BBC London Live as it happened

This evening and tonight it will be cloudy at first with any rain gradually clearing away through the first part of the night, leaving the rest of the night dry with light winds and some clear spells developing.

Minimum temperature: 6C (43F).

Here's a first look at the top corner of Cornelia Parker's 13-metre long Magna Carta (An Embroidery) which depicts the Magna Carta Wikipedia page as it appeared last year on the document's 799th birthday.

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Among those who contributed to the work are Antony Gormley, Caitlin Moran, Edward Snowden, Germaine Greer, Julian Assange (who stitched the word Freedom), and almost 40 prisoners.

The embroidery goes on display at the British Library from tomorrow, until 24 July.

On the programme at 18:30 on BBC One: A lorry driver is jailed for three and a half years after killing a cyclist in Holborn.

And Boris Johnson tells reporter Marc Ashdown the capital could get extra powers to spend stamp duty on large construction projects like Crossrail 2.

British artist David Hockney sat in front of some of his work, at the launch of an exhibition of his work earlier.

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Called David Hockney: Painting And Photography, the show is on at Annely Juda Fine Art on Dering Street in central London opening tomorrow.

European 100m champion James Dasaolu from London is preparing to take on America's Justin Gatlin in the Diamond League opener in Doha this weekend.

All eyes will be on the race with it being Gatlin's first 100m race of the season - the American has been dividing opinions after returning to the sport in 2010 following a second doping ban.

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is expected to tie the knot with her Formula One boss boyfriend, Christian Horner, at Syon House in southwest London tomorrow.

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Staff redundancies at Waltham Forest Council have cost more than £1m over the past five years, according to This Is Local London.

Despite pay-outs to over 500 members of staff the number of full time equivalent (FTE) agency workers have increased from 229 in 2011, to 432 this year.

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There is queuing traffic on the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach northbound at the Tunnel junction, due to an earlier broken down vehicle.

And on the A205 a traffic light failure on London Road in Forest Hill at the A2216 Dartmouth Road junction is causing congestion.

On the District Line there are minor delays between Wimbledon and Edgware Road due to signal failure at Wimbledon Park.

Our top stories on London Live:

• Lorry driver Barry Meyer has been jailed for causing the death of cyclist Alan Neve
• Former Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle is banned from driving for three years after admitting drinking and driving
• Boris Johnson tells BBC London the capital could get extra powers to spend stamp duty on large construction projects like Crossrail 2

Earlier, Mayor of London Boris Johnson spoke to customers (who obviously didn't save him a toastie) in the cafe at the Community Shop in west Norwood.

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It allows members to buy food reduced by up to 70% of normal retail prices by selling surplus products that larger retailers can't use.

Meyer was convicted of causing death to a cyclist by careless driving, as well as causing death by driving while uninsured and unlicensed at Blackfriars Crown Court.

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Alan Neve, 52, from Poplar, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Spurs goalkeeper Brad Friedel will retire at the end of the season.

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The 43-year-old American moved to England to join Liverpool in 1997 and has also played for Blackburn and Aston Villa. If he plays in either of Spurs' last two league games this season he will become the oldest player in Premier League history.

London-based artist Zhu Tian, who has made her name by binding herself to gallery curators using cling film, and sewing human hair onto high heel shoes, has won the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for up-and-coming artists.

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The award is given to emerging talents who have been out of art school for a year, and in Zhu Tian's case she graduated from the Royal College of Art's MA in sculpture.

Fans of Swindon Town and Preston North End are being warned they could struggle to reach Wembley for their League 2 play-off final next week due to a lack of trains.

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Planned engineering work means there will be no trains from Swindon on the Great Western line while services from Preston will be disrupted by work on the West Coast line operated by Virgin Trains, despite the company being Preston North End's sponsor.

Virgin said: "It's unfortunate timing - and slightly embarrassing for us, bearing in mind our connections with Preston. So we are looking at what we can do on the Monday morning because the feedback we have had says a lot will be staying down for the night." The other train companies have apologised.

A decision on whether three London schoolgirls feared to have fled Britain to join Islamic State (IS) will face any action will be made when they return, police have said, following suggestions that three British jihadi brides were on the run from IS.

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Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana who all attended Bethnal Green Academy disappeared from London in February and flew to Turkey, before crossing the border into Syria.

Assistant Met Commissioner Mark Rowley said: "Obviously we are working with the families, trying to investigate where they are and what they are up to and as and when they come into the west and we have contact with them we will make a decision based on the evidence at the time."

A black cab has been decorated in rainbow livery to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Sunday.

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The cab will also join Transport for London's rainbow bus in this year's Pride in London parade on 27 June.

Martyn Loukes from TfL said: "Having a traditional black cab, which is famous all over the world, wrapped in a rainbow flag shows what a truly diverse city we are."

District judge Susan Williams told Clarke Carlisle that, although he had made a "positive contribution" in the world of others in football, that she had to sentence him for the risk he had created in driving "erratically".

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She told Carlisle that " if you are not in control of your vehicle in a road in central London you represent a danger to people".

His art has been inspired by protest movements - but Peter Kennard says his aim is not to create propaganda.

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His eye-catching work is now on show at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Three men arrested three days before Remembrance Sunday will go on trial in October over an alleged beheading plot.

Nadir Ali Sayed, 22, from Hounslow, west London, Yousaf Shah Syed, 19, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Haseeb Hamayoon, 27, from Hayes, west London, are accused of planning acts of terrorism.

Our top stories on London Live:

• Greece has ruled out taking legal action against the UK to reclaim the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum.
• More than 700 potential terror suspects have travelled to Syria and hundreds have returned to the UK, Scotland Yard have revealed.
• Boris Johnson has told BBC London the capital could get extra powers to spend stamp duty on large construction projects like Crossrail 2.

Singer Paloma Faith will play Tinkerbell in a new TV version of Peter Pan which will feature Stanley Tucci playing Captain Hook, and Laura Fraser as Mrs Darling.

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The modern two-hour ITV drama will begin at Great Ormond Street Hospital which has benefited from a bequest entitling it to royalties from JM Barrie's classic tale, and has also seen scenes filmed in Luxembourg and and Dorset.

The Samaritans tweets: Are you passing through St Pancras today? If so say hi to our wonderful cyclists, taking on 365 miles in 10 hours!

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A pensioner from Swiss Cottage has been declared the Odeon's best customer after going to the cinema every week since 1937 and watching 7,300 films - equating to 469 days watching the silver screen.

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The first film John Gale saw was The Dolly Sisters in 1945, but he also remembers the opening of A Hard Day's Night in 1964 with queues stretching down Finchley Road, as well as Brief Encounter and recent space epic Gravity.

To celebrate, the Odeon has given him 70 free tickets which he hopes to use to watch films from his favourite seat - H5.

Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes tweets: #London's latest all natural outside pool, opens soon in King's Cross #kxpondclub

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This afternoon will be cloudy with some heavy rain, before clearing away to the southeast this evening. The cloud, wind and rain will make it feel cool for the time of year.

Top temperature: 11C (52F).

Newly married couple Julie Saunders and Paul Jafrate, who had been planning to get wed for a decade, tied the knot last week and became the last couple to marry at Richmond Register Office before it closes, This Is Local London reports

Brass bands and ballet are an unlikely combination, but they have collaborated together in a new work marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners' strike.

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Mark Baldwin's Dark Arteries sees Rambert's dancers share the stage with the 32-piece Tredegar Town Band.

Will Gompertz went down to watch rehearsals ahead of the show's debut in Sadler's Wells.

Join me just after 13:30 on BBC One when we'll hear more from the Mayor after he indicates London could keep some of the cash raised through Stamp Duty for large scale infrastructure projects.

And a first look at the UK's largest heart hospital which has opened in the East End.

The number of terrorism-related arrests made by police across England, Wales and Scotland has reached more than 700, Scotland Yard has revealed.

It said half of the 338 people who travelled to Syria in 2014/15 and who are classed as a "significant concern" are from London.

Greece has ruled out taking legal action against the UK to reclaim the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum and decided the country would pursue a "diplomatic and political" approach to retrieving the sculptures instead.

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It comes after the country rejected the advice of London barrister Amal Clooney, who had urged Greece to take Britain to the International Criminal Court over the Marbles, which were taken from Greece's Parthenon by Lord Elgin 200 years ago.

Controversial plans for a new 80-space commuter car park set to be built on green belt land by Theydon Bois station were blocked last night by planners at Epping Forest District Council, the Epping Forest Guardian reports.

Chris Ramsey says he will discover "within a week" whether he will continue as manager of relegated QPR.

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He was placed in charge until the end of the campaign after Harry Redknapp quit in February, but could not prevent the club slipping back down after only one season in the top flight.

Seven out of 10 properties on Ashburn Place in Kensington and a third of the 1,519 properties in Chelsea's Sloane Avenue are classed as second homes according to a Kensington and Chelsea Council database, the Evening Standard reports.

Our top stories on London Live:

• Boris Johnson tells BBC London the capital could get extra powers to spend stamp duty on large construction projects like Crossrail 2
• Claudia Winkleman relives the 'horrific' moment her daughter was injured in a Halloween fire
• More than 1,000 cases of superbugs are discovered in London's hospitals.
• Detectives are believed to be working with the Indian police to trace relatives of a family found dead in Chadwell Heath

A year on from the death of teenage cancer sufferer Stephen Sutton and a fund set up by him has raised more than £4.5m for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

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The Trust said its 18-bed unit at London's University College Hospital had benefitted from money for refurbishment work and units in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oxford had also received funds.

Nearly a quarter of Stephen's total was donated after he died on 14 May 2014 - and people are still contributing which the Trust has called a "tidal wave of generosity".

BBC London transport correspondent Tom Edwards tweets: Irrelevant fact: Transport Minister for Roads Andrew Jones used to work at Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate (in sales not in the tearoom)

Boris Johnson has told BBC London the capital could get extra powers to spend stamp duty on large construction projects like Crossrail 2.

The mayor says he's met George Osborne this week to discuss using money raised via house sales as funding on a "project by project" basis.

It's understood the Treasury is open to the idea of devolving some of the money raised, but is wary about a wholesale change. Boris Johnson is confident a deal can be reached.

A new set of stamps , including a portrait of the first Nepalese Gurkha to win the Victoria Cross, are being unveiled in London today.

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The six stamps also feature a picture of the football kicked out of British trenches by Private Frank Edwards into No Man's land which is preserved in the London Irish Rifles' Regimental Museum.

Actress Joanna Lumley said: "In the First World War Gurkhas ended up far away from their homeland, men used to crisp mountain air found themselves stuck in muddy trenches in Flanders. But they faced everything with fortitude. So I am glad a Gurkha is being honoured on this stamp."

TfL's Victoria Line tweets: Pimlico station is currently closed while we fix faulty fire equipment.

BBC London sports reporter Phil Parry tweets: #QPR Chris Ramsey faces the questions and says players response says he is right for job.

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Train company Southern, which operates Britain's least-punctual train route, has altered its timetable to make certain journeys three minutes longer to reduce its chances of being classed as late.

The company's 07.29 service from Brighton to London Victoria failed to reach the capital by its expected 08.35 during the whole of 2014. The service will now arrive into Victoria three minutes later at 08.38am and will also no longer stop at Wivelsfield in West Sussex.

On its website, Southern said: "We believe these additional changes will further improve performance overall." What do you think? Email us

Lorry driver Barry Meyer, 53, of Walthamstow, is due to be sentenced later for causing the death of cyclist Alan Neve (pictured) in High Holborn on 15 July.

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Meyer will be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court for causing death to a cyclist by careless driving and causing death by driving while uninsured and unlicensed.

BBC London reporter Guy Lynn tweets: Holy zam zam water, samples exposed as contaminated by arsenic by @bbclondonnews in 2011 banned for sale in Malaysia

BBC London 94.9 has learned there were more than 1,000 cases of superbugs in the capital's hospitals in the last year.

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It comes as an independent panel appointed by the government calls on the global pharmaceutical industry to pay for a £1.3bn fund to revitalise research into antibiotics.

Its chair, Jim O'Neill, says no new antibiotics have been developed for decades but drug resistant strains of bacteria are threatening to make existing ones useless:

Social supermarkets selling discounted foods are to open across the capital after the capital's first Community Shop in West Norwood was deemed a success.

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Goods that would otherwise be thrown away by large stores are sold to the shop's members at much lower prices.

Our top stories on London Live:

• Detectives are believed to be working with the Indian police to trace relatives of a family found dead in Chadwell Heath
• Chancellor George Osborne will use his first speech to promise to give other English cities powers similar to London.
• More than 1,000 cases of superbugs are discovered in London's hospitals.

It may have been taken a few hours ago, but this picture seemed too good to miss, and with BBC weather saying it's set to rain later it's old wives tale prediction seems correct too.

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Met Police on the water tweet: Red sky in the morning, Shepherds warning. End of watch for team 1, stay safe #London.

Ex-footballer Clarke Carlisle is due in court for sentencing this afternoon in north London after he pleaded guilty to a drink-driving offence.

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The 35-year-old crashed into a delivery lorry on 20 December last year, just two days before he jumped into the path of a 12-ton truck on the A64 near York, Highbury Magistrates' Court heard.

The former Professional Footballers' Association chairman, who played for Burnley, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United and Northampton Town, admitted to failing to provide a sample.

House prices in the capital are increasing again after seven months in decline, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

It said 28% more chartered surveyors saw prices rise in London in April and the increase this time was happening across a wider spectrum of London's boroughs.

The campaign has begun to find out who will become Labour's candidate for London mayor in 2016.

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Sadiq Khan, the party's MP for Tooting, has officially entered the race and Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, reiterated her bid to stand.

Plans to give English cities powers over housing, transport, planning and policing will be set out in George Osborne's first post-election speech.

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Greater Manchester, which will elect a mayor in two years and take on such powers, should become a blueprint for other large cities, he will say.

The "old model" of running everything from London is "broken" and has unbalanced the economy, he will add.

Arsenal Ladies striker Kelly Smith says the Sunderland player who left her needing ankle surgery "is not good enough" to play in Women's Super League One.

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Abby Holmes was sent off last month for the tackle which has left Smith sidelined for three to four months.

In 1842 the British periodical Illustrated London News was first published and, in 1921, the British Legion was founded in London - it became the Royal British Legion in 1971.

Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman has spoken for the first time about the serious burns her daughter suffered in a Halloween costume fire.

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Matilda, eight, was in a witch's costume when it brushed against a candle at a house in London last year.

"We couldn't put her out," Winkleman told BBC One's Watchdog programme. "Her tights had melted into her skin."

The role of the monarchy in politics is under scrutiny after letters written by Prince Charles to Government Ministers were made public yesterday.

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What do you think about the Royal Family in British society? Listen live to BBC London 94.9 and contact the team on 020 7224 2000.

The entire United States 4x100m relay team have been stripped of their London 2012 Olympic silver medals as a consequence of Tyson Gay's drugs ban.

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Former 100m and 200m world champion Gay was suspended for a year after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

The 32-year-old returned his London 2012 medal when his suspension was announced in May 2014.

South West Trains from Wimbledon into Waterloo are running with delays due to emergency engineering work.

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Our top stories on London Live:

• Detectives are thought to be working with the Indian police to trace relatives of a family found dead in Chadwell Heath
• Claudia Winkleman relives Halloween fire that injured daughter
• More than 1,000 cases of superbugs are discovered in London's hospitals.

Detectives are working with police in India to try and track down relatives of a family who were found dead in Chadwell Heath in east London.

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Mother Shigi Rethishkumar, 37, and her 13-year-old twin daughters Niya and Neha, all named locally, had not been seen since Sunday.

Their father, Rethishkumar Pullarkattil, 44, who was missing from the address, was found hanging at Woodford Reservoir.

The Met said as part of its "routine" it had referred its response to the Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Any early brightness will soon give way to overcast skies with persistent, occasionally heavy rain then developing through the afternoon.

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With all the cloud and rain it will be distinctly cool for the time of year. Maximum temperature: 11C (52F).

I'll be bringing you all the latest news, sport, travel and weather from across London throughout the day.

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