16/04/2017 London News

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More now on the discovery of the bodies of five former

A tomb containing lead coffins which is believed to date back

to the 1660s was found by builders renovating the church next

to the official London residence of the head of the Anglican Church.

Lambeth Palace has been the London residence of Archbishops

of Canterbury since the 13th century, but a chance discovery

during recent renovation work next door yielded a startling discovery.

It's a very interesting day, actually.

We were exposing the ground as part of the job and we were lifting

the slabs in the ark area and we uncovered an entry

We put a camera on the end of a stick and discovered numerous

coffins and one of them had a gold crown on top of it.

We knew the archbishops had been buried there

but all the other bodies - 20,000 - had all been taken

away by the Victorians when they rebuilt the church,

so it was just this one vault that was left, to our surprise.

Among the 30 lead coffins, they believe there are five

I came in thinking, this sounds like bad news, problem.

And, wow, it's the crown, it's the mitre of an archbishop

We know there are five archbishops buried here.

The first is Archbishop Bancroft, who chaired the committee that wrote

What we don't know, still don't know, is who else is down there.

The redeveloped Garden Museum where they were discovered is due

You're going to get a glimpse of the steps leading down

and we will hopefully put on a little exhibition but it is

For now, the coffins will remain where they are.

The vault in which they sit is simply too fragile to explore.

It's London's first community fridge - a public fridge where people can

give spare food and those who need it can take it, free of charge.

Caroline Davies went along to Brixton to see how it works.

Whether it's cakes or wonky fruit and veg, leaving fruit in this

Here in Brixton restaurants, shops and residents are contributing

People who then want or need it can take it for free.

It's been open for two months, so what did the people

What sort of stuff have you taken out of there?

Mostly fruit and vegetables, it's quite fresh, otherwise

I think it's a brilliant idea because it cuts food waste

and hopefully helps the people who really need food

But how many people who really need it will be walking

They probably won't wander through of their own accord

but we do know they come in and we intentionally want

the fridge to be open for everybody, we want it to be

so that when someone takes food out of the fridge we aren't thinking,

that person's had a hard day or they are poor, it's

And they are trying to get the word out in any way they can.

Just the other day a homeless person was walking around asking for change

and I said we have the fridge inside, want to come and check it

out, you can take food whenever you like and the first thing he said

I said yes of course, just come down and have a look.

I think it is about showing people that it's OK, you know,

some things are free, some things are done

They've had interest from volunteers across London who want to set

up their own fridges, so less food in the capital will get

Photographs detailing life in the East End in the 1940s

and '50s have been published by the Tate.

Nigel Henderson took the photos in Bethnal Green.

The pictures include a funeral cortege, hop-scotching children

and street parties celebrating the Queen's Coronation.

Let's get a check on tomorrow's weather with Georgina Burnett.

It's a bit of a soggy end to Easter Sunday but we've had

a good deal of dry weather and should do tomorrow as well.

That rain is going to be making its way off as we head

through the night but still some remnants left behind in the morning.

Quite a lot of cloud as well and we could see showers

But some bright and sunny spells with highs of 12 Celsius.

A northerly wind, so quite chilly when you're out of the sunshine.

But as we head through the week, high pressure is in control,

so we're seeing a lot of settled weather but also some frosty nights.

That's it - we'll be back tomorrow morning during Breakfast.

If today's conditions were great and stamp, tomorrow's weather offers

more promise, clear skies and some flower -- cloud showers compared to

today. The cloud reducing rain through the south-east overnight

although some rain will be welcome in a garden and mostly dry later

along with the clearest conditions for Scotland and Northern Ireland

and the coldest weather meaning a touch of frost for the morning of

the brightest weather to start eastern Monday. Showers developing

through the day, particularly for northern Scotland, they will be

wintry over the hills with rain at lower levels pushing through eastern

in Scotland to northern England. Northern Ireland stays dry and after

a cloudy start for Wales and southern England, showers to come

through the day with more sunshine and