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  • Updates on Friday 9 November

  1. Gran's murder 'could have been stopped'published at 20:45 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Sally Hodkin was stabbed by a woman who had been allowed to leave a mental health unit hours earlier.

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  2. Fatal stab victim, 16, named by policepublished at 20:30 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    The Met Police say there have been no arrests in the murder investigation.

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  3. Can these students spot fake news?published at 19:02 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Part of BBC School Report, we put them to a fake news test.

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  4. Is a four-day week better for business?published at 17:22 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    A number of London firms are paying their staff the same amount to work fewer hours.

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  5. Good evening from BBC London Livepublished at 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    BBC London News

    Updates for London have ended for the day but we'll be back at 08:00 on Friday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather. Keep checking back here throughout the evening for any breaking news.

  6. Tonight's weather: Turning cloudier with the odd showerpublished at 16:57 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    BBC Weather

    Tonight will be mostly dry with clear skies for a time.

    However, more cloud is likely to move in later, bringing the chance of the odd shower.

    Not as chilly as last night.

    Minimum Temperature: 5C to 8C (41F to 46F)

  7. Lewisham councillors call proposed CCTV cut 'appalling'published at 16:55 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    Proposals to cut 24/7 CCTV footage monitoring have been labelled as “appalling” by Lewisham councillors.

    It is one of three proposed cuts to Lewisham Council’s crime, enforcement and regulation directorate, and is expected to save the council £161,000 in 2020/2021.

    This comes as the council looks to cut £30m from its budget over the next two years, following reductions in Government funding.

    Other cuts to the directorate include a £215,000 cut to staffing for the service team which work in licensing and trading, anti-social behaviour and nuisance service in 2019/2020, and a £40,000 reduction in funding of money allocated to medium-term crime projects.

    Speaking to a safer stronger communities select committee, Cllr Joan Millbank said the proposals to cut CCTV were “appalling.”

    “The focus on CCTV will be a big issue on the estates, [in monitoring] domestic abuse, Prevent (counter-terror strategy), gender-based violence – hard stuff. It is just appalling,” she said.

    Cllr Sakina Sheik said she found the cuts “quite worrying. With the CCTV camera – in losing this we could be losing an essential tool in providing crime prevention,” she said.

    Lewisham Council head of public protection and safety, Geeta Subramaniam-Mooney, said the proposal would not see CCTV turned off but viewed proactively for 12 hours, and recorded for 12 hours.

    She said council officers had a year to establish what the options might look like.

    Cllr James Rathbone said the committee would need more information about the impact of the cuts in order to comment.

    The proposals will be considered by the mayor and cabinet on 21 November.

  8. Heathrow-Inverness service expansionpublished at 16:52 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    British Airways has announced an increase in the number of flights from next summer.

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  9. Westminster Cathedral holds 99th Remembrance Servicepublished at 16:52 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

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  10. Ardley expects sack if Dons lose in FA Cuppublished at 16:52 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    AFC Wimbledon boss Neal Ardley expects to lose his job if they are knocked out of the FA Cup by non-league Haringey Borough.

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  11. The Marylebone railwaymen who fought in World War Onepublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

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  12. Paraplegic athlete 'delighted' with Luton wheelchairspublished at 16:28 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Paraplegic athlete Justin Levene speaks to the BBC following Luton Airport's recent decision to introduce 10 self-propelled wheelchairs.

    Mr Levene has dropped legal action against the airport after an incident where his wheelchair was left behind by an airline.

    Previously released footage shows the passenger dragging himself through the airport after refusing the replacement option offered by staff.

  13. Greenwich house waiting list surgespublished at 16:18 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Local Democracy Reporting Service

    The waiting list for a house in Greenwich has surged by thousands in the last four years while the number being offered homes has dropped, an investigation shows.

    So far this year 1,283 households have been successfully re-homed in Greenwich while the number of people on the waiting list has reached its highest since 2014.

    There are 17,481 households waiting to be given a home by Greenwich Council, but the number being offered one has dropped by nearly 30%.

    In figures provided to this newspaper it has been revealed the number of households re-homed has dropped 28% since 2014, down from 1,784.

    So far this year 7% of the waiting list has successfully been moved into accommodation, according to a Freedom of Information request.

    A spokesman for the council said: “There is a nationwide housing crisis. In the Royal Borough alone there are 17,000 households on the council’s housing register with the highest number – over 800 – of homeless households living in temporary accommodation in the past 10 years.

    “Because of the high demand for temporary accommodation and the lack of suitable properties within the borough we sometimes have to house people in properties outside the borough, but only: as a temporary measure; if the applicants themselves wish to move; or for safety reasons.

    He added that: “We are committed to our housing programme for local people and families and have set ourselves an ambitious housing delivery programme of more than 1,000 homes," he said.

    Sadiq Khan agreed to hand Greenwich Council £32m for more than 500 council homes to be built last month.

    The mayor’s cash, will go towards building 588 new homes, although the council says it has identified enough other sites to deliver up to 800 houses by 2030.

    It comes as the council passed a new housing delivering strategy, including community land trusts and “specialist housing”.

  14. Oxford University denies it rejected Stormzy scholarshippublished at 16:10 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

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    Stormzy with his old teachers from Harris Academy in Crystal Palace

    The University of Oxford has denied claims it rejected an offer by Stormzy to fund two black students through a scholarship scheme.

    It told Radio 1 Newsbeat it "admires" his commitment but it had not "received or turned down any offer or proposal".

    It comes after Stormzy claimed the university rejected his scholarship idea - which has since been taken up by the University of Cambridge.

    Newsbeat has contacted the rapper's representatives for a comment.

  15. Supermarket opens first plastic-free zonespublished at 16:02 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    The shop based in Camden in London has gone plastic-free on all items in store, including vegetables, crisps and even squirrel.

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  16. Strike star Tom Burke switches from crime to politicspublished at 15:48 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Vincent Dowd
    Arts reporter

    Tom Burke

    When Tom Burke was cast to star in the BBC series Strike - based on JK Rowling's crime novels - his profile shot up beyond the expectations of those who knew him from other TV roles and an extensive career in the theatre. There's a new Strike in preparation but for now Burke's back on stage in Don Carlos - and this time he's producing too.

    Burke has starred in three series of the TV drama about Cormoran Strike, the former British military policeman injured in Afghanistan who becomes a private investigator in London.

    Writing as Robert Galbraith, Rowling published the fourth Strike novel two months ago. It's called Lethal White but Burke admits he hasn't read it and has no idea what happens.

    "It's not that I don't want to," the Londoner says. "But my head has been full of Friedrich Schiller (the playwright of Don Carlos) and we've been touring the play with a cast of 13. When you tour you even start to calculate how few pairs of socks you can get away with - so taking a big hardback book would be a problem."

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  17. Dembele 'unlikely' to play again in 2018published at 15:41 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Tottenham Hotspur say "it is unlikely" that midfielder Mousa Dembele will play again in 2018 after suffering ankle ligament damage.

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  18. World War One: The battle for Armistice Daypublished at 15:27 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

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    As the UK remembers the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, commemorations will focus on those who fought and died. But Armistice Day wasn't always so sombre.

    At 11:00 on Tuesday 11 November 1919, ex-service personnel, relatives and friends of the dead and millions of others gave thanks for the sacrifices of the Great War.

    A year after the conflict had ended, villages, towns and cities held parades, church services and observed two minutes' silence.

    That was during the day. The evening of 11 November was different. Thousands of people - most of them young - wanted to have fun and "victory balls" were organised.

    Pathé footage of the biggest ball that year, held at London's Royal Albert Hall,, external shows partygoers in costumes including turbans, doublets and hoses, and a stars-and-stripes dress. One imperious-looking woman poses as Britannia.

    "These events often had a celebratory air about them, as soldiers wanted to mark the fact that they had lived through the war," says Chris Kempshall, teaching fellow in modern European history at the University of Sussex.

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  19. Station hawk to tackle 'messy pigeons'published at 14:29 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Harris hawk Aria, who previously defended the Treasury from the winged menace, will patrol at Waterloo.

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  20. Bail for woman who spent £16m in Harrodspublished at 14:08 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2018

    Zamira Hajiyeva, 55, will be released while attempts to extradite her to Azerbaijan are ongoing.

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