Hope you all had a top weekend and the next one doesn't seem TOO far away.
We're kicking off the week with an international flavour - the world picture if you like, with an emphasis on little old London's place in that world. We all know that mankind has generally been making a mess of our planet - it's not like it never gets mentioned on the news. And we're always getting told what we could are should be doing to make amends, but how many of us are listening to, and acting on, that advice. Er... not very many, it would seem. Well, not many Londoners are, at least. In fact, a survey Phil Bayles has been looking at shows that fewer than one in four Londoners currently do anything to avert climate change. That makes us bottom of the British table.
Love him, or loathe him, you'd be hard pushed to say that our Mayor doesn't pay much attention to climate change. This week, he's in New York along with leaders from around 40 of the world's biggest cities - looking at the ways in which London can do its bit. Let's face it, we've got a big hill to climb.
Away from the international picture, news of a London tragedy which caught the country's attention - the murder of Peter Woodhams, the young dad shot dead on his own doorstep in Custom House last August. You may remember that he'd been stabbed 7 months before he was murdered and that his family argued the attack was never properly investigated. Well, Marcus Powell will have the latest on news that two detectives are now to face a misconduct tribunal.
Now, hands up if you were ever smoking when, and indeed, WHERE you shouldn't have been... come on, come on, you know who you are. Okay, hands up now, if you've ever been caught smoking in the 10 o'clock family service at St Pauls. Not so many hands, perhaps. Well, that's what London's church-leaders reckon - which is why they're pretty cross that they're being told to stick up 'no smoking' signs at their churches. Kate Recordon will empty the ashtray on that story.
Meanwhile, Damien Steward makes a return visit to an old water tower that's been turned into new flats... Kirstie Allsopp will be here to talk property too... Jasmin Lowson will be talking 'Booty Luv'... and Chrissie's on weather duty.
And... AND... 'London Tonight UNSIGNED' is back - if you're in a band hoping for a bash at the big time, you will NOT want to miss your chance to enter.
So, you'd better tune in at SIX.
Ben & Tamzin
