08/01/2018 London News

Chairman of the Conservative Party,

replacing Patrick McLaughlin.

That's all from the BBC News at One,

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I'm Victoria Hollins.

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scared after an attack

so it's goodbye from me

on a shop worker that left him

on life support.

He was set upon by three young men

outside a shop on the Broadway

in Mill Hill late on Saturday night,

after he refused to serve alcohol

or cigarettes to underage teenagers.

Tolu Adeoye reports.

Today the off licence where a worker

was so brutally attacked

in Mill Hill after refusing to serve

underage youths on Saturday

night remained closed.

It was about 12.30 at night, a few

doors down you could see the shop.

Josh King who works

in a nearby salon told me

what he knew of the attack.

The man who is 49 years old remains

on a life-support machine.

Three young teenagers come

in to purchase, he asked for ID,

they refused and he has asked them

to leave the shop.

They exited the shop,

starting kicking stuff outside,

all the bits and bobs -

they have loads of fruit and stuff.

The man has come out with a stick,

tried to shoo them away,

from what we have heard they have

managed to get the stick off him

and severely beaten him with it.

Police are looking for three

suspects who ran off

after the attack, the man was left

lying on the pavement

outside the shop.

He was helped by passers

by and taken to hospital

by paramedics where he remains

in a critical condition.

A fellow colleague

suffered minor injury.

The attack has drawn attention to

the vulnerability of shop workers.

This man who works in a nearby phone

shop told me of the aggression that

can follow when asking young

people for ID.

We sell the vape and stuff like that

which is e-cigarettes.

To buy them you have to be over 18.

We do get certain people coming in,

if they don't have ID

we can't serve them.

When I ask for ID they don't give it

or don't have it on them.

Police want to speak to witnesses

who may have video footage

during or after the attack.

An academic who was viciously beaten

in his home by burglars is taking

the London Mayor to court

for a judicial review over plans

to close local police stations.

Paul Kohler suffered injuries that

left him "utterly unrecognisable".

When the police arrived,

the attack was still under way.

Mr Kohler believes if it wasn't

for his local police

station, he would be dead.

Karl Mercer has been to meet him..

My wife and I were at the back of

house. There was a knock at the

door, four guys rushed in started

beating me. Like out of a gangster

movie.

Why have you decided to kind

of push the way you are going now?

Because the police station was

really important to me being saved.

They were only eight minutes away,

and now they are talking about

closing my station and 36 others

throughout London. That is wrong. I

want to Compiegne against it.

You

are specific aren't you, about the

timings, because you say actually it

really did make a difference,

because you were seconds away from

being much more seriously hurt than

you were.

That is is right as the

police rushed through the door he

was about to bring down a heavy door

on my head, it was seconds away from

oblivion.

Do you not buy this

argument at all about it is OK

because people will be on patrol and

still come round?

That is sometimes

true of course, sometimes there will

be a police car nearby and by happen

chance they will get there in time,

often police come from police

stations and to argue they often

don't is ridiculous. The mayor

asserted they are all on patrol and

it doesn't matter. Living by a

police station I know often the

police cars come straight from the

police station.

You will know the

argument, they are we have been

daelt bad hand, we don't have enough

money, we would rather put the money

into people than buildings.

The

mayor's approach, this binary

approach of we will keep this

station, get rid of that, is

simplistic, you need to save the

month, but needs a more measured

approach.

a more measured approach.

A spokesperson for the Mayor

of London said "the closures

are the result of Government

cuts since 2010.

The Mayor has to save an additional

8 million pounds a year".

They say: "Response times will not

be affected by these closures".

The Grenfell Tower inquiry

has ended its contract

with the auditors, KPMG,

after campaigners claimed the

company had a conflict of interest.

More than 70 people had written

to the Prime Minister to complain

that the firm had worked

for Kensington and Chelsea council

and for companies involved

in the refurbishment of the tower

before it was destroyed

by a fire last year.

Pub opening hours could be extended

for the weekend of Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle's wedding.

Their marriage falls

on the same day as the FA

Cup football finals -

Saturday May 19th.

Licensing hours were previously

extended for the wedding of the Duke

and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011,

and for the Queen's

90th birthday in 2016.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

has defended his decision to make

nine changes to his side

for their FA Cup 3rd round defeat

to Nottingham Forest.

The title holders were knocked

out after losing 4-2.

Wenger had to watch

the match from the stands

as he serves a touch-line ban.

It's the first time his side have

gone out of the competition

at the first time of asking

in his 21 years at the club.

I can understand when the selection

is questioned, but as well,

would be a little bit an easy excuse

because we have, I think,

eight or nine experienced

international players on the pitch,

even with all the respect

against a Championship team.

But for me it would be

the wrong excuse.

New measures to tackle the sale

of unsafe laser pens,

which can cause blindness,

have been announced

by the Government.

It comes after an increase

in incidents targeting

train drivers and pilots-

particularly at Heathrow

Airport which has seen

the highest rate in the UK.

The new powers would include better

labelling, as Daniela Relph reports.

Dangerous and reckless.

Misuse of lasers has

been increasing.

Cheaper than they've ever been

and more easily available,

the Government is now bringing

in new measures to limit their use.

Two years ago, this

Virgin Atlantic Airbus was to forced

to return to the runway at Heathrow.

Shortly after take off,

one of the pilots contacted

Air Traffic Control and said his

colleague was experiencing

difficulties.

Difficulty to one of the pilots

after a laser incident

after take off and we're

going to return to Heathrow.

Since 2013, there have been

150 incidents of eye

injuries from lasers,

the majority hurt were children.

The figures show the

scale of the problem.

There were 1,258 laser

incidents reported in 2016.

Heathrow Airport is

the most frequent target.

And even on the rail network

there have have been 578 laser

incidents of recent years.

What we are doing is restricting

the sale of the higher powered

lasers, so that only they can only

be sold for legitimate use,

The new measures will include

increased checks from teams at ports

and borders and improved

labelling by manufactures.

There will also be better policing

of the sale of laser pointers,

particularly with online

retailers like EBay.

Now the weather, with Kate Kinsella.

Good afternoon.

It's a cloudy and cold

January Monday, not too inspiring.

We haven't seen too much in the way

of sunshine, just grey cloud.

And quite a bitter wind.

It's feeling very chilly.

That will continue

through the afternoon,

this easterly wind blowing through,

making the temperature

feel really quite raw.

We have got quite a bit

of cloud, there's not much

brightness out there.

It should, however, stay dry.

And the maximum temperature -

single figures, struggling a bit

today, five or six Celsius.

Overnight, tonight, we're

going to keep the cloud,

but it also means that we're

going to keep the

temperature above zero.

It should be frost

free tomorrow morning.

A cloudy night could see one or two

spots of light rain and drizzle

potentially over higher ground but,

again, most places dry.

The chance of things turning

a little bit murky by dawn,

minimum temperature,

as I mentioned, in single figures,

three or four Celsius.

Not dropping too far

from today's maximum.

A rather grey start

and a cold start to tomorrow.

Any mist will lift, but it will stay

rather grey and rather dreary.

It will still feel

cold tomorrow as well.

We're looking at a maximum

of seven Celsius.

A little bit of rain

overnight Tuesday into

Wednesday, clearing away.

We should see a bit more

on the way of brightness

as we head through Wednesday.

A bit of blue sky, temperatures make

a bit of a recovery and then getting

colder and greyer again as we head

towards the end of the week.

That's about it from me.

Riz Lateef will be here

with our 6:30pm evening programme.

But for now, from us all,

a very good afternoon.