31/08/2017 London News

Good afternoon and welcome to BBC London news with me Alice Salfield.

It's well known that London needs thousands of new homes

So could more high-quality flat-packed homes be the answer?

A report by the London Assembly calls on the Mayor to do more

to encourage this kind of prefab house building.

Our Political Editor Tim Donovan has sent this

Experts seem agreed that London needs at least 50,000 new homes to

be built each year and at the moment the rate is less than half that.

Could this be one of the solutions? This development in Dalston, 120

residential units, business units as well. Most of it was constructed

off-site elsewhere and then installed here. The first tenants

have just moved in, it should be completed in the next few weeks and

the architect involved in this project is Andrew Waugh. In simple

terms, how has this come about? The structure is built from solid

timber, six inches thick, 35 feet long, 12 feet high so it is

prefabricated, brought on a truck here and screwed into place. And

it's a factory in Austria? Yes, so we are building about a storey every

month here. No more cement mixers, grinders or jackhammers. Very quiet

and fast, and cost-efficient. But than traditional construction?

Absolutely, it takes about a third of the time off. Are the incentives

for people like you to carry on building this stuff? All of the help

we can get to change the construct of industry is really very

necessary. What is that, subsidy? It is an understanding of the planning

system and the advantages of this way of building. The London Assembly

report is adjusting the mayor should be doing more with his planning

powers, the subsidies and the money he has available to make this sector

expand, build more housing like this.

The jury is considering its verdict at the trial of a man accused

of trying to rob West Ham and England footballer,

He claims a motorbiker pulled up alongside his car,

Well, James Waterhouse is at Basildon Crown Court.

James, this was a really shocking incident.

Andy Carroll told this trial he was driving home from training in

November last year, he stopped at some traffic lights and said a

motorcyclist pulled up alongside him and demanded he hand over his

?22,000 watch. He refused and proceeded to drive on the wrong side

of the road back to the training ground where he presumed he would be

more safe because there were security staff there. During the

journey he made a 999 call and said he was being chased and caught one

of the men was pointing a gun at him. Jack O'Brien was then arrested,

found hiding under a bed in Dagenham and at that house police recovered a

motorbike, a jacket and helmet which was used in a string of burglaries

which Jack O'Brien has admitted to as well as this alleged attempted

burglary which he denies. He hasn't given any evidence during this trial

and the jury are now deciding the verdict.

James Waterhouse at Basildon Crown Court.

As we've been hearing, flowers are being laid and candles

lit close to the Kensington home of Diana, Princess of Wales

Many Londoners clearly remember the news of her death

and are determined to keep her memory alive,

She had wanted to be the queen of people's hearts,

and 20 years on that's still how many see her.

Abdul sent her flowers - a neighbour in Kensington.

He named his cafe after her, with Diana's blessing.

20 years ago, it was while I'm asleep.

I wake up and I heard about the news and the disbelief happened

when I came to the shop and it was about

Suddenly I saw people coming, putting flowers and candles.

20 years ago, people left flowers here, as they did across London.

I was working on that Sunday 20 years ago,

I assumed there was a training day and my editor

There was a reaction of shock and disbelief.

And when I came into London here in Kensington,

I watched other people go through that same reaction.

Looking back, some find it hard to understand why there had been

such an outpouring of emotion for someone most didn't

Ian met Diana many times as a royal photographer,

and said she had a quality of relating to people not known

With Diana, you could just talk to her as a normal person,

Just someone who was normal, who wanted...

and wanted to listen to what you had to say as well.

This is an international milestone marked by people all over the world

for one of the most famous women in a generation.

An image still recognised and a legacy her sons

Next, have you ever experienced sexual harassment in public?

Well plenty of people in London feel they have.

And now a project which is part photo-journalism and part awareness

campaign is documenting some women's stories.

It's been launched by Londoner Eliza Hatch after countless

Let's take a look at some of her work, and the following content does

One of them kept on staring at me, then later he sat next to me

Then he tried to put his hand under my shorts,

at which point I was like, "Can you please leave me alone?"

But then, as I was getting off the bus, he touches me from my back

down to my bum and at that point I obviously shout at him.

Cheer Up Love is a photo-journalism project documenting

women and the accounts of street harassment.

It came about after a conversation I had with all of my female friends

about how often we experienced sexual harassment

Every other story I get seems to be men exposing themselves in public.

A woman on a train, a woman on a bus look over and there's a man

staring directly at them, giving themselves the time of day.

As soon as I launched the project on Instagram,

there's just been almost a constant flow of women who I've

wanting to be involved and wanting to be photographed.

I meet up with them, I talk to them and they share their stories,

and now they are part of the project.

I want to change people's attitude towards sexual harassment.

I want people to know it's unacceptable, it to be a less

That was Eliza Hatch, the photographer campaigning against

Now the weather with Elizabeth Rizzini.

Today is the last day of the meteorological summer and it is

feeling more summary than it did yesterday. The chilly start, 7

degrees here in Kew Gardens. It will feel warmer but there are heavy

showers around as well which are likely to break out just about

anywhere across the capital through the rest of the afternoon. There

could be a rumble of thunder and some of the showers could be

particularly heavy. Your chances of escaping all of them all afternoon

are particularly low. Those showers will fizzle away through the

evening, watch out for them through the rush hour. Overnight tonight it

will be dry with clear skies around, probably missed patches forming.

These are temperatures in many of the towns but in rural spots we will

start off on a chilly note, single figures again. After the early

morning mist clears, lots of sunshine around but there could

still be some showers in the afternoon. The first day of the

meteorological autumn, 21 Celsius so a fairly decent day all in all. On

Saturday this is when we will see the best of the sunshine, dry for

much of the day but we could see some rain edge in from the west as

we head through the evening on Sunday.

We'll be here with our 6:30 evening programme.

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

I took something that didn't belong to me.

and make sure your hands are in the centre of her chest.

One and two and three. One, two, three. Yeah, that's it.

After recent terrorist attacks, how are we really feeling?

Went down to London on my own. It was very, very busy.

Everybody that had a backpack, "Have they got a bomb in there?

And I just started having a real panic attack.