Summary

  • Updates on Tuesday 24 November 2015

  • News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Wednesday

  1. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 17:59

    Updates for London have ended for the day but we'll be back at 08:00 on Wednesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

  2. Tonight's weather: Showery and breezypublished at 17:55

    BBC Weather

    Showers will continue through the first part of the night, mainly the North Downs. 

    However, after midnight they will become increasingly isolated with clear spells developing by dawn. Remaining breezy through the night. 

    Lows of 5C (41F).

  3. Coming up on BBC London at 18:30 on BBC Onepublished at 17:50

    BBC London News

    A 17-year-old was stabbed to death in Holloway last night. He's the 14th teenager to be fatally stabbed in London so far this year. 

    The mayor blamed this year's spate of youth stabbings on a curb in the use of Police Stop and Search.

    Our reporter Ayshea Buksh is in Holloway with the full report.

    Police scene

    And hundreds of seriously ill patients are turned away every year from a Children's Intensive Care Unit in central London, according to St Mary's hospital in Paddington, which says it has a critical shortage of beds. 

    It now wants to create a new unit to help with the overwhelming demand and has launched a £2 million fundraising campaign.

    Our political correspondent, Karl Mercer, has the latest.

  4. Richard Rufus leaves Charlton Athletic posts after fraud findingspublished at 17:46

    BBC Sport

    Richard Rufus (right)Image source, Getty Images
    Image caption,

    Richard Rufus (right) in his playing days at Charlton

    Richard Rufus has left his posts at Charlton after being found to have overseen a multi-million pound fraud.

    The 40-year-old accepted more than £16m from investors without authorisation and in breach of financial regulations, a case unconnected with the club.

    Rufus, who played for Charlton between 1993 and 2004, has left his roles with the club's academy and Community Trust.

  5. Analysis: Why are cabbies getting so angry?published at 17:42

    Tom Edwards
    Transport Correspondent, BBC London

    If there is one sentiment that is continuous on my Twitter feed it is the anger from some black cab drivers.

    Why are London's cabbies getting so angry, and do they have a point?

    Read my BBC London transport blog to find out.

    Black cab protestImage source, Getty Images

    Why are cabbies getting so angry?

    Why are London's cabbies getting so angry, and do they have a point? BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards assesses the case.

    Read More
  6. Virgin East Coast plans £21m refurbishment for trainspublished at 17:39

    Virgin TrainImage source, Geoff Sheppard

    Virgin Trains is to spend £21m refurbishing its fleet of 45 trains which run on the east coast mainline between London and Edinburgh.

    The company said all 401 carriages used on the route would be overhauled with more than 20,000 seats replaced and new carpets and curtains fitted.

    The work will be carried out at depots in London and Edinburgh.

  7. Latest travel: long delays on the A406, A40 and M4published at 17:36

    BBC Travel

    There are long delays on the A406 in both directions at Brentfield Road with queues back to the M1 at Staples Corner and Hanger Lane.

    It's very slow on the A40 westbound between the Northern Roundabout and A312 at Church Road /Target Roundabout.

    And the M4 is partly blocked westbound between J8/9 at Maidenhead and J10 at Wokingham after an accident, with queues back to Slough West.

  8. Body-worn video cameras for frontline police from 2016published at 17:30

    Frontline Met Police officers will have body-worn video cameras early next year.

    After trialing the cameras over 12 months across 10 London boroughs, the Met will provide 22,000 to officers in London.

    Body worn cameraImage source, Met Police

    By spring 2016, most uniformed officers will have the new cameras, which will be funded by selling off underused police buildings.

    Mayor Boris Johnson said: “Already these confidence boosting cameras have helped reduce complaints and make our officers more accountable.

    “But it's clear our trial simply scratched the surface and, once rolled out, these cameras have massive potential to help our officers continue their great work in fighting crime and keeping our city safe."

  9. Pricey parking - driver charged £3k for six hourspublished at 17:26

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  10. Teen stabbings: Sadiq Khan warns cuts could ‘make it harder for police to tackle knife crime’published at 17:14

    Yoke Close, Holloway
    Image caption,

    Yoke Close in Holloway was the scene of the 14th fatal stabbing in London this year

    Sadiq Khan, Labour’s mayoral candidate, has outlined a six-point plan to tackle knife crime in the capital, including enforcing fines of £5,000 for shops that sell knives to children.

    He also called for hospitals to record and share knife wound data, as they already do for gunshot wounds.

    He said: "My plan will make London safer and reduce knife crime, but our hard work will be undermined if the Government continue to cut policing by such huge amounts each year.

    "We must give the police the resources they need to keep our communities safe – nothing is more important.”

  11. Baby girl dies after Plumstead car crashpublished at 17:06

    A one-year-old girl has died in hospital after a car crash in south east London.

    The baby was one of two children travelling with their mother when the car collided with a van on 11 November around midday on King's Highway, Plumstead.

    She died in hospital on Sunday evening.

    The mother and the other child were taken to hospital, where the mother is in a stable condition. The other child, aged around three, has since been discharged.

    The van driver was also taken to hospital and has been discharged.

    The baby girl’s next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination will be scheduled in due course.

  12. Drivetime with Eddie Nestor: teen stabbings, stop and search and bigger class sizespublished at 16:56

    BBC Radio London

    Eddie Nestor

    Coming up on Drivetime just after 17:00: Another teenager stabbed to death in our city last night.

    We've now had 14 teenage stabbings in London this year, compared to eight in the whole of 2014.

    Meanwhile, the number of stop-and-searches in England and Wales fell by 40% in 2015 so what's going on? And are these two things linked? 

    Plus, bigger class sizes in British schools would make for better teachers, so says a new education report out today, but is it right? 

    We want to hear from teachers. Call the show on 020 7224 2000.

  13. Alleged Hatton Garden raider tried to trick police by ‘concealing a stash of jewels’published at 16:42

    Hatton Garden raider Daniel Jones, 58, offered to take detectives to where he had buried his share of the loot after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary, the court heard.

    Inside of the vault at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company in LondonImage source, PA

    Detectives had previously discovered bags of stolen jewelry at Edmonton Cemetery in north London on 8 October, but Mr Jones was not aware of this.

    Mr Jones was taken out of prison on 15 October to lead officers to his stash.

    He directed the police to the same cemetery in Edmonton, identifying an area of the cemetery and a memorial stone, prosecutor Philip Evans said.

    This memorial was in the name of a man called Sidney John Hart, who may have been another relation Mr Jones's children, as opposed to the memorial for Sidney James Hart that officers had already dug up, the court heard.

    A black and orange bag containing items of gold and jewelry and a much smaller packets of brifkas than police had found was dug up at the site.

    Mr Jones told police he was the only person who knew of the stash.

    He said: "There's no other outstanding property.That is all I had", jurors heard.

    When asked if he had hidden anything else, he replied: "That's all I had. The rest of it you got on the day."

    The prosecution said Mr Jones hoped that, by giving up one bag, he’d “still have access to the larger stash of criminal property, no doubt for his future use”. 

  14. Detectives 'found large stash of jewels under cemetery memorial stone'published at 16:33

    Detectives investigating the Hatton Garden raid discovered two bags of stolen goods in a cemetery in north London.

    Daniel JonesImage source, Metropolitan Police
    Image caption,

    Daniel Jones

    They dug up the ground under a memorial stone for Sidney James Hart, the grandfather of Daniel Jones's children, at Edmonton Cemetery on 8 October.

    Mr Jones is said to be one of the "ringleaders" of the heist and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.

    One of the bags under the memorial site contained a large quantity of jewelry.

    The other had a number of "brifkas" - paper envelopes containing precious stones.

  15. 'Alcohol did not play a part' in helicopter crashpublished at 16:22

    Scene of Vauxhall helicopter crashImage source, Clive Seymour

    The inquest into the helicopter crash in Vauxhall in January 2013 in which a pilot and a pedestrian were killed is continuing at Southwark Coroner's Court.

    Earlier the jury heard how pilot Peter Barnes was worried about flying due to freezing fog.

    Later, the coroner read an extract from a toxicology report on Mr Barnes, who worked for RotorMotion, which confirmed that "alcohol did not play a part in this incident".

    He also told the jury that pathologist Dr Peter Jerreat carried out a post-mortem examination which concluded that he died from multiple injuries "as a result of the impact with the ground". 

    The inquest heard evidence from RotorMotion operations assistant Declan Lehane, who said Mr Barnes had expressed doubts about whether the journey would be possible as they drank tea on the morning of the flight. 

    He told the hearing the pilot had said to him: "The weather might not allow landing at Elstree but I'll go and have a look to see if there's a hole in the cloud."

    Pedestrian Matthew Wood was also killed when the aircraft hit the ground.

  16. Stolen gold to be melted down ‘for my pension’, said accusedpublished at 16:02

    Police found a smelter as well as jewels and tools at the house in Sterling Road, where Terry Perkins and other defendants were arrested, the jury heard.

    Jewels on display at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd store in LondonImage source, European Photopress Agency

    Mr Perkins, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary, allegedly said: "I'm going to melt my good gold down ... The Indian, the 18, that could be my pension if I could get half an idea of what's there, you know what I mean."

  17. Hatton Garden jewels were ‘stashed in kitchen cupboards and hidden in cemetery’published at 15:44

    Before moving the loot to a single property, the alleged thieves stored jewelry and cash in “two large wheelie bins and a number of holdalls,” prosecutor Philip Evans told Woolwich Crown Court.

    A general view of Paris Jewels and Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd store in LondonImage source, European Photopress Agency

    The plan was ultimately to turn the stolen goods into money and launder it, jurors heard.

    In the meantime, gems were stashed behind skirting boards and in kitchen cupboards in the co-defendants' houses, the court heard.

    Some was sold for "sizeable sums of money and some had been hidden in a cemetery in Edmonton", jurors were told.