London Tonight Tonight Thursday 28th June

Good evening.
We have got an absolutely packed show for you tonight - here's the menu...
Tuberculosis - disease of the past? Not really. London Tonight has got its hands on a report that will shock you. It says the rates of the disease in our great city are the worst in Europe... and in some boroughs worse than China!
Phil Bayles talks to one young woman who's suffering - and doesn't even know where she caught it. It's gripping so don't miss it.

Also tonight - breaking news. The man who stabbed Cheryl Moss - the nurse who went out for a fag break at work - has been found guilty of her murder. We're at the Old Bailey live to hear her brother's reaction to the verdict.

We've got the sad tale of the Olympic evictee. Navy veteran and pensioner Ron Rowen has lived in the same house for 40 years. Unfortunately for him, it's on the Olympic site. Today, he was thrown out by the bailiffs to make room for the cyclists.
And the lady responsible for turning London into an Olympic city will be joining us live at 6. Tessa Jowell on why she's out of cabinet, but still in charge of the biggest project facing the capital in decades.

Then there's the little matter of the Spice Girls. You know we helped make them don't you?
Well tonight Posh, Baby, Sporty, Scary and Ginger are back together and they're back in Alastair's arms - yes, quite literally. And even he's admitted it's smutty!

So Join Al and Katie at six to see it all.

London Tonight Tonight Wednesday 27th June

I am so sorry to be late with this little missif but Tony Blair finally called it a day, today, and Gordon went to the Palace and, we suspect, stayed on for a sarnie and sherbert which has made everything else run late! Oh what a life. The King is dead, long live.... the right to linger, loiter and keep London Tonight Tonight waiting. I despair.

Bet Tony was on the phone on the way to the Palace to say goodbye and bet Gordon was, too, telling all his mates to tune in and see his magic moment on the telly. That's fine... but if the driver had done it while at the wheel then he'd have been for the high-jump. You know that. Or do you? Lots of you are driving as if you didn't. Phil has the evidence and will remind you of the risks you are running.

Running the Olympics from a sporting point of view is going to be a doddle compared to running it as a property business. How much will the Olympic Park be worth in 2013? One careful, albeit Olympic size, owner? £800 M? £2B? It matters because upon it hinges, like a creeky barn-door, the amount the National Lottery Good Causes will get back. Or not.
Bit of a gamble, then, for the National Lottery to have lent the money in the first place. Harris is the man in the shades at the roulette wheel.

Travelling on a bus shouldn't be a gamble, nor should glancing at a stranger be risky. For Martin Dinnegan, on his way to a Youth Club, both proved fatal. The why's and wherefore's are mind-numbing but Glen will be taking you through them and we'll be asking you what you make of it.
Breather!

Cue the music: Crowded House are reforming - ( I didn't know they had broken up) - just in time to hit the concert circuit as they ban smoking in enclosed places. Will this be good news or bad, for them? Everywhere you go, it seems you can no longer do what you want...
(Only if you are a selfsh polluter: Ed)
Stub it out, guv! It was only a play on the words to a song..
(Oh, alright then: Ed)
See you at 6 ... if he's really forgiven us.

Alastair and Katie

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Tues 26th June

It is just after four o'clock and Henman won so don't drift to the BBC: stay with us for ITV's London Tonight and the other bit of the ITV News Hour...

Our programme tonight is a festival of news, entertainment and officious officials.
On the news front, there's less than 24 hours of PM Blair left - and, which ever way you swing politically, it is a moment of some importance on the national and, perhaps, international stage of politics. So what does our Tony do? To prove even he still has things to learn he goes back to school. And who does he take with him on the day before he says "Goodbye" for the last time? The man who made famous the saying "I'll be back", wasn't and became Governor of California instead.
I just love the irony of it all. So did the kids at the school they both showed up at - as you'll see with Simon.

It is wrong not to pay your Council Tax. But if you are 77 years old and refuse to pay £31.16 of it because that is how much you think goes on the Olympics and you don't support the Olympics and don't think you'll be alive in 2012 to see them anyway, then.... well, I'm sorry but it is still wrong.
Whether or not Council Officials should pursue you to the courts for the tax and the costs may be a matter of some debate, however. We'll have that debate tonight, with Phil providing the impartial facts.

Now, imagine everything written by Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham, add in Mrs Robinson in the Graduate and conclude with Long Days Journey Into Night (Ist WW, trenches, last-fags-before-going-over-the-top time...) Now imagine the plays with no ciggies because of the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces. It could happen and it won't be the heirs of Ken Tynan or any other brilliant theatre critic who decides: another officious official from Health and Safety will determine if the puff of the carcinogenics is essential to the plot! Full details at 6.

Rod Stewart has been signing guitars at City Hall and you can win a bumper package of goodies including tickets for his Twickenham show and a personal introduction to the master! Tall blondes beware: he may be married to Penny but, on past form... what a rocker!

Bad Girls was an appalling TV series which pulled in staggeringly big audiences because it was so appalling. (His view, not mine! Editor) Anyway, they are putting it on the West End stage. Call me dumb but, with that big gap at the front, once the curtains up won't they all be able to escape? Only a thought.

Chrissie is in Hampton Court with some of the most beautiful flower displays ever, in one of the most beautiful settings, ever.

And I, along with Romilly, warmly invite you to become informed, annoyed and entertained by all or, at least, most of it.

Alastair.

London Tonight Tonight Monday 25th June

Good afternoon and welcome to the start of another week of Lonon Tonight-ery.

Our capital plumbed new depths at the weekend with four murders in two days: to put it in context, there were 8 murders in the whole of the UK at the weekend and we got half of them.
Full reports, particularly on the brutal events in Beckenham which prompted one witness to tell Marcus it was like listening to a pack of "baying animals"; and from Kingston where the events unfolded at the Volts nightclub.
We'll also be talking to the top-cop in charge of the Met's Special Crime unit.

After that, you'll need some lightening up... if not lighting up which, to a greater or lesser extent, will be nearly illegal in London come July 1st. ( I am fuming which is something I'll be doing less of, come July 1st!).
Bingo players count your blessings and bingo hall managers will find their place in smokers' heaven: a balcony will permit those hooked on housey-housey to continue their twin dodgy habits in peace; but there's a twist to the tale of two fat ladies and ducks in a row... Phil "Eyes down looking" Bayles has the story.

Imagine living in Camberley and hearing the drone of an annoying helicopter overhead: not unusual in that military neck-of-the-woods. But "knock knock" on the door, perhaps less common. Open the door and, knock me down with a feather, you are confronted with the face of one of the least likely diamond-divas you might have expected to drop by. And, as for her request, well I am too embarrassed to tell: it all happened to Mrs Amazed of Camberley who tells all to Damian Steward.

You can have too much of Harry Potter, we all agreed at our planning meeting: Daniel Radcliffe - cute, bare-chested in Equus in the West End but those spectacles and the post-punk mop of hair! Enuff. However, it seems he's been snogging so he may just have become slightly more interesting. I am not convinced but Steve Hargrave has been to investigate.

And Va va voom - the latest on the reason for weeping in the streets of Highbury and of giggly disinterest at Stamford Bridge and White Hart Lane.
Katie's working on the Crimewave story but joins me in urging you to be with us at 6.

Alastair.

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Fri 22nd June

Hi there.

I know I've done it - I'm sure many of you have too - got to the train station with minutes to spare, seen the queue for the ticket machines and faced with the choice of waiting in line or missing the train - opted to jump on board. Well from now, beware! Do that on South West Trains and you will be treated as though you are nothing better than a fare dodger. Even if you go straight up to the guard on the train and ask to buy a ticket, even if the queues for the ticket machines are half a mile long, even if the machines decide not to take notes or cards just as you get up to them - it won't matter. Piers Hopkirk is going to be investigating how that's going down with passengers and if it gets you a little agitated too, or perhaps you think its perfectly fair, we want to hear from you.

Also on the programme an incredibly moving interview with a soldier's widow. Jane Little will be sharing with us the letter she hoped she would never read, the letter her boyfriend left her when he went to Afghanistan, with instructions that it should only be opened if he was killed in action. It's a heart breaking story - she's only nineteen - but what a brave and inspiring woman.

And then the family man who is in a coma after trying to stop a thief driving off in his car. The police are still looking for the car - a Honda Civic - we'll have the latest on that investigation and his condition.

Now we have reported before on the worrying shortage of bees this year, today we have the story of the bees who have built themselves a super nest, a bee mansion and who don't want to move home.

There's also what to look out for at the cinema, what not to miss this weekend AND what London looked like the night the lights went out.

See you at six,

Romilly and Al

London Tonight Tonight Thursday 21st June

Good Afternoon.

Hope you're all well and - if you were up with the larks rolling around naked in one of London's parks to mark the Summer Solstice - we hope you're not too tired. There are one or two people sitting at their desks round here, looking a little bleary-eyed AND with bits of grass in their hair... No, we haven't asked.

Speaking of mark the longest day of the year, we hope you'll be taking part in the 'Lights Out London' campaign. It's all happening between 9 and 10 tonight. And if you need more details on how you can sit back and feel a bit 'greener'... you'd better watch the programme.

Now, Grease - as we all know by now - is the word. You may have watched the ITV programme and voted for the chap and chapette now lined up to be the new Danny and Sandy. (Don't tell anyone - but someone sitting not too far from here right now was watching 'Joseph' on the other side. Tickets have been bought for one Thursday night in November, ready to check out whether 'Lee' was a vote well cast... or not.) Anyway, Danny B and Susan have begun rehearsals for their first night in just 6 weeks time. Tamzin will be chatting with them to find out just how nervous they are.

The programme starts though on a much more sombre note - the stabbing of Sian Simpson. An 18 year girl has been charged with her murder - and there is still a very real sense of shock around the corner of Croydon where Sian's life was brought so abruptly to an end. Glen Goodman is the only TV reporter who's been speaking to her father and sister - and we'll hear their desperate story this evening.

We'll also be looking at two London institutions that get Londoners' blood boiling. Let's start with the Dome (or the O2, as some very earnest people in suits would want us to call it). Love it, loathe it - the place is back in business - and this time, it's showbusiness. It's now the biggest music venue of its kind in Europe and it opens this weekend. Robyn Ross has been for a sneaky-peak.

Phil Bayles though is riding the Metronet express right into another cash controversy. The people who paid an awful lot of money to do up the tube and make it faster, cleaner, nicer, better (we'll let you judge) now say they've not been paid enough for the work they've done. In fact, they reckon they're owed more than £1 BILLION. We just tell you the facts. You judge for yourselves.

So then - a packed, packed programme. You wouldn't want to miss it... like Alastair...

You see, we've also been speaking to his 'hero of the hour', Lewis Hamilton. At just 22 years old, the terribly nice chap from Hertfordshire just happens to be leading the Formula One Drivers' Championship. Mr Stewart will be spitting feathers... but then, he's going to be a very busy man a little later on ITV1.

We'll tell you all about that too - at SIX.

Ben & Katie

London Tonight Tonight Wednesday 20th June

Afternoon..

Another awful knife death leads our programme tonight. This time it's a 17 year old girl, stabbed in the street in Croydon yesterday. The 2 suspects currently being questioned by police - also teenage girls. It sounds shocking - and if all is as it seems, then it certainly is shocking. We'll have all the latest information and interviews with witnesses and friends of the victim.

You'll remember of course the day that Jill Dando was shot dead on her own Fulham doorstep 8 years ago. The man convicted of her murder, Barry George today won the right to appeal for a second time. He's always claimed it wasn't him, and now his lawyers suggest there is new evidence to back his case. Marcus Powell has been investigating.

We've the tale of the 2 year old boy who waited 4 hours in A and E in Reading with a broken leg. As you can imagine, his parents were NOT impressed.

Phil Bayles been taking a look at the rather macabre new exhibition from the Wellcome Trust and Tamzin's interviewing that old charmer Bruce Willis at the premiere of Die Hard 4 ... will he be wearing a vest?

Meanwhile Ben and I will be scoffing in the studio, thanks to the Taste of London festival.. excellent!
See you at 6.

Katie

London Tonight Tonight Tuesday 19th June

Hello and a very happy Tuesday to you.

Bit of a drama going on here at the moment... er, we've just lost our top story. When we say 'lost' we don't mean it's fallen down the back of the sofa. It just wasn't what we thought, that's all.... which means we won't run it... which means we've got a bit more programme to fill. Nervous? Naaah. Excited? "That's more like it"... says the editor.

So, while the team decides what other news we'll get to cover as a result, we'll run you quickly through the stories we're already working on...

Well, the Mayor of London's been issued with an ultimatum over the members of the London Fire Authority. He's refused to sanction the appointment of nine white men to the authority because he says they don't represent the capital. London's fire boss, Ken Knight, has told him to either reconsider his position or, er, expect to hear from some lawyers. It's plenty more complicated than that... but the deadline passes at 5pm, and Simon Harris will cover all the developments.

Mr Livingstone's been a busy man today, as he also unveiled plans for a new rail-line to go round the city. And to run it, we'll be calling on the Chinese and a construction company - obviously. And do the unions not like that! Over to Glen Goodman.

Meanwhile , Liz Wickham's got a good lead on a story (stay with me here). Southwark Council put up signs in a park saying dogs have to be kept on leads 'at all times'. But, actually, they don't. And the council can't enforce it. So the signs were probably a bit of a waste of time, weren't they? And a waste of £36,000 worth of tax-payers' money... I mean, really.

We'll have to leave it up to the ticket-buying audiences at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to decide whether the millions (and millions) of pounds spent committing 'Lord of the Rings' to the stage was money well spent. However, what we can do - and Tamzin will do - is bring you all the excitement as the clock ticks down to 'curtain up' on the world's most expensive musical.

So - all that - and plenty more at SIX.

See you then...

Ben & Nina

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Mon 18th June

Hello!

We're leading with the pretty shocking story that an NHS trust in our patch, Sutton and Merton to be precise, has admitted that it's failed to meet all 3 new government targets on cleanliness and hygiene. The aim was to cut the appalling rates of MRSA and C diff.... the result in this case: rubbish.

There's some good news - we think - from County Hall this afternoon. It seems Ken is cutting bus fares back to 90p for a single if you use your Oyster card. So why the caveat? Well, they were keeping their cards very close to their chest about this one, and we're not sure why they wouldn't shout to the roof tops. It also seems they can afford the cuts because the Tube budget is in surplus to the tune of 150 million pounds this year. Perhaps that money should be ploughed back into the tube system?

We're getting all the details on the footballers arrested for allegedly fiddling their driving license points... we're with the retired naval officer who's the first person to be evicted by the Olympic machine - he's got til tomorrow to move out.

Damien's been off investigating the joys of living in a houseboat.. while Kirstie will be with us to talk about the increasingly cavernous gulf between rich and poor in this city, not to mention the death of community spirit in the suburbs. So plenty of property news for us to get our teeth into.

For a bit of fun we're getting all excited about the man who came 4th in American Idol. No, really. He actually has done significantly better than all his other rivals on the show put together ... he's massive in the States. Tonight he's playing London .. and Jasmine went to meet him.

And that, is pretty much it.

See you at 6!

Katie and Al. x

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Fri 15th June

Good afternoon.

It has been one of those weeks where some of us weren't entirely sure we'd make it, rather like the wonderful men and women from the London I.T. team who are with Ronke, in South Africa, trying to build some outbuildings for a township school. Tonight we have made it to Friday and you can see if they have made it too, albeit thousands of miles away.

Closer to home, a report from the Home Affairs Select Committee (stay awake at the back, there!) all of whom are white (don't get angry, stick with me) has tried to make sense of why so many young blacks get caught up in so much crime. I sat down with comic genius and social commentator Richard Blackwood, who is black and still young-ish, to ask for his thoughts. Worth tuning in for whatever your age or race... and there are some good driving tips, too.

Simon Webbe is black but was Blue - well part of Blue and is now solo: he has toured, provided a song for a movie and is watching his latest album make good progress. He is dropping in, live, so I don't know if he'll have any driving tips but he is a really nice guy and very talented.

As is James King: it is just his dress-sense that worries me, sometimes! He is here, as always on a Friday, to cast an informed yet discerning eye over this weeks big releases... including the movie Simon Webbe provided a song for.( Are you keeping up or still feeling angry about those MPs?)

Tamzin, in my view, is simply someone not to miss and, therefore, casts herself, irrevocably, in the role of purveyor of our What Not to Miss feature, a highlight of what you might consider doing this weekend. She doesn't share my view but does the work brilliantly, nevertheless.

As does Robin, magnificently if not a little surreally occasionally, with the weather.

It is Friday and it is all there, plus some.

See you at 6 with the delicious Ms Sylvester on my arm.

Alastair

London Tonight Tonight Thursday 14th June

Afternoon: me again asking you, again, to join us for a tour de force across the landscape that is London's news, entertainment and current affairs.

We're six years on and, after more hours of police-time than you could imagine, the Boys in Blue have arrested Michael Barrymore and two other men on suspicion of the murder of Stuart Lubbock.
All three are currently helping police with their enquiries but we have been making our own, too. Don't know what the cops will discover, but you'll be amazed by what Marcus has already found out. That and more at 6.

Ford of America have put Jaguar and Land Rover up for sale; Wall Street's "venture capitalists" or "vulture capitalists", as some Unions call them, are circling nearly every British business from BA to Sainsbury. But your local school: surely not? Well, Edison, famous for light bulbs and power generation, is also the name of an out-sourcing giant in the States and they're running a school in London and rather well, according to many. We'll tell you the facts and ask what you make of it.
Ronke, with no help from Edison, is in South Africa watching the gang from a London IT company put the finishing touches to a school extension - it was raining yesterday, so fingers crossed! Your hearts will melt....

My heart melted when Victoria Hart came in to see us: she was the London waitress who was flown to Cannes to sing for George Clooney and Brad Pitt at the film festival. Well, she's got a recording contract and is going out for dinner to celebrate: and this time,someone else will be waiting on her! She shared her excitement with Liz.

Equally excited, the bands and the audiences for this weekend's WIRELESS gig in Hyde Park: runners and riders with Tamzin, including the bands you voted for!

And finally, I only make light of this because there wasn't an accident.
Underground trains can go both ways but, at any given time of the day, and on any given platform in the system, they are only supposed to go one way: the right way.
The driver, who clambered in and promptly drove off in the wrong direction but fortunately found the brake with only moments to spare, will feature in our comprehensive coverage of the remarkable range of things that make London London, Tonight.

Katie and I, and the whole gang, look forward to seeing you at 6.

Alastair

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Weds 13th June

Good afternoon and apologies for the delay and the brevity - there has been a flap in the ITV newsroom about Madeleine McCann which has occupied lots of us.

Anyway, a real flap, too, down at City Hall as the cost and problems of former Transport Commissioner Bob Kiley occupied Assembly Members and the Mayor today. They were all behaving like exploding Bendy Buses and Simon, who secured that remarkable recent interview with Mr Kiley about his drinking and how much he was still costing you, has the cut and thrust of an amazing day.

In a flash, the jury aquitted the Judge accused of displaying more than his briefs on the train. It is a very strange story and Glen will reveal.. no he won't, he will "tell" all.

Aircraft carriers on the Thames and London Tonight reporters in South Africa: is there no limit to our ambitions?

Not even landing an exclusive TV interview with Kevin Spacey, back with another exciting season at the Old Vic?

No: it is all there and we will be, too, at 6.

Hope you can find the time to join us.

Alastair

LONDON TONIGHT UPDATE

Some breaking news - a building's collapsed near Scotland Yard in Victoria.

We'll be live on the scene tonight at six.

If you've any pictures of it - then call our newsdesk on 020 7430 4000 or email them to londontonight@itvlondon.com

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LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Tues 12th June

Good afternoon to you one and all...

Well, before we talk about the main business of the day, I'd like to talk 'teasmaids'. My Mum and Dad had one (rather a lot of years ago). Our editor's Gran had one (presumably a few more years ago). Ms Derham said her parents didn't have one... but wished they had. Well, according to one of the papers, John Lewis is looking for a company to start making them again as punters are always asking staff if they stock them. Personally, I feel able, of a morning, to walk all of the short distance from my bedroom to our kitchen to make a hot beverage. Still - as I remember - Mum and Dad's did make a good bubbling noise when the water boiled.

Just felt I had to get that off my chest.

Perhaps a group of Chelsea pensioners we'll be hearing from later might have an opinion - although they probably wouldn't hear the bubbling noise above the rock concert they're being treated to this afternoon. Seriously, we'll have the White Stripes, giving it their all for a more mature audience than they're used to - all in aid of the charity... and all covered by Steve Hargrave.

The programme starts though on a much more sombre note... and an exclusive - the conviction of a man who stabbed and sexually assaulted a young lady in Orpington last year. The lady's name is Carly Furness and we can tell you that because she's waived her legal right to anonymity. Despite her horrific experience though, it could have been worse for Carly - but for the intervention of another brave lady who saw the attack, stopped the attack, and made sure Carly got to hospital. The two woman haven't been allowed to talk while the court case has been pending - but, for the first time this evening, you can see them meet - only on London Tonight. Emma Walden has the story.

Meanwhile, Glen will be reporting on a rather remarkable 'about face' from TfL. After the Mayor promising less than two years ago that there WOULD always be ticket-offices at ALL tube-stations... guess what... an announcement today that 40 ticket offices are to close. Confused? Worried? Cross? We'll want to hear all about what you're thinking.

Wouldn't it be interesting to hear what the International Olympic Committee thinks about the new 2012 logo... well, they're over for a three day inspection of preparations for the London games. Simon Harris is covering that - and took the chance to ask Lord Coe how HE feels about the logo - one week on.

Ronke Phillips won't be with us this week. I should say, she won't be with us HERE - instead, she'll be reporting from South Africa on a Chiswick woman with deep pockets and a big heart... Tamzin will be in Leicester Square being 'fantastic' (obviously) for the premiere of a new 'Fantastic Four' film.... Christie will be telling us, I fear, that the rest of the week's weather looks far from fantastic... AND we'll be revealing the last winner of our 'Unsigned' competition. Er... fantastic.

With all that, you'd be mad to miss it... or busy looking for a teasmaid.

See you at SIX,

Ben

London Tonight Tonight Monday 11th June

Hello - hope you had a great weekend.
Personally, and I can be personal because it has fallen to me to send you this e-mail, I thought it was a fantastic weekend: Lewis Hamilton won his first Grand Prix and the Rolling Stones appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival. But this is London Tonight, I hear you grumble. Well, Lewis comes from Stevenage which is on our patch.
And Sir Mick, who owns a estate agent's window full of property around the world, has a lovely home in Richmond.
Anyway, despite that and despite my best efforts, you escape the Rolling Stones on tonight's show, but there will be a delightful look at Lewis and his historic achievement in Canada yesterday.
Our news agenda is led by possibly one of the saddest and most brutal murders we have had the disagreeable duty to report to you. The victim predicted it, the perpetrators were members of her immediate family, the motive was their disapproval of her choice in love, and the fall-out has been described as the biggest setback in police-race relations for a quarter of a century. Officers simply didn't believe the victim when she told them her life was at risk: the full and troubling details at 6.

More evidence, if evidence were needed, that being a Police officer is one of the most dangerous and stressful jobs in the capital: one Officer, who went to answer a cry for help in Luton, ended up dead; another, called to an incident in Sevenoaks, faced a chilling life or death decision when faced with an armed woman in the middle of the night. He killed her and survives to face a full enquiry.

So, light and shade - weighty matters and a little levity, I hope you agree.
Where, then, would you place the arrival on the red carpet tonight of Justin Timberlake? Or Mike Myers explaining what he would do if he were King? Hard to say. One, or possibly even both, will happen in the charming company of Jasmine Lowson at the Shrek premiere in town tonight.
But can Myers sing rock or Timberlake drive an F1 race car? I have my doubts: what a weekend it was....

see you at 6

Alastair

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Fri 8th June

Hello.

It's the Editor here, putting my first programme together using the new computer programme that we've just started using this week. Faye, who put together the rest of the week's programmes, managed to defeat the technology and get on air - lets see how I cope tonight.

Right - newswise - we start with the story of a teaching assistant who refused to listen to a pupil reading a Harry Potter book. The reason - it's anti-Christian. She later quit - and is now claiming compensation, saying she faced religious discrimination. Find out more at six as Phil Bayles has been there all day.

George Michael was sentenced today after being found slumped at the wheel of his car. He had a few words to say afterwards - find out what they were - and what he was sentenced to - at six.

We've the final part of our fascinating series from Afghanistan. Simon reveals what it's like for those members of the London TA to live at Camp Bastian.

James King is in to talk movies, we've the latest Tour De France countdown, and Jenny Seagrove joins us in the studio to talk about her latest West End show.

All that - the weekend weather - and the incredible, gravity defying Hillingdon Hospital food.

Don't miss it. I hope we don't either.

Stuart

London Tonight Tonight Thursday 7th June

Hello and good evening to you all.
Ever taken your life in your hands tackling London's bendy buses? Well if you have you're not alone. It turns out that it's not just anecdotal... they actually are MORE dangerous than their predecessors. In fact, five crashes happen involving a bendy bus EVERY single day.
So what does Transport for London plan to do about it? Apparently the answer is to put more of them on our streets!
We're pretty mad about it - and so will you be. Phil Bayles explains all at 6.

Simon Harris brings you his final report from Afghanistan. Tonight he's on desert patrol with the young men of London's TA unit as they protect crucial supply drops that support the war effort. They're a proud bunch - and we're proud of them.

They may be on their best behaviour, but as many of you well know, the capital's kids are not so much. And we're live at a fun fair that's come up with a novel approach - it's called a Cliffbo... and you'll need to join Kate live at the fair to find out what that is all about.

Then there's Willsy on the march with the Coldstream Guards - they take Trooping the Colour incredibly seriously don't you know... And Tamzin's met the cast of the new Take That musical - and no Willsy didn't make the cut.

Tune in for all that and much, much more at six.
See you then.

London Tonight Tonight Weds 6th June

Good afternoon!
As a child one of my greatest treats was when my grandfather, who was a taxi driver, took my brother and me to Hamleys: we'd get ten bob each (50p for youngsters, those lovely browny-orange notes for people of my age) and we would buy some short-lived nonsense in the entrance hall but we loved it and we loved him.
Second only to that was to visit the Great Big Blue Whale which hung in the Natural History Museum. And it still does. But it's got a bit dusty, apparently. Personally, I won't hear a word against it save to say it is smaller than I remember... anyway, Glen has not gone to Hamley's but is at the Science Museum as I write to report on the Wash and Brush Up for every child's favourite scientific spectacle.

Not such a favourite yet is the new london 2012 Logo - actually most of you hate it. Some of you have suffered epileptic fits watching it, and hardly any of you seem to agree with Seb Coe that it will grow on you. The latest on the branding debacle at 6 and your chance, again, to have your say.
More fun is what they found when they were digging foundations for the Velodrome, down in the Lower Lea Valley. On your bike we said to Marcus and off he went. They may be defensive about the logo, but it's defences of a different and fascinating sort they found! A clue? Marcus has just reminded us it is the anniversary of D-Day today.

Simon, who'd have been there like a shot, instead has his latest bulletin from our Brave Lads in Afghantistan: one Terry nearly reduced us to tears with what he had to say: you, too, will be moved....
And finally, the delightful Marc Almond drops by to talk about his new album, his continuing recovery from an horrific motor-bike prang, and the Olympic logo - talk about tainted love!

See you at 6.

Alastair

London Tonight Tonight Tuesday 5th June

Hi everyone,

There is so much on tonight's programme I just don't know where to begin!
We've got an exclusive from Afghanistan tonight - our Political Correspondent Simon Harris has been on patrol with the London TA unit sent to Helmand Province. It's scary, exhilirating and at times, dangerous... but the team have got some incredible stories to tell - starting tonight.

From extraordinary men to an extraordinary woman. Adam Regis was stabbed to death aged just 15 earlier this year. Today, his mother joined police in appealing for help to catch his killers. She announced a 20 thousand pound reward and detectives released some crucial CCTV that could help their cause. Tune in to hear a mother's heartfelt plea.

There's more on that 2012 logo that went down like a lead balloon - we couldn't resist the opportunity to come up with a logo of our own - check out our offerings and find out what the expects thought. You can even vote for your favourite.

There's a green pub, struggling to beat London's red tape... and then there's Hampton Court Palace - in the sun.

It's all to come at six - so don't miss a minute.

London Tonight Tonight Monday 4th June

Hi there,
We're a bit up against it in the newsroom tonight. New technology don't you know... It's tough teaching a bunch of old dogs new tricks! Anyway, watch to see if we manage to get things right!

Here's what's on the programme tonight:
Kate Beagley went out on a date... But she never came home. Now it seems her body has been found by police searching a wood in Watford. And she did all the right things. She rang and texted her friends to tell them where she was going... She even filled in her dad. But it wasn't enough to save her life. Right now police are questioning a man on suspicion of her murder... we'll have the latest from the scene.

London 2012 has gone through a rebranding exercise. Today's launch was star-studded, but will it get a celestial reception. We're not convinced, so tune in to see if you like it. And on that note, just as the 2012 team try to convince us to embrace all things sporting - there's the true story of the gyms, sporting facilities and classes that are having to shut down because they just don't have the funds. Sounds like one to make your blood boil...

Talking of things getting hotter, Tamzin's spent the afternoon with Enrique Iglesias... and Chrissie's here to tell us if the beautiful weather at the weekend is set to continue.
That and loads more, so join us at six.

LONDON TONIGHT TONIGHT: Fri 1st June

Friday, Friday everyone... hurrah, it's the weekend.

And what better way to start two days away from the coal-face than half an hour of 'London Tonight'..? Well, a whole SIXTY minutes in front of the ITV News Hour. They said, quickly, before one of the bosses sees this...

Nonetheless, it's the capital that kick's it all off and this evening we start with dodgy motors. Only, the people buying them won't have known that because of the international lengths a bunch of fraudsters went to. They ALMOST got away with making four million pounds. But then, when it comes to breaking the law, ALMOST isn't really good enough, is it..? Marcus Powell will explain how the wheels came off their little venture.

Next up - is there anyone reading this I wonder who went to school in Holland Park - the first, purpose-built, comprehensive school in London..? Well - bad news - it's being knocked down. There will be a school there, but it won't be the same school because they're selling a load of land off for developers to build... anyone? anyone? that's right - luxury housing. Cross? Well, after Kate Recordon's take on the story, we want to hear how cross.

Mention 'Heathrow' and ' ANOTHER massive new building programme' in the same sentence and you'd expect people to get cross all over again. But, and BAA will tell you it's a 'BIG but' - the new terminal, replacing T1 and T2, will be greener, more comfortable and won't lead to more flights or passengers. Damien Steward's been checking out the grand plan.

We also - and this is the highlight for one of the presenters tonight - we also - really, he's pretty excited - we ALSO have... Elaine Paige in the studio, talking about her new musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone'. What you might call 'Theatre Royalty'...

There'll be 'Movie Royalty' too... well, James King (give us a break, it's Friday) is here talking movies... there'll be 'What Not to Miss'... and Chrissie, lucky thing, is in Epsom for Ladies Day, ahead of the Derby tomorrow.

And they're off... at SIX.

Ben & Romilly.