0:00:00 > 0:00:12That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Good afternoon.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14I'm Asad Ahmad.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Two women have been talking about the psychological impact
0:00:16 > 0:00:21of an acid attack at a nightclub in Hackney earlier this year.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Sophie Hall and Lauren Trent were among the victims
0:00:23 > 0:00:27of the attack in April, at the hands of Arthur Collins.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29He's been jailed for 20 years.
0:00:29 > 0:00:37Anjana Gadgil reports.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41This was a moment Arthur Collins threw acid at a London nightclub.
0:00:41 > 0:00:46Police say he had been trying to attack rival gang members but the
0:00:46 > 0:00:50injured 22 people. They included two young women from Poole in Dorset,
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Sophie Hall and Lauren Trent who spoke last night outside court after
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Arthur Collins was given a 20 year jail sentence.I just remembered the
0:00:57 > 0:01:03sheer panic. The fear, the pain.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10The smell of the chemicals, my skin blistering and there's nothing you
0:01:10 > 0:01:17can do about it.He was convicted last month of five counts of GBH and
0:01:17 > 0:01:20nine of assault. But for his victims, the scars are more than
0:01:20 > 0:01:25physical.When you are out, just a splash of somebody's drink on your
0:01:25 > 0:01:28arm rings the worst things through your head and I know I'm never going
0:01:28 > 0:01:31to be the same girl that walked into the club that night but I'm trying
0:01:31 > 0:01:35to get as close back to that is possible.Police said the long
0:01:35 > 0:01:39sentence for Arthur Collins should act as a deterrent.He's been given
0:01:39 > 0:01:44a lengthy sentence but what the sentence does not show is the
0:01:44 > 0:01:47trauma, the psychological distress, for those people injured on that
0:01:47 > 0:01:51night what they're going through. The number of acid attacks committed
0:01:51 > 0:01:56across the UK has doubled in five years. In October the Home Secretary
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Amber Rudd said she would introduce prison sentences for anyone caught
0:01:59 > 0:02:03twice carrying acid in public.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06A teenager from north London is calling on the Prime Minister
0:02:06 > 0:02:08today to give free sanitary products to all girls who already
0:02:08 > 0:02:11receive free school meals.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14It comes after Amika George was taken aback at the number
0:02:14 > 0:02:19of women who simply can't afford menstrual products.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21I spoke to 18-year-old, Amika earlier and asked her why
0:02:21 > 0:02:25she feels so strongly about the issue.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28The fact that something as basic as menstrual products and the lack
0:02:28 > 0:02:31of them is holding girls back and stopping them from fulfilling
0:02:31 > 0:02:35their educational needs and holding them back in educational progress,
0:02:36 > 0:02:37it just completely shocked me.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41I just don't think it's fair so to hear about girls in the UK
0:02:41 > 0:02:45missing school or going to school using loo roll, T-shirts, newspaper,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48these kinds of horrible alternatives that are hugely damaging
0:02:48 > 0:02:51on their health, that was what shocked me.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54And you started this campaign earlier this year.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Yes.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59Did you expect it was going to gather so much momentum and support?
0:02:59 > 0:03:00Definitely not.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02I started on the first April.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I think because it's not a divisive issue,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08it's something when people hear about it, they're suddenly shocked
0:03:08 > 0:03:11by it and everybody wants to help and everybody wants to find out how
0:03:11 > 0:03:14they can support the cause, how they can help these girls
0:03:14 > 0:03:16and get the government to do something.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17We have a female Prime Minister.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19You're going to Downing Street this afternoon.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22She should understand the problem you are talking about.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Are you confident she will act?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27I really, really hope she will.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I think if there's enough of us there, we've got
0:03:29 > 0:03:32an amazing speakers coming, and if we can get the kind
0:03:32 > 0:03:35of pressure put on her where she feels she just has no choice
0:03:35 > 0:03:39to do something, that would be the ideal.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40She is a woman.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I'm sure she's had a period.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44She knows what it's like.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47So I think all women know what it's like to have a period.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Imagine being in a situation where you don't even have
0:03:50 > 0:03:53menstrual products which just makes your period so much worse.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55I think she really needs to respond.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57What is it you want to do with your life now?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Has this sparked sort of movement in you to try and change the world
0:04:01 > 0:04:04or have you got mind set on something else?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06I think it would important to do what you can.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09I think with social media it's really easy to just start a petition
0:04:09 > 0:04:11from your bedroom like I did.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14It's always been my dream to go into human rights and I'm not sure
0:04:14 > 0:04:17exactly how I'll do that, what kind of route I'll go down,
0:04:17 > 0:04:21but I'd love to go into human rights and kind of continue doing something
0:04:21 > 0:04:31about, do things where I can to make the world slightly better.
0:04:32 > 0:04:41I think she's got an extraordinary future ahead of her.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44And you can see how the demand on Downing Street to act goes
0:04:44 > 0:04:46on our programme tonight at 6.30 on BBC One.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Two men who died in a fire at a luxury hotel on the banks
0:04:49 > 0:04:52of Loch Lomond in Scotland on Monday are believed to have
0:04:52 > 0:04:53been from London.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson were staying
0:04:55 > 0:04:57at the Cameron House Hotel near Glasgow when
0:04:57 > 0:04:58the fire broke out.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Police Scotland have yet to formally confirm their identities.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02The cause of the fire is being investigated.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Christmas comes but once a year and sure enough,
0:05:04 > 0:05:06it's guaranteed to bring with it engineering works on the railways.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09This year, Network Rail is drafting in thousands of engineers to carry
0:05:09 > 0:05:12out the work but it's of little consolation to those making
0:05:12 > 0:05:13the Christmas getaway.
0:05:13 > 0:05:23Our transport correspondent Tom Edwards can tell us more.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27London Bridge station much quieter than normal this
0:05:27 > 0:05:29morning and next week, along with some other major rail
0:05:29 > 0:05:32stations in the capital, it will be shut completely for ten
0:05:32 > 0:05:33days while new signalling is fitted.
0:05:33 > 0:05:41Traditionally the railway has always carried out this sort of work
0:05:41 > 0:05:43during the bank holidays for these blockades.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46We have to shut down during these periods because they are
0:05:46 > 0:05:47the quietest periods.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49They are the times that are traditionally less
0:05:49 > 0:05:51busy on the railway.
0:05:51 > 0:06:00So they are the most appropriate time.
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Many services will be amended with nearly
0:06:01 > 0:06:04all the major train stations shut on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Also close to ten days will be South-eastern
0:06:06 > 0:06:08services at London Bridge, Cannon Street and Charing Cross.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Paddington station will also be shut for four days.
0:06:13 > 0:06:20In the Thames Valley, tracks are being replaced.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23It's taking out the 1970's track and installing it with faster,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25more reliable equipment.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28On the Great Western, these electric trains will be able
0:06:28 > 0:06:32to run after New Year as overhead wires are turned on.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Right at the beginning of January we will be running services
0:06:36 > 0:06:38from Didcot through Reading, Slough and up into West
0:06:39 > 0:06:41London and Paddington.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Virtually everything on that route in terms of local trains will be
0:06:44 > 0:06:47a new electric train from 2nd January.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Network Rail says all the work is crucial to improving services.
0:06:50 > 0:07:00It says it is confident they will be finished on time.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02And you can find out more about the likely
0:07:02 > 0:07:04transport disruption over the Christmas
0:07:04 > 0:07:05holidays on our website.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10bbc.co.uk/london and our Twitter page.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14A lottery winner from Slough who works as a care worker says
0:07:14 > 0:07:17she'll still do her 12-hour shift on Christmas Day because she loves
0:07:17 > 0:07:19her job caring for the elderly.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Patricia Aldridge and her husband Robert won £1 million in the Lotto
0:07:23 > 0:07:27raffle but they won't give up their day jobs.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31I was already rotaed to work Christmas Day,
0:07:31 > 0:07:36so I'm just going to carry on doing my shift and,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39you know, so I've got no plans to give up work.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41I love what I do.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43You never think you're going to win it but, yeah,
0:07:43 > 0:07:52we won it and it's going to be nice.
0:07:52 > 0:08:03If you're wondering where you can see cuts and USO -- cats and UFOs in
0:08:03 > 0:08:08the same place, look at Kate's dress. This is what we woke up
0:08:08 > 0:08:08the same place, look at Kate's dress. This is what we woke up to
0:08:08 > 0:08:12this morning. Misty and make yet there and all these fog patches as
0:08:12 > 0:08:17well so that's gradually been lifting very gradually. Still some
0:08:17 > 0:08:21missed out there and if it lifted will be lifting into low cloud.
0:08:21 > 0:08:26Rather great, but it is feeling mild. It will stay with us for the
0:08:26 > 0:08:30next few days so the wind has got something to do with why the missed
0:08:30 > 0:08:35isn't lifting quickly and this afternoon it stays grey. Temperature
0:08:35 > 0:08:39up in double figures, 10 Celsius as a maximum. Conditions don't change
0:08:39 > 0:08:43too much overnight either. Yes, it's going to get dark but the
0:08:43 > 0:08:48temperatures will drop too much. Mist and murk maybe develop, a spot
0:08:48 > 0:08:52of light rain and drizzle especially tomorrow morning. Becoming quite
0:08:52 > 0:08:56damp but similar conditions to last night. Temperature barely dropping
0:08:56 > 0:09:00at all, nine Celsius, so I'll start tomorrow. Not a very festive. The
0:09:00 > 0:09:07rain with us first thing we'll away eastward and becoming drier but not
0:09:07 > 0:09:11brighter. The cloud staying with us and the missed lifting and it's a
0:09:11 > 0:09:14repeat performance. Temperatures tomorrow, 12 Celsius. The mild
0:09:14 > 0:09:18weather will stay with us right the way through to Christmas Day. OK,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21thanks very much for that.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Alex Bushill will be here with our early evening news at 6.30.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Do join him for that, and have a good afternoon.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Bye bye.