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Ken Livingstone has said people who are sending abusive emails and tweets to Labour MPs who voted for military action in Syria "mustn't do that". 

Mr Livingstone said Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson were "absolutely right..and we can move away from all this abuse and focus now on getting rid of the Tories". 

He added there had been "a lot of tension in the Labour Party with the Oldham by-election; a lot of talk that we might lose it, we might do badly, but the scale of the increase in the Labour vote there, if we had had that at the general election we'd have a Labour government, so I think it's all going to calm down a lot now". 

Mr Livingstone said Jeremy Corbyn had made it "absolutely clear that he wasn't going to introduce automatic re-selection "and that MPs shouldn't "get all worked up about it".

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Left-winger Aravindan Balakrishnan came to Britain from Singapore in 1963 and enrolled at the London School of Economics - well known during the 1960s for its radical student movement. 

By the 1970s he was at the helm of a communist group known as the Workers Institute and based in Acre Lane in Brixton, south London. 

He gained a number of followers, but as time went by his influence "waned" and the group dwindled to just six women.

Described in court as a "Jekyll and Hyde character", Balakrishnan turned his Communist commune into a "cult of Bala" where paranoia and fear became the order of the day. 

His followers were only allowed to read left-wing texts, spied on each other, and were sexually assaulted and beaten by Balakrishnan. 

He convinced them he could control people's minds and would "scrub them clean of the bourgeois culture and lifestyle".

 Balakrishnan was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 29 January.

Aravindan Balakrishnan's daughter spoke to the BBC's Tom Symonds about her years of imprisonment at the hands of her father.

The daughter of Aravindan Balakrishnan today said she was "overwhelmed with relief" after his conviction for imprisoning her, adding: "I believe justice has definitely been done. I am very happy with the result and at the end of the day he is still my dad."

Tom Symonds
Home Affairs Correspondent

For more than 30 years, cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan convinced his victims he was "all powerful and all-seeing" - a master manipulator who used violence, fear and sexual degradation to control the women he held captive in communes across London.

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His daughter was one of them.

Born into her father's communist "collective", she spent her childhood almost entirely isolated from the outside world.

She never went to school or played with a friend her own age, but spent years cooped up in the various houses occupied by the group. Read on.

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A Maoist cult leader faces the prospect of dying in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two of his followers and imprisoning his own daughter in the commune for 30 years. 

Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, known as Comrade Bala, carried out a "brutal" campaign of violence and "sexual degradation" against the women over several decades. 

He brainwashed his followers into thinking he had God-like powers, and invented a supernatural force known as Jackie who, he said, could trigger natural disasters if his will was flouted.

After fathering a daughter with one of his acolytes, he kept her a prisoner in their home for three decades. 

Balakrishnan, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of six counts of indecent assault and four counts of rape after a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court. 

 He was also convicted of two counts of ABH, cruelty to a child under 16, and false imprisonment. 

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Magistrates will deliver their verdicts in the trial of radio DJ Neil Fox, who is accused of sexually abusing young fans and colleagues, on 14 December.

Prosecutors claim the 54-year-old, also known as Foxy or Dr Fox, exploited the privilege that came with his fame to abuse the women and girls when they were as young as 14. 

After hearing defence closing submissions today, Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle told Westminster Magistrates' Court the bench "have a lot to consider" before deciding whether he is guilty of the 10 charges.

Mr Fox, who became a household name presenting the chart show on Capital Radio, denies eight counts of indecent assault and two of sexual assault, all said to have taken place between 1988 and 2014.

Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, has been found guilty of a string of sex assaults, cruelty to a child and false imprisonment following a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court.

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LSE's Professor Tony Travers is in the studio at BBC Radio London today from 12:40 talking to Robert Elms about his book surveying the history of London's local government, London Boroughs At 50.

The book looks at the methods through which names were chosen, councillors elected and policies formed, with boroughs and the Greater London Council between them taking control of housing, roads, planning, schools and social services. 

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 A man named Justice was caught driving, external with more than three times the legal amount of alcohol in his system.  

A man has been charged with the attempted murder of a Tube passenger who was seriously injured when he was allegedly pushed under a train. 

Devindra Ferguson, 29, from Colindale, north London, was arrested yesterday after a man was apparently deliberately shoved on to the track at Kentish Town Underground station. 

As we've been hearing next year's average increase in train fares of 1.1% is the lowest for six years.

Here are the annual rises since 2010 according to rail industry body the Rail Delivery Group:

• January 2010 1.1% 
• January 2011 6.2% 
• January 2012 5.9%
• January 2013 3.9%
• January 2014 2.8%
• January 2015 2.2%
• January 2016 1.1%

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BBC environment analyst

Cities round the world could use water from rivers and the sea to stay cool as the climate heats, city mayors have been told.

Carbon emissions from air-conditioning are expected to soar as temperatures climb and people become richer.

But at a global mayors' summit, Paris is showcasing a simple technology using water piped from the Seine to cool some of the city’s plush apartments near the Champs Elysees.

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson said he wanted London to follow suit by cooling buildings using water from the Thames.

Responding to the news that Oxford Circus Tube was temporarily closed 113 times in the space of a year because of overcrowding, the RMT union has said the network is "bursting at the seams".

BBC London obtained figures for the busiest stations, including Victoria, which closed five times last year.

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash warned: "All the indicators are that passenger numbers will continue to surge, cramming more people into a capacity that is already at breaking point." 

Workers on London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) are to stage a series of strikes in the new year in a long-running dispute over issues including the use of agency staff. 

Members of the RMT union will walk out for between 24 hours and four days following a previous stoppage last month which disrupted travel in the capital. 

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The union is in dispute with operators Keolis Amey over claims of bullying, breaches of agreements and "abuses" of the use of agency staff.

Two men, aged 30 and 27, have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of Gary Scott, 17.

He was stabbed to death on Tuesday in Finsbury Park, and his mother made an appeal for anyone with any information to come forward.

The two suspects are in custody at a south-west London police station.

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