11/03/2018 London News

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I'm Katharine Carpenter.

People who lost their water supply

following the recent cold

weather have criticised the amount

of compensation being

offered by Thames Water.

The utility company says

the payments are above the minimum

required by law, but some customers

say its not enough after they were

left without water for up to a week.

Alpa Patel reports.

As it has been a frustrating week

for Thames water customers as vast

quantities of drinking water ran

down the drain or flooded roads,

schools, care homes, businesses and

tens of thousands of people found

themselves without. Charlie pollard,

who lives in Kennington, only got

his water back on yesterday after

being without for more than six

days.

It has essentially made the

flat unliveable. You can't do your

washing, you can't cook pasta, and

you have to go out and buy bottles

of water to fill the kettle with.

Thames water are offering

compensation and so you will get £50

if you have been without water for

between 12 and 24 hours. 100 hours

for between 24 and 48 hours, and

£150 for more than two days. So what

does Charlie think of that?

If they

are lumping in everybody 40 hours

plus into the same bucket, that's

completely unreasonable. But the

second part is more the procedure to

get the compensation, and having

been hung up on and tweeting my MP,

who has been great and acted on my

behalf, but the fact we have had to

be so proactive in getting

information out of Thames Water

meant that £150 felt unfair.

Thames

Water say it is right that customers

are properly compensated and that

they have worked around the clock to

get everything back to normal. But

serious questions by local MPs and

customers are being asked. Now the

regulator will investigate white

tens of thousands of people were

left without a vital public service

for several days -- why tens of

thousands of people.

An investigation has been launched

by the police watchdog

after man fell ill and died

after being restrained by police

in South East London.

Officers say they were

called to a house

in Lewisham on Friday afternoon

where they found the 35-year-old

in an agitated state.

The Independent Office

for Police Conduct has

begun reviewing footage

from officers' body-worn cameras.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested

on suspicion of murdering

a teenager in North London.

Police were called to

a cinema in Wood Green

on Thursday where they found

the 19-year-old with gunshot wounds.

He later died in hospital.

Parents whose children have

to cross a busy road to get

to school in South East London say

they're worried one of them will be

killed if improvements aren't made.

The council says it's

consulting on options to make

the road in Beckenham safer,

as Paul Murphy-Kasp reports.

Village Away in Beckenham. Families

use the junction to cross the road

to get to the nearest school, and

while they managed to cross the

road, it is not always done safely.

This footage, shared locally on

social media was shot to show the

daily struggle children face.

Every

morning and evening we have to cross

the road and they are taking their

lives into their own hands. I have

to get salmon to text me to let me

know he has got to school OK. -- I

have to get Sam.

Bromley council is

now consulting locals on getting a

traffic refuge island. Some say it

is not enough, that the council

think it is the safest option.

We

found in many places that the

refugees by far the best for taking

all the members of the community and

the firm or who will take longer to

cross the road, it just gives them

that bit more of confidence.

Previous attempts by the council to

install an island have been rejected

by residents and road users found

the average speed is below 30 mph.

Harris Academy says it wants to work

with Bromley Council on solving the

problem, but for parents and

pedestrians, a safe crossing could

not come soon enough.

Time for the weather now.

Here is Georgina Burnett.

Good evening. Many of us have

enjoyed brightness today but we have

had a fair share of wet weather

which is set to continue for a good

24 hours at least. Tonight some of

us will see rain pushing in from the

south-west, not affecting everyone

and it will be cloudy with

temperatures down to four Celsius.

Some of us wake up to rain and we

have fragmented bands of showery

rain frustrating us, and the rain

will be off and off, but heavy at

times and generally cloudy.

Temperature wise, we did well today.

We got above 14 degrees, not quite

there tomorrow, but still reaching

11 or possibly 12. Tuesday is

looking like a very different day,

probably rain clearing to the East

and the cloud behind it but we are

seeing sunny spells emerging.

Wednesday, chilly start, but a good

deal of brightness and sunshine on

offer. Temperature wise, sticking

with double figures for much of the

week.

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Have a lovely weekend.