28/01/2018 London News

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I'm Chris Rogers.

Greenwich council claims it's staff

have received death threats

over the removal of an unofficial

memorial to Lee Rigby.

Tributes have been left

outside Woolwich Barracks

since the fusilier's murder

in May 2013.

But the council say they have

responded to complaints that that

flags and banners had

become scruffy, and the

memorial had been adopted

by right wing nationalists.

Emma North reports.

There is no official memorial at the

exact spot where Lee Rigby was

killed. But since his death, it has

become an impromptu shrine to a

youngish row -- soldier brutally

murdered. When a council worker took

it down, he was filmed, his face and

name put on the Internet and then he

got death threats.

It's just

completely beyond the pale. It's

just appalling. I spoke to that work

on the telephone and of course he

was very distressed. He felt very

intimidated. And frightened for his

wife and his children. And of course

that will have had an effect on his

workmates as well.

The council also

claims colleagues have been visited

that work and intimidated. But some

argue the council is stopping people

from paying tribute themselves. This

morning some of the flags were back

but no sign of anything political.

Both the army and his family have

said they should be nothing official

that the site of the murder will

stop there were two designated

places nearby where you can pay

tribute. But in Woolwich today there

was still a desire to mark the spot

somehow.

The flowers are fine

because everybody puts flowers when

someone is dead. But in terms of the

flag, you can't let people express

the way they want to express.

The

cross of St George 's English, and

that is what we are. So that is fine

and flowers are fine. I don't think

it belongs to any political group.

This year marks the fifth

anniversary of Lee Rigby's death,

bringing back and just -- not just

painful memories but also the

question of how to remember.

A 14-year-old girl has been

arrested on suspicion

of possessing a firearm,

which she pointed

at an officer's head.

She was one of three teenagers

who threatened police officers.

They were arrested near

Lewisham Park last night.

Mayor Sadiq Khan currently has

a target of building

65,000 homes a year

to tackle the housing shortage.

So to speed things up,

prefab homes are being considered

as a potential solution.

Thomas Magill reports.

Lorraine has been waiting

for a suitable housing

for nearly two years.

In the meantime, she's sharing this

studio flat in Mitcham with her

17-year-old daughter.

Cramped.

Very cramped.

And depressing.

It's pretty hard.

Like I said, there's

no space for anything.

As you can see, I've got bags

and boxes everywhere.

Down the road from

Lorraine, could this

development provide the solution?

The 37 flats at the Y Cube

were built in a factory,

transported to the site by lorry

and lifted into position.

The process took five months.

That's about half the time

of traditional methods.

And it was 25% cheaper,

costing £63,000 per flat.

In a new departure from the YMCA,

they have built these homes on

land bought from Merton Council.

And as part of that

transaction, half of

the residents come from

the council's housing waiting list.

And the other half from

the charity's hostels.

It would be great if we could scale

these up. For just over £2 million

you could deliver 36 homes very

quickly for people. It is a

fantastic affordable solution.

Factory-built flats are already

available to buy across London.

The developer of these ones have

received £25 million investment

from the mayor to deliver

1000 affordable homes.

A third of them will

be factory built.

A report from the London

Assembly concluded that

this type of technology

could be the answer

to London's housing crisis.

We need the mayor to start working

the market and making sure that

market develops. There is certainly

a demand. All we need now is for the

mayor to pull his finger out and

start taking action.

The mayor as targets for how many

affordable homes he will support the

building. That is the target for us.

This has a key role to play in

supporting those targets.

There are concerns that savings

developers may make on the

construction costs won't be

passed on to home-buyers.

But they can be built

on an awkward brownfield

sites, are faster to put up

and could be cheaper.

A look at the weather

with Sara Thornton.

Good evening.

I hope you managed to enjoy

something of this very mild day

that we saw across London,

with some good breaks

in the cloud at times, too,

that allowed us to get up to 14

Celsius, well above average

for the time of year.

Keeping the milder air tonight,

into the start of tomorrow, but very

quickly it is going to start to turn

colder in the wake of some rain.

But we stay dry tonight and still

breezy with a south-westerly wind

keeping our temperatures at nine

or 10 Celsius to start your Monday.

A dry, albeit fairly cloudy start

and then we have got this rain

to spill in in the middle part

of the day from the north,

as it clears the way,

it introduces colder air,

a bitter 12 degrees,

but by the end of the afternoon,

into the evening, much,

much colder than that.

A touch of ground frost

into Tuesday, potentially,

with temperatures back

to where they should be

for this time of year.

That's all from the evening team.

I'm back with the latest

on the ten O'Clock News.

For now have a very good evening.