Updates on Tuesday 17 November 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00
A band of heavy rain will spread east throughout the afternoon.
Winds will also increase during the afternoon, with a risk of gales by dusk, especially across the North Downs and the Chilterns.
Highs of 16C (61F).
A terror plot to bomb the London Underground or Westfield shopping centre was foiled shortly before the 10th anniversary of the 7 July attacks, the Old Bailey has heard.
Counter terrorism officers were alerted to the plan after Mohammed Rehman, under the name Silent Bomber, asked Twitter followers for advice on which of the two targets to choose, jurors were told.
Rehman, 25, and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, are charged with preparing terrorist acts. He is also charged with possessing an article for terrorist purposes.
Rehman, of Radstock Road, Reading, and Khan of Hutton Close, Reading, deny all charges.
Campaigners fighting Heathrow expansion in Surrey have demanded their MP and council take a stance on the issue - as a government decision looms.
Image source, AFP/GettyImagesThe newly-formed group in Elmbridge, called Rage, opposes flight path changes and an expansion. The group says it's shocked Esher and Walton Conservative MP Dominic Raab has not set out his views and Elmbridge Council, external has only just formed a taskforce.
Both council and MP said they had not yet reached an official view.
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The government's universal credit payment will lead to an increase in the amount of money benefit claimants in Croydon spend in betting shops, a senior councillor has claimed, external.
Anti-terror police, external have been asking people returning from France for information about the Paris attacks.
Travellers who had taken the Eurostar from Paris to St Pancras International following the massacre were handed pamphlets asking for eyewitness accounts, images and video which could help investigations.
Transport for London (TfL) has announced it has prosecuted 46 minicab touts in the last six months - a record number.
But black cab drivers say it's nowhere near enough, and more needs to be done to regulate the sector.
BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards reports.
Transport for London has announced it's prosecuted 46 minicab touts
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On the programme at 13:30 on BBC One: We'll have the latest on London's security in the wake of the attack on Paris and finding out how one international school in the capital has been showing solidarity with France.
Image source, APAnd, on a lighter note, we speak to Dame Shirley Bassey as she records her first ever Christmas song with London band Blake.
Image source, PAPaedophile pop star Gary Glitter - who was found guilty of sexually abusing three schoolgirls - has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his conviction.
Glitter, now 71, from Marylebone, central London, argued he didn't have a fair trial back in February when he was jailed for 16 years.
A communist cult leader surrounded himself with women because he believed they were "the weakest link of bourgeois culture" a former follower of his has told Southwark Crown Court.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, wanted to create "a cadre of women soldiers who could withstand the sugar-coated bullets of bourgeois culture".
Image source, PAShe previously said Mr Balakrishnan sexually assaulted and had "dehumanised" and "psychologically stripped" her through a barrage of verbal abuse.
Mr Balakrishnan, of Enfield, denies seven counts of indecent assault, four counts of rape against two women during the 1970s and 1980s, three counts of actual bodily harm, cruelty to a child under 16 and false imprisonment.
The trial continues.
Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, has said she disagrees with her party's leader, and Islington North MP, Jeremy Corbyn's stance over stopping shoot-to-kill terrorists if there is a threat to life.
Image source, ReutersShe said: "We've got a long standing legal framework which allows for the use of lethal force where we have an imminent threat to life... That legal framework is important and needs to continue... I disagree with what he said yesterday.
"It has to remain Labour's policy supporting the police and security services in a very difficult job that they need to do."
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- Theresa May: UK security to be intensified
- Preparations ahead of England v France
- Boy, 16, charged over PC attempted murder
- Sex abuse charity says 100,000 men attacked
Match of the Day
As Prince William, David Cameron and Boris Johnson all announce they're going to tonight's England v France match at Wembley we're asking on Facebook if you're planning to go as well or if you've decided against it?, external
Jay Hewitt wrote, external: "I bought tickets yesterday, because I want to be there as an act of defiance to the terrorists and to also show them that we,as civilised human beings will always be stronger than they will ever be."
While Jack Fishlock said, external: "Yeah I am going and I will sing the French national anthem with pride I do not care who wins but I would like England to win."
A teenage girl has died after being hit by a lorry in New Malden during rush hour earlier this morning.
The girl, reportedly aged 13, was hit by the heavy goods vehicle on Lime Grove, the Met, external said.
London Ambulance Service, external and London's Air Ambulance, external were called out but the girl was pronounced dead at the scene. Her next of kin are yet to be told.
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Students fromLycée International Winston Churchill, external school in Wembley have been talking to me and drawing their response to the Paris attacks.
Students at the bilingual school follow the French National Curriculum leading to the French Baccalaureate.
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Preparations are being made to ensure the Prime Minister is able to attend the friendly at Wembley tonight, just four days after the Paris terrorist attacks, reports Politics Home. , external
We'll bring you more on that if we receive official confirmation.
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A motion short enough to tweet could mean Merton Council has to interact more with residents on social media, external.
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