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China crisis, London calling

Updated on 14 May 2008

By Rags Martel, Lewis Hannam

More4 News visits one of the many Chinese restaurants in London, where staff are anxiously waiting for news of their relatives.

As the death toll rises in China, so has the anxiety for some of the quarter of a million Chinese living in the UK, who have relatives in the areas devastated by the earthquake.

In one restaurant alone Rags Martel found people desperate for news.

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