Updates on Tuesday 12 January
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume on Wednesday
Inside Croydon
Croydon’s council tax-payers have been taken for another ride, this time on the back of a racing bicycle.
The “international” cycle race staged in the town centre last June won’t be returning to the streets of Croydon in 2016. Nor for the foreseeable future, external.
Network Rail has tweeted that all bikes deemed abandoned in cycle racks on platform 8/9 will be removed on 4 February.
Any unclaimed bikes will be donated to charity "after a certain time", British Transport Police say.
It will turn increasingly showery into the afternoon but still with some sunny spells.
The showers will possibly be heavy at times, particularly over the Chilterns, and it will feel cold as the northwesterly wind picks up.
Maximum temperature: 6C (43F)
The black actress cast to play Hermione Granger in the new Harry Potter stage show has hit back at fans who have criticised the decision.
Some people suggested they had a problem with Hermione "changing race" after Noma Dumezweni was given the role last month.
"To say it's not as it was intended is so unimaginative," she said.
An art initiative celebrating some of the capital's leading contemporary digital artists begins today.
Dot to Dot, external will see works by 20 London-based artists on display across the capital until 28 February.
Venues where the art will be featured include Covent Garden, Borough Market, BOX PARK Shoreditch and The Trunk at The Artworks in Elephant & Castle.
Southeastern, external have released pictures of a landslide at Barnehurst that has cancelled all trains for the day on the Bexleyheath line.
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Image source, SoutheasternThe company say passengers can use their tickets on buses, external to connect with diverted trains.
Asad Ahmad
Presenter, BBC London
This afternoon on BBC London, we have the latest on the death of a teenager in South America where seven people have been arrested.
And Islamophobic attacks have rocketed in London, but many of the victims aren't Muslim or have any connection to the faith.
Find out what's happening at 13:30 on BBC One.
Harlequins hooker Dave Ward will face a disciplinary panel today after being charged for allegedly biting Jackson Wray in Saturday's win against Saracens.
Image source, Rex FeaturesQuins lock James Horwill is also up on a striking charge over an incident that saw Sarries flanker George Kruis leave the field on a stretcher.
Meanwhile, Saracens prop Rhys Gill has been charged with making a dangerous tackle after he was sent off for a second-half tackle on George Lowe.
A Syrian man and his London fiancé have been reunited after being separated for three years because of the country's war.
Syrian doctor Ahmed Alhameed worked in a field hospital after the civil war broke out, but he was arrested in 2013 and tortured.
He managed to escape the country through Lebanon, and landed at Heathrow airport on 1 January to be greeted by his fiance, pharmacist Razan Alakraa.
Find out about their remarkable story here.
Rail passengers have been left unimpressed after being told trains had been delayed this morning because of "strong sunlight".
Commuters have taken to Twitter to voice their complaints.
One user said it was "the weakest excuse ever" while another asked the train company "How do they go on in hot countries where they have sunshine all the time?"
A family of four had to be taken to a south London hospital after a car collided with them in New Malden on Sunday morning, then failed to stop at the scene.
The mother, aged 31, suffered a broken leg while the father, aged 27, was treated for bruises to his back. Their two children, aged three and 18-months, suffered minor injuries.
Police are searching, external for the driver of the car, a red Fiat Punto registered YH55 HWV, which was found abandoned near Onslow Road in New Malden with damage to its front.
Picket lines have formed outside hospitals across the capital after junior doctors' joined a nationwide 24-hour strike.
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Image source, ReutersSian Blake's boyfriend had left the UK on 19 December, three days after the former actress and her children had been reported missing.
Image source, Met PoliceHer body, along with those of her children Zachary and Amon, were found buried in the family garden in Erith on 5 January.
Scotland Yard is under investigation over why it took so long to call in homicide detectives and find Miss Blake and her two sons.
Hairdresser Arthur Simpson-Kent was wearing the same grey T-shirt and jeans that he was wearing when he was detained on Saturday in a small town in the west of the African country.
Image source, ReutersMagistrates in Accra remanded him in custody for two weeks.
The partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake has been remanded in custody after appearing in court in Ghana.
Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, is facing extradition to the UK where he is accused of murdering her and their two children.
An NHS choir from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital sing their support for the junior doctors' strike at a picket line outside South Kensington Tube station.
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Tim Stokes
BBC News
David Bowie fans were out in force last night to celebrate the life and work of the music icon.
Large crowds gathered in Brixton where the "Starman" was born, for a mass singalong.
Tom Edwards
Transport Correspondent, BBC London
Talks are planned between unions and London Underground at Acas, the conciliation service, on Friday in a bid to avert three planned Tube strikes.
Image source, PARepresentatives will be discussing a number of issues including pay, the Night Tube and "fit for future" stations.