Updates on Tuesday 19 April 2016
Fitzrovia News
Bangladeshis have been living in Britain since the eighteenth century and they have changed people’s eating habits, making curry as British as fish and chips.
It will be fine and dry through the afternoon with plenty of sunny spells.
The winds will stay light and it should feel warmer than of late.
Maximum temperature: 15C (59F).
Three Plane Stupid members were fined £200 each for the Heathrow tunnel blockade when 75 people missed flights, which the judge at Uxbridge Magistrates Court says was unjustified, says BBC London's Gareth Furby.
The judge says the three showed a "spectacular lack of consideration" when they blocked the tunnel.
BBC London News
Coming up on air at lunchtime: We will have more on the dramatic footage released by police showing a 70-year-old shopkeeper from east London who was stabbed as he fought off three attackers.
One of the men stabbed Mr Suntharalingham - known locally as Sunny - as he tried to defend himself with a shop sign.
He is in hospital in a serious, but stable, condition. The attempted robbery took place in Walthamstow on Sunday night. No arrests have been made.
BBC Travel
South West Trains are disrupted between Clapham Junction and Barnes due to a trespasser on the line.
A replica of a Syrian monument, two millennia old and destroyed by so-called Islamic State in Syria, has been erected in Trafalgar Square.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe scale model of the Arch of Triumph has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology, external (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch.
After leaving London, it will travel to cities around the world.
Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent
Prosecutor Ed Brown continues his case. He says Ben Butler was an "angry and violent man with a short fuse... consistently teetering on the edge of a violent loss of temper".
Mr Butler and Ms Gray pretended his daughter had been the "victim of a tragic accident".
The "terrible truth is that the scene was staged" by defendants, he adds.
Mr Butler and Ms Gray staged a "charade", says the lawyer, putting on "desperate urgency" in their 999 call and trying to get rid of the evidence of murder.
Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent
Prosecuting lawyer Ed Brown says Ellie Butler died from "catastrophic head injuries" when Ben Butler was in sole care of her at home.
Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent
Ed Brown QC is now opening the case for the prosecution against Ben Butler and Jennie Gray.
Mr Brown says Ben Butler's sudden loss of temper caused him to inflict "devastating injuries" on his daughter.
Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent
The jury has been sworn in at the trial of Ben Butler, accused of murdering his six-year-old daughter Ellie in Sutton, south west London, in 2013. He and Jennie Gray are also charged with child cruelty.
Both Mr Butler and Ms Gray have pleaded not guilty. The jury has been told the case is of "great seriousness" and the trial at the Old Bailey will last two months.
James Gallagher
BBC News Website, Health Editor
A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows.
The first survival data on using ipilimumab and nivolumab in combination showed 69% of patients, in a trial on 142, were still alive after two years.
Image source, SPLUK doctors leading the trial said the results were "very encouraging".
Dr James Larking ran part of the trial at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. He said the survival rate was "very encouraging".
The Indian government has said the country should relinquish its claim to the Kohinoor diamond, which is kept at the Tower of London.
Image source, PAHarry Kane has warned Leicester City that Tottenham are "on their tails" after moving to within five points of the Premier League leaders.
Spurs increased the pressure on the Foxes by thrashing Stoke City 4-0 at the Britannia Stadium last night.
Image source, PA
Karl Mercer
Political reporter, BBC London
The answer from Zac Goldsmith (Conservative), Sadiq Khan, (Labour) Sian Berry (Green) and Caroline Pidgeon (Lib Dems) was to build more - all say London needs to be building around 50,000 new homes every year, which is twice what it's doing at the moment.
Image source, Getty ImagesUKIP's Peter Whittle says it is more of an issue of stopping people coming to the capital.
They are answers from all we've heard before but not ones that convinced the audience of Londoners.
Barely half a dozen hands were raised when they were asked if they believed that 50,000 homes a year would be built.
Barely a hand stayed down when they were asked if they thought their children wouldn't be able to afford to buy a home in London.
Karl Mercer
Political reporter, BBC London
Harder still when you're just about to face Andrew Neil in full flow and defend your policies.
No surprise then that the candidates wanting to replace Boris Johnson as Mayor of London were going through their breathing exercises before facing their inquisition in front of an audience of Londoners.
Image source, John StillwellThe ringmaster general, Andrew Neil, has seen a few of these debates come and go over the years. So do they matter?
"I think debates do matter, yes," he said.
"People are tested, the audience get them under pressure, to see the cut of their jib it really helps to create an impression either positive or negative."
Three Plane Stupid protesters appear at Uxbridge Magistrates following last November's blockade of tunnel to terminals, says BBC London's Gareth Furby.
The UKIP mayoral candidate says immigration is causing a "chronic housing shortage" in London.
Image source, Getty ImagesLaunching the party's manifesto, Peter Whittle said the housing crisis could not be solved by setting "arbitrary targets" but by addressing both demand and supply.
He also promised establish a London-wide homelessness register.
Read more about the other mayoral and London Assembly candidates
Susana Mendonca
BBC Radio London Political Reporter
In the debate last night, an area where we heard something new was on extremism, with the first acceptance from Labour's Sadiq Khan that he may given the wrong impression.
He said that as a human rights lawyer he did share platforms with people with unpleasant views but added he "regretted giving the impression that I subscribed to their views".
Image source, ReutersThis issue had been brewing for days after Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith accused Mr Khan of "giving oxygen to extremists" and Labour's Yvette Copper accused Mr Goldsmith of a "racist scream" against their candidate.
Last night Mr Goldsmith denied his campaign was negative or racist and told the debate it was "100% my view that he [Sadiq] is not an extremist".
In last night's debate Liberal Democrat candidate Caroline Pidgeon said everyone "should feel welcome" in London, while UKIP's Peter Whittle said he had a problem with full face covering.
"I think it's saying I don't want to talk to you, don't come near me," he said.
The EU referendum debate also came up, with Green Party candidate Sian Berry saying 300,000 foreign nationals living in London would probably have to leave if the UK left.
Transport was also a hot topic, with Labour's Sadiq Khan replying that Transport for London's budget is "very flabby - we need to make it more efficient".
Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith said he would "bear down" on fares - but Ms Pidgeon responded angrily saying "that's what Boris said" and pointing out ticket prices had gone up under his mayoralty.
Housing in the capital took central stage during last night's BBC London debate between the mayoral candidates.
Labour's hopeful Sadiq Khan criticised Conservative candidate for subscribing to the view a house worth £450,000 is "affordable", which Mr Goldsmith said was nonsense.
Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon said she would retain the Olympic precept [money raised from the addition to council tax before the 2012 games] in order to invest in council housing.
The Greens' Sian Berry said she insist on rent controls, while UKIP candidate Peter Whittle dismissed talk of affordable homes as "platitudinous", instead blaming "uncontrolled migration".
