23/04/2017 London News

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Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes says he will fight to win back his seat

in June's general election. He's vowed to work for the residents of

Bermondsey Southwark and represent their views. Ayshea Buksh reports.

Neil Coyle is duly elected. He was the party's longest serving MP and

dramatically lost his seat Labour back in 2015. Now, just days after

the announcement of a snap election in June, activists in Bermondsey are

preparing to fight for the return of Simon Hughes as the local MP. We did

the right thing by stopping the Tories running the country on their

own and we rescued the country from economically desperate position, so

I don't regret it. The many policies of austerity, tuition fees,

incredibly unpopular, and evil are reeling from that. Of course and we

got punished at the last election but this is not about the past. You

don't have elections about the past. You have elections about the future.

And his party leader is pushing for a pro-European future to attract

Londoners who voted to remain in the EU. If you believe Britain needs a

strong, decent opposition, it's the Liberal Democrats and only the

Liberal Democrats you can support for an open, tolerant and united

Britain, changing Britain's future. Thank you.

APPLAUSE To say it's a black and white

position is a bit ridiculous. I was simply correcting the mistakes,

which is that Neil Coyle, with me and other Labour MPs voted not to

trigger Article 50. This isn't something that's just going to beat

June the 9th, we are suddenly going to have a deal with the rest of

Europe, hard Brexit, soft Brexit, whatever type of Brexit. This is

going to be something involving politicians. Back in Bermondsey not

all locals are convinced about the return of the Lib Dem MP. I'm

personally going to vote Labour. Why? I think they are more about

workers' rights and housing. I'm against Brexit. Is the best

government for England, make sure you eat and drink. Simon Hughes was

a popular MP here for many years but to win this seat back you'll have to

persuade locals who voted Labour that both he and his party can be

trusted again. The boyfriend of the reality

TV star, Ferne McCann, has been arrested in connection

with an alleged acid attack Police wanted to speak to Arthur

Collins, 25, following an incident at the Mangling Dalston.

20 clubbers suffered burns at the club over Easter,

while two people were blinded in one eye.

A mother and father from Dartford say they're devastated after items

belonging to their dead baby were stolen.

The items, including a blanket, toy and car seat,

were in a Ford Fiesta that was stolen on Wednesday.

The parents say the belongings hold huge sentimental value.

Detectives are appealing for witnesses and say the car had

A campaign's been launched to help an East End pie and mash shop,

after burglars made off with a much loved piece of its history.

The thieves stole a brass till that's had pride of place at Manze's

on Walthamstow High Street since the 1920s.

It's a bit like the place that time forgot.

Since 1929 they've been serving hot pies and mash,

and since 1929 the takings have been cashed in this old brass till.

That is, until it was stolen three weeks ago.

The till has been here since the day the shop opened,

so obviously it's a treasured piece, and it's devastating

It's part of the shop, because everybody, when they come

to visit the shop, either just to look at the interior

or to have pie and mash, they always look at the till

It's been in more or less the same spot.

It's been in exactly the same spot all the time.

Back in 2013, the old shop officially became a piece

of history, when given grade two listing.

The thing about this place is nothing has changed.

It's not just the till that's been here since 1929.

Even the recipe for the pies is the same now as it was then.

All the more upsetting someone would want to destroy

I could have cried when I saw it on Facebook.

It was gleaming. It just belongs here.

It was part of Manze's, the old till.

Local police have made a number of enquiries,

Now everyone is hoping for someone's conscience to kick in.

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

Today ended up being quite a pleasant end to the weekend.

Certainly a lot warmer than it will be this week.

Clear spells tonight, a mainly dry night, and brightness

Cloud soon descends and we see some spits and spots of rain.

The bulk of the rain is likely to be later on in the day.

Temperatures getting up to about 14 Celsius.

A couple of degrees below where we got to today.

Tuesday and Wednesday is when we may see some wintry showers.

We had a beautiful day across most of UK today, but there's a taste of

winter on the way. Even a little bit of snow. Its forecast for one or two

places. This is the forecast tonight. We're watching this cold

front, this will line, this weather front. Everything to the north of

that line is cold as dreaming straight from the