:00:00. > :00:00.And that is all your support for now. Thank you. That is it from us,
:00:00. > :00:00.more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. Time now for the
:00:00. > :00:13.news where ever you are. Good evening welcome
:00:14. > :00:15.to BBC London News, Kensington and Chelsea Council
:00:16. > :00:20.is suspending rent for residents living in buildings
:00:21. > :00:22.close to Grenfell Tower whose services have been
:00:23. > :00:28.disrupted by the fire. It comes as the Minister for London
:00:29. > :00:32.said the Government is waiting for Kensington and Chelsea Council
:00:33. > :00:34.to elect a new leader and that it is "big thing" to put
:00:35. > :00:37.a council in special Our political editor
:00:38. > :00:40.Tim Donovan reports. The leader's gone, finally
:00:41. > :00:46.succumbing to the pressure. He'd said this storming of the town
:00:47. > :00:50.hall a fortnight ago had been Things became untenable when he cut
:00:51. > :00:54.short this meeting of his Cabinet But today, that was rejected
:00:55. > :01:06.by the Minister whose constituency So, I think it's important for local
:01:07. > :01:18.democracy to have its say. It's quite a big thing
:01:19. > :01:20.for a government to government to do, to go in and put a on special
:01:21. > :01:23.measures, it's almost a quasi-judicial role
:01:24. > :01:25.for the Secretary of State. Surely if there was ever a time
:01:26. > :01:29.to send in the Commissioners to get a grip of this
:01:30. > :01:31.crisis, it's now. We're waiting for the new leader
:01:32. > :01:34.to come in place at the council. There is an interim chief
:01:35. > :01:36.executive, who's come over from Lewisham Council and doing
:01:37. > :01:39.a good job there. Others say the community
:01:40. > :01:42.of North Kensington would be reassured by a government task
:01:43. > :01:45.force coming in. I say that they've got to restore
:01:46. > :01:48.confidence of the local community, particularly the people directly
:01:49. > :01:51.affected by the fire, and they've What we've got is an administration
:01:52. > :01:58.in Kensington and Chelsea that have shown they've got an inability to be
:01:59. > :02:00.able to connect. But one borough councillor
:02:01. > :02:03.says it must be allowed The council has to be given,
:02:04. > :02:09.in my view, as an institution that will be there for years to come,
:02:10. > :02:13.people to come, has to be given One of the worries I have
:02:14. > :02:16.about appointing government commissioners to run this,
:02:17. > :02:18.is that you deny and delay the opportunity for that
:02:19. > :02:23.reconciliation, if you like. Meanwhile, tenants in buildings
:02:24. > :02:25.close to Grenfell Tower won't have to pay rent
:02:26. > :02:27.for a while because A clear gesture from this
:02:28. > :02:35.troubled local council, as it prepares to choose
:02:36. > :02:37.new leadership this week. A man has been arrested by police
:02:38. > :02:42.after a 16-year-old girl was killed and six other teenagers injured
:02:43. > :02:45.by a car in Croydon in south The man, in his 30s,
:02:46. > :02:48.is being questioned on suspicion of causing death
:02:49. > :02:53.by dangerous driving. There are calls for tighter controls
:02:54. > :02:56.on the sale of lethal acid. A petition is calling
:02:57. > :02:59.on the Government to act after police warned of a rising
:03:00. > :03:04.number of acid attacks. Among the victims is Jameel Muhktar,
:03:05. > :03:07.who had acid thrown at him through the window of his car
:03:08. > :03:10.in east London last month. An investigation is underway
:03:11. > :03:13.into how a fire started at the site of a new block of flats in east
:03:14. > :03:19.London today. It happened on Wellington Road this
:03:20. > :03:24.morning. No one was injured. Thousands of people headed
:03:25. > :03:26.to Trafalgar Square The Mayor Sadiq Khan said that
:03:27. > :03:31.after recent terror attacks and the fire at Grenfell Tower,
:03:32. > :03:33.this year's festival # We've got the world
:03:34. > :03:39.on our shoulders...#. For many here today who fasted
:03:40. > :03:50.for 20 hours some days, The mayor has been centrestage
:03:51. > :03:56.through two terrorist This festival is about
:03:57. > :03:58.celebrating unity. One of the great things
:03:59. > :04:01.about London is we don't simply tolerate difference,
:04:02. > :04:03.we respect it, we embrace it and we celebrate it,
:04:04. > :04:05.just like St Patrick's Day, Jewish festivals, Hindu festivals,
:04:06. > :04:13.Christian festivals, Sikh festivals. I'm really pleased to have Eid again
:04:14. > :04:17.here, the biggest and best ever. Eid, did loads of cooking,
:04:18. > :04:19.then I got dressed up... We are highlighting that whole
:04:20. > :04:21.message about being one, It doesn't matter what faith
:04:22. > :04:24.or background or religion or country you're from,
:04:25. > :04:27.London is an amazing city and we all want to just come
:04:28. > :04:30.together, have a good time. The atmosphere is great, you know,
:04:31. > :04:36.we have people from all faiths Really horrible things happened
:04:37. > :04:43.in the world, but we have And sending the message that London
:04:44. > :04:50.is safe and open for business. I've noticed a bigger police
:04:51. > :04:55.presence, so yeah, I feel safe. There were performances,
:04:56. > :04:59.arts and crafts, exhibitions. A chance, after a difficult time,
:05:00. > :05:07.to show a city united. Well, the weather looked gorgeous
:05:08. > :05:16.for those in Trafalgar Square But will it stay that way? Let's
:05:17. > :05:21.find out. Well, what a pleasant end
:05:22. > :05:25.to the weekend, but it's going to be Cloud building through tonight
:05:26. > :05:29.with some outbreaks of rain. We start off the day
:05:30. > :05:32.tomorrow on a cloudy note, By the afternoon we are seeing
:05:33. > :05:35.that break up to give us some sunny spells,
:05:36. > :05:38.but also a few showers, and some Not great news for
:05:39. > :05:41.the start of Wimbledon. Temperatures getting up to 23,
:05:42. > :05:44.possibly 24 Celsius, so quite warm, and some fairly high temperatures
:05:45. > :05:46.as we go into the That's it from all
:05:47. > :05:50.of us at BBC London. We'll be back after BBC News at 10
:05:51. > :06:13.with another update - Hello. It hasn't been too bad
:06:14. > :06:17.weekend for the greater part of England and Wales. Loads of pictures
:06:18. > :06:22.from our weather watchers as usual. There, some are on a plate. We have
:06:23. > :06:27.had a lot like that, but I have excluded Northern Ireland, more
:06:28. > :06:30.cloud here that my description in the last couple of days. That's how
:06:31. > :06:31.it looks on the western side