Summary

  • Updates for Friday 18 December 2015

  • News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Monday

Live Reporting

  1. IPCC looking for witnesses to Wood Green shooting

    Tom Symonds
    Home Affairs Correspondent

    IPCC investigators in Wood Green

    Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigators are at the scene of last Friday's shooting in Wood Green looking for potential witnesses.

  3. Christmas decorations on houses 'bring communities together'

    A Professor from Goldsmiths, says homes decorated with lights bring communities together and are not done as a "material indulgence". 

    Professor Les Back has written the paper based on research from the Croydon estate where he grew up.

    Festive decoations on houses 'bring communities together'

    Have you decorated the outside of your house for Christmas? Send us a photo

  4. Vanessa Feltz Show: What do you want from EU re-negotiations?

    BBC Radio London

    Harriet Scott is sitting in for Vanessa today. From 09:00 we're talking about David Cameron wanting to stop EU migrants receiving in-work benefits for four years. 

    The Prime Minister is in Brussels renegotiating Britain's membership of the European Union - but what do you want?

  5. A woman asks 'who killed my son?

    At a meeting last night to discuss the fatal shooting of a man in Wood Green a woman was heard to shout: "Who killed my son?"

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  6. Officer arrested over Wood green fatal shooting

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  7. Firearms officer arrested over fatal shooting

    A firearms officer has been arrested and interviewed under caution over the shooting of a man.  

    Jermaine Baker

    Jermaine Baker, 28, was shot dead on 11 December during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in Wood Green, north London.

    The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) told a meeting held to address community tensions that the officer was arrested on Thursday afternoon.

    The IPCC has opened a homicide inquiry.

  8. Today's weather: Dry and very mild

    It'll be a bright to start the day, with sunny spells for most. 

    Cloud will start to build in from the west during the afternoon, but it should stay dry, and feeling very mild again for the time of year. 

    Maximum temperature: 14C (57F).

    BBC London weather on 18 December 2015

  9. BBC London Live updates on Friday 18 December

    Claire Timms
    BBC London News

    Good morning and welcome to today's live coverage.

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

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