:00:00. > :00:12.Good evening and welcome to BBC London News,
:00:13. > :00:17.Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes says he will fight to win back his seat
:00:18. > :00:22.He's vowed to work for the residents of Bermondsey and Southwark
:00:23. > :00:35.He was the party's longest-serving MP, and dramatically lost his seat
:00:36. > :00:40.Now, just days after the announcement of a snap election
:00:41. > :00:44.in June, activists in Bermondsey are preparing to fight
:00:45. > :00:49.for the return of Simon Hughes as the local MP.
:00:50. > :00:52.We did the right thing by stopping the Tories running
:00:53. > :00:54.the country on their own, and we rescued the country
:00:55. > :00:58.from an economically-desperate position, so I don't regret it.
:00:59. > :01:01.There were many policies of austerity, tuition fees,
:01:02. > :01:03.incredibly unpopular, and people now are
:01:04. > :01:07.Of course, and we got punished at the last election,
:01:08. > :01:10.but this is not about the past, you don't have elections
:01:11. > :01:16.Liberal Democrats hope their pro-European stance on Brexit
:01:17. > :01:19.will attract Londoners who voted to remain.
:01:20. > :01:23.The other parties say, "Don't rule us out for that."
:01:24. > :01:26.To say it is a black-and-white position is a bit ridiculous.
:01:27. > :01:29.I was simply correcting the mistake which was that Neil Coyle,
:01:30. > :01:34.with me and many other Labour MPs, voted not to trigger Article 50.
:01:35. > :01:37.This will not be something that on June 9th we will have a deal
:01:38. > :01:41.with the rest of Europe, hard Brexit, soft Brexit or whatever
:01:42. > :01:46.Back in Bermondsey, I attempted to gauge opinion on Simon Hughes
:01:47. > :01:49.and meet a man who joined the Lib Dems soon after
:01:50. > :02:10.I think they are more about workers' rights, housing.
:02:11. > :02:12.Simon Hughes was a popular MP here for many years,
:02:13. > :02:15.but to win the seat back he will have to persuade locals
:02:16. > :02:18.who voted Labour that both he and his party can
:02:19. > :02:26.The boyfriend of the reality TV star Ferne McCann has been arrested
:02:27. > :02:28.in connection with an alleged acid attack at a nightclub
:02:29. > :02:32.Police wanted to speak to Arthur Collins, who's
:02:33. > :02:37.25, after the incident at the Mangle in Dalston.
:02:38. > :02:39.20 clubbers suffered burns at the club over Easter,
:02:40. > :02:57.while two people were blinded in one eye.
:02:58. > :03:06.A campaign's been launched to help an East End pie-and-mash shop
:03:07. > :03:07.after burglars made off with a much-loved
:03:08. > :03:08.The thieves stole a brass till that's had pride of place at Manzes
:03:09. > :03:08.on Walthamstow High Street since the 1920s.
:03:09. > :03:09.It is a bit like the place that time forgot.
:03:10. > :03:11.Since 1929 they have been serving hot pies and mash.
:03:12. > :03:17.Since 1929 the takings have been cashed in this old brass till.
:03:18. > :03:19.That is, until it was stolen three weeks ago.
:03:20. > :03:21.The till has been here since the day the shop opened,
:03:22. > :03:27.so it is a treasured piece, and it was devastating
:03:28. > :03:31.It is part of the shop, everybody when they come to visit,
:03:32. > :03:35.either to look at the interior or to have pie and mash,
:03:36. > :03:41.It has been in the same spot for all them years?
:03:42. > :03:49.Back in 2013 the old shop officially became a piece of history,
:03:50. > :03:57.The thing about this place, nothing has changed.
:03:58. > :04:01.It's not just the till that has been here since 1929,
:04:02. > :04:07.even the recipe for the pies is the same now as it was then.
:04:08. > :04:10.All the more upsetting that someone would want to destroy
:04:11. > :04:15.I could have cried when I saw it on Facebook.
:04:16. > :04:28.Local police have made a number of inquiries,
:04:29. > :04:39.Now everybody is hoping for someone's conscience to kick in.
:04:40. > :04:43.It will be a bright start, but clouding over,
:04:44. > :05:05.Until then, goodnight. morning during Breakfast.
:05:06. > :05:12.It has been a fine and dry day, and it the sunshine temperatures were
:05:13. > :05:18.about 17 degrees. But a change in weather as we had through this week.
:05:19. > :05:23.Wintry showers and some frosty night in the forecast over the next few
:05:24. > :05:26.nights. We have a cold front starting to work in across Scotland,
:05:27. > :05:31.introducing colder air towards the North. Towards the south, cloud and
:05:32. > :05:37.outbreaks of rain. In Scotland and Northern Ireland. Most places are
:05:38. > :05:39.largely dry to the south of that. We could see a touch of grassed frost
:05:40. > :05:40.for the