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The stations in west London were supposed to be ready by the end of this year.

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Tom Edwards
Transport Correspondent, BBC London

"On time and on budget" is the mantra Crossrail, external have used thousands of times over the years. They can't though use it anymore.

I've learnt that five new Crossrail stations that are due to be built in west London by Network Rail are to be delayed.

Acton, West Ealing, Hayes and Harlington and Southall were due to be finished by the end of this year.

Ealing Broadway was meant to competed by 31 Janaury 2018. That's all gone out of the window and they'll now be upgraded by summer of 2019.

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Today in West Ealing the building site is empty with little work completed - it was meant to be finished by the end of next month.

Local residents in West Ealing like Dr Ben Sherliker have been fighting for months, if not years, to get answers from Network Rail but he says they have been kept in the dark.

They were told there were only "minor delays".

Ealing Council says it will now also have to delay its work around the stations.

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The new Crossrail trains will start on the west London section next summer and the longer platforms will be there but the new stations built next to the old ones will be ready.

The council has concerns the increased numbers of passengers could be a safety risk as they'll have to use the old, unsuitable station buildings.

Ealing Council also has considerable doubts the stations will be finished by 2019.

Why this has happened remains a mystery but it's no secret Network Rail's budget are under pressure. Crossrail also points out 85% of the project is completed.

A spokesperson for Crossrail said: “Network Rail is a key partner in delivering the Crossrail project and is upgrading the existing railway in west London in preparation for Elizabeth Line services.

"Network Rail’s planned works will deliver the station upgrades at Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Southall and Hayes & Harlington by December 2019 when Elizabeth line through services commence from Reading, Maidenhead and Heathrow."

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It should be fairly bright this afternoon, and warm in any sunshine. However some showers could develop and these may be heavy and thundery.

Maximum temperature: 22C (72F).

Tom Edwards
Transport Correspondent, BBC London

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Five Crossrail stations which were due to be built by Network Rail by the end of 2017/early 2018 have been delayed until 2019.

The stations are West Ealing, Southall, Ealing Broadway, Acton and Hayes & Harlington.

Local residents and councils are extremely disappointed at the delay. I'll have more on this during the BBC London news bulletin at 13:30 on BBC One.

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A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of the murder of student Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes who was stabbed to death outside the gates of his school in north-west London.

The defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, had a string of convictions for violent behaviour and for possessing a knife at school when he was aged 13.

Prosecutors described the case as a "deliberate, planned attack on a defenceless schoolboy."

Quamari, 15, was taken to hospital after being stabbed, but before he died from his injuries managed to tell one of the nurses the name of his attacker.

He was attending school at the Capital City Academy in Willesden on 23 January when he left school as normal, the court heard.

"He was happy and unconcerned as he walked out of the school gates, singing and exchanging banter with his school friends as he walked," said prosecutor Sally O'Neill QC.

But within three minutes of leaving school he was chased and stabbed by a masked boy, dressed in black, who had been waiting for him at the corner.

Witnesses described Quamari shouting that he was going to be stabbed and "running for his life" back to the school.

He was unable to outrun the other boy who grabbed him and stabbed him three times in his back, shoulder and upper leg before running off.

One of the witnesses, a girl, recognised the attacker as the defendant and almost immediately rang him, the court heard.

The defendant told her he was in south London.

"He was not. He was in Willesden," said the prosecutor.

The masked figure was caught on CCTV waiting for Quamari to come out of school.

"This wasn't a school argument getting out of hand and someone getting hurt because one of them had a knife," said Sally O'Neill QC.

"Whoever did this to Quamari Barnes was waiting for him and as soon as he saw him, he chased him, caught him and stabbed him three times."

The court was told the reason the attack may never be known, but a possible reason was that a mutual friend of Quamari's dared the defendant to come to north-west London - thinking he wouldn't as he lived in Norwood at the time.

Qumari was one of the defendant's followers on Instagram.

The defendant refused to go into the witness box to give evidence during the trial.

However, his barrister, Kirsty Brimelow QC, told the court that the case was "riddled with doubts" and that the police had simply "joined with the playground chat"

The defendant will be sentenced on 28 July.

A 15-year-old youth has been found guilty of the murder of 15-year-old student Quamari Barnes who was stabbed to death outside his school in Willesden on 23 January.

The defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, was found guilty by a majority of 10-2 at the Old Bailey.

Quamari was attacked near his school Capital City Academy.

At the time his Aunt Sylvia Tella said: "A young life was cut brutally short outside of school.

"He was not a bad boy. That's always the excuse, 'oh he was involved with drugs or he was involved with guns or he was part of a gang'. This one wasn't. This one was a good boy. This one was a credit to his family."

His cousin Rachel Odunton said aty a vbigvil held days after the killing: "He wasn't in a gang. He wasn't running the streets. He went home and did his homework. I miss him so much.

"We need to get people off the streets now, it's not safe. Quamari wasn't involved in any of this. He was a good boy and he was humble and he loved everybody in his family. He was a special boy, he wasn't just anybody so this sort of thing needs to stop now.

"Wherever you are from it doesn't matter. We are one community and we need to join together now because this matters."

Downing Street has rebuked Kensington and Chelsea council over an aborted meeting last night about the Grenfell Tower tragedy, saying: "The High Court ruled that the meeting should be open and we would have expected the council to respect that."

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An image of a man wanted in connection with a "violent robbery" on an elderly woman in broad daylight has been released.

The 92-year-old was walking north on Hoxton Street in Hackney at about 14:40 on Tuesday after posting a letter when the suspect followed her into an alleyway.

He made several attempts to grab her handbag and used such force she was pulled to the ground, the Met says.

The victim screamed and refused to let got of her bag so he dragged her along until she was in so much pain she had to let go.

The suspect ran back into the alleyway and turned right heading north on Hoxton Street. Her bag contained a £50 Virgin mobile phone, her Freedom Pass, documents and £100 cash.

The woman sustained extensive bruising all over her body.

She lost her husband of 70 years recently and is being support by her family. Her neice says she is distraught and now too terrified to leave her house.

The suspect is described as black with short black hair, wearing a hooded jacket and dark coloured trousers.

Detective Inspector Paul Ridley, from Hackney CID, who is leading the investigation, said: "I have been involved in many serious cases, however the devastating psychological trauma of this victim is possibly the worse I have encountered.

"The events have emotionally moved the initial officers that tended to the lady in the aftermath as well as the investigation team, especially witnessing this inconsolable elderly lady sobbing about the robbery and recent tragic events.

"I cannot comprehend how anyone could target a frail lady in her 90s using this amount of violence, it is truly horrific."

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Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

Why did Kensington & Chelsea Council leader Nicholas Paget-Brown try to initially ban the public and the media from last night's Cabinet meeting?

In an interview with me yesterday he tried explain his rationale.

Here's the transcript:

NP-B: "The cabinet meeting tonight I'm confining myself to talking about the activity that we have been undertaking on the ground in partnership with huge numbers of other people, explaining to them it's the first opportunity I've had a chance to speak to them. There will be other counsellors there. We... we will be questioned I'm sure about what we're doing on the ground.

"But my task tonight is to set out what is happening, uh, what is the immediate way forward for people who's lives have been wrecked and that's what the meeting is about and that's what I will be doing. And I haven't really frankly had a chance to focus on anything else."

TD: "Why isn't this meeting public? Why can't the survivors come and... and hear and see your deliberations?"

NP-B: "Well because the main public meeting will actually be next month. It will be the council meeting which will be open to everybody and people will come. Um, I think there were issues tonight... " [interruption]

TD: "But they really want answers and they want to see... they want to see it now, don't they? You can understand that, can't you?"

NP-B: "I... I do understand but we don't have all the answers yet. Some of those answers will come through the public enquiry. Tonight's meeting is a chance for me to talk to the cabinet. Unfortunately as you know during the, um, in the immediate aftermath of the, um, of... of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, um, the town hall was, um, you know, was taken over and damage was done so I think we need to just be careful and that's what we're doing tonight.

"So tonight's not open to the public but I will issue a statement shortly after the meeting which will explain what we're doing and I hope the council can be seen to be active, proactive, working with very vulnerable people and, um, that's what I shall be trying to explain tonight."

Kensington and Chelsea Council's cabinet has adjourned its first meeting since the Grenfell Tower tragedy after just twenty minutes.

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