13/08/2017 London News

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A Met Police Chief has accused the private car hire firm Uber

of failing to report serious crimes - including sex assaults -

Inspector Neil Billany has written to transport bosses,

saying he has "significant concern" that officers are being kept

Uber insists it always works closely with the police.

It's quick, it's easy, but is it dangerous? A senior Met police

officer says Uber are turning a blind eye when drivers are accused

of serious crimes by passengers. In a letter to TfL, he cites an example

of a driver who denies sexual assault, continues to work for Uber

but then commits a more serious sexual assault while working. Uber

did not tell the police. Anyone travelling by private hire vehicle

in London monster now that that they could will be safe and their driver

is safe, and I think this raises very serious concerns about the

operation of Uber, and if the police have a serious concerns then clearly

Transport for London will need to look at that as they review the

lessons going forward. But Katherine says it was inappropriate but might

not have prevented the second incident if reported. Then the

second incident, the driver placed his hand on a passenger's leg. They

were reviewed in May, and in May they were given another four

months's license and really they should not have been given one in

May. You have seen all the correspondence from the police to

TfL, warning them what is going on, TfL have to take responsible at it.

TfL say any delay in reporting serious crimes is totally

unacceptable. We have been in contact with the operator to ask

them to respond to these concerns. More than 1 million Uber journeys

happen every week in London, it is clearly popular with some customers

but this is bad news at what is a very important time for the company,

with Transport for London currently be reviewing whether to grant them a

five-year licence when it expires in September. Dan Freedman, BBC London

news. A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old

woman have been charged over the murder of a schoolboy,

who was stabbed to death in south Jermaine Goupall, who was 15,

had been confronted by three men wearing balaclavas,

and armed with knives and a machete. Police are trying to discover

if his death is linked to an incident earlier that

afternoon, between a group of masked Tens of thousands of people

in Hertfordshire have been celebrating a Hindu festival today,

marking the birth of Krishna. Organisers of the Janmashtami

Festival, being held in Watford, say it's one of the largest

of its kind outside of India. It is one of the most important

festivals of the Hindu factor, and here near Watford, annual

celebration of Lord Krishna's birthday certainly draws in the

crowds. Lord Krishna is often depicted with blue skinned playing

the flute, and is regarded as the God of love and compassion. His

birthday is also known as Janmashtami. The Harry Krishna

lifestyle and Janmashtami is all about world peace and happiness, but

it begins with inner peace. Then we can have global peace, and that is

what we want to introduce to everyone, that in peace through yoga

and meditation and through the charging of God's holy names.

Throughout the day, visitors pray inside the temple manor house, which

was originally donated by Beatles musician, George Harrison, and in

the grounds of the house, they are entertained by music and song and

given a free the jittery and mail. It is a special day of the year for

us, so just going to see the festival and the herd to see the

festival for the first time, our little daughter. We have a local

temple, we celebrated at home as well, but to be amongst the people

and connect with people is a great thing, so this is why we are here

today. And for all generations, the celebrations will carry on late into

the night. As you saw, some glorious weather

today, will it stick around? A full forecast now from Wendy Fawell. What

a beautiful day it has been across London and the Home Counties. I even

saw a hot air balloon first thing this morning, and there were some

Weather Watchers pictures really quite impressive. This is just one

of them sent in to us today. We start this new working week, warm at

first, there will be some rain but it will mainly be falling at night

across our part of the world. Not so tonight, though, we go into this

evening and overnight with patchy clouds, not quite as chilly as last

night. London itself around 14 degrees. We start the new working

week with a little bit of brightness and sunshine to commute to work in.

There will be light winds throughout the day tomorrow but we will see any

sunshine turning more hazy and silvery as high cloud comes in

later, mostly dry perhaps a spot of rain by the end of the day. The

temperatures could reach 2425 degrees. Still one want Tuesday.

Perhaps some showery outbreaks of rain overnight into the first part

of Tuesday then we look like we will have a dry middle part of the week,

one or two further showers on Thursday with the breeze. That is it

for me. I'll be back at 10.20

tonight with the latest