02/02/2018 London News

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Welcome to BBC London News.

I'm Alpa Patel.

The Mayor of London has

announced plans giving more

power to local people

on estates facing regeneration.

The proposals include

balloting local residents

on planned developments,

which could then be scrapped

if they vote against them.

Sadiq Khan made the announcement

in Barnet alongside

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn,

as campaigning for May's local

elections got under way.

Our political correspondent

Karl Mercer reports.

They may be three months away

but the campaign trail for the local

elections has already been trod.

I'm looking forward to us winning.

Winning for the people of this area.

And expect to see plenty more

of this pair across the capital.

Here in Barnet this morning, one

of the Labour Party's key targets.

We were trying to work out

which famous double act

you would most resemble.

Ant and Dec?

Jekyll & Hyde?

No.

Jekyll & Hyde was of course one.

I was thinking Starsky and Hutch.

Or Cagney and Lacey.

His card is marked.

Laurel and Hardy?

They have clearly worked

together but not always been

on the same page politically.

Important for you to be seen

together do you think?

In terms of the message

you are sending in London?

You haven't always seen

eye to eye in the past

but you seem to be making up.

We go back a very long way.

And I'm very supportive

of the housing strategies announced

today which gives local communities

the power to vote on the development

before it takes place.

The Mayor said in future no

City Hall money will be given

to developers on estates.

Unless local residents had first

voted to approve plans

for their local area.

If you are in state regeneration

and there's the demolition of any

homes then the expectation

is you will consult with and engage

with the residents and then

they will be a ballot of those

residents and unless the residents

are in favour

of that estate regeneration,

you will get no funding from me.

That could affect up to 25 estate

regenerations across London.

Karl Mercer, BBC London News.

60 years ago, the murder

of a 17-year-old girl shocked

a quiet village in Hertfordshire.

No one has ever been arrested,

but today officers believe someone

still knows who strangled Anne

Noblett.

Yvonne Hall reports.

January 1958 and in quiet

countryside near Wheathampstead

in Hertfordshire, hundreds of police

officers and volunteers search

for missing 17-year-old college

student Anne Noblett.

The local community were fantastic.

The military were involved,

the dog section, hundreds of police

officers in searching the area

between Harpenden and

Wheathampstead, but to no avail.

Ann Noblett was last seen

on the evening of December 30th,

1957, here in Marshalls Heath Lane,

Wheathampstead, where

she lived with her family.

The popular college student had just

been to a dance class and was seen

hurrying along here to her home

about a quarter of

a mile up the lane.

But Anne never made

it to her front door.

A month later and two brothers

were walking their dog five

miles away in Whitwell.

They find Anne's frozen body

in secluded woodland.

She had been strangled and may have

been sexually assaulted.

There was an indication

that she probably had been

in chilled or refrigerated storage

prior to being deposited here.

There seemed at the time no other

reasonable explanation as to why

she'd be in the condition

she was when she was found.

It's unclear how much evidence

was gathered in 1958,

but nothing has been kept.

But today's forensic

tests could still help

identify the killer.

People hoard, people keep things,

and we would certainly hope that

somebody might just give us that

little bit of information.

They may not realise how

important it is to us,

but anything at all can now be

of use to us.

Detectives now hope what will

finally solve the 60-year-old

mystery are the consciences

of people still alive

who may know who the killer

is and will have the courage

to name them.

It might be a guilty conscience,

it might be through separation

in relationships, who knows?

These things do happen

from time to time.

And I think it's just worth

asking the question again.

It's a wish Anne's surviving brother

has never given up on.

He doesn't want to talk on camera,

but says he thinks of his loving

and caring sister every day

and still hopes her killer will one

day be brought to justice.

Yvonne Hall, BBC London

News, Wheathampstead.

Now this Sunday will you be staying

up to watch the Super Bowl?

It's one of the biggest sporting

events of the year and one

of the players you might

want to cheer on is Jay Ajiee.

He plays for the Philadelphia

Eagles, but was born here in London.

Emma Jones has the story.

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The Philadelphia Eagles on their way

to booking their place

in Sunday's Super Bowl.

The team includes Hackney born

running back Jay Ajiee.

He won't be the first ever London

born player to reach a Super Bowl,

but he joins an elite group

including this double winner

asking him the big question.

You're on the cusp of being another

British-born Super Bowl winner

winner so how do you feel?

It's a blessing.

At the end of the season

and everything I get to review

everything but just from the journey

of this where I've come from,

from the UK to here,

to now being in the Super Bowl

in my third season, NFL,

it's all a blessing.

He was back in Hackney

to surprise players

from the London Blitz American

football team recently.

He may have left London

when he was seven,

but it remains home.

This is London Blitz.

Look at you guys training.

This is Hackney.

London Blitz has already produced

players who have gone on to play

in America and even in the NFL.

And Jay Ajiee's success

could provide even more inspiration.

The fact he is from London,

I thought, he killed it

and became a superstar.

That's not a big thing that usually

happens to UK players,

but he did it and he inspires us

to let us know that one

day we can do it too.

The Eagles team wear dog masks

because they are so often

call the underdogs.

That will be the case again this

weekend but could they spring

another Super Bowl surprise?

Emma Jones, BBC London News.

Good luck to him this weekend.

Good luck to him this weekend.

A third major water main has burst

in less then a week.

This time it happened in Brixton -

on Brixton Water Lane

if you can believe it.

It started leaking yesterday

afternoon and flooded

the road, leaving some local

residents without water.

Analysis of two infamous letters

said to be written by Jack

the Ripper suggests they're fakes.

Experts believe the notes,

sent to a news agency in 1888,

were faked by journalists

at the time.

Now time for the weather.

Here's Elizabeth Rizzini.

Hello there.

Good afternoon.

Brightness and sunshine will

continue for the rest of the day.

A decent day of weather

but still feeling rather chilly.

Although the northerly wind

is a little bit lighter

than it was yesterday so not so much

wind chill around

as we saw previously.

Top temperatures,

pretty much more 6-8C.

As we head through this

evening and overnight,

I think it's likely

to stay dry or mostly dry.

Quite a bit

of cloud to the east,

maybe one or two light showers,

but for the most part a dry

and clear night for much

of the night.

Temperatures could drop

low enough to get

a touch of frost perhaps before it

clouds over again into the start

of the day tomorrow.

Temperatures rise slightly

as we head into tomorrow morning.

Over the weekend, it certainly

is going to feel rather cold and get

colder still into the

start of next week.

It will be quite

a cloudy day on Saturday with a few

outbreaks of drizzle

and the chance of some

wintry showers on Sunday.

This is Saturday.

We have a weather front

towards the West and that is trying

to make its way eastwards

and stalling and there

will be a lot of cloud,

outbreaks of patchy light rain

and drizzle and maybe sleety over

the tops of the Chilterns perhaps.

Some brightness at least

but highs of 7 degrees.

On Sunday we stand a chance

of seeing a little bit more

in the way of brightness but turning

quite cold and a north-easterly wind

with a chance of wintry showers

could continue on Monday.

That's it from me.

Victoria will back

at 6:30 this evening.

But for now, from all of us here,

have a good afternoon.