20/11/2017 London News

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to BBC London News.

I'm Sara Orchard.

People from black and minority

ethnic groups and those

from poorer backgrounds feel

they didn't receive

adequate care and support

while suffering from cancer.

A report by Macmillan Cancer Support

also found twice as many respondents

from black and minority

ethnic backgrounds felt

doctors talked to them

as if they weren't in the room,

compared to white patients.

Tolu Adeoye has been

finding out more.

I am here at a hospital in north

London, hundreds of cancer patients

are treated here every year. There

is a report by Macmillan then found

poorer people report worse

experiences. Chris, tell me more

about the details from this report.

The report highlights that for

people living with cancer in the

capital, they are saying things like

they don't feel like they are

getting enough care and support from

our health and social services. The

picture is similar for our ethnic

minority communities, they are

saying for example when they are

given the diagnosis the information

isn't always understandable so

Macmillan are calling on all people

to spend more time listening to the

needs and issues and also the assets

of our various communities,

particularly our seldom heard

communities.

Do you have any

information on why this might be,

why it is poorer communities?

Health

inequalities are complex so our

report is calling on all people

involved, not just the NHS but all

partners to spend more time

listening to the needs of people

living with cancer and that's why

Macmillan are launching the London

cancer community, to do that and

make sure we spend time designing

and co-designing the solutions with

people living with cancer to address

some inequalities highlighted in our

report.

The NHS England says the

majority of Londoners do have good

experiences but they say they

recognise some of the issues in the

report and they are working with

organisations like Macmillan to

improve cancer care for everybody.

The night overground

is coming to London

in less than a month.

There are already late night

services on parts of the underground

but from Friday 15th December,

Londoners will also be able

to travel between New Cross Gate

and Dalston Junction on Friday

and Saturday nights.

We think this will benefit two parts

of London's population, firstly

those involved in the night-time

economy so if you are involved in

the entertainment business and want

to get to and from work it will be

right for you. And those who work

early shifts on a Saturday or Sunday

morning, or late in the evening,

this will be for you.

Every year BBC London honours one

of the unsung heroes

of the capital's sporting community.

This year's winner has helped

thousands of children

and young people in Middlesex

at Bedfont Sports Club.

Dave Reader has raised millions

of pounds to improve their facility

in his 30 years with the club.

Here's what happened

when we presented him

with his award.

If you go back 33 years, it was

divine intervention that brought

Dave Reader and Bedfont Sports Club

together.

The local vicar knocked on

my door with a football kit and

directions to meet all the boys

outside the local youth club, good

luck, and disappeared into the

darkness. God does move in

mysterious ways!

When Dave set it up

it was an abandoned field with burnt

out cars on it, now it is a football

stadium, £2 million complex that's

been built over the last 15, 20

years, the heartbeat of the local

community. It is probably the most

impressive facility in Middlesex.

Now boasting 12 pitches, 29 football

teams use the facility, along with

martial arts and boxing classes, and

it has come from the 2.5 million

fundraising efforts of Dave.

He has

taken hundreds of kids off the

street, got them into sport.

He has

helped me a lot because when I first

started here, he used to come and

pick me up sometimes and take me to

training.

Dave is teaching our boys

to play football but he's also

introduced myself and my husband to

a whole new group of parents.

There

is a young daughter in one of my

friend does teams who wanted to play

football in a girls' team, now they

have 24 girls coming in to start a

team.

Even heart failure in 2000

twelfths didn't hold Dave back.

You

are the unsung hero of the year!

And

that's why he's been named the BBC

London unsung hero 2017.

I'm never

going to be a millionaire but I have

a millionaire in my heart.

As we've been hearing

today, it's the Queen

and Prince Philip's wedding

anniversary, but they aren't

the only ones celebrating this year.

Ted and Doris Box

also married in 1947.

They met at primary school

and married a few days before Ted

was sent abroad on military service.

So what is the secret

to a 70-year marriage?

Sarah Harris reports.

Leaving their home in Chingford for

a very special day out to celebrate

their 70 years of marriage. Ted and

Doris didn't get a honeymoon so on

the day the Queen and Prince Philip

married, we are taking them to the

same place the royal couple heart

bears. Ted said he wouldn't have

changed his wife for anyone.

I have

loved her and she has loved me back,

she has been my best friend all

these years and that is it, I just

love everything about her.

Elisabeth

and Philip came back here for many

years to celebrate their

anniversaries. It was a friend's

stately home back then, now a 5-star

hotel. Meanwhile Ted and Doris met

at primary school in Highbury and

after their wedding he was posted to

Palestine as part of his National

Service.

You missed out on your honeymoon and

it was here that the Queen and

Prince Philip at bears, what do you

think?

It is really lovely, even

just a drive through it.

It gives me

great pleasure to present you with a

unique one-off...

Justin Robinson

was able to give them one more

surprise, against child on the one

given to the Royal couple, who they

say they admire.

I'm sure they know

it all, I shouldn't think they want

any advice from us. Obviously, you

know, it is just enjoying company

and doing everything together,

sharing everything and being honest

with each other.

They have had a

much busier life, haven't they?

I

did hear once about Prince Philip

having a lot of tolerance.

Congratulations to them.

And

congratulations to Ted and Doris.

In

fact we couldn't live without one

another, could we?

No.

Now the weather with Kate Kinsella.

Now the weather with Kate Kinsella.

It has been a predominantly cloudy

day so far with outbreaks of rowing,

it was quite a damp start of the

day. Light patchy rain, most of

which has disappeared but we will

hang on to this cloud. We hang onto

this mild air for the next few days.

Some of the cloud thick enough to

produce light rain and drizzle

through the afternoon, but

predominantly dry foremost. A bit of

a breeze developing, we hang onto

that overnight. It will be mild

overnight, the temperature not

really dropping. Some light rain

making its way from west to east. It

starts off grey but the temperature

not very cool, ten or 11 Celsius so

I'll start on Tuesday. For Tuesday,

quite a bit of cloud around but

brighter spells and glimmers of

sunshine, especially into the

afternoon. Predominantly cloudy but

the temperature is still my old. As

we head into Wednesday, we are

hanging onto this mild air, 15

Celsius in central London as a top

temperature, above-average for the

time of year. Potentially rain and a

mild night into Thursday, then we

might see the cloud break-up and

some glimmers of sunshine. It gets

cooler towards the end the week.

That's about it from me,

Riz Lateef will be here

with our 6:30 evening programme.

But for now, from us all,

a very good afternoon.