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Championship side Charlton Athletic have reappointed Jose Riga as head coach on an 18-month deal.

The 58-year-old spent three months in charge of the Addicks in 2014, saving the club from relegation, and he replaces interim coach Karel Fraeye, who was sacked yesterday.

Charlton are currently 23rd in the Championship table, three points from safety, and are on a run of 10 games without a win in all competitions.  

The first ever London Lumiere begins at 18:00 this evening with artworks being lit up across the capital.

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Installations will include a "life-like elephant" in Piccadilly and LED stickmen "running riot" over Regent Street's Liberty House, according to organisers Artichoke.

The four day festival, external is free to visitors.

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Southeastern, external says it is waiting for an update from Network Rail before it can announce when the Bexleyheath line will be reopened following an earlier landslip.  

The company tweeted, external the landslip caused "quite a lot of damage" and safety checks would have to be done before trains would start running again.

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A Met Police officer has been sacked for having sex with a vulnerable rape victim whose case he was investigating.

Robert Dawson, a former detective sergeant, had been investigating a rape allegation in 2010 when he began "an inappropriate relationship" with a "vulnerable victim", the Met said. 

A misconduct panel found his behaviour breached standards of "respect, courtesy duties and responsibilities". 

He was dismissed without notice following a hearing yesterday.

Migrant communities in London could integrate over a single generation much more rapidly than commonly thought, research has suggested. , external

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Scientists led by the University of Exeter looked at 108 first generation and 79 second generation Bangladeshi migrants in Tower Hamlets. 

They found second generation migrants showed less collectivism - common in non-Western countries - than their parents’ group and were more likely to blame individual dispositions rather than situations for others’ actions - a trait of people in Western countries.

Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe explains why more armed officers will be deployed on the streets of London.

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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino said he was "disappointed" by last night's 1-0 loss to Leicester but insisted his side had been "unlucky".

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"All the stats are positive for us. It's difficult to explain - we deserved more and to win the game," he said.

Robert Huth scored an 83rd-minute winner for the Foxes although Spurs still remain fourth in Premier League.

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Baroness Tessa Jowell has told BBC Radio London that she lost to Sadiq Khan in the race to become Labour's mayoral candidate because "Labour had moved to the left".

The former Olympics minister and former MP for Dulwich and West Norwood said the result had been "hard" and "a terrible disappointment" but she now wanted "to help Sadiq, our candidate, in every way I can".

Speaking to Vanessa Feltz, she also said the mayoral election would be the "first big test" for Jeremy Corbyn about whether Labour can "become a party of government".

A primary school in Notting Hill has the smallest catchment area in England, research by the online service FindASchool has found.

Fox Primary School in west London has a catchment area of just 92m.

FindASchool founder Ed Rushton told The Times, external that two-thirds of schools in Greater London are oversubscribed.

Ninety primary schools in England have been forced to reduce their catchment areas to just 300m, according to the report.

A 56-year-old man has been charged with the rape and murder of a schoolgirl 34 years ago.

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The body of Yiannoulla Yianni, 17, was found by her parents at their home in Hampstead, north London, in 1982.

James Warnock, of Harrington Street, north London, was arrested on Tuesday and will appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court later.

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A second land slip at Barneshurst last night has led to all services between Dartford and Lewisham via Bexleyheath being cancelled.

Network Rail say the debris from the landslide has buried critical lineside equipment, external.

Southeastern are advising passengers, external to use buses to connect with other stations. Some trains are also being diverted via Sidcup or Woolwich Arsenal.

A land slip on Monday night caused cancellations on the Bexleyheath line this week.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has announced that 600 more armed officers will be trained to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack.

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The police commissioner said the attacks in Paris had "reinforced the vital role that firearms officers would be called upon to play" and "it is only right that the Met are as ready as can be".

He warned that the move is an "expensive option" but it "is vital to keeping us safe".

The Metropolitan Police, external currently has around 2,200 trained marksmen.

Two Victorian cemeteries have been awarded lottery grants for multimillion-pound facelifts.

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Brompton Cemetery, where suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is buried, is to be given £6.2m to restore its landscape and monuments.

West Norwood Cemetery will receive £4.8m.

"Strained" rail services in south London should be taken over by TfL because companies are "not delivering", a think tank report has suggested.

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The Centre for London has called on the Department for Transport to devolve the network when current franchises expire.

Boris Johnson has welcomed the idea, but the Rail Delivery Group said the current system has some of "the best passenger satisfaction levels".

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Boris Johnson has welcomed Scotland Yard's announcement that hundreds more armed officers will be trained to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London.

The mayor said "increasing our armed response capabilities" was "absolutely essential."

"It is only right that we ensure the proper level of police protection so we can continue to keep our city safe," he said.

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There is no service between Victoria and Brixton, external on the Victoria line because of a signal failure at Brixton.

Tickets are being accepted on London Buses and on Southeastern Trains.

There are minor delays on the rest of the line.

Hundreds of extra armed officers are to be trained to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London, the Metropolitan Police is set to announce.

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It comes after Scotland Yard reassessed its ability to stop terrorism and respond to armed attacks in light of last year's deadly attacks in Paris.

Some 600 extra officers are expected to receive firearms training - in addition to 2,000 already trained in London.

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A landslide at Barneshurst, south east London, continues to cause disruption on Southeastern train services. There is a replacement bus service between Lewisham and Dartford and tickets are accepted on the DLR, underground and bus services. 

Services via Sidcup and Woolwich are not affected.

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There is queuing traffic for four miles on the M25 anticlockwise after J28 due to an accident which is now on the hard shoulder. There is congestion to J29 although all lanes have been opened. 

And on the Tube, there is no service on District Line between Earls Court and Wimbledon due to signal failure at Fulham Broadway.  

There are also severe delays on the Overground between Richmond and Stratford, and between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction due to signal failure.