A 32-year-old man has become the fifth person to be charged in connection with an alleged plot to spring two convicts from a prison van in Wood Green last month.

Izzet Eren is accused of conspiracy to escape lawful custody and will appear in court next month. 

The alleged incident took place during the police operation to stop the plot.

Twenty-eight-year-old Jermaine Baker was shot dead by an armed officer - who has since been suspended - during the operation. 

Susana Mendonca
BBC Radio London Political Reporter

The Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has told BBC Radio London the party's leader and Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn will struggle to achieve loyalty from his party considering his own track record of defying former Labour leaders. 

Mr Corbyn sacked two members of his cabinet yesterday - claiming they'd been disloyal; and he promoted his neighbouring Islington South MP Emily Thornberry to Shadow Defence Secretary. Stephen Kinnock says the reshuffle could cause him more problems.

“We have a leader who himself as an MP over the 30 years he’s been in parliament has defied the whip 550 times and he’s now looking to lead a loyalty driven reshuffle. 

"So that just inevitably causes challenges and it’s gonna cause push back because people say well you yourself haven’t got a track record of loyalty."

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Mr Kinnock said he was also surprised at the accusation of incompetence pitted at Michael Dugher: “I had understood that this reshuffle was about loyalty so I was quite surprised about the comments on competence.

"One of the reasons I don’t think that a reshuffle was the right thing to do now is because the team hadn’t had time to show whether it was incompetent or competent so it needs a bit more time to bed down.

"But I think now we’ve got to find a way of putting this behind us and actually turning our fire back on this government because they are our opponents. We’ve got to stop turning the fire on ourselves.”

The Metropolitan Police, external is being investigated by its Directorate of Professional Standards over why it took weeks to discover three bodies in the garden of a missing ex-EastEnders actress.

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Sian Blake, who played Frankie Pierre in the soap between 1996 and 1997, and her two sons aged four and eight have not been seen at their Erith home since 13 December.

Her partner, and the children's father Arthur Simpson-Kent raised the alarm, but disappeared three days later and has not been seen since. 

Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith should be careful and not get involved in "nudge nudge, wink wink" politics, according to Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan.

Mr Goldsmith accused Mr Khan of "playing the race card" yesterday over a row about the Richmond MP describing Mr Khan as "radical". Mr Goldsmith said he was referring to the changes in Labour's policies.

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Speaking to Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London Mr Khan said after the Paris attacks with "people being particularly concerned about the rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the year or so, to call somebody who is clearly of Islamic faith and a name like Sadiq Khan divisive and radical... is unhelpful".

"There's four months to go and there's no need for Zac Goldsmith to be desperate."

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's name "will not be on the ballot", Sadiq Khan, the party's London mayoral candidate has said.

Replying to Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London whether Mr Corbyn was "raining on his parade", Mr Khan said people will look at his work or plans for London when voting in the mayoral election in May.

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"With Jeremy you see what you get and get what you see," Mr Khan said about the party's leader, adding Mr Corbyn "needs time" to prove why he was elected leader of the Labour party.

Scotland Yard has this morning refused to comment on reports that Arthur Simpson-Kent may have fled to Africa and that Interpol has issued an alert, saying it was "not something we are prepared to discuss at this time".

Post-mortem examinations will take place later on three bodies found in the south-east London garden of a missing ex-EastEnders actress.

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Sian Blake, 43, and her two sons - Zachary, eight, and Amon, four - have not been seen at their Erith home since 13 December. 

Her partner Arthur Simpson-Kent raised the alarm, but disappeared three days later and is being sought "urgently". 

Image source, Met Police

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Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has said he wants to set up a 'Homes for Londoners' scheme, which will ensure affordable housing is built in the capital.

Speaking to Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London Mr Khan said in developers' permission to build he will set a condition that at least 50% of the properties should be "genuinely affordable".

He also wants Londoners to have "first dibs" in any properties that are available before the houses are promoted to potential buyers overseas.   

BBC Travel

On the M25 a lane is blocked on an exit slip road to the roundabout anticlockwise at J25, A10 (Enfield), because of a broken down lorry and recovery work.

BBC Radio London

Listen now: Labour's mayoral candidate for London mayor Sadiq Khan is talking now to Vanessa Feltz about housing.

BBC Weather

Any early mist and fog patches will clear during the morning. Otherwise, it will be a mostly cloudy day with perhaps the odd shower. 

Some bright spells are likely, particularly in northern parts such as Enfield. 

Top temperature: 8C (46F).

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BBC News Online, London

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