from us all, a very good afternoon.

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