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That's all from the BBC News at One

- so it's goodbye from me -

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Good afternoon and welcome

to BBC London News.

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I'm Sonja Jessup.

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Knife crime in the

capital is on the rise

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and today a new campaign's been

launched

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urging young people

not to carry a weapon.

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The Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes

teenagers will take to social

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media to back the message

"London Needs You Alive".

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But amidst the many violent videos

available online glamorising knives,

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will young people take any notice?

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Here's our Home Affairs

Correspondent Nick Beake.

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I and this postcode. I am this city.

I'm important. -- I am this

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postcode.

Young voices from

different parts of this city, all

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with the same message.

London leads

me alive.

London needs me alive.

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After a year of more stabbings, this

is the attempt by the mayor to get

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teenagers to think twice before

reaching for a blade.

-- London

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needs me alive.

So I don't carry a

knife.

The play is that London

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desperately needs their talents.

London needs you live!

In Brixton,

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Sadiq Khan met children who had been

posting online explaining why their

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lives are valuable. It is a campaign

backed by London rappers, bloggers

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and musicians, it is hoped their

status on social media will help the

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message gets through.

Will this make

a difference?

We have a door that we

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can to address the issue of knife

crime, rising across the country,

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not just London, part of a package

of measures along with schools

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playing their part, the police

playing their part, parents, civic

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leaders, youth leaders, all of us

have a role in order to make sure we

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address the knife crime.

Yvonne's

teenage son was stabbed to death in

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Edmonton seven years ago.

It can

make a huge difference to the young

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people already engrossed in

criminality... But that is yet to be

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proven...

This positive message may

well get to some kids in London, but

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there is no doubt it will also be

competing with many other negative

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messages online. We're talking back

videos, music, which glorify

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violence, intensified gang rivalry,

and leads to more knife crime. For

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eight months this year, YouTube

refused the Met police's request to

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take down these four videos, now

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refused the Met police's request to

take down these four videos, now

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they have relented, apart from this

one, still up-to-date, which

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Scotland Yard

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one, still up-to-date, which

Scotland Yard claims is encouraging

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stabbings. So, social media videos,

a force for good and bad. In this

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case, they hope that it will save

lives.

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Plans to build a new Westfield

shopping centre in Croydon have been

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approved by the local council.

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The £1.4 billion

centre has been hailed

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as "fantastic news" for the area

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with the promise of 7,000 new jobs

and a 1,000 new homes.

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Work, which will see the town's

Whitgift and Centrale shopping

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centres redeveloped,

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will begin in 2019.

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Not long to go before

Children In Need.

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The big day is this Friday.

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Last year millions

of pounds were raised.

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Which helped many charities right

here in the capital.

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Among them, the Ahoy

Centre in south London,

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which works with disadvantaged young

people, teaching them life skills

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through sailing on the Thames.

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Three, two, one...

One of the mottos

that we have here at Ahoy Centre,

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whatever is on the outside, stuffed

with schooling, family pressures, we

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leave that at the door. You come in,

we are here to sail and learn and

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have fun. My name is set, I am a

senior instructor. I came you when I

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was 12 to 13, and now, I run the

apprenticeship programme. A lot of

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people who come here, myself

included, they did not do amazingly

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well at school. I have dyslexia.

When it comes to the more practical

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side, I think that I have done a lot

better. -- my name is Zack. The

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water is not at its cleanest, so we

will not be going on the water, but

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there is still lots of fun stuff to

do on land. Exactly. We are based on

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the board of Deptford, with

Greenwich, and there are some

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families that may be more

disadvantaged than others. That is

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partly the people that we take in,

we also take in people with learning

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difficulties. The main demographic

is eight to 12-year-old.

My name is

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Emmanuel, we go sailing, we learn

how to do tacking, and I like coming

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here because I learn new fun stuff

with my best friend, ester. --

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Emanuela.

My name is Esther and I

just finished my three-week stage

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one course, and happily, I passed.

When I am on the water, I feel like

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I can be free, I do not worry about

anything.

Sometimes it is just good

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to go places, and not always be at

home.

The money that is raised goes

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towards helping young people find a

hobby or find something they wish to

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continue. For these kids, not only

are they learning new skills, they

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are socialising, they make and find

friends they never would have had.

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Now I don't know what your memories

of school dinners are like-

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but students in north London have

been served up platefuls of insects.

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It's part of a project to get them

thinking about alternative

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ways to feed everyone

on the planet in future.

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Caroline Davis has bravely been

to Clapton Girls Academy

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to see what's on the menu.

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This is not your normal school

lunch, and these are not your normal

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ingredients.

Here we have got some

mealworms. Grasshoppers add a nice

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spicy tangy taste. I will leave some

behind so the kids can see what they

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are eating.

Waiting nervously, the

students.

It is more ethical but

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also I am a bit...

Report... It is

disgusting, but let's see! God

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knows!

First up, insect cuss cuss,

which took some getting used to.

It

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is the fact that... I cannot swallow

it.

Then hummus and dips with a

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sprinkling of mealworms. -- cous

cous.

It was all right, but I would

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try it again.

You have got a few

more courses to come!

O God! I do

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not get away that lightly.

Down the

hatch... Well... Crunchy... This is

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not only about testing your taste

buds, there is something educational

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going on too.

Today's event is about

understanding how and why insects

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are sustainable but we also are

challenging their mindset about what

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they can eat.

Onto the main,

mealworms burgers, they divide

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opinion.

These worms... It is a bit

scratchy... But it tastes like a

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normal burger.

Would they eat

insects again?

At first I was

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scared, but now I am a bit more... I

am more calm about it but I still

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would not eat this in the future.

I

am kind of afraid of insects, now

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they are kind of good.

It is a start

but the meal of the future might be

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an acquired taste.

No, that is

disgusting!

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I thought they do very well to try

it anyway! Time for the weather

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forecast.

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Predominantly cloudy, one or two

brighter spells, one or two places

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rather grey and rather gloomy, this

will continue into the afternoon. We

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may get one or two brighter spells

but in the most part, it will remain

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rather grey, despite all this cloud,

it is feeding quite mild, the

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temperature this afternoon in the

light wind getting up to 13 Celsius.

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For mid-November, not too bad at

all. Overnight tonight, once the sun

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sets, conditions stay similar,

another mild night, a bit of mist

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and murk developing, so difficult

driving conditions tomorrow morning

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we could see spots of light rain and

drizzle. Temperature barely sift

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shifting from the maximum, nine or

10 Celsius. Similar start tomorrow

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morning, misty and murky, fog

lifting, respite later in the

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morning, bright spells, sunshine

ahead of the next weather front,

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which comes towards the end of the

afternoon, being cloud. Temperature,

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mild, 14 Celsius. Light rain arrives

through Thursday afternoon into the

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evening, moving south, behind it,

the air is much clearer. No cloud,

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temperature drops down to low single

figures, could be waking up to a

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frost on Friday morning, it is going

to be cold but we should at least

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see the return of some sunshine.

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That's all from us

on the lunchtime team.

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There's more at 6.30pm,

with Claudia Liza.

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Have a great

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