15/07/2017 London News

Good evening, I'm Katharine Carpenter.

A devastating fire at a hospital in Surrey has left residents having

to travel for up to 25 minutes to access GP services.

The blaze, which destroyed Weybridge Community Hospital,

has also raised questions about Surrey Fire Brigade's ability

to cope with a large scale fire in the future,

Church Street, Weybridge and a steady queue of residents trying to

find out where their new GP surgery will be. This is what is left of the

old Community Hospital after fire swept through it last Tuesday night.

90-year-old Josephine Alleys of the flames from her window and is

relieved no one was hurt in the blaze. She believes she heard gas

cylinders exploding in the building from her nearby care home. I heard

one bang and when I heard the next bank all I could see was police and

man at the door to take us to the common room. So we sat in the common

room for seven hours. It is very bad, makes you feel sick, really.

Other than GP's surgeries the Community Hospital housed a walk in

centre and NHS managers are trying to set up alternative services as

quickly as possible. The thing to know is that the GP practices on

site have been relocated so they are now operating at Walton Community

Hospital, the telephone numbers for those practices still work so

patients should contact the surgery as per normal and all urgent

bookings are being prioritised. Surrey Fire and rescue needed to

rely on three other Fire Services to rob overnight. The Fire Brigade

postbag union says if cuts go ahead in September they could not safely

cope with another fire like this one. In response Surrey County

Council said safety is a priority despite huge financial constraints.

They say they are dealing with half the number of fires but they were

ten years ago and even with the cuts they could offer an efficient and

effective Fire Service. Josephine is worried about the miles she will

have to travel to see her doctor. It's going to be a long time before

this service is back running again. Sarah Harris BBC London News,

Weybridge, Surrey. Laws on buying and carrying acid

are to be reviewed by the government following a spate of attacks in East

London. Two teenage boys, aged 15

and 16, remain in custody on suspicion of robbery and grievous

bodily harm with intent after 5 people were attacked

on Thursday night. Meanwhile, police are

investigating ANOTHER suspected acid attack

in Dagenham yesterday evening. A group of top musicians from Syria

who were forced to flee during the war have been invited

to play at a community event Some members of the orchestra

arrived in the UK as refugees and say music is helping them

to rebuild their lives. CHANTING

Separated by war, united by music. This is the Orchestra of Syrian

musicians, performing at the Royal festival hall. Hamza is just one

member of the orchestra but in Syria she is a star after coming second in

a TV talent show. But Hamsa's dreams were cut short by the conflict in

her country. Six years of war, it is not easy for anyone to continue his

life normally, the first thing damaged is music or art, generally.

Because when was start, people just want to be safe. Like thousands of

others, Erdogan fled Syria and that meant saying goodbye to her family,

career and colleagues. Until she came across the Orchestra of Syrian

musicians, many of whom she had worked with before. We had a lot of

performers in Syria, in the upper house, sometimes with a big August,

sometimes with a small band, sometimes, I can cry, really I can

cry but it is a big chance for me to perform with my teacher. And as some

of the Orchestra rehearsal for tomorrow's gig at Walthamstow Garden

party Hamsa remains optimistic that one day she will be able to pick up

where she left off as a singer. The weather now and tomorrow

we should have a bright start but clouding over later

with the chance of a shower. That's all from the team here,

enjoy the rest of your evening. Good evening. The weekend has not

got off to the brightest of starts, many of us had clout today, that was

the scene in Leicestershire, one of our weather Watch is earlier, as you

can see the cloud has brought some outbreaks of rain as well. But

between this warm front and this cold front we have some very warm

air and we're a bit of sunshine broke through this afternoon when it

lifted temperatures up to 24-25d, this evening and tonight to the

south of this band of rain we will