07/05/2017 London News

Good evening from BBC London News, I'm Victoria Hollins.

Labour looks set to encourage local authorities to begin a massive

programme of council houses in the capital.

The Sunday Politics heard how Labour looks likely to enable councils

to borrow money to invest in council housing which hasn't been

Under the Margaret Thatcher government, there was the right to

buy council houses. Three decades on, it is about building more of

them. We have seen more than twice as much council housing being built.

I want a Labour government that builds council houses. Creating new

council houses needs funding, but for the past 30 years, local

authorities have been banned from borrowing cash to do so. Today, a

veteran London Labour figures signalled it could change. Will you

be allowing authorities local councils to be borrowing again? It

looks like it. We are in this period when we have yet to see the

manifesto, but you are saying 1 million homes in five years. Half of

which will be council housing and that has huge applications. Labour

have promised to build a million homes in the next few years, half of

them council houses. They want to bring in a landlord licensing

scheme, but critics say Labour cannot be trusted to borrow money to

build more homes. This is where Labour gets into familiar problems.

They have underfunded tax spending plans. The Tories are expected to

stick with key part of their recent housing White Paper, which pledges

250,000 new houses each year. A so-called lifetime ISA to help

first-time buyers. A clamp-down on letting fees and rogue landlords.

The Lib Dems have pledged to build 300,000 homes a year across the

country, but also we have got to tackle the private rented sector,

one in four Londoners rent privately. The government admits the

housing market is broking but there is no agreement among the parties on

how to fix it. And differences on how to tackle

housing evident again today? It sounds like Labour will play a

key role to build council houses which would be rented out to tenants

at a lower rate. The Tories say it is not the right approach and the

key is responsible management of the economy, creating big decisions in

which more houses can be built. It is clear that collaboration and

cooperation is key. We had a Labour met a few months ago secured ?3

billion of investment from the Conservative government to build

more houses. We still haven't had the manifesto is yet, there should

be more detail in VAT on housing four Londoners to make their way

through. Morty digester, thank you very much indeed.

Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of north London

to highlight the problem of knife and gun crime.

Among those attending the Enough is Enough march were mothers

Ten people have been stabbed to death in London in just

Thousands of Londoners with French passports have been

casting their votes at special polling stations which have been set

As there are no postal votes in this presidential election it allowed

people to have their say in the future of their home country,

It may have been a bit of a stereotype, but it went down well, a

marketing company giving pastries to French people, queueing to vote in

the presidential election. This wasn't Paris, this was Wembley. I

cannot go to France to vote, so it is essential I can do this here. I

would love to stay in London, but it is important to vote for my original

country. Even though we are not living in France, we French

citizens, so it is important to wake up and go to vote. There are thought

to be a quarter of a million French people living in the capital. Boris

Johnson once described it as France's sixth biggest city. And

many of them came to the French school to vote. That London's other

polling centre in Kensington, the French ambassador cast her ballot.

Counting will be done on the spot this evening. So we have, we have

all the staff of the embassy and 500 volunteers, which is very important.

Although these future voters will probably already be in bed, the rest

of London's French population should find out the results before

midnight. Let's have a look at the weather

with Alina Jenkins. If it's rain you're after, there's

not much of it in this forecast. Lots of cloud around tonight

and that will keep temperatures up It looks like cloud will be the main

feature of the forecast tomorrow, limited bright or sunny spells,

a fairly cool, northerly wind, so underneath the cloud,

temperatures will struggle to get But those values starting to rise

next week, some sunshine on Tuesday and Wednesday,

a chilly night, perhaps with a touch of frost and maybe

some rain by Friday. We're back after

the Ten o clock News. Hello. Good evening. West was best

for weekend warmth and Sunday sunshine. It was a beautiful day on

the beach in St Ives in Cornwall and many Western areas got to share in

those sunny skies. Bill lifted temperatures nicely. Northern

Ireland had its warmest day so far will stop further east, with a lot

of cloud, temperatures were pegged back. The cloud in eastern areas

will hold temperatures up, clear skies in Western areas will allow

them to fall a long way, cold enough in