11/03/2018 London News

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Good evening and welcome

to the programme,

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 company says the payments

are above the minimum required

by law but it comes as the industry

regulator, Ofwat, is set

to investigate why thousands

of homes and businesses went

without water for up to a week.

Alpa Patel reports.

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,

£100 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 48

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

why tens of thousands of people

were left without a vital public

service for several days.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested

on suspicion of murdering

a teenager in North London.

19-year-old Kelvin Odunuyi was

attacked inside a cinema

in Wood Green on Thursday.

A man has died after being

restrained by police in south-east

London. Offices say they were called

to the house on Friday afternoon

where they found the man in an

agitated state. The Independent

office for police conduct are

investigating.

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.

Bromley Council says it is

consulting on options to improve

safety as Paul Murphy-Kasp reports.

Village Way in Beckenham.

Families use the junction

to cross the road to get

to the nearest school,

and while they manage

to cross the road, it is not

always done safely.

They are taking their lives

into their own hands.

I have to get Sam to text me every

morning to let me know

he has got to school OK.

Bromley council is now consulting

residents on introducing

a traffic refuge

island like this one.

We found in many places

that the refuge is by far the best

for taking all the members

of the community, indeed the infirm

or anyone who will take

longer to cross the road,

maybe pushing a buggy,

it just gives them that

bit more confidence.

Previous attempts by the council

to install a crossing 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 couldn't

come soon enough.

Now the weather -

here's Georgina Burnett.

Good evening.

There was some

sunshine around today.

A little bit of blue

sky but also some rain.

We'll see some more tonight,

coming up from the south-west.

That will be cloudy with

temperatures down to four Celsius.

Some rain around tomorrow as well.

Showery rain for much of the day,

some dry spells as well,

and temperatures getting up to 11

Celsius.

Tuesday is a little drier

after the rain clears

the east in the morning.

And Wednesday, after a chilly start

should see some sunny spells, too.

That's all from the late team.

Goodnight.